things use in that incident. trace gallagher, thank you. remember, we will never be the rage, hate, destroy trump media mob. we'll always be fair and balanced. thank you for being with us. let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham is up next. >> laura: welcome to the ingram angle broadcasting from the american cemetery on the normandy coast. it's 4:00 a.m. local time. 5 year s -- 75 years ago at th hour, paratroopers from the 71st airborne division landed behind enemy lines to secure bridges and roads in preparation for the land invasion. six allied divisions and other small units would take these beaches by midday. today parachutists re-created the historic landing. among them, 97-year-old tom . rice, one of the original ra paratroopers who dropped into normandy on this day in 1944.

>> it's morning there. dark there. and that was our goal. and on the d-day jump. landed standing up for the most part. and then went down to my knees and bounced aun couple of times because i had so much equipment. and i had a difficult time getting out of that equipment. >> amazing. and also today, the 75th ranger recommending men re-enacted the scalingg of the cliff here in normandy in a tribute to those who had come before them. some of the boys now in their 90s came back here to witness the tribute. it was emotional and sometimes very painful for them. >> it brings back a few bad memories because the boys that gotbo killed, you know? they came up here and they knew they had a chance to be killed.h and some of them got killed. >> well, it's the last hurrah. i would be over 100 if we had a

80th and definitely not going to come here after my 80th.te so, no. that's -- that's it. this was -- this is the last. >> laura: for the young people who took part in the commemorative re-enactments, it was a moment they will never forget. >> it's amazing. hard to describe possibly the last chance they have to jump with the veterans, the last mile marker to jump, 55, 75, the last one seeing how they're all in their 90s now. i got to be a part of it. just getting up there today, getting out of the plane, it was amazing. perfect flight, soft landing. can't ask for much more. >> laura: what's so striking in our age of social media brag dose you is the humility of the

warriors of the great estrogen ration. they'll often say the real heroes are the men who didn't come home. bury in the cemetery behind me, 9,387 american heroes, most of them gave their lives to secur these beaches on d-day. now, among them are a father and son and brothers buried side-by-side from 33 families. in a few hours, world leaders, including president trump, whom i'll exclusively interview tomorrow, will come here to pay respectse and salute the men w turned the war around 75 years ago today. now, earlier queen elizabeth who herself served in the british war effort saluted the 300 d-day vets who attended a ceremony in portsmouth. >> the wartime generation, my generation, is resilient and i'm delighted to be with you in por portsmouth today.

>> laura: what an incredible moment. we have more on the meaning of d-day and we hope lessons for a new generation coming up. by historian craig shirley will be here with important historical insights. raymond arroyo has the story of the american innovator, i bet none of you know this who made the d-day invasion possible. maybe a few smarties know it. and we begin with an update of what president trump and others call an invasion of our southern border. now tonight, the border patrol is reporting a 32% spike in illegal apprehensions at the southern border. now, more than 140,000 illegal immigrants taken into custody io just the last month alone is what's being reported. the alarming spike coming as the president vows to impose new tariffs on the country of mexico to curb this immigration crisis. acting i.c.e. director mark morgan is standing by with a

message to democrats. but first, we begin with chief national correspondent, ed henry, to break it down. ed? >> the stark contrast of democratic claims of late that this was a manufactured crisis when president trump declares a national emergency which may explain in recent days we've seen former obama administration officials come out and suggest to the democrats that they need to come up with a solution. those may numbers, biggest number of total apprehensions in 13 years. it's the third consecutive month that border detentions topped 100,000 in a month. look how jarring that is. over the last seven years, we've seen apprehensions of about 300,000 to 400,000 for the entire fiscal year. now it's over 100,000 a month. you get an idea why that's alarming. the president's team at the customs control held a conference call today declaring the holding cells are

literally bursting at the seams. as a former chief of president obama, he's trying to send a wakeup call to democrats. >> we are in a full-blown emergency, i can not say this stronger -- the system is broken. this ongoing crisis has placed a tremendous strain on our limited resources and operational effectiveness. to impress the number of families and children, 60% of the agents are pulled away from law enforcement operations. >> it's the numbers of reflective crisis. not only a humanitarian crisis but a logistical crisis also. not to admit that would be a mistake. it has though be dealt with. >> democratic congressman was on fox declaring it's not a national security crisis as the president said. the democrat added it's a humanitarian crisis, but he said it was caused by the president's policies which is not exactly supported by the facts.

the white house certainly pushing bang on that, laura. >> laura: unbelievable. ed, thank you so much tonight. joining me exclusively is acting i.c.e. director, mark morgan. all right, now, mark. cbt is saying we're in a full blown emergency. now, it seems like we've been hearing this for a long time. six weeks ago, we were down in the del rio sector of the southern border in texas, that sector, which usually is pretty small in terms of crossings, was bursting at the seams. but now it's exponentially worse. so what more needs to happen for congress to get this and do something to secure the border. >> that's the question. we will sound the alarm for a very, very long time that it was a humanitarian and national security crisis and congress failed to do her job. laura, it's unbelievable to me that we're still asking across the board what can congress do. when we've been telling

congress, the ex-perlite s -- experts living this every day, from i.c.e. to border patrol. they need to pass meaningful legislation, they need to pass a floor settlement. they do that, fund some bed space.ow this crisis ends tomorrow. they know what they need to do. we've been telling them. we refuse to do what they need to do. >> now, mark, you're learning even more about what yours and other agencies are doing for the migrants. now, hhs had been offering english language courses, legal services, bilingual services. various forms of entertainment for those who were apprehended, especially the young people. now, cbp is now going to buy, purchase, $2.2 million diapers. -- 2.2 million diapers for the migrant kids. and i saw it down at the border. these are desperately needed becausee agents themselves are acting as caretakers.

they're not caretakers, but they have to act as caretakers. so, what do you say tonight to democrats like alexandria ocasio cortez who wants to abolish i.c.e. because she thinks that i.c.e. are the bad guys. i.c.e. is going to go because it's not humanitarian, not humanitarian efforts. >> politicians like that who are misinformed and the rhetoric that -- if you talk about abolishing i.c.e., it's absolutely irresponsible. let's talk about homeland security side, investigation side of i.c.e. last year alone, 34,000 criminal arrests, 5,000 gang members arrested, thousands of cases of child smuggling exploitation, human trafficking. they seized $1.2 billion in currency from elicit activity. yeah, i'd like to talk to that young cob woman and -- congresswoman and tell me what's going to happen if i.c.e. is

abolished on that. this year to date, 66,000 individuals have been removed from this country. laura, 90% of those removed were convicted of additional crime or charges are pending. so what i would say to politicians like that, you need to get informed and stop the rhetoric out there. it's not doing anybody any good. >> laura: it's purposeful denial. it's obvious to anyone with the staggering numbers. 32% increase, 140,000 people cross the border just in the month of may as we just heard from ed. okay? but democrat candidate joe biden said, well, the following about the crisis at the border. >> this is about displacing humanity. and the -- and trying to scare the living devil out of the american public, my god, the hoards are coming. it's just simply wrong. it's a crisis created by the

administration, by trump. and that's why -- the hoards are coming. >> the crisis is created by trump. mark? >> laura, that is absolutely -- i'm trying to choose my words carefully, but that is absolutely absurd. the crisis is being created by our broken asylum law that tells people you grab a kid and that's a u.s. passport into this country. and once you get here, you're going to stay. laura, right now, we have people that are renting kids, they're renting kids coming across, then the facilitators in the american side are then sending the kids back to be recycled, to be rented again to form fake families so they can come in to the united states >> laura: but mark, mark. we have been talking about this for months and months and months. no matter how bad the facts get, no matter how much video we

show, it's like it doesn't matter. >> that's right. >> laura: so all they care about is demonizing trump. look at these children are being kept in vans instead of reunited with theirun parents when the actual truth is, children have no beds because congress will not allocate the money to even build temporary facilities to keep these kids. so what is i.c.e. supposed to do, release them to the society -- or hhs, release them to society to be trafficked? what is the humanitarian response here? i'm getting a little sick of this. filled with lives and distortions only to demonize trump when we have run-away judges to cause the problem in a congress that doesn't do its job. it's beyond comprehension. >> laura, you're right. i agree 100%. we asked congress they won't pass the laws they need to to fix this. but they're asking for supplemental. the conditions of border patrol, 19,000. 4,000, the capacity of 19,000,

they have thousands of kids in the fay facilities. it's unsafe. we eagle skr for supplemental to get i.c.e. to alleviate the humanitarian side of this. and congress still sitting on their hands. >> mark, i think until this issue gets solved, the administration should talk about this every day. it's not scare mongering or fear mongering, it's the truth. thank you for joining us. here in normandy, france, a few hours right behind me, an emotional ceremony is going to take place to mark the 75th anniversary of the d-day invasion. now, the success of that day would not have happened without one man and his boat. next, raymond arroyo unearthed a rarely told story of an unsung hero named higgins. an unsung hero named higgins. we're the slowskys.

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arroyo has the story. >> it's due to the planning of the commanders and the heroism of the men who marched into the beach. there's an american builder who played a huge and largely forgotten role in the d-day invasio invasion. 75 years ago this week, operation overlord, which later became known as d-day, was the largest amphibious attack ever attempted. the daring plan was to take allied troops to nonoccupied france over the english channel. it would require up to 5,000 ships, moving vehicles, tanks, and more than 150,000 men on to normandy's beaches. a. >> how to deliver large numbers of troops and equipment to beaches that were very shallow.

a boat manufacturer in new orleans, a timber magnate, who had an idea and a design for shallow draft boats used to navigate the swamps and bayous of louisiana. higgins was certain his swamp boats could play a critical role in the world. the navy doesn't know a damn thing about small boats the hard drinking, hard charging irishman insisted. the military resisted higgins' overture, nevertheless, in a sign of his confidence, higgins purchased an entire crop of philippines mahogany, one of the last shipments before the war ended trade there. it was an inspired purchase, particularly once the marines finally relented and higgins put his landing craft into production for military use. he would eventually open seven plants in new orleans. employ tens of thousands of people, and build 20,000 landing craft. >> what made the higgins boat so

unique was the bow, this ramp, that could deposit men quickly on to the beach, unload tanks, and then be retracted and refilled back at the ship. these boats represent the tip of the spear. >> john schick is a curator at the national world war ii museum in new orleans. >> it's the hull that makes it meaning. that hull allowed them to run in almost ten inches of water with a full load, they added the bow later to increase the efficiency of getting men off. >> the normandy invasion was a risky operation. the me going ashore had spent 48 hours aboard ships awaiting deployment. the choppy seas meant that most of them were seasick. and the invasion was delayed due to bad weather. but with time running out, general dwight d. eisenhower made the call that june 6, 1944, would be d day.

providence was kind. the normandy weather was so bad, the german navy cancelled the usual patrol of the english channel. they also called off a practice drill. an allied's deception campaign including inflatable tank and fake plans made the germans think the invasion would happen at callais, they were wrong. the last thing the men heard when they boarded the higgins boats was general eisenhower. >> you're about to embark upon the great crusade, towards which we've been driving these many months. the eyes of the world are upon you. you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine, the elimination of nazi germany over the oppressed people of europe, and security for ourselves in the free world. >> the higgins boats allowed 36 infantry men to hit the beaches of normandy in 19 seconds. it was the allied's bridge to the beach. without higgins and his boat,

there would have been no way. the landing craft used in iwo jima, gawdle canal. and in 1944, he rode a boat on to the shores. >> had to be terrifying coming on to the beach. >> yeah, you go down, you don't know what to expect. but i was lucky. >> because the ramps -- the ramps ended up being a shield. >> obviously, it was -- it scared you. >> d-day marked a turning point in the world and allowed the retaking of europe. of andrew higgins, eisenhower remarked to historian, stephen ambrose, "he's the man who won the war for us." decades later, ambrose established the d-day and later the world war ii museum in new orleans as a monument to andrew

higgins' ingenuity and the city's contribution to the war. in the town where each higgins boat was created. >> laura: back now is raymond arroyo. also joining us is craig shirley, presidential historian, biographer. i love that story. i have chills -- i have chills watching it. i get teared up watching it. what was the big takeaway. >> the big takeaway, laura, is the ingenuity of the american worker and the american entrepreneur. here on the ground, at home. and that unity of purpose they all had fighting the war at home on the streets of new orleans, blacks, white, women, underage boys were working around the clock to build the landing craft. and as churchill said, two empires were tied up in some gd things called landing crap, and they were. >> so great to have you on tonight. i know you've been here many times to normandy. i want to read something that

david chrysinger wrote in "the new york times" magazine that struck me on my way over here from paris tonight. most men in the first wave never stood a chance but allied troops kept landing, wave after wave. it wasn't bombs or artillery or tanks that overwhelmed the jer minnesotas, it was men, boys, most of them. they slogged up the beaches and won a toe hold in the western edge of europe. i got teared up. i feel like i'm going to start bawling, every grave behind us represents a life cut short and given for our freedom. craig, you've written so much about this over the years, tell us what's going through your mind tonight? >> listening tonight, laura, watching the last day or so, is that the pages are turning in history and the book is closing on the last generation. so thank god that the ones who are alive are there to celebrate this monumental challenge.

our old friend who worked for ronald reagan for so many years was one of those rangers on one of the troop transports on normandy on june 6, 1944. years later, i was having lunch with lynn and i happened to look down at his hand and noticed his two fingers on his left hand were gone. and i always thought he had lost them in a power tool accident. i asked him. what happened to your left hand, he said, nazi shrapnel. he climbed the cliffs, put his hand up and half of his hand was blown away. he never bragged or talked about it. most of the great estrogen rati -- the greatest generation, they came back and went back to work. a lot of them don't like to talk about it until recently. he told me that the seas were so wavy and so uncontrollable by the time they got to the normandy beach, they were ankle deep in puke from all of the other troops on the board.

>> laura: they were so sick. yeah. we think -- we're talking about this -- we're talking about this on the way over tonight. it's pretty cold out here tonight, maybe 40 degrees. live tv. we're doing 20 things. we stop and we say, wait a second, think about what was happening 75 years ago at this hour. in the dark. and they didn't know where they were. the compasses, half of them were broken. they didn't know what they were going to come upon. and, raymond, have we gotten a little soft here. >> as you know, craig, only a few of the men in the early transports made it out of the transports. 30 of the 36 men were killed instantly because of the german cross fire that they were encountering hitting the beach. so they didn't call this bloody normandy for nothing. go ahead, greg. >> i was just going to say think of the logistics of planning the d-day invasion. you're moving the population of a mid sized city, 150,000 men

and tanks and cargo and jeeps and medical supplies and food supplies and guns and ammo and all of the other things, the logistics that went into the planning of the d-day invasion are really staggering if you really think about it. just moving the 150,000 with all those munitions and supplies, then 22 miles across the open sea through choppy waters. to then land as raymond said in the murderous nazi cross fire. >> laura: we played this sound bite i think last night. everything is blurring into one day here. of the queen and what she said about shared sacrifice. it's worth watching again. >> the anniversary of d-day reminds us of all that our countries have achieved together. after the shared sacrifices of the second world war, britain and the united states worked with other allies to build an

assembly of international institutions. >> laura: craig, they said trump would wreck the international institutions. nato wouldn't survive trump. here he'll be here with other world leaders to celebrate the alliance and honor those who serve and who are buried behind us. >> yeah, i think the speech tomorrow is going to be important for him. i think that's an understatement. if i was giving him advice, reagan spoke so eloquently on the 40th anniversary about the past and kind of bringing closure to it. trump should almost be symmetrical and talk about the future, the future of the alliance, the united states, the future of western alliance, the future, opportunity, and hope and challenges for all of the people who are part -- part of the original war against nazi powers. but the expanded countries as well.

>> laura: look to the future. craig, thank you so much. raymond, stay with me. seen and unseen is next. apparently, there's a soft sexism every time you go out to eat. plus, 2020 dems are using kids as political props? no. well, coming up.

>> laura: live from america's headquarters, the first couple on the move again in a short time from now, president trump and first lady melania will depart shannon airport for france where they'll take part in ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of d-day, it will take place in normandy, the historic site by u.s. troops and their allies in 1944, the event that triggered a turning point in the war against nazi forces. the first couple arrived in ireland on wednesday, met briefly with irish prime minister leo barathcar and flew

about 40 miles away. the president has a golf course and hotel in doanbag. he'll return there thursday night before flying home to washington on friday. now back to "the ingraham angle." >> laura: time for our seen and unseen segment with raymond arroyo where we post the big stories of the day. the kids being used as political props? it can't happen? no, the end of ladies' first in restaurants and the power at d-day and beyond. kids have been starting to quiz candidates on really complicated constitutional matters. they're not being coached, are they? >> no, no, laura. the kids are popping up all of a sudden at these political events. here's joe biden answering a kid from new hampshire yesterday, watch. >> you think impeachment proceedings should start? >> how old are you?

>> 11. >> i'm not looking forward to an impeachment process. i really mean it. i think it would be a gigantic distraction on things that, in fact, we should be focusing on getting done. and the truth of the matter is, though, that there is a constitutional obligation. my job is to impeach him a different way. beating him. >> unless we're changing the voting age to 11, why is he making a pitch to little children. >> laura: kids say the darnedest things. >> he's not the only one. here's pete budigeig responding to a young girl after she asked who beat trump in 2020. >> he's really mean and call people names and if we do it his way, i think we're going to lose. so we have to change the whole game. >> if they were teaching kids to be literate or build them up. >> laura: like that. >> they're demonizing the opponent which i thought was

called bullying. the politicians have different arguments. they have policy differences but -- >> i have an idea. let kids be kids for a while before they get through the swinging of the toxic, this is what we do. >> what 11-year-old is concerned about these guys. >> i'm glad joe biden is taking the tough questions because they're shielding them from the press as it is. they'll let the 11-year-olds at them every day. >> say good-bye, laura, to the chivalrous moments like this at restaurants. this is over. >> mr. morris? >> yes. >> hello. i'm jim morris. >> this fireball is my grandson, david. >> i don't know about the fireball part, but grandson is true enough. >> i'm pleased to meet you both. this is a friend of mine, vivien ward. >> rising for a lady is apparently out. now a new trend emerged last summer is really picking up

steam. now the restaurant "eater" says restaurants are saying good-bye to soft sexism. at chicago's tide house, it eliminated the idea of ladies first, the staff eliminated language like ladies and gentlemen from the vocabulary and they no longer serve in order of gender performance. >> what co-you serve? say take the fork and say pay attention to me? why is that? >> i object to this. i tell you why i find it so repulsive. me and boys learn -- respect by doing things. when you rise, you pull a chair for a lay the i, it shows respect. people want women to be respected, they should be. let's show and teach young boys how to do that. let them open the door. >> me and my son. he goes in, i let the door close and i wait outside. i said -- mommy, what happened. you didn't open the door for me. oh, i'm sorry. they learn. it's fun to see the little kids do that. >> ma'amen if the waiter came over and i said i'll have the

hamburger and you just get waited on down the road. >> laura: i kind of like it. i'm a throwback. that's my problem. >> i agree. before we go, during the president's state visit to england, a lot of talk about faith and sacrifice. the fact that the president chose to highlight the alliance with britain. what binds us at the first state dinner, laura, i think was significant. watch. >> the bonds of friendship forged here and sealed in blood on the hallowed beaches, will endure forever. our special relationship is grounded in common history, value, customs, culture, language, and laws. our people believe in freedom and independence as a sacred birthright and cherish inheritance worth defending at any cost. >> today he invoked prayer, prayer that fdr entoned as our men took the beaches here in at normandy. this is the president at approximately mot-- plymouth.

>> they will need our blessings, the enemy is strong. they may herald back our forces but we shall return again and again up. and we know that by grace, by the righteous of our cause, our sons will triumph. >> fdr and eisenhower invoke the blessing on this noble undertaking. >> a lot of the men that are behind us had little bibles. and they're also the stars of david on these -- on these -- >> on the chaplains having mass with them on the decks of the ships before they deployed in normandy. god was in the air here and you feel him as well. >> i like a hymn quoting -- when he was quoting the fdr prayer better than the mcclain bible church. i just thought it was a better moment. i thought they were both good. it was a good moment. coming up, a new axis of evil? china and russia bragging about

their strong relationship. what does that mean for the united states? that's next.

>> laura: while the left is obsessing over the fact that there was nothing in the report for the russian hoax, now the kremlin is rolling out the red carpet with china. the two appear to be strengthening their alliance in defiance of president trump. steven mosier, the president of the population research institute and author of bully of asia. now, steven, is this the unintended consequence of the russia hoax? the russia obsessioobsession. president trump expressed a desire to have a better relationship with russia if possible in the first two years but that has really not happened. >> yeah, any time anybody says anything about russia in the trump administration, they get attacked for co-lewding, which is nonsense. you know, the reality is that trump's strong economy, we've

got the american great engine of american capitalism firing on all cylinders now. the strength of nato with the countries adding up. they should be paying on our defense. with all of the positive things happening with the american economy and the growth, russia would be approaching us. russia would see itself as weak in relation to american strength. and i think we'll be coming to table and wanting to work out a deal on the ukraine, for example. what has stopped that is this obsession with -- with so-called russian collusion and obstruction. and there's no there there, of course. we all know that by now. we've been talking about it for two years. but that conversation >> laura: the result -- it's a missed opportunity. right? but knowing what russia is and what russia does, i believe it was a missed opportunity to box out china, which has a massive economy even with the slowdown as the larger standing army than the united states now.

space weaponry, china, 2025, the belton road initiative. they are moving on all fronts. and, yet, you had to see this sit-down today which is a big show. they put on a big show. it kind of got lost in the d-day stuff. i'll play something for you. this is what joe biden said yesterday, downplaying the china threat. >> we're in a position where we have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. it's not like they're the bad guys. we're the best at doing it. our workers are literally three times as productive as workers in the far east -- excuse me, in asia. and they're three times productive. what are we worried about? >> laura: what are we worried about, steven? no big deal? >> well, i'm worried about a candidate for president of the united states who says that the chinese communist party are good folks. i worry about a candidate whose son took 1 million -- i said a

million, a billion with a b in investments for a state-owned bank in china for the investment company. i'm worried that the chinese communist party thinks they have bought and paid for joe biden. i don't think that's true, by the way. but i think biden has a lot to account for in that transaction. this is the way the chinese communist party operates, of course. if you're a friend of china, you get all kinds of benefits. he's gotten a lot. where does he stand on this. is he going to be weak on china? >> well, steve, here's what was amazing. the 30th anniversary of tiananmen square and cbs reporter goes there to tiananmen square and shows pictures, the iconic pictures of the tanks rolling across the square putting down the student-led protests. it's been erased from the popular memory, just like the soviets did with erasing their own history. totally erased. that's how they operate.

and they're enemies of history, enemies of truth, enemies of free expression. yet we've had all of these wall street types, all of the venture capitalists who made a boat load of money and they want to keep it business as usual. and does -- do you think that china would be far happier if biden was able to win the election in 2020. last answer? >> obviously. i think they -- i think they think he's our guy. they're talking about the biggest killing machine in history. the chinese communist party killed tens of millions of people in the cultural revolution. they've arrested the muslims, the tibetan buddhists, christians, they've eliminated and killed hundreds of millions of unborn children and born children because of infanticide and your one child policy. if you total up the people killed by the chinese communist party, it's 500 million people. most kill off about 10% of their

population as counterrevolutionary. china has killed off about a quarter. >> and it's amazing. we're going to continue to cover this over the next several months. but where the true liberals, the human rights activists have been raising the red flag about red china for many, many years. hollywood celebrities, all of these people say trump is the threat to the world order, okay. president trump heading here to normandy in a matter of hours after a successful three-day state visit to the uk. you'd never know it if you watched the other channels. but how is it received by the british press. trace gallagher is here next. moving is hard.

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>> this is a fox news alert from america's news headquarters. i'm in new york. we are looking at live images now from shannon airport in ireland where president trump and first lady melania have just landed aboard marine one and they are about to board air force one now to embark on the next leg of their overseas journey. the first couple's next stop is normandy, france, where they will join other world leaders to mark the 75th anniversary of d-day. it was actually on the beaches of normandy that u.s. troops and our allies scored a landmark

turning point in the battle against nazi forces during world war ii. in fact, people have been gathering at the beaches of normandy since dawn today holding flags and up reflecting on the task that the soldiers face, the first brave wave of soldiers, many of them hit by german bullets. now president trump arrived in ireland on wednesday. and that's where he met briefly with irish prime minister leo baracar at the airport's vip lounge. he and first lady melania trump flew to doanbeck, more than 40 miles away. he has a golf course and hotel there and he'll return there on thursday night before flying back home to the u.s. on friday. we're watching live pictures right now from shannon airport in ireland where the president

and first laity landed on marine one. there's the president right there as they make their way to air force one which will then take them to normandy, france. mr. trump's commemoration of d-day actually began on wednesday in southern england. he and melania were joined in the seaside town of portsmouth by queen elizabeth. german chancellor angela merkel and other leaders of the wartime allies to salute some 300 world war ii veterans gathered there and the president joined there by his family as well. his children. they will now board air force one together. looks like the president is coming over to the press. we'll see if he has something to say. >> we're going together to normandy. it's going to be a -- i look

forward to that. as you know, mexico -- this morning in washington. it will be meeting at the white house. i think a lot of progress was made yesterday but we have to make a lot of progress. mexico has been making it for many, many years, hundreds of billions of dollars they have been making an absolute fortune on the united states. they have to step up and they have to step up to the plate. and perhaps they will. we're going to see. they can solve the problem. the democrats, congress has been a disaster. they won't change. they won't do anything. they want free immigration. immigration to pour into our country. they don't care who it is. they don't care what kind of a record they have. it doesn't make any difference. they're not going to be changing anything. we go to them. we say let's fix the immigration laws. they just want it to do badly. the worse it does, the happier they are. so that's the way it is. i guess that's the way it will be until after the election.

it's a disgrace. frankly, we can solve this problem so easy if the democrats in congress were willing to make some changes. but they're not. than's the way it is. they just want to ride it out. they want to have a real bad time. they don't care about crime. they don't care about drugs pouring into our country. they couldn't care less. it's all politics. so, if that's the way it is. but we're having a great talk with mexico. we'll see what happens. but there's something pretty dramatic could happen. we told mexico, the tariffs are going on, i mean it too, i'm happy with it. a lot of people, senators included, they have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to tariffs. they have no -- absolutely no idea. when you have the money, when you have the product, when you have the thing that everybody wants, you're in a position to do very well with tariffs. and that's where we are. we're the piggy bank. the united states is the piggy bank. it has all of the money that others want to take from us.

but they're not taking it so easy anymore. it's a lot different. our talks with china, a lot of things are happening. we'll see what happens. in the meantime, we're fegettin 25% on $250 billion and i could go up another at least $300 billion. and i will do that at the right time. but i think china wants the make a deal badly. i think mexico wants to make a deal badly. and i'm going to normandy. thank you, thank you. >> laura: the president of the united states stopping by briefly to talk with the press as he aboards air force one on his way to normandy to commemorate the 75th anniversary of d-day. first thing that it is a special day. and then turning to mexico and the tariffs that went into effect and saying we still have to make a lot of progress when it comes to mexico to stop the illegal migration on the southern border.

saying, quote, democrats, congress has been a disaster. and that it's a disgrace. so, that is what's happening there right now in shannon, ireland. and we know that the ceremony kicks off with the recollection of those who took part in the landings on wednesday, which is where the president first began the commemoration of d-day. and also it included the broadcast from a giant screen setting the tone for a ceremony meant to focus on veteran sacrifices. and then the president read a prayer that president franklin roosevelt delivered in a radio address on june 6, 1944. roosevelt gave the prayer as american and allied forces were crossing the english channel to land on the beaches of normandy. brit take's 93-year-old -- britain's 93-year-old queen is herself a world war ii vet having served as a truck mechanic.

some photos of her as a truck mechanic. the royal family hosted the trumps earlier in the week with a banquet with buckingham palace. a lot of pomp & circumstance there. mr. trump met with outgoing prime minister theresa may. she steps down on friday, a casualty of her government's inability to come to terms on a brexit deal.