every servicemen -- never heard this before -- who went to normandy was handed a pocket guide to france and it read. we democracies aren't just doing favors in fighting for each other. we're in the same boat. take a look around you as you move into france and see what the nazis do to a democracy, end quote. >> dana: good reminder that people should be mindful of their language now and what they call each other in today's politics. we can have our differences but calling somebody a nazi is typically something that should be the worst of the worst. we have seen the best of the best today and you have so many of these veterans in their mid-90s who were there as young men and returned having a beautiful ceremony today. we'll continue to have full coverage throughout the day. >> bill: here is harris. >> harris: a very special moment is upon us. the international ceremony for

the 80th anniversary of d-day landings at omaha beach. on this day in 1944 more than 160,000 troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of french shoreline. they took the fight to germany's nazi forces. to this day it remains the largest seaborne invasion in history widely regarded as the moment allied forces began turning the tide in world war ii. many heads of state and world leaders are now attending this ceremony. that's what is playing out on the left side of your screen. today, including president biden, you will see others who you recognize and, of course, the president of the republic of france is there along with his wife, the macrons, we'll take you there when the ceremony begins. there is a lot to get to today and with this in the forefront, so much history, so much forged in the name of freedom and our

fighters at the forefront, too. we honor them, we thank them, we keep them in our minds this hour and we will cover this the moment it begins. there is a reenactment of those warriors showing up on omaha beach that is unmatched. we have seen some of this, every five years. on the 75th would saw it. today is the 80th. we are losing warriors from that generation daily. we are fortunate that they came before us. so we'll get to this as it plays out. for right now here at home the white house and democrats are in full court defense after a "wall street journal" piece began casting doubt on president biden's mental acuity and fitness to serve. the headline behind closed doors. he shows signs of slipping. just shy of five months until

election day and skepticism is growing mightily among voters. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the journal conducted more than 45 interviews, bipartisan, both republican and democratic lawmakers were part of that, as well as current administration staffers. the white house and democrats pushed back hard since the story has broken. remember, we covered this yesterday as the piece was hitting. now 24 hours later, they have a lot of names for it. they call it a hit piece, politically motivated, and on the left they say it came from, quote, maga republicans. the "wall street journal" interviewed a bipartisan group of 45 lawmakers and members of biden's own administration. read the article for yourself in the "wall street journal." don't let the left dictate what they want you to know. you know i won't.

a former biden staffer calls that faux out rage and he is asking why didn't any of the big names who spend time with the president go on the record to defend their boss in the first place? one of the reporters who wrote the story addressed the criticism that most of the sources, in fact, were republicans. watch. >> so it's fair that is very, very tricky terrain but we focused on three meetings in particular all over the course of the past year and there were things like mumbling, speaking in such a low voice that people could only hear every other world or couldn't understand what he was saying. this over reliance on note cards. using note cards to make very obvious points. having a loose command of the details. this aims to find out but what is the president like behind closed doors? is what's happening there different from what the public sees and the answer is not very much. >> harris: multiple stories and incidents in recent days have

drawn more attention to the topic. merrick garland was asked about filler words and repeat words removed from the special report robert hur's biden interview transcript. we still don't have that audio, of course. that would tell us so much more like what did they take out? and what were the meanings of the things that they were taking out? too long of a pause, an um and ah. sometimes give you the context around the facts or the lack there of. "time" magazine fact checked and backed on their interview with biden corrected several of his statements. this moment of apparent confusion after biden's border announcement. [shouted questions] >> don't play politics with the

war. >> harris: we're not always sure what the president hears and what he doesn't hear and what some of those stares mean and we don't know. we don't have a secret decoder ring of those moments. former white house doctor and texas congressman ronnie jackson calls it a national security issue. former president trump said this. >> we have a man that shouldn't be doing this job. he is not qualified. he is not mentally sharp enough. i don't believe he was 20 years ago, either. >> harris: the "new york post" editorial board had a scorching headline. president biden's sen ill tee freaks out dc as much as it does everyone else. dr. marc siegel, fox news contributor and professor of medicine at nyu langone medical center. you remind me while you are an expert you are not this particular president's doctor but you have been studying. what are you seeing and what can you share with us from a medical

perspective >> i don't consider this about age. once you start calling it about age people push back and say well, we know someone very old running a company. my father is 100, by the way, celebrating d-day and talking to me about d-day at 100. totally with it. he says i served and that's what mattered. the greatest and most proud day in act american history d-day 80 years ago. my father is with it at 100 but he is not running for president or re-election for president. we have to have this under scrutiny. this is the toughest job in the world being president. the first thing you see if somebody has slippage they wax and wane. we don't need a lineup of democrats saying he is great today and bad days seeing he is bad today. i think the "wall street journal" article was fair. it looked at both sides. i know the journal well. even if they didn't put as many

democrats down for quotes it is because democrats don't want to lose their job, do they? the question is this, okay? he has periods of disorientation. that's clear. he has periods where he is talking about the president of france but has an old name on there. issues of irritability and behavior changes obvious to everyone that he didn't have years ago. select reporters get chosen to talk to him. i have a question. spatial disorientation meeting with the president of brazil he couldn't remember how to get off the stage. the other day mixing up putin and xi and the issue of the border. his remarks getting confused. this is waxing and waning. i have a question, if he disagrees with this. one more point. if you are losing it and you do have mild cognitive impairment you are the last one to know, harris. here is my question. where is his mri, where is his neuro psychiatric testing done

over time. shouldn't he at 81 if he is running for re-election want to prove i'm wrong? i am not making a diagnosis on him. i am concerned like many other physicians are what is going on here. give me the information that proves me wrong. >> harris: what i highlighted from the notes you gave were the wax and wane. we saw a little bit of that in normandy today when he was part of the opening ceremonies there for d-day. that spatial disorientation. people will see the video of him. he looks like he is about to take a seat in the middle of the dais where everybody else is standing and told behind cover of hand next to him what looked to be some instruction because then he started to kind of stand up. that spatial disorientation is something we've seen on display over and over on a list of things that you have given us to watch for today. dr. siegel, i also appreciate the words you gave on your father who is now 100 years old

and his memory of d-day. god bless him and god bless you and your family. thank you. we'll get to our coverage now. the international ceremony for the 80th anniversary of d-day landings at omaha beach is actually unfolding at this moment. many heads of state and world leaders are at that ceremony including president biden. our martha maccallum, anchor and executive editor of "the story" is in normandy and there this morning. we got to see so many of those world war ii veterans we're blessed to have among us. >> it was an extraordinary ceremony this morning. the sun was shining, the shadows that get thrown across this amazing american cemetery in normandy are just very stirring to a person there is nothing like actually being here and walking among these crosses and seeing the names of young men etched in them and under each name is the state they come

from. as you walk through this cemetery idaho, south dakota, california, new jersey, pennsylvania, suddenly there is a story behind each one of these names and these young men who are lost and who gave the last full measure of devotion as abraham lincoln once said. this is a story of incredible american fortitude, resilience, strength at a time when really americans didn't want to go to war initially. it took pearl harbor to get americans behind the idea that we had to enter world war ii and the amount of machinery that we sent to england was unprecedented. they would ask for 50 tanks. they would get 500 within a matter of months. the scale that was met and the commitment to doing what was right, what was clearly right, the morales -- moral clarity is

a story we never stop learning from as we attend this story. where we were then and who are we now? what do we stand for? that's one of the very important things discussed today and will continue to be discussed, i hope. >> harris: so beautifully put. the amount of weapons and machinery, unmatched. once america got involved the whole world took notice. our fighting force at that time was one that was unmatched just in general. what we are watching right now, martha, is unfolding in omaha beach and seeing the beginnings of that reenactment. i want to bring pete hegseth into the conversation veteran of iraq and afghanistan wars and co-host of "fox & friends" weekend. we'll come back shortly to you, martha. what we just saw there. we are seeing some of the barges that will come to land on omaha with reenactors in period

equipment representing the different countries. we've seen the parachuteers. >> every parachuteer represents hundreds if not thousands of american men or boys that dropped on that day. those parachutes you are seeing are very sophisticated in this case. the simple equipment that was an airborne rig in 1940s, you know, it was -- a lot of these guys had no jump experience. there wasn't time. these are less well trained but as courageous men as we could possibly muster operation neptune. the airborne assault that pre-cursor to the sea landing meant to cut off as best they could the roadways so that the nazis could not reinforce the amphibious assault happening on the beach that was deceptively the one the germans didn't think they would have to defend.

they thought it was a different coastline. it took three days for the paratroopers to cut off a lot of those roadways. there is no gps back then. no internet. they are having paper maps, navigate their way around the french countryside and gather together after being dropped in the middle of the night. reconstitute as forces behind enemy lines and reestablish a chain of command and then take on fortified german troops in order to take back roadways still behind enemy lines so as to give the boys landing on the beach a fighting chance so that reinforcements don't arrive as they are landing. when i talk about the beach landing in a moment. this is just the airborne component, one part of the piece that had to go right. it didn't go right. with the weather and the evening and the training it was impossible but they overcame it with the spirit. >> harris: i'm so glad we were able to catch some of those parachuteers and people could watch it live as i was talking

to martha and you, pete. this international ceremony again will be all encompassing in terms of the countries that were there, the barges and those military equipment and machinery and all of that that showed up on that day. i just want to mention a couple of things. landing craft of the u.s.s. oak hill. h.m.s. great britain. the ncsmw hall from canada. the hnlms holland from the netherlands. and so on and so forth. just to shout out some who were there on that day and that present pre-cursor neptune. they don't have all the technology we have today but what they had, they were fierce, they had patriotism in their hearts and fighting an enemy that the scourge of the earth,

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>> harris: progressive democrats pressing against the invitation for israeli prime minister netanyahu to address congress. they don't want that to happen. they are members of the radical left and they continue to be loudspeaking out, congressman greg caesar says i don't think it is a good time for him to be

coming. are we hanging on his opinion? another one. congresswoman pressley told fox we should not be creating a platform and welcoming an accused war criminal. it doesn't stop there. >> a foreign leader by a dressing a joint session of congress currently engaged in creating the worst humanitarian disaster in the modern history of this country. >> not only is there very little purpose to it, but i think it is patently unproductive. i think it is counterproductive right now for him to address congress particularly as we continue to try to nail down details. >> would you consider some sort of protest against his presence, his address to the congress >> we'll have to see. >> harris: joni ernst from iowa member of the armed services committee and if i may also served as a company commander in

kuwait and iraq and led people in iraqi freedom. she retired as a lieutenant colonel in the army national guard after 23 years of military service. we honor and salute you today. let's talk about the politics first. so democrats don't want benjamin netanyahu to come and it has been shaky ground with the current president how much we really do support israel at times. how important it is he be allowed to speak to congress? >> harris, thank you. it is incredibly important that the prime minister of israel be allowed to come address a joint session of congress. i think these far left members of congress have forgotten that on october 7th we lost over 40 americans in the attack by hamas in israel. we have eight american souls that are still being held as

hostages by hamas in the gaza strip. five of whom we believe to still be alive. it is incredibly important that benjamin netanyahu be allowed to come address a joint session of congress to give us updates on the war in israel and perhaps provide a little hope for our hostage families as well. i think it's incredibly important that we work together with our closest friend and ally and only democratic country in the middle east. >> harris: what would you say to those members on the hill, particularly those house members who are radical in their party, about not standing beside israel at this point? i don't know -- we've talked about it many times. changing hearts and minds. sometimes a futile effort but in this instance these are the hearts and minds of people who have been elected. so what do you do? >> well, those hearts and minds obviously have been influenced by the far left and i'm struck

by the words of bernie sanders when he states that israel is the cause of this humanitarian crisis. no, senator sanders, hamas is the cause of this humanitarian crisis. they are the ones that instigated this war in israel. please, american people, let's not forget the cause of this. it is hamas, it is a terrorist organization backed by one of our closest near peer adversaries, iran. so we need to step up. we need to do the right thing and stand by our friend and partner israel. let's not forget the american souls that were lost in israel on october 7th. >> harris: we'll move on. senator, we have been sharing pictures, live images, president biden first in normandy today along with other world leaders to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the d-day invasion and honor the heroes on

that day and beyond. the president spoke earlier. >> president biden: we have a special obligation. we cannot let what happened here be lost in the silence of the years to come. we must remember it, must honor it and live it. must remember the fact that they were heroes here that day does not absolve us from what we have to do today. democracy is never guaranteed. every generation must preserve it, defend it, and fight for it. that's the test of the ages. >> harris: the "wall street journal" editorial board writes the u.s. has hardly been immune from complacent illusions about a peaceable international community. the obama and biden administrations recklessly expanded welfare spending while shrinking the military. there is a block by necessary debate on defense. this is a quote.

the best way to honor the memory of the d-day is to recall the eternal lesson that to preserve the peace you must prepare for war. senator again i talked about your service in the military. from that standpoint, if you could talk about where we are with the president who really spent some extra time today, if you watched his speech on ukraine and trying to kind of compare that to the time of d-day. >> i am very grateful for the president's words but i am extremely concerned that those words don't match action here in the united states. we do need to have a strong military and when we have folks on the far left that are demanding that equal spending go to domestic programs and social welfare experiments, we are not taking the time to strengthen our military. we certainly need here in the united states of america the

most lethal fighting force on the face of the planet. that hasn't been exhibited during the biden administration. we do need a strong leader in the white house and we need those serving in the military at the most senior positions that will continue to inspire generations of future warriors, this is what we need here in the united states. i'm so grateful for the warriors of all of these past eras and in particular those that served during world war ii. they truly set an example that all americans should aspire to and hopefully live up to. >> harris: senator, before i let you go a quick word. the president talked about nato. what is our relationship right now and what should it be, our participation with nato as you see, you know, a press for countries like ukraine that is already at war, couldn't get it earlier, trying to get in now. >> harris, i am blessed to do a lot of travel and speak with

many of these nato leaders and any time i am traveling abroad, what i hear from them is where is american leadership? that is civilian leadership here in the united states of america. president joe biden has not been present. he has not demonstrated the leadership necessary to continue to lead these other nato allies, these other nato countries. so we do need to stand up. we need to recognize we're a very powerful nation and because we are a powerful nation, we should be leading. we cannot allow others to fall because we choose not to lead. >> harris: senator, thank you very much for your time especially on this day. a georgia court of appeals has dealt a huge blow to georgia district attorney fani willis's election interference case against former president trump. plus it is day four in the hunter biden gun trial and the testimony has not been g-rated

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former intelligence officers dismissed it. remember they called that laptop russian disinformation. there at least 18 minutes of these tapes and statements, there that computer sat. a snippet from court yesterday. >> this is just classic textbook soviet russian work. >> this laptop that intelligence officials have warned is likely russian disinformation. >> russian disinformation effort. >> it is obviously a russian operation. >> do you still think the story about his son, hunter -- [inaudible] >> yes, yes, yes. god love the man. >> harris: god love you, man. i don't know what to say about that. they were lying or misinformed and willing to lie. rich edson is in wilmington, delaware. rich.

>> good morning, harris, major witness for the prosecution on the stand right now. hallie biden, hunter biden's sister-in-law is testifying going through their relationship and text messages right now. she testifies in late 2015, early 2016, they had a romantic relationship shortly after her husband and hunter's brother, beau, died. that's when she learned about hunter's drug use. she says in june 2018 she visited hunter in los angeles when he introduced her to crack. she called it a terrible experience. one she is embarrassed and ashamed of. later that year october 27th and 28 much 2018 hunter came to her house and he seemed exhausted and could have been on drugs at the time. when he went to bed, hallie says she cleaned out his car and testified she found remnants of crack, cocaine, dirty clothes, trash, and then the gun. hallie says she took the gun to a market up the road and threw

it away in a trash can. i realized it was a stupid idea now but i was panicking. they presented hunter's gun in the courtroom and looked similar to the weapon she had seen years ago. they are trying to connect his drug use with the gun. defense maintains he wasn't using drugs during that 11-day stretch. they will have the opportunity to cross examine hallie. he buys the gun october 12th. october 14th, i called you 500 times. hunter responds he was sleeping in a car smoking crack. >> we'll see what the defense has their chance to question hallie. >> harris: thank you very much. "focus" now criminal defense attorney. what do you think of some of what has come in as evidence. these text messages like the ones dealing with smoking crack

between an ex-girlfriend and hunter biden. >> if i represent him i go oh my goodness, not good for the defense. they have overwhelming evidence he was using drugs around the time. he had been to rebob for years in advance to make the argument he is no longer an addict. by definition he clearly was. does it make it a slam dunk? not necessarily. first you have a very pro-home court advantage in delaware for the bidens, number one. secondly, a lot of addicts, as the defense has already alleged, are in deep denial. they don't want to call themselves an addict. if you convince one juror in his mind hunter biden didn't deem himself an addict when he filled out the form was he really lying will be the argument. >> harris: even the text messages the "washington post" article between hallie biden hiding the gun and texted back and forth with hunter about that and he was quite angry saying this is not a game.

where is it? she said i have had enough of this. go to rehab. i mean, clearly there was strong understanding in at least his presence with the people he was with in a household where he was sleeping that he had a problem and he knew it wasn't a game to have bought that gun. >> of course. in his own words are the most chilling and haunting against him. prosecutors salivate in anticipation of maybe getting that type of evidence and they have it in this case, his own words. the argument will be that's what he believed he was on reflection when years later after rehab he realized i was an addict at the time. when he filled out that form, he will argue well, i was active, i was using. i'm not using today. the answer is no. to corroborate that the guy who sold him the gun wouldn't have sold it if it looked like he was

impaired. what is the definition of an addict? all these jurors who come in with their own definitions and see what they say. >> harris: a portion of them -- some things about them. a portion of them are gun owners. a portion of them have had addiction around them either in their family, so on and so forth. quickly, what comes into play here in terms of determining that? look, i say this often and i don't mean it as a joke, youtube is filled with video of this man in the nude with women who make their living by the hour in bed and drugs are in the actual pictures. >> yeah. well, they are doing a good job of showing that he wasn't a good person at the time or he wasn't engaged in the kind of behavior that we would encourage, right? that said -- >> harris: but he lied on that gun form. >> well says you and the prosecutor and most people.

maybe even me if i am honest. that's not the issue. what will the jurors feel when they make that decision. it takes just one of them who says you know what? he wasn't really lying. he was lying with himself and we'll let him go and pardon him. jurors can issue a pardon and say we aren't going to find him guilty. they can do that. >> harris: they can look at all that evidence and nullify it. they can look all that evidence as the elephant in the room and they can use nullification like they didn't see it. mark, thank you very much. new action about trump's vice presidential choice is telling fox news -- sources are telling fox news who could be the second in command. we have a list of names. you know them well. the power panel next. ns, because i know so many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility

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>> harris: former president donald trump is kicking veepstakes to a new level. fewer than six weeks before the republican nominating convention. who will he choose to be the vice president on the republican ticket? some familiar names on the list. sources telling fox news drug burgum, marco rubio, j.d. vance among potential running mates.

people close to the campaign say tom cotton, tim scott andy lease stefanik and ben carson and contenders. >> the only thing i'm talking to president trump about is how to make sure he gets four more years. >> looking forward to the ticket. we've never discussed it. donald trump will make a good choice and has time to make that choice and a lot of good people to pick from. we need to win. >> harris: a "new york post" with an editorial titled donald trump's veep pick could make or break his 24 runs. if he wins it will be just four more years and want a vp what w.h.o. can win the 2028 race on their own and keep his policy legacy moving forward . don't make the same mistake biden did. right now trump needs more money and stronger appeal to independent and moderate voters

from the "new york post." sean duffy, former wisconsin congressman, republican here. david carlucci democratic former new york state senator. welcome. we're joined by pete hegseth and back because he has been with me covering d-day for the hour. gentlemen, sean, i will start with you. veepstakes. your thoughts. >> first off, happy birthday, pete. it is his birthday today on d-day. >> harris: and you are sitting right here. >> i don't like to talk about it. it is d-day. not my birthday. >> we will do both. on the veepstakes, harris, i don't think it matters. i don't think anyone thinks donald trump won't serve four years. what happens if something does happen to donald trump could this person actually be the president, number one. the second consideration is do they add to my vote total? do they come from a state that i need to win or do they appeal to

a group of voters i want to vote for me that that's what donald trump will consider. the list you put up. all of them are people who would i think do very well as a vice president for donald trump. he can't go wrong with any of the people on that list. >> harris: david carlucci, your thoughts on who it might be. she or he would not be your pick because you are a democrat but i want to know what you think. >> to sean's point unlike other years this is such a close race so i think the v.p. does matter. i hope donald trump doesn't take my advice but someone like nikki haley to show humility and his number one criteria is not just loyalty but it has to do with governing, with getting the job done, with effectiveness. on that side i would say someone like representative donalds from florida, a guy who has not been in congress long but we know his name. he is an eloquent speaker and someone that can elevate the position of v.p.

v.p. is what you make of it. you have to have someone there that will be a self-starter and be out there and get the message out. so someone like byron donalds would be able to communicate well and he is a black congressman that would really send a strong message to diverse communities across the country. i hope donald trump doesn't take my advice. >> harris: interestingly enough, though, on reaching out to minority voters trump is doing that well on his own so he would only gain in the instance if it were someone, as you say, a person of color. that's not the case for biden. he already has a person of color and sinking like a stone. >> i think that wall you showed is a strong slate of candidates. a strong slate of options. he can't really go wrong on that list. i saw shaking his head on the nikki haley thing. that is not going to happen. i think steady, loyal.

capable. it could fit all the top three contenders or all the men and women. i think j.d. vance is in the poll position. he is an america first guy with trump on his instincts. you haven't seen a desire to overshadow or overplay his hand. a lot of respect for his intellect and capability. again they will train all arrows on donald trump. you need a steady eddie as capable as can be. vance fits the mold but any of those men and women also. >> harris: former president trump responded to people who believe he wants retribution and will use the justice system to go after political opponents like what has happened to him if elected. >> they're wrong. it has to stop or otherwise we won't have a country. look, when this election is over, based on what they've done, i would have every right to go after them and it is easy

because it is joe biden and you see all the criminality. we can't have this stuff go on because you know what? when biden goes out, everyone says bye-bye and then he gets indicted two days later and they go after him? the country doesn't want that. >> harris: "new york times" interviewed nearly 2,000 voters who previously supported trump and found he still retains 93% of the people who backed him in a previous survey. the times calls it a tally that's yet another striking show of political resilience from a candidate who is facing three more sets of criminal indictments. sean, "the new york times." your thoughts. >> first off, on the interview last night with hannity he is right to say i won't go after my political opponents. the retribution comes when you take away the political tool saying i'll clean up the f.b.i. and department of justice and make it a fair arbiter of criminality, not one who sides with one team or the other, which is what he said to pete,

rachel and will in the interview last week which was smart of him. >> harris: david, real quick? >> i'm grateful to see him reversing the rhetoric that he has continued on the campaign stage for the past few months and that's what americans want to see. i hope he continues that because if he says look, my receipt try bugs will be success. if he is doing those things. >> harris: we're running out of time. >> it would be better and do well for the country and not just politics. >> you have to said he may have said or crowds may have chanted lock her up. they did try to lock him up and time to clean up agencies in washington, d.c. and hopefully trump does that. >> harris: it's d-day honoring the world war ii warriors today and happy birthday to pete hegseth. "outnumbered" next.

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