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tv   Jose Diaz- Balart Reports  MSNBC  June 6, 2022 7:00am-8:00am PDT

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bobby kennedy passed away june 6, 1968. two years earlier he said few will have the greatness to bend history but each of us can to change a small portion of the events. remembering bobby kennedy today. something else happened today. what was that? >> my baby girl was born 24 years ago today. for me everything. so happy birthday, carly. thank you. see i don't tomorrow morning 6:00 a.m. eastern. four hours. jose diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. >> happy birthday, carly! >> good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern. i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin another week with another string of deadly mass shoots. as the epidemic continues across
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the country philadelphia, chattanooga, phoenix, chicago. just some of the city that is saw shootings over the weekend as families continue to grieve the 21 lives taken in the texas massacre. we'll ask congressman colin allred what more can be done at the federal level. in ukraine, russia striking kyiv with missiles for the first time in weeks. we'll take you live to ukraine. also this hour, new detailing around the fatal shooting of a retired wisconsin judge. police say the suspect was planning others. this morning marks the beginning of the summit of the americas as the white house confirms the leaders from cuba, nicaragua and venezuela will not be invited. the president of mexico said he won't be going then.
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we begin this very busy hour with the kase lating gun violence crisis across the u.s. at least 12 people were killed in just 48 hours. in yet another string of mass shootings. this weekend marked more deaths in the u.s. than the memorial day weekend in which nine people have been killed. there's 246 mass shootings in the united states this year according to the gun violence archive which defines it in which four or more people are shot. in philadelphia gun fire from multiple shooters rang out saturday night in a tourist district leaving three dead and 12 wounded. some covered in blood as police rushed to the scene. police believe a person killed in the shooting was involved in an altercation with another man and they began to fire at each
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other. in tennessee three people are dead. authorities say two of those people died from gunshot wounds and a third died from injuries after being hit by a car while trying to -- have been made as of this morning. in chicago six people killed in shootings with more than two dozen injured. among the wounded two children and a police officer. families still in uvalde, texas, saying good-bye to their children. a funeral held for eliahna garcia. a visitation for xavier james lopez. as we learn in details about that horrific day from a funeral attendant. actually came face to face with the gunman. here's part of what he said with nbc news. >> i get my gun and start walking toward the school.
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towards the side of the funeral home. and the cops show up. and he tell me, what are you doing? i'm going to go in there and try to stop him. he told me you stay the [ bleep ] back. i said he is already in the school. stay back and shut the [ bleep ] up. that's what he told me. my intention was to stop him. i mean -- i feel guilty, man, because i couldn't stop him. >> hmm. amazing details there. also today department of homeland security secretary will be in uvalde meeting with officials. we are joined by three of the nbc news correspondents. gabe gutierrez in philadelphia. guad in texas and ali vitale on capitol hill. gabe? >> reporter: this was a shooting
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in a very heavily trafficked area. there were hundreds of people packed into the street. popular here in philadelphia. as you said it is believed by police that the shooting involved one of those who died that was involved in an altercation with another man and both opened fire and multiple people started to shoot. according to police at least five guns used and meaning at least five gunmen. there have been no arrests and there is a search for the suspects under way. witnesses here say that this turned from a party into panic almost immediately. this is part of a rise in gun violence in philadelphia and the country as you mentioned but we are awaiting details on the latest of the search. no arrests so far. now on this monday.
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the shooting happened late saturday night, jose. >> there's another funeral today as we learn about what happened the day of the shooting. >> reporter: correct. another funeral. every day we list the names and will continue throughout the week. we saw the images of the man we spoke to over the weekend. when he first faced the gunman he didn't have his gun and he said he tried to help him and escaped the gun marn shooting at him and then the wife brought the gun and that's the time when the gunman went inside and he feels guilty. i think that conversation is very, very emotional. talking to him about guns, most people here say they own guns and talking to cody and members of the community which is 80% hispanic we wanted to know the
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opinions on changing laws on gun reform and sat down with a navy ret ran, a grandfather of one of the havics and the mother of 0 teacher not hurt in the incident and what we got is that they all agreed with having some type of gun reform saying they feel like the community in uvalde is not represented by the local or state officials and part of the conversation with them. >> let's get together, fix this problem and quit the bickering among each other because there's no room for it no more. there's not -- we don't have room in the coffins of the children for the bickering to go on. all i'm asking is for everybody that's listening to us, use the mothers and fathers, hug your babies because i can't.
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i can't hug my granddaughter. 11 years old. anymore. but it's because of this bickering that's going on in the united states about this problem. >> reporter: vincent who lost his granddaughter talking about the lack of bipartisan coming to finding a solution. and, jose, all of them talked about changing the age from 18 to 21 or higher to buy a rifle. that is probably the most common response from people of the community who say i own a gun and would like to see them change the age. jose? >> yeah. looking at your interview with that grandfather, how can you ever remove that pain from your soul? it's interesting. people if not most of the people there do have guns and have
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access to gun and want to have -- continue to have access to guns for personal protection. it is interesting because they're asking for changes but that will -- in other words it's interesting. even the grandfather, right? >> reporter: that's correct, jose. one thing everyone is telling me is that they would like to see the age to buy an assault rifle from 18 to 21, 23 or 25. that seems to be the one thing they agree on. i've seen reporting that people in uvalde wouldn't like to change the age. i haven't met a person like that. i met a teacher that said she wants the right to own a handgun and would not bring it to the school and talked about the solutions that some people, legislators offered like arming
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the treechls. she said that would never happen. it would not work with somebody with an assault rifle the way it happened here. one thing that keeps coming up that the people talk to me about is changing the age limit like i said from 18 to 21 or even higher. i should add a person that we spoke to yesterday is a veteran and someone familiar with weapons. jose? >> ali, let's talk about where things stand on the talks in washington on some potential solutions. >> reporter: yeah. jose, the thing that is guad is talking about is not necessarily on the table. instead they focus and the same three or four policy agenda items they have been focused on since the shooting happened. school safety, mental health, red flag laws and narrower
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background checks. the leader chris murphy was asked about changing the age limit was on the table and he skirted that question. there is a difference between the house and the senate on this. the senate last week moved on a package of gun bills to be brought up this week now that the house is coming back to session tomorrow. what we expect to be par of the package is an age to buy a semiautomatic rifle like that but doesn't mean that the senate is going to pass and hyper focused on the bipartisan group of senate negotiators is doing. a lead negotiator over the weekend chris murphy in this fight for years now said he feels confident and a fear of failure. i do think the other thing to
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look forward to seeing this week, jose -- some people by the violence in buffalo and in uvalde are going to be testifying here. some in front of the senate and the house oversight committee on wednesday. on friday among those testifying on wednesday are going to be a fourth grade girl from robb elementary school that covered hes in a class mate's blood and played dead to survive. the chairwoman said she hopes that this turns the anger into action and urges the colleagues to come with the hearts and minds open. >> ali, guad, gabe gutierrez, thank you very much. for more on this i'm joined by
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congressman allred from texas. always a pleasure to see you. another weekend and a string of mass shootings. chicago, almost like a commonplace. your thoughts on what's happening? >> yeah. jose, i have to say that grandfather you just played got to me. >> yeah. >> i kissed my two boys good-bye as my wife took them to day care and really for the last couple of weeks when they go off i have the thought what if they don't come home? and so i know what that grandfather the feeling. the fear that that could happen to a loved one. we with ent to a pride march this weekend with moms demand action to raise awareness and end this senseless violence and
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the whole time i'm wondering is there a shooter in this crowd. that's the reality in this country. we are not a country that's more violent or more mental illness. we have too many guns and not enough restrictions on who and when they can have them. that's the truth. talking about from the senate i hope it's a first step but i don't think it will address the shootings we saw this weekend. talking about limiting schools to one door. what about going to a restaurant or a move vi theater or places of worship? we have to do something. the american people expect us to do something. they elected us to do something. the house will act this week. i hope the senate does, too, as well. >> everything you say is just spot on. here are the questions for you.
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do you present things all encompassing and that have virtually no possibility of getting through or take a step by step approach and things that maybe could have a commonality in people supporting of it? the red flag laws. talking, congressman, about the issue of the door but so many issues, maybe raising it to 21. right? florida did it after the shooting at the school here. >> yeah. listen. anything that will save lives we have to do and take whatever we can get and i think red flag legislation, raising the age, banning high capacity magazines, these are things to vote on this week. gun storage and safety around that. we vote on that this week. the question you ask me really
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is what can we get ten republicans in the united states senate to vote for? i think if they can arrive at something on red flag legislation, arrive at something to increase funding for mental health then i'll support it. i don't think we can stop there. obviously that's not going to solve everything. we need to take a stepdy step approach and show that we can break the ice and can have some progress and every issue i studied as a civil rights lawyer taking smault steps, sometimes bills and legislation that isn't that satisfying before you got the legislation to make a big difference. >> congressman, always a pleasure. i thank you for your time this amonging. >> thank you. a retired wisconsin judge found shot and killed in his home on friday.
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ukraine. russia lanched a wave of air strikes on ukraine's capital. russia fired cruise missiles that struck a railway compound. but ukraine said they hit a train repair shop and that military equipment was not stored there. in the east the governor of the luhansk city said they'll attempt to level the region. russia's leader vladimir putin delivered a warning that if ukraine's western allies supplied it with rockets that can fire into russia, russia would begin striking new targets. joining us now nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter and in rick stengel. molly, what can you tell us act the ongoing battles in eastern ukraine and then what happened
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in the capital over the weekend? >> reporter: hey, jose. great to be with you. that's right. cruise missiles into the capital of kyiv. real reminder of russia's range and what that can hit and been in lviv. they can hit every big city in this country which we sometimes forget. i want to take you to severodonetsk. it is still being fiercely fought over. there are still ukraine troops holding positions according to the governor there. you teased the statement earlier today but the governor who's been giving us regular you dates says the number of shellings in severodonetsk and a town just doing the road to the west of severodonetsk increased tenfold
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overnight. it's comparable to mariupol. they're leveling the cities. he said the fighting is dynamic and the ukraine military is holding positions. in this and talking so much about this city, there's civilians inside. the civilians inside severodonetsk have no heat, power or water. over the weekend president zelenskyy made a visit. he went to thank the troops, boost morale saying i'm proud of everyone i met and connected and had expressed my support. the severodonetsk mayor said that they can repel the russian attacks. but that is absolutely where the fiercest fighting is concentrated in the donbas
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region, jose. >> thank you so much. rick, so let's talk act what molly was referencing. u.s. and uk will provide advance missile launch systems. putin said he'll react why what do you make of that? >> jose, you know you struck the target when they fire missiles back. that happened with vladimir putin. he has reservations at it. he doesn't want those long range anti-missile systems or missile systems. we have put a limit on the length of targeting with the missiles we send. i think 80 kilometers. we don't want missiles in russian territory but putin knows that the combined with the valor of ukraine troops with the sophisticated artillery will help them achieve victory and
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what putin is worried about. >> i'm thinking about you and say i want to talk to rick about that. as the war progresses it gets bogged down in the natural things of war. right? maybe the west and the united states could lose its interest or focus on supporting the efforts for ukraine to continue fighting the russians. is there a danger that as this war progresses there will be a pressure or shift towards a negotiate with the russians? >> yes, absolutely. i think that's a thing that putin is planning on. his country is right there on the border. as you said with so many things it matters more to me and the russians than you in the west. at the end of the day, all wars
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end at the negotiating table and not the battleground. by helping on the battlefield that helps the ukraines at the negotiating table. we want them to be an independent nation with sovereign borders and will be negotiated with the russians. in two months or two years or a decade we don't know. we can't stop paying attention. >> yeah. rick, thank you so much. >> great to see you. a retired wisconsin judge found tied up and shot dead inside his home. a federal judge who lost her son when a gunman tried to kill her joins me. extraordinary person who i will have have the privilege to speak with. here to meet those high standards
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30 past the hour. new concerns about the safety of judges and public servants coming after wisconsin authorities say a retired county judge john romer shot and killed
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in his home. an official said he was brown with zip ties. the suspected gunman in critical condition. according to court records he was sentenced to six years in prison in 2005 after he pleaded gltd to armed robbery and weapons challenged and created a hit list with michigan governor, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and wisconsin governor tony evers. with us to talk about this is clint watts. thank you for being with us. he's been out of prison for at least a decade and decided to do this now. what does that tell you? >> it's really interesting. i think it's two parts. one, personal grievance. and then seen consistently over the past few weeks is more mass
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shootings and i wonder if there's a contagion effect to trigger them to take action. i think the hit list points to the mediated terrorism we have seen over the last few years and the more someone is more mentioned in the public or has an attachment the more they can be a target. the judge was known to the attacker while very awful it is less surprising than the others on the list and looking at the list it speaks to nose in the region. from what it sounds like this individual in kentucky quite a bit. mitch mcconnell is there. whitmer is the subject of a lot of smear campaigns online and tony evers might be opposite of this person's views. on the accounts, this person engaged with political speech
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and oftentimes is targeting names like governor whitmer. i think it speaks to a broader trend of three categories of people. journalists, election workers and now judges. the judicials a the suspect is a big problem in this country. >> yeah. do you think that the polarization that this country is so deeply engrained and does it have an effect? this opposed on everything and on everyone, does that have something to do with this maybe? >> i think it's polarization and information. if you rewound in this country 25 to 30 years someone living in kentucky would not likely know
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the governor and senators in another state. they weren't aware of it and i think where the social media brings everyone together to discuss and focus anger on individuals and institutions and appointed or elected leaders. dr. fauci, no one knew who was in charge of health policies in the 1980s but today everyone does. >> clint watts, thank you. with us to continue the conversation someone all too familiar with the threats facing judges. esther salas. her son was killed in an attack that targeted her and her husband was shot. she joins us now. i'm thinking a lot about it's going to be two years now but how are you doing today?
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>> good morning, mr. jose diaz-balart. our heart is broken. it is a wound that will never heal. hearing the news about the judge and it was my biggest fear and was since i started to advocate and asking members of congress, begging them to do something. sure enough another nightmare for us and for the family. again my thoughts and prayers are with his family today and will be for the rest of my life on earth. >> you have been pushing for the security and privacy act named after your son. tell us about that. >> the daniel ald ren privacy bill would address the issue that we are talking about. the identifiable information are there for the world to see. the fbi agents who investigated
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our case told me how this killer amassed personal information about me. the home address, the church, my son, the baseball games and used that information to tart me. let's be clear. these are assassinations. judges are being assassinated. we have been protecting democracy and doing our job and we need members of congress, we need leaders to say enough the enough. we'll protect judges and today. not tomorrow. today. >> judge, it is so easy, especially for people that have -- that know a lot about the internet to find someone's address, to find where our children go to school. anybody. doesn't take a rocket scientist to do this. about us.
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how do we protect ourselves from people who want to do us harm? >> i tell you what. before july 19, 2020, i approached life as i wasn't a big social media person but i spoke about my son and my husband and we have to be careful what we do on social media and say in public. i think we have to become much more guarded and we have to realize that right now another judge is dead and there have been so many judges assassinated starting with judge woods killed by a sniper. another judge gardening. judge avance. opened up a box thinking it was a gift. it was a bomb.
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judge leftcow, her husband's killer stuck in the house and waiting to attack her. the husband found him and went after the 90 plus year old mother and then our daniel opening the door and really being a hero and being so brave and we know that he didn't let that killer step into the foyer because he blocked him and then took a single bullet to the chest where my husband took several bullets. we have to do something and there's competing interests out there. members of congress want to be protected, too. ichl not saying they shouldn't be protected but daniel's bill is languishing. we can't let another day go by. we can't. >> all right. i agree. i'm going to -- when we have
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members of congress here i'll ask about that. we have to continue to focus on this. judge, thank you. daniel was indeed an extraordinary young man. you know? from that day he opened the door but for his whole life what he had dreams, such a responsible and caring person. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me this morning and thank you in advance for you to ask them what the delay is. >> i will. >> thank you so much, sir. >> thank you for being with us. world leaders arriving in the u.s. for the summit of the u.s. we are live in los angeles on which countries are not invited.
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under way in los angeles today the mexican president announced just a short time ago that he won't be attending that summit sending his foreign minister instead. the decision came hours after a senior administration official confirmed to nbc news that the leaders of cuba, nicaragua and venezuela had not been invited to the coference. the president of mexico said he'll visit the white house in july. mike memoli joins us from los angeles. good morning. so the fact that the administration is debating whether to invite the dictatorships had an impact on how this is perceived. >> reporter: yeah. that's right. you have both domestic pushback and international pressure. this is the ninth summit of the americas and the dust-ups over the invitations and potential boycotts that follow is a
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recurring feature of the summit but the biden administration hoped to make it a showcase for what they call regional solutions for regional challenges but senior administration official said this is a summit for democracies and they have concerns about the lack of human rights, the backsliding of democratic norms in the three countries not invited and efforts to bring mexico to the table even though we saw now the president amlo as they call him is down playing this. there's major commitments announced that mexico will have a seat at the table and part of the commitments that are being made and representatives countries at the summit related activities. we see the president who arrives on wednesday and vice president kamala harris with events of her
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own trying to focus on the issues and putting a focus on the efts made to deal with the root causes. a challenge for administration of course. >> maybe giving a voice to those three dictatorship that is don't have a voice. venezuela, cuba and nicaragua. mike memoli, thank you. coming up, the january 6 committee will hold the first public hearings this week and promising to reveal never before seen evidence. but one thing can calm uncertainty. an answer. uncovered through exploration, teamwork, and innovation. an answer that leads to even more answers. mayo clinic.
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at the capitol, everything that led to it, who organized, funded, participated in that plot. what could that previously unseen material be? among other things, likely to show film deposition testimony that they had done behind closed doors, including former president trump's family members, according to colleague garrett haake, who are the most prominent family members that spoke to the committee, ivanka trump and son-in-law jared kushner. moments ago i got off the phone with a source familiar with the committee work that says this is an opening argument, they'll bring the american people back to the violence of the day and connect to a broader plot to overturn the election, including involvement from former president trump who tried to pressure the justice department who whipped up the crowd ahead of the attack on january 6th. the committee believed weaving together that narrative, their case was strongest. listen to what adam schiff had to say yesterday. >> perhaps most important is the public hasn't seen it woven
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together, how one thing led to another, how one line of effort to overturn the election led to another and ultimately led to terrible violence, first nonpeaceful transfer of power in our history. >> reporter: and the what now that they hope to answer. the weaknesses of democratic institutions and legislative recommendations they plan to make how congress and the united states government overall can prevent this happening again. >> thank you so much. thursday, join msnbc for coverage of the hearings, you'll be able to watch them in full with expert analysis beginning thursday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. pacific here on msnbc. 78 years ago today, a day to change the course of history. we go live to normandy, france to remember d-day. you're watching jose diaz-balart reports. lart reports.
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tests this year. boris johnson facing vote later today that could remove him from office. conservative lawmakers considered letters of no confidence in the prime minister handling of the pandemic, including the parties he held at downing street during lockdown. johnson will need to have the conservative majority to stay in power. in france, members of the greatest generation join thousands of others marking 78 years since one of the most decisive days in military history, d-day, june 6, 1944. more than 160,000 troops from the u.s., britain, canada and other nations stormed beaches of normandy for start of the operation to liberate france. among those attending today's events, soldiers that took part in that world war ii battle nearly 8 decades ago. senior national correspondent kerry sanders is in normandy. an extraordinary place where you
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are. this time, what have you seen the last days? >> reporter: it is remarkable to think, a, that there are people survived d-day, over my shoulder are grave stones of 9,387 americans that died arriving here. those that survived the arrival and then think about it, now 78 years later are still alive, they're the greatest generation, the fastest appearing greatest generation. just beyond the cemetery, omaha beach. you look at omaha beach at sunrise this morning, it was serene, relaxing. such a contrast to what the hell was like as they came ashore here facing down german nazi military with machine guns in pill boxes. those that survived and made their way back here say they are not heroes. listen. >> we were here doing our job.
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if somebody alongside us needed help, we were brothers. they were part of us. they were a family. >> what was it like? >> very difficult to explain because we were all young guys. there wasn't one of us that wasn't crying. >> it was scary. >> sure was. every tenth round was a tracer. >> reporter: eight d-day survivors, veterans, men who made their way back here. 99 turning 100 years old. this is the last time they say they'll ever come back. one said he would never come back until now. very emotional but also important to remember. d-day was successful.
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that's what took the nazis out of germany and ultimately what led to defeat of hitler, jose. >> kerry, i saw you holding those two hands. you must have felt so much pride and awe, holding two hands that did so much. >> reporter: they may be 99, i felt strength, strength that dates back to the invasion here and strength that is fully recognized by the french, even young french people, talking about kids, coming up to them, saying thank you, recognizing that they would have a different life under hitler's germany were it not for what happened here 78 years ago. >> thank you so much. great to see you, my friend. that wraps up the hour for me. thank you for the privilege of your time. garrett haake has more news right now.

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