so some powerful i want to bring in the presidential historian douglas brinkley right now. douglas are president biden is tying russia's war in ukraine, the largest groundwater in europe since world war 22. the threats allies, space, what, 80 years ago during world war two, do you agree? okay. with that parallel i agree to it to a certain degree. look, president biden gave very appropriate remarks. i think what history is going to remember about this 80th anniversary. it's really one of the last times the world media is getting to say, thank you to the the hundred-year-old veterans, but also just what's going on in the ukraine it's right there. i mean, in france, you're going to have biden meeting with zelenskyy. how do you stop that war? how do you prevent russian aggression of the most heinous kind? and its curious when listening to biden because in one one way with you're going to write a history of nato he's been a president big time promoter of nato is whole light. p is almost mr. atlantic alliance. as precedent, you had nato enlargement, sweeten just recently being add

presidential historian professor of history douglas brinkley. good morning. >> ruth, i want to start with you. i thought this week was incredibly important. a definition all week if you will. both on the global stage and here at home for president biden. he really connected a number of dots about the urgency and the washington post wrote a piece which i thought -- he talked will americans recognize their country in the dark and desperate portrait trump painted? or is the country's falling to pieces, he said. if he is not return to power, the countries finish. you want to be country anymore. or will americans instead choose to see a nation still striving to fulfill the higher purpose than biden described in memory of those who fought here, died here, literally save the world here, let us be worthy of their sacrifice. that, to me, was a consummating moment. i would love to get your take on how the president has framed his visit around this idea of, there is a bigger fight out there. those who come before have engaged in it and now it's up to us to

let's discuss this now, a cnn political analyst, jackie percentage and presidential historian douglas brinkley all right, jackie, what are you hearing from democrats? >> so i think the first thing we should say is that there are very few people in an outside of biden's close circle that would be able to talk him into dropping out. i'm thinking of jill biden. i'm thinking of his sister, valerie that's pretty much where it starts and finishes in terms of the people that really know kim best. and that he listens to. so beyond that, if you'd get much democratic leaders saying there would not saying tried to convince him. i think the most important two people are those two people that said what you're hearing from democrats on the hill? what i think a lot of us are hearing from democrats in text messages is they're trying to look past the president's performance last night, which is very hard to do. let's be real here. and focus more on his policies and his agenda and his vision for the future and contrast that to some of the things that former president trump said last night. now, whether voters w

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>> joining me now, douglas brinkley, presidential historian, professor at rice university, and coauthor"the nixon tapes" 1971 to 1972. i'm watching ronald reagan, and what an iconic speech that was. it isn't the first time we have heard a president pull from the reagan playbook. for this democrat, joe biden, what do you make of his choice to evoke that famous speech and the particular device of linking events to today? >> well, it was essential for joe biden to link it to ronald reagan, because reagan went there, and gave really one of the best speeches in presidential history june 6th of 1984. the speech was classic, biden stood at the same spot. these were the u.s. army rangers, second rangers of division that came and climbed the cliffs 100 feet straight up to destroy with grenades and gun-to-gun combat, destroyed these giant blasting guns that were pointing out over the english channel, and by their valor at point du hoc it allows so many americans not to get slaughtered at omaha and utah beach. i'm here in simi valley. yesterday i was with peggy noonan and all the people that were

michael crowley and douglas brinkley, thank you so much. >>> breaking news back here at home, the supreme court releasing decisions this hour with some major cases still undecided as the end of the term is fast approaching this month. ryan reilly joins us now from the supreme court. what have we heard from the court this morning as they release decisions, and what cases are we still waiting on? >> reporter: we got three decisions, but none of them were the big ones we're looking for, which both have to do essentially with donald trump. one of them would impact all of the cases that jack smith has brought against the former president, including the one in florida and the one here in d.c. that had to do with his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the transfer of power in the lead up to january 6th. the other one has to do with a charge that has been used against hundreds of january 6th defendants as well as donald trump himself. it would have to do with two of the charges, of the four charges donald trump is facing here in d.c., and it's the obstruction of an offi

so let's discuss with presidential historian douglas brinkley, doug, thanks very leo presidential debates well, not to be like michael dukakis or richard nixon, you want to be comfortable in your own skin. >> you want to be loose enough to not feel like you're up tight. you've got your projecting. what's american people are going to have to live with for the next four years the clips you played were great. but one has to wonder why didn't nixon even agreed to do for debates with john f. kennedy? he was eight years of vice president for eisenhower he's the that's the first debate in us history, not just televise first presidential debate period, lincoln douglas sub 18 58 was about illinois and he gave kennedy the opening. i don't think without those, if nixon didn't debate, nixon probably would have won in 1960. i think histories can look on why are we doing this debate in the spring. so it's a big deal for cnn. it's a giant moment, but it we usually wait, wait till september for this, so we're gonna be looking out. also a lot of body language. now, people are going to be looking at those

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we turn to presidential historian douglas brinkley and vanity fair's molly john fast.e can't always do justice to history. that we can slow down a bit and feel something has happened. how do you take this? >> i was at the university of delaware. and jordan klepper, the comedian, he came on stage. everyone had that advanced notice. it was like punches. one, two, three, four. and he had to have everyone lean forward in the country to find out what was going to happen. it is devastating. president trump is now in this rare ivory tower of the only president charged with 34 felony accounts as he's got to roll into a debate and roll into the milwaukee convention. he can frame it anyway he wants. it's a terrible embarrassment. there is nobody that hits with felonies that feels good with it. i thought even though he was moping out of the court, i thought history will show he kind of pulled himself together and showed one iota of dignity. and today, here he is, breaking the gag order, mocking people. jurors now have to be fearful. it is at -- authoritarian tactics of trump to i

according to former chief of staff, john kelly, trump called former soldiers losers, historian douglas brinkley that trump snubbed offered the president a clear opportunity to resurface memories of his predecessor's failings. joining me now chair of the ceo and founder of the black veterans project. thank you for joining me today. richard, to start, let me ask you to share your thoughts on the legacy of d-day and the contrast between these two men, the responsibility of sending our next generation of brave young men and women into battle? >> first, thanks for having me. i think that the contrast is clear and it's stark. i think that president biden is doing a remarkable job of venerating the 80th anniversary at a time where our country is deeply fractured, in part because of donald trump's politics, the ways in which he is trying to return us back to a time, in this country, of the jim crow south. of a second-class caste system for black folks. i think that it is apparent in many of the policies that he puts forth in the rhetoric and the folks he surrounds himself with, the politics he engages

we asked historian douglas brinkley. >> two years shy of this country's 250th birthday, 12 new york jurorsor falsifying business records in an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. when the guilty verdicts were read this past week, america, in a tangible way, rechristened itself as a republic. it was a sobering reminder that every american is precisely equal before the law. i've always admired thomas jefferson for wanting no title before his name except mister. like the other founders, he didn't want or expect special treatment under the law. former president trump's conviction proves that in the eyes of the law, even an ex-president is just another mister. it's also worth noting that this kind of jury trial never could have happened in the authoritarian countries that mr. trump so admires. xi of china, russia's putin, hungary's orban, erdogan of turkey -- none would ever be tried by a jury of their peers. unlike those countries, the united states vigorously upholds the rule of law. our founders ardently believed liberty and justice for all would bring monarch

joining me now is douglas brinkley, presidential historian and professor of history at rice universityin the opening, i feel torn on this. i think there is a freak out happening. there are arguments and counter arguments about the path forward, and that it is sort of nonsense, fantasy football to ■ç be talking about the incumbent president getting out of the race. others say look, the data is blinking red, and you just saw it in your own eyes last night. is there historical record you have to share? >> well, the danger at a bad debate is everything can go sideways. we think about what happened to joe forward. he had all the national security prudential's, and then pulling not in the soviet union, and he doubled down on it. that took him out of the game. carter was a number one without that. last night you are looking at biden with the senate foreign relations committee background, decades in the senate. he has done so much. eight years as vice president. but that did not come across on the debate. the resume didn't come across. and, without calling out donaldç trump serial lying, it le

analyst, jen palmieri, and presidential historian and professor of history at rice university, douglas brinkley, so can you explain the difference between the two men, the one we saw last night and the one we see told. it is whiplash. >> reporter: i think the president biden we saw on stage in raleigh today was as good as the president biden we saw that in the a debate last night was concerning for the democrats who were watching. i think this was a critical opportunity for the president to address those concerns. if everything had gone according to plan, that debate last night as the campaign viewed it was the beginning of a process to try to jar those undecided, uncommitted, uninterested voters, those who were double haters, especially, to begin tuning in to this ways, and to see the choice as clearly as they see it. if all had gone to plan, today's rally would have been an opportunity to keep building that momentum as they move forward in this campaign. but instead, this rally was a very well timed opportunity for the president to try to address those concerns head on. and so i spoke with a

douglas brinkley is the presidential historian.ow do you see historically the significance of this debate tonight? >> i think it's really important. i mean, you mention the kennedy-nixon back then. i mean and you said how sweaty nixon was and had the flu. nixon didn't even debate in '68 and he won. he refused to debate in '72 and he won. it's not always good to be forced into a debate. i was surprised that donald trump wanted to enter the arena this early. i think biden is the one that doesn't have momentum right now. and needs some; however, biden, i think, is going to be able to as the worry for biden is that he has those al gore moments where he seems to be sighing or rolling his eyes. trump's downside is if he seeming t ardent. it's about modification on both sides. >> jesse: it really is. you say trump may have been jammed into accepting this early debate challenge. after saying i will debate joe biden any time, anywhere, was he stuck? could he have then said well, wait a minute say a second is you are going to make us debate

quote losers and sucker's comments that trump denies making with me now presents a historian douglas brinkley, he's also the author of the boys upon to hook a hawk sees me and he joins us now. thank you so much for joining us. forgive my french or the lack thereof. i was a spanish speaker in school for good that anyway, douglas, i'm glad that you're here right now. listen the location and the message we're meant to invoke the memory of the 40th president ronald reagan and his speech called out the ussr and biden speech compared russian president vladimir putin to hitler. >> did you see any parallels and the messaging and wasn't successful to you? i think biden gave a marvelous speech. it's it's not as memorable as reagan's, so certainly not as remember was franklin roosevelt's d-day prayer to the nation when he was at the white house on june 6, 1944, just waiting to see what would happen, would this be the liberation of europe or would are armed? forces be pushed back into the english channel so i think biden all things considered a good, it's a tricky task that's what reagan sprayed his spee

. >> and with us now, is presidential historian douglas brinkley, excuse me. thanks for taking the time. good to see you. >> i want to start with look, i mean, is a very critical time in europe right now if there's no secret about that even we even saw ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy embracing world war ii veterans at one point. yesterday. >> do you see any parallels to the climate in europe now versus 40 years ago when, when reagan spoken, even going back into the late 30s as well well, 40 years ago when ronald reagan went over, there, you gave these two remarkable speeches, one at 0.2 hoc where he talked about the us army second rangers, these highly trained special ops who climbed 100 foot cliffs to decimate the 155 millimeter french blasting guns that were towering over the point in pill boxes. and by wiping out those guns, those rangers saved a lot of lives at omaha and utah beaches on when reagan came and he gave a speech of a lifetime, peggy noonan wrote it he gave a second speech that tony dolan wrote on omaha beach and these are kind of clario