when did dunkirk occur and would have been? >> the basic story that i wanted to write about is pressed into four days and nights as the british army and the belgians having collapsed find that they make their way back to the channel ports and it's a kind of miracle to evacuate over 350,000 men is extraordinary is now 860 dots and personal boats because they were being bombed so it is a miraculous floor. >> it is one of the moments when the plaintiff the greatest victory they lost the war and had an opportunity to crush the army on the beaches of dunkirk it is disputed by the generals of persons they would sit and rest and they gave an opportunity to organize a and when they were sure that we are in 20 invading them. >> when did this ocher? >> the 26th and 27th. it might be possible to take 20 or 30,000. we took off 350,000. now without their artillery and in most cases they wanted to. for the naval officer it was hard to get into. it's full of supplies for the troops that had a lot to where they were. >> was this a case of snat

the 23-year-old chopped his trademark locks for the role of a world war ii soldier in "dunkirk." thousands of other men. >> pretend there's an explosion happening over here. it's actually going on and then i think that just means you get natural reactions to stuff. >> harry joins fellow newcomers jack lowden, tom glynn-carney and fionn whitehead, a 20-year-old unknown who before being cast, was washing dishes. >> i was coming out onto the beach and there was 1,300 extras, and there was explosions going off. and the purr panic and terror. >> director christopher nolan -- you know the guy behind christian bale's "batman" and leo's "inception" -- says he handpicked the young cast. who accurately represents the young men involved in this true story about the evacuations of soldiers from a ravished beach in france during the war. >> the traditional thing in hollywood movies is to cast 28, 29-year-olds, 30-year-olds and pretend they are younger. i wanted to cast people of the right age. and the first one to the last one to leave. >> this two-second shot in the trailer has the internet

from waldorf to dunkirk, prince frederick, the pocket of moderate rain moving through. .ther hour hour and a half or so and then we get a break and see more scattered showers it's an open umbrella early with what is on the radar. later today, closed, just have it handy. wow, your want to get rid of this air mass today. very tropical, hot and humid. 90 is the forecast high for today. for the weekend we bring those temperatures down into the 80's but quite steamy for today. 89 fredericksburg, 90 in d.c. airy, frederick, even leesburg goingp 90 degrees with that southwesterly wind. a snapshot of early tomorrow morning. it is going to be pouring at 6:00 a.m. by 9:00, that rain is going to be gone and that is what is going to be the setup for what is going to be a one nice weekend. we take a look at the travel weather going north or south, new york city or south to the carolinas, all coming up in a few. julie: right now our focus is still in northeast washington closede have the road off. new york avenue blocked before you reach a south dakota avenue with all traffic diverted

i remind people 77 years ago today at this very minute the last votes were pulling off dunkirk.hat was a catastrophe. this is nothing like that but terror has an effect on economics, tourism, all of the things that you and i and the rest of the world wants people to do, if it continues that way, begins to degrade your entire society and you turn to bad things. start asking for much more than what ray kelly was able to do in new york with his surveillance program. it becomes intrusive on our civil liberties. thank god, we in america, have the second amendment that says a gunman, an honest man with a gun can stop a lot of bad guys was nice. that would've helped last night. shannon: we have a lot of constitutional rights here, thankfully, that many have been eroded in recent years. hopefully we'll get a good shot in the arm of coming back. i want to ask you to about this issue of arming the kurds because in that region there's been a lot made over the years that over the last few years they couldn't get their hands on anything that would've been helpful and now we understand weapon

they're lightly equipped, part of that is because they left most of their equipment back at dunkirk wheny took off and this is a way to be doing something without getting involved in this huge vest on the continent. once the us comes in, the roosevelt administration decides it wants to try to get more involved with the uk and one of the first opportunities that comes along is to work with these commandos in an organization called the armor rangers is set up under william orlando darby and they work with the commanders, work with the commandos and one of the first missions the rangers go on is the rate at the app on the french coast which turns out to be a complete disaster, the germans wiped out most of the landing force and as a result of this disaster, the allies move away from this idea of rating on the coast because a it is not working and be you are not doing much to hurt the axis powers by doing this. by the time the rangers are getting up to speed their taking part in the big campaign of the war. first, in north africa and subsequently italy and france. to give you a little bit fr

but not quite 77 years ago when winston churchill after the battle of dunkirk that the british lost said we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender. is it time to frame this as a war of survival? as truly a war that we made when? rather than accept as the london mayor has talked about? >> i think your mischaracterizing was being said. we cannot accept this. i don't think the london mayor suggested that i don't think teresa mae has said that. part of what they're saying is we cannot cower in fear into a bunker. we have to live our lives and use the freedoms that are available to us in the last as an example for all those people out there who might join groups like isis that there is a better way. yes, we have to confront this threat. no doubt about it. it is a clear, unquestioned threat. it's good versus evil and we need to do it but i don't think we need to frame it in those other terms. leland: we don't need to frame it as a fight against islam but we can frame it as a war against islamic extremism. to that point, we have robert driscoll on, former attorney general talking ab

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