d-day invasion. those and courageous sacrifice that day for all of us. there you can see the president and his wife, dr. jill biden meeting with those veterans. now, most of them over 90, just a few still remain with us president biden is expected to speak soon from the beaches of normandy, france, 18 years ago today, those beaches were the scene of the largest amphibious invasion in military history. listen to franklin roosevelt praying with the nation as the de d-day mission was unfolding. almighty god some prior to ban the this de, i ve set upon the meitei-sho endeavor let s criminal to preserve our republic all religion and our civilization and set free a suffering humanity more than 70,000 american troops joined allies forces for operation overlord on june 6, 1944. 2,500 us soldiers died that day storming the beaches, 29,000 more were killed during the battle of normandy that followed the sacrifices of america s greatest generation led to the downfall of hitler s naz
generations from far-right populism on the march on both sides of the atlantic ocean, geopolitical empires like russia and china are meanwhile resurgent and threatening to obliterate the global system dominated by western values that has prevailed since world war ii. tell us a little bit more about how you re viewing this day yeah i think we ve been living in the world that these brave soldiers forged ever since the end of the second world war, it was a world that was bought, build by franklin roosevelt, winston churchill the structures of western led democratic countries the us support for europe in the cold war, which the allies, another conflict of the allies eventually one nearly 50 years after the end of the cold war so that world is now a lot less certain than it used to be. as i wrote there, there are challenges from autocracies, yet again, on the european continent with russia resurgent a major land war on the fringes
debate. they must complete a mix of fund-raising and pulling requirements. so far, only seven candidates satisfied at least one of those conditions. about five candidates have not met either including former vice president mike pence. you can catch the first debate fox news channel in it will be happening august 23rd 9:00 p.m. eastern time with bret baier and martha maccallum. many will be watching, john. john: looking forward to that. one of the 2024 candidates trying to take the gloves off when it comes to former president trump you are the former congressman appeared on the view where g.o.p. rivals not to me enough to challenge the front runner. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie and he thinks the build by and large, i guess you missed chris christie. sandra: right, not chris christie but everyone else. and especially walking a tight line on january 6th probe.
problems. if we can keep spending $1.3 trillion more than we take in, we will be so deemly in debt we can never get out. we need to restrain, restrain, restrain the spending. people feel on my side of the aisle that if you give them more tax money, they will continue to spend it. you have to have some restraints and set your priorities. eric: i listened to president obama in ohio yesterday, and in the middle of a long speech, a line that stood out. take a listen to it. we know that country want built from the top down but build by the middle class. build by farmers. and factory workers. and start-ups. and small businesses. eric: this was yesterday. this is a couple of weeks ago. if you have a business, you didn t build that. somebody also made that happen. eric: what do you think? guest: well, he is right yesterday. this country was built by