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Different. one of the big turning points happened on these shores a few hundred yards from where i am standing 75 years ago today. jillian: for those just joining us 25 in it after 5:00 on the east coast looking at the normandy american cemetery where french president emmanuel macron and donald trump, meeting with veterans, 12,000 people in attendance at the ceremony including 160 world war ii veterans, the two presidents is to give speeches. emmanuel macron will bestow the highest honor on 5 am...

Charged i think it will be overturned on appeal. >> thank you both very much for helping us understand this very strange development. the good stuff is next, but first some more good stuff. jessica cox is the first woman to fly an airplane with just her feet. she was born without arms, but through raw perseverance she earned her wings. here is her story in todays turning points. >> i had numerous flight instructors and contributors to my training to figure this out, to figure out how can you f...

Cooperating? >> hes putting ca inting keros fire. hes refusing to send people up to hill. at some point people will be driven to have no choice. id like to think i work for a senator, bob griffin, many a decade ago as an intern. i remember how people -- >> a republican. >> he was one of the turning points. i flew with him back to washington the day he came out and they watched the facts. i think its very important for us to follow the facts and this nobody is above the law. >> congresswoman, ill...

Opinions once they start to form. >> im bringing him a polished apple next time just to make sure im in his good graces. >> always an a plus for alisyn camerota. >> well done. >> berman, c plus. >> thank you, professor. >> bye, yall. >> botswana has overturned its ban on elephant hunting sparking international controversy. we will explain why. thats next. first a bodybuilder is using all of his strength to break stereotypes about transgender people. his story is todays turning points. what i...

Kraft and the closing of spas in south florida. the white house declined to comment on yang, but president trump did speak about the charges for kraft. >> its sad. i was surprised to see it. hes proclaimed his innocence, but im surprised to see it. >> reporter: as for yang, she donated $35,000 to the trump campaign according to fcc filings. shes a self-made entrepreneur, according to the miami herald, showed little political interest before the 2016 election and she had not voted in the ten year...

Meanwhile, we want to bring you this story. a father turned his devastating loss into action. andy parker shares his emotional journey after his daughter allison was murdered on live tv. >> first, how a life-changing accident led a woman to a new beginning. this weeks turning points. >> reporter: megan harmon is a natural on the slopes. >> i feel a huge sense of freedom when im on snow. >> reporter: it took a life-changing accident to get her here. in 2009 surgeons amputated her left leg after a...

Snowboard, megan carved a niche for herself representing the united states in the 2014 paralympic games in sochi and now competes around the world. >> 10, 15 years ago if you told me i was going to be at the paralympics, i dont think i would have expected my life to turn out this way. >> reporter: when shes not shredding the slopes megan puts her love of speed to work at her job working on rockets. >> i guess you could say im a rocket scientist. i love a challenge physically and mentally. those ...

Accomplish. >> back in washington, omar did respond on twitter. saying, quote, no wonder why i am on the hit list of a domestic terrorist and assassinate ilhud omar is written on local gas station, look no further, the display likening me to a state terrorist rocks in state capitols and no one is defend, g is condemning it. >> you can see, she is certainly talked about for many reasons on capitol hill. some against her own doing. >> thanks so much for bringing that to us. appreciate it. >> im fr...

Of michael cohen that roger stone had reached out to then candidate trump about his outreach to julian assange, the founder of wiki leaks, that they had advanced notice of those damaging e-mails hurting the clinton campaign. that is something the white house has denied and roger stone has denied. that will be a focus of today and whether there is corroboration to that. well see what they learned. that is what we are expecting for a full day behind closed doors. >> thanks very much. jim. >> so we...

Most drug addicts are self-medicating pain from childhood trauma, which i was. by the time i was in my early 20s was suicidally depressed. later i was thrown in jail on drug charges. that was my rock bottom. i missed the feeling of wind in my hair, sun in my face. thats when i realized my relationship with nature was stronger than my relationship with drugs. it brought me into the present moment. you get to just climb up and away from everyday reality. >> reach way up to get the tool in. >> i gi...