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 nazi germany. when president biden speaks this morning, he'll honore, those heroes a speech focused on democracy plan for tomorrow on the french coast, leaders across the democratic west foraged in the crucible of d-day have been warning that history can have a way of repeating itself as a ruthless dictator, wages and unprovoked war in eastern europe today with democracy on the line, 80 years ago, american general dwight eisenhower use these words to inspire the allied troops to storm the beaches of normandy the eyes of the world are upon you. the hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere, march with you in company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts. you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine the elimination of nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of europe and security for ourselves in a free world all right, our panel is here this morning. >> let's bring in cnn politics, white house reporter stephen collinson, retired air force colonel sienna and military analysts cedric laden or gatera, is a senior contributor, axios and cnn senior reporter isaac dovere is here with us as well. he covers the president biden very closely. let's please make sure that we continue to watch what president biden is doing right now, as we discuss here and steven, let me start with you something that you wrote about this day and your new cnn piece you write at no point since june 6, 1944 has the unshakeable while us leadership of the west and support for international, it's value has been so in question democracy facing it's stearns test in 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 of the european continent china is challenging the us led world order there are threats to democracy at home, both in europe and in the united states may seem what's happened since the 2020 election here. there's a european union election on sunday that is going to probably see gains for far-right parties that are very much sort of resonating the same rhetoric as the america first donald trump movement here. so it could well be a turning point. and as these old soldiers fete, the memories of what this events that for de day and what it's meant and the legacy of built a becoming less and less prevalent our old soldiers were seeing some of them now we're very lucky to have these remaining few still with us as we mark what is likely the last significance, 80th i commemoration of d-day cedric leighton steven notes kind of how this has all changed. i want to remind everyone what ronald reagan, of course, the republican party for so much of my career was always centered itself as the party of ronald reagan, one of the things that he warned us about when he was present in the united states in 1984 was isolationism, which is of course, as steven notes resurgent here, potentially around the globe. here was ronald reagan in 1984 we in america have learned bitter lessons from two world wars it is better to be here ready to protect the piece than to take blind shelter across the sea rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. we've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments within expansionist intent reagan speaking from the same site where joe biden, president biden tomorrow, we'll speak about the importance of democracy central. that's all right, gcn, that side is actually we do have where the rangers attacked the nazi positions at a particularly really difficult area because of the huge cliffs that were there and the isolationism that reagan spoke, spoke about is really the type of thing that i think affected a lot of the people during the world war ii generation because what they were looking at was they had been isolated because of tendencies in us politics during the 1920s and 30s but then they had to risk respond to a threat. and that thread in a world that wasn't as connected as our world was still felt, even here on the shores of the united states, reagan's generation ended up recognizing that and reagan saw his opportunity as being a way to really we not only remind people of the fight against nazism, but also the fight at that time against communism. he, and he saw those tyrannies is being in essence somewhat equal in the sense that they were both repressive tyrannies and e. wanted to make sure that the world was basically free of those. and that's why he made the remarks that he did. >> isaac dovere at you, of course, have covered a president biden a day in and day out as president of the united states. what does this day, this moment mean for him? >> like he, he has said that through his time running and starting out in january of this year when he gave that speech, valley forge, that he sees preserving i can see as the work of his presidency. and here he is, as i think it's fair to say, likely the last president who will have been alive during d-day, right? who grew up in that world and stephen was saying that was built by these soldiers and those leaders trying to defend it and trying to say this is the world that we should keep living in. it is to him, not an issue of politics per say, although of course it is being litigated in the 2024 campaign. but to him this is about something i think bigger than that. and of course, that's the weird thing about this election is that we're not talking about tax policy or what might happen with this regulation or that regulation or any of the normal things that they talked about in campaign. we're talking about what kind of america we want to be living in. and what kind of world we want america to be function again and those are very different visions that are coming from joe biden and donald trump. >> a world of course that we owe to the men we are seeing here on our screens, those veterans who stormed the beaches at omaha beach 80 years ago. at the start of the de d-day invasion that ultimately lead to the liberation of france and the world from hitler and the nazis ahead here, president biden's message to america's allies from the hallowed shores of normandy plus 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on the waters, set the scene for us and tell us what would these men have seen on that day this case is one of those amphibious vehicles now alderman, 80 years ago today to make their way toward the beach and take those full trig steps towards what would be the liberation well, france and europe, you can see we've got a couple of french policeman here on our duck with us. >> but this is the water. these are the water's just also gold beach what's the beat? shantou, which mainly british servicemen made their way. juno is down there. omaha, down there were the american serviceman had such tremendous losses the zone that day, eight years ago. and as you can see on along this coast, the turnouts been really extraordinary. you can see us ceremony going on there in one mole led by serving serviceman now and a huge turnout. the people have come not just with amphibious vehicles like these but with a kind of jeep's that were used eight years ago to transport the men. >> the weapons, equipment all across normandy. >> and i think one of the things we've seen in the hearts of these separations as a reminder of the extraordinary logistical feat that was operation overlord is those men came onto the beach. it was also with the parachute is done behind the leinz the cutting off with remarkable efficiency seat and coordination amongst allies. remember, armies of different countries to cut off the german resupply roots once d-day the happened, the communications that would allow have allowed hello them to fend off. this allied assault on what was occupied. france. it was on these kinds of parts. casey that they came very early that morning, as you say, 24 hours off, they were meant to come because of the inclement weather and staggered onto these beaches in what would have been bloodied waters. just extraordinary scenes that played out here eight years ago when we have today are some 200 the world war ii veterans who actually serve and they've brought with them, of course, as you'd imagine, casey, extraordinary stories of what they lived and emotion about the fact that they've been able to come back here today. >> melissa, can you give us a little bit of a sense of what we're seeing behind you. we see french flags, american flags flying at what appear to be perhaps tanks. forgive me, i can't see it quite well enough. i mean, what, what is the senior? in front of you let me get out of the way to show you. >> you can see they're all the many flags, for instance, on that another doc and i'm visit fabius vehicle and across this countryside. the houses have been decked out in american flags and french flags and canadian flags, british flags there. servicemen are carrying out his ceremony to those who fell 18 years ago. what we see every five years when this is marked in this part the world. and remember the huge cost of course, to the civilians here, what it meant for this part of france, liberation as it was on that day and the days that followed up for the civilians what it would have represented to cds, allied soldiers coming on against the odds and reclaiming this part of france. this is marked every year, what is going to be different? let's hear cases we're going to have an international ceremony down an omaha beach later today. that's going to be attended not just by the heads of state of the allied nations that are normally here, but president zelenskyy as well. and that's an important reminder. one of them the friends of today, that what's being fought in ukraine and we're going to hear this from president biden is very much in line with what happened on these beaches eight years ago, casey all right. >> are melissa bell four for us with some remarkable reporting. las a. thank you very much coming up next here president biden, about to speak at the d-day ceremonies in normandy. stay with us their own are being long and hard the enemy is strong. he may have backoff fauces success may not come with rushing speed but we shall return again and 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surveyor it's breathtaking. >> how revered and cared for each and every spot in that cemetery is and how the kind of architecture and structure of the memorial grounds compares with the cliffs and the bluffs i'll to omaha beach the rugged nature of the place and what it meant to come on shore and that invasion and what happened in the months that followed. and you know, i was doing a little homework, a little history homework as we've been watching these images, the gallup poll, one of the things that's so great about the gallup poll is that it's existed an awfully long time including way back when gallup actually surveyed americans not long before the d-day invasion, about world war ii and found that four out of ten americans said they didn't actually have a clear idea of what the us was fighting for. we look back on it now and think that this moment must have had such clarity, such unanimity that those americans at those time, that time in our country were like, yeah, let's do it. 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