that he offered on that de and we're going to leave you with that. >> this morning. >> mighty god prior to ban this day upset upon a mighty endeavor let's criminal to preserve our republic all religion and our siblings and set free a suffering humanity this morning, we are observing a moment in history at the same time is witnessing and effort to define the future. >> we are standing by to hear from president biden on the 80th anniversary of d-day, the allied landing of the beaches of normandy, june 6, 1944 but on june 6, 2024, the president will also speak of the alliance fighting russian aggression in ukraine and the threats to democracy around the world. and you can bet for the domestic audience, the president will implicitly overtly described what he feels are the threats to freedom. if donald trump is elected, again, there is a lot of news on the election in front. this morning. a list of potential running mate's for donald trump. they are all given homework assignments, new polling that suggests the shifts in the race since trump's criminal convictions and new information about a helium leak in orbit on the boeing starliner. we're gonna get to at all. but first, as we said, a moment in history past, present, and future, we've got cnn anchors reporters, and analysts from all around the world with us this morning. first, let's a christiane amanpour in normandy. add these commemorations. christiane jon and kate. well, it's an extraordinary atmosphere like it always is when these veterans get together and this 80th anniversary is the one where everybody knows we may not see this number of survivors anymore because they are in the region of 100-years-old hold i'm sure that's the average age i spoke to one jake las and who stormed onto omaha beach 80 years ago, an amazing person who talked about just the sheer fear. but then having just battled through it and got on with it and managed to get across that beach. we know that it was the greatest amphibious invasion vision in history. it's never been matched. neither before or since. it was a secret. they deceived the nazis. they landed at these five beaches down where we are in normandy than nazis thought by misinformation and disinformation that it was going to be at a different point. nonetheless, there were encampments positions above on these cliffs. that simply mowed down so many of those brave soldiers who came from america, from canada, from the uk, and just came up and also from poland as well, the free polls came, came on shore as well. and today, we're going to hear from president biden, from president the macro. we're going to see fly overs of the c13 transport planes. we're going to see the air force flyover towards the end. there'll be taps, a number of us veterans will be given the leisure and honore, which is like the presidential medal of honor, so to speak for their service. and it is an incredible moment because as you today perhaps no one ever imagined that that kind of tyranny that the allies liberated europe from the nazi tyranny that they slaughtered 6,000 jews in the holocaust. and so many others around europe in the fighting that people thought was done after world war ii. but now 80 years later, we are in the midst of the first raging massive ground war in europe since that time and the stakes are massively high as everybody knows, and everybody will be referring to today. >> chris can stick with us is we're looking continue to watch his life pictures in france. we also just saw the us secretary defense lloyd austin take to the stage will be hearing from him as well. kayla, let me bring in on this christiane was talking about that president biden will be speaking commemorating this day and also, we'll be offering a message to folks at home back at home as well. what is that message? >> well he's going to be highlighting common themes for the president, kate service, sacrifice, and the importance of learning from history, which in president biden's words, it can repeat itself we expect them to talk about the mission. the mission on d-day mattered. the mission was a noble one and the mission send that allied countries are fighting around the world right now is also a noble one at home though this message is going to be received by a war-weary electorate who heard from president biden back in 2020 that he planned to end forever wars like the war in afghanistan, where the us withdrew in 2021, albeit in a chaotic the way. and since then, two new hot wars have begun. the war in ukraine that is now inching toward the three-year mark. and the war between israel and hamas, which while only months-long at this point is still far longer than anyone in the biden administration had expected it to last. and there's frustration among the electorate about how long these wars will continue to i asked and how long the us will continue funding the defenses of these country. there also is expected to be an implicit nod to the future and the risk of isolation depending on the policies that some of these countries may pursue. we don't expect president biden to named donald trump by name either today or tomorrow in his speech from pointe-du-hoc, which is the point over looking at the beaches here that cliffs that army rangers scale to overtake the german lookout positions. but he is expected to warn what would happen if the us or other countries stepped back from these alliances and what would happen to the world in those cases, we know that congress, in the case of nato, has provided i had some safeguards, some guardrails that would prohibit a future president from withdrawing from nato unilaterally. but that is not to stop a future president from say making nato dormant or a slowing some of the exercises are reducing the troop footprint across europe. so president biden is going to talk at a very high level about the importance of the he's alliances and how important they will be for the future. go amazon ward kayla tausche also at normandy. >> again, you're looking at live picture from the stage. you see the defense secretary lloyd austin, sitting on the right-hand side of it right there aligned behind him are many of the remaining veterans of that day, some 80 years ago, it is worth noting president biden, will almost definitely definitely the last us president who will be, have been born before d-day june 6, 1944, 50 is the first us president born before d-day since george h w bush, who served obviously with distinction in the pacific in world war ii. want to go to our jim sciutto, or chief national security analyst, who is watching this again this day is to commemorate the past gym, but all around europe, all around the world, the concerns are very much about the now and the future in the threats seen in capitals around the world. what are those threats? >> let's that point that christiana was describing as we'll hear from biden as we are commemorating history today, we are witnessing history underway. another war in europe, another attempt to redraw the borders of europe by four says, as the world rose up against those ads the years ago, it may sound rhetorical, but it's a fact and it is certainly the way those closest to the threat view, the moment today, the ukrainians certainly view themselves as fighting for their lives and for the existence of their country. and when you speak to eastern europeans, in particular they see the war in ukraine as defining that if russia is allowed to win, there than it doesn't end there again, a test like the world saw in 1939 and 1941 and 1944, that hitler at the time when he started moving east, he didn't stop. he can kept going and the fear in eastern europe is that putin will do the same and that he will take western exhaustion with this war western delays in providing aid to ukraine as a signal that well, he might be able to get away with this again. and by the way, we don't have to look back to 80 years ago go to get those lessons. you look at the russian invasion of georgia in 2008, russia's first invasion of ukraine in 2014. and of course, again the full-scale invasion in 2022, that is the history playing out before our eyes today. so that connection to the test of the past of world war ii and the test that the us and its allies are facing today is quite a real one, and that's how it is very much viewed in europe, whatever the political debate back here in this country. the other point i would make is this. there is genuine, genuine concern among america's closest allies in europe as to what a real action of donald trump would mean for them, because they listened to what he says about well, a less than fulsome commitment to the nato alliance, to protecting those eastern allies from russian aggression, and to kill us point, while congress has passed measures that would make it harder for a president to unilaterally pull out of nato and alliance and a mutual defense agreement is only as strong as it is believed by us partners and buy us adversaries. and if they doubt that a us commander in chief, i would honore that agreement, then that agreement does exist anymore, right? doesn't have the deterrence it had in the past, and that is a genuine when concern. by the wave i've spoken to former senior trump advisers who were quite senior in his administration, john kelly, john bolton, and others who say that in a second trump term, he might very well pull out of nato. so those are not undo concerns. there, they're quite public questions about this moment in history and the choice, the choice that this country faces in election in the fall and to jim's point, christiane, let me bring you and you spoke to the joint chiefs about this i certainly did. and as we watch the announcement that the colors are now going to be raised ahead of the world leaders coming in. it's worth saying and repeating what president reagan did hear 40 years ago, the 40th anniversary when he basically said, one's country is worth dying for democracy see is worth dying for because it is the most noble form of government ever devised. and to that point, i did speak to the chairman of the joint chiefs in an exclusive interview and he had a very similar theme about the value of democracy and freedom our freedom is not free. >> and democracy can stand on its own, but we've got to make sure we're prepared and one of the exact focus on is ensuring that we have they were fighting you skill to deter future conflict. and it's been said that americans of this generation have not yet internalized what apparently a lot of military certainly nato military believed that it's not inconceivable that there could be a great power war again, and that you have to prepare for it. >> do you think people at home, even in europe understand how difficult the situation we're living through right now. >> what i'll tell you, i have a sense. >> it's coming along and having your work in the indo-pacific before here in europe and in the middle east. i've watched over the years and particularly over the past few years how the warners not only for those of us in uniform, but with our elected leadership and the american public and we've got to continue to remind folks that when you look at the situation that we're seeing that we just can't watch. we got to be we got to lead again. >> let me read you this fragment of a speech. it's better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea? we've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist, hard and an expansion is intent, which president was that ronald reagan. these are words that could be spoken today by an american president and we'll see how president biden shapes his remarks in the framework of what's at stake. 80 years after d-day, as we're seeing pictures of those days being shown under that tent behind me. we're hearing the invocation from the religious leader here ahead of waiting for the president of france and britain and the king of england and others to come in back to you christiane mentioned pointer hoc, and ronald reagan. of course, reagan spoke there at the 40th anniversary of d-day, a famous speech. and we do know from kayla and other white house reporters reporting that the biden administration has looked at ronald reagan's trip. there are some 40 years ago for the remarks that he gave and somewhat model this trip in parallel to that, obviously joe biden's foreign policy, not unlike in many ways to head of ron reagan, more like ronald reagan's than donald trump's is like ronald reagan's. that's it. that's a really good point. spider marks is also standing buying retired general. it's great to see you spider. talk to us about just the parallels from in 1940 the parallels you see now well, you must have read my notes and my thoughts clearly the juxtaposition between 44 and 24, quite significant look it's a war of conquest that we saw in 1944 that had to be stopped. >> you had on this autocratic nation that was expansive wanted to expand its capabilities, wanted to expand its way of life. it's cruel intent and what we see today is not to similar in ukraine the challenges between those two periods are quite different, right 19 in the 1930s, 1940s, look america and the world was very hard scrabble place there on the heels of a depression, a decade of economic retrenchment and and individual suffering a desire to try to get back to some level of normalcy and redefine that normalcy and so the notion of linking arms, gripping hands, and trying to pull yourself out of that was second nature fast forward to today we're a nation of incredible riches scientific developments over the years medical developments, economic growth that's unparalleled. the ability to be anywhere instantaneously on the globe or in space through our connections in cyberspace, it's quite phenomenal. and so what you see today is this increase of self-absorption, this notion of eiseley isolation the individual isolation. so is the world today ready to embrace and grip hands again to resist what we see not only taking place in ukraine, but the potential for conflicts elsewhere, clearly with china and taiwan will we be able to step up and say, yeah, we're going to make a hard call here. we're going to have to sacrifice and we know it's going to be very, very tough. we see today the indications that that is taking place and clearly with nato, it's quite remarkable and and i pray that nato is going to continue to hold together over the course of time. it needs to be able to hold itself together spider, thanks so much. >> you can see live pictures there. the french president emmanuel macron and president buying. they have now arrived on this stage, the commemoration of the 80th anniversary the allied landings in normandy, d-day. let's listen for a moment distinguished guests that the president of the united states of america and public macron neither do it oes it take for the last public, followed by the national the united states of america? >> she doesn't watch the ceremony unfold. here. you can you see the french president menu macro and president biden standing there are jim sciutto is with us now, jim, i understand you've got a preview of what president biden will say in his address. >> will biden is going to connect this moment 80 years ago to the moment europe and the world is facing today with russia's invasion of ukraine and it strikes me as christiana was recalling reagan's words 40 years ago about the fight for democracy, fight for freedom around the world. that, that echoes the words of eisenhower 80 years ago a letter that he sent to all those soldiers who stormed the beaches on the morning of june 6, 6, 1944. contain these lines. it said the eyes of the world are upon you. the hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere, march with you. eisenhower on that morning was making d-day, making that war about a fight for freedom around the world. much as reagan did 40 years ago and watch it one matches now now we'll hear from biden will hear from other leaders connecting that moment generations ago to this generation's war, the war that we are watching unfold in europe today and making it not just about ukraine not, even just about europe, but about the world standing up for the cause of freedom nic robertson, let me bring you in on this. >> then making that connection in words in these speeches and remarks we're going to hear, but also in the meetings the president biden is going to be having. he's gonna be meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy yeah. >> and for zelenskyy, this there'll be that additional poignancy because of course here is poised, his country is poised hedge. if you will, of what d-day was, which was this huge sacrifices, huge 456,000 troops, four thousand, 414 who died on d-day 2000 of them dead and injured on omaha beach, not far from where the president is standing now by the end of that day, and of course, president zelenskyy is in this moment where he is trying to improve recruitment toughen conscription was because he needs his generation of people in his country to rally to the flag in the same way that those generations did who were commemorated it seemed today. >> we're willing to sacrifice themselves for their nation, for its future. and it's not easy and the difference being, of course, while he has the supported the weapons from these allies and we talk about the importance of the allies standing with ukraine. >> huge tremendously important for him he has to stand alone in terms of troops, so he will be very cognizant today of the type of sacrifice that he may be calling upon his service men and women to perform in the coming years. so i think this will be a very poignant day for him. we know his well-versed in trying to persuade world leaders to give him that additional support. but this will be a reminder for him that the thing that he genuinely likes the most stacked up against the russian military today is troops. and this will be something perhaps he will be trying to address in the coming months, years, even. >> again, you are watching this ceremony marking the 80th commemoration of the allied landing and the beaches of normandy, d-day, june 6, 6, 1944 christiania poor listening to all of you discuss this and getting the preview of what's about to be discussed here. yes. >> the importance of d de a successful allied invasion, a successful alliance is paramount in everyone's mind, but the warning is less about 19:44 and it seems to me more about 19:38, 1939 when europe for a moment, let nazi aggression spread and the risks in not responding, the risks in allowing tyranny to have it's way even for a moment around the world, i imagine that's the parallel volodymyr zelenskyy his most concerned about this morning absolutely. and again, this speech in this day is framed around this. and as we're talking, the military chaplain there is talking about what happened back then when we needed a soldier, you raise your hand. when we needed a marine and m and you raised your hand and they keep showing these pictures of the surviving d-day veterans. and is absolutely astonishing. there's some two dozen americans here, about 40 brits and maybe a dozen or so canadians people who came aboard and came ashore 80 years ago, who was still alive to demonstrate exactly what you've just said, that they were willing. and in fact, they threw themselves at this job. i mean, i spoke to this 101-year-old guy who said he fete his age from 15 to 18, just to be allowed to get into the military and to defend his country. these are amazing heroes and that is really the frame and the celebration of this day as all these speeches get made. but as you say, putting it into stock relief black and white that we are facing something incredibly dangerous and very similar to what happened all those years ago. and is everybod