president biden's message at normandy today freedom isn't free and democracy is not guaranteed. the lead starts right now world leaders take the stage marking 80 years to the de since d-day. but it is the current conflicts that are top of mind, ukraine's war with russia israel's war with hamas, both entering new territory today, one of president biden's top advisers, admiral john kirby we will join us from france plus steve bannon ordered to report to prison by july 1. bots donald trump's former chief strategist thinks he can fight this with time i'm on the clock for an appeal all victory to maga. >> we're going to win this. we're going to win at the supreme court. and more importantly, we're going to win on november speaking of election day, now, less than five months out is the entire republican party ready to fall in line behind donald trump? i'll ask virginia governor glenn youngkin's, who will be here on the lead? welcome to the lead, i'm, jake tapper today, world leaders, kings and queens, and some of our nation's most deserving heroes as are in france, marking a day that changed the course of history for the better. it was 80 years ago today when more than 150,000 allied troops from the united states, united kingdom, france, australia, and canada stormed the beaches of normandy for monday and parachuted behind enemy lines and invasion coordinated across air land, and sea. operation, overlord their actions that day. and the days and months after led the foundation for the allies defeat of nazi germany in world war for two and make no mistake without the courage and sacrifice of those brave service members. this world would today be unimaginably worse. you president biden spent the de normandy where he delivered a speech focused on the importance of alliances, drawing direct comparisons between nazi germany and the threats facing western democracies today we know the dark forces that these heroes fought against 80 years ago they never fete aggression and greed the desire to dominate and control to change borders by force these are perennial the struggle between a dictatorship and freedom is unending now, before his speech, president biden spent the morning meeting with u.s. veterans, including 101-year-old jake larson. you see him there in that picture? maybe you saw larson on our d-day special on sunday maybe, you know, him from tiktok, just follow at story time with papa jake larson stormed the beaches on d-day and he returned today. two honor the friends he lost i don't think, i was a hero i was just like anybody else. we were all in this together every one of us from worst prepared to give our life to kick laughs lotto europe. >> when you come back again, oh god, yeah. >> so i'd come back again just jong are all laws against her life. so that i could be here cnn's kayla tausche starts off, are covered from normandy, france with more on president biden's message to the world and is challenge to younger generations on this historic day back at the battlefront where they braved at all a hero's welcome for the americans who lived through the battle of normal memory of those who fought here died here literally save the world here, president biden, honoring the service and the sacrifice of the last living d-day veterans the hundreds of thousands who served alongside them. and the 9,388 who never came home. >> they knew beyond any doubt there are things that are worth fighting and dying for freedom is worth it democracy is worth it america is worth the world is worth it. >> then. now and always western leaders marking 80 years since they're turning point in world war ii, that brought an end to occupied europe now, with ukraine's president, look ding on, warning europe could easily be occupied again, this time by vladimir putin, a notable shift from just ten years ago with putin joining to mark the 70th anniversary. >> we will not walk away because if we do crane will be subjugated and will not end there ukraine's neighbors will be threatened all of europe will be threatened to surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators is simply unthinkable biden is set to meet with european and nato liters with alliances resting on upcoming elections. >> biden laying out a choice for the future on both sides of the atlantic, parcellation was not the answer 80 years ago and there's not the answer today. >> and passing the torch from the greatest generation to the next generation, will be the generation that one history is written about our time in 10203058 years from now, it'll be said when the moment came, we met the moment we stood strong are alliances made stronger we save democracy in our time as well. >> kayla tausche, cnn, normandy and our thanks to kayla tausche for that report. turning now to another major story in our world lead utter devastation at a school in central gaza run by the united nations hospital workers in gaza say at least 40 people were killed by an israeli airstrike in the building where thousands were sheltering. as cnn's jeremy diamond der for its israel says it was targeting 20 to 30 hamas terrorists who were embedded with the civilians, taking shelter inside the school. we must warn our viewers the following report contains some disturbing video mohammad farajallah is still picking through the rubble of the airstrike that killed his brother. and alongside the blood spattered walls, he's still finding pieces of flesh. he believes they are his brothers won't be as you've been may his soul rest in peace? he says, i wish i died instead, there is no hope in this life at all mahmoud is the second brother mohammed has lost during the war. his third brother is in the hospital in critical condition. his skull fractured in the blast mohammed is not the only ones sifting through the rubble. the gaza health ministry says at least 40 people were killed when the israeli military struck this building overnight. but this is no ordinary building. it's a un school converted like so many others into a shelter for thousands of palestinians. displaced from their homes homes, the israeli military says it carried out a precision and intelligence based strike targeting 20 to 30 palestinian militants who it says were sheltering in the school and preparing a attacks on israeli troops. and israeli military spokesman said the idf was unaware of any civilian casualties hospital records tell a different story. nine women and 14 children as young as 4-years-old are among the dead delivered to a luxe martyrs hospital. those who survived also accused israel of targeting civilians with open with netanyahu is killing the civilians. he is not killing militants. chabra, abu dheisheh says, it's innocent people asleep in an unrwa facility. what did children and the elderly do? what did they do to him? the school is one of at least 180 unrwa buildings to be hd since the beginning of the war. according to that un agency but the devastation goes beyond un facilities seems like this have been playing out all week in central gaza. clear uptake in israeli airstrikes bloodied and covered in soot survivors and victims alike have been arriving at al-aqsa martyrs hospital at arising clip as one wounded child cries for her mother another arrives at the morgue to say goodbye. to his. >> mama is going to visit grandpa. >> father tells his son, don't cry. you're a man. he says, but he is the one who breaks down jake using footage filmed at the scene by our journalists in gaza, mohammed al. so while he we were able to identify and speaking with munitions experts the type of munition that was used in these strikes. and once again, jake, just like that strike in rafah a couple of weeks ago, this was a us made gpu, 39 small diameter bomb this is a bomb that is intended to carry a smaller payload, intended to minimize civilian casualties. but of course, when it is dropped in a densely populated areas such as a makeshift shelter for displaced people. we've obviously seen, once again that there are indeed a heavy civilian casualties and we know of course, that the suffering in gaza it is continuing heightened airstrikes in central gaza this week, the question now is what can end the suffering? and the only way to end the suffering and seems would be for hamas to accept this israeli proposal that is on the table to reach a ceasefire and hot hostage deal for now though that seems very uncertain, the cutlery foreign ministry spokesman actually just said that as of now, they have yet to receive an official response from hamas. jake. >> all right. jeremy diamond, thanks so much for joining us now to discuss from paris with hardware admiral john kirby, the white house national security communications adviser, admiral kirby, good to see. you. will get to this situation in gaza in a moment, but you are in france to mark the 80th anniversary of d-day. as a veteran what does it mean to you? to participate in these events, to meet these heroes whose numbers are sadly dwindling. and two, honore, the service members who, who, who literally gave their lives for freedom and democracy i tell you jake i got thicken the throat today. i had never had the opportunity to go to one of those anniversaries at normandy. and this was my first time. not my first time to the cemetery, but first time for an anniversary and seeing those veterans talking to them, i sat down before the ceremony. i had a chance to sit down at a table with four or five of them and just listening to them talk about what they did and how much they miss their friends that are comrades who didn't make it at home. what it meant to them to be there and to know that the world was recognizing their bravery. it was really inspiring. i got to tell you when, when president macron was awarding those eight, that's with the lesion of honore that that wasn't very emotional moment for everybody. there, including president biden. >> i want to play a part of president biden's speeds today. that spoke to his overarching message. take a listen the fact that they were heroes here that day does not absolve us from what we have to do today democracy has never guaranteed every generation must preserve it. defended, and fight for it was he saying that about ukraine fighting for democracy or was he saying in about the united states? both yes. to both certainly. >> as you saw, he also addressed ukraine very specifically in the speech because here in europe that is where democracy is most at risk right now. that is where literally men and women are dying to defend their democracy and ukraine. so certainly he was talking about ukraine, but the message was bigger than that democracy is under threat all around the world. and the president's main point was, we need to prove worthy of the sacrifice of the men of d-day that started the end of world war ii, began there on the beaches of normandy and they bequeath the world, something they get an even realize they worth a moment. there, be quick the world, a new order in the world where democracy had a chance to thrive and flourish, and where people's aspirations had an opportunity to be met and achieved. he doesn't want us to squander that tremendous opportunity that the greatest generation gave us as you mentioned, president biden directly tied the d-day invasion to the fight for freedom in ukraine, the us has just changed its policy allowing the ukrainians to use american weapons on a tax inside russia. >> now president biden said ukraine won't use the weapons to talk to target moscow, or to target the kremlin is there any other guidance beyond that? >> this is a really common sense. guidance that the president has now given to ukraine when they are under imminent threat. and it's just across the border. >> and they know they're gonna get hit they should be allowed to hit back in that kind of scenario now right now jake, while you were talking the only place without really applies with the geography is up north of kharkiv where the russians had until very recently, tried to pressure that city, seemed to look like they're kinda backing off right now. there's no other place really in ukraine geographically where that's likely to happen because we were the other places where the russians are, are actually inside ukraine in the dom boss it's an in crimea so right now at mostly applies to kharkiv, but not because we put some geographic boundaries on it, but just because of the guidance itself going after an imminent threat that's just across the border now, the government of cuba said today that a group of russian naval vessels, including nuclear powered submarine, are going to visit cuba in the coming days. do you see that as some sort of retaliation for this move? does it concern you what's your reaction? >> well, we're going to watch it closely, of course, like we do all russian naval exercises in the caribbean. this isn't the first time they've done this. they've done it several years past almost every couple of years or so they do this. so we'll watch it closely, but we're not anticipating any significant national security threat as a result of these exercises, i have to say largely, although this is not a typical for them and they are prescheduled, it very much, we believe is messaging by the russians are clearly unhappy now that we've got the supplemental funding and we are supplying ukraine with with weapons. were five packages and just the last month of weapons we think some of this is also posturing and saber rattling by the russians will watch it closely, but no, but no anticipated threat to our national security as a result of it. >> let's talk about gazan now because officials in gaza say at least 40 people were killed overnight by an israeli airstrike on a school run by the united nations in central gaza. israel says the idf say they were targeting a hamas compound with about 20 to 30 hamas terrorists inside the school, embedding with the civilians there, the un, for palestinian refugee says it was being used to house displaced civilians. and a cnn analysis found that u.s. made munitions were used in this strike. does the us does the biden administration? have any independent confirmation that israel was targeting and took out hamas terrorist here well, the idf has communicated to us that that is in fact what they were doing we are asking for more information, more context in this just happened today. >> so we don't have independent verification of what exactly occurred and what exactly they were going after. but we are talking to the israelis as you might they expect, we would to try to get a better understanding of what happened here. look, i mean, they absolutely have a right to go after hamas and we know hamas shelters in civilian facilities and diggs tunnels under houses and that kind of thing. but how they do that matters and we obviously don't want to see any civilian casualties whatsoever. so all of this is fresh and new. and we're trying to get as much information from the israelis as we can i mean, the reality here is that us weapons were allegedly just used to kill innocent people in gaza that might not have been or was not the intention according to the idf they're going after hamas, but hamas this is their strategy. >> they hide amongst civilians, they use civilians as shields and those shields don't necessarily work. i mean, the idf is saying we're gonna go after you. either way so what is the position of the white house here, given the fact that hamas does embed within civilian populations, does israel just have a carte blanche to do what they need to do to kill hamas and it's just a tragedy, but that's how it is when it comes to the civilians no. look, i mean, even from early on in the conflict and we've been very clear with our israeli counterparts how they do this matters. and look, we understand you're description of what hamas does is exactly right, jake it underscores the challenge of doing military operation military operations in a population center is one of the reasons why we absolutely made clear to israel is we don't want them to smash into rafah in a major ground offensive because all of this underscores the challenge, the strike a couple of weeks ago on a hamas compound that allegedly started a fire in a tent compound nearby and also burn to death. some civilians also a tragic reminder of how dangerous this is when you're in a populated center like that. so we want to learn more about this clearly, and we'll ask the tough of questions as we always do. but we also want to make sure that israel does have what it needs to defend itself against his still-viable threat by hamas. and hamas is deliberately making it that much more difficult. that's part of their strategy. you have no interest in the safety and security of the palestinian people. mr. sinwar started this war. mr. sinwar can end this war what he needs to do is accept the ceasefire proposal that is on the table right now. and that has been transmitted to him by qatar in qatari officials. >> but if hamas is, as you describe, and they do not care what happens to their civilians. why would he ever agree to a ceasefire proposal? why would he ever yahya sinwar agree to anything? i mean, israel is i think it's fair to say becoming increasingly isolated in the world even if the united states and europe is not abandoning them, other countries are and some in europe are and if they don't care yeah, yeah, sinwar and the leaders of hamas and they look and they see what's going on in college campuses today what incentive, what incentive do they have to ever come up with any ceasefire deal? >> well, one thing he does care about is his own capabilities and the israelis are to a fare thee well, degrading hamas military capabilities to the point where as you've heard, the president say, in a time magazine interview that we don't believe that they can conduct another for seven october attack again. and he cares about that. and he also says at least hamas leaders say that they care about a ceasefire. they want to see an end to the conflict. well, this is the way to do it. this proposal will be in phases. phase one will get us a six-week ceasefire we moved to phase two, that gets us a permanent cessation of hostilities. so if mr. those are the things that mr. sinwar and hamas has said they care about. if that's true, they need to take this deal. that's on the table because he israelis came to the table in really good faith. i mean, they continue to really try to get this done. now it's time for hamas retired rear admiral john kirby coming to us from france. thank you so much, sir. appreciate it yes, sir. coming up next, need bannon's fighting chance to avoid spending time behind bars even though a judge ordered him to report to prison by july 1, plus a treasured program for goldstar families who lost service members at normandy shut down photos, some high-profile names, trying to come to their rescue. but first are the stories of warm as we go to break today, here's d-day veteran tally fletcher on what he witnessed on june 6 6, 1944 while we will often we came to a place where apparently they collected the bodies and that was quite a few of them there and some of them look like probably a tank and run over them and stuff like that that gets your attention to this situation lizard didn't it cnn chain it's been here as long as i can remember living in glances of people i love. >> and ones i didn't even know but what good is shame when it comes to health and health is not about. >> we it's about all the things a body can gain and ago chevy volt okay. >> you just want to in blow on gave a card zone tried have long to wish isn't it? 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