think some of the adversaries potentially, let's say china russia, other nations. how do you think they will view and understand what the president united states? we're saying today what i think firstly, allies will be incredibly grateful because he recommitted america. >> that's the only remaining superpower. and the leader of the nato alliance to committing to protect that alliance. and europe, this is, this is crucial and it's a incredibly differentiating point between him and the way donald trump talks about nato and the commitment to the alliance so it's very differentiating, of course, allies are incredibly worried about what might happen on november 5th or whenever the election is, they're very concerned about what happens in terms of the survival of the alliance and the, and the survival of europe frankie, when they face right now with a great threat to the survival of europe in putin's invasion of ukraine. so i think that's, that's on that part. and then on the other side, i would say that it was a very full-throated speech. it wasn't very long, but it was very, very strong in terms of its words and its commitments. and if anybody in russia or china, things that america is going to retreat then president biden said that that is not going to be the case, not on his watch and i also think that's really important is the context because as you know right now, there is a sort of anti-american lions. our axis of anti-americanism anti-western ism that china, russia, iran, and north korea are, have been very successfully building and they are really watching for moments of weaknesses in the armor in the commitment to continue chipping away at americas and the west dominance is the right word to say the same time america is being tested. in other ways, not just by other militaries, but there are many, many parts of the world who don't necessarily buy america's narrative. let's say the global south which everybody talks about and lumps in one great big thing, the global south. but it's half the world does not, actually by the western narrative over russia and ukraine and sees some him hypocrisy in that. but nonetheless, these are the issues and challenges that i guess history brings up for the president, at least for now. and as as long as he remains in power, has quite clearly put his stake in the ground to defend democracy, which is how he started his presidency, his inauguration speech was all about that. his first trips abroad, more than two years ago, we're all about that and he's reiterating that. but most importantly, it was directed to the american people as well, saying, i challenge you to think today that these rangers who did what they did 80 years ago would allow us to do anything less in defense of our freedom and our democracy and our way of life. wolff. >> yeah. he said this. he said refused to believe america's greatness is a thing of the past that he said the rangers would believe that as well if they were still alive today, christiana amanpour will get back to you. thank you very much. i want to bring in our cnn political director david chaldean, right now. what did you think from a political, domestic, political standpoint, because americans as we're watching the were listening, we're entering the heat of the presidential campaign. >> of course, if that line stuck out to me as well, because he didn't mention donald trump by name. but that, you know, donald trump's slogan is make america great. again, that line, i refuse to believe america's greatness is a thing of the past, is a complete rebuttal to what donald hold trump is selling. that's the contrast politically that he wanted on display with this speech. and also the notion of putting country above self, one of the main biden, sort of political frames for this campaign season is making the case to the american people that from his perspective, he believes donald trump is all about donald trump and himself and that joe biden portrays himself as about the country and what he used as one of the clearest examples in american history of putting country of putting democracy a putting these larger fights above self as those young men did on those cliffs that is also the political sort of contrast he wanted to set up with his opponent. >> how politically important potentially was this speech by the president? the said, i think this is part of a peace. well, if i mean, i think this notion of america's role in the world of what joe biden has accomplished with unifying the west in the effort against russia. in supporting ukraine, even in a delayed manner, getting republicans to go along with getting aid to ukraine. this whole project of what formed as a world order following world war ii and how critical that is in joe biden's mind to america's future is a through line of what he's going to sell to the american people throughout the next five months of this campaign and this is a huge that piece of that. now, you and i know the american people vote on a whole host of issues, not just foreign policy or big thematics like democracy. the economy, immigration, all of this will be part of the equation, but this is a key central component to biden's presidency and his ask for renewal of a four-year contract from the american people. >> very strong words, indeed a very powerful where it's coming right now at this moment, david, don't go too far away. i want to bring in our senior white house correspondent, kayla tausche. she's traveling with the president. she's on the scene over there at 0.2 ha kayla, what's the reaction there so far at least there, what the president had to say well, i think the biden administration officials who are here, we're very pleased with how the speech went down of course, it is an iconic setting, incredibly the point in its hard to imagine a more powerful backdrop than this. >> a few things stood out to me in the predator, in the president's speech specifically, how he rewarded some familiar length which that we've heard in speeches of the past to make it clear that this speech was about a domestic audience. he kept using the pronoun our, he said that he wants to make sure that people know that the veterans are the rangers who thought here that they would want us to care for others in our country more than ourselves. he talked about the soul of our nation and the solemn vow to never let them down. he's talked too often about the need to stand up to dictators to autocrats, to fascist. but for the average american who might think that terms like that feel like they're ripped from a history textbook today. they president biden distilled it into it's perhaps simplest term. he said that hateful ideologies are what the the us is standing up to and that essentially casten extremely really wide net. it doesn't necessarily mean that is just vladimir putin on the doorstep of europe, or just the ice and isolationists populous protectionist policies that he is combating in his opponent back at home. so that was perhaps what was most interesting to me here. it's also notable that while reagan's speech 40 years to go became most known for the line where he addressed the boys of pointe-du-hoc. he had 62 of those boys on hand in the audience to specifically referenced during the speech. and today, president biden said the ghost of pointe-du-hoc, that is, i think what the biden team wants this speech to become. they want it to be iconic. and if there's one thing where president reagan's oratory skills certainly set a high bar. there's one thing that president biden has in this moment that he did not. and that is high definition. it's not a grainy picture. it's not muted colors when the president did a fly over and marine one, there was music playing that sounded like a john williams score. you can expect that the white house and campaign are going to be able to use this imagery and cut it in a way that will continue speaking to the american people people well beyond today, wolf. >> good point. kayla tausche at pointe-du-hoc for us, we'll get back to you. i want to continue this discussion right now, joining us now cnn contributor leah wright, rigueur, cnn presidential historian tim naftali, are senior political analyst around bronstein and retired us army general wesley clark. he's the former navy you supreme allied commander. round. let me start with you. how would you rate this approximately 15 minutes speech by the president yeah. >> i mean, look, it was it was a solid, strong presidential speech. i'm not sure. i was like, what be as iconic as reagan speech. and it was most interesting in terms of our 2024 choice, in the way that president biden linked the struggle to preserve democracy around the world with the struggle to preserve democracy in the the us as we face something we have not really encountered before, an american in history with the dominant faction in one of our parties not committed to the principles of constitutional democracy that we have. that we have that have endured for over two centuries in this country. so that is the case he is making. i think it is part of the case. he has to make in november, there is an audience for that. there's also another group of voters they need to reach that finds all that a little abstract and needs to know more about his plans to make their economic life better. but in terms of kind of putting a stake in the ground and linking international domestic struggle. i thought it was affected very eventful tim, you're are presidential historian, big picture. >> how important historically, how sick deficient potentially is this speech by the president well, the very fact that it happened 40 years after an, another iconic moment at pointe-du-hoc allows us to see the differences between 1984 and 2024 in 1984, ronald reagan was trying to reassert the moral character of the american commitment to the world that was a time when some in our country were arguing that there was a moral equivalence between the soviet union and the united states and so ronald reagan used that iconic place and the fact that he was standing in front of 62 heroes who had scaled pointe-du-hoc 40 years earlier to make a point about the fact that when the united states came to europe, it came as americans came as liberators, not as conquerors thus contrasting the united states with what the soviets had done in their empire ronald reagan had a second objective in 1984 in 1983 had been a very tense year in the cold war. >> indeed, it was known as the beginning of the second cold war. in 1984 ron reagan actually wanted to send a signal to the soviets. we americans don't want war. we fight them when we have two, but we don't want war and then ronald reagan made a point in the speech at pointe-du-hoc to talk about the 20 million soviets who had died in world war ii 40 years later the president of the united states uses that same sacred ground to make a point about us and our character. this speech was a lot about character. the character of america perkins. it, their best. he talked about the sole survivor of d-day who was in front of him and talked about the importance for that hero of his band of brothers of those that he was fighting for his country of course, but he was also fighting for those around him and for those who may had lost. and the president made a very, very poignant point we mustn't forget the fact that we are part of a community, that we should care about each other, that we should care about others more than ourselves, and that, that is being american. now he didn't mention donald trump's name. he didn't have to. >> but it gave a sense that he is in some way framing the choice, not between his character and donald trump's character. >> but two between donald trump's character and the character of america at its best. and that character is personified are was personified by those 225 rangers who scaled pointe-du-hoc 80 years ago. so that shows you two things. one, the difference in the campaign's 40 years apart, but also the difference in the challenge the country faces. and the us my two presidents of a sacred moment in our history and of sacred ground to make the case to the american people about the importance of morality in our times good point, general clark here, the former nato supreme allied commander europe military expert right now on this panel, this is certainly hallowed ground as we all know, more than 70,000 allied troops died during the invasion of normandy 80 years ago. >> how did you view the president's speech and didn't strike the right tone? amid this backdrop i think it was a very, very powerful and even a brilliant speech roof powerful in the sense of the setting. >> the avocation of the rangers. i was in the pentagon as of colonel, i listen to ronald reagan's speech in 1984 but the boys are ponto hawken, i had around me group of captains and majors lieutenant karl was working for me for the army chief of staff and we had tears in our eyes when we heard reagan talk about it. biden speech will evoke very powerful, very strong support from the men and women in uniform and the united states page it is evocations of ronald reagan, its advocation of what america military stands for. as far as the allies are concerned, i think they should be very reassured by this. you know, the policy and confronting putin is it's evolving we're getting a little more forward. we're pushing on putin a little bit more. the white alice in recent days is an authorized, the ukrainians to use american weapons to strike back against in russian territory and to shoot down russian aircraft over russia that are threatening ukraine. these are significant it moves, putin can hear it now in the rhetoric and he can see the response. so i think we're moving to tighten the noose on mr. putin and his aggression in ukraine step-by-step, carefully, bringing the allies together. i think it was a really powerful speech, just the right time, just the right moment. and obviously, he's got the mantle of ronald reagan behind him. so i think it has some enormous domestic impact as well. >> good point leah, europe presidential historian as well. you teach at the johns hopkins university. there was certainly a lot of focus on ronald reagan speech on that very spot. 40 years ago during the 40th anniversary of the de d-day. d-day invasion. do you think this speech by president biden lived up to that legacy? >> it had to live up to the legacy and it's not just about is this this kind of broader legacy of modeled reagan, but it's also, i think a soft launch for the second stage of joe biden's presidential campaign. we know that the first stage of the campaign was the battle for the soul of america. but one of the things that let me put the biden administration has realized is that that same argument is not hitting in the same way with american or global audiences. >> i think what we're seeing here now is a twofold attack. >> one, this idea of democracy abroad and democracy the connecting this idea at the international and the creeping idea, right? harkening back to this two ideas that mama graven talked about. but the idea of russia, the power of russia, the increasing aggression of russia, but also harkening to ideas of china, right? so just defining these very, very different ideas of what are allied powers? course water access power. so again, reassuring, i think allied powers but also it is doing the work. think of reminding people at home that there is a connected community of what democracy means one of the things that we know is that democracy within the united states, also globally, but democracy within the united states is in crisis as people as the rest of the panel has already mentioned, donald trump didn't need to be mentioned because he was evoked in the ideas that joe biden talked about. so this is an attempt, i think not just to remind people about what does democracy mean, how democracy is something that has to be fought for remade over and over again. >> but also to speak ideas of democracy. >> they were incredibly popular on both sides of the aisle. so he's bringing up this legacy of ronald reagan. and i think it's an important launching part for the next phase of the camera we heard the president once again say that the young men who stormed point to hoc at these other areas of normandy and helped turn the tide of the war. >> the mission matters more than their lives. they all believed that, and that's why the u.s. and the allies turned the tide of the war and eventually defeated nazi germany within a year after normandy will watch all of this together with all of you to all of the panelists. thank you very, very much. we'll be right back with boromir's the assignments are going on. >> and the tornado here. >> i'm thinking i'm going to die and i thought that was it. >> filing earth with liev schreiber sunday at nine on cnn shipping trucks advanced kamer 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