martha. [ ♪♪ ] >> martha: thank you john and sandra thank you. good afternoon everybody i'm marth maccallum this is the story. we're live from the american cemetery in normandy france where today we watch world leaders gathering to give thanks and gratitude to our greatest generation 1 man after another more than 100 and all got several rose the riveters came to her number at all. the good and the sad. and to pay tribute to the nearly 5000 who gave it all on beaches and in the hedgerows of the french countryside. they rest behind us here. bro on row. -- row on row. [ ♪♪ ] >> the young americans who fought to the clamour and chaos on d-day have grown old or left us. and whenever a veteran of d-day is sent to his maker in the fullness of time after a long life lived in freedom, he wins a final victory over hitler. >> martha: tomorrow comp republican florida congressman michael waltz and corey mills no strangers to combat would pay tribute by reenacting the airline invasion of normandy. they will jump from an original world war 2 c. 47. the first green beret elected to congress and congressman mills is a decorated army veteran. gentleman great to have you. corey let me start with you if i may. what does it mean to you to be here and tell us what you're thinking about making this jump tomorrow that is in a historic place where there were jumps in the days before june 6th, think you. >> it's an honour to be able to pay homage to the greatest generation ever existed to be able to be here and reenact some of the things they've gone through as a paratrooper myself would serve the 82nd as a noncommissioned officer it means a lot to be here. every single day americans should think if they live to live worthy of sacrifice by so many and that's what it's about honouring these men and women who have given their all, given their hostile measure as abraham lincoln once had. honouring this legacy but also carrying it forward to understand the cost of freedom isn't free. >> martha: what does it mean to you michael. >> the 80th anniversary will likely be the last here with the world war ii veterans. the youngest 96 and the oldest 107. average age of 101. even though they may be passing on our generation of veterans they are determined to get their story alive and pass it onto the next generation. but i have to tell you martha being here, i wish i could bring every graduating high school class in the country here to see this and see how many sacrificed for their freedom so they can week of breathing free air. but also to feel the gratitude of the french people. that's always been the biggest and pleasant surprise to me. the amount of french people walking and world war ii uniforms and waving american flags saying thank you for our freedom welcome to our liberators. xoxox. little kids running around acquiring patton and ike t-shirts and there french kids. you don't see that at home. you see more american flags lying on french horns in normandy than you do main street usa and the patriotism and the gratitude is something you will never forget. >> martha: i couldn't agree more. you feel it so intensely here and i think i want to actually show you a piece from the wall street journal. d-day and modern memory and get on summons. so to the united states. lu -- will we make the same mistake again. there's a reason that thanks so. the west has spent the last 3 decades disarming. europe especially has been living on the comfort of it's welfare states as their military is eroded. russia's invasion of ukraine has awakened some on the continent but not enough. carson what you think we. >> 1 thing churchill said his americans will always do the right things but after exhausting everything. and i think he is right. we have to walk a thin line america to ensure 1 upland interventionist role but also are actually coming to the aid of our hours while holding adversaries accountable. some of the ministration doesn't much about. so for me i understand what churchill is trying to say but also they say we need to expect the sovereignty of each individual nation to stand on its own and we also need to understand $35 trillion in deficit america has to be able to try to take care of itself. we need to be there and be lasting in order to try to go ahead and beat the challenges that lie had because we know our allies will need our help. we also know america itself will be able to stand boldly whenever the time comes and 1 recalled. >> martha: the president called today forcefully for continuing assistance to ukraine saying we will not let you down. dew you support darkly. >> i wish he had also read the wall street journal editorial. they nailed it in the sense of europe was sleeping in the thirties and still are in many ways. eastern european countries on the front line early stepping up the big economies like germany and france and italy are still way below the minimum of 2% when you only have 11 out of 31 contributing to their minimum defence, martha as corey said, we cannot afford it anymore. the interest in art it is greater than our entire defence budget. we have a recruiting crisis. 40% of our submarines cannot get out of the repair yards. we have to invest in our own military and europe has to invest in theirs. >> martha: it would've been interesting to hear a serious call for that and there is another speech tomorrow and the president has another opportunity because i think in these moments you can challenge you're allies to rise to the occasion as they did in world war ii. at they could be a very poignant moment to see that. be safe up there tomorrow gentleman. corey reynolds and michael waltz to wonderful congressman thank you for your service both of you. >> airborne and you can still come with us martha. we can take you in a parachute bloc quebecois spin on thank you guys great to see. our coverage from the normandy american cemetery continues after this. 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[ laughter ] >> and of the savior. >> incredible moment between ukrainian president ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy and an american world war ii veteran earlier on this d-day. earlier president biden stood in normandy and told the world we will not walk away from ukraine. a short time ago i spoke with john kirby about america's future role in this role -- wore. watch. >> john, think you're journey. >> good to be with you martha. >> martha: good to be with you we just listen to president biden's speech he spoke forcefully about defending democracy and about turning back to ronnie. he said when you're asked is our turn we will say yes something to that effect. there we'll be people who look at the ukraine decisions and say that language is positive. it sounds reassuring to them and to europe but that the advances in military weaponry have been too slow and this latest session to fire within russia around our cave is too limited into combining. what do you say to that? >> i would remind people that we have evolved as the war has evolved. the needs of ukrainians on the battlefield have changed and they are still changing. we are china stay at pace with that and that's where we are in constant conversations with them. i also want to remind people that everything ukraine is getting is in concert with them and meeting their needs, and they're asks. again we are trying to stay at pace of that. but i think it's also s. thing i will say, take a look at what russia has suffered. the president alluded to some of this in his speech. 350,000 casualties, million young people living the country because they don't to be there anymore. -- leaving. russia has suffered a lot at the hands of ukraine and because they've invested so much of their energy into this war and not just united states but 50 some odd nations can take some credit for that because we helped arm and train and help resource ukrainian soldiers fighting so bravely. >> martha: are you telling me the president believes russia is on its heels? they just opened 3 new fences in the northeastern you can purchase a present believe russia is going to collapse on its own accord? >> i wouldn't go that far right now. but i do think it's important to remember they haven't made much progress for all the effort about what they were doing or trying to do they basically stalled out. once they hit the first line of ukrainian defenses that was kind of it. now they are reassessing we think about what they might do next. they can still be within range of kharkiv i don't want to diminish that. but they have largely stalled out. mr russia president vladimir putin has achieved none of these strategic objectives. >> martha: we know ukraine is suffering in a number of places along the border right now. when ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy meets with president biden tomorrow i believe they will talk and he says thanks for letting me go deeper into russian territory around kharkiv but i also need to do it however lc needs to. how do you say no to what he is asking for in those places and why would you if he is committed as he just said to peace which means 0 occupation from russia inside of ukraine? >> we haven't had those conversations with ukraine we will sea how coast more. the president is looking forward to another chat with ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy. the immediate need right now was kharkiv. the russians were pushing and in trying to establish a buffer zone on the ukrainian side of the border so that they could hit kharkiv because they want to get kharkiv. that's what the need is right now. as i said in my first answer to you we will keep in touch with ukrainians nearly every day. if we have to make adjustments that we will make adjustments. >> martha: wall street journal wrote a piece about this saying this is a message to russia president vladimir putin to -- a little bit and will leave you alone. it off the border area you back up a little bit we will not allow ukraine to use attack guns that go deeper into your territory. dew you agree with that? >> i don't at all. >> martha: will you let them use attack guns right now? >> ray numbers no change in our policy about attack guns a long-range strike nestle 300 club motors or so for use inside russia and again i want to remind the guidance we've given ukrainian is to after things that are a imminent threat just over that border. again we have to talk to them about what it looks for -- looks like going forward probably so but that's the guidance they've been given. ethic it's important as well to remember and russia president vladimir putin talked about this yesterday in a press conference we're dealing with a nuclear armed power. a thing we can all agree especially paper -- people who love ukraine and want to see it succeed and really become potentially world war iii to become the u.s. versus rossa which -- russia it could be a disaster for people all across europe. >> martha: we are sitting here at the normandy american cemetery which makes everyone think of world war 2. when we sent ships and then ammunition we didn't put any constraints on them and we didn't say you could use the bullets in this place but not that place or use the ships this way but not that we. we said when -- knew what it takes to win with our help. 's and the threat enough from russia and a larger sense to make winning the bull? >> there are parallels certainly to what's going on in the continent of europe now to what happened in the 1940s and world war ii. they're not exactly the same situation. this is russia invaded peaceful nation next-door and a completely unprovoked -- and we have been aiding ukraine in terms of beating back that aggression and defending their sovereign territory and territorial integrity and we will keep doing that. >> martha: must take it a bit further because, you know, hitler invaded doshi claimed a german-speaking area that he wanted to be part of germany. russia president vladimir putin when this event. these are essentially russia. chamberlain in the munich agreement i believe him and that's all he wants i think after all that he will sit back. why shouldn't we learn from history about what russia president vladimir putin's designs are to go further if he believes that president biden will only give this year and that there and not give them -- >> i thank the president talked about this clearly today and will have more to say about it tomorrow. we have to stand up to aggressors you can't let them change borders by force and we have done that. it's notches the u.s., 50 something other nations have felt ukraine the fact the aggression. its ukrainian soil and they have a rewrite to claim that soil back it is their country. we want to make sure they have the tools to do that in the schools to do that and we will continue to provide that kind of support. >> martha: so then president biden agrees with the 1991 ukraine territory? >> of course. >> martha: so the u.s. plans to back them with whatever they need to achieve that goal? kind of timeframe? >> we've been doing that for the last 2 plus years given them what they need as the war has changed our support has changed. how long will buckle and? i don't know. as you know there's a peace summit coming up in switzerland and a couple weeks. the vise president will represent the united states and we have been represented at any sick -- every peace summit. the president believes were doing it again here with serious representation. the president has other things on his schedule but nobody can say looking at what we've done for ukraine in the last couple years president biden isn't standing absolutely shoulder to shoulder with ukrainians as they continue to fight for freedom. >> martha: will more question, still a number of world war ii veterans here and i asked them if they see parallels in what's going on in the world and a number of them said yes, and said, you know, i grew up in the era and served in that area and i watched what happened when hitler took pieces and there were negotiations. you can have this prep and not that part. does president biden believe we are in a moment where russia and china and coordination with north korea and iran want to be that careless moment that we were and in 1938, 1939? >> i don't think you can go so far as to say there is some sort of access alliance akin to what hitler but together in the 1940s. >> martha: you don't think there is? >> they have burgeoning relationships obviously russia doesn't have many friends so they are reaching out to china for support and north korea for missiles that kind of thing. certainly get drones from iran. have they formed some sort of alliance where they will come to each other's aid and assistance? we have not seen that. these are not countries that necessarily trust each other anyways. and don't have long history of working well together. >> martha: look at russia and italy they were sort of partners because had similar goals because they were great friends. >> they had a common cause. >> martha: dew you think they want to sit and donated states split the belief certainly in the case of russia and china they are challenging rules-based order that the veterans gave as a gift to the world. they are certainly challenging that rules-based order and that's what the president was talking but today. we've got to stand up and defend that order otherwise we won't be worthy of their sacrifice and he doesn't want that to be the case. >> martha: will he point to china and russia and this combination of rations -- countries and the aggression you speak up. >> with the president wants to do is really hurled the bravery and sacrifice of the rangers scaled those unbelievably sheer cliffs. i think he wants to focus tomorrow's remarks really more on them and remembering them and being worthy of their sacrifice. that's what tomorrow's speech is all about. >> martha: thank you john kirby great to see you in person and always good to have a sit on a talk with the. >> rate to be here with you especially on this special anniversary of this incredibly sacred place. >> martha: we are all very fortunate to be here. thank you john very much. >> my pleasure thank you. >> martha: our things to john kirby and a bombshell testimony in the hundred biden's gun trial from hallie biden packed the widow of president joe biden's first son bo who then dated hunter revealing he introduced her to crack cocaine. tray coming up on this company kidded family story. the risk of kidney failure with farxiga. because there are places you'd like to be. farxiga can cause serious side effects, including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, urinary tract, or genital yeast infections, and low blood sugar. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. stop taking farxiga and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of this infection, an allergic reaction, or ketoacidosis. ♪ far-xi-ga ♪ earner a germanic day at the gun trial for hunter biden his brother bo's widow hallie took the stand. she and hunter after her husband passed away had a romance. she testified that hunter could have been using drugs or on the time bought the gun. he is charged with lying about his drug use on a federal form in order to buy that weapon. the defense asking hallie about this text exchange the day after the gun purchase. watch this. okay so hallie testified that she thought he actually might be meeting another woman. the defense argues it doesn't prove hunter was doing drugs at the time. okay that's a lot to follow. let's bring in sending it in america host tray get a former federal prosecutor and house oversight committee chairman. paid to have you with us tray. this is a lot to unravel the personal side of this she started dating her husband passed away and her brother and he introduced her to cocaine while they are having a relationship. through all this and tell us in terms of defense and prosecution where we are in terms of what's been proven or not here. >> yet the family this comes a kidded but the case is not. it's incredibly easy. hundred biden was both an unlawful user character or no lawful uses those users of crack -- and. were not talking, he is both bent on awful user and an addict. the jury is going to hear that and is onwards and they going to see and taxed and the only defense he has group is jury nullification that they need help. they don't imprison sentences. the facts are crystal clear and really bad for hundred biden. >> let's take a look this was part of the testimony of the cash withdrawals, part of the argument here was that he was constantly taking a lot of cash out and the suggestion is it was cashews easing for drug deals because oth