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[ ♪♪ ] [ ♪♪ ] [ ♪♪ ] >> the missing man formation flying over normandy brands at america and the world were members d-day and the invasion that went and started 80 years ago today. 156,000 allied troops storming the beaches of normandy pack more than 4000 would diet at day including 2500 americans. in the end, more than 73,000 allied forces would die the battle that would drag on for more than 70 days. today cackles freedom fighters and survivors of the war honored by president joe biden. the world is much different place today is antiquity what we learned them and still learn now. welcome everyone i'm neil cavuto. let's go to the white house was jack from our. and the significance of the bear jackie. >> neil, president biden recognized the americans who lay down their lives on d-day to stop the journey of ashes are moving across europe. he called on allied democracies to rise to that moment again but an modern-day dictator, russia president vladimir putin also threatening to march across europe. >> democracy is never guaranteed. every generation must preserve it. defended and fight for it. that's the test of the ages. in memory of those who thought here act died here act literally saved the world here act let us be worthy of their sacrifice. >> biden defended his recent decision to allow ukraine to strike targets inside russia with u.s. weapons, something russia president vladimir putin suggested amounts to direct participation in the war. before again making a build nuclear threat. >> for some reason tackle west believes russia is never going to resort to that. but we've got the nuclear doctrine and plays, have a look at it. what does it say? it says that someone else's actions threaten our sovereignty or territory integrity then we believe we have the right to use all the tools at our disposal. >> he reiterated it is limited in scope meant only to help ukraine defend the key city of kharkiv. >> authorized to be used in proximity to the border, not authorized strikes on moscow or the kremlin. >> he is facing pressure to go even further, the house intelligence committee mike turner wrote to the defence secretary today this is a positive step but not sufficient degree must build a strike back at all rush in strategic locations being used to strike ukraine territory. russia will inevitably disperse forces to other areas along the border. channeling what the president representative told us today the u.s. policy toward ukraine has evolved along with the war. the president seemed in his remarks to also be messaging to those who would rather see the u.s. will outsmart its support for ukraine, saying isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and is not the answer today we'll. >> thank you jackie very much. martha mccollum has been inerrant to witness history and talk to the people who made history it's been a remarkable. we'll talk to her and a second but i want to give you a chance to see some of the people with whom she is been chatting and younger generations saying it may be learned from the sacrifices 80 years ago. to glisten. >> got real close to a person that was dead they journeyed through this 1 guy was cut in half but i'm say to myself what the hell am i doing pretty get me through this. it's all history and i'm glad i'm here. i feel bad about not being with some of my buddies. >> just remarkable. martha you been remarkable. i was in very early this morning i usually dew to beat the traffic peer i was watching all morning and martha: in every notion anyone watched your coverage with a dry i.e. are not human them. it was stunning and powerful these because testament to history. it's just remarkable, the 80 what they've been through. acting as he said and what a many incredible adds here some of them only began talking about this recently, sometimes maybe a decade or so ago. some before that. but why now? >> yes, i need you have your own family hero history with world war ii meal so you know what these individuals are like. honestly my job is vary easy here because when you let these men speak and you let them tell their stories and he learned from them and you open up to the history that is all around you doing this kind of work it is a self. i'm honored to be here. there from fighting in world war ii and as i said most of them to talk about it they just like a push those experiences down he talks about his ptsd very openly now perfect on with life and as i said earlier they were doing solely videos talking about what heroes they were. they wanted to downplay it and exult the people they lost over here. that's what they are all about come back. to a person, they will tell you they come back to honor the people they lost her. some of these veterans have chosen to have their ashes buried in france because they want to be rejoined with the brothers that they lost along the way, neil. >> neil: yes so many of them have the survivor's guilt and all that. you brought up remarkable views they have on what this could be their final chance to get back there. ronald reagan's famous remarks or years ago when he came to normandy that was around the time this generation would've started retirements and getting on with life, make may be traveling back to these places it was an interesting moment in time wasn't it? >> i thank the reagan like a hawk speech was 1 of the most midden speeches i've ever heard. there is a great book about it. you know, it was the buck end, they were turning 60, old enough maybe had a little money to travel as you say and they came here and many of them have been coming back ever sense. but for many of them this will be the final journey. they are between 97 and 105. some of them might be her 5 years from now from what i saw on this trip neil but for many of them, they won't be. just to see the adulation and everyone wants their picture taken with them. they are bringing their children with them because they see what bud just showed us they are not teaching us in schools so as a parent i think you have to take the responsibility to open them up to these stories and make sure you're kids learn about this history because this is the bar. that's the greatest generation may be some of us can help to emulate some of what they stand for and get our generation to try to meet them at least at some level. >> neil: amazing. i hope you get home safe martha. boy he moved a nation just talking to these guys and listening to them. incredible stories. thank you more about very much. >> and kunio bay to be with you. >> neil: the same haircare in the meantime, you know, my next guest wanted to travel to normandy to get a better understanding of what these heroes went through on that day june 61944. it didn't and that data dragged donna while. the documentary on fox nation is called lessons from the normandy surf take a look. >> examples matter and we don't have a lot of examples of courage and bravery and selflessness like normandy. >> will go over into europe and destroy all the obstacles there so we need to have a special unit that can do that. that's where they came here and get ready. >> in and out of this and in and out of the water. took the demolitions potentials above obstacles. >> an inherent responsibility to make sure that our community it will special warfare we understand what those naval combat demolition units did that day. >> neil: just fascinated peer-reviewed brown u.s. navy seals senior chief traveled to normandy for fox nation you've got to watch it it's stunning. agents some about. what did you learn ricky equally >> first i'll thank you for having us now and helping us and everybody to get the story out there. >> neil: no thank you. >> to start from the beginning, you know, i didn't really know what to expect. i never been to normandy prior to our trip some of the documentary. obviously i knew pretty much everyone else sees in movies and stuff but longer and learning about i own forefathers in the naval combat demolition unit, that story really isn't told enough even in our own community. so it was really for the proper of us out there, it was a learning adventure to deep dive our own history and see the importance of the mission those guys had. which on the back and looking back opens the door for the entire light invasion. they spent the entire day in nichols on a vehicle. >> it was fascinating. >> what's amazing was the early wave of soldiers new and based going into this. taking up the germans. ships and firings offshore in. they were bait and they new that the odds of making at their and surviving this are low yet they all did it to them and they all did it. >> yet and that's the unbelievable remarkable aspect of this entire adventure for us was not only seeing the obstacles these guys had to face and overcome just to complete the mission they were assigned back but also we were each assigned 1 guide to research on our own and we told a little story of what we learned about the individual that day my guy was shot through the leg almost immediately bearing her first set of obstacles. he made it through parent over a quarter of a mile long beach low tide just said and the entire rest of the beach before fatally wounded. he completed his mission. so the thanks we've doctor and our careers and stuff which are hard for some to believe, when i look at this it's absolutely remarkable these guys were able to stay that fast and complete the job. >> neil: you're in a uniquely yourself ricky you're just like that generation. thank you for sharing and look forward to seeing you again. it will move you and stop you and you're charts as it should. will have more after this ing rae “the cost of doing business...” but at what cost? 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's filament may ask you about what tim scott is doing. they think they have an opportunity to make big gains with the african-american vote. this part of that effort what do you think we. >> while tenant is an optimist. it's good to thank that weigh but, you know, i'm a little bit insulted that someone would do that and quantify the average material. competent effort to deliver affordable healthcare we ended effort to deliver affordable housing we we elected president who has a path he is laid out to the american people. lost on the former president ran he refused to do a platform. for political party not -- decides not to lay out a platform for the american people , everything is going on and the head of the principal that's the problem for me. so i would say to my friend jeff scott lay out your pot from the american at the african-american community know what you want to do about healthcare, not on getting rid of the affordable healthcare plan as you did the last time, as opposed to a president who has put 45 million additional people with health insurance in this country. >> neil: but effective what you're saying here, obviously you feel the sender and do a lot more to improve the condition for african-americans but uriah joe biden is the president. thanks have gotten a lot more expensive under him because he is leading in the country right now. so why are you paying this all on tim's got to do something we. >> are not penning anything on tim's got picked and said the platform and i'm saying tim scott -- >> neil: hussein the platform of the parties to make healthcare unaffordable plea the fact of the matter is everything has become less affordable under this demonstration. it seems like you are charged to say it is elmo trump and tim sartre and these others who are the problem not joe biden. the buck stops at the white house doesn't equate. >> come on anil not trying to obfuscate at all. i went over you exactly what's happening. what is happened in the last proper years back student debt for instance joe biden has limited just in public service student loan debt along, over $60 billion for people with student loan debt. >> neil: who is paying for that congressman great it's all well and good but whose paintwork we. >> with uniquely. >> neil: this plane for that really great who is doing it pretty. >> nobody's paper. it was payback long long time ago. you payback $200,000. >> neil: i also understand that. but ultimately it's piled onto our national debt which has ballooned under this president just as it did under the former president. but that's not solving the problem, taking money helping 1 group and then saddling everyone else with the bill. that can you brag about beckley. >> what are you talking about we anyone with student loan debt, it is because you know what happens. a lot of people went to prison. got rid of the whole finance group because of what they did to saddle students with debt. that is what was done and that's what -- remember. >> neil: congressman what's the real parent that followed a lot of debt you're right way too much debt the administration is forgiven. the fact of the matter is it's piled up under this ministration. debt has piled up under this ministration and prices are soaring under this administration. so i understand this and tatian to say other guys have no plan but you do so been there almost 4 years and this is what's brought. >> we now negotiate for medicare and you know how to pay 200,000 year if you're part of health insurance. >> neil: so why do you think voters are doing that tweets or african-americans in particular that the administration seems to a lost a good percentage of and has prompted this push to reach out to these rubes. bear disaffected stack they're angry and seemed to be listening to what republicans have to say. maybe it doesn't last but are you worried we. >> i just read this morning they've been using to spread lives about as it relates to gaza. i'm per 2 states illusion and have been for 1 reverent. for people to put out that the other stop. for some reason. that exists on lies if you feel so confident about your position widespread these lies about what jim -- >> neil: to be honest congressman i don't know about that i will look into that. all i know is you don't need thoughts or sinister plots to go to grocery store and prices are still high. inflation or at least expiration has come down a bit but that's what most americans feel. they don't need about to tell them character prices are double what they are. they don't need about to tell them almost everything they want to buy is a low-cost year push costlier than it was when joe biden took over. the back of the matter is there is no sinister intentions going on here. the president has a double overtime selling people the notion the economy is as great as he says it is. there are clear improvements here. this is still a strong economy. markets have affected that and some of these numbers have reported that. but it's not registering with the american people. so how do you explain that we. >> i explain it this way. eliminate the situate positive. it's the opposite would you guys you want to accentuate the negatives and not even mention the positives. >> neil: i just mentioned the positives to you. i just mention the things that are going right. is not connected to the american people is not a failure on the presence part to make a compelling case great or do you think americans are offended of all stripes and persuasions congressman when he tells them it is okay and thanks are well and they are saying known mr president all thanks are not for a while. >> all thanks are not well know question but there's much more going positive than negative. but if you want to accentuate the negative there's not much i can do about that. but that's what you posed on this network. it with negativity. >> neil: congressman how long have you nonaqueous. >> alongside. >> neil: let me ask you then do you thank the president has to take a full approach to this we to see this for what it is. because he does blame businesses trying to fix prices, shrink inflation at all this other stuff. never get into the source. you think it would help a lot lot to say we goofed early on and spent a lot early on. we could have avoided all of this. >> i listen this morning as we were tuned in to what was going on at normandy. i've been in most of the gemstones and my late lloyds armful was on the uss arizona on that fateful day december 7th 1941. so this is something i very those 2. 1 thing i respect so much about normandy is eisenhower. and makes me understand why my debt was such a fan of dwight eisenhower. he says whatever happens here i am to blame. that person i would. not a person said i've never made a mistake i have nothing to ask forgiveness for. never done that he achieved not to ask forgiveness. >> neil: act not heard joe biden say that. we spent much of the big and catch a stagnant and mystic. they were good at it. this guy not so much. >> maybe you aren't peer listen to this president. >> neil: sodalite every day it's my livelihood. >> firebird on more than 1 occasion. if you listen you would hear it to. the fact of the matter is joe biden's what i call a good man, not a perfect man. i haven't met 1 yet. only 1 professed to be incorrect and that's why hughes defeated and lost last election and we'll be defeated in the next room. >> alright. always a pleasure james to have you speak your mind and i respect that. south carolina democrat very key player in getting joe biden to the white house and hopes to play the same role right now as he hopes to get back in the white house. more after this start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. ♪ ♪ have you always had trouble losing weight and keeping it off? same. discover the power of wegovy®. ♪ ♪ with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds. ♪ ♪ 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