Also top of mind, his tariffs, speaking about tariffs moments ago as he departed to normandy. Border security is the president s Sticking Point and migrant arrests have surged to the largest monthly total in more than a decade. Plus, the fbi just released its file on big foot, what did they find about the mythical creature also known as sasquatch. Good morning and welcome to early start, im christine romans, my kids will be interested in that. Im dave briggs, thursday, june 6th. 4 00 a. M. In the east, 10 00 a. M. In normandy, france, where we begin this morning with hearts and minds focussed on the 75th anniversary of dday, Operation Overlord as it was once known. Thousands gather to commemorate the allies, huge invasion of france on june 6th, 1944, an assault that marked the beginning of the end of world war ii. World leaders will gather to remember the triumph and sacrifice made there. The president is focussed on key tariff negotiations with mexico. This is Vice President pence meeting at the white house with mexicos foreign minister. The president demanding more action to stop the record surge of migrants at the u. S. Border. Officials say Border Patrol agents encountered more migrants in april than any month in the last 13 years. Heres the president talking a short time ago. Weve told mexico, the tariffs go on and i mean it too, and im very happy with it, and a lot of people, senators included, they have no idea what theyre talking about when it comes to tariffs. They have absolutely no idea. Were the piggy bank. The United States is the piggy bank, it has all the money that others want to take from us. Theyre not taking it so easy anymore. Its a lot different. The president has been consistent with that theme, the piggy bank. He also talked about democrats. Lets listen to that. The democrats, congress has been a disaster. They wont change. They wont do anything. They want free immigration, immigration to pour into our country. They dont care who it is. They dont care what kind of a record they have. It doesnt make any difference. Theyre not going to be changing anything. We go to them say lets fix the immigration laws. They just want it to do badly. The worse it does, the happier they are. Thats the way it will be until after the election. Thats the president before heading to normandy. We have excerpts of his speech hell be given later this morning. The president has taken a direct route to supporting our alliances and nato. It does appear he has come full circle. Here are excerpts from the speech, today we remember those who fell here and we honor all who fought here. They won back in ground for civilization, and heres where we talk about the alliances with the next excerpt if he is clearly supporting today, to all our friends and partners, our cherished alliance was forged in the heat of battle, tested in the trials of war and proven the blessings of peace, our bond is unbreakable. It was early in his administration that he was giving a speech and pulled out a line about reaffirming article 5 and nato, and committed to our selfmutual defense. Today is the most important example of how those alliances worked, and even better than that, the americans and the british post the world war ii victory designed how the global system was going to be, how these alliances were going to work so everyone had a mutual interest so that you didnt have a rise of a nazi germany again are where it was one country that could go it alone that way. But the president has rejected that post world war ii architecture which is so fascinating that he has chosen to use or his speech writers have chosen to use those words today. Perhaps he has been moved by, you know, talking with Angela Merkel and other world leaders, theresa may, those who know well the sacrifices of our allies. Here are looiive pictures from normandy, dday commemorations getting underway. This is a solemn day. Here are the men we should focus on, the veterans, most of them in their 90s, those who served Operation Overlord. It is Hallowed Ground there. It is american soil so when you step into the American Cemetery, it is you are on american soil and you are surrounded by all of those crosses and stars of david marking the graves of the men who died storming that beach. Its just such an important day, really really determined the 20th century for the world. And if you dont get a chance to watch some of the ceremony today, later this morning with your family, you can get on you tube with your kids. You can listen to a podcast with your kids of original bbc broadcast of that day or fdrs speech or eisenhowers speech as well. You get a sense of the sacrifice, the commitment that our alliance made as they took on what seemed unwinnable, 150,000 troops storming the atlantic wall that seemed impenetratable at the time. But they did it. They did it. Well continue to look at the live pictures at the American Cemetery in normandy. The president s top trade adviser seems to give an ultimatum. Mr. Trump is prepared to back off his threat only if he gets the right deal. We believe that these may not have to go into effect precisely because we have the mexicans attention. Have the mexicans attention. Look, they go into effect on monday. You would have to be asking mexico to stop that in two or three days. They have taken steps to beef up enforcement. The number one demand is for mexico to take the Asylum Seekers and applying mexican laws, which he says are much stronger than ours. As we mentioned, theres been a stunning rise in migrant crossings at the southern border in may. According to u. S. Customs and border protection, 144,000 migrants apprehended encountered, acting cvp commissioner john sanders telling reporters, we are in a quote full blown emergency. There was no deal yesterday to stop President Trumps threat to stop tariffs on all mexican goods. The president saying this in ireland yesterday. They have to step up and if they dont, tariffs will go on. If they go high, companies are going to move into the United States. Its very simple. Its not really that simple. We trade a lot back and forth with mexico. Mexico is americas biggest supplier of ag products, 26 billion in 2018. Mexico will not pay these tariffs. American businesses will pay the tariffs and then they can either eat the profit or pass that on to consumers. John corden of texas laid out the cost clearly on the senate floor yesterday. Tariffs on the other hand would be a massive tax. The u. S. Chamber estimates that texas alone would face 5. 35 billion in increased costs as a result of a 5 tariff that could take effect as early as monday. This translates into about a thousand dollars more on a car. If Deutsche Bank estimates it would be more than like 1,300 per car. Then theres this, a study found the 5 tariff would cost the u. S. More than 400,000 jobs. The president is using tariffs to punish mexico on illegal immigration, a move senator jeff merkley essentially called hypocritical. This is not about tariffs. This is saying were going to use it as a weapon in foreign policy. They also say, and by the way, the instability in central america, this is coming from the dollars that come from the American Drug trade so if americans, if you quit buying drugs from central america, we wont have this problem. He also made the point that the president s threats to shut down the border are fuelling the coyotes and smugglers saying you need to pay us now to get your family across the border, so actually the president s threat swelling the numbers at the border. White house officials are scheduled for more talks. Republican senators are calling on the president to delay implementation on tariffs to mexico until he makes the case to them directly. They want to meet with him next week. I dont particularly favor the tariffs. Im afraid this will endanger american jobs. This is the wrong solution to the crisis. We think tariffs in this instance are hurting the chances of getting u. S. Mca. Not clear how many senate republicans, if any, are willing to break with the president to override the tariffs if he decides to move forward. Lets keep in mind, romans, you need some 17 republican senators to vote with all of the Democratic Senators to override anything the president does. That is not likely to say the least. Today, 75 years ago today, 150,000 allied soldiers stormed five beaches in normandy. Thousands of them would never come home. They are being remembered this morning, and were going to take you there live. Everyone could use a little romance. Even your feet. The new amope pedi perfect with diamond crystals gives you smooth results in just seconds that youll fall in love with instantly. Available at walmart in the foot care aisle. Today makes the 75th anniversary of dday, and thousands of people have gathered in normandy where in 1944 allied troops stormed those beach, many of them would not live to see another day. Their sacrifice key to the defeat of nazi rule and the creation of lasting peace in europe. That triumph, those sacrifices commemorated today, perhaps the last major remembrance where those who actually fought will be in attendance. Cnns Jim Bittermann is live in normandy, overlooking those beaches. Hi, jim. Hi christine, yes, in fact, this is the beach and i just wanted to show you this, it illustrates what kind of thing was going through the planners minds, what they had to consider. This beach is now about half gone and at low tide its much larger than this. The army and navy had an argument about this. The army wanted a high tide landing. That way soldiers wouldnt have as far to run. The navy wanted low tide because they felt they could see the obstacles the germans had put in place at low tide. In the end, they compromised and it was about one to three hours after the very lowest tide that they landed, just about what were seeing out there today. I wanted to show you, christine, a little bit of what the germans had done. They knew the allies were landing. They didnt know where. All along the coast of france and beyond, they built bunkers, like this one, 2 feet of concrete here, with a machine gun nest inside. This machine gun is clearly cited right down to the beach so they had a clear view that the soldiers were coming ashore, and this is what the allied troops had to contend with. You can see in the sea behind you, the wreckage of what was called mulberry harbor, the british engineers, American Engineers came in and basically made a landing area for all of that equipment that was going to come in for the days and days and days after that successful landing, and you can still see it there rotting in the ocean as a remembrance of the engineering feat that was that morning. Thats absolutely right. These are big concrete shells that were built over in england, and floated across the channel. Part of the meticulous planning that went on, floating across the channel and sunk here to be a break water for the other parts of the mulberry harbor, which were what they call the whales, these were metal railways that could bring in the tons of material youre talking about. Just amazing the feat of bravery, of military planning, engineering, general eisenhower said, okay, well go. All that terrible weather. He picked a window and they did it, and now were commemorating that, 25 years later. Jim bittermann, thank you, nice to see you this morning. You bet. Another bump in the road for joe biden, the front runner. His Campaign Says he still backs limits on federal funds for abortion and that puts the former Vice President squarely at odds with his democratic rivals. According to the biden camp, the front runner supports the 1977 Hyde Amendment which bans state use of federal medicaid dollars to pay for abortions, except in the case of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Biden taking a lot of heat for supporting hyde from every one of these democratic candidates. Senator Elizabeth Warren says his position is wrong and the measure needs to go. I dont support the Hyde Amendment, and i will lead the fight to have it overturned. Could the nominee be someone who does . This isnt about the politics, this is about whats right. The Hyde Amendment should not be american law. It has to be pointed out that biden appears the Hyde Amendment, seems to have flipflopped. Listen to what he told an aclu activist just last month. Will you commit to abolishing the Hyde Amendment which hurts poor women and women of color. Yes, and by the way, the aclu, perfect voting record my entire career. I heard you did, but im glad you just said you would commit to abolishing the Hyde Amendment. Right now it cant stay. You just heard the former Vice President tell that woman twice that he opposes the Hyde Amendment. His Campaign Says he has not changed his position. He misheard the question, and thought he was referring to the mexico city rule. You can see how he may have misunderstood that question. I was having a hard time figuring out what she was asking, loud room. He will have to answer to the position in the weeks and months ahead. The fbi has a file on big foot. They conducted lab tests to determine whether hes real. What did they find out . 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A solemn ceremony this morning to remember the thousands of troops who died 75 years ago today on dday. Weve told mexico, the tariffs go on, and i mean it too. Im very happy with it. President trump speaking about tariff talks just moments ago as he departed ireland for normandy. Border security, of course, top of mind for President Trump and migrant arrests there have surged at our southern border, the largest monthly total in more than a decade. Good morning, everyone and welcome back to early start, im dave briggs. Im christine romans, its 30 minutes past the hour. We welcome all of our viewers in the skpu. S. And around the worl as we focus on the 75th anniversary of dday. Thousands gather to remember the allies huge invasion of france on june 6th, 1944. Thats an assault that marks the beginning of the end of world war ii. World leaders will join President Trump to remember the triumph and sacrifices made here. The president is also focussed on key tariff negotiations underway with mexico. This is Vice President pence meeting with mexicos foreign minister. The president demanding more action from mexico to stop the record surge of migrants at the u. S. Southern border. Officials say Border Patrol agents encountered more migrants in may in any month in the last 13 years. Were going to go now to live pictures of normandy france, 10 31 a. M. Eastern time as we await the president of the United States stepping off the plane. As we do, check with jim acosta traveling with the president. He has more on all t