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potential interest rate cut to help lower costs for consumers. ♪♪ a very good day to all of you. i'm alex witt in new york in for andrea mitchell who is on assignment. in his second speech in as many days marking the 80th anniversary of the d-day invasion. president biden drew parallels between the threats faced by democracies during world war ii to those being faced by american interests and ideals today. >> believe in something bigger than ourselves. that's what every soldier and marine decided. they stood against hitler's aggression. does anyone doubt that they would want am...

And then held off german counterattacks. i think it has become, as you say, symbolic of the commitment of the armed forces during world war ii which saved mankind. today's civilization. that's what was at stake. my parents' generation, my dad fought with the famous 92nd division in italy. he had eight years in combat. all my uncles -- one was in the navy. a cruiser attacked by a japanese submarine, army air corps. 16 million american men and women came to the defense of the country. it was an enormous economic powerhouse that helped win the war. >> extraordinary. >> we have to keep that in min...

Ward checking on us were senator dole. >> their injuries were one day apart. >> combat theater, really remarkable. i like dole as one of the national heroes i've most admired. i think that when you start looking back on it, the u.s. military started world war ii around 180,000 people in uniform. we ended it with 16 million. they had almost a million casualties. that generation, my dad was one of them, fighting in italy in the 92nd division. that generation had a tremendous sense of their own obligation and very little sense of what their rights were. so they did a lot for the country, no quest...