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The bravery of the american soldiers. we'll hear more of that from president biden, as we did yesterday, but aides say this is a chance to draw contrast. at the moment, donald trump's name not in the speech, but doesn't mean the president can't ad lib. framing the stakes for the election at home and abroad. the idea that if trump were to return to the white house, america's word couldn't be counted upon by allies. donald trump nearly blew up nato when he was in office the first time. we have seen him side with putin over his own intelligence agencies. we have seen him as an ex-president be dee...

Divided nation and was the second class citizen until the civil rights movement triumphed. he died in 2005. he was just this week awarded posthumously the distinguished service cross, which is the second highest honor in the army. that wasn't the only division. there were bitter divisions about whether the united states should get involved in the war. isolationism, you think it is something now? isolationism was a major strain in our politics. there were bitter divisions over franklin roosevelt's new deal policies which were being described as totalitarianism and communism and socialism. the r...

Ukraine through its war with russia. >> reporter: well, good morning, willie. certainly, the relationship between the european allies, the united states and ukraine, is very much relevant in the broader commemorations of d-day. because all of the focus has been on the threat of aggression and how can that be stopped and how can democracy be preserved? expect those themes today from president biden, both in his meeting with president zelenskyy of ukraine and in a separate speech he'll be doing for the american people that is not quite the same as what we saw yesterday, where you had two dozen w...

D-day were all white and one all black unit that morning. once they got on the beaches, there was no color. i write about one soldier, a medic in the one black battalion that landed that morning. there were others who came later. he was wounded as he landed. german shrapnel, pretty serious wounds. he was well enough to set up a medical aid station on the beach, and he stood there and treated the wounded for 30 hours before he collapsed and had to be taken to a hospital ship. he survived the war. he came home to a racially

This country, not unlike what we're seeing here now. >> yeah. we look back at world war ii and the d-day invasion, and we see this incredible national unity. everyone was pulling in the same direction in this great struggle that engulfed the entire world and american society was, you know, transformed. everyone had to pitch in. there was national purpose and national unity. we forget that in the years before the war, our country, arguably, was as divided as it is now. it was divided over a number of things. one way it was divided, obviously, it was racially segregated. that continued even duri...