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They probably will. president obama has said he has a business-like relationship with president putin. the hope is to get him to stop the flow into ukraine and bring this to a political resolution. that is the objective and that is what they have to do. already world leaders, angela merkel of germany, british prime minister david cameron have spoken to privately and individually with president putin. that is the mission and the message they are transmitting. apart from that, of course, president obama has clearly tied in not just the tribute and the remembrance and the commemoration of so much...

When the time came for the pair troops to bail out, only a small percentage of the troop carriers had been lost. in little more than 12 hours, the allied beachhead was 13 miles wide and 10 miles in de s depth. >> hundreds of world war ii veterans have returned to france for today's remembrance. >> that includes a man named jim "peewee" martin. as a young soldier, he was among those who parachuted into enemy occupied france and now, at age 93, he's done it again. >> yes, he has. jim bittermann has this story. >> reporter: paratroopers are known for their checklists. and at the top of former par...

Pageantry, really, of it, which pales in comparison to what happened 70 years ago. you're looking at three planes flying overhead. imagine what the skies must have looked like 70 years ago today, ken. >> the germans couldn't believe when they saw the ships coming. it just filled their view. i mean, it must have been an awesome sight. we see news reels now, but it was a surprise out of the fog on this early morning. thousands and thousands of ships and then hitting the beaches. an extraordinary moment in all of human history. >> and men came wave after wave. >> as the president said, wave after...

Back, to stop the advances on ukraine. i think president obama's speech was one of the best ones in recent. let's such a good speech maker. he spends so much time meeting and greeting and shaking hands with those people that really choke all of us up, the sacrifice that those men made 70 years ago is beyond almost human imagination to even compute what they went through. he called normandy democracy's beachhead and he called these beaches from utah all the way up, those five beaches that were critical on d-day. he said that this was that tiny sliver of sand on which the entire course of human ...

Democracy's beachhead and our victory in that war decided not just a century by shaked the security and well being of all posterity. whenever the world makes you cynical, stop and think of these men. we are only on this earth for a moment in time. and few of us have parents and grandparents to tell us about what the veterans of d-day did here 70 years akboe. as i was landing on marine 1, i told my staff, i don't think there's a time that i miss my grandfather more, where i'd be more happy to have him here than -- than this day. so we have to tell their stories for them. we have to do our best ...