Today. and a little later on president and first lady walk through the ceremony at normandy 9388 military are buried. lawrence: not just the 80th anniversary, this is probably going to be the last for all those men that are here today as martha mccallum talked about earlier, some of the folks that are there were actually on hospice but they wanted one more trip. steve: right. lawrence: to remember. brian: when i was over at fort liberty, fort bragg, whatever you want to call it. they were all preparing to go. they were saying they were so moved by how the people of france are more into this than even we are. they are so thankful for generations gone by and for the ones that fought there.
martha: thank you all. we will see you later. steve: we re going to keep it live in france. but, also, we re going to talk a little bit about what is happening in this country and, of course, it is a presidential election year. and as it turns out, we have heard for a while that the president has former president, donald trump, has got some names of people who would be great as his veep in his head and maybe they have actually revealed more of that hand because, apparently, at least four of the people have been asked to submit paperwork and stuff like that. they are being vetted. ainsley: doug burgum, marco rubio, tim scott, and j.d. vance. brian: yeah. we will get to that a little bit later. elise stefanik is on it. byron donalds, is he also there. ainsley: those four, i believe, received the vetting papers according to this article? brian: okay. let s talk about 2024. and the president of the united states did get system good news yesterday in terms of the lawfare that s been levied at him.
lawrence: fox & friends starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. so today marks the 80th anniversary of d-day. right now president biden is in normandy, france along with world war ii veterans and other words leaders. steve: that s right. is he reaching each and every american that has made the trip. they are gathering to common rated the historic invasion that led to the defeat of the nazis in europe 80 years ago today. ainsley: and today the world will pause to honor the u.s. and the allied forces who stormed those beaches of normandy on this very day in 1944. and to remember the 73,000 allied service members who lost their lives fighting for our freedom. brian: peter doocy joins us now from normandy. peter? peter: and this plateau behind us where there is now an american cemetery is about as far as the successful allied forces made it on d-day after
What we knew then as czechoslovakia. he takes over poland. it looks like the soviets and germans were going to be working together until they broke the nonaggression pack. think about this, we still weren t in the war and they took france, our first ally in the history of our nation. and we still weren t in. and we knew the time we got, in what we were up against then. a fort find expansive power who was gaining power by the day, and we could not waste any more time because u.k. was hanging on by a thread. pete: brian, it s a great reminder because, you know, there have been i was a part of two wars that went on for 20 years. it makes a lot of us reluctant to want to get involved and engaged in the world. in this moment there was a lot of reluctance of engaging in the world. up until the bombing of pearl harbor. peter: so many so until the europe taken over. seek peace but prepared for war and understand the nature of the threat that we face. what is hyperbole about what we
Brian. president zelenskyy has just arrived in normandy, france. we do understand that apparently our president is going to refer to the existential threat ukraine faces from vladimir putin and russia in his comments. one of the things that the french leader, mr. macron said, was he praised american veterans on the stage by name to thank them individually for their sacrifice. the president, who as you can see right now is giving out the french foreign legion award says you have come here, you left everything behind and took risks. and, unfortunately, not only did they take risks, martha, but so much american blood and blood of our allies spilled 80 years ago today. martha: yeah. it s hard to convey the power of looking out at these white crosses and imagining the young men that lie beneath them all over this beautiful and sacred place and it is consecrated by
Before the thousands gathered there today in normandy for the 80th anniversary of d-day, which happened 80 years ago today, a great invocation by that member of the armed services and then we just heard from. brian: secretary djou. steve: secretary of battle monuments commission and certainly no battle monument bigger than normandy. ainsley: pete joins us now, pete hegseth who has fought for our country valiantly along with all of these men that we re seeing sitting in the audience. pete, hard to believe this is 80 years ago, many of men were 18, 19, 20 years old. pete: emmanuel macron comes on. thought we were going to take the speech speaking in french. remind that all those boys that stormed the beaches of europe, we think of the commonality of the united states and europe, but it was a far place. those men right there had never met, didn t speak the same
steve: the 80th anniversary of d-day. 1:00 in the afternoon in france. we are awaiting remarks from president biden who is in normandy along with world war ii veterans and other world leaders as well. lawrence: so they are gathering to commemorate the historic invasion that led to the defeat of the nazis in europe. brian: all right. today the world will pause. will pause to honor the u.s. and allied forces. look at this video. who stormed the beaches of normandy in this day in 1944 and to remember the 73,000 allied members who lost their lives fighting for freedom. ainsley: gosh. peter doocy joins us now from the beaches of normandy. peter? peter: and president biden said to one of the d-day veterans here today you saved the world. and another one of the veterans joked to president biden don t get old. so, even though this is a very solemn occasion on hallowed ground, it has been a series of very jovial conversations with
Teaching it that future generations understand. brian: tunnel 2 towers does a great job. right here is lloyd austin, the secretary of defense. secreta president biden, dr., president macron. distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen and above all the veterans of world war ii, i am honored to stand again at this hallowed place. we bow our heads to remember the more than 9,000 u.s. and allied soldiers killed or wounded on d-day by hitler s forces. on behalf of the united states department of defense, i am here to give thanks, inadequate as that word may be. 80 years later, we thank the young americans who took the beaches, who helped liberate
Must engage in and what is a truex ten threat. and there is just no doubt that the nazi war machine was something that wouldn t have stopped in europe. was going to gobble up everything that it could. and only took american engagement to keep the world free. lawrence: pete pete: i pray, i haven t been there recently that europe will remember the gift it was given by the united states and live for freedom. brian: i think the french do. start pouring money into their own defense. or else this could be happening again with a fort find vladimir putin. lawrence: real quickly before we bring in martha. you keep saying boys. but for the audience to understand, a lot of those young men now they were boys at the time. they changed their age. they weren t really 18. can you just talk about the significance of that real quickly? pete: i don t say that as a pejorative. i say that to make sure folks i have a 14-year-old. when i look at my son i see a kid. can you imagine three years from now he is carrying a rifle on his back and jumping off a
Forces here, you know, they were up more juneau and sword and gold beaches. and this is an american veteran of world war ii who is receiving it now from emmanuel macron the french president. brian: you can imagine what life was like in france with occupied nazi germany looking for revenge from world war i. they finally got it. they take the capital. french resistance forms outside the country. they joined on this invasion. and they helped scripted which would eventually be a successful take back of the country, martha. absolutely commandos dropped behind the enemy lines before june 6th. they were trained to basically take people out, to take out german soldiers as they found them in the places that they were occupying. yesterday, i was in a house that was that was the nazi headquarters during the occupation. and it still had nazi paintings all over the walls, that home