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Of the iran deal, and that may have led iran to retaliate? >> well, of course, it led iran to retaliate. as we've said, many times, trump, his favorite weapon is the dollar. the weaponized dollar. now he has turned that up to max, right? he really wants to starve iran as much as possible. okay. what's iran supposed to do. surrender? no, it's not going to surrender. he may want to give it, in fact, i think he is trying to give it a way out by talking to him, but it is not going to go farther or significantly farther than the jcpao, the joint comprehensive plan of action that limited its nuclear...

Americans to saudi arabia, to help the apparently not terribly competent saudis, deal with their air defense, and missile defense systems. but in fact, it is not just a question of defending the exo skeleton of the oil industry, which is spread all over the map, it is also a question of defending things like desal nation plants. saudi arabia gets its water through desalination, very easy for iranians to hit, and the saudis are vulnerable, trump knows it and the iranians were careful in had this hit, i don't doubt they were behind, it they were very careful not to kill anybody. don't you think ...

It remains seared into the memory of a future world. >> and joining us is historian and senior lecturer shawn lang. shawn, what to you is the significance of this commemoration happening today? >> well, it's always good hearing from christopher. my father was at d-day as well. >> i think we're having some audio issues with the professor. so we're going to circle back to him when we get a chance. shawn, stand by for us as we get that fixed. but i want to bring in bill neely now who has been standing by for us in normandy as well, global correspondent for nbc news, bill neely. bill, good to talk...

With a lot of us. you can see this here. the music, you can hear it from where our set is. it's further away. the flag flies at half staff behind us. >> hallie jackson, stick around for us. we're going to christopher dicky, with daily beast and msnbc contributor. christopher, in one of your columns this morning you brought up the four freedoms. franklin delano roosevelt talked about freedom of expression, freedom to worship in one's own way, freedom from want, freedom from fear. are those among the things that go through your mind as you sit there and look at the row upon row of markers behind...

There was no talking. there was testing. right now you have no testing. you have no nothing. let's see what happens. but i would be very disappointed if i saw testing. >> joining me now, christopher dicky, world news editor at the daily beast and msnbc contributor. thank you for joining us. what do you think? do you think we're about to see a new round of testing here? >> yeah, i think we're going see a new round of testing of launch missiles and also a testing of donald trump. very clearly a testing of donald tru trump. that particular site was not used for ballistic missile test. it's been u...