and say check i-phone. gaming yourselves with family and friends and how many friends your kids have. gillian: thanks for joining us today. have a great weekend. have a great weekend. bill: we start a new hour right now and start it live from the beaches of normandy, france. president biden arriving at pointe du hoc on the cliffs of normandy giving a speech. we ll share that with you. look at the stunning weather they have on france s northwest shore just really beautiful, beautiful time. welcome. brand-new hour begins here live in new york city. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer and our friend gillian is back with us today. gillian: will you keep me for the second hour? that s official. here we are. i m gillian turner. national security advisor says the president will make the case for democracy drawing a line that starts at world war ii and the cold war, nato and russia s current war with ukraine. bill: taking a page from ronald reagan in 1984 in the sam
capable i m ready to show the world how good i am. i trained all over the globe. and that s what you re going to see an awl whole different beast c w wednesday night dynamite he d on tbs hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington in for jim acosta. we re following breaking news. any moment now, president biden would deliver a major speech on the power of democracy. there ll be speaking from the site of a turning point for allied forces during world war ii. and former president donald while trump is back out there on the campaign trail and once again, leaving the door open to prosecuting his political opponents. if he s elected to a second term also happening right now, the prosecution is wrapping up its case in hunter biden s gun trial we are live reporting live from outside the courthouse in wilmington, delaware. stay with us urine, the cnn newsroom at any moment, president biden was stand on hallowed ground and plant the flag for democracy. president biden is at 0.2 in franc
poised to give a consequential speech on the world stage, returning to the beaches of normandy again this morning to deliver remarks on the threats against democracy and freedom at home and overseas. now, this speech coming just hours after president biden met with ukrainian president zelenskyy in paris announcing $225 million in new aid and apologizing for the political gridlock in washington that delayed that package. nbc s kelly o donnell is traveling with the president in france. also with us, david ignatius, foreign affairs columnist for the washington post, nbc news military analyst, retired colonel jack jacobs and presidential historian mark updegrove. it s great to have all of you with us. kelly, set the stage for us as we await the president. reporter: well, it is a spectacular setting. when you see how the white house has set up the president s lectern on the cliff. this is a cliff that 80 years ago american army rangers scaled that cliff using knives and pieces
honoring those who have died here, looking at the rates that serve as memorials to the lives that were lost here. the battle that was fought here, and everything that has occurred that led to the liberation of europe. let s listen to the president. he s welcome the 46 president of the united states of america, joe biden, john, how are you please last the hour had come don six of jude 1944 when was pounding as it is today. and always has against these cliffs 225 american rangers arrived by ship jumped into the waves and stormed the beach they could see all they could see was the outline of the shore. and the enormity of these
please, sit down. at last the hour had come, dawn, 6th of june, 1944. the wind was pounding as it is today and always has against these cliffs. 225 american rangers arrived by ship, jumped into the waves and stormed the beach. they could see all they could see is the outline of the shore and the enormity of these cliffs, and i d like to i know i ll get in trouble with the secret service if i go to the edge and look over, but think of those cliffs as my hostess have showed me, that s what we re standing on top of. they could hear all they could hear was the crack of bullets hitting ships, sand, rocks hitting everything. all they knew was time was of the essence. they had only 30 minutes, 30