Liberated on june 61944. so it s a huge, big deal. the defense of democracy, the defense of freedom. these are not just empty words anymore. it s not just a nice commemoration and a celebration of the heroes who are left standing. it is really everything at stake. if the international rules of the road that the united states really lead after the end of world war ii are to continue. i know one of the veterans that you are going to be speaking with, someone used spoke with five-years ago. tell us about so his name is jake larson, who s now over 100-years-old, about 101. he s become guess a tiktok star in the last several years. and that is because he is teaching generations who are obviously much younger to understand what happened and what he and his comrades it s did are 80 years ago. now we re hoping to have him apparently we re being told that the pentagon, the
america, my home. [ cheering and applause ] laura: i m going to cry. so beautiful. it was so beautiful seeing all of the people come out form of these villages that were liberated 80 years ago to think the 82nd airborne and the last remaining vets, the the estimated there s about 200 of them who can make it to this year s celebration. for all likelihood will be the last commemoration of this kind of for these veterans. god bless them all. laura: the answer to the call and some of them did not have to be called, they just went and they knew they would not come home and they went anyway and there was no debate about whether america was where the saving and here was worth saving. thank you for that, thank you for making me on this crown camera. that s it for tonight!
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[cheering] laura: i m going to cry on that know wo. raymond: it was so beautiful, so beautiful seeing people come out from villages that were liberated to thank the 82nd airborne and last remaining vets, they estimate 200 of them can make it to this year s celebration. in all likelihood, this will be the last big commemoration for these did sheing-day vets. god bless them all. laura: they answered the call and many knew they would not come home and they went anyway. there was not a debate whether america and europe were worth saving. thank you for that. thank you for almost making me cry. carley: today marks the 80th
Army rangers scale to overtake the german lookout positions. but he is expected to warn what would happen if the us or other countries stepped back from these alliances and what would happen to the world in those cases, we know that congress, in the case of nato, has provided i had some safeguards, some guardrails that would prohibit a future president from withdrawing from nato unilaterally. but that is not to stop a future president from say making nato dormant or a slowing some of the exercises are reducing the troop footprint across europe. so president biden is going to talk at a very high level about the importance of the he s alliances and how important they will be for the future. go amazon ward kayla tausche also at normandy. again, you re looking at live picture from the stage. you see the defense secretary lloyd austin, sitting on the right-hand side of it right there aligned behind him are many of the remaining veterans of that day, some 80 years ago, it is worth noting president biden, will almost definitely definitely the last us
Happening today as we are here for these veterans and veterans getting a medal bestowed upon him by the french president. there what they knew and know and understood about fighting nationalism there s a sense that across the generations since it is being lost, that the outcome of not fighting nationalism, of not taking on that threat is being lost as we see at research and europe and other places let s christian, let me bring you in and just bring our viewers as well as what we re watching in this moment, you see the french president awarding veterans that nation s highest honore and just look at the strengths still of these veterans standing to receive these awards is much deserved. awards. they re on stage with the leaders christiane remarkable what the signs president is doing is calling each one by name and saying to
It s quite remarkable and and i pray that nato is going to continue to hold together over the course of time. it needs to be able to hold itself together spider, thanks so much. you can see live pictures there. the french president emmanuel macron and president buying. they have now arrived on this stage, the commemoration of the 80th anniversary the allied landings in normandy, d-day. let s listen for a moment
And the stakes are massively high as everybody knows, and everybody will be referring to today. chris can stick with us is we re looking continue to watch his life pictures in france. we also just saw the us secretary defense lloyd austin take to the stage will be hearing from him as well. kayla, let me bring in on this christiane was talking about that president biden will be speaking commemorating this day and also, we ll be offering a message to folks at home back at home as well. what is that message? well he s going to be highlighting common themes for the president, kate service, sacrifice, and the importance of learning from history, which in president biden s words, it can repeat itself we expect them to talk about the mission. the mission on d-day mattered. the mission was a noble one and the mission send that allied countries are fighting around the world right now is also a noble one at home though this