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implications of that failure. where is that ethos? there are some. there are generals out there with it. not enough. especially in the shadow of afghanistan and other things we need that belief that i will stand behind my troops all the way until total victory but if not, i'm the one that's accountable for that. >> bill: prince william meeting with president macron of france. his father gave a speech in southeastern england near the embarkment point for d-day and dana and i were just talking during the commercial. an irish woman in charge of the weather forecast and her job to tell you whether or not is the sky clear and is it clear enough? she was the one who delayed it by a day. >> dana: she died this year. i read her obituary. she files her weather report like she always did. the phone starts ringing. are you sure? are you positive? sure it was foggy?
fought for france's freedom. the gratitude is very heartwarming. beautiful day today. >> bill: great to here. stick on this picture for a moment and see how this goes here. we saw president zelenskyy a moment ago and we were given the message in a not so veiled way by the american president three hours ago about the threat today in eastern europe talking about putin. putin yesterday was talking about his relationship with germany and german weapons being used in russian territory and putin said there is a price paid for that. and made you really think 24 hours prior to the message that's delivered today. >> dana: the g7 meeting is coming up this month as well. president biden will be there. a lot of decisions to make. normandy invasion was called operation overlord. 80 years ago today. we have the ceremony here.
we assault a target we move through and extract. those guys went in before the landing and they stayed on the beach clearing the obstacles. they didn't leave. over 50% of them made the ultimate sacrifice. they were killed or wounded. that would be like losing 50 percent of the seal teams right now. it's amazing their actions and proud to honor them and work with the navy seal museum and a big sponsor and we are proud to bring that. it is easy to do. go to fox nation and watch it. if you are a veteran you get it for free the first year. >> bill: what's the story? i assume gonzo -- you must have done something crazy. >> i was stationed in italy. gonzo in italian is the goofy, funny, smooth guy. >> dana: smooth guy. i would have picked you out of a lineup. thank you so much.
commitment is around ukraine. how does the president really approach the question of aggression from russia? does he think that we're in a 1938, 1939 scenario where the aggression in china and russia is something that will be continuous and that we need to address on a scale of what we stand for and who we are? you know, i'm not sure that he was definitive in terms of a call to duty that is clear especially when you look at how the ukraine aid has been very measured, they ask for something, we say no, give it to them down the road and we have this situation where we have allowed them to use weapons that range into russia around the kharkiv area. what happens if in the zelenskyy meeting i need it in three other places as well? so i think there is a lot of questions about the rhetoric versus the reality. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: one other thing.
45 brothers buried here. 33 next to each other. a father and son buried here. 80 years ago is not that long ago with folks still cracking jokes with president biden. he wants this moment and the appearances with zelenskyy over the next 24 hours to show that a lot can change in 80 years but also a lot can remain the same. it is his opinion that what's happening right now in eastern europe could become something similar to what happened in western europe 80 years ago. >> dana: we see the ceremony continuing there. we appreciate it and continue on here with our coverage. >> from a peter to a pete. pete hegseth. author of a new book war on warriors. nice to have you here. you wore the uniform, you fought
that cemetery that's in iraq and afghanistan in a day, which gives you a scope of the reverence of this moment and i hope, you know, i know we play sound in a moment what joe biden said about russia and everything. we can play that. >> dana: do that and also want to get to this other point that congressman mike waltz said of the gratitude of the french and how they are the ones doing a lot of the reenactments we're watching. president biden spoke earlier. >> president biden: we will not walk away. [applause] because if we do, ukraine will be subjugated and it will not end there. ukraine's neighbors will be threatened. all of europe will be threatened. and make no mistake, the autocrats of the world are watching closely to see what happens in ukraine. to see if we let this illegal aggression go unchecked. we cannot let that happen.
>> bill: great hearing from you. thank you. >> thank you. >> dana: as we've been talking about it you see here world leaders are getting ready for the ceremony and there, d-day, the most epic battle in history and gave us the freedom we have today. we're watching the d-day ceremony in normandy and we'll be right back. >> i always considered myself one of the lucky ones that survived because so many of us didn't. my dry eye's made me a burning, stinging, 5-times-a-day,... ...makeup smearing drops user. i want another option that's not another drop. tyrvaya. it's not another drop. it's the first and only nasal spray for dry eye. tyrvaya treats the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease fast by helping your body produce its own real tears. common side effects include sneezing, cough, and throat and nose irritation. relying only on drops? not me. my own real tears are my relief. ask your eye doctor about tyrvaya.
in the meantime those housing costs are climbing. the median monthly payment right now almost $2900. the realtors here hope the fed will cut interest rates to bring some type of relief. it's not clear that will happen. some experts say even if they did cut rates home prices may not fall because there is so much pent-up demand. it doesn't seem there is much relief in sight right now. >> bill: it will be a really interesting economic story for so many. thanks, lydia. >> dana: that's an issue and a question you would expect the presidents in the debate. we're marking the 80th anniversary of d-day. a special occasion. ronald reagan gave a beautiful speech that many remember written by peggy noonan. we have a little bit to play for you here. >> they climbed, shot back and healed their footing. soon one-by-one the rangers pulled themselves over the top and in seizing the firm land at
war ii veterans survived. today it's less than 100,000. >> absolutely. this is a generation that we've all looked up to for all of our lives. they have always been there for us. and you have seen nearly all of the generation go. aspirational history is what we call it. the people we've all looked to for so many decades. they are not gone. there are still some left. 100,000 plus left. still the precious moments to restore the legacy and pass it on. >> dana: history is the art of storytelling how we remember and learn. tell us about george. >> absolutely. george chap yeah landed on d-day. he should be there today. graves registration was his duty. caring for the bodies of the dead. from utah beach on d-day until the end of the war george and his unit handled 75,000 bodies
exactly right. you go there to honor the people who went before you. >> we had an interesting experience after we did the screening of it up here a couple of weeks ago. we went out afterwards with a number of folks helping out. a 21-year-old who sat with us and asked her what was your take from it. she was very honest and said i'm not a history buff. i don't know that much about world war ii and less about d-day. i didn't want it to end. i was learning so much historically but what it means to serve and i think the greatest thing she said was i want my friends to see it. >> dana: one of the things i read a lot of historical fiction. so much of it was written based in this period. that's another way for them to learn. was there anything the force fields that you took anything surprising or big they took away that you could share with us as before we watch the documentary? >> the most surprising thing is the actions on d-day itself. as we talked about earlier, when