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When he spoke like that, he evoked in fact, not just the current tone, particularly in the united states of isolation the zoom with the donald trump wing of the republican party. but he harkened all the way back to ronald reagan in 1984, the 40th anniversary of d-day, when he himself also said that the way to peace is not to retreat across the sea and to hunker down at home isolation has never worked as a way to get ps so it was a really important moment. and of course, because we are in the first of these raging european wars on european soil since world war ii. and since that incredible d-da...

Europe from fascism here's 101-year-old jake larson speaking with cnn's christiane amanpour people keep calling me hero. >> i change that word i took deal off on my hero to there, and that people are saying, well, what here too. i says, i'm here to tell you that heroes are up there. they gave their life that gave her life so that i could make it another emotional moment today, a d-day veteran meeting ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy there's a question right, now

European soil since world war ii and since that incredible d-day of 80 years ago, and i know you were able to speak with one of the heroes, someone i know you spoke to five years ago for the 75th anniversary. >> who's started a new careers and tiktok star, which is amazing what did, what did he tell you honestly this is jake larson, 101-years-old. >> we did see him here five years ago and we made a date to meet again. i kid you not. we have been in touch making sure and hoping that he would be here and sure enough, he was and he was just phenomenal. he said a number of things, including that t...

Since the us stood up to a dictator in 1944 with the d-day landings. it's a through line that president biden and the administration is making frequently to say the us stood up to a dictator than it needs to stand up to this tape dictator. now, by the way, is it propagates, the largest war we've seen in europe since world war ii. >> yeah, jim sciutto, a lot to keep our eyes on on the next few days thank you for that question. and finally, before we go tonight, a 101-year-old veteran who stormed the beach on d-day is back in france to mark 80 years since the allied invasion. this is papa jake l...

Of day of what was happening on d-day and today, he know he was swept up like everybody here was. >> you can be a cynical and his political as you like. but when you come to normandy to that honestly hallowed ground, when you see all those crosses, when you see the cemetery's full of the people who laid down their lives to fight and die, not just for their own country, but to defend democracy and freedom all over the world. and at that time of course two to, as one of the fantasy has dig veterans said to me, 101-year-old jake larson said to kick hitler's out of europe, that is what it was abou...