Walked. try to rouse democracy. nato, inif a size ukraine in this speech. did i not realize this but reagan, 40 years ago, really gave new attention to the importance of d-day and humanize it in a way i thought it was just understood but evidently reagan was the one who punctuated it so effective in his speech. his foreign policy 35% approval to 50%. walked away with 49 states later that year. 49-state victory for re-election. ainsley: definitely a time for our country. lawrence: i hope he uses it as an opportunity to rally our young people for service. brian: he never talks about that, ever. lawrence: important when it comes to recruitment what we are fighting for. see all the kids on the college campus they understand the value set of america. i hope he uses this as a moment to get them involved. ainsley: honor world war ii veterans. d-day ceremony beginning this morning 6:30. the french national anthem. the u.s. national anthem.
Tanks and no wonder the world wondered whether we could stand up to the forces of the nazis, the american presence really was the dominant force in peeling back the nazi occupation which went on for four years here in france. brian: you got to figure the people in their 90 s lied about their age. some lied about being 18. and they signed up and they went in. and they never talked about it. one of the major takeaways tom brokaw s book. nobody ever talk about the war they fought, the war they won. have you ever been able to discern why? lawrence: i think we lost martha. ainsley: do you think so it was because they were so proud and they didn t want to come back and maybe be boastful about winning the war? brian: or they just wanted to turn the page it was so horrific they wanted to get back to their
Fundraiser tonight. ainsley: we are a little more than a month away from the rnc. that starts on july 15th. so that means we ll probably find out who his v.p. pick will be. lawrence: right before. ainsley: coming up right before. or maybe there and fox news is reporting the presidential the vice presidential contender ares, four of them at least, have received the vetting papers. and that would be marco rubio, tim scott, doug burgum and j.d. vance. there are some others on the list that he is apparently looking at apparently. tom cotton, byron dondz and elise stefanik. lawrence: if you want to know out of this bunch shot biggest. look at the democrats and who they are attacking right now. look at the social media and some of the ads they have already released. they have done tim scott. byron donalds, they have attacked j.d. vance, and they have attacked not doug burgum but elise stefanik. they are going after marco rubio as well. they are going after all the people that they feel like could
Censure or sanction. lawrence: sponsor of terror. steve: bee just momented ago donald trump is narrowing down the veep stakes. who is still on the list that we know of? stick around. brian: covering the 80th anniversary all morning. live coverage from normandy, france continues. everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. they want that hollywood white smile. new sensodyne clinical white provides 2 shades whiter teeth and 24/7 sensitivity protection. i think it s a great product. it s going to help a lot of patients.
They want to put the stakes down in ukraine. lawrence: so, brian, i m sorry, ainsley, brian, to that point, what do you think the president needs to say today? because it s going to be a big speech? brian: is he going to ground it to ukraine. ground to the expansion of nato. ainsley: look at these faces. many of them are 100 years old. to your point, steve, it was 13 minutes ago that they stormed the beaches of normandy 80 years ago. and now they are older men. many of them in wheelchairs. some of them on hospice. and they were you know, they were facing the rest of their lives and did all of that for you, for me, and our country to end the concentration camps, to tackle the nazi-occupied france to take down hitler. steve: that s right. brian: take down mussolini. steve: martha mccallum live for us. when you think about the daunting task. so you had nearly 160,000 allied troops land today 80 years ago. and we have seen the movies.
See. yet need to be hidden. ainsley: two components operation neptune naval assault and operation overlord the broader invasion strategy. 160,000 allied troops landed on five different beaches. soared, juneau gold, we hear a lot about omaha and a lot about utah. british and american airborne forces landed inland at the time. it s hard to believe there were 160,000 allied soldiers, 73,000 died. almost half died. lawrence: you can t talk about this day without talking about patten and the fact that they didn t know what he was going they were following him, little did they know he had another plan. let s bring in martha mccallum, she is there live on the ground. she has been covering this for days. we don t have martha. steve: she will be with us in just a second.
You know, just a little nugget because it all sounds pretty damning. rich: what abbe lowell is arguing is that hunter biden s behavior in this era, this four year span, is not of question. what s of question is during that exact period in october of 2018, when he purchased that gun was he under the influence? was he a drug user at that moment? and is he he has gotten to the reasonable doubt or thinks he has gotten or pushing that reasonable doubt by saying at that moment the ex-girlfriend, i wasn t in contact with him then, i don t know what he was doing in that moment. lawrence: just grasping for straws. thanks, rich. he san addict. this entire period. he took a break when he went to go purchase a gun. brian: by the way, i still don t know why he needed the gun. the gun store clerk gordon cleveland says you saw him strike that box with an x? gordon cleveland, yes. ladies and gentlemen, i rest my case. that is basically that is it.
What it means for the threats that we face today. lawrence: so martha, i have been watching your conch, most americans when you meet one world war ii veteran you take that moment in because you don t get that opportunity much you have had the opportunity to sit with so many of them. thank you, lawrence, to a person they are so frank and straightforward about how they feel about all of this. they also are just so grateful to those that they lost, the buddies that were alongside them on the beaches and the cliffs. when they went into the head degree fighting deeper in i sat down with 14-year-old veteran.
Today. and a little later on president and first lady walk through the ceremony at normandy 9388 military are buried. lawrence: not just the 80th anniversary, this is probably going to be the last for all those men that are here today as martha mccallum talked about earlier, some of the folks that are there were actually on hospice but they wanted one more trip. steve: right. lawrence: to remember. brian: when i was over at fort liberty, fort bragg, whatever you want to call it. they were all preparing to go. they were saying they were so moved by how the people of france are more into this than even we are. they are so thankful for generations gone by and for the ones that fought there.
Security. and he didn t need anything from congress. all he has to do is shut the border. you say shut the border, sign an order, and the border will close. i did it. we had the best border, the safest border in history. lawrence: this comes as new york city are set to reach across the aisle and put an end to sanctuary city policies. this after venezuelan migrant here illegally shot and wounded two nypd officers. democratic congressman robert holden and republican congressman joe borelli join us now. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining the program. it s good to see some bipartisan action. joe, tell me why the bill now. well, we just saw this heinous crime committed by a migrant, shooting a police officer, two of them. but one of them at point blank range where he clearly wanted to kill, if not seriously harm that officer. this is part of a pattern. we know that there are patterns of crime that are related to the