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Mark upgrove and lauren leader. good morning. doris, i want to start with you on this as you watched president johnson deliver that speech august 6, 1965, you consider the pressure he was under from a lot of people not to support and push through the vote rights act, he was going to lose some of his base, the southern vote and he said, what the hell is the presidency for. >> how i remember that day, actually. i was 22 years old. if i could have ever imagined after bloody sunday when i was listening to president johnson give the joint session of congress speech that led to the passage of voting...

Saw to the passage of the voting rights act. >> mark, let me stay with you for a second. we're see right now an assault on voting rights across the country in republican state legislatures restricting access to the ballot and there's been pressure on joe biden to defend voting rights in a similar position as lbj. biden like johnson goes to the senate, knowing how the body works. and a lot of people want biden to come out against the filibuster. how do you think president johnson would have handled this? >> he would have run over it. he was a traditionalist of the senate. biden was in the senat...

Focused on the awe-inspiring duty and accomplishment of the american soldiers who stormed these beaches. what he didn't do that other american presidents han done is transfer that in a call to american internationalism, american leadership on the world stage. all of the institutions that were built out of the ashes of world war ii have their roolts here. other presidents have made it a point to talk about the importance of nato, the importance of working together milita militarily so they doesn't happen again, and president trump didn't. >> and emmanuel macron did. >> and it fell to macon to s...

Of all of the people that those young men might have been. >> mark, when you think about this day, when you look back on the 75th commemoration at the 80th or the 85th, you'll not see as many veterans of this war as you did today. >> no. you're right, hallie. they are fast fading from this earth. and, again, as i mentioned earlier, their stories are worth preserving because of the self-sacrifice and what they represented not only for our nation but for the world. but when i think about d-day, i also think about the man who would become our 34th president, dwight eisenhower and the remarkable t...

Of our history. we've been quite fortunate. >> that is for sure. mark upgrove and karen, thank you for your time and for being on the show today. thank you. we had a couple of minutes last night to come here to this cemetery. we happen to be here at sunset and the place was almost empty. it is my first time here, like ann. and driving down the entryway i felt butterflies i didn't expect and even knowing when i do about this place, didn't expect what happened when you step to the edge of the grass. the endless rows of crosses overwhelm you. but the names, each name on them, gut you. and you l...