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Some imagine this, some are in their late 90s and have never been able to get here from the united states, and are making this trip for the first time. i think all of that is going to be a big big big mo teef today, and -- motif today, and given the threat and strain to the alliances, it's going to be a welcome boost, a really good jab in the arm for those who believe without allies, multilateralism, without acting together, the national and international agendas cannot be fulfilled. >> the men who landed on the beaches that day. the boys i should say who landed on the beaches that day, are th...

The u.s. veterans there by name for their service that day for what they did for the world and very much to liberate france 75 years ago at this moment. president saluting there at least one of the u.s. veterans there. >> so we are waiting to hear their remarks, prepared remarks. we know a little bit about what they plan to say, but as jim acosta was pointing out, you know, president trump can sometimes go off script. there are sometimes surprises and what jim bittermann was telling us is president macron, he suspects, will take this opportunity to sneak in and highlight some of the places wit...

Macron, and it's always interesting back here to watch their interactions. they have had some up and downs and so what are we expect to go see on the world stage -- expecting to see on the world stage from your vantage point. >> reporter: they're going to make a point of stretching a few points they normally stress here, and they're going to take advantage of the situation. if i know emanuel macron, the kind of information he's privy to and the kinds of things he tends to do on these kinds of occasions, he'll probably stick something into his speech at least to make a point about the divergenc...

Preserve the peace ever since. the interesting thing today was that before president trump spoke, people were wondering whether he would do the latter. they knew he would talk about the vets and he sure did. with great respect this morning. but what he really did not do very much is talk about what the purpose was of world war ii. there were about four sentences, he talked about the alliance being unbreakable and our cherished allies but without the four sentences, not much. >> ambassador hardly, to michael's point, "the washington post" notes in its own coverage, trump campaigned in 2016 on a...

Be focussed on what europe is doing. in the past they were something of a second order issue. they were not big news. they are big news now and they are big news because people are thinking in a much more focussed way about what they want europe to be and for some, of course, they want the european union to go away. that's not going to be the result of course, so i think that's number one. there's going to be a lot of public focus and these sort of sharp issues about sovereignty versus brussels, about nationalism versus multi-lateralism, all of these things, which we see on the other side of t...