for bret baier tonight. dramatic testimony in the hunter biden federal gun crimes trial today about the level of drug addiction that ensnared the president s son prior to his recovery. and this, the attorney general has a contentious hearing up on capitol hill over allegations he has weaponize the justice department. tonight, we also talk to the father of an american held hostage for 8 months now by hamas terrorists. but, first, breaking tonight, president biden facing intense pressures now signed an executive order tamping down on the move could partially shut down asylum processing southern border. new policy comes less than five months after the president said he had already done everything he possibly could about the border crisis. tonight, we ll show you another example of just how wide open certain sectors of the southern border remain as hundreds cross into the u.s. overnight without any resistance. we ve got fox team conch. bill melugin is in southern california wit
during the d-day invasion and thought to be missing in actiont year. tonight, we take a look at their stories and honor their sacrifice. [explosion] bret: nearly 73,000 u.s. troops landed in normandy on june 6th, 1944, more than 2500 were killed or were missing in action. [gunfire. bret: defense prisoner of war missing in action accounting agency has since identified seven of those missing soldiers. three were named in the last year. bret: are there still others yet to be identified. hundreds. the case of those three soldiers they were part of a landing craft on june 6th. bret: army corporal julius wolf. army sergeant john herrick and army hart wick were all part of the 149th engineer battalion on d-day. they boarded the same landing aircraft headed for omaha beach. the soldiers would never make it to battle. the vessel struck a mine as it was hit by artillery fire.
my name is thomas m. rice. i was a member of the 101st airborne division. we jumped into normandy on june 6th. the 75th anniversary, we re jumping in normandy, and hopefully go back and do it over again. for the most part, i ve been strengthening up all the muscles in my body wherever i possibly can, going twice a week to a gymnasium. how has the city changed over the years? we left it in shambles. amazing to be back here. things are pretty much the same right in here.
i do i do. yeah, i do that very, very well. the commander who sent those allied soldiers into the beaches and later became president was reluctant to celebrate his own accomplishments. dwight eisenhower issued a brief 300 word statement reflecting the mood of the time saying if some of the people who were comrades in arms have been kept apart from us that is cause for profound regret but not for despair. on d-day s 20th anniversary, president lyndon johnson pledged not to leave the country after his first year in office. it wasn t until 1984 that ronald reagan became the first president to travel to normandy on june 6th marking the 40th anniversary. it was an emotional speech when the surviving members of an army