Stormed the beaches of nazi occupied france during world war ii. and they re successful landing that day marked a major turning point that ultimately led to germany s defeat the following year. now, at years later, biden met with some of the last remaining u.s. veterans who fought on d-day. all of them are around 100-years-old now, in his remarks, the president stressed the importance of defending democracy and he warned about the threats that it s facing around the world cnn s arlette saenz is joining us now, live from the white house are lead but also the presidency and his comments law briana, president biden really sought to draw a direct connection between the brave and heroic acts of those allied forces on the beaches of normandy, just 80 years ago today, with the ongoing fight and allied support for ukraine in its war against russia. a 180 american world war ii, veterans were on hand today, made the journey to normandy
Normandy where he delivered a speech focused on the importance of alliances, drawing direct comparisons between nazi germany and the threats facing western democracies today we know the dark forces that these heroes fought against 80 years ago they never fete aggression and greed the desire to dominate and control to change borders by force these are perennial the struggle between a dictatorship and freedom is unending now, before his speech, president biden spent the morning meeting with u.s. veterans, including 101-year-old jake larson. you see him there in that picture? maybe you saw larson on our d-day special on sunday maybe, you know, him from tiktok, just follow at story time with papa jake larson stormed the beaches on d-day and he returned today. two honor the friends he lost i don t think, i was a hero i was just like anybody else. we
Uncertain, the cutlery foreign ministry spokesman actually just said that as of now, they have yet to receive an official response from hamas. jake. all right. jeremy diamond, thanks so much for joining us now to discuss from paris with hardware admiral john kirby, the white house national security communications adviser, admiral kirby, good to see. you. will get to this situation in gaza in a moment, but you are in france to mark the 80th anniversary of d-day. as a veteran what does it mean to you? to participate in these events, to meet these heroes whose numbers are sadly dwindling. and two, honore, the service members who, who, who literally gave their lives for freedom and democracy i tell you jake i got thicken the throat today. i had never had the opportunity to go to one of those anniversaries at normandy. and this was my first time. not my first time to the cemetery, but first time for an anniversary and seeing those veterans talking to them, i sat down before the ceremony. i had a chance to sit down at a table with four or five of them and
Remaining witnesses, what unfolded eight years ago, some of them american done. i have been at work just 16-years-old when they came on to these shores medical a couple of them just two days ago, which means that they lied about their ages to be able to come here and fight. and if that is an extraordinary act of courage at a time, remember, eight years ago when they were crossing the atlantic ocean to come and fight in the name of freedom for people they hadn t met at a country they d never set eyes on many of them. still very here now that is the coolest live shot. i think i ve ever seen i have chills. i m sure everybody watching has chills and also what a field trip to be a student to be able to go there and they re probably not that much younger than some of those in the military who enlisted in lied about their age that you were just talking about, who are so old now, but are coming back to pay tribute to those that they lost thank you so
It is extraordinarily scary times in the united states of america. we ll get to this in a little more detail later. even in every appearance before congress that the danger to this country has never been as loud as it is right now. it s never been this bad as what he s saying. a lot of it has to be where a lot of these illegal immigrants are common, iran and syria, tens of thousands, china and russia and egypt, afghanistan and yemen in kazakhstan. i would argue that it s inevitable now, we have terror cells that joe biden is allowed into this country in the country is going to get hit. those cops shot and the he has blood on his hand, any attack on this country i blame biden and he we ll have blood on his hands and he has failed this country needs failed in his duties as commander-in-chief and that is to secure our border and prevent