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>> reporter: exactly, i think we're going to hear more of what we have already heard from president trump on this trip. what we have heard from president trump and the other world leaders who got together at portsmouth, just across the english channel from where we are now. if you turn over there from where this speech is happening, those veterans are sitting, just to their right is the sea, the channel, is where the beaches are. came across that really really difficult time, you remember d-day was delayed by 24 hours because of the bad weather. they were able to take advantage of a little bre...

Pretty striking for people to hear on the beaches of normandy here at the american military cemetery in normandy, considering the fact, john, and alisyn the president has been critical of the nato alliance for years now since he was a candidate on the campaign trail in 2016. he's talked about how he's wanted to see nato partners contribute more of their gdp to defense spending. the common defense would be stronger. the president has defended that posture time and again, but that kind of rhetoric has rattled, you know, u.s. partners and allies over here in europe to a large extent and that cont...

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...

Moment ago what we're likely to hear as the ceremony gets underway is the importance of the alliances that were built over the course of the post war peace building process. that's what's being celebrated. when you're here at the beaches, you have an idea how the alliances were built in the end in the coordinated efforts to get troops on shore. so many countries coming together. logistically, a difficult feat to get the troops ashore. an artificial port had to be built at gold beach to allow them to get the amount of equipment they needed to sustain the troops once they were on land to carry o...

The ceremony that's about to get underway with the heads of state, and all of the beaches. i mean, they are all packed with people who have come in outfits of the day, and uniforms of the day. the veterans who have turned up. the younger generations kwhwho e come with their families, trucks like this lovingly restored to mark what went on, and most importantly, probably to keep it alive for the young to understand what went on, and how precious, how costly the piece that we have enjoyed for so long was built. >> that is such an important part. so much, the world has changed so much in the past...