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and here in new york city 80 years later. here we have the president and first lady walking through the american cemetery and laying the wreath and honoring the heroes who made history on d-day. we'll take you through the next couple of hours together on this. welcome to "america's newsroom," i'm bill hemmer, >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." a pleasure and honor to spend this time with you, viewers and you these historical moments are important. 80 years since that day. so we have the first lady and the president in normandy. the president and first lady in ...

The company of people like that who had served our country and served the world with distinction and they were ordinary people. guy from michigan who ended up living after the war in new orleans. kid from hazard, kentucky who celebrates his birthday sitting in a barn in france hoping that nazi soldiers will not discover he and his comrades. people who literally came off of landing ships into machine gunfire and have no understanding how they came out of that alive as their comrades and friends and to the left and right of them were mowed down. this is an extraordinary moment of courage. i met ...

There are questions whether the president was emotionally reacting to his own frustrations and decided he didn't want to go out in the rain. you know, the way we read this a lot of times day to day, dan, it can be sometimes hard to keep track of the magnitude of these events. but what happened in europe seemed pretty remarkable to me and it's kind of pushback against so many years of history with our allies. >> yeah, when you think about presidents who have gone to europe to commemorate moments, and i think the most famous is reagan's d-day commemoration when he talked about the boys at point ...

Detainment there, which is that they basically can do anything they want as long as they don't leave the country, that's already been set. >> while i have you here, let's change topic for a moment and get personal a little bit with you. it's d-day. and i know because of your father's service through the navy, your dad, mike wallace, legendary journalist, that you grew up with military in your background. what does this day mean to you, chris? >> well, yeah, certainly. i mean, anybody who's served in world war ii, there's a reason that tom brokaw called them the greatest generation. they were. ...