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june 5th. the record was so bad eisenhower pushed it back a day and it's june 6th now. >> steve: eisenhower the man from my hometown kid from kansas grew up in the shadow of a green elevator. went on to lead d-day. what is interesting, and we are still waiting for things to start. just a couple of the numbers to put it into perspective. nearly 160,000 allied troops landed 80 years ago today. it is 6:38 in the east in the morning. the invasion started at 6:30 in the morning local time, 80 years ago. and there were 73,000 from the united states. 83,000 from the united kingdom and canada. and there on the shore were about 50,000 germans. in all, more than 2 million allied soldiers and sailors and pilots and medics and others were involved in operation overlord, the battle to save france from the nazis, and it
♪ >> brian: all right. here we go. it's #:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is thursday, june 6th. this is "fox & friends." today marks the 80th anniversary of d-day when american troops, joined by others, stormed the beaches of germany to defeat germany ultimately setting the stage for victory in world war ii. >> for a 19-year-old, which i was then was extremely important. i wasn't afraid. >> people a hell of a lot tougher than you guys. >> brian: president biden is in normandy right now so is martha mccallum covering the moments and events of the day. she will join us. >> steve: meanwhile back here at home president trump's short list getting shorter. vetting is ramping up those are the folks on the list so far. >> ainsley: all right. they got some information. the destruction, the destructive tornadoes hitting maryland downing a lot of trees and trapping some of the residents. janice dean is trackenning all of that.
they want to put the stakes down in ukraine. >> lawrence: so, brian, i'm sorry, ainsley, brian, to that point, what do you think the president needs to say today? because it's going to be a big speech? >> brian: is he going to ground it to ukraine. ground to the expansion of nato. >> ainsley: look at these faces. many of them are 100 years old. to your point, steve, it was 13 minutes ago that they stormed the beaches of normandy 80 years ago. and now they are older men. many of them in wheelchairs. some of them on hospice. and they were -- you know, they were facing the rest of their lives and did all of that for you, for me, and our country to end the concentration camps, to tackle the nazi-occupied france to take down hitler. >> steve: that's right. >> brian: take down mussolini. >> steve: martha mccallum live for us. when you think about the daunting task. so you had nearly 160,000 allied troops land today 80 years ago. and we have seen the movies.
see. yet need to be hidden. >> ainsley: two components operation neptune naval assault and operation overlord the broader invasion strategy. 160,000 allied troops landed on five different beaches. soared, juneau gold, we hear a lot about omaha and a lot about utah. british and american airborne forces landed inland at the time. it's hard to believe there were 160,000 allied soldiers, 73,000 died. almost half died. >> lawrence: you can't talk about this day without talking about patten and the fact that they didn't know what he was going they were following him, little did they know he had another plan. let's bring in martha mccallum, she is there live on the ground. she has been covering this for days. we don't have martha. >> steve: she will be with us in just a second.
he plays golf. he is an extraordinary lesson, i think, for all of us. but, to a person, i asked each of these men what do you think of your country today and the country that you fought so hard to keep free? they were all, to a person, said that they don't feel great about it, that they worry about the united states and they worry about the commitment of our young people to protect the country and whether or not they would answer the call that these young men did so, so willingly to go fight and to come over here. >> steve: indeed. and the average age of the average veteran in attendance today is 100. only about 200 survive. and, martha, i'm sure you saw that apparently one of the fellows who is -- who had taken an honor flight toward france for today died on friday. he had actually witnessed the raising of the flag iwo jima and sadly passed away. he was one of those guys.
>> ainsley: everyone enjoying their freedom here in the united states of america because of those men and women fighting for our country. it is the greatest generation. tom brokaw wrote that book. i remember my grandparents reading it. my grandfather's both fought in world war ii. i just wish we could pause and, you know, stop time for a second because many of them are 100 years old. they were 18, 19, 20 years old. this is the 80th anniversary. >> brian: in a way so easy then because good and bad. flat out evil. a group of people, jews being tortured. then you have nazis oppressing. and then you have a country invading. and they are looking to come to nate and destroy and the people that need to come to the rescue reluctant america after attacked in japan. we said germany we're going to go after you, too. and this was the day that germany was anticipating. and we had to have the -- we had to have the -- it had to be by surprise. >> ainsley: did you know, sorry, steve, really quickly, did you know it was originally set for
>> steve: peter, we saw some of the veterans. i know maybe one of the most famous modern movies about d-day was saving private ryan, which actually was not shot in france. it was shot in ireland. tom hanks is there today, right? >> peter: yeah. he was walking around. he sat for a couple introduce down the pathway. it was interesting. it really hammered home how veterans focused this anniversary is is he like one of the world's most famous actors. he is sitting there and people say there is tom hanks and they kind of continued along to get into a position to see the ceremony. >> ainsley: is he very involved with the military. is he one of the ambassadors with the elizabeth dole foundation she provides nurses and assistance for veterans after they come home. >> brian: thanks, peter. bring in the host of the story martha mccallum, done specials about world war ii. martha, your thoughts on the 80-year mark? >> martha: well, good morning, everybody. and it's great to be with you.
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cash to purchase drugs. during one five day period she saw hunter smoking crack every 20 minutes. she did admit she had no idea what hunter was doing when he bought that firearm since they hadn't spoken for several weeks. prosecutors drew much of this evidence from hunter's laptop. an fbi agent testified that it did not appear to be tampered with when it was out of hunter's possession for several months at a repair shop. hunter's sister-in-law, who he was also involved with, haley biden is expected to testify today. the prosecution says they may wrap up all their witnesses today. they have several on the docket still. they expect to get them quickly and then it will up to the defense to call their witnesses. back to you. >> brian: all right, rich. thanks so much. this is the key. >> steve: rich, can i just ask you a quick c question? yesterdays the testimony was so damning across the board of hunter and his past he i escapa, shenanigans. as abbe lowell been able to introduce any reasonable doubt?