greatest generation, with a tribute to the men who turned the tide and saved democracy. >> we have a special obligation. we cannot let what happened here be lost in the silence of the years to come. we must remember it, must honor it and live it. and we must remember the fact that they were heroes here that day. it does not absolve us from what we have to do today. those remarks taking a deeper significance ahead of biden's meeting with zelenskyy later today, there for the d-day ceremonies as the war in ukraine wages on. the president's son in court, hearing testimony in his federal gun trial. on the stand today, his brother's widow, with whom hunter had a romantic relationship after beau died. hallie testifying about hunter's addiction to crack. donald trump returning to the campaign trail in arizona, almost a week after he gets critical pre-trial rulings, both florida classified documents and the georgia election interference cases. ♪♪ good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. today, the world remembers the brave sacrifice and valor of the veterans of d-day 80 years ago as war rages in europe. eight decades ago, american troops stormed the beaches of normandy side by side with our british and canadian allies in a show of strength and determination against the nazis. 2,400 americans died that first day. the allied toll throughout the battle reaching 73,000. more than 150,000 were left wounded. 200 surviving veterans made the pilgrimage today, with their shrinking each day, our nation is losing a vital connection to the greatest generation. standing among the graves on the battlefield above the wind-swept beaches this morning, president biden and the first lady at the cemetery honoring the fallen. surrounded by world leaders, the president acknowledged the commitment to mutual defense that grew out of world war ii is being tested in ukraine. >> here on the coast of normandy, the battle between freedom and tyranny would be joined here on that june morning. isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and is not the answer today. [ applause ] the struggle between a dictatorship and freedom, it's unending. here in europe we see one stark example. ukraine has been invaded by a tyrant. a coalition of more than 50 countries standing strong with ukraine. we will not walk away. we defend democracy. we stand together. my answer is, yes, and only can be yes. >> we begin on the hallowed ground at the american cemetery with nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander. the president meeting with two dozen of the remaining veterans. it was a moving ceremony. many of them standing from their wheelchairs to greet him and president macron. standing for freedom eight decades ago as they manage to stand today. tell us about them. >> reporter: andrea, it's striking as you look out at the american cemetery here at normandy here. barely a cloud in the sky. it was 80 years ago this day that from these same skies bullets were raining down on the american troops as they arrived here. 9,388 american service members are buried in this cemetery. so many of them who laid down their lives on that day, d-day, eight decades ago now. these were powerful tributes over the course of the day. that much more powerful because it may be the last reunion for many of these men. young men when they served. now we in the a series of them. they are celebrated by their family members and by the allied nations participating in today's ceremony. the president having played part of his clip there, you saw some of his remarks. really did have a leer message throughout. not just thanking those for their service and sacrifice but noting that democracy is fragile at this time in the united states and frankly freedom is fragile around the world. the president speaking before so many of those veterans who were draped with blankets behind him, now in wheelchairs. these were incredibly powerful moments for a new generation as well, for whom many of these moments only play out in black and white. to these men who witnessed it in real time, they wanted to make sure those stories are shared. the historian communicated, this is what has become a powerful ritual, american ritual, had is -- which is to retell the stories. all the more reason not to forget them in the eyes of the president is because the threat exists again today in his view as the ukrainians are spending a different dictator, this time vladimir putin. president biden set to meet with zelenskyy during his visit in normandy. president biden will head to an area on the north of the country, on particular because it's a huge, steep cliff. those american army rangers arrived in 1944 facing that cliff that they scaled before attacking and overtaking the german bunkers, what was the first of many steps to reclaim this continent from the nazis. >> peter, that's where the president will give another speech tomorrow. i know you are going to be there as well. stay with us. here in d.c. is retired four star general, general barry mccaffrey. so many thoughts. peter talked about that area. i was there when reagan gave a speech. who are those boys? who are those men who climbed the cliffs? i'm paraphrasing. it was tom brokaw and john chancellor. as a young correspondent cover ing ronald reagan, it was extraordinary. five years ago, walking on the omaha beach with my colleagues and realizing the germans were there. >> we have to take into account they had been at war five or six years. they were the best army on the face on the earth. here you have -- the normandy landings were 2 million people. >> stunning. >> army, navy, coast guard, you name it. they were all involved in it. it wasn't just 150,000 people that crossed the beach on 6 june. it was the fight to clear normandy and make sure we had a foothold. that was 73,000 killed and 153,000 wounded. there had been nothing like it in history. the complexity, the risk of this operation. >> when you think about general eisenhower, he had written the letter of apology should it have failed. taking all of the responsibility on his own shoulders. >> yeah. it was such an important moment in history. what would have happened if we had been repulsed at the beachhead, if the germans had been able to focus on the soviets who had done the preponderance of the fighting and knocked them out of the war? a lot was at stake. eisenhower, a man of tremendous good judgment and experience, he was able to hold this allied operation together. at the end of the day, he was in charge. it was his responsibility. >> peter baker is joining us from paris where the president will go next after the ceremonies today. peter, this trip for the president, to give the speech tomorrow and with his predecessors -- people at the white house know what the challenge is. he is trying to give a message as he did today about the challenge of preserving democracy and the threat of isolationism. >> yeah, that's exactly right. every president who followed reagan at every d-day celebration has had to try to live up the iconic speech that he gave in 1984. none of them as successfully as reagan. president biden and his team knows the challenge in taking on that site on this particular day. he wants to associate himself with reagan's legacy of american leadership on the international stage. the talk about isolationism sounds almost word for word like a line president reagan used in that speech. president reagan talked about the threat of russian aggression back in 1984. he mentioned the soviet armies that came at the end of world war ii and stayed unwanted, unyielding, his phrase that he used. i think president biden wants to, 40 years later, make the case that he is the real inheriter of international leadership and not implicitly his rival donald trump who said that russia can do whatever it wants to attack nato allies if they haven't spent enough money on their own military. >> peter, you and your colleague in "the new york times" recently wrote many of the leaders who were with president biden, who are with him in normandy, are united with him on ukraine, united on the defense of europe, but they have split off from him for his full embrace of netanyahu and the way the war is going in gaza. >> yeah, that's right. it's an odd situation for the president. his first trip to europe since the october 7th hamas attack. he is rallying the allies in terms of the ukraine war against russia, even as he is defying them on gaza and israel. most european nations have taken a more jaundiced view. several have recognized an independent palestinian state. many support the court to attempt to issue arrest warrants to netanyahu and order the israelis to stop the operation in rafah. they are on different pages. he is still part of the crowd. he is the leader of the crowd. even though he is not on the same page, he is doing everything he can to end that war. >> peter alexander, the president's got a heavy schedule in paris as well. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. this is at the end of his visit here to normandy. he will be where ronald reagan immortalized the boys as you were talking about. the president will begin his state visit in paris alongside macron. this is a critical visit ahead of his visit to italy next week for the g7 as well when he returns to europe for that. there's some real divisions between the u.s. and some of its allies right now as it relates to the situation between israel and hamas in gaza. there's unity as it relates to ukraine. i'm struck by another fly by in the distance, red, white, and blue, not just the flag, the u.s. colors, but the colors of the french flag as well. all of that the backdrop to what -- these are some of the most powerful days. i have fond memories of being here the first time ten years ago alongside tom brokaw who introduced the greatest generation to so many americans who didn't know it. the veterans here did. i hope at the end of the day, what some americans take home from this visit is the focus on patriotism over party and the strength of america when it's united as one. >> being there with tom ten years ago, who is just a hero to so many of the veterans for really bringing, as tom hanks has done, with "save g prie vat ing private ryeryan," bringing it into better focus. thank you all so much. we have more on the events later in the show. the victims of war, another war. dozens killed in a new strike at a school in gaza. a u.n. school. bringing the civilian death toll back into focus with neither side fully committing to a current cease-fire proposal. that's next. we will be right back. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." we will be back in 90 seconds. this is msnbc. blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. sup? 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the drug question is, are you a user or addict? hunter says when he said no, that was not a false statement, because that's not how he thought of himself at that time. >> paul butler, they are racing through this case. if the prosecution may well be resting -- thank you so much. thank you, sarah fitzpatrick. we just learned steve bannon has been ordered to report to prison on july 1st. ryan reilly joins us now. bring us up to date. >> reporter: yeah. moments ago, the judge ordered that steve bannon report to prison by july 1st. this comes nearly two years after the trial in which bannon was convicted for defying the january 6 committee's subpoena for documents and testimony in connection with his actions after donald trump lost the election in 2020. the judge believed there was no longer the original basis for the stay of the imposition of steve bannon's sentence that he originally came up with over a year and a half ago, back in the fall of 2022, when he sentenced steve bannon to four months in federal prison. because this worked up to the appeals court, steve bannon's team wants the full panel to -- the full appellate court to hear the questions. a three-judge panel came back and denied his appeal. bannon could appeal this order that he report to prison by july 1st. given what we saw previously from the panel, it's a question of whether or not there's much of a chance of that. what we could see is ultimately steve bannon reporting to prison very soon, even as he continues to raise these issues on appeal of this case. there's already a former donald trump white house advisor serving his four-month sentence in connection with his defiance of the january 6 committee. >> how unusual is it -- paul butler is with us. you are the law professor and former prosecutor. how unusual is it that he would be incarcerated still pending the appeal? >> he has filed his appeal. the court of appeals decided the case. it sustained the prosecution. what he is asking for now is another review. he is saying the three judges who -- on the appeals court, that wasn't good enough. he wants the entire d.c. court of appeals to review it. that doesn't happen for most defendants. the judge could have sentenced mr. bannon to prison and sent him to jail the day that he was convicted. the judge allowed him to remain free pending the appeal. the appeal has been decided. the judge said, it's time for mr. bannon to report to prison the same way that any other defendant convicted of a crime who has exhausted his appeals would be required to do. >> paul butler, thank you. ryan, thanks so much for the breaking news. back to the world stage. president biden withmarking the point in the fight against fascism. warning the threat of tyranny is still with us today. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. amic charting and a futures ladder that lets you place, flatten, or reverse orders so you won't miss an opportunity. e*trade from morgan stanley i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein! those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. -ugh. -here, i'll take that. woo hoo! ensure max protein, 30 grams protein, 1 gram sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals. and a new fiber blend with a prebiotic. 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has invested in our alliances and forged new ones out of our own self-interest as well. america's unique ability to bring countries together is an undeniable source of our strength and our power. isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and is not the answer today. >> joining us now is democratic senator chris coons of delaware, a member of the foreign relations committee. joining us from wilmington, i believe. senator, overnight israeli strikes -- air strikes killed dozens of people at a u.n. school and shelter in gaza. in a new interview with lester holt in normandy, lloyd austin addressed the attacks that have put civilians in harm's way. >> there are things -- there are ways to ensure we are protecting the civilian population and moving the civilian population out of harm's way. there are ways to be more precise in terms of achieving one's objectives. i don't think the two are mutually exclusive. you can accomplish your objectives and still protect the civilian population. protecting the civilian population is a strategic imperative. >> what can the u.s. do, senator, to try to protect civilians from these attacks? the casualty figures are just horrendous, as the massacre was and hamas started the war. but right now, that's implicit criticism from the secretary of defense of the tactics israel is using. >> andrea, president biden, secretary blinken, his senior team keep leaning into exactly the most important thing we could be doing to reduce civilian casualties, which is to bring an end to this war in gaza, to secure a release of the hostages who have been held beneath gaza by hamas for more than 242 days, to bring an end to the fighting, a cease-fire and a path forward that secures israel's future and improves the entire region by making possible saudi recognition of israel and some path forward for palestinian self-governance. that's the focus of our president and many of his senior team. i agree with secretary austin's criticism that as the idf continues to carry out operations against hamas in gaza, they need to do so with more precision, with more care and to be mindful of the global consequences of the civilian losses. yes, hamas bears responsibility for having started this war, for having carried out brutal attacks and continuing to hold hostages and use civilians as a barrier to the idf's actions in gaza. but israel increasingly is baring the cost in the reputation regionally and globally. >> in another war, of course, ukraine, officials in kyiv are privately increasingly frustrated that the u.s. has only recently granted them the ability to fire back at russian artillery, hammering them on the other side of the border in the kharkiv area, and that their ability to fire back across the border is limited to that area around kharkiv or perhaps some others, it's not more generalized. especially given that unconscionable delay -- my words -- for months when they didn't get the weapons they needed from us. should we give them more leeway in the way they can strike back when russia is amassed at the border firing at them? >> andrea, let's be clear about what caused that unconscionable delay in congress. it was the voices, mostly -- almost exclusively in the republican party, mostly in the house, that are arguing for isolationism, that were refusing to move ahead with funding ukraine and ukraine's ongoing brave fight against russia. yes, we should be giving them leeway to strike back, particularly when russia is using the fact that they can hit targets within ukraine like kharkiv, from just a few miles inside russia. i believe our president has given that approval. i think 300 kilometer range atacms have been delivered and used recently in attacking crimea. ukrainian territory occupied by russia but from which a lot of logistics and support and resupply is happening. president biden gave a powerful and important speech today where he reminded us that 80 years ago there were voices in congress that said we shouldn't go to war in europe, that cautioned and that counseled isolationism. those voices are back today. when our former president and some republican leaders work hard to slow or prevent our funding ukraine in their work to defend freedom on the eastern edge of europe, it calls back to the time 80 years ago when we needed to pull together in congress, we needed to pull together with our allies and partners and secure freedom for europe and the world. >> i want to ask you about another part of the world, asia. you were part of the bipartisan congressional delegation that travelled to taiwan. beijing was not happy about that. there was a lot of military exercises at the time. how concerned are you about china's threats to taiwan? >> very concerned. i think many members of congress are as well. it was important that there was a bipartisan delegation from the senate and from the house that went to taiwan to meet with their new president just after his inauguration, meet with a wide range of leaders and talk about our commitment to preventing a violent or forceful assault on taiwan by the prc. we also went to the singapore dialogue, a meeting throughout the indo-pacific, detailing how the biden administration has made progress at strengthening and broadening our network of alliances in the indo-pacific. as president biden said earlier today, our security is provided through our partnerships and our alliances. we don't have allies out of charity or some sense of a selfless interest in the world. it is our benefit, our prosperity, our security, the stability of the world has been secured by nato in europe and by a network of alliances in the indo-pacific. president biden appreciates and respects that. frankly, one of the most concerning parts of former president trump's legacy was the way he weakened our alliances from his first days in office. >> senator coons, we will have to leave it there. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. >> you can see more of 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his conviction on 34 felony charges last week, holding a town hall meeting tonight in phoenix. vaughn hillyard is there for us. it's your home state. you know it well. what's at stake for him as he hits the trail today? >> reporter: back on the campaign trail for the first time since the guilty conviction. he is attending an event that's hosted by turning point usa, which is that right wing organization led by right wing provocateur charlie kirk. this is going to be an afternoon event in this we expect a couple hundred folks in attendance. for donald trump, he has talked about the idea of potential retribution if you were to get back into the white house. we are less than five months from the election now. for donald trump, i want to let you hear a little bit of him last night when posed the question about how he would potentially seek revenge if he were to return to the oval office. take a listen. >> people are claiming you want retribution. people are claiming you want what has happened to you done to democrats. would you do that ever? >> look, what's happened to me has never happened in this country before. it has to stop. >> i want to hear that again. it has to stop. >> it does have to stop. based on what they have done, i would have every right to go after them. >> reporter: this was just after the night prior in another interview with a right wing outlet he talked about bill and hillary clinton, it's possible it's going to have to happen to them, meaning for them having to be imprisoned. of course, donald trump is not only just looking at himself but he has been frequently mentioning other individuals like his former chief strategist steve bannon who is set to serve prison time for the next four months following this decision from the court in d.c. >> vaughn hillyard has it all covered. thank you. with judge cannon essentially rewriting the court schedule in donald trump's classified documents case and a georgia appeals court pausing the federal election case there against him, the former president is getting what he wants in the way of delays. it all but guarantees neither case will go to trial before november's election. joining us now, andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and seensenior prosecutn the mueller and barbara mcquade. one of the unusual things that judge cannon has done is schedule a hearing on a much litigate and often decided and supported special prosecutor law. she's challenging -- the defense is challenging that jack smith has no right to be prosecuting, and she's not only scheduling a hearing, but she's inviting not just the defense and the prosecution there, but she's scheduling it with outside litigants as though it's an appeals court. explain what is going on there. >> sure. there's the substance, there's the timing and there's the process. i would say with respect to the process, this issue where she has allowed it to be heard, if that was the only thing that she has done wrong, it would be certainly unusual and unconventional, but not shocking. it would be a display of the fact that she's so new and is not really in full control of this case and moving it along. that's sort of one piece. the timing of it is extremely unusual in that she has this huge backlog of motions that she has not decided. and she's getting to them sort of one eventually and then another eventually, as you have noted. this is one of the many cases now that where the time delay is leading to the so-called justice delay is justice denied. the public's right to a speedy trial is being denied. on the merits, it's an issue we connection with the mueller appointment as special counsel. and republican appointed judges and democratic appointed judges all found this law is constitutional, for extremely good reason. these are internal rules of department of justice. daphne friedrich, an extremely good judge appointed by donald trump found the same thing, that this was constitutional. sort of a respectfully -- judge cannon to her decision as to why this is really a no-brainer that should have been decided months ago. >> and barbara, let's talk about georgia, the court of appeals now is going to hear donald trump's bid to disqualify d.a. fani willis from the case in october, which confirms there is not going to be a trial, basically reviewing what had already been done at the district level or the state level, but the presiding judge, which was to punish her by removing her colleague and with whom she had a romantic relationship, so ordering that she could stay and he would leave. but now reviewing that whole decision. >> yeah, this really strikes me as an absurd side show. certainly fani willis engaged in poor judgment when she engaged in a romantic relationship with a subordinate. that could be an ethical issue that could cause her problems with disciplinary authorities. that's a management problem within her office. what it is not is a conflict of interest as to the defendants. judge mcafee immediate that finding. the theory is because they were traveling together, they were comingling funds, and so by paying nathan wade for his work on this case it was somehow to the benefit of fani willis. the judge heard all of that testimony and found there was no conflict, she wasn't bringing this case just so she could profit financially from it and made those factual findings. the idea that the case must stop so that the court can review that is really, i think, a miscarriage of justice. there is no conflict between fani willis and the defendants. there is nothing about her relationship that suggests that the defendants are more or likely guilty or not guilty. it's not a conflict of interest. it's actually an alignment of interest, when she is having a relationship with someone on her own side of the v in a legal matter. and so i think that this is -- i don't want to speculate as to the motives behind it, but strikes me as a profoundly wrong way to be handling this case. >> andrew, just on a larger point to donald trump's argument, he and his allies saying there's a two-tiered system of justice. these delays certainly show that he's getting his day in court in terms of delays. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, hunter biden is on trial. he has not had his cases, either of them delayed. there's been an enormous amount of delay. also, if you think about what you started with with vaughn, you know, those kinds of statements are something that the judge in new york who has a sentencing coming up on july 11th can consider if the defendant is out talking about retribution against the judge or the d.a. and fundamental disrespect for law. all of that is somewhere where he's really playing with fire. >> barbara mcquade, andrew weissmann, thanks to both of you. and back to normandy in a moment, some final thoughts about this historic day. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. mitchell reports" on msnbc. can't filter out the real you. so go ahead, live unfiltered 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