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. lawrence: fox & friends starts right now and, remember, morning
we watched the camera that is on the pool feed here was introducing these men and they came from the oceanside towards the platform where they are sitting. and it appeared as if they were rising off the beach again. some of them in wheelchairs, but many of them walking. it is striking to me how many of them are walking. and they are roughly between 97 and 104 years old. steve, who i interviewed the other day, the 104-year-old gentleman who i just walked about. he walked up essentially from the ridge overlooking the beach sat down on that platform so proudly. american resilience. american determination. when world war ii started. we didn t have england was completely not able to ready themselves for at that point. we had will 500 rifles and 200
afghanistan alongside the u.s. do you think it s a game changer? i think it could be, yes. but i still think there s a huge wider issue to do with this ideology. what bin laden s death does is it shows first of all, if you go and deliberately target and kill large numbers of innocent people by terrorism, that will catch up with you in the end. i think it s also been important, there s an assertion of american power is not the right way to put it, but an assertion of american determination. i think that is an important message. the reason i spend most of my time in the middle east, that counts and it s important for america to always remember that. there is this reputation that america doesn t have lasting power, that we pull out. it s important from that point of view. but i think, you know, this is a larger topic. we ve just got to be very clear about this. this is at least a regional, if
afghanistan. britain has fought very hard in afghanistan alongside the u.s. do you think it s a game changer? i think it could be, yes. but i still think there s a huge wider issue to do with this ideology. what bin laden s death does is it shows first of all, if you go and deliberately target and kill large numbers of innocent people by terrorism, that will catch up with you in the end. i think it s also been important, there s an assertion of american power is not the right way to put it, but an assertion of american determination. i think that is an important message. the reason i spend most of my time in the middle east, that counts and it s important for america to always remember that. there is this reputation that america doesn t have lasting power, that we pull out. it s important from that point of view. but i think, you know, this is a larger topic. we ve just got to be very clear about this. this is at least a regional, if
narrative that there is this numt conflict, that the west is on presidenting islam, i think that goes much deeper. robert gates said bin laden s death could be a game changer in afghanistan. obviously britain has fought very hard in afghanistan alongside the u.s. and faced some very tough battles. do you think it s a game changer? i think it could be, yes. but i still think there s a huge wider issue to do with this ideology. what bin laden s death does is it shows first of all, if you go and deliberately target and kill large numbers of innocent people by terrorism, that will catch up with you in the end. that is important. i think it s also been important, there s an assertion of american power is not the right way to put it, but an assertion of american determination. i think that is an important message. the reason i spend most of my time in the middle east, that counts and it s important for america to always remember that. there is this reputation that america doesn t hav