d-day invasion. those and courageous sacrifice that day for all of us. there you can see the president and his wife, dr. jill biden meeting with those veterans. now, most of them over 90, just a few still remain with us president biden is expected to speak soon from the beaches of normandy, france, 18 years ago today, those beaches were the scene of the largest amphibious invasion in military history. listen to franklin roosevelt praying with the nation as the de d-day mission was unfolding. almighty god some prior to ban the this de, i ve set upon the meitei-sho endeavor let s criminal to preserve our republic all religion and our civilization and set free a suffering humanity more than 70,000 american troops joined allies forces for operation overlord on june 6, 1944. 2,500 us soldiers died that day storming the beaches, 29,000 more were killed during the battle of normandy that followed the sacrifices of america s greatest generation led to the downfall of hitler s naz
story this morning, a cool, clear de, on the shores of normandy, france, and that is where we find cnn senior correspondent, melissa bell, melissa, you are in a remarkable spot if we can bring wallace up there, she is. i actually out on the waters, set the scene for us and tell us what would these men have seen on that day this case is one of those amphibious vehicles now alderman, 80 years ago today to make their way toward the beach and take those full trig steps towards what would be the liberation well, france and europe, you can see we ve got a couple of french policeman here on our duck with us. but this is the water. these are the water s just also gold beach what s the beat? shantou, which mainly british servicemen made their way. juno is down there. omaha, down there were the american
my understanding from two people who were briefed on what took place, john kelly maid clear de expected the president was going to be quite angry about this. the president for whatever reason, whether because of the political ramifications which i do think is the main one, whether it s because he touched the hot stove once before by firing james comey and what he got as a result is robert mueller and doesn t want to go through that unknown again or whether he s distracted by brett kavanaugh or all of the above. he s not been extensively focused on this in the way we ve grown accustom to him being so. he might once he gets back from the u.n. general assembly on thursday and he turns his attention to this. one reason why we also heard what jim heard which is a bunch of white house officials thought that only the president could accept this resignation, i don t know how much of that is true or how much of that is an interpretive dance-around what the law says so that none of them have to