and say check i-phone. gaming yourselves with family and friends and how many friends your kids have. gillian: thanks for joining us today. have a great weekend. have a great weekend. bill: we start a new hour right now and start it live from the beaches of normandy, france. president biden arriving at pointe du hoc on the cliffs of normandy giving a speech. we ll share that with you. look at the stunning weather they have on france s northwest shore just really beautiful, beautiful time. welcome. brand-new hour begins here live in new york city. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer and our friend gillian is back with us today. gillian: will you keep me for the second hour? that s official. here we are. i m gillian turner. national security advisor says the president will make the case for democracy drawing a line that starts at world war ii and the cold war, nato and russia s current war with ukraine. bill: taking a page from ronald reagan in 1984 in the sam
poised to give a consequential speech on the world stage, returning to the beaches of normandy again this morning to deliver remarks on the threats against democracy and freedom at home and overseas. now, this speech coming just hours after president biden met with ukrainian president zelenskyy in paris announcing $225 million in new aid and apologizing for the political gridlock in washington that delayed that package. nbc s kelly o donnell is traveling with the president in france. also with us, david ignatius, foreign affairs columnist for the washington post, nbc news military analyst, retired colonel jack jacobs and presidential historian mark updegrove. it s great to have all of you with us. kelly, set the stage for us as we await the president. reporter: well, it is a spectacular setting. when you see how the white house has set up the president s lectern on the cliff. this is a cliff that 80 years ago american army rangers scaled that cliff using knives and pieces
everything, and giving everything. there were americans like sergeant leonard sergeant leonard lomo from new jersey. he was one of the first rangers to jump off a ship and run toward the cliff. he almost was shot right above the hip initially, and he wasn t sure but he was. he kept going. at one point he was scaling the cliff and another ranger yelled, i m not sure i can make it, and he yelled back, with every ounce of strength he had in him, you ve got to hold on, and he did and they did. americans like sergeant tom rogerio from massachusetts, a german shell hit his boat as he approached the shore. everything exploded. the sergeant was knocked into the freezing water, and as he told it, he began to utter a prayer, dear god, don t let me drown. i want to get in and do what i
and bomb craters that surround it one thought comes to mind, my god, my god, how did they do it? how were these americans willing to risk everything, dare everything, and give everything? they were americans like sergeant leonard lomo of new jersey. one of the first rangers to jump off the ship and run toward the cliff. he almost was shot right above the hip initially and wasn t sure, but he was. he kept going. at one point he was scaling the cliff another ranger yelled i m not sure i can make it. and he yelled back with every ounce of strength he had in him you have to hold on. and he did and they did. americans like a sergeant from massachusetts, german shell hit his boat as he was approaching