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
you for all you have done. [applause] you deserve that and a lot more, john. just 18 years old he deployed to this cliff to replace the surviving rangers on that d-day invasion. he would go on the fight across france and germany and in early december of 1944, during one of those battles, shrapnel pierced his skull. by christmas he was back fighting with his unit. here is what he said about the notes he kept at that time. he said knowing that my buddies and i always looked out for one another, that s why he came back. that s why he fought so hard to come back. you always look out and his buddies looked out for one another. we talk about democracy. american democracy. we often talk about the ideals of life, liberty, pursuit of
motion. that s impressive. lightning beats the rangers 3-2. and that s your first look at sports. i m mario solis. the holidays are a time for reflection. but for those who live through world war ii, the holiday season of 1944 is a particularly painful memories. american troops were involved in the battle of the bulge, fighting the determined germans and brutally cold conditions. and reporter john crowman from care 11 in minneapolis has the story of one veteran who was in the thick of it. the allied lines stretched unevenly along the frontier. reporter: it was a massive surprise offensive by the germans in december of 1944. the battle quickly changed the shape of the front lines. the battle of the bulge. it s like daylight, all kinds of flares. and everybody was wondering what was going on. reporter: the guy in the top right was an ammo loader of a
i m mario solis. the holidays are a time for reflection. but for those who live through world war ii, the holiday season of 1944 is a particularly painful memories. american troops were involved in the battle of the bulge, fighting the determined germans and brutally cold conditions. and reporter john crowman from care 11 in minneapolis has the story of one veteran who was in the thick of it. the allied lines stretched unevenly along the frontier. reporter: it was a massive surprise offensive by the germans in december of 1944. the battle quickly changed the shape of the front lines. the battle of the bulge. it s like daylight, all kinds of flares. and everybody was wondering what was going on. reporter: the guy in the top right was an ammo loader of a sherman tank. i called up to my tank commander. 11:00.