president biden joining other world leaders at this hour to mark this milestone anniversary of d-day the allied invasion of continental europe during world war ii hello, two meters, zelenskyy, the wartime president of ukraine, had this heartwarming moment and a hug with one of the americans who fought at normandy. president biden also met with a handful of the last surviving us veterans who stormed those beaches are parachuted behind enemy leinz as very young men. today, they are all around 100 100-years-old making this anniversary, especially poignant and moving as the world s pays tribute to the greatest generation the man who fought here became heroes not because they re the strongest and toughest herb or fiercest although they were but because they re given an audacious mission knowing everyone in the new, the probability of dying was real but they did it anyway they knew and beyond any doubt there are things that are worth fighting. and dying for hi, joining us now fro
with wolf blitzer in this situation now, president biden marks 80 years since the d-day invasion by warning that democracy is more at risk now than any time since world war ii. defense secretary lloyd austin is with the president and france and joins us to discuss urgent global hotspots and threats right here at all. also tonight, donald trump just return to the campaign trail for the first time as a convicted felon he is appealing to voters and a pivotal battleground state. and playing up the 34 guilty verdicts against him and former trump adviser steve bannon is lashing out after a judge ordered him to report to prison by july 1, to serve his sentence for contempt of congress ban. and now on the brink of joining a growing list of trump insiders who have been, or who are currently behind bars welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i will blitzer a year in the situation room our top story tonight, president biden honors the american heroes wh
space force station just yesterday. their names butch wilmore and sunny williams. there now just under 300 meters away from the international space station docking set to take place at 12 p.m. eastern time you re right. wolf overnight, they ran into issues with more helium leaks. we knew about one before launch two more popped up once the spacecraft was in orbit that appears they ve gotten them under control and now on this final approach to the iss, they ran into a few more little issues, some problems with some thrusters which propel the spacecraft through space. but right now, butch williams, the commander, is piloting the spacecraft manually, which means moving it totally on his own, no computers. and so we will wait and see if they are able to successfully dock with the space station. so yes, some minor issues wolf, but these types of things on a first crewed test flight, definitely to be expected. let s hope, let s hope
protects you from a lot of that honore all west work more clean this situation with wolf blitzer next, one, cnn we re going out of this world for our last leads is successful test of spacex s starship. the world s most powerful rocket blasted often texas this morning, the booster splash down as planned in the gulf of mexico, firing its engines and making the water fly after a fiery re-entered the spacecraft s splashdown down. in the indian ocean. the two crew members of boeing s starliner spacecraft. meanwhile dock with the international space station. this afternoon after engineers solve some problems with the spacecraft thrusters the astronauts will stay for about a week that will give engineers on earth time to analyze the frehse problems and the implications of several helium leaks, which the crew delta with by closing valves, then news continues. now on cnn
centimeters at a go. it s going to still be a second here. i also prefer driving during the day to driving at night, so that makes complete sense to me. we re watching every little thing with this, right? so we re watching those thrusters. this was a slight delay compared to what it was supposed to docx, but also these little helium leaks. what s going on here? yes. so we knew there was a helium leak before launch. nasa and boeing was aware of it and they said, hey, you know what we think it is within our parameters that it s still safe to fly so we knew there was going to be one. but once the spacecraft got into orbit, they found two more. last night before nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and sunny williams went to sleep they made them do all these things to kind of shut down some of these thrusters to stop the leak. and they troubleshoot it overnight and decided that they were okay and go for this docking today. so it could have been more serious but turned out not to be. and so now