history. i think of all of those prior pilots with their feet on the same peddles flying aircraft. humbling experience. todd: plane i m going to be, in what s it like flying that thing. it s mind-blowing every time. very sentimental. we are flying airplane a lead airplane second wave on d-day. rocket barges, paratroopers riding into the defenses. todd: how excited should i be about what we re going to do. this is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity. every plane you will ever fly on has a design component that came out of the douglas c-3 era. todd: this actual plane, the one we are in right now, was the first plane in the second wave at normandy, it s blowing my mind right now. you is can see this i original fuselage of the plane. the navigator is using an ipad. obviously they didn t have ipad in the 40s.
library and then meets the pope. i think that regardless of what your religious belief is, when you meet someone who is the leader of a faith and the pope does have an aura about him, it can be overwhelming to some degree. that s what we talked about. no matter muslim, jewish, christian, whatever you are, meeting the pope and visiting the vatican. a humbling experience. interesting to seehat president trump walks away from there, if it changes anything on his tweets. what we don t mention often, how the pope also likes tweeting. but here s the difference. the pope does not tweet. as he said, somebody tweets for him. he will write down what he wants tweeted, but he does not get up in the morning i m really sorry, but no. anne thompson, thanks for that. following the latest
wow. the kings won the cup last friday night, defeating the new york rangers and ending their series in game five. it is l.a. s second cup in three seasons. good for them. the big margarita looked good. humbling experience for the new york city mayor there. probably had to take a drink out of that. pretty funny. pretty funny. we are missing our world news now cups. by the way, i m kind of wondering if john muller exited with them last week. have to give him a call. we ll see. tune in. we want to pour something in the cups. coming up, the skinny, the hollywood superstar hiring a member of president obama s family. that s right. but first team usa s spell-binding win at the world cup. the players who took a beating and the guy who became an instant soccer star. you re watching world news now. announcer: world news now weather brought to you by bounce bursts.
we love it! wow. the kings won the cup last friday night, defeating the new york rangers and ending their series in game five. it is l.a. s second cup in three seasons. good for them. the big margarita looked good. humbling experience for the new york city mayor there. probably had to take a drink out of that. pretty funny. pretty funny. we are missing our world news now cups. by the way, i m kind of wondering if john muller exited with them last week. have to give him a call. we ll see. tune in. we want to pour something in the cups. coming up, the skinny, the hollywood superstar hiring a member of president obama s family. that s right. but first team usa s spell-binding win at the world cup. the players who took a beating and the guy who became an instant soccer star. you re watching world news now. oe announcer: world news now weather brought to you by bounce bursts.
welcome back to morning joe. mark halperin and jon meacham still with us. joining the table the president and ceo of the aspen institute, walter isaacson. in washington the host of msnbc s hardball chris matthews. and in normandy, france, mike barnicle, nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director be and host of the daily rundown, chuck todd. also with us pulitzer prize winning author rick atkinson out with a new book the guns at last light. we ll start with you, mike barnicle, and take us through the story tellers there as we look back in time. thank you, mika. this remains, as we spoke earlier, just a staggering experience, a humbling experience to be here. rick, you ve covered in great reportorial depth the entire scope of world war ii and yet here, this beach, this coastline, from utah but especially omaha beach, but