you are taking a live look at the national mall here in washington. right now just where the monume they re setting up for the president s july fourth festivities. we re learning new details this morning about what that will include. a display of tanks, military flyovers, and remarks from the president himself. in the last few minutes, president trump tweeted that military leaders are, quote, thrilled to be doing this and showing to the american people the strongest and most advanced military anywhere in the world. one source tells me the remarks from president trump won t be political but critics still worry the president s taking the focus off patriotism and putting it on partisanship. nbc peter laexd s at the white house. betsy and lauren are back with us as well. we want to set up, peter, what this is all about and why it s a
italy is entering a new political era with a political novice at the helm. giuseppe conti is now prime minister. he leads the new populist bureau skeptic government. that s unsettling for nations like france and germany whose leaders are ready to push for more eu integrags. he s set to present his cabinet next week and will face a vote of confidence then. let s bring in barbie nadeau in rome. clearly we re seeing the new leadership form, this populist anti-establishment government. what does that mean for that nation s domestic policy? well, it s an interesting day today anyway. today is the festival of the public day. we ve got military flyovers, a celebration of the unity of this country against a backdrop of
not know soldiers personally. in my part of the country we do. many of them were deployed. we ve been to some of the funerals, very sadly. i think there s a big gap between what the military does, who they are and the common citizens in america. and i think it is a good thing. i don t think it is a horrible thing. when you say the military spends money sponsoring nascar or military flyovers in dome stadiums, they do a lot to promote their brand and they do it in the name of recruitment. remember when the vietnam veterans came back and people booed? you re talking about military parades. most would say, for the troops. like to honor the troops. that s not what donald trump is talking about. he s talking about how the french do it when they bring out the tanks. it used to be the force. that s an entirely different thing. and look, france, it is interesting because france actually doesn t have a major military. they used to so they re probably doing to it harken back to a
that we don t have a strong military? yes, i think they do. let me say this, having served on the committee and having represented installations, there are a lot of people who do not know soldiers personally. in my part of the country we do. many of them have been deployed. we ve been to some of the funerals, very sadly. i think there s big gap between what the military does, who they are, and common citizens in america. i don t think it s this horrible thing. when you see how the military spends money sponsoring nascar or sponsoring military flyovers of domed stadium, they do a lot to promote their brand in the name of recruitment. do you remember when vietnam veterans came back and people booed? you re ptalking about militay parades. if you want to honor the troops. but that s not what donald trump wants to do. he s talking about when the french bring out the tanks.
both sides of this. it has turned into an us versus them. and this is something that trump has capitalized on. it is fomenting this tribalism. and i have to be honest with you, i m a huge football fan, big giants fan, i met my husband at a giant super bowl party. go giants. but when i watched the pregame this afternoon when they brought out the american flag on the field, they had a veteran sing the national anthem and a fly over, i teerd up because i m heartbroken that we re with at a point where we cannot even unified over something like sports and the american flag and paitd i patriotism. and the president of the united states is making it worse. dave. well, it s also worth raising the question about why these kinds of acts of patriotism involving military flyovers and flags that are slightly laernlg th larger thanes state of new jersey are even part of our