25 good men, and that s what we did. like i said, the second day we started picking up these people that had passed away or been shot, and we had to bury them on the beach temporarily until we got up on the bluffs. harris: wow. so some of these men were buried more than once. i knew your brother, bert, he perished in world war ii as well. so your family saw the service of two sons. we thank you very much, vito. thank you, and god bless you. thank you, ma am. thank you very much. bye-bye. harris: bye-bye. vito is in a category of americans all their own, as we know. his generation is leaving us through an unstoppable fact of life the aging process.
as a military brat, we learned this on base. i remember learning to do this as a child. this is really, really moving on this particular 75th anniversary. senator cotton, as you look forward, what can you tell us as americans in general about the importance of this generation? we are losing them now. we are losing world war ii veterans, harris. almost 400 per day, as you said. there may not be any more celebrations at normandy in the future with world war ii veterans like we saw today. i hope that s not the case. i hope many of them will continue to do return for years to come. but what we saw today at normandy, also what we are seeing right now at arlington national cemetery, as a reminder to all americans but especially those who served and those who are serving now, that our nation is grateful to them and that we will always remember their service and their sacrifice. that s with the old guard does every single day at our national cemetery. harris: i want to remind our viewers h
worried it could backfire and lead to the president being reelected and potentially democrats losing the house. harris? harris: mike emanuel, thank you very much. i want to bring in democratic commerce menorrhagia krishnamoorthi of illinois, member of the oversight committee. good to see you today. i will admit it s awkward to act about impeachment general medieval economic a choice in the given moment. i want to start off with representative kevin mccarthy and immediately get your reaction, because he chides speaker pelosi for talking about prison while she is there. watch. i hope she has a different moment. she sat on one end, we had four different ladies who worked building airplanes during world war ii, and the knee on the other side along with republicans and democrats. at that moment, we weren t about party, we are about country. i ll be take that back to washington. not wanting to put somebody in jail but put americans first. harris: congressman?
harris: this scene played out thousands of times, arlington national cemetery. a member of the group of americans now, the generation called the greatest. and we are losing them almost 400 a day, due to an unstoppable force aging. carl mann among them, we happen to be able to bring this to you live and wanted to show you. in the words of ronald reagan, on the 40th anniversary so, 35 years ago he said, these are the men, the champions who helped free a continent. these are heroes who helped end a war. president ronald reagan, june 6th, 1984. and now, 75 years later after the invasion, we are grateful for their sacrifice. and from here, on our home soil, to overseas. earlier today, president trump president trump and other world leaders gathered at the beaches of normandy to mark the 75th
greatest americans who will ever live. one of those honored, floyd wingfield. he stormed ashore here. he told us he was scared as a rabbit, but he wanted to help get rid of adolf hitler. take a listen. somebody had to do something. because old hitler needed to be brought down. he needed to be brought down. another vet honor, 95-year-old vince corsini. he landed at omaha beach. he acted briefly under fire. we asked him what he wants to be remembered as. i don t consider myself a hero. i was scared most of the time. i had to act like i was brave. were brave. it was just an act.