but are voters listening to a message the president has said is at the heart of the 2024 election? we ll take you to normandy, and i ll talk to mitch landrieu, co-chair of the biden re-election campaign. plus, new details about the drugs and the gun at the heart of the hunter biden trial coming from his late brother s widow. it s the stuff of sensational headlines and family turmoil, but what does it mean for the legal case itself? and donald trump adding new fuel to calls for retribution against his political enemies insisting he d have, quote, every right to do it. he also said the country doesn t want it, but would that stop him. but we begin against the backdrop against the beaches of normandy, that powerful evocative symbol of the fight for freedom. today it s where president biden on the 80th anniversary commemoration of d-day warned that in his words democracy is more at risk today than at any time since world war ii. the ceremonies were a moving mix of messaging
this is a personal connection. it is one about the themes that are important. there was an extensive ovation for president zelenskyy of ukraine who is here with the other leaders. the president will meet him tomorrow. so it is both historical. it is emotional, and st in some ways very much current events. chris. thank you for that, kelly. mark updegrove is president and ceo of the lbj foundation and a presidential historian. he joins us on the phone. there is no question in the minds of surviors or historians of the significance of what happened that day, eight decades ago. there s an op-ed in the new york times that argues that in 2024 s political environment, quote, we now face the very real question of whether america will embrace a vision of a country less free and less democratic, more divided and more unequal. it would be a step back ward unlike almost anything else in american history. do you think that today and really leading up to today
chinese don t want to see him lose. they ve made an enormous investment with him. woody allen s line 80% showing up, the president showing up important, one of the best speeches of higs presidency and forcefully delivered and the only thing i d say, he can t accomplish it in a speech, joe, the proof will be in the pudding. the real question is over the next couple of years, do we demonstrate to the russians we actually have the staying power to provide the arms, to provide the economic support to ukraine and the only other sad thing about that is we re talking about years. i don t see anything in the last couple of days to suggest that this war is poised to end. i think we have to essentially prepare ourselves for a long war hopefully at a lower level of intensity, maybe not, but certainly for a long war in europe. pieces are not aligned for diplomacy here. and putin indicated any step back ward, he didn t indicate
several other states are enacting tough new restrictions. other states are seeking to expand access to abortion. this morning, we have a new look into how americans feel about abortion rights. a new npr and pbs news hour poll finds that 40% of americans support the decision to overturn roe wade while 56% are against it. a new cbs poll finds that 52% of all americans believe overturning roe versus wade is a step back ward for the united states and since the ruling came down, a number of companies have publicly said they will cover travel expenses for employees who live in states where abortion is banned or severely restricted to go elsewhere to get an abortion.
don t forget, we have got judge jackson who will be sworn in because breyer said he will step down. she stepping into really fraught atmosphere right now. it s unprecedented. we covered the court together for many years. a very different high court now than it was several years ago when we were covering it. all right. excellent reporting. thank you. president biden calls the court s ruling a tragic error and said it was a step back ward for the united states. today s supreme court of the united states expressly took away a constitutional right from the american people that it already recognized. then didn t limit it. they simply took it away with this decision the conservative majority shows how extreme it is. how far removed they are from the majority of this country. they made the united states an outliar among developed nations in the world.