these giant blasting guns that were pointing out over the english channel, and by their valor at point du hoc it allows so many americans not to get slaughtered at omaha and utah beach. i m here in simi valley. yesterday i was with peggy noonan and all the people that were part of great stage crafting by mike deeber, that incredible spot in normandy by the white crosses and the stars of david, and it s become a place to go to talk about democracy and the cost of freedom, and so i think biden connecting it to ukraine, talking about putin being the new authoritarian threat like hitler was, you know, back in world war ii was apropos. peter baker wrote about this in the new york times, i m going to quote from him. like mr. reagan, mr. biden wants to use the inspiring story of the rangers at point du hoc for the case of americans at the
veterans, from one town. but every town in america gave men like that. out of sheer patriotism and when you add up all of those small towns it gives you a glimpse of the sheer wait of the cost of freedom. for generations families field with filled and love for their country sent their own to battle in trenches, beaches, jungles and deserts. and not everyone made it back. in guatanamo bay, cuba, i served with a guy who was a real salt of the earth guy. smart, committed, and really hard-working. back home he was a police officer. service was in his blood. we both later deployed to afghanistan. we were in different units at that point and different parts of the country and that s when i got word that he had been killed in combat. it hit me like a ton of bricks. it s a feeling almost everyone who served knows.
the men and women who own the sacrifice everything for the cost of freedom. said happy fourth of july. yes, both of us having the privilege of running for president. mike: tim scott and ron desantis bumped into each other and had a conversation. fill your thoughts on the state of the race at this point. well, i think that senator tim scott clearly sees it could potentially be an opening for him or another candidate down the line, but what he s doing there in that clip in iowa is he s clearly tapping into the idea that the united states is unique and there s something special about american exceptionalism that s different than greek exceptionalism or british exceptionalism, freedom is a rare thing and best expression throughout all of human history is in the declaration of independence here in the contrivement i think that what all of us should be able to agree on here is that the thing that ties us together is that we have kind of this common task as
no payments until 2024. griff: every memorial day weekend the ussa sets a wall to honor every service member who has lost their life defending our freedom. i visited the wall yesterday and here is what some of the visitors had to say. what s your reaction, what do you think of the wall? it s overwhelming. griff: yeah? ri wouldn t be here if it wasn t for the korean war. my grandfather brought his family from the northern part of korea during the war because he thought that things were going to be different. griff: so this wall speaks to you? so much. griff: what do you want the country to know about this wall? we can t forget the cost of freedom for us no matter how much we disagree with each
just a few years ago, michael, we were talking about this. we may have been watching nato come apart. whether you credit joe biden with breathing new life into nato, or putin giving nato a new purpose, today s speech may have been one of the most important pro nato speeches we ve heard in decades. completely! and that great line, putin expected that nato would fall apart are that nato would be finland-nized but instead finland was nato-ized. it was good of new lines like that. it could almost be detail of the speech. the defensive freedom is always difficult. that harkened back to me, back to john kennedy on the first line of the cuban cuban missile site crisis in which he said, verbatim, the cost of freedom is always high, but americans have always paid it. that s what a leader does in wartime. he tells people what he has in mind, lets them know that it s going to involve sacrifice, but in the same time, very truthfully and very precisely