we packed up our stuff. my guys were still flying one of their missions, evacuating personnel, very much to the last minute and then these aircraft were coming in for us and i was on the last stick and when we thought our fluidity was coming in for us it wasn t, we saw the bird, this is for us, it wasn t. we run on the flight line all night listening to the machine-gun fire to keep us active in what we were paying attention to but the next morning we finally got out of there. that was the first time i flew on a military cargo aircraft with arrests traveling my legs down. that was different. jillian: you had to go four additional places before you could come back home. that is correct. we were told we were going to
through when they were in these landing craft, getting shot and people getting shot in the landing craft before they could get out. the bottom is filled with vomit from people that are seasick, much less scared and trying to get off and as the rambler is down, the machine gun fire comes in and understand the sacrifice of this entire generation and individual stories i can communicate the much larger pursuit of the ideal of defending democracy, something in the political environment seems to be in jeopardy and it seems when we are talking about d-day today and the sacrifice made and we put it in the context of yesterday or the day before, discussion about the politics of what are happening today it seems we might have taken our eye off the ball a little bit. when you get down and look at these veterans that have jumped
billion this this past year alone, bret. bret: thanks. now back to the d-day remembrance. greg palkot talks with a 94-year-old man from north carolina that was there 75 years ago and is finally returning to the scene of one of the world s most historic battles. normandy honoring the 75th anniversary of d-day. 75,000 americans were involved in the invasion. u.s. paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines to clear away for the troops facing intense gun fire. one of those, 19-year-old eugene diedler from bradford. we had about ten more minutes of flight, maybe 12. anti-aircraft fire all around? yeah. the machine gun fire. so for about ten minutes, you
two supreme court nominations for the president in the senate. maybe these guys figure it s really not worth the fight. maybe they calculate you rip him back, he will rip you to shreds. it s how rex tillerson found out he lost his job and how mike pompeo jokes he will find out how he loses his. just ask jeff sessions a punching bag. a lot of these guys take the hits and hoping the machine gun fire out of the white house will find another target. usually the same response, no response. better to duck and wave than to raise a finger back. money of this should mask the president s clear victories here. that s what happens when you take all the credit and you spread all the blame.
breaking news now overseas. very intense heavy fighting in syria. that military officials say might result in the end of isis as we know it. eastern syria, near the iraqi border, a full-scale military air and ground assault on the tiny piece of real estate that isis fighters were able to claim as their own. it is now surrounded, u.s.-backed forces are hammering it and the isis members there who chose not to surrender have nowhere to escape. cnn is the only american tv network in this area, and our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is not far from those explosions and the machine gun fire. ben, it s after midnight there where you are. are you hearing anything from the front about casualties or what kind of progress these u.s.-backed rebels are making against the isis holdouts? reporter: no, we actually haven t gotten any updates on