over looking the beaches at normally somewhat 9,000 americans, 9,000 laid to rest a very poignant morning, the commemoration, the memorization of the 80th anniversary of the allied landing on the beaches of normandy president biden gave a speech filled with memories of the past, would very much, looking toward the future speaking about the need to fight against aggression around the world, very specific references to vladimir putin and the invasion of ukraine, saying that dark forces never fete. plus listened to a little bit about the president said the struggle between a dictatorship and freedom is an nd here in europe we see one stark example ukraine has been invaded by tyrant. then on domination the united states and nato and a coalition of more than 50 countries standard strong with ukraine we will not walk away because if we do ukraine will be subjugated and a lot and they re ukraine s neighbors, will be threatened all of europe will be threatened and make no mistake.
a lot to digest here and a lot both for the loftier messaging that the white house had been crafting for recent weeks, but also really tangible messaging for both allies and adversaries around the world of what s present now, biden stands for and what the world leaders standing shoulder to shoulder with him stand for as well. john kayla tausche again in enormity, where the president moments ago laying a wreath along with the first lady jill biden, kill. thank you very much. joining us right now for more on this on this de is retired army general david petraeus. of course, a former cia director and former commander of us central command general. thank you so much for being here. i want to lean on your experience and also, you re also a student of history. you re the, we ve talked about, your recent book that was have alleged conflict and how you studied military conflicts from 45 to basically 1945 to ukraine, as we re talking now, how do you reflect on the parallels that we heard