welcome to the whole story. >> i'm anderson cooper on june 6 and 44, american canadian, british, and other allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in history. nearly 160,000 troops landed along five beaches in normandy, france. on what became known as d-day. it was a turning point in the war in europe, world war ii was fought against fascist regimes and germany and italy and imperial japan and the victory of democratic principles was hard. one, but 80 years have passed since d-day. and we thought it a good time to take a look at the state of our democracy today. over the next hour, cnn's jake tapper looks back at d-day sacrifices. so many young men made on those beaches in normandy that day. and what it means to us now what were we fighting for? >> we were locked in a battle with fascism. we're fighting for our freedom, for the freedom to think as we wish talked with they gave their life to preserve and protect that institutional. they died for our democracy. that wasn't the thing they were thinking about when they ran out of the landing craft, whatever. but at the end of the day, that's what they were protecting. >> we're trying to save democracy because of what crazy held or 80 years ago, thursday on june 6, 1944 five years after adolf hitler and the nazis began their global conquest and slaughter of millions of innocence. the us united kingdom and canada launched operation overlord the largest seaborne invasion ever. the allies goal to free france defeat germany, and restore democracy to europe they, they were supposed to be june 5, storm came in postpone for a day jake larson is 101-years-old on de day. he was 21 from rural minnesota and an aide to a colonel who helped plan the attack i was an expert typist every person that landed on omaha beach on d-day came true these fingers i type their name one hour after midnight, about 23,000 british and american paratroopers began and dropping behind enemy lines. >> and their mission was to secure causeways and enable the amphibious invasion, secure key terrain over the next few hours before dawn, about 133,000 troops crossed the english channel their destination right into the line of fire of germany's heavily fortified so-called atlantic wall on francis normandy coast the brits led the attacks. it's soared in gold beaches. the canadians and brett's headed to juno beach the americans were to take utah and omaha among them, 19-year-old army corporal george states from beacon, new york three other shifts across at the same time. >> all the sudden rochelle started coming we heard this big crash. blue the second shift, right out of the water got hit by a shell we said what about those guys? that's what we could do the cold water are so cool hyperthermia was said and kill them 15 minutes. they're probably all gone, blown up already so that was welcome to the european theater. we have frayed halfway into the beach. we started seeing bondage everywhere that floating or semi floating navy man tally fletcher was a 19-year-old gunners made from baton rouge, louisiana. >> his task escort the lcis, the landing crafts, ferrying infantry fighters such as corporal states to shore well, there's that we're going to take in to water up to your knees and they dropped the front of the lci now the answer it says a go nobody booths that's a yells go nobody moves this is all right. >> billy kotb, 50 guy ring back on the 50 gallon river shiga he says, we're very give them 30 seconds. the start shooting from back to front. i've going to back. you know what i'm doing push a first step up to our knees is right here right up for our shoulders. >> the next day we hear get those rifles up in the air. we can always get new mega, we can get new rifles omaha beach was 300 yards of flat terrain protected with razor wire and land mines. >> beyond that deadly terrain a cliff. and from that high ground highly trained german machine gunners roughly 2,500 american men died that day. on the beaches of normandy the idea of landing, were there are german machine guns and cannons firing at you from above and their four to five right? the only way that plan makes sense is if you think you're an american commander and you say well, we're just going to put so many americans on the ground that they can't kill us. all right. >> but that's terrifying it is terrifying, but that's war takes putting a young person with a gun out in front and, relying on that person to keep going regardless of what he faces if he goes down, the guy right behind him takes over and the next guy and the next guy and that's how we win fall in just a little berm sandstone berm, the poor protected me from the fire. i'm land now re-share my pocket and i pull all this package of cigarettes and i sensed someone to my left. so i said hey buddy, have been gathered match. i got no answer so i turned and i was i helmet then there was no head on the body was that exact moment? it was just like the sole of that soldier or was talking to me and said right now, get up and run and i did it was crazy. i made it without being shot there were so many dead gis that the gabe along later with a bulldozer darker crabs are about 200 feet long or baby 20 feet wide, ten feet deep and they push the american bodies and it's a whole that it covered up coercion the bodies are in a body bag and everybody had a dog cag utah as best as i could tell was hardly any trouble compared to homo have 19-year-old staff sergeant george mullins of eastern kentucky was on utah beach the second night. >> doesn't combat it's true dark from resale the next mortar found 43 boys wounded and dead has alcohol shock came it took weeks for the allied powers to win the battle of normandy 73,000 allied service members were killed the sizes scale of d-day is enormous this a great quote that they fought together as brothers in arms and they died together. and now they sleep side-by-side. and to them we have a solemn obligation is every one of us into those that have sacrifice. we have a solemn obligation to continue this experiment. liberty not expected tournament continues, but it is more vulnerable today than in years past. in his 1941 state of the union address, president franklin roosevelt discussed a world founded upon four essential human freedoms freedom, obs, speech, and expression. freedom of every person to worship freedom from want. >> radium, from fear that is no vegan how about this millennium it is a definite basis for applying the world at panel. then our own time and generation. >> and yet 103 of the 167 major countries in the world, 62% of them have become less democratic. in the last generation decline has a lot of sources. >> i tend to think it's almost as if we are living through an era of incredible change. so economic change rafiq, change, informational change, and people react against change by wanting things to become simpler. >> the idea of a unified government, the idea that even if a dictator becomes appealing and so 80 years after d-day, a day when we honor allied forces who fought and died for democracy we wanted to hear from those who survived that de, george washington library and others who have borne the battle and were willing to make that sacrifice retired four-star marine general john kelly. >> he earned it, retired four-star marine general jim matus, a former secretary of defense how does it feel to even be having these conversations about the future of democracy? >> after all the sacrifice that you have personally witnessed well, i consider it a privilege. >> that was a us marine and that's a source of pride for those of us who are there. but at the same time, i think it's healthy that we have these discussions that we've not ignore reality for too was an enormous conflict and retired four-star army general mark milley, a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, merely was inspired to serve by his uncle who was at normandy his father who fought in the pacific and his mother nursed the wounded state sayyed headstone of an unknown in early june, milli flew to france. >> he plans to honor the fallen heroes at the 80th anniversary commemoration on omaha beach it's incumbent upon us the living the pass on their memory to live their values, to ensure that what they fought for lives to the next generation what did they all think about how well we are guarding those democratic ideals, those four freedom, that more than 400,000 american service members died four i didn't find out more for for this. that's ahead i was so excited to buy my first home, but i needed a lot of work done on it. >> i went on to angie. jamie was the first person to call all i explained her some of the things i could do and showed are some pictures. >> he's resurfaced my fluorine, he's done plumbing work, he's refinished this beautiful table here. >> what would you say the sandi it for a week? >> well, he didn't with top rated certified pros and over 500 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after ten days that we had the beach solidified, that we called ours. the allied forces had won the day but for then 19-year-old army corporal george states, the grind of war had just begun i was fed 30 bucks overseas. i was unfortunate different countries some of the other bad takes i saw. i don't like to talk about the battle of normandy raged on for nearly three months and more carnage was just around the corner i december 1944, surprise, german attack, the last major german offensive on the western front the brutal bloody battle of the bowl as the allies pushed to berlin nearly a year after d-day states was sent to germany as part of an occupation unit ge ober's were in full retreat. they knew they were done along the way he encountered the depths of nazi horrors or driving down a road that all of a sudden we see these people out there in their pajamas. >> they weighed about 80 pounds people say that asserts such thing, its concentration, gifts they were there. you could smell those the worst smelling a bird body or dead body. suddenly get it all, forget i never told anybody. >> once i got home. just forgot about it it's a brutal, brutal, vicious thing. >> this thing called war, the degree of sacrifice and pain and suffering is unbelievable. we've got to do everything we can to make sure that we don't have a major armed conflict between great powers. that's why it's rules-based water is so important. >> the victorious countries match as in the charter of the united nations this rules-based order he's talking about was put in place by the allies after world war ii to protect the newly restored democracies with a set of rules and institutions without agreement on a chatter, the structure of peace cannot be done at all. >> part of this was done through the united nations, which essentially said that we don't change borders by force. >> some of this was the use of the language of human rights that became part of your actual treaties and agreements. >> essentially, the idea was that we try and solve as many problems if we can by negotiation and diplomacy rather than fighting. >> then in 1949 when joseph stalin's ussr see seven nations and threatened other democratic countries, the allies added a military component, establishing nato democratic allies banding together as a force to deter soviet aggression. >> rule one was that great powers, or any power should not cross international borders with their million but terry unless it's an active defense the united states has fought for that principle over and over when korea across the border in the summer 1950, president truman immediately deployed forces, marine reinforcements are rushed to the scene, then a red sneak attack on southern when saddam hussein across the border to attack kuwait, president bush immediately deploy the 82nd airborne division and now vladimir putin's decidedly undemocratic. >> russia has been waging a war against the democratic nation of ukraine for more than two years mark milley was the top military adviser to president biden when president putin invaded ukraine what putin did in february 22 was the conduct an outright war of aggression. >> he did a frontal assault on the very purpose, the why of what world war ii was fought about it's extremely concerning to retire general john kelly when you invade a country that may not be perfect, but it is a growing democracy. >> if you get away with it, you might do it again. and it is pretty easy to predict what would happen. i think if ukraine fell to the onslaught of what we're experiencing right now hi there. >> welcome to the red book, sweet here at the george washington library. >> very cool this is interesting this is cool here. this little booklet just documents a special visit we had look at the date august 31st, 2021 right. six months before the invasion. >> it's an honor and a pleasure to welcome presence. >> so let's back in 2021, ukrainian president volodymyr is linsky was in washington dc to learn about the democratic ideal of the united states and to appeal to the united states for aid. this was before russian president putin's full-scale invasion. you are retired general when the intel started coming in that putin was going to send russian forces into invade and attack ukraine. what were you thinking when you started hearing it? >> well, my sense was we didn't stop him on the caucuses. they kinda did what he wanted and so the next step for a guy like him is attack someone else. >> it sounds a lot like hitler in terms of their never being satisfied with acquiring land. >> he's not necessarily trying to re-establish. you'll soviet union, but certainly the old russian empire pray, pray, pray that he never crosses that line, but you never know with a guy like putin, if he thinks he can get away with it just like the dictator of north korea, if those kind of people think that they can get away with it, they'll go, which is why these generals argue that another component of nato, article five is so critical. article five states at when someone attacks and nato country all are obligated to respond allies, allies, allied when the british and the canadian and american troops landed on the beaches of normandy we were allies and we we're lincoln up with the french resistance to shore so that tell you deal with authoritarians. >> we get the allies together, the democracy together. you stand up to them for some d-day veterans, the russian invasion of ukraine has disturbing echoes of german occupation as history all over again. >> showloading lead down putin is just like hitler. >> your total big lie and you're telling it often enough, people get to believe you the threat he poses a real, he's a creature straight out at dusk, dfs can kinda put and be contained absolutely. >> putting can be contained. so long as the democracies state tightly linked i would just point out though right now, you're watching china and north korea. and i ran stand with russia those are the allies that putin has. the question is, what? the western allies stand with ukraine? and if the pro-putin caucus in the us congress has their way than of course, you wouldn't. >> the bill is passed you saw 75% of the congress vote for aid how important is the nato alliance super important later is hugely important. your former boss, donald trump, was one of those people leading the charge for other countries to pay their fair share there. >> but i've also heard him criticized for not really being committed to nato. do you have any concerns? i do. >> there are some americans and feel as though to come home and just let the world just go its own way. and i think he was responding to that sentiment in some cases, but he did push them to pony up and get into the two percentage gdp in most of them are working towards is that accurate american, there are also critics who argued president biden's afghanistan withdrawal in 2021 sent the wrong message to putin about american resolve we 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ferocious clash between democracy combined with free martin gets versus iron curtain communism raged on for decades. >> mr. gorbachev tear down this wall the fall came in november 1989. >> our top story, the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down the fall of the berlin wall was an incredibly important moment. >> sent around the world because it showed that the power of civic organization, the power of democratic ideas, the power of the language, of freedom, of the rule of law, and democracy could overcome even the most powerful. and what we had thought to be the most permanent form of dictatorship, the dangerous part is that we became convinced that it would go on forever do you think we take democracy too much for granted today in 2024? now there has been recently democratic backsliding arise and populist movements arise and autocracy arise in either outright dictatorships and or authoritarian governments. >> the increase in the world's population living in autocracies is staggering. in 2003, it was 50% two decades later 71% of people worldwide live under autocratic regimes. according to independent think tank v dam, which monitors global governments annually man my executes for pro-democracy activists. the un secretary general says the move signals further deterioration of nor ready done hi, i'm human rights environment in myanmar there's a lot of people who don't think that democratic republic is a successful form of how to govern yourselves. i think it would be fair to say hey, that it's constantly under stress and of course that authoritarian rise goes hand in hand with a steep decline in, in democracy, less than 8% of the world lives in a full democracy according to the e iu, democracy indexes latest numbers derbin, lee low especially to many who fought for the right to democracy. >> well, i'll tell you a lot fastest government for about show many years and find out what its flag democratic freedom has been particularly hard hit in parts of asia and eastern europe hungary got total overwhelming parliamentary support for extraordinary powers and for the prime minister orban to rule by decree or ban has been explicitly named and explicitly seen by a part of the republican party as a model why? because he took power. he undermined the independence of the judiciary. he took over universities. he undermined or capital matured quite a lot of the media through manipulation, through financing and by doing that, he stayed in power indefinitely this is america's conservative political action conference, cpac, but exported to budapest, hungary, a country led by authoritarian prime minister viktor four ban, be embraced by american conservatives of hungarian ruler viktor orban, who spoke at cpac conferences in 2022, 23 and 24, has alarmed even other conservatives, such as washington post columnist marc thiessen orban said, quote, we do not want to become peoples of mixed race, which prompted thiessen to save this on fox news in 2022. >> i can't believe that seat back is a place where liz cheney it's not welcome. and viktor orban is who is who is a hungarian david duke. >> also noting how or ban flew to moscow to quote, proudly shake putin's hand at a time when in other western leaders were shunning putin as a pariah. >> the plan is to eliminate any sources of opposition or criticism from within the state or inside the society. so that model is attractive to people who are looking for away to stay in power permanently, not to lose any elections since 2010 or bond has crushed descent. he's taken control of the judiciary and major media and limited rights, especially for gay people this is the leader held up by cpac as a conservative hero in a war against the left meanwhile, on the political left in the united states, the cause of promoting the rights of palestinians in the midst of israel's war against hamas in gaza has in some cases, been heavily influenced by those supporting the terrorist anti-democracy forces of hezbollah hamas, and the repressive government of iran according to politico, moments after iran launched can attack on israel, around 400 pro-palestinian protesters and chicago broke out and chants of hands off iran moreover, a new york times investigation found hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to progressive groups that seem to also repeat talking points from the the chinese communist party, quote code pink once criticized china's rights record, but now defends its interment of the predominantly muslim uyghurs, which human rights experts have labeled a crime against humanity do you view the world as this global battle between democracy and autocracy? >> this struggle that we faced in world war ii still continues today with the autocracies also not just russia, but china and iran. so there's great cause for concern i don't think we're at the levels of world war ii levels yet. but that'll take a lot of very, very serious diplomatic and military and 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we've found that's what looked like a whole time this just attaches to the and the via rifled barrels so that when you need it 99-year-old tylee fletcher, the former navy gunners, made proudly showed us his spoils from the time he entered the fight for freedom and thankfully emerged alive and victorious the greatest generation save democracy. but veterans such as staff sergeant george mullins believed that generations that followed allowed that democracy to weaken here at home. i saw that down for me to fake that. >> we have got what we got now i didn't font i wore for for this there is some reason for concern in 2016, the democracy index at the economist downgraded the us from a full democracy to a flawed democracy, citing a steep decline in trust of public institutions that move the us from the category with countries such as sweden and canada, and put the us and the category with places where democracy is more recent and fragile, such as chile and estonia and that new categorisation came before january 6, 2021 was a disgrace what they did was completely wrong before hurt, people were killed a lots of kind of stuff that makes me sick. people can get by with that kind of stuff how concerned about american democracy were you on january 6, 2021? i wasn't really i wasn't concerned. i mean, in many ways it worked the whole process work. i mean, it was ugly, is that it was and is embarrassed and horrified is we all should be about that. we had a vice president that said i'll stand with the rule of law in the constitution. and then afterwards we held people accountable let's get back to work. >> the american system of checks and balances may have prevented attempts to undermine the counting of legitimate votes cast in 2020. >> but it has not prevented and did all moves away from democracy here in the us what about the attacks on journalists? the refusal to accept? flexion results, the attacks on the judiciary. does that concern you? it does concern me. i don't get it as hard as i tried to understand why some of these things are happening. i just don't get it what about the divisions in america today concerns you? >> well, the idea today that we can use scorching rhetoric against each other. >> do you know what we're here for you know what you're here for. well, you don't want it, so i can about i think your fake eyelashes are messing up nothing the idea that we can turn what we're doing in politics into gladiatorial combat. how dare you are your feelings, her words down? 000 girl, baby girl. >> oh, really don't even play. >> and we can do so without consequence is fully gotten elbowed in the back and i talked back. >> there was kevin my kidney, punch him. he'd be on the graph read history nations that turn on themselves they do not survive if that's simple all right, now, in beijing and in moscow, i can imagine them watching and they're clapping as we tear each other apart. they, may, be clapping. >> and according to the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee and house foreign affairs committee, which their rhetoric is being parotid in congress. >> we see directly coming from russia attempts to mask communications that are anti ukraine and pro russia messages, some of which we even here being added on the house floor according to an applebaum of the atlantic, the goal is to further divide american citizens and these stabilize us democracy russia, china, north korea, and iran. these are for all countries that fundamentally have an interest in seeing democracy decline in the united states, both because american power is a problem for them, it challenges them and their party the world. and because the idea or the example of democracy, whether in the us or in europe is so inspiring to their own opposition movements. they do this by amplifying narratives, by intervening in our social media. they're interested in our decline but it will be up to us to stop it the demon possession navarro political opponents in the 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wednesday night dynamited aid on tbs five good thing thanks listen wherever you get your podcasts as. >> a marine, does this image have special meaning to you? >> it certainly does, it certainly does having commanded service members and the persian gulf war iraq and afghanistan retired general jim matus knows the horrors of war firsthand. may after remember in any amphibious operation, you can lose the whole force these were militaries that had no, no misunderstanding, no illusions about what they existed for. they were going to go in and defeat an enemy at the risk of their life five and may of them paid with their lives neither is the true cost of war lost and retired general mark milley, who has served in among other theaters of war, panama, haiti, bosnia, herzegovina. >> iraq, afghanistan, and somalia still. what our service members faced 80 years ago stands out. >> the level of intensity, fear, the noise, the blood the retired general is back on the beaches of normandy to observe the 80th anniversary of the allied landings in world war ii probably five to 8,000 germans were spread out up in these bluffs up here with machine guns, cannons, mortars, the size, scale, and scope of normandy is unbelievable. he can't replicate that, nor do we want to yeah, with the world tilting toward anti-democracy forces is another world war possible? in our lifetime? >> do you see any scenarios where the us and nato could be involved in another great powers war. >> sure. i mean, if someone attacked a native country, we have a commitment to concept article five and attack on one isn't it? attack on all it's only been activated once. and that was when we were attacked on 911. if someone was to attack a natal country, the baltics finland and even made a country we we are committed to helping them what if nieto's article five fails to deter russian president putin was, i hope you never thinks that because of messages he's reading out of washington weather from the last president. >> the current president going forward, whoever wins, i hope he's not misinterpreting america's commitment to nato because if he does do something unimaginable and attacks the nato country that would not be a small war. >> that's what these veterans who risked their lives fighting against tyranny are afraid of your claim false? he'll go to another country. he's far hailar is that's what did he pick them off one at a time? i don't think we'll ever see one like world war ii the thing i do worry about is technology. much of our military is controlled by satellites china and russia can shoot them down. >> you spoken to a lot of d-day veterans over the years. their numbers obviously are sadly dwindling. >> you tell one particular emotional story about a veteran paratroopers. >> when you asked him about lessons he learned. could you tell us that story? >> and i kneel down next to him and i said, so what's your what's your greatest lesson from world war ii? and i expected that he would give me some sort of tactical lesson like shoot low and keep your three-second. russia is and have a whole bag of hand grenades with you or something like that but we looked at me and he teared up and he said, general, never let it happen again. i think that's that entire generation right then my father said that 1 million times and the veterans who survived those wars, we can't fully appreciate it today, jake, the level of suffering and sacrifice that they went through yet these de d-day veterans, most of them now in their late 90s have a surprising zest for life somebody up stairs loves me. >> i am the luckiest man in the world us army veteran jake larson, nickname papa jake. hey, tiktok fans is a 101-year-old tiktok star. >> i going to happy tears and he appears to be reverse aging look at me this is played crazy that i don't have aches or pains i weighed 120 pounds. >> my buddies call me bony yass i made it i made it every person that i was in the service with it. >> the has gone all right. >> i'll leave it to everyone. how is that possible extreme winning and loser former army corporal george states is equally mystified as to how he's made it this far. >> i haven't the oldest coach in the world after his harrowing 30 months stint in the war sites settled in rochester, new york for kids wanted to tell yourself to listen and devoted his life to teaching and coaching. if people say, why did you say 50 years, i said progress, i love this our sheriff, barely 17 years way 112 pounds. if you believe that de event tally fletcher served as a navy gunners made in later hunted down german u-boats i'm chaser 1301 after the war, fletcher worked in construction eventually landing back home near baton rouge, louisiana. and i don't smoke and i don't drink it's been a long time since i changed a woman. >> he built his own house where he still lives with his two dogs fittingly named rusty and bullet all loved shipment cross ball. i was always a boy of adventure, still george moulins a country boy from kentucky, turned all american glider pilot, came home, a war hero and pen the book about the day-to-day brutalities of war and combat is nothing but how long are greatly i'm looking here as their numbers dwindle, the stories of these remaining veterans are more important than ever. >> do you ever worry that the sacrifices made by the men who stormed the beaches at normandy, that may ultimately they'll be be for not that ultimately this experiment will fail anyone who bets against america has taken a bad bet is the bottom line, but that means that democracy, which she's not a spectator sport, needs all of us to roll up our sleeves and be better citizens of this republic. >> it just sense of responsibility for this experiment and its survival. >> none of what our service members fought for and fight for is a given the american experiment, democracy of buy-in for the people is an experiment it has not in proven francis scott key star spangled banner is a question. >> oh say, can in you see by the dawn's early light, our flag have we seen proof through the night that our flag was still there o say, does that star? >> our spangled banner yet way over the land of the free and the home of the brain does it how about around the world we owe the d-day generation so much? >> are we rising to the challenge that will take all of us collectively to lean forward, put our shoulder to the wheel to make sure that we don't have a great power war never let it happen again