and here in new york city 80 years later. here we have the president and first lady walking through the american cemetery and laying the wreath and honoring the heroes who made history on d-day. we'll take you through the next couple of hours together on this. welcome to "america's newsroom," i'm bill hemmer, >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." a pleasure and honor to spend this time with you, viewers and you these historical moments are important. 80 years since that day. so we have the first lady and the president in normandy. the president and first lady in france. we have a lot of the ceremony to come and you are going to have a chance to hear from macron as well. >> bill: we have a lot of great guests to get to relive the moments from 80 years ago with you. thank you for being here as we begin our broadcast. >> dana: we had just witnessed an extraordinary ceremony and a military band playing taps in honor of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. [taps being played] >> bill: so that was from earlier. this is live now. a live look at omaha beach where the allies landed on this day. reading through all the information from earlier today and seeing the raw numbers of men and might and planes and boats, it is just extraordinary the mission that was launched, delayed at first because of bad wets and they chose this day on june 6th. this was from a ceremony a few moments ago. earlier the president spoke to a crowd of veterans and world leaders who were honored to be gathered there today. >> president biden: we know the dark forces these heroes fought against 80 years ago. they never fade. we cannot let what happened here be lost in the silence of the years to come. we must remember it. must honor it and live it. we must remember the fact that they were heroes here that day does not absolve us from what we have to do today. >> bill: peter doocy is live american cemetery in normandy. >> president biden's overall theme is that it is his belief that the things that were happening here in europe in the 1940s in the run-up to d-day are not that different than the things happening here in europe right now. >> president biden: aggression and greed, the desire to dominate and control, to change borders by force, these are perennial dictatorship and freedom. it is unending struggle. here in europe we see one stark example, ukraine has been invaded by a tyrant bent on domination. >> today could not be more different than june 6, '80 years ago. quiet enough today to hear birds chirping. sun shining and the men who stormed the beaches are now near 100 years old. president biden's remarks painted a picture of how terrifying that largest amphibious assault ever was with german positions above raining bullets and bombs down on allied forces below. sacrifices that president biden says were ultimately worth it. >> president biden: every one of them knew the probability of dying was real. they did it anyway. they knew beyond any doubt there are things that are worth fighting and dying for. freedom is worth it, democracy is worth it. america is worth it. the world is worth it. >> president biden stressed during private meetings with d-day survivors as well as in his prepared remarks at the podium that those veterans saved the world, bill. >> bill: amen to that. nice to see you. want to bring in karl rove, you've been watching the broadcast throughout the day today. what comes top of mind to you at the moment? >> well, i was at normandy on the 60th anniversary with president bush and i was there on the 70th anniversary traveling with general tommy franks and on the 70th anniversary i got to interview a number of d-day veterans. i cannot tell you how moving it was. i talked to one elderly man who jumped into d-day the day before his 16th birthday. i said well, how did you get in the fight? he said i was big for my age, grew up in kentucky, his dad a coal miner and said if you want to fight, go fight. his dad signed the papers attesting he was 18 years old. he jumped into normandy with 101st at the age of 16. they were dropped out of the zone, partnered up with some others from the 86th airborne similarly out of place, and spent seven days fighting their way back to the beach head moving at night in german-occupied ceremony. his storys emblematic of all of them. these were teenagers. teenagers and they saved the world. >> dana: such a pivotal moment in history and the ones who are remaining still with us and are there even today as we saw in the speech that president biden gave, you had so many of them. this will probably in terms of the big milestones, might be the last one where we have them with us and what do you think we as a country owe them especially at this moment when we can sort of take for granted the freedoms that we have? >> yeah. we forget or maybe some of us never knew how vulnerable and fragile peace, democracy and freedom were in the world in the 1940s when the axis of evil, germany, japan, and italy were attacking the world particularly led by nazi germany in europe and by japan in the asian pacific region. liberty and freedom were under fire and yet these young men and women took on an extraordinary task and literally saved the world. they saved democracy. america would not be what it is today had they failed. europe would not be what it is like if they failed. nazi germany would have begun its effort to dominate the world for not just a century but for a thousand years. the thousand year reich was the goal of hitler. the extinction of jews and others. i'm sorry to get emotional about it because i'm overwhelmed with the recollection of meeting these ancient veterans, some in wheelchairs and some walking with difficulty with a cane and yet to think about what they faced on this day walking into death, taking -- storming beaches that had been methodically organized by the nazis so ever inch was covered by machine guns and rifle fire and artillery fire and they willingly went into battle because they believed in democracy and freedom and the right of every individual to live free in this world. >> bill: remarkable stuff. you were there for year number 60. 20 years prior ronald reagan had a moment. it was written by peggy noonan. it was the moment that turned his campaign and hit another gear and eventually went on to blow out mondale in a landslide. reagan embraced the moment. president biden did a good job today as well embracing the moment as we all have. you mention those guys in wheelchairs. i was telling dana this earlier in the week. i had the misfortune of a seven hour delay in cincinnati saturday morning and despite my displeasure, i had the honor of meeting a man who was 104 years old in a wheelchair hearing aids both sides, african-american sitting in the corner with four different women mostly from delta and two family members helping fly him to atlanta and on to france. talking louder than everybody out there but he was so happy. you could tell that he realized this was a moment for him as well. karl, he was 20 years old on that day. 20 years old in 1944. >> unbelievable. and we need to remember them, honor them. i treasure the moments. i interviewed them on a boat between portsmouth and i couldn't stop weeping listening to the stories. they would laugh, they would cry, they would talk about comrades they lost. comrades who made it through to the end of the war with them and it was really an emotional moment and stirring. you cannot help but be grateful to be born an american to be in the company of people like that who had served our country and served the world with distinction and they were ordinary people. guy from michigan who ended up living after the war in new orleans. kid from hazard, kentucky who celebrates his birthday sitting in a barn in france hoping that nazi soldiers will not discover he and his comrades. people who literally came off of landing ships into machine gunfire and have no understanding how they came out of that alive as their comrades and friends and to the left and right of them were mowed down. this is an extraordinary moment of courage. i met one of the young rangers who went up point dehawk. they climbed a cliff in order to take out an important nazi gun im placement led by a man who later went on to a storied career at texas a & m university colonel rutter. it is just amazing that people somehow find this fortitude and courage to go into a fight like this and to begin to turn the tide. the moment that we secured the beaches at normandy was the moment that adolph hitler and the regime he led were set on the road to extinction. >> bill: you talk about the strength at the age of 20. imagine the strength you have at the age of 100, right? most people that age don't leave the house if they are even still with us. the average age went to normandy this time was 100 years old. sheer strength to get up and go back. karl, thank you so much. >> dana: much more to come as well. thank you. >> bill: you give great voice to it. thank you. >> dana: as we've been telling you it is a solemn day in normandy and 80 years since d-day. >> four guys on the ground deserve all the credit they can get. paratroopers, armed forces, the ground troops. not flossing well? then add the whoa! of listerine to your routine. new science shows listerine is 5x more effective than floss at reducing plaque above the gumline. for a cleaner, healthier mouth. ahhhhh. listerine. feel the whoa! introducing, ned's plaque psoriasis. he thinks his flaky red patches are all people see. otezla is the #1 prescribed pill to treat plaque psoriasis. otezla can help you get clearer skin. don't use otezla if you're allergic to it. serious allergic reactions can happen. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. some people taking otezla had depression, suicidal thoughts, or weight loss. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. live in the moment. ask your doctor about otezla. why choose a sleep number smart bed? 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>> well, the prosecution is doing an amazing good job in my view. this is a very disciplined case. what is really astonishing is how fast all of the defenses put forward by abbe lowell collapsed within 48 hours. there was a long argument that the laptop was tampered with and put it on an agent saying there is no tampering here. it is real and authentic. they said hunter biden wasn't doing drugs when he signed that. they have a text of him the next day trying to score drugs from a guy name mooky and a day after that doing drugs on the hood of a car. all these other witnesses saying of course he was an addict doing crack every 20 minutes when i knew him. they then said well, maybe someone else filled out the form. mr. cleveland said i watched him fill out the form. i told him to take his time. every one of these defenses collapsed shortly after they were stated by the defense. at least to this question of why, why isn't he pleading guilty? it's an open and shut case. obvious he was doing drugs and that he had signed the form falsely. that might keep him out of jail. certainly would have avoided an embarrassing trial. the answer is, this is biden town. it is a biden who is standing trial in his hometown and this is the opposite of manhattan. here the jury pool could not be better for the defendant. i think the defense is using annulfication strategy. >> bill: a lot to work with. a memoir, you have an audio book, you have the laptop and on and on and on. on president trump's side now, you had movement yesterday in georgia. doesn't look like that trial will come anywhere near election day. basically punted to next march. you have the florida documents case, that has been delayed. federal election case out of d.c. waiting on an immunity order on behalf of the supreme court that could come any day or two weeks from now. is it a stroke -- i'm searching for the question here and i guess if i'm on the trump team, it's really a stroke of legal luck it has gone this way. >> well, they have certainly broken in trump's favor in terms of the election. georgia looks like it is now dead letter until after the election. that's a bizarre case, the racketeering aspect connecting to trump. there are valid charges against some of the defendants but the overall racketeering case itself in my view is rather laughable. the two federal cases do not look like they'll land before the election. the one wild card is the d.c. case. we're waiting today and if not today in the coming days for the ruling on immunity. if the court rejects both the lower court decision and the trump argument and finds those are both too extreme, it would have to send this case back to the judge for further proceedings. can she do that and still put the pedal to the metal before the election? she has tried. she has really turned this into a rocket docket in her courtroom. many of us still have doubts she could do that before the election. >> dana: jonathan turley, thank you for being here and following those trials for us especially the hunter biden one as we have the other commemorations of d-day to cover this morning. >> bill: well done last week. we hung on every word. talk to you soon. meanwhile donald trump heading to arizona today as his first visit to the key swing state of the campaign for 2024. it also comes on the heels of biden's executive order on immigration from two days ago. former president calling that nothing but a gimmick with sean hannity last night. >> they did undo all of your policies with the stroke of a pen. now finally yesterday he implemented a new policy. however -- >> it's meaningless. >> millions are people are allowed to come in. it has nothing to do with border security. >> bill: now we go to maricopa county and we're in phoenix. >> good morning. the former president is set to arrive here in arizona later this afternoon. he is coming here for a town hall being hosted by turning point action. as you mentioned, bill, this will be his first trip to this battleground state in nearly two years. in that interview with sean hannity last night, trump addressed president biden's executive action on the border. the president hopes to drastically curb the number of migrants seeking asylum. the former president says it won't help. >> he didn't need anything from congress. just shut the border. you say shut the border, sign an order and the border will close. i did it. we had the best and safest border in history. >> when registered arizona voters were asked in a recent "new york times" college poll what issue is most important in deciding their vote in november. economy came out on top followed by immigration and abortion. president biden has made a handful of trips to the grand canyon state since his narrow win in 2020 but trails trump in poll after poll. trump was last here for the 2022 mid-terms endorsing kari lake. she lost that election and leading gop contender for the u.s. senate seat vacated by sinema. lake is struggling against democratic congressman. trump's stop in arizona is a western state swing including california and nevada. expect trump as well as rnc to push their swamp the vote usa initiative promoting absentee, in person, early voting and mail in. >> thanks for that and see you later today in phoenix. >> dana: up close look at migrant crime on the front lines. fox news took an exclusive ride along with the nypd to see how officers are tackling the trend. veterans fighting to keep the memory of d-day alive. our coverage. 80th anniversary continues. >> we did our job, came home, that's it. never talked about it for 70 years i didn't talk about it. type 2 diabetes? 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