♪ ♪ >> you are about to embark upon a great crusade toward which we have striven these many months. the eyes of the world are upon you. the hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. >> across the english channel, the allied armada of ships and crafts steam. >> these are the men who took the cliffs. these are the champions who helped create continent. these are the heroes who helped end a war. >> the beaches of normandy were consecrated by the blood of our heroes, british, canadian, polls, free french, and can canadian. >> allied forces move forward and were eventually victorious. and then swept across europe. >> over a stretch of 60 miles, the battles raged. >> on these beaches, the forces of freedom turned the tide of the 20th century. >> never relenting even as comrades died all around them. when they had reached the top, the rangers radioed back the code for success. praise the lord. >> 80 years ago today more than 73,000 courageous americans join allied forces to storm the beaches of normandy. the largest amphibious invasion in history where the world honors those brave soldiers for more than 10 nations who both their lives to drive out those forces of nazi germany. hello and welcome everyone. i am sandra smith. live here in new york. but a look back that was. >> john: more solemn ceremonies being observed today. this is "america reports." earlier today in france, president biden stood by world leaders to commemorate the anniversary. a full day of ceremony. gun salute and flyovers. many surviving veterans there to honor their fallen comrades and reflect on that they have pivotal moment in 1944 when their bravery reshaped history. >> the coast of normandy. the battle between freedom and tyranny would be joined. here on that june morning. ♪ ♪ >> your actions. a continent and build a better world. >> canada and the world will keep commemorating this significant day for decades and generations to come. >> here you came to join with our own soldiers and to make france a free nation. and you are back here today at home. >> sandra: let's bring in martha maccallum now, anger and executive editor of "the story." she has been anchoring that show from there all week. welcome to you. just an incredible morning it was. what is it been like for you on the ground covering this? >> and kestan to be with you. it has been amazing to be back in normandie. i covered the 7,010th anniversary 5 years ago. that was referred to at that time as the final reunion. these men are incredibly resilient. there are men that we have met this week who are 100, 102, 104 even. many of them walked across the stage today. one of the most dramatic moments to me was the way that they represented. they walked up with their escorts with the ocean behind them. it felt as if they were coming up over the cliff as they joined their brothers in arms on the podium. they were just so many moving moments. i think when i listen to those speeches by world leaders, one of the biggest questions that i think it raises for all of us -- it has raised actually in the initial scenes in "saving private ryan" which have always made me tear up in the first 30 seconds of the film. this gentleman who lost a lot of his close colleagues in the war basically says, you know, am i worth your sacrifice? i think that is a question that is raised a lot today. and i think that many of the veterans that we spoke to, they would never do anything differently. they are not so sure that the world that they see today is the same one that they fought so hard to fight for in many respects. that is what they said. >> john: you mentioned there mentioned their resilience. you don't survive the day in the beaches of normandy without being resented. you have the opportunity to talk so many. play a little bit about what you found when you spoke with them. >> there's not many of us left especially combat men. what it means to me, i established a mission for my myself. when i come here, i talk to people like you, but i also talk to kids. people all up and down the scale. they are going to be here to tell the story when we are all gone. >> 3 months, i was gone at 16. as long as that people remember that the events are still around. you know, some of the memories are good. some are bad. some are happy. some are sad. that is all part of life. >> john: what is really remarkable, he will tell you he was 16 when he was there. i have another story of others who are 16 his parents lied about their age to allow them to sign up. to think of what they could do as teenagers backbend to help save the world is just remarkable. >> the second man from the navy, i actually met in iwo jima. he drove a higgins boat onto the beach at 16 years old because the driver of that boat had been killed in a previous operation in the day. his superiors said, do you think you can get in there and steer the boat for us? he lied. he stole a baptismal certificate from his church in order to put a date on it that would get him into the military. they kept sending him away. that is how much he wanted to join the fight. he said i didn't really like high school that much. i was looking for something else to do. these men are so humble. i think humility is something that we don't see enough. that is why people are so drawn to them. for the most part, they are warm and humble like reagents and they are quite straightforward and frank in their approach to the world. what really matters to them. >> sandra: so true. you bring out the best in them. we have enjoyed hearing from them. >> that is not hard to do. >> sandra: they are heroes and they are unbelievable. you have been having some really great conversations on the ground about foreign policy and happenings all over the world. in fact, coming up we are going to see and hear more from this interview. you just had with john kirby. i want to play this out and get your thoughts on what you heard. >> the united states plans to back them with whatever they need to achieve that goal. what time frame? >> we have been doing that for the last 2 plus years. how long is not going to go on? i don't know if anybody can know the answer to that. there's pieces coming up in switzerland and a couple of weeks. the vice president will be representing the united states. we have been represented at every single piece summit. the president believes that we are doing it again with serious representation by the vice president. >> the president has other things on his schedule. >> sandra: that is a preview about what we are about to hear. can you tell us about what you heard from john kirby when you sat down with him? >> he sat down with me literally fresh off of president biden speech. we spoke moments after. the speech was very forceful on the principles of democracy and protecting it. president biden essentially said we will never stop fighting to defend democracy in the world. that is what we are called to do. we kind of adjustment back and forth on whether or not the policy matches up with what we heard on that stage today. we know that there has been a lot of hesitancy in different weapons programs that have been asked for. i asked him at one point, did roosevelt ever say, you know, you can only use that ship's for or that? in the context of sitting here in normandie. it is an interesting conversation. i think it goes to the larger issue of who we are and what we stand for as a nation. you see the leaders of canada and france and the u.k. and the u.s. all here. what does this alliance look like? what does it need? why does it stand for in the world is an open question? >> john: it highlights the biden foreign policy. here is what politico said about his foreign policy on wednesday. the headline was foreign policy becomes a liability for biden's campaign as he heads to france. a month of high-stakes international meetings. he's got the g7 coming up. 2 bloody wars in ukraine and gaza have complicated the president's job. she contributed to the shakiness of his political standing at home. remember, robert gates who is the secretary of defense under obama and bush 43 said about biden, i think he has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue over the past 4 decades. as we look toward the conventions beginning next month, where do biden said when it comes to foreign policy? >> that is the question. it often feels like he sits a little bit on the fence. i say that just based on what we have actually seen play out in policy. the request for weapons from ukraine and request for money from ukraine. always a little bit later than they say they needed it. they are under enormous pressure in the eastern and northern france in ukraine. it is a question of the commitment in the drive for the policy you say you stand for. if we are not going to support ukraine, that is another question. we want them to win? we want them to succeed. it gets to the heart of what foreign policy is. the same could be said for gaza. i'll end with support for israel and claims he still is. at the same time, suggesting that the icc should invest in leadership for war crimes. a little bit of s and a little bit of that. he leads people questioning where he actually stands. >> sandra: incredible coverage five on the ground in normandy. thank you so much for bringing us all that you have. >> great to be with you both. >> john: see you at 3:00. at the border doesn't look all that different than it did before president biden unveiled his executive action yesterday. is the eo having any impact on the ground? 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(♪) ♪ ♪ >> sandra: it has been 48 hours since president biden enacted the executive action at our southern border trying to stem the flow of migrants coming over. a certain limit. new data shows it has had no impact on border crossing so far. bill melugin is live at the port of entry at california for us. we have been watching this live shot of exactly what's happening behind you. we have seen the constant flow. you have been reporting that this is turkish, egyptians, the chinese. how many were apprehended yesterday alone for example? >> here in the san diego sector, about 1,100 just yesterday with the asylum been in effect which appears to be having little to zero impact of any think of it is getting busy around here. this is a group that crossed in one big mess and legally a short time ago. i was talking with guys from egypt, from turkey and china and india and central and south american countries. they are in the sun. they are waiting for border patrol to pick them up. agents are overwhelmed elsewhere because there are other crossings going on. take a look at this video a few hours ago completely other side of town. an even bigger group of 200 people that crossed illegally once again from all over the world. single adults. the asylum band is in effect. president biden's order. these migrants will tell you on camera, they are not even here for asylum a lot of them. i chatted with some of these guys as they were coming in. take a listen. where you from? mauritania. where you from? what country? china? where you guys from? mexico, guatemala? china? guatemala. where you from? india. >> from brazil. >> india. >> that's not all. this was yet another mass illegal crossing down by the border wall in a different location. this group predominately colombians, venezuelans and mostly single adults again. i talk with this group. none of them told me they are here for asylum. they told me they are planning to travel all across the united states and they are here for work or family. take a listen. >> california. [speaking in a global language] >> san diego. [speaking in a global language] >> guys, the bottom line is even with as asylum ban in full effect, there is little to no fear of consequences or deportation. they have good reason to think so. we have a cameraman in downtown san diego who is currently shooting video of border patrol buses mass releasing migrants to city streets right now. more catch and release in full effect. president biden threatened with few crossed illegally, you are banned from asylum and quickly remove around the united states. these can have a chance to put his money where his mouth is. a lot of people flowing in. they believe they are not going anywhere. these numbers are spiking out here. >> real quick follow up with that live shot behind you for our viewers who have been watching this throughout the day, what exactly is happening? what is the process behind you there? >> brian, we will pan real quick. there is no border patrol and as far as the eye can see. they are waiting for border patrol. got it. they are just waiting. they might have to wait hours for border patrol because they are busy processing other gr groups. >> sandra: we appreciate your reporting. incredible what we just heard. thank you. >> by looking at where air force one has touched down moments ago. as a dan gladden and the first lady jill biden back from the ceremonies at the american cemetery and down on the sands of omaha beach. the president stay overnight in paris. he has more meetings tomorrow. we will be following all of his actions. peter doocy is there and will bring us all of what happens during the president's visit. so that "wall street journal" report that came out talking about the president's cognitive ability and mental acuity, while the administration is now urging democrats to push back on the so-called false narrative, let's bring in brian kilmeade and host of "one nation was slow. playing a little sound from president biden from earlier today. he was interviewed by abc's david muir. we asked him about vladimir putin. listen here. >> president biden: i have known him for 40 years. he has concerned me for 40 years. he's not a decent man. he's a dictator. he is struggling to make sure that he holds this country together while still keeping this assault going. we are not -- to strike the kremlin. just across the border. receiving significant fire from conventional weapons used by the russians to go into ukraine to kill ukrainians. >> john: first of all, what'd you think of the president's appearance in an air interview? he said he is known about putin for 40 years and been concerned about over 40 years. 40 years ago, putin was allegedly working at a shoe store in new zealand as covered when he was a kgb agent. how could biden have possibly known him back then? >> in that shoe store, i used to go there all the time in new zealand. and it's amazing. he was raised in the black puerto rican church and spent his moment of years at delaware state. now he has known vladimir putin for 40 years. i thought the speech was good today. i thought it was delivered fine. it wasn't ronald reagan. he never will be a never was. when you sit down, he had no energy for that interview. to say something that is so blatantly wrong, there is a shot of ronald reagan sitting in moscow. vladimir putin pretending to be a photographer. that is 40 years ago. i don't know what he's talking about. the other thing he's overstated the damage done to russia. the problem is in this very conflict, he is the most vital thing going on internationally. he said the russians have sustained heavy losses. they are selling oil in their economy is pivoted. there are base economy. they are having drones coming in from iran and weapons coming in from china or flat out weapons coming in from china. he is not pushed back on that at all. he has not gotten to reinforce sanctions. if you look at "the wall street journal" article, they talk about him going into a meeting and moving so slow to an emergency meeting on ukraine that it took 10 minutes to actually start that meeting in which time he was so disengaged, he would pass it up to somebody else. when he had a chance to talk, no i could hear what he was saying. i think this is a pretty good deal. front and center, confused a hostage in gaza. was actually at the white house. he confused his cabinet secretaries. he claimed to have talked to someone who died in 2017. and one who died in 19 -- this is stuff we see. "the wall street journal" article have to be the least surprised person on the planet that this actually has happened behind closed doors. is 45 people that were interviewed. i know this push back. they probably don't want to talk about the things we are all s seen. >> sandra: fair enough. voters are being asked about it. we are looking at the latest fox news power ratings. voters looking at trump or biden who is more mentally and physically fit to be president. the higher marks definitely go to the former president donald trump. will this benefit him come november? >> no doubt about it. sean hannity, and i guys did. the last thing he wants is to lower the bar to the fact when joe biden shows up like the state of the union and delivers okay or is able to finish standing up, they look at it as a victory. i think president trump is going to go out of his way to say he's fine. they talk about him going up and down. big day good days and bad days. we saw that today. we saw a speech where he seemed confused a few times on stage. by the time he gets to the interview, he's not able to keep the energy up. how could you do the toughest job in the world and not have the energy to work all day when you land yesterday and you put the lid on right away and a three-day event, i think that if someone alarming for people who want to know, and you do the job for another four years? >> john: one last point. there's a lot of pushback from democrats on this "wall street journal" article. some of it coming from nancy pelosi who posted this on x. "many of us spent time with "the wall street journal" to share our first-hand experience where we see his wisdom, experience, and strategic thinking. the journal ignored testimony by democrats and focus on attacks by republicans and printed a hit piece. after they talk to democrats initially, some of them call