brian: all right. here we go. it s #:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is thursday, june 6th. this is fox & friends. today marks the 80th anniversary of d-day when american troops, joined by others, stormed the beaches of germany to defeat germany ultimately setting the stage for victory in world war ii. for a 19-year-old, which i was then was extremely important. i wasn t afraid. people a hell of a lot tougher than you guys. brian: president biden is in normandy right now so is martha mccallum covering the moments and events of the day. she will join us. steve: meanwhile back here at home president trump s short list getting shorter. vetting is ramping up those are the folks on the list so far. ainsley: all right. they got some information. the destruction, the destructive tornadoes hitting maryland downing a lot of trees and trapping some of the residents. janice dean is trackenning all of that. lawrence: fox & friends starts right now and, remember, morning
ainsley: she has been covering this the past few days. what an emotional event to go to. steve: no kidding. very shortly the official party entrance will occur and you will see the leaders come in. there will be a c-130 flyover. and then the national anthem of france and united statessened invocation. we are going to hear from president macron, our secretary of defense lloyd austin and then the president. our president is beginning a four-day visit to france. there is going to be the speech this morning. and then back tomorrow at pointe du hoc army rangers skilled the cliffs against germans. brian, when you brought up that speech that ronald reagan gave 40 years ago, it is regarded as one of the greatest speeches by an american president on foreign soil, ever. you know, it was written by peag peggy noonan who works for the wall street journal and was a speech writer for the president then. what is interesting and you were
what it means for the threats that we face today. lawrence: so martha, i have been watching your conch, most americans when you meet one world war ii veteran you take that moment in because you don t get that opportunity much you have had the opportunity to sit with so many of them. thank you, lawrence, to a person they are so frank and straightforward about how they feel about all of this. they also are just so grateful to those that they lost, the buddies that were alongside them on the beaches and the cliffs. when they went into the head degree fighting deeper in i sat down with 14-year-old veteran.
it is an extraordinarily beautiful morning here in normandy. the sun is out. the skies are blue. you can see the beach behind me that is omaha beach where nearly 150,000 allied forces landed 80 years ago today. they started with parajumpers in the early hours of the morning and hours before that there were rangers who scaled the cliffs at point ahawk in order to take out german guns, 255 of those rangers, only 90 of them were still alive two days later. the extraordinary sacrifice of these young men is what you feel so intensely here at normandy this will never be forgotten and we need to understand context today. we will look for the president to speak about the context of this in the larger picture of