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[laughter] i love this handoff now. okay. thank you. good evening. welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, tens of thousands of people flooded the national mall here in the nation s capital today. what was billed as the march for israel was a direct response to the rising tide of anti-semitism mosque attacks last month. correspondent mark meredith is at the mall with the latest. good evening, marc,. good evening to you. today s rally brought out a lot of people including celebrities, politicians even the families of some americans who are still being held hostage tonight in gaza. organizers chose to host this event right here on the national mall because they wanted the people who work on the hill to hear their pleas for help. and, of course, there has been so much focus on what has transpired in the last month and these jewish americans, they told us, they plan to keep speaking up. [cheers. with israeli and american flags in hand, tens of thousands ....
d-day invasion. those and courageous sacrifice that day for all of us. there you can see the president and his wife, dr. jill biden meeting with those veterans. now, most of them over 90, just a few still remain with us president biden is expected to speak soon from the beaches of normandy, france, 18 years ago today, those beaches were the scene of the largest amphibious invasion in military history. listen to franklin roosevelt praying with the nation as the de d-day mission was unfolding. almighty god some prior to ban the this de, i ve set upon the meitei-sho endeavor let s criminal to preserve our republic all religion and our civilization and set free a suffering humanity more than 70,000 american troops joined allies forces for operation overlord on june 6, 1944. 2,500 us soldiers died that day storming the beaches, 29,000 more were killed during the battle of normandy that followed the sacrifices of america s greatest generation led to the downfall of hitler ....
Of independent free agents. and the thing that we practiced in the depression and then perfected and world war ii was shared sacrifice. and that s what those men, those all men now, who can need help, someone wheelchairs, some with canes. they were 19-years-old. i ve got a 19-year-old daughter right now and i want her to understand that at 19, people were risking their realize are 150300 boats in that armada. there were 176,000 soldiers. there were 2000 landing votes the sheer escape, a scope of this thing is so important to understand and then to personalize, to say it, it s just arrows on a map, but their individual lives like your grandfather, like my father, like other people who were involved in these things that we have so few of these great patriots, the ghraieb, this is, this is the moment when the greatest generations reputation is cemented. ....