president joe biden retaliating tonight, five days after three army reservists were killed in attack on jordan, strikes across iraq and syria is the beginning of what will likely be strikes on iran backed militias making attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east and will continue at times and places of our choosing unquote. while avoiding a full scale blow up with iran in a region already in turmoil over the israel-hamas war all this on the day the president performed one of the most solemn duties of the commander-in-chief, attending to the dignified return of the three american soldiers killed in the attack in jordan on sunday. tonight we are covering all aspects of this breaking news. orrin lieberman at the pentagon ben wedeman. orrin what do we know about these strikes in iraq and syria tonight. laura a series of strikes that are order of magnitude larger than what we have seen the u.s. do the last couple months simultaneous strikes in iraq syria seven different location
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 s naz
prayers of liberty loving people everywhere, march with you in company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts. you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine the elimination of nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of europe and security for ourselves in a free world all right, our panel is here this morning. let s bring in cnn politics, white house reporter stephen collinson, retired air force colonel sienna and military analysts cedric laden or gatera, is a senior contributor, axios and cnn senior reporter isaac dovere is here with us as well. he covers the president biden very closely. let s please make sure that we continue to watch what president biden is doing right now, as we discuss here and steven, let me start with you something that you wrote about this day and your new cnn piece you write at no point since june 6, 1944 has the unshakeable while us leadership of the west and support for international, it s value has been so in question
return to yours. thank you to your families that w return to your side, that we stand by you, and this has not all been in vain. forever yours, a grateful wife. that is just part of what this military spouse wrote here. you can read her entire letter at cnn.com/opinion. let s talk all of this over now with cnn political analyst and washington post columnist josh rogan with us, as well as retired colonel cedric laden. he is also a cnn military analyst. there are many analysts who take issue of this being a cease-fire. the turks see this as a pause. let s listen to what the president said last hour. i just spoke to president erdogan of turkey. we re doing very, very well with turkey. there is a cease-fire or a pause or whatever you want to call it.
there was some sniper fire this morning, there was mortar fire this morning that was eliminated quickly. and they re back to the full pause. should the president be so easily placated by erdogan? he really seems to be quite convinced that what he s saying is the gospel. he shouldn t be. this is very typical of someone like erdogan. he s, in essence, running the information war in this campaign, and he s doing it and really the main target of his operation is president trump. president trump for whatever reason believes that whatever erdogan says is the gospel. it is not the gospel. it is absolutely fundamentally untrue and it needs to be verified by the intelligence agencies, agencies that president trump, of course, doesn t like. that s a very good point, cedric. so josh, in this op-ed that you wrote, this is about the withdrawal from northern syria.