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trumper republicans, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle, live from 30 rock center and we are now 152 days away from the election. and it has been 80 years since the largest see to land invasion in history, d-day. president joe biden joined world leaders in normandy to mark the historic moment. at the american cemetery, he addressed the crowd that included surviving veterans that took part in the assault that helped liberate europe. peter alexander was there. reporter: 80 years later, where useful bravery landed, today, these last surviving heroes returned. just above the source for 150,000 allied troops, waited in the surf, and were met by an endless barrage of kris mayes six bullets. from the president, a solemn tribute. it is my honor to be able to salute you here in normandy. all of you. reporter: fewer than 200 of american sons who stormed these beaches on d-day to help reclaim the continent ....
morning. the washington post s eugene robinson, thank you, my friend. and thanks to all of you for getting up with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. 225 came here. after two days of fighting, only 90 could still bear arms. behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. before me are the men who put them there. these are the boys. these are the men who took the cliffs. these are the champions who helped free a continent. these are the heros who helped end a war. that was ronald reagan in 1984, iconic d-day speech, about the brave young men who climbed the cliffs of pointe du hoc, to reach a suspected german gun in placement 100 feet up. that is where we begin this morning. normandy, france, for the 80th anniversary of the d-day landings, the invasion that propelled the end to world war ii. right now, president biden is meeting with global leaders and the veterans who sacrificed th ....
Is what king charles is saying in normandy this week about, we were always great allies. that is not really true. in the first couple of years of this war, were really the u.s. and written trying to learn how to cooperate and be allies together. at one point, there was a real, organized, concerted isolationist movement in the u.s. a lot of people didn t want the country to enter world war ii. now we see a lot of that same attitude now. how did the men who actually fought feel about crossing the atlantic and putting their lives on the line? yeah, that is where you see these domestic politics play in this invasion. churchill is really feeling for those first couple of years of the war, before pearl harbor, that he is standing alone against the nazis in europe, and he is banking roosevelt for resources that roosevelt says he can t give because of the isolationism. and then he has this amazing ....