via the winds this is cnn, the world s news welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper on june 6, 1944, american, canadian, british, and other allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in history. nearly 160,000 troops landed along five beaches in normandy, france. and what became known as d-day it was a turning point in the war in europe world war ii was fought against fascist regimes and germany and italy and imperial japan the victory of democratic principles was hard. one but 80 years have passed since d-day. and we thought it a good time to take a look at the state of our democracy today over the next hour, cnn s jake tapper looks back at d-day sacrifices. so many young men made on those beaches in normandy that day. and what it means to us now what were we fighting for? we were locked a battle with fascism. we re fighting for our freedom, for the freedom to think as we wish kopan with they gave their life to preserve and protect that constitution the
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fast if possible. it s possible wow. all right. well, thank you all very much. i appreciate it. good to see you and tomorrow we ll see what we get. thanks for joining us are breaking news coverage continues now with anderson good evening. thanks for joining us. it went from early this morning, late into the evening and adjust wrapped up first the defense and then the prosecution, the first criminal trial ever of a former president having their final say, jurors will get the case tomorrow. it hadn t prosecutor joshua steinglass until moments go walking them step by step by step through the former president s hush money payment to stormy daniels shortly before the 2016 election in the alleged scheme to hide it from voters. now he emphasized how much of the case in his telling did not rely solely on the testimony of former fixer, michael cohen, who s faults acknowledged saying, quote, we didn t pick him up. the witness store. as for defense attorney todd blanche, she accused c
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
of the european continent china is challenging the us led world order there are threats to democracy at home, both in europe and in the united states may seem what s happened since the 2020 election here. there s a european union election on sunday that is going to probably see gains for far-right parties that are very much sort of resonating the same rhetoric as the america first donald trump movement here. so it could well be a turning point. and as these old soldiers fete, the memories of what this events that for de day and what it s meant and the legacy of built a becoming less and less prevalent our old soldiers were seeing some of them now we re very lucky to have these remaining few still with us as we mark what is likely the last significance, 80th i commemoration of d-day cedric leighton steven notes