they were poor, and they were facing violence. the idea that that is somehow better because they were all living in the same house. well, joy, listen, we need to continue the conversation, quite obviously, my friend. there s a lot to unpack and that interview. thank you so much for joining me tonight. that is our show. over to lawrence o donnell, with the last word. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. glenn kershner is going to join us tonight because glenn kershner had the pleasure of being in the courtroom today when steve bannon got his report to prison date. so we will have the pleasure of hearing from glenn kershner how that went today. front-row seat to bannon s departure from the big house. i am eager to hear the caller. i am, too. thanks, alex. thank you. he wasn t the most important person there. the president of the united states is usually the most important person in the room or the most important person in the stadium, or the most important pers
in the world has never seen anything like it since. winston churchill called what happened here, quote, the greatest, most complicated operation ever. winston churchill wanted to be there. prime minister churchill, who was a combat veteran in his younger days, told the commander of the d-day invasion and future president of the united states, general dwight d eisenhower that he wanted the board and navy ship to get a closer view of the allied troops hitting the beach in normandy. general eisenhower told church hill that they could not take that risk. churchill told him, exasperated general eisenhower, that he would board a british navy ship and there is nothing the american general could do to stop him. and that was true. eisenhower couldn t stop church hill from ordering a british navy ship. but the king of england could. when king george heard that churchill was going to join the
as we moved steadily over the gray, whitecapped sea tour where, ahead of us, death was being issued in small, intimate, accurately administered packages. they were like the thunder of a storm that is passing in another county, whose rain will never reach you. but they were knocking out the shore batteries so that later, the destroyers could move in, almost to the shore. on the beach, on the lift, where there was no sheltering overhang of shingled bank, the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth waves lay where they had fallen, looking like so many heavily laden bundles on the flat pebbly beach. the few, the notable band of brothers, are here with us today. kenneth plane smith is here, on that day, under heavy artillery
that day would be shot dead by german fire as they were floating to earth, hanging from their parachutes. they would almost fall, land on french soil, dead. that was the prediction. paratroopers were going to land behind enemy lines so that if the soldiers who hit the beach could make it up the hill, past the first line of german defense, they would have the support of those brave paratroopers already on the ground in france, having landed in the middle of the night. general eisenhower was given a vision of all of those paratroopers, lying dead in french fields. and he knew that the invasion plan couldn t work without the paratroopers landing first. he also knew that the slightest change in the weather could completely defeat the invasion. and general eisenhower knew that it was possible.
its wings were ripped off by giant polls that the germans buried halfway in the ground to stop them from landing. they crashed, but they survived. and they did their duty, dragging injured soldiers to safety, treating wounds, saving lives of a battle raged. every soldier stormed the beach, landed by glider. every sailor, by the thousands of ships and landing craft. every aviator who destroyed controlled airfield, bridges, and railroads, all were backed by other brave americans, including hundreds of thousands of people of color and women who courageously served, despite unjust limitation on what they could do for our nation. lewis brown is here, part of