brian: all right. here we go. it s #:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is thursday, june 6th. this is fox & friends. today marks the 80th anniversary of d-day when american troops, joined by others, stormed the beaches of germany to defeat germany ultimately setting the stage for victory in world war ii. for a 19-year-old, which i was then was extremely important. i wasn t afraid. people a hell of a lot tougher than you guys. brian: president biden is in normandy right now so is martha mccallum covering the moments and events of the day. she will join us. steve: meanwhile back here at home president trump s short list getting shorter. vetting is ramping up those are the folks on the list so far. ainsley: all right. they got some information. the destruction, the destructive tornadoes hitting maryland downing a lot of trees and trapping some of the residents. janice dean is trackenning all of that. lawrence: fox & friends starts right now and, remember, morning
it is an extraordinarily beautiful morning here in normandy. the sun is out. the skies are blue. you can see the beach behind me that is omaha beach where nearly 150,000 allied forces landed 80 years ago today. they started with parajumpers in the early hours of the morning and hours before that there were rangers who scaled the cliffs at point ahawk in order to take out german guns, 255 of those rangers, only 90 of them were still alive two days later. the extraordinary sacrifice of these young men is what you feel so intensely here at normandy this will never be forgotten and we need to understand context today. we will look for the president to speak about the context of this in the larger picture of