welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper on june 6 and 44, 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. on 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 and 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 in a battle with fascism. we re fighting for our freedom, for the freedom to think as we wish talked with they gave their life to preserve and protect that institutional. they died for our democracy. tha
obligated to respond allies, allies, allied when the british and the canadian and american troops landed on the beaches of normandy we were allies and we we re lincoln up with the french resistance to shore so that tell you deal with authoritarians. we get the allies together, the democracy together. you stand up to them for some d-day veterans, the russian invasion of ukraine has disturbing echoes of german occupation as history all over again. showloading lead down putin is just like hitler. your total big lie and you re telling it often enough, people get to believe you the threat he poses a real, he s a creature straight out at dusk, dfs can kinda put and be contained absolutely. putting can be contained. so long as the democracies state tightly linked i would just point out though right now,