1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: with you, Senator, it's an international pod tonight, as you're 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 1: across the pond. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 2: Well, that's right. This is our very first podcast that 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 2: I have done from Paris, France. I am in Paris 6 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: right now. I flew yesterday to Normandy to be here 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 2: for the eightieth anniversary of D Day. I was at 8 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: the celebration all day. I've got meetings the next couple 9 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 2: of days here. 10 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 3: Uh. 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: And it was really an incredible time celebrating what was 12 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: what was an historic landmark, a milestone that that changed 13 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 2: the course of history. And the heroism, the courage that 14 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 2: was shown by by by those American gis that that 15 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 2: that that that landed on the coast of France, and 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 2: and that that that invaded the continent to take take 17 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 2: back the continent from the Nazis. It was incredibly dangerous, 18 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 2: incredibly difficult, incredibly inspiring, and it changed the course of history. 19 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, it is truly incredible. And there's also the politics 20 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: that are now coming out with the Biden campaign as well. 21 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 4: Uh. 22 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: They're now trying to use D Day to advocate for 23 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,400 Speaker 1: funding with Ukraine that had to be shocking to you. 24 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 2: Well, it's not surprising because everything they do is political. 25 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 2: That that that's how that that's how they approach. Unfortunately, 26 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 2: day to day life is it's all politics all the time. 27 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 5: Uh. 28 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 2: But but I got to tell you that nothing can 29 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 2: really diminish the experience of being here. It truly is extraordinary, uh, 30 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 2: being with being with heroes, and and and and there 31 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: were hundreds of World War Two veterans who came back 32 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 2: for the eightieth anniversary of D Day. And these these 33 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 2: guys are all you know, in their late nineties or 34 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 2: in their hundreds. You know, if they were eighteen years 35 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 2: old eighty years ago than they're ninety eight today. Now 36 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: there's several of them that were even seventeen and sixteen 37 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 2: and lied about their ages. So there are a couple 38 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: that are younger, that are ninety six and ninety seven. 39 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 2: But I visited today with with with one World War 40 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 2: Two veteran. There was one hundred and four. And these 41 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 2: guys are incredible euros And when you look at what 42 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 2: they did, it was truly incredible. June fourth, nineteen forty four, 43 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 2: Operation Overlord, which was the code name for the Allied 44 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 2: invasion of Normandy France. More than one hundred and fifty 45 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 2: thousand troops landed at D Day, and when they landed, 46 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 2: they they landed into German machine gun fire. You had soldiers, had, 47 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 2: you had barriers they'd put on the beach. And more 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 2: than twenty nine thousand US servicemen members were either killed 49 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 2: or injured during the norm of the operation, including more 50 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 2: than six thousand on the very first day of the landing. 51 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 2: And it is when you look at today. 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This adieth anniversary, and 82 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: you mentioned hundreds came over, and there's so many veterans 83 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: groups that just do amazing work fundraising and helping these veterans, 84 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: these heroes war to even get to Normandy to D Day, 85 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: and the way that they do it and the way 86 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: that they give them such honor and respect from the 87 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: moment that they get to the airport in the US 88 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: until the moment this trip is over when they get 89 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: back home. But this is a very significant year because 90 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: it is the eightieth anniversary, and if you just do 91 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 1: the math, a lot of these veterans that you got 92 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: to be with literally today this will probably be their 93 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: last time to go to Normandy, just because of age. 94 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 2: Well, that's right. And I had the opportunity to go 95 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 2: to the seventy fifth anniversary five years ago and I 96 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 2: didn't go. I had a scheduling conflict and I had 97 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 2: something else I had to do, and I have regretted 98 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 2: it every day since then. I should have fixed the 99 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 2: scheduling conflict. That I was mad at myself that I 100 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 2: didn't just just push aside the scheduling conflict and go 101 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 2: for the seventy fifth. So for the eightieth anniversary, you're right, 102 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 2: there's a very good chance that the next one that 103 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 2: happens that we're not going to have World War Two 104 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 2: veterans still with us, or if we do, it's going 105 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:55,799 Speaker 2: to be very very few. And actually the news broke 106 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 2: today the one of the World War two veterans who 107 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 2: was one hundred and two actually died traveling to France 108 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 2: to come to this and and it's just, you know, 109 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 2: they're they're at the age now where they all understand 110 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 2: that this is the you know, the the the the 111 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 2: end of their passage. But but it was incredible. I 112 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 2: spent a lot of the day shaking hands with with 113 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 2: with these men, thanking them. And you know, it's interesting 114 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 2: then that there's a consistency in that, one after the 115 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 2: other after the other. When you thank them for their bravery, bravery, 116 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 2: they'll say, look, I I just did my job. If 117 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 2: you call them a hero, they'll argue with you. They'll say, 118 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 2: I wasn't a hero. Uh. The the heroes are buried 119 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 2: behind us. And and I got to say, when you 120 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 2: you stand in the cemetery and you just see the 121 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 2: line after line of white crosses and white stars of David, 122 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 2: of servicemen and women, when you walk through that cemetery 123 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 2: and you read name after name after name, and they're 124 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 2: all so young. They're all eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one 125 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 2: years old, and so many of them they came off 126 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 2: and amphibious ship and were shot and killed right on 127 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 2: the beach. And it's incredible. 128 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: You know, my grandfather fought in War two and he 129 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: talked about when they all just went and signed up, 130 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: and the story that he wanted his grandsons to know 131 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: was how many young men signed up And you mentioned 132 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: their age. Many of them lied about their age to 133 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: serve their country. They were seventeen and even sixteen, and 134 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: they lied. And the people, some of the people, he said, 135 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 1: knew they were lying, and they went with it everyway 136 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: because it went with it anyway, because everybody was new 137 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: that this was a moment in history that you had 138 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: to stand up and fight the Nazis or the world 139 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: could fall. 140 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, including George Herbert Walker Bush, who, if I remember correctly, 141 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 2: was seventeen when when he signed up to go fight 142 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 2: in World War two. I mean, and that was you know, 143 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 2: you had had young Americans stepping forward saying We're going 144 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 2: to defend the world from tyranny and you know, particularly 145 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 2: after Pearl Harbor and the attack on Pearl Harbor, when 146 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 2: America was thrust into the war, you had just just 147 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 2: ordinary people who did extraordinary things. And imagine how different 148 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 2: the course of history would have been if the Nazis 149 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 2: had prevailed. Yeah, Adolf Hitler lived his life as the 150 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 2: dictator of Europe. The Nazis were unmitigated evil. We now 151 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 2: know and many didn't know at the time about the 152 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 2: concentration camps where they murdered over six million Jews. It 153 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 2: was there are wars where both sides are in the 154 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 2: right and both sides are in the wrong. World War 155 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 2: two is not one of us the Nazis. The world 156 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 2: would have been fundamentally different had the Allies not prevailed. 157 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 2: And D Day, look, Dinna was not guaranteed to be 158 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 2: a success. It was one of the most difficult military 159 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 2: assaults ever planned, ever executed. And when you look at 160 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 2: when you look at the cliffs they climbed, when you 161 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 2: looked at look at the elevation they had to scale, 162 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 2: and you imagine doing it with hand grenades and machine 163 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 2: gun fire coming down at you, not to mention uh, 164 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 2: incoming fire from from airplanes and and I mean it 165 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 2: is extraordinary. 166 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: My grandfather and my grandfather told me about D Day. 167 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: He said, it was a day that we all knew 168 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: that many of our friends were going to die, and 169 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: that was accepted. It was just how many were going 170 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: to die? 171 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 2: Well, look and if you were, if you were in 172 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 2: the first wave of the boats, almost all of those 173 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 2: soldiers died. Uh and it h there there was The 174 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 2: stakes were enormous. And what our country did without America 175 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 2: in that war. Germany wins and and we came in 176 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 2: and it was a moment that changed the course of history. 177 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: Sinner. I want to talk about just the reaction first 178 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: to Americans in France and and being at this ceremony, 179 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: how how are you and and the rest of the 180 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:17,199 Speaker 1: people that are there, especially the veterans, how are they 181 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: received by the people in France? And then I want 182 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: to talk about just you, even the logistics and getting 183 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: to this event and how all this came about. 184 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 2: Well, look, the veterans are embraced and people are applauding 185 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 2: and saying thank you, and I mean there's just an 186 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 2: enormous amount of love and and look President McCrone was there, 187 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 2: and and he was he was very gracious and and 188 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 2: and he said quite rightly that that that the the 189 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 2: American invasion at the day, and it was all the Allies, 190 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,599 Speaker 2: but it was the Americans leading it. Uh that that 191 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 2: that that it liberated Frankis that that that France had 192 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 2: been honkerd by Thenazis and and it's uh, the reaction 193 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 2: in seeing these these heroes, most of them now are 194 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 2: in wheelchairs and they just have a line of people 195 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 2: coming up saying thank you and wanting to take pictures 196 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 2: with them and shake their hands, and they're just, uh, 197 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 2: you know, there's an enormous amount of appreciation when. 198 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: When when you got this obviously the invite to go, 199 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 1: how does this work? Who all got to go on 200 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: this trip to obviously honor our men and women that 201 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: gave the ultimate sacrifice or young boys. But you're going 202 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: to honor uh and represent the United States of America. 203 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: What do the logistics even look like? 204 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 2: Well? Sure, so this is what's called a codel, which 205 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 2: is a congressional delegation and and and it's official travel 206 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 2: by members of Congress. And there are lots of codels 207 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 2: that this is part of the job that you travel, 208 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 2: You travel to other countries and you meet with military leaders, 209 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 2: you meet with foreign leaders that that is a very 210 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:11,439 Speaker 2: important part of doing the job. I'm going to send 211 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 2: it foreign Relations Committee, and so traveling to other countries, 212 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 2: meeting with other leaders, understanding that this situation is very important. 213 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 2: This codell. Typically codels are organized by one or two senators. 214 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 2: This codell was organized by Richard Blomenthal, the Democrats from Connecticut, 215 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 2: and John Boseman, a Republican from Arkansas. And this was 216 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: a big codell. This was larger than normal. Often codels 217 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 2: are in the Senate or three or four or five 218 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 2: senators is a typical codell. This one, I think the 219 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 2: council was nineteen, so you had a lot of Senators 220 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 2: that came, and then there were a bunch of House 221 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 2: members that came. I actually don't know how many House members, 222 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 2: but I'd say twenty or thirty. It was a big 223 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 2: group of House members that were here. And so the 224 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 2: the logistically, the way this one worked is that we 225 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 2: met at the Capitol and then we went over to 226 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 2: Andrew's Air Force Base and we flew from Andrews Air 227 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 2: Force Base to France on Air Force planes. So it's 228 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 2: what's called mill Air Military air and so the Air 229 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 2: Force maintains a number of planes that are used for 230 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 2: official travel. And so we left on Wednesday late afternoons. 231 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 2: We flew all night. We tried to sleep on the 232 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 2: plane as much as we could, although you know, according 233 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 2: to my are a ring tracker, I've had a total 234 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 2: of fifty one minute sleep last night. 235 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: So I've got to know you and I sleep as 236 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: well on planes. I can't do it no matter what, 237 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: even overseas. I've never been able to sleep on planes. 238 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just hard to sleep in an airplane. Plane. 239 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 2: I got fifty one minutes that I've passed out, but 240 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 2: it just I find it really tough to sleep in 241 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 2: an airplane plane seats. But so we landed. We landed 242 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 2: early in the morning today, so today is Thursday. We 243 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: landed early in the morning at about six thirty in 244 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 2: the morning, and we all uh disembarked the plane and 245 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 2: changed clothes, so you know, I mean we traveled in 246 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 2: jeans and traveling clothes, but then we changed to put 247 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 2: on put on a suit and put on business business attire. Uh, 248 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 2: And then we all got in buses to head to 249 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 2: the ceremony. And there were there were two ceremonies today. 250 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 2: There was one the American ceremony, uh. And that's that 251 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 2: the American Cemetery, and that both Joe Biden and Macron 252 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 2: both spoke there and and that had a lot of 253 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 2: time honoring uh the World War Two veterans who were there. 254 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 2: And then after that there was an international ceremony uh 255 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 2: that featured a number of heads of state and and 256 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 2: Justin Trudeau from Canada was there, and Prince Terry from 257 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 2: the UK was there and and and it was that 258 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 2: was predominantly driven by the French. So the international event 259 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 2: was was very different from the American event. I attended both. 260 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 2: And then after the events, Uh, now we're we're up 261 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 2: in Normandy and and the rest of the trip is 262 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 2: in Paris. So we uh we got on Blackhawk helicopters 263 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 2: and went from Normandy to Paris. And how long is 264 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 2: that fly? 265 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: Out of curiosity? How long is that? And and and 266 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,919 Speaker 1: and and taking off from Normandy in a Blackhawk, that 267 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: to me just seems really I don't know, touching historically. 268 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: I mean you're taking the same flight that that many 269 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: people were, you know, coming in and parachuting in. 270 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it was really head cool, like there's no 271 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 2: other way like as the helicopters taking off, and you're 272 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 2: like looking at the beach and you're envisioning. When you're 273 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 2: looking at the beach, you're envisioning just one hundred and 274 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 2: fifty thousand gis landing on that beach. You're envisioning the 275 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:23,479 Speaker 2: smoke and the screens and the blood and the machine guns, 276 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 2: and you're envisioning the ships as far as the eye 277 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 2: can see, and the paratroopers raining down from on high 278 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 2: and it was just kind of amazing. And for a 279 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 2: chunk of it, we flew along the coast before we 280 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 2: cut in to go to Paris, and so it was 281 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 2: really you're flying over the French countryside and seeing the 282 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 2: countryside and seeing the coast. That was very cool. 283 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 4: And it. 284 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 2: Ended up. I mean, it's now what time is it now? 285 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 2: It is eleven oh eight pm. So this has been 286 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,360 Speaker 2: a very long day. We landed at Frances six point 287 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 2: thirty in the morning and just got to the hotel 288 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 2: room at eleven o'clock at night, so it has been 289 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 2: a full day, but it was And then tomorrow I'm 290 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 2: up early and a meeting with with the US embassy 291 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 2: and doing the briefing with military briefing, and we've got 292 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 2: a whole series of of meetings on issues impacting France 293 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 2: and Europe that that that that I'll be attending. And 294 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 2: then also on Saturday, we're going to go back to 295 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 2: Normandy and do a tour of the battlefield and have 296 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 2: an historical tour, which I'm really looking forward to as well. 297 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,479 Speaker 2: Today was the ceremony itself, but I'm looking forward to 298 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 2: to to getting into some of the some of the 299 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 2: real details of how how the invasion unfolded and what happened. 300 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: I was watching Biden on on TV and and there 301 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: was two faces that I noticed sitting there close to 302 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,919 Speaker 1: the front, two men that you got to meet today, 303 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: and and and there's certain people and and moments where 304 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: you meet a person in the context of some of 305 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: their greatest work and it excites you. 306 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:06,199 Speaker 6: Uh. 307 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: Two of those people you met today with Steven Spielberg 308 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: and Tom Hanks, these are, as you described them, two 309 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: master storytellers who've done a beautiful job chronicling the incredible 310 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: heroism of the Greatest Generation. I could not agree with 311 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: you more. What was it like to be there in 312 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: Normandy with them and all that they have done to 313 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 1: really raise awareness of the Greatest Generation and the Ultimate Sacrifice. 314 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was really cool. Like I had not met 315 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 2: either one of them before, and they were both just 316 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 2: kind of standing around before the ceremony started. They were 317 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 2: talking to various people and and so I came up 318 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 2: and introduced myself. I a conversation with both of them. 319 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 2: With Spielberg, it was, you know, I said, you know, 320 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 2: I told he's an amazing movie maker, and I love 321 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 2: you know this, I love movies. I'm a diehard movie buff, 322 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 2: and I just, you know, telling story as is incredibly important. 323 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,360 Speaker 2: And I actually I relate a story to him. So 324 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 2: Saving Private Ryan, my uncle was a Vietnam vest and 325 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 2: he worked for years as a counselor at the VA 326 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 2: dealing with veterans who had mental health issues. And my 327 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 2: uncle told me that when Saving Private Ryan came out, 328 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 2: you know, the first twenty thirty minutes of it, where 329 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 2: they're landing, I mean, it's as intense a war scene 330 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 2: as I think there's ever been in a movie. And 331 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 2: what I told Spielberg is, I said, my uncle told 332 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 2: me that he had a lot of vets coming in 333 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 2: were really triggered by that scene, and what they told 334 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 2: him is that it got the sounds right. And they 335 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 2: said it was the first war movie that got the 336 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 2: sounds of combat exactly right, and it was bringing bet 337 00:21:55,760 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 2: back like being back in in combat. So he was 338 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 2: a therapist helping them work through that, and it was interesting. 339 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 2: Spielbert was telling me. He said, look, they went to 340 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 2: great lengths, you know, they they took all the different 341 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 2: weapons and they fired them and had the microphones to 342 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 2: to number one record the sounds of them. But they 343 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 2: also he said, fired them into in decide to beat 344 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,479 Speaker 2: to get the like sound of them hitting a body 345 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 2: and breaking bone and flesh. But and I took my 346 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 2: uncle said also the sounds of bricichet and water with 347 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 2: the bullets. That that in particular was an aspect that 348 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 2: was really hope. You know. I also talked to him 349 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 2: about Schindler's List, which was another incredible movie, And I 350 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 2: was talking to you about how moved I was by 351 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 2: the scene at the end where you know, Oscar Schindler's 352 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 2: is sitting there after having saved so many people from 353 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 2: concentration camp, saying, you know, he looks at his gold 354 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 2: watch and says, you know, my god, I could have 355 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 2: saved three people with that. How do I have a 356 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 2: watch and three people are dead like that. The guilt 357 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 2: he felt that as much as he did, he could 358 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 2: have done more. 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Now, interestingly enough, Tom Hanks is actually 402 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 2: pretty tall, which I yeah, Uh, it's when I met him. 403 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 2: He's I don't know, maybe he's sixty two or six three. 404 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 2: He was at least on five to eleven. He was 405 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 2: at least three inches tallar I am, which which I 406 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 2: didn't expect. Uh. And he's kind of skinny. He was 407 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 2: tall and kind of skinny, which is not. Yeah, he's 408 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 2: taller than he appears in movies that he was very 409 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 2: charting and and and we chatted a little bit and 410 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 2: and uh and you know he said, uh, you know 411 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 2: he said he said something along the lines of, you know, 412 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 2: you know, I'm not going to vote for you. And 413 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 2: I kind of laughed and said, well, you're not going 414 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 2: to vote for me yet. You know, I'm suffered enough. 415 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 2: I haven't given up on I'm convincing of that. But 416 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 2: it was, you know, he did it in a way 417 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 2: that was not of not just looked both Philberg and 418 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 2: Hanks or democrats. They're very vocal Democrats. But you know 419 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 2: that's we were not there talking politics that day where 420 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 2: I mean and you look at whether it's Saving Private 421 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 2: Ryan or you, or or it is Band of Brothers 422 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 2: and The Pacific, both of which are just incredible series. 423 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 2: I've watched both of them, and they do such a 424 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 2: powerful job of recounting World War Two, both in Europe 425 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 2: and and and the Pacific, and and you know the 426 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 2: heart that each of them has for telling those stories. 427 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 2: And I was talking with Stilbert more than Hanks, but 428 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 2: I was talking about how important it was to tell 429 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 2: the stories of these veterans. You know, we're losing them 430 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 2: every day, we're losing them. We're coming to the end 431 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 2: that when we're going to have them with us and 432 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,199 Speaker 2: telling their stories so they're not forgotten, I think is 433 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 2: really really really important. 434 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's vitally important. I want to go to the 435 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: president's speech. Lloyd Austin spoke and then the President spoke 436 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 1: and and I actually played some of that on my show, 437 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,439 Speaker 1: and I said this at the beginning. I said, I 438 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: always root for the President of the United States of 439 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: America on moments like this, on today's like this to 440 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: have an amazing speech. And I root for the president always, 441 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: my president always when it comes to national security issues, 442 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: especially and when it comes to honoring our men and 443 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: women in uniform. And the President gave a speech, and 444 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,919 Speaker 1: I was why it. With the best of intentions, I 445 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,159 Speaker 1: wanted to root for this speech, but there were some 446 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: moments in that speech that caught me a little bit 447 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: by surprise, and I wanted to know your thoughts on this. 448 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 1: There was a couple points where Biden tried to invoke Ukraine, 449 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: and he also said this, which the media even picked 450 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: up on. Here's what he had to say during the 451 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: speech about democracy in America. 452 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 3: Now, the question for us is in our our trial, 453 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 3: will we do ours? We're living at a time when 454 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 3: democracy had more risk across the world than a point 455 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 3: since the end of World War II, since these beaches 456 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 3: were stormed in nineteen forty four. Now we have to 457 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 3: ask ourselves, will we stand against tyranny, against evil, against 458 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 3: crushing brutality of the iron fist, when we stand for freedom, 459 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 3: when we defend democracy, we stand together? My answer is yes, 460 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 3: all we can be yes. 461 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: That was an interesting point for me because he said 462 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: democracy is more at risk now than at any point since 463 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: World War Two. He talked about it on a domestic side, 464 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: which was implying I think Donald Trump is a threat 465 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: to democracy, and then he implied it with obviously Russia 466 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: and Ukraine, and I wanted your reaction to that. 467 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to say, this is an interesting 468 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 2: example of having a different reaction to something when you're 469 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 2: physically there versus watching it on TV here or watching 470 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 2: it on Twitter. Look, I know, on the way after 471 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 2: the speech, like looking at Twitter and people's reactions, I 472 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 2: know people are upset that they viewed Biden as politicizing here. 473 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 2: I got to say, it didn't feel that political being 474 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 2: there in person, and maybe it's because frankly, you're paying 475 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 2: attention to the veteran and the heroes you're in front of, 476 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 2: and it's so dominated things that you know what Biden said, 477 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 2: he barely paid attention to it, like it was not 478 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 2: it wasn't the dominant events of the day. And you know, 479 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,719 Speaker 2: it was fine, he said, Okay, you know what was 480 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 2: actually stood out much more to me than anything Biden said. 481 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 4: Who was that was? 482 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 2: But prone did something that was really cool, which is 483 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 2: he awarded the French Legion of Honor too. It was 484 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:37,719 Speaker 2: about eight or ten American gis and and he, you know, 485 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 2: he and each of them, they were almost all the wheelchairs. 486 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 2: Each of them would stand for it, and they're teetering 487 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 2: and they'd have someone helping them, but they wanted to 488 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 2: stand and he would pin on their chest the French 489 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,719 Speaker 2: legion of Honor that I wasn't expecting, and that was 490 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 2: just powerful. That was just like he was literally and 491 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 2: then it was funny. Macrow would lean in and he 492 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 2: would kiss them on both cheeks as the French way. 493 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 2: You could kind of see these old dudes be like, hey, 494 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 2: why is this frenchy KidSing? But you know it's your 495 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 2: big awarded, the French legion of honor. That's a pretty 496 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 2: damn big deal. And you think about it for someone 497 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 2: who was nineteen and and was right there, I mean, understand, 498 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 2: we're doing this like right next to the beaches where 499 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 2: they saw their friends die, right next to the beaches 500 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 2: where I'm going to have to assume that was the 501 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 2: most hellish day they've ever experienced. There was certainly one 502 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 2: of them, although those that continue to fight in the 503 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 2: war there may have been others that rivaled it. But 504 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 2: you know, you think about it, imagine being one hundred 505 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 2: years old and the president of France thanking you and 506 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 2: for liberating France. And pinning the legion of honor on 507 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 2: your chest. 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He did an interview from Normandy with the 535 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 1: backdrop behind him of many of the heroes and the 536 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: crosses of those tombstones of somebody that lost their lives. 537 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 1: He had this to say, marking the eightieth anniversary of 538 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: D Day, and I want to get your reaction. 539 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 5: And joining us now from Normandy, the United States Secretary 540 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 5: of State, Anthony Blincoln, thank you very much for joining 541 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 5: us here on morning. 542 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 4: Joe. 543 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 5: What should our allies and enemies take away from the 544 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 5: President's speech this morning in Normandy? 545 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 6: The same result, all that the extraordinary men and women 546 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 6: that were celebrating today showed, then he's showing now because 547 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 6: they did what they did. We're here today and we 548 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 6: not only have responsibility to honor what they did. But 549 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 6: the real way to honor it is to make sure 550 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 6: that we're good in our time, in our moment, in 551 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 6: standing up to the challenges that we face. And one 552 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,719 Speaker 6: of those we see now is aggression from Russia, not 553 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 6: only against Ukraine, but against the very principles at the 554 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 6: heart of the international system that were put in place 555 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 6: after World War Two to try to make sure that 556 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 6: we didn't have another World war, that we maintained peace 557 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,760 Speaker 6: and security. And presidents determined to make sure we're standing 558 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 6: up today just as they stood up eighty years ago. 559 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 5: And the President talked about Ukraine as one of the 560 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 5: current challenges that exemplify the fight against dark forces that 561 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 5: never fade, and he made another, yet another commitment. He 562 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 5: reinforced the commitment to Ukraine. And by the way, if 563 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,240 Speaker 5: I may, we're watching live pictures right now of President 564 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:13,280 Speaker 5: Biden and the First Lady walking through the cemetery in Normandy, France. 565 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 5: And as we look at these pictures which really symbolize 566 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 5: the losses eighty years ago on d Day, and talk 567 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 5: about the losses that Ukraine is incurring right now from 568 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 5: the same type of aggression. The President did say that 569 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:36,840 Speaker 5: the support for Ukraine would continue, that we will be 570 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:42,680 Speaker 5: there for Ukraine. How does that parallel with some of 571 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 5: the reticents we have seen in Washington that actually delayed 572 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 5: the much needed aid Ukraine needed to push back against 573 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 5: Russian aggression. 574 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:55,919 Speaker 6: Well, you don't make it that age should have gotten 575 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,839 Speaker 6: there a long time ago. But I'm glad it's there 576 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,239 Speaker 6: now and it's making a difference every single day. We're 577 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,320 Speaker 6: pushing it out to the front lines, making sure the 578 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,839 Speaker 6: Ukrainians who need it against this Russian aggression have it 579 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 6: and can use it. But you know, there's a really 580 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 6: powerful parallel too between what we're commemorating today and what 581 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,040 Speaker 6: we're doing now. Back then, it wasn't just the United 582 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 6: States here in Normandy. Twelve countries came together, one hundred 583 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 6: and sixty thousand men coming to this beach, coming to 584 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 6: start the final fight that ultimately, eleven months later, led 585 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:25,520 Speaker 6: to victory in World War Two. 586 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 2: In Ukraine, we have more than. 587 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 6: Fifty countries standing up, standing together making sure that Ukraine 588 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,319 Speaker 6: has what it needs to defend itself and to push 589 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 6: back this aggression. And that's the power of our alliances. 590 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,400 Speaker 6: And that's the biggest difference maker we have in the world. 591 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 6: Our adversaries are competitors. They don't have the same kind 592 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 6: of voluntary alliances. Yeah, sometimes they course countries into helping them, 593 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,440 Speaker 6: or maybe they pay them off. Here we have country 594 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 6: after country that volunteers to stand together, stand together in 595 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 6: defensive principles that we share and no need defending. We're 596 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,520 Speaker 6: seeing that in Ukraine. We saw that eighty years ago 597 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,920 Speaker 6: here in Normandy. 598 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 1: You listen to that. It was very clear that NBC 599 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 1: was wanting to make that and and B. Lincoln wanted 600 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 1: to make that connection. And this deals with the reality 601 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,399 Speaker 1: of Foreign policy Center. He said, it is exact quote, 602 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,880 Speaker 1: there's a really powerful parallel between D Day and the 603 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 1: Ukraine War. 604 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:24,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, there's no. That's Look, this White House does 605 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,960 Speaker 2: all politics all the time. It's what they do. They spin, spin, spin, 606 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:36,160 Speaker 2: and the two are fundamentally different. You know. I wish 607 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 2: they would treat a solemn commemoration like this for what 608 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,440 Speaker 2: it is, a solemn commemoration, and not treated as another 609 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 2: day in politics. Now, I will say President Zolensky was there, 610 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,760 Speaker 2: He was at the events, and so that did add 611 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,799 Speaker 2: some of the focus to it. And actually, I think 612 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,480 Speaker 2: tomorrow we're maybe sitting down a meeting with President's Elynky 613 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,920 Speaker 2: and listen, I agree that we want Russia to loose, 614 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,200 Speaker 2: that Russia is our enemy. Now, Vladimir Putin is not 615 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 2: Adolf Hitler. He's our enemy, but he doesn't have concentration 616 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 2: cancer where he's murdering six million people right now. He 617 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 2: is our enemy and he does not wish us well. 618 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 2: And so I think Vladimir Putin is a KG because 619 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:30,040 Speaker 2: it's an America's interest for Russia to lose. But and 620 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,560 Speaker 2: we've talked about this at great length on the pods, 621 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,000 Speaker 2: it is Joe Biden's fault and Tony Lincoln's fault. The 622 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,839 Speaker 2: Ukraine War happened in the first place. Joe Biden gave 623 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:45,480 Speaker 2: multi billion dollar gifts, says Vladimir Putin when he weighs 624 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:49,280 Speaker 2: sanctions on the North String two pipeline sanctions that I authored. 625 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,920 Speaker 2: I wrote the legislation, wrote them into law, and Putin 626 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:57,520 Speaker 2: stopped building that pipeline the day President Trump signed my 627 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,280 Speaker 2: sanctioned legislation in the law. If Biden had not weighed 628 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,800 Speaker 2: those sanctions, the war in Ukraine would not have happened. 629 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,400 Speaker 2: If Donald Trump were still in the White House. The 630 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,880 Speaker 2: war in Ukraine would not have happened. It's Joe Biden's 631 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:15,359 Speaker 2: weakness that caused the war in Ukraine. And by the way, 632 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,920 Speaker 2: as much as Biden and Blincoln want to see themselves 633 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,759 Speaker 2: as Churchill and Sdr, if there isn't, If there is 634 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 2: a World War two analogy, then Biden is Neville Chamberlain. 635 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,000 Speaker 2: He is the one who is weak. He is the appeaser. 636 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,719 Speaker 2: He is the one who gave billions to Russia. He 637 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,080 Speaker 2: is the one who gives billions to Iran. He's the 638 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:40,080 Speaker 2: one that constantly shows weakness to our enemies, which is 639 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:44,240 Speaker 2: why we went from peace and prosperity what he inherited 640 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:47,360 Speaker 2: three and a half years ago, to two simultaneous wars 641 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,359 Speaker 2: playing out across the face of the globe. And look, 642 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,840 Speaker 2: I'm glad. Biden says he stands for freedom against tyranny. 643 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 2: He can't seem to figure that out in Israel because 644 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,560 Speaker 2: he blocking weapons going to Israel and at the same 645 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,880 Speaker 2: time blowing money to a ran that goes to Hamas. 646 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,120 Speaker 2: And so when it comes to freedom and tyranny, he 647 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,520 Speaker 2: manages to be on the wrong side of that an 648 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:14,200 Speaker 2: awful lot. 649 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. I'm really thankful that you 650 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,360 Speaker 1: got to be there and we got to talk about 651 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:26,160 Speaker 1: this and honor our our, our amazing brave men who 652 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:29,280 Speaker 1: went and fought, and the women that were involved as well. 653 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,399 Speaker 2: By the way, you know who I met. I met 654 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:33,880 Speaker 2: the original. 655 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,839 Speaker 1: Rosie the Riveter No way, no way. 656 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,960 Speaker 2: That was really cool. She she's like one hundred years old, 657 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,239 Speaker 2: but she was the original Rosie the Riveter in in 658 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,960 Speaker 2: in those ads, you know, drumming up support for the military, 659 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:49,839 Speaker 2: and that was very cool. 660 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,960 Speaker 1: That's incredible. Well, what what a trip. 661 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:54,080 Speaker 4: You know. 662 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,120 Speaker 1: My first question on the next pod is going to 663 00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:00,000 Speaker 1: be about your meeting with with Ukraine's Zelenski, So I'm 664 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,360 Speaker 1: giving your heads up. That's what everybody listening is going 665 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,520 Speaker 1: to be like, how did that go and what was said? 666 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,840 Speaker 1: So I have a feeling we'll have that for you 667 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,640 Speaker 1: coming up on the next pod. I'm glad, what a 668 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:14,280 Speaker 1: great day in history, What an amazing day to remember 669 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,319 Speaker 1: and to honor those and I really am glad that 670 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,040 Speaker 1: we got to talk to you about it live from France. 671 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,000 Speaker 1: It's incredible. 672 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,560 Speaker 2: I want to close out with with actually a really 673 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:29,440 Speaker 2: cool thing. So at the International Ceremony, they had the 674 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,359 Speaker 2: International Ceremony of it, and there was a lot of 675 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:38,040 Speaker 2: a lot of music. They had young people singing, but 676 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:44,120 Speaker 2: that they had a military choir singing gory, gory, what 677 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,040 Speaker 2: a hell of a way to die, which is the 678 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,919 Speaker 2: formal name of it is Blood on the Risers, which 679 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,000 Speaker 2: is the America song by American paratroopers, and it's look, 680 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,360 Speaker 2: it's a gory song that they sung about what was happening. 681 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,560 Speaker 2: And it was amazing singing and singing it. So I 682 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,239 Speaker 2: want to close it by playing I just videoed on 683 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,440 Speaker 2: my iPhone the last two stanzas of it, and I 684 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,080 Speaker 2: want to close the pod by playing that because I 685 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,719 Speaker 2: got to say, in some ways it was dark, but 686 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:16,000 Speaker 2: in some ways it was beautiful. These are nineteen year 687 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,800 Speaker 2: old boys singing that they know they may be about 688 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,360 Speaker 2: to die, but they're going willingly into it. And so 689 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,080 Speaker 2: let's close. You know, Ben's wright, Subscribe to the pod, 690 00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,080 Speaker 2: give us a five star review, sent it to all 691 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,759 Speaker 2: your friends. All that's true, But listen to this and 692 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,640 Speaker 2: just think about this is a military band, military choir 693 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:41,640 Speaker 2: in France singing this. But imagine the nineteen year old 694 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,800 Speaker 2: gis getting ready to get on the plane and knowing 695 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,759 Speaker 2: that they're going to be jumping out really close to 696 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:53,440 Speaker 2: the ground with massive machine gun fire, and they may 697 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:59,680 Speaker 2: not live another hour. And knowing what they were facing, 698 00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,000 Speaker 2: they'd they get it with with eyes opened and in 699 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,719 Speaker 2: a heart full of love for America? 700 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,120 Speaker 7: Is everybody had to try? 701 00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:12,520 Speaker 4: A sad looking out o here of Favid answer yes, and. 702 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:17,040 Speaker 7: And the story he tatory, I see us, It's time 703 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:18,000 Speaker 7: decline and hook. 704 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:25,319 Speaker 4: And he had cology. Oh holy, what the hell? 705 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:26,359 Speaker 2: A way to die? 706 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:32,759 Speaker 4: Gory ory one a hell the way to die? Carry on, 707 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:41,320 Speaker 4: hell the way to die. He hates COLOGI, No, it's lone, 708 00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:42,920 Speaker 4: be found in lone. 709 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:49,640 Speaker 7: You waited, follow the shot, you sl you have the cold, 710 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:56,320 Speaker 7: you have the awful troll, the sit THRONI his missleves till. 711 00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,080 Speaker 4: Oh rot trod. 712 00:43:58,480 --> 00:43:58,799 Speaker 7: Is that. 713 00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:17,600 Speaker 4: Cos O recall me? Will recalled re water the light die, 714 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:26,200 Speaker 4: Oh recalled Rene. He had cons