Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 784： Remembering D-Day 81 Years Ago

00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:00:17.900 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:00:23.220 Here's one time I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people.

00:00:27.500 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:00:28.980 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:00:30.900 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:00:33.540 It's going to happen.

00:00:34.820 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:00:38.200 MAGA Media.

00:00:39.600 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:00:44.960 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:00:48.760 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:00:54.940 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

00:00:58.980 All right, everybody.

00:01:05.360 Dave Bratt sitting in with the great Stephen K.

00:01:07.940 Bannon.

00:01:08.580 Just action-packed news all day today.

00:01:11.440 I'm sure you're just buried in the news like we are.

00:01:14.320 Started off the morning with a tribute to Carrick and the morning shows.

00:01:19.660 I was with Steve.

00:01:21.160 He wanted me to get into the economy a little bit.

00:01:23.400 We ran out of time, but good economic news today, right?

00:01:27.240 Wages are up 3.8%.

00:01:29.880 Inflation is only 2.3%.

00:01:33.200 And so when the wage rate is higher than the inflation rate, you're getting a real wage raise.

00:01:38.800 That's great news.

00:01:39.820 The jobs were good, better than expected.

00:01:43.020 The good buried lead in there is government, federal jobs were down.

00:01:48.720 And so you won't hear any of this reported anywhere, of course.

00:01:51.180 The stock market was up.

00:01:52.980 A bunch of good news coming in.

00:01:54.680 We don't pay attention to the stock market.

00:01:56.240 That's not our guiding light.

00:01:57.380 Guiding light is the fundamentals, the real economy.

00:02:00.420 And we want to get into that.

00:02:01.720 I, in particular, want to hit China today for a reason, right?

00:02:06.400 Ukraine, the never-ending war camp, the globalists, the Euro folks, the NATO folks,

00:02:15.760 Lindsey Graham, Blumenthal, all of them, and a lot of the House and a lot of the Senate

00:02:21.960 voting for these endless wars, continue to vote to fund it.

00:02:24.980 It's just stunning to us.

00:02:26.840 And so now Ukraine bombs the Russian triad.

00:02:31.800 The triad are the three ways that Russia can deliver nuclear warheads. 0.59

00:02:36.860 And, of course, we do not like Russian nuclear warheads in any way, shape, or form.

00:02:42.820 But taking out that triad with U.S. guidance, perhaps, we don't know that.

00:02:50.660 We don't have the full reports on the CIA, any of that yet.

00:02:52.800 But that makes us all think, and we have to ask the question, how big is China in the

00:02:59.600 background, right?

00:03:00.900 Because our response to Russia should depend greatly on China, which is a much bigger, much 0.99

00:03:07.440 more fierce enemy and a competitor, not competitor, enemy, right?

00:03:12.780 They've declared war on us.

00:03:14.020 They're taking every advantage of us.

00:03:16.220 So today's show is I've asked two experts to come on and help us answer that question.

00:03:21.160 I think you all have followed the war room.

00:03:22.880 You know the basic stuff, right?

00:03:25.060 China's got ghost cities.

00:03:26.400 Their GDP is down from 10 to 5, and that may be fake data, maybe 2 percent.

00:03:30.980 People are in the streets complaining about not getting their wage rates, not getting their

00:03:34.940 checks.

00:03:36.100 The debt is 300 percent of GDP.

00:03:38.260 And I've been reading, you know, the manufacturing is kind of going down.

00:03:43.060 But now there's I've seen some other reports that say the advanced manufacturing, a few high

00:03:49.080 tech verticals are emerging.

00:03:51.820 They're shifting and they don't care about their people, right?

00:03:54.480 They just take money and park it wherever they want.

00:03:56.780 So they're going away from manufacturing.

00:03:58.400 And that's linked to the wage rates of a lot of Chinese people.

00:04:01.960 So I don't know if this is sustainable.

00:04:03.580 And so I asked Rich Stern of Heritage Foundation to come in with us.

00:04:08.160 Rich, why don't you take it away?

00:04:09.860 Give us give us what your read on how strong is China relative to the United States?

00:04:15.920 And are they are they increasing in power or decreasing?

00:04:19.700 Well, thank you for having me on, of course, to talk about this.

00:04:22.800 You know, I think we're all concerned about China.

00:04:24.900 It's a huge country.

00:04:25.720 They have four times our population.

00:04:27.020 But, you know, some of the interesting facts of the matter here, right, is that, you know,

00:04:30.940 until Xi Jinping took over, you had four decades, really a little bit over four decades of reform

00:04:37.000 in China.

00:04:37.500 They moved more towards a market economy.

00:04:39.700 They brought in Western capital.

00:04:41.300 But frankly, they reduced taxes.

00:04:43.500 They got rid of punitive regulations.

00:04:46.040 They streamlined their processes.

00:04:47.760 They tried to clone, frankly, our economic model.

00:04:51.080 And what you had was massive success in China.

00:04:54.620 Yeah.

00:04:57.020 That's right.

00:04:58.980 Denver, Rich, did Rich freeze up on us?

00:05:03.560 All right, folks, I think I'll just follow up and continue.

00:05:07.280 I think where Rich was going with that.

00:05:10.060 And then if we get Rich back in in a minute or so, we'll go back to him.

00:05:14.300 And otherwise, we'll switch over to Bradley Thayer.

00:05:16.600 But roughly speaking, the story I wanted to say is that, you know, Rich was saying they copied our model under Deng Xiaoping.

00:05:25.120 And now under Xi, Xi Jinping, he gave in his speech a year ago, he said, we're going to go full on Marxist-Leninist, no more economic reforms.

00:05:34.380 And I think that's where Rich was going, market reforms, I mean, using markets.

00:05:37.720 So they're no longer going to use the price system and they're no longer going to use free markets to guide themselves.

00:05:43.540 So they're going internal and Rich is back with us.

00:05:46.140 And so, Rich, keep going where you were.

00:05:48.360 Thanks.

00:05:48.920 I'm going to blame the Chinese for obviously getting in the way of our connection here. 1.00

00:05:54.060 You're absolutely right.

00:05:54.920 That's where I was going to go, was just in the time that Xi Jinping has been in charge, their economic growth rates have been cut in half.

00:06:01.500 But more than that, you know, prior to him coming in, virtually no Chinese firms were underwater.

00:06:07.980 Right now, close to a third of Chinese companies, including an enormous amount of manufacturing, are on life support, surviving on subsidies from the Chinese government.

00:06:19.940 Let me tell you one other statistic.

00:06:21.360 Now, you know, we all know it's hard to believe any numbers coming out of China, but the value of their industrial subsidies might be as high as $2 trillion a year.

00:06:33.080 That is close to the entire value added of the entire U.S. manufacturing industry.

00:06:40.160 And so you might be looking at China stealing from the future, running up the massive debts you're talking about, and stealing from productive industries to throw more good money after bad into their manufacturing sector that's no longer globally competitive,

00:06:55.720 where they're seeing their own industrial base being sent to India and Vietnam and Poland, of all places.

00:07:01.260 So, you know, when you look across the board, those move away from market fundamentals, a move back towards dictatorship and communism,

00:07:08.400 it has neutered the economic growth in China to the point where they're now built on a house of debt.

00:07:15.000 Yeah, and I buy all of that.

00:07:17.960 And then recently I've been stumbling on some fairly intelligent analysts out there.

00:07:24.760 You know, they're not household names or whatever, but they're talking about, you know, the shift over into these high-tech verticals with lasers and chips and all this.

00:07:34.520 Have you seen any of that?

00:07:35.960 Because that is worrisome, right?

00:07:38.900 I think your basic narrative is right, right?

00:07:41.980 At 60 Minutes this week, they had, you know, they're doing the Belt and Road now around Australia.

00:07:46.980 Six island chains, they're paying for all this.

00:07:48.900 How in the world do you have that much money to be paying for?

00:07:51.700 The U.S. doesn't have that much money.

00:07:53.640 We can't be subsidizing.

00:07:54.900 We wish we could help around the world, but we can't anymore.

00:07:58.540 And that's the Trump strategy.

00:08:01.360 And so do you see China pivoting at all toward this high-tech strategy as a way of making up for the loss of basic manufacturing?

00:08:13.500 Absolutely.

00:08:14.260 And what I would say is there's really two components to that.

00:08:16.320 So one is there are real innovators in China.

00:08:19.320 It's a country of 1.4 billion people.

00:08:22.120 So there are real entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers in China who are trying to build the industry of the future.

00:08:27.720 And then there's the government.

00:08:29.120 And you and I both know whenever the government gets in, whether it's a good thing or not, the government ruins the party.

00:08:33.880 So, you know, part of what's happening here is that the government is trying to take over good industries there, as I was talking about, you know, moving subsidies over from all these other sectors to prop up industries that the government's favoring.

00:08:46.820 So it's hard to know how much progress they're making.

00:08:50.200 It's one thing for the government to say, look, we want to switch industrial bases, but can you do it in a way that's truly profitable?

00:08:56.720 And what we're seeing here is that as much as there's some real innovation, there's also theft.

00:09:01.860 They're trying to smuggle in NVIDIA chips so they can make server farms and build large language models that are competitive.

00:09:08.140 The government is pouring just an enormous amount of money in the propping up solar panel, EV production, chip production that probably is decades, not decades, but years behind where the state of the art is.

00:09:20.260 That's behind in terms of efficiency. Frankly, they're creating industries that wouldn't survive without the government subsidies.

00:09:27.680 Now, to your question of where are they getting the money, they're stealing it from the four and a half decades of good economic growth they had before.

00:09:34.900 And, you know, the U.S. has been stealing on two centuries of good economic growth over the last 50 and 60 years.

00:09:42.040 So China's got more room to steal from that, but they're doing what all the developed countries are doing. 0.65

00:09:46.500 They're rejecting the methods that produced a robust economy and falling in prey to a large government that just shuffles deck chairs around the Titanic.

00:09:55.560 Yeah, one or two minutes on the close.

00:09:58.680 The reason, you know, we're interested in this is because of this Russia-Ukraine war.

00:10:04.260 And we're supposed to be pivoting to the Pacific away from the Atlanticists. 0.95

00:10:09.080 But the Atlanticists have a slush fund in the hundreds of billions paid for by the U.S. taxpayers, which is sickening.

00:10:17.520 And so when you're doing the geopolitics of this, as Steve would, you know, what's your prognosis on the U.S. strategy moving forward with China?

00:10:26.120 Are they strong enough to take on a Taiwan? 1.00

00:10:30.020 Are they strong enough to be in a position to want to go after us?

00:10:34.100 And the part that was sickening to me this week is when I saw them negotiating with Trump.

00:10:40.300 And it looked like they had leverage on us, on the rare earth refining in particular, right?

00:10:46.020 Because and we care about our people, right?

00:10:48.600 So we are dependent.

00:10:51.680 We'll admit it.

00:10:52.280 Our government's transparent.

00:10:54.040 They're not.

00:10:54.840 And so it's like they get an advantage on us because of their corruption and their, you know, the oppression of their people. 0.91

00:11:01.700 So in a minute or two, Rich, just close us out on the geopolitics and how we, the best guesses as to how we approach China going forward.

00:11:11.060 So one of the key things about this is that in the U.S. and in Western governments, look, politics is corrupt.

00:11:16.680 And you have politicians who will steal from hardworking people and productive sectors to finance their friends and other industries. 0.84

00:11:24.520 The thing that's unique about China is that they do that, too.

00:11:27.800 They've got their friends.

00:11:28.720 They've got their political corruption.

00:11:30.220 But they channel it in a militarily strategic manner.

00:11:33.780 And I think we all know that's not what the West does.

00:11:36.600 It's not what the U.S. does.

00:11:38.020 Our governments waste the money on industries that politicians, donors like.

00:11:42.780 In China, you can actually think of an enormous amount of those industrial subsidies as closet military spending.

00:11:49.800 They're industrial subsidies.

00:11:51.060 They're really military spending masquerading as industrial subsidies.

00:11:55.680 But it's really military spending because what are they doing?

00:11:58.540 They're building up the critical mineral processing technologies.

00:12:01.420 They're building up car industries with the aim to destroy ours and Europe's car industries.

00:12:06.880 They've taken over nearly half the world's ship production.

00:12:10.020 And it's things like that where you can see that while they're inefficient, while they're sapping their future growth, they are at least being strategic in prop-yup industries that would allow them not just to make the materiel of war but to supply a war front.

00:12:24.260 And that has given them a strategic advantage.

00:12:27.080 And it just goes to show you that, you know, government corruption is bad all the way around.

00:12:31.400 They're at least strategic with it.

00:12:32.660 Yeah, and so that logic leads you to one basic question.

00:12:39.740 They've got to feed 1.4 billion people on that strategy.

00:12:43.980 What do you make of that?

00:12:45.340 What's the how many, you know, years they're eating off their parasitical on their past growth, like you said?

00:12:52.760 And it's kind of like our analysis of our bond market.

00:12:55.440 I would have thought the bond market vigilantes would have come 10 years ago.

00:12:58.460 And I've been wrong the whole time.

00:13:00.120 I'm just stunned at how undisciplined.

00:13:03.220 And we have no strategy.

00:13:04.700 I think that's the key point you just made.

00:13:06.700 We don't have a strategic vision as a Congress.

00:13:09.780 Trump kind of came in finally with some vision and some, you know, bullets that we ran on.

00:13:15.580 But the Chinese, is it, I'm kind of asking the same thing every time, but how many people are in the streets getting upset these days?

00:13:23.860 Oh, I mean millions.

00:13:26.100 Look, you know, again, the slowdown in manufacturing economic growth in China.

00:13:29.900 You now have labor union protests.

00:13:31.620 You have workers coming out.

00:13:32.920 But part of this is you also have people in China who are just tired of the oppression, who were following their government transitioning to more like, frankly, the transition out of a military dictatorship that South Korea made decades ago that, you know, many countries in Europe have made.

00:13:48.420 And so there's a real revolt against the reversion here, against the sapping of growth.

00:13:53.580 But, you know, the other country I'd tell you is, you know, the global bond market vigilantes, they're always looking for among governments the one-eyed man in the world of the blind.

00:14:02.500 And, you know, we talked in the 90s about Japan, and they came close to overtaking the U.S. economy.

00:14:07.900 Frankly, if China had committed 50, 60 years ago to the kind of economic system we have, we wouldn't even be close.

00:14:16.380 They would have triple our economy right now. 0.94

00:14:18.820 They'd have more people.

00:14:20.760 You know, so at the end of the day, and you and I have both noticed we talk about this a lot, governments always find a way to screw it up.

00:14:27.620 Sometimes it's an advantage when it's a government like China's, but we've got to be on the lookout for it, both here and above.

00:14:32.680 Yeah.

00:14:33.980 Yeah, excellent, Richard.

00:14:35.740 Thank you for the analysis.

00:14:36.960 It's always great having you on, Heritage Foundation, the great Kevin Roberts up leading that ship.

00:14:42.060 Make sure you say hey to Kevin from the War Room.

00:14:43.780 We love him.

00:14:44.600 Thanks, Rich.

00:14:45.920 Will do.

00:14:46.360 It was a pleasure.

00:14:47.000 Thank you for having me on.

00:14:47.940 All right.

00:14:48.360 You bet.

00:14:48.860 You bet.

00:14:49.340 Thank you.

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00:16:46.960 All right, with that, we're going to bring on Bradley Thayer, our resident China expert.

00:16:52.960 And, Brad, I'm not going to do any introductory remarks, because you heard Rich and I discussing the China threat.

00:17:00.020 And I just want to get your comments and analysis of the same issue.

00:17:04.040 How strong is China right now?

00:17:06.680 Are they fading?

00:17:08.280 Are they pivoting toward a new strategy?

00:17:10.920 And can they pull it off?

00:17:12.000 Bradley Thayer, thanks for being with us.

00:17:14.460 Hi, Dave.

00:17:15.100 Great to join you again.

00:17:16.960 Thank you.

00:17:17.580 Yeah, the People's Republic of China, the PRC's in economic crisis.

00:17:22.880 Millions have lost unemployment, as Rich mentioned.

00:17:26.080 Tens of thousands of businesses have closed.

00:17:28.880 The real estate market has collapsed.

00:17:31.560 The local communist party is stressed, because their revenue depended, of course, on the real estate market.

00:17:40.100 And that adversely affects not just the party, of course, but the Chinese people, for whom the value of their apartment is most of their wealth.

00:17:48.480 It also stresses the financial sector, which is known to be corrupt.

00:17:52.640 So when we're talking about the economy of the People's Republic of China and the numbers that the Chinese themselves are generating, we always want to keep in mind the Mary McCarthy rule, right? 0.83

00:18:05.040 Every word is a lie, including and and the, and she famously dismissed Lillian Hellman and her writings.

00:18:12.360 So whatever the PRC is saying, we want to keep that in mind.

00:18:15.460 They're going to be lying about the numbers that they generate.

00:18:18.440 And finally, Dave, the Trump administration's tariff and investment denial policies are really hurting the economy.

00:18:26.180 So as Rich mentioned, there are really strategies that they're seeking to develop to get out of that.

00:18:34.100 First is investment.

00:18:36.220 That is internal investment, which doesn't seem to be working.

00:18:39.960 Second, as Rich stressed, there is the idea of new technologies to develop.

00:18:50.320 And I think that's certainly an element there.

00:18:53.760 But we also want to keep in mind, of course, that they're not reducing military spending.

00:18:59.200 So they certainly have prioritized the military, and that has not changed whatsoever.

00:19:08.180 So even when they're in economic crisis, they're still going to maintain utmost military spending against us.

00:19:17.460 The final point, Dave, is to mention what the party is talking about.

00:19:22.600 The Chinese Communist Party is talking about what they've announced as their two priorities.

00:19:28.280 And their two priorities, as they identify them, are first, the execution of key national strategies,

00:19:34.640 and second, the enhancement of security capabilities in key sectors.

00:19:41.460 Now, both of those are ominous for us.

00:19:45.800 So we need to think through really what they're conceiving, what they're thinking of when they talk about two priorities.

00:19:53.200 And, Dave, we need to understand that power is relative in international politics.

00:19:59.240 So one thing that hurts, that helps China and the Chinese economy is hurting us.

00:20:07.720 So if they can damage us, that actually is helping their economy, if you will, in a relative sense.

00:20:14.920 So when they're talking about two priorities, we want to keep in mind that a part of that is certainly going to be doing their utmost to damage our economy,

00:20:26.340 either through attacks on Taiwan or, secondly, unhinging our alliances, as in South Korea,

00:20:33.420 or direct economic attacks on our infrastructure or cyber means, the salt vault typhoon, essentially cyber attacks that have been unveiled,

00:20:50.400 or through other means, Dave, to hurt our economy.

00:20:54.240 So that's very important to keep in mind.

00:20:57.220 Fundamentally, the Chinese Communist Party rules for itself, does not rule for the Chinese people.

00:21:05.120 And the Chinese people will incur the costs, whatever the Chinese Communist Party essentially imposes upon them.

00:21:15.460 And their targets remain us and our allies in the Indo-Pacific region.

00:21:21.880 Right. Let me close it out in a minute or so.

00:21:25.100 So, you know, I am so angry at our policymakers.

00:21:29.760 We don't seem to have any strategic vision, you know, 10 years out, 20 years out, 30 years out.

00:21:34.300 The Chinese are very good at that.

00:21:35.880 Even if their machinery is not working and their economic machines run out of energy, they still have a strategic vision.

00:21:42.580 Who should we be mad at in the United States for not having this strategic vision laid out,

00:21:47.880 where we miss China for 30 years, as you so brilliantly show in your book?

00:21:51.400 Well, yeah.

00:21:53.840 Jim Fennell and I wrote a book on that, Embracing Communist China, America's Greatest Strategic Failure, 0.63

00:21:59.280 where we look at this was decades in the making.

00:22:02.480 Yes.

00:22:02.780 But it was really a product of the genius of the political warfare strategy of Deng Xiaoping to make the West his partner, 0.55

00:22:11.700 to make American businesses and politicians his partner, so that we helped the Chinese communists survive and thrive.

00:22:19.780 It's unreal.

00:22:20.400 We've got to blame our enemy, but we also have to blame those in the West, in the United States in particular, 0.65

00:22:27.240 Wall Street, of course, and elsewhere.

00:22:30.240 Who's responsible, though?

00:22:31.960 Wall Street's responsible for making money.

00:22:34.020 30 seconds.

00:22:35.060 Who's responsible for our national security?

00:22:37.360 Name names and offices.

00:22:39.140 Who blew it?

00:22:40.120 Well, every presidential administration, Bill Clinton's presidential administration, blew it by abandoning any type of human rights commitment

00:22:51.400 to renewal of most favored nation status and putting them on the path to the World Trade Organization.

00:22:57.660 So that's Bill Clinton and Robert Rubin.

00:23:00.680 Yeah.

00:23:01.160 Who are...

00:23:01.960 Unbelievable.

00:23:03.300 Yeah.

00:23:03.660 Yeah.

00:23:03.920 Unbelievable.

00:23:04.220 Hey, Bradley, I'm going to get you back on on this, because I really want to drill.

00:23:07.620 This is absolutely crucial stuff, and you're the best at it.

00:23:11.800 So we thank you, and then I also thank Natalie Winters, who called out this show from hers.

00:23:18.780 She's also a great China analyst, and I want to thank everybody for watching the War Room all day long.

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00:23:42.000 And we want to give a special call-out and a special transition over to Bernie Carrick right now.

00:23:48.700 The War Room, we followed the funeral this morning, but what a great man.

00:23:52.700 And so here we go with War Room's tribute to Bernie Carrick.

00:23:56.060 Former NYPD Police Commissioner Bernie Carrick is dead.

00:24:02.620 He passed away Thursday at New York's Presbyterian Hospital, surrounded by family and friends.

00:24:07.800 A new era begins for the New York City Police Department, as Mayor Giuliani passes on the golden badge to a new top cop.

00:24:17.160 Today, Mayor Giuliani said he was simply overqualified for the job, citing the fact that he is a former police detective and a proven administrator.

00:24:24.780 He brings a quality of leadership that I believe can give us the opportunity to build on a record that is a very, very difficult one to match.

00:24:33.500 Congratulations.

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00:31:12.220 Soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, you are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months.

00:31:23.340 The eyes of the world are upon you.

00:31:25.940 The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

00:31:30.060 In company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

00:31:45.320 Your task will not be an easy one.

00:31:48.300 Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped, and battle-hardened.

00:31:52.840 He will fight savagely.

00:31:54.960 But this is the year 1944.

00:31:58.000 Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. 0.55

00:32:02.080 The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats in open battle, man-to-man.

00:32:09.760 Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground.

00:32:17.320 Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war,

00:32:22.960 and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.

00:32:28.320 The tide has turned.

00:32:30.340 The free men of the world are marching together to victory.

00:32:34.020 I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle.

00:32:39.120 We will accept nothing less than full victory.

00:32:42.180 Good luck, and let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

00:32:51.280 While we were walking, we came to a place where apparently they collected the bodies.

00:32:58.420 And there was quite a few of them there.

00:33:02.860 And some of them looked like probably a tank had run over them and stuff like that.

00:33:09.620 And that gets your attention, too.

00:33:15.300 My fellow Americans, last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome,

00:33:24.480 I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the channel

00:33:32.300 in another and greater operation.

00:33:35.460 It has come to pass with success thus far.

00:33:42.300 And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer.

00:33:50.480 Almighty God, our sons, pride of our nation,

00:34:00.520 this day have set upon a mighty endeavor,

00:34:05.320 a struggle to preserve our republic,

00:34:08.640 our religion, and our civilization,

00:34:12.320 and to set free a suffering humanity.

00:34:15.800 Lead them straight and true.

00:34:21.060 Give strength to their arms,

00:34:23.700 stoutness to their hearts,

00:34:26.260 steadfastness in their faith.

00:34:29.820 They will need thy blessings.

00:34:32.900 Their road will be long and hard.

00:34:35.580 For the enemy is strong.

00:34:39.260 He may hurl back our forces.

00:34:42.340 Success may not come with rushing speed.

00:34:46.960 But we shall return again and again.

00:34:51.360 And we know that by thy grace,

00:34:54.640 and by the righteousness of our cause,

00:34:57.620 our sons will triumph.

00:34:59.600 Back in the war room, Dave Bratt with D-Day coverage today

00:35:06.920 with, of course, America's greatest military historian,

00:35:11.360 Patrick K. O'Donnell.

00:35:14.560 I'm surrounded by Irishmen up here in the war room.

00:35:17.700 And so, always a privilege to get to speak with Patrick K. O'Donnell.

00:35:23.600 On a day of this, you heard the solemnity in the words of the president there

00:35:28.980 as he was giving a speech the night before

00:35:31.460 with our boys going off to a certain death

00:35:35.160 and calling on the public, the religion, our civilization,

00:35:41.400 the young boys' faith, the treasure of our country,

00:35:45.380 these young men.

00:35:46.800 We take a lot of this for granted today.

00:35:48.900 We don't even teach it in the schools.

00:35:50.620 We should be more thankful.

00:35:51.800 And so, you can just feel the heartstrings,

00:35:55.840 the greatness there.

00:35:56.720 And there's nobody better that's interviewed

00:35:59.780 and has more friends among this great generation

00:36:03.660 than Patrick K. O'Donnell.

00:36:04.640 So, Patrick, welcome to the show.

00:36:06.580 And thank you for being with us on this D-Day.

00:36:09.300 And why don't you just start framing it?

00:36:11.620 Let's start at the end, maybe.

00:36:13.560 Why don't you tell young people 1.00

00:36:15.160 where can they go to follow your work,

00:36:17.720 other work of major significance in history,

00:36:20.500 and then lead them through what is D-Day

00:36:23.520 and then the interviews

00:36:25.080 and the work you do as a historian.

00:36:27.640 Thanks for being with us, Patrick.

00:36:29.640 It's an honor to be here, Dave.

00:36:33.240 My – you can find me at Combat Historian on Twitter

00:36:38.220 and then also Getter.

00:36:39.180 All my books are on, you know, at Barnes & Noble.

00:36:44.520 They're typically prominently displayed.

00:36:47.500 Or on Amazon.com.

00:36:49.100 It's really a great place to get the books.

00:36:50.920 You can always get them quickly.

00:36:53.140 Right.

00:36:53.800 For – since 1992, Dave,

00:36:56.440 I started interviewing World War II veterans.

00:37:00.520 It was a passion of mine.

00:37:02.400 I was there to preserve and collect their stories.

00:37:05.500 And, you know, these men entrusted me

00:37:09.580 with stories that they had never told their families.

00:37:14.980 Most of them had buried these stories for decades.

00:37:19.300 And they gave me the privilege of talking to them.

00:37:24.260 And it began with the 82nd Airborne

00:37:27.020 and the 101st Airborne

00:37:29.240 and then it moved to the Rangers

00:37:30.580 and the OSS and many others.

00:37:33.780 I've collected probably the largest private collection

00:37:36.840 of oral histories on World War II elite units,

00:37:41.180 thousands of them in private hands.

00:37:46.200 The – for me, I watched for the first time

00:37:50.240 in about 20 years, my first book signing,

00:37:53.960 which was a reunion of these men.

00:37:56.960 And I posted it on Getter and Axe

00:37:59.280 and C-SPAN taped it.

00:38:01.260 We had hundreds of men from the books 0.97

00:38:06.240 that were in a book I wrote called Beyond Valor,

00:38:09.220 which is a best-selling book by Simon & Schuster.

00:38:12.400 And it's their oral histories of the Rangers and Airborne.

00:38:15.380 And they took us back in time, Dave, to their war.

00:38:21.840 And it was a powerful, powerful presentation

00:38:24.700 where they told their stories live.

00:38:26.880 And one of the men in there was a Pathfinder

00:38:30.420 with the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment.

00:38:33.740 These Pathfinders were some of the first troops

00:38:36.520 into Normandy.

00:38:38.360 They guided the way.

00:38:39.640 They set up radar sets and lights and panels

00:38:44.180 to guide the rest of the C-47s in. 0.66

00:38:48.320 And Francis Lamoureux was one of those early men.

00:38:51.840 Yeah.

00:38:52.420 Hey, before you dig right in there,

00:38:54.440 for the young people watching who may not be educated,

00:38:58.180 just give them a brief overview

00:38:59.960 of what you're describing here.

00:39:01.480 World War II.

00:39:02.280 What we're describing, Dave,

00:39:03.720 is the greatest invasion in history.

00:39:06.240 This is the invasion that will change

00:39:09.760 the course of World War II.

00:39:12.000 It's June 6, 1944.

00:39:16.380 And for many, many years,

00:39:17.960 the Axis had been on a run. 0.52

00:39:20.120 And now the Western Front in France

00:39:23.100 is being opened up by the Allied forces.

00:39:26.460 156,000 Allied troops will land in Normandy

00:39:32.020 by air or by sea

00:39:35.100 and begin the reconquest of Europe.

00:39:39.800 And this is a close-in thing.

00:39:43.380 Eisenhower even prepared a letter

00:39:45.180 with the potential defeat of Allied forces.

00:39:49.740 That was a real scenario.

00:39:52.600 Much of it was based on surprise.

00:39:56.040 And the ability to trick the Germans 0.96

00:39:58.720 into believing that we're going to land

00:40:00.060 in a place called Calais,

00:40:02.080 which was, well, you know,

00:40:04.880 many miles away from Normandy.

00:40:07.260 And there were a number of deception operations

00:40:09.740 to convince them that that was the case.

00:40:12.100 But nevertheless, the Germans still believed

00:40:13.760 that we might land in Normandy.

00:40:15.940 And they moved an entire air division,

00:40:18.240 air landing division, the 91st,

00:40:20.500 in to deal with paratroopers,

00:40:22.960 in particular,

00:40:24.460 men like Francis Lamoureux

00:40:25.800 that were leading the way.

00:40:26.940 And at that reunion,

00:40:31.360 you know, he told a story

00:40:32.360 about how they came in that night.

00:40:34.320 There was flack hitting the,

00:40:36.300 you know, his plane.

00:40:37.620 Planes went down around him.

00:40:40.320 He lands.

00:40:42.420 And they set up the,

00:40:45.220 Rebecca, they called it,

00:40:46.900 a beacon to home in on the other planes.

00:40:49.560 But the landings were,

00:40:52.680 were in many cases way off.

00:40:55.420 Many of the paratroopers landed

00:40:57.100 in different places.

00:40:58.060 They were scattered throughout Normandy.

00:41:01.700 And they had to sort of

00:41:03.160 induct themselves,

00:41:04.480 in many cases,

00:41:05.480 in small groups or one,

00:41:06.980 one man teams

00:41:07.980 to,

00:41:08.920 to accomplish their missions,

00:41:10.380 which they did,

00:41:11.180 you know,

00:41:13.080 very successfully,

00:41:14.520 despite having been scattered

00:41:16.640 very significantly.

00:41:17.600 And at the reunion,

00:41:19.380 it was really,

00:41:20.820 Francis had received

00:41:21.960 the bronze star

00:41:23.060 for his actions

00:41:23.960 on Normandy

00:41:25.420 that night of June 6th.

00:41:27.360 And he had never received it

00:41:28.740 for over,

00:41:30.240 you know,

00:41:30.580 55 years.

00:41:32.520 And,

00:41:32.580 really,

00:41:33.620 I spoke with General Shelton,

00:41:35.540 who was the command,

00:41:36.180 the chairman

00:41:37.320 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

00:41:38.500 and another gentleman,

00:41:39.540 Dave Barry,

00:41:40.120 who was the historian.

00:41:41.200 And we got Francis

00:41:42.680 his,

00:41:43.020 his bronze star.

00:41:44.340 And it was presented

00:41:45.060 at the reunion

00:41:46.420 by his commanding officer,

00:41:48.600 Colonel Luis Mendez.

00:41:50.600 And it's an amazing moment

00:41:52.320 that's captured on film

00:41:53.960 of these two men

00:41:55.380 seeing each other,

00:41:56.380 you know,

00:41:57.220 for the first time

00:41:57.980 in decades.

00:42:00.840 Unbelievable.

00:42:01.660 Hey,

00:42:01.940 give me,

00:42:02.500 give,

00:42:03.580 give the audience

00:42:04.400 a sense of how massive

00:42:05.880 this operation was.

00:42:07.120 You,

00:42:07.360 you've interviewed

00:42:08.100 kind of the top commands,

00:42:10.140 the elite regiments.

00:42:11.200 What's the totality

00:42:12.460 of the entire operation

00:42:14.440 that you're describing here?

00:42:16.820 This is,

00:42:17.620 I mean,

00:42:17.880 the first phase of it

00:42:19.160 is 156,000.

00:42:21.880 But then at sea,

00:42:23.040 you have another 200,000 men.

00:42:25.140 And in the air,

00:42:26.100 there's tens of thousands

00:42:27.080 of more men.

00:42:27.880 And then on the ground,

00:42:29.960 the Germans have tens 0.50

00:42:31.280 of thousands

00:42:31.900 of troops

00:42:33.260 and are in some cases

00:42:34.120 entrenched

00:42:34.700 or in a position

00:42:36.680 to quickly move

00:42:37.780 towards the beachhead.

00:42:39.380 And it's,

00:42:41.500 you know,

00:42:41.700 here behind the lines,

00:42:43.880 the OSS,

00:42:45.100 the Office of Strategic Services,

00:42:47.520 has been parachuted in

00:42:48.960 in three-man groups

00:42:51.260 called Jed Burks.

00:42:52.920 And these men

00:42:53.800 help organize,

00:42:55.240 train,

00:42:56.100 and lead

00:42:56.720 the resistance elements

00:42:57.760 to slow down

00:42:58.860 the German effort

00:43:00.420 to reach the beachhead.

00:43:01.780 And they're very successful

00:43:02.880 at doing that.

00:43:05.320 Not that one.

00:43:06.980 Yeah,

00:43:07.580 that's,

00:43:08.160 and so,

00:43:08.920 you interviewed,

00:43:11.100 give us a sense

00:43:12.420 of who you interviewed

00:43:14.320 and the story

00:43:17.200 that you want us

00:43:19.480 as Americans

00:43:20.400 to understand

00:43:21.140 and why,

00:43:22.200 why is this story

00:43:23.300 so important

00:43:23.940 that you've spent

00:43:25.400 the passion

00:43:26.180 of your life,

00:43:26.960 you know,

00:43:27.460 working on this story.

00:43:29.460 And as you say,

00:43:30.140 you've never worked

00:43:30.760 a day in your life

00:43:31.440 because you just love,

00:43:32.980 you love it

00:43:33.780 because there's

00:43:34.520 so much meaning

00:43:35.280 attached to it.

00:43:36.040 What is that meaning

00:43:37.220 to you?

00:43:37.660 The meaning is

00:43:39.500 it's about

00:43:39.960 average,

00:43:40.900 ordinary Americans

00:43:41.840 that did

00:43:42.920 extraordinary things.

00:43:44.100 The men that I interviewed

00:43:45.480 in Beyond Valor

00:43:46.940 and the other books

00:43:48.420 that I've written,

00:43:49.060 Dog Company,

00:43:49.880 on the Rangers,

00:43:50.800 these are all just

00:43:51.400 regular guys

00:43:52.380 in many cases.

00:43:53.880 The focus of my books

00:43:55.080 have always been

00:43:55.720 on the privates,

00:43:57.200 the NCOs,

00:43:58.140 the men that are actually

00:43:59.240 at the tip of the spear

00:44:00.740 doing the action.

00:44:02.900 There's a scene

00:44:03.640 right there

00:44:04.100 with Delbert Kuehl

00:44:05.900 who was a chaplain

00:44:07.020 in, you know,

00:44:08.520 wearing his original

00:44:09.420 uniform,

00:44:10.460 you know,

00:44:11.620 from World War II.

00:44:13.280 He was a chaplain

00:44:14.120 in the crossing

00:44:15.880 of the wall

00:44:16.480 at Nijmegen,

00:44:17.300 the bridge too far.

00:44:18.960 He was in the movie

00:44:19.760 saying the Lord's Prayer.

00:44:22.380 And then as he gets

00:44:23.280 on the other side

00:44:24.240 of the river

00:44:24.760 at Nijmegen,

00:44:25.980 he's a first aid man,

00:44:27.420 receives the silver star.

00:44:28.460 Louis Mendez

00:44:29.520 who's seated

00:44:30.040 is the colonel

00:44:31.220 that I mentioned.

00:44:32.880 Francis Lamoureux

00:44:33.860 has the bronze star

00:44:35.080 pinned on his jacket.

00:44:38.180 And then Ed Jozworski

00:44:39.320 who's on the far left

00:44:40.500 was with the 507 0.78

00:44:42.400 and they were at a place

00:44:43.960 called Lafayette Bridge

00:44:45.140 which was some

00:44:45.660 of the hottest action

00:44:46.700 in Normandy.

00:44:48.020 And it's at this bridgehead

00:44:49.240 where the Germans 0.71

00:44:50.560 are about to pierce

00:44:52.020 the Allied defenses

00:44:53.380 and potentially roll

00:44:54.460 into the beachhead

00:44:55.140 that the Airborne

00:44:55.960 makes a stand first

00:44:58.320 to hold the bridge

00:44:59.240 and then they have

00:45:00.440 to take it.

00:45:01.660 And Ed was there

00:45:02.600 on the assault

00:45:05.080 across the causeway

00:45:06.760 and I'll never forget

00:45:08.100 him telling me

00:45:08.920 what combat was like

00:45:10.260 when the bullets whiz

00:45:11.920 and snap next to your ear

00:45:13.320 and it's that close.

00:45:14.720 Wow.

00:45:15.240 And I was in Iraq

00:45:16.420 in Fallujah

00:45:17.320 and I felt that

00:45:19.380 I couldn't believe

00:45:20.780 what he was telling me

00:45:21.620 when I felt it myself

00:45:22.840 and I was crawling

00:45:24.360 down a drainage ditch

00:45:26.020 for hundreds of meters

00:45:27.440 under direct sniper fire

00:45:29.140 and I knew exactly

00:45:30.000 what Ed meant

00:45:30.580 when he told me that

00:45:31.780 in his story.

00:45:33.500 But these were

00:45:34.220 in my view

00:45:35.300 the men in that picture

00:45:36.600 are all rock stars.

00:45:37.960 Incredible individuals

00:45:39.760 and at the time

00:45:41.040 nobody was interviewing them.

00:45:42.780 This is before

00:45:43.600 Tom Brokaw's

00:45:45.320 greatest generation.

00:45:46.280 I was just trying

00:45:46.800 to gather their stories

00:45:47.800 to provide

00:45:49.240 you know

00:45:50.820 a means of what

00:45:51.620 they had done

00:45:52.340 which is so amazing

00:45:53.420 and it inspired

00:45:55.220 a lot of other families

00:45:56.400 to dig deeper

00:45:57.740 into their own

00:45:58.680 veterans past

00:46:00.300 and preserve

00:46:00.940 their legacies

00:46:01.680 and that's what

00:46:02.200 that's what all

00:46:03.140 my work has been about

00:46:04.480 really

00:46:04.840 is been

00:46:06.480 preserving

00:46:07.620 and sharing

00:46:08.240 these stories

00:46:09.200 of men in combat

00:46:11.080 which for me

00:46:11.900 that those stories

00:46:12.760 began

00:46:13.280 interviewing some

00:46:14.400 World War I

00:46:15.060 veterans

00:46:15.580 all the way to

00:46:17.140 men and women

00:46:18.340 in today's conflicts.

00:46:20.800 Yeah well

00:46:21.180 thank you

00:46:22.000 for your

00:46:22.840 tremendous lift

00:46:26.000 and huge life's work.

00:46:28.980 When you

00:46:30.220 were describing

00:46:31.280 the guys

00:46:32.140 parachuting in

00:46:33.220 and working

00:46:33.760 almost alone

00:46:34.960 in small units

00:46:36.420 how much

00:46:37.940 were our American

00:46:38.940 troops trained

00:46:39.760 in for this?

00:46:40.700 You know

00:46:41.100 the war for us

00:46:41.860 was relatively new

00:46:42.780 versus the Germans 1.00

00:46:43.740 was there some

00:46:45.660 miraculous

00:46:46.660 work going on

00:46:48.880 here

00:46:49.140 I mean

00:46:49.480 it just

00:46:50.020 seems astounding

00:46:51.220 how were

00:46:52.260 these guys

00:46:52.720 trained in

00:46:53.200 when you

00:46:53.500 talked to them

00:46:54.200 what were

00:46:55.100 they trained

00:46:55.540 to do

00:46:55.820 or were

00:46:56.360 they just

00:46:56.940 such a

00:46:57.420 amount of

00:46:57.840 courage and

00:46:58.380 valor

00:46:58.640 that they

00:46:59.060 knew what

00:46:59.380 to do?

00:47:00.700 Yeah

00:47:00.820 punishing

00:47:01.420 training

00:47:02.180 Dave

00:47:03.720 that was

00:47:04.160 just

00:47:04.400 unbelievable

00:47:05.220 for the

00:47:06.700 airborne

00:47:07.160 these guys

00:47:08.240 were told

00:47:08.900 that they

00:47:09.680 could lick

00:47:10.200 five guys

00:47:11.240 that were

00:47:11.920 not airborne

00:47:12.440 and they

00:47:13.380 go over

00:47:14.020 to places

00:47:14.540 like Phoenix

00:47:15.120 City

00:47:15.420 in Alabama

00:47:16.720 and try

00:47:17.580 to pick

00:47:17.840 fights

00:47:18.080 sometimes

00:47:18.380 they won

00:47:18.920 most times

00:47:19.720 they did

00:47:20.060 but

00:47:20.260 they

00:47:21.040 believed

00:47:22.500 in themselves

00:47:23.560 and that

00:47:25.000 belief in

00:47:25.540 themselves

00:47:26.060 carried through

00:47:26.900 on the

00:47:27.160 battlefield

00:47:27.560 an excellent

00:47:29.440 example

00:47:30.020 is Dog

00:47:31.360 Company

00:47:31.840 which is

00:47:33.340 a situation

00:47:33.960 where one

00:47:35.060 man or

00:47:35.920 two men

00:47:36.520 can change

00:47:37.520 the course

00:47:37.960 of the

00:47:38.140 entire

00:47:38.400 invasion

00:47:38.800 these are

00:47:39.660 the boys

00:47:40.120 of Point

00:47:40.600 the Hawk

00:47:41.100 that scaled

00:47:42.100 the 90

00:47:42.580 foot cliff

00:47:43.200 under direct

00:47:44.280 machine gun

00:47:45.100 and rifle

00:47:45.940 fire

00:47:46.260 being thrown

00:47:47.740 potato masher

00:47:49.160 grenades down

00:47:50.140 these guys

00:47:51.900 do it

00:47:52.440 Len Lamelle

00:47:53.400 who's one

00:47:54.220 of my great

00:47:54.920 great friends

00:47:55.580 when he was

00:47:56.140 alive

00:47:56.520 he was one

00:47:57.000 that urged

00:47:57.580 me to

00:47:57.840 write

00:47:58.000 Dog

00:47:58.200 Company

00:47:58.520 on their

00:47:59.480 unit

00:47:59.760 he was

00:48:00.380 hit by

00:48:00.780 a German

00:48:01.860 MG42

00:48:02.840 bullet

00:48:03.660 on his

00:48:04.060 side

00:48:04.460 he still

00:48:05.260 kept

00:48:05.480 climbing

00:48:05.840 up

00:48:06.140 the rope

00:48:07.060 then they

00:48:08.140 were on

00:48:08.640 top of

00:48:09.340 the cliffs

00:48:09.840 which was

00:48:10.720 an complete

00:48:11.320 maze

00:48:12.020 of entrenchments

00:48:13.620 and bunkers

00:48:14.500 they fought

00:48:15.340 their way

00:48:15.840 through that

00:48:16.520 and then

00:48:17.520 Len

00:48:17.880 they were

00:48:19.100 armed

00:48:19.440 with thermite

00:48:20.320 grenades

00:48:20.740 and there

00:48:21.300 were six

00:48:22.520 guns on

00:48:23.280 top of

00:48:23.860 Point

00:48:24.140 the Hawk

00:48:24.560 155

00:48:25.860 millimeter

00:48:26.160 guns

00:48:26.600 that had

00:48:27.340 a range

00:48:27.740 of about

00:48:28.080 13 miles

00:48:28.900 or so

00:48:29.340 they could

00:48:29.940 reach out

00:48:30.520 to the sea

00:48:31.200 as well

00:48:32.180 as hit

00:48:32.600 either

00:48:33.020 beachhead

00:48:33.580 and Point

00:48:34.440 to Hawk

00:48:34.880 is a

00:48:35.200 cliff

00:48:35.540 peninsula

00:48:36.540 that is

00:48:37.780 between

00:48:38.600 Omaha

00:48:39.360 and Utah

00:48:39.860 beach

00:48:40.200 and those

00:48:40.740 guns had

00:48:41.200 to be

00:48:41.400 neutralized

00:48:41.860 they threw

00:48:42.720 everything

00:48:43.660 at it

00:48:44.200 Dave

00:48:44.540 air

00:48:45.380 wow

00:48:45.880 you know

00:48:46.380 naval

00:48:47.260 bombardment

00:48:48.000 but it's

00:48:48.640 Len Lamelle

00:48:49.680 in his

00:48:50.720 thernmite

00:48:51.260 grenades

00:48:51.740 that they

00:48:52.380 find

00:48:53.040 five of

00:48:54.160 those

00:48:54.420 guns

00:48:54.980 under

00:48:55.580 nets

00:48:56.580 in an

00:48:57.440 apple grove

00:48:58.100 and he

00:48:58.300 disables

00:48:58.760 them

00:48:59.140 you know

00:48:59.920 it's an

00:49:00.140 incredible

00:49:00.440 story of

00:49:01.080 how

00:49:01.380 you know

00:49:02.340 a single

00:49:03.100 individual

00:49:03.680 can change

00:49:04.620 the course

00:49:05.120 of history

00:49:05.640 and that's

00:49:06.620 another

00:49:07.080 aspect

00:49:07.660 of my

00:49:08.120 books

00:49:08.560 that

00:49:09.680 you know

00:49:10.440 runs

00:49:10.800 through

00:49:11.100 each

00:49:11.420 one

00:49:11.700 of them

00:49:12.020 yeah

00:49:13.400 I hate

00:49:13.960 to be a

00:49:14.380 downer

00:49:14.900 on this

00:49:15.320 thing

00:49:15.460 we got

00:49:15.660 about

00:49:15.840 three

00:49:16.060 minutes

00:49:16.380 left

00:49:16.820 but

00:49:18.120 you know

00:49:18.540 on this

00:49:19.100 show

00:49:19.340 in the

00:49:19.540 war room

00:49:20.120 Stephen K

00:49:21.620 Bannon

00:49:22.100 you know

00:49:23.120 has

00:49:23.500 military

00:49:24.200 life

00:49:24.620 I do

00:49:24.940 not

00:49:25.160 I used

00:49:25.360 to work

00:49:25.640 for the

00:49:25.860 army

00:49:26.060 a little

00:49:26.380 bit

00:49:26.640 in a

00:49:27.040 technical

00:49:27.360 aspect

00:49:27.800 but

00:49:28.760 nothing

00:49:29.040 like

00:49:29.320 this

00:49:29.540 but give

00:49:29.920 us a

00:49:30.260 sense

00:49:30.500 of the

00:49:30.840 losses

00:49:31.440 and how

00:49:33.380 these

00:49:33.720 men

00:49:34.060 have

00:49:34.320 endured

00:49:34.860 after

00:49:35.440 you know

00:49:36.160 I mean

00:49:36.660 you describe

00:49:37.280 it

00:49:37.460 how many

00:49:38.320 of their

00:49:38.620 friends

00:49:38.960 did they

00:49:39.300 lose

00:49:39.740 the magnitude

00:49:40.360 of the

00:49:40.840 loss

00:49:41.180 of life

00:49:41.640 of young

00:49:42.020 promising

00:49:43.480 American

00:49:44.080 lives

00:49:44.880 you know

00:49:45.980 men of

00:49:46.560 faith

00:49:46.940 the highest

00:49:47.740 character

00:49:48.260 describe

00:49:49.420 that loss

00:49:50.420 a little

00:49:51.200 bit

00:49:51.580 so we

00:49:52.160 can

00:49:52.280 comprehend

00:49:53.020 how thankful

00:49:53.960 we ought

00:49:54.340 to be

00:49:54.720 you know

00:49:56.920 for on

00:49:57.340 point to

00:49:57.780 hock

00:49:58.040 for instance

00:49:58.640 225

00:50:00.520 men went

00:50:01.040 in on

00:50:01.320 the first

00:50:01.880 first wave

00:50:03.400 and only

00:50:04.400 90 were

00:50:05.040 standing

00:50:05.480 they had

00:50:06.480 been hit

00:50:06.840 by counter

00:50:07.420 attack

00:50:07.820 after

00:50:08.140 counter

00:50:08.520 attack

00:50:08.980 and somehow

00:50:10.020 destroyed

00:50:10.920 the guns

00:50:11.400 and even

00:50:12.160 cut

00:50:12.520 the road

00:50:13.040 that

00:50:13.260 that

00:50:14.060 spanned

00:50:14.460 the two

00:50:14.780 you know

00:50:15.140 went

00:50:15.400 between

00:50:15.740 the two

00:50:16.000 beaches

00:50:16.380 just amazing

00:50:18.360 stuff

00:50:18.680 I mean

00:50:18.960 in Omaha

00:50:19.520 beach

00:50:20.060 where the

00:50:20.920 fifth rangers

00:50:21.500 and elements

00:50:22.240 of the

00:50:22.480 second ranger

00:50:23.140 battalion land

00:50:23.940 there's

00:50:24.800 2400 casualties

00:50:26.620 uh many

00:50:28.000 many of them

00:50:28.260 are dead

00:50:28.860 uh you know

00:50:29.800 this this is a

00:50:30.580 situation where

00:50:31.440 you know men

00:50:32.380 would tell me

00:50:32.920 the stories

00:50:33.380 about you

00:50:34.620 know roy

00:50:35.580 elm for

00:50:36.200 instance who

00:50:36.700 was from

00:50:36.980 chicago

00:50:37.480 second ranger

00:50:38.040 battalion

00:50:38.460 lands on

00:50:39.580 dog green

00:50:40.360 beach and

00:50:41.540 there's literally

00:50:42.100 blood in the

00:50:42.840 water bodies

00:50:43.620 it's it's a

00:50:44.900 charnel house

00:50:45.700 but the fifth

00:50:46.700 ranger battalion

00:50:47.620 lands on

00:50:49.160 the white

00:50:49.540 beach dog

00:50:50.380 white and

00:50:51.260 leads the

00:50:51.740 breakout and

00:50:53.020 uh wow

00:50:53.780 you know the

00:50:55.020 rest is history

00:50:55.840 men at the

00:50:56.920 right time

00:50:57.400 at the right

00:50:58.100 place

00:50:58.600 you got a

00:51:00.080 minute to go

00:51:00.680 close us out

00:51:01.420 with the best

00:51:01.920 story the best

00:51:02.740 news the most

00:51:03.560 uplifting piece

00:51:04.580 uh to send us

00:51:05.440 off on d-day

00:51:06.320 thankful

00:51:06.840 i would say

00:51:09.360 that my favorite

00:51:10.260 story is from

00:51:11.760 lewis mendez who

00:51:12.840 pins the bronze

00:51:14.380 star on francis

00:51:16.420 lamereau and

00:51:17.560 you know what

00:51:17.860 he said to me

00:51:18.500 when i first he

00:51:19.740 said my motto

00:51:20.580 was love and

00:51:21.940 respect love and

00:51:24.400 respect love your

00:51:26.340 fellow man and

00:51:27.440 respect them and

00:51:29.280 at first i was a

00:51:30.040 little bit you

00:51:31.280 know he becomes

00:51:32.000 one of the first

00:51:32.700 um hispanic

00:51:34.600 americans mexican

00:51:36.000 americans to

00:51:36.500 actually enter west

00:51:37.260 point and he

00:51:37.920 becomes commanding

00:51:38.620 on colonel amazing

00:51:40.600 man that just

00:51:42.120 that holds with me

00:51:43.560 every day and how

00:51:44.540 i treat people

00:51:45.400 love and respect

00:51:46.560 yep unbelievable

00:51:48.300 patrick o'donnell

00:51:49.460 thanks for being

00:51:50.120 with us on d-day

00:51:51.180 you do it like no

00:51:52.280 one else can do

00:51:53.020 america's preeminent

00:51:54.960 military historian

00:51:56.260 god bless you keep

00:51:57.440 up the great work

00:51:58.340 uh we can't wait to

00:51:59.660 see you next time

00:52:00.320 thank you patrick

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Bannon's War Room - June 06, 2025

WarRoom Battleground EP 784： Remembering D-Day 81 Years Ago

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