Verdict with Ted Cruz - June 07, 2024


LIVE from Normandy： D-Day 80th Anniversary-Celebrating American Heroes


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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.320 Welcome.
00:00:06.180 It is The Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.900 Senator, it's an international pod tonight as you're across the pond.
00:00:14.420 Well, that's right.
00:00:15.160 This is our very first podcast that I have done from Paris, France.
00:00:19.400 I am in Paris right now.
00:00:21.320 And I flew yesterday to Normandy to be here for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
00:00:30.760 I was at the celebration all day.
00:00:33.500 I've got meetings the next couple of days here.
00:00:36.640 And it was really an incredible time celebrating what was an historic landmark,
00:00:44.600 a milestone that changed the course of history.
00:00:47.660 And the heroism, the courage that was shown by those American G.I.s that landed on the coast of France
00:00:57.460 and that invaded the continent to take back the continent from the Nazis,
00:01:04.740 it was incredibly dangerous, incredibly difficult, incredibly inspiring.
00:01:11.120 And it changed the course of history.
00:01:13.860 Yeah, it is truly incredible.
00:01:15.240 And there's also the politics that are now coming out with the Biden campaign as well.
00:01:20.420 They're now trying to use D-Day to advocate for funding with Ukraine.
00:01:25.360 That had to be shocking to you.
00:01:27.980 Well, it's not surprising because everything they do is political.
00:01:32.100 That's how they approach, unfortunately, day-to-day life is it's all politics all the time.
00:01:38.540 But I've got to tell you that nothing can really diminish the experience of being here.
00:01:45.380 It truly is extraordinary.
00:01:48.220 Being with heroes, and there were hundreds of World War II veterans who came back for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
00:02:00.060 And these guys are all, you know, in their late 90s or in their hundreds.
00:02:06.800 You know, if they were 18 years old 80 years ago, then they're 98 today.
00:02:11.620 Now, there are several of them that were even 17 and 16 and lied about their ages.
00:02:16.120 So there are a couple that are younger that are 96 and 97.
00:02:18.680 But I visited today with one World War II veteran that was 104, and these guys are incredible heroes.
00:02:28.000 And when you look at what they did, it was truly incredible.
00:02:32.740 June 4, 1944, Operation Overlord, which was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, France,
00:02:42.200 more than 150,000 troops landed at D-Day.
00:02:47.680 And when they landed, they landed into German machine gun fire.
00:02:55.540 You had soldiers.
00:02:56.760 You had barriers they'd put on the beach.
00:03:00.020 And more than 29,000 U.S. service members were either killed or injured during the Normandy operation,
00:03:09.400 including more than 6,000 on the very first day of the landing.
00:03:12.220 And it is, when you look at, today I stood at Omaha Beach and looked out,
00:03:22.180 and you imagine coming across that sand and coming into just machine gun fire,
00:03:29.440 the bravery that was demonstrated on that day was just breathtaking.
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00:05:31.520 This 80th anniversary, and you mentioned hundreds came over, and there's so many veterans groups that just do amazing work fundraising and helping these veterans,
00:05:46.340 these heroes were to even get to Normandy to D-Day, and the way that they do it, and the way that they give them such honor and respect from the moment that they get to the airport in the U.S.
00:05:58.160 until the moment this trip is over when they get back home.
00:06:01.380 But this is a very significant year because it is the 80th anniversary.
00:06:05.280 And if you just do the math, a lot of these veterans that you got to be with literally today, this will probably be their last time to go to Normandy just because of age.
00:06:16.920 Well, that's right, and I had the opportunity to go to the 75th anniversary five years ago, and I didn't go.
00:06:24.740 I had a scheduling conflict, and I had something else I had to do, and I have regretted it every day since then.
00:06:30.340 I should have fixed the scheduling conflict.
00:06:32.400 I was mad at myself that I didn't just push aside the scheduling conflict and go for the 75th.
00:06:40.700 And so for the 80th anniversary, you're right, there's a very good chance that the next one that happens,
00:06:48.320 that we're not going to have World War II veterans still with us, or if we do, it's going to be very, very few.
00:06:57.840 And actually, the news broke today that one of the World War II veterans who was 102 actually died traveling to France to come to this.
00:07:06.160 And it's just, you know, they're at the age now where they all understand that this is the, you know, the end of their passage.
00:07:17.760 But it was incredible.
00:07:20.660 I spent a lot of the day shaking hands with these men, thanking them.
00:07:27.580 And, you know, it's interesting, Ben, that there's a consistency in that one after the other after the other,
00:07:37.400 when you thank them for their bravery, they'll say, look, I just did my job.
00:07:46.000 If you call them a hero, they'll argue with you.
00:07:49.980 They'll say, I wasn't a hero.
00:07:52.000 The heroes are buried behind us.
00:07:55.060 And I got to say, when you stand in the cemetery and you just see line after line of white crosses and white stars of David,
00:08:10.440 of servicemen and women, when you walk through that cemetery and you read name after name after name,
00:08:18.000 and they're all so young, they're all 18, 19, 20, 21 years old.
00:08:25.900 And so many of them, they came off an amphibious ship and were shot and killed right on the beach.
00:08:34.860 And it's incredible.
00:08:38.000 You know, Mike, my grandfather fought in World War II, and he talked about when they all just went and signed up.
00:08:44.700 And the story that he wanted his grandsons to know was how many young men signed up.
00:08:52.280 And you mentioned their age.
00:08:53.500 Many of them lied about their age to serve their country.
00:08:57.380 They were 17 and even 16, and they lied.
00:09:01.000 And the people, some of the people he said knew they were lying, and they went with it anyway because everybody knew that this was a moment in history that you had to stand up and fight the Nazis or the world could fall.
00:09:16.080 Yeah, including George Herbert Walker Bush, who, if I remember correctly, was 17 when he signed up to go fight in World War II.
00:09:26.800 I mean, and that was, you know, you had young Americans stepping forward saying,
00:09:34.240 we're going to defend the world from tyranny.
00:09:37.340 And, you know, particularly after Pearl Harbor and the attack on Pearl Harbor when America was thrust into the war,
00:09:43.240 you had just ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
00:09:53.880 And imagine how different the course of history would have been if the Nazis had prevailed.
00:10:01.960 Yeah.
00:10:02.140 If Adolf Hitler lived out his life as the dictator of Europe.
00:10:07.980 The Nazis were unmitigated evil.
00:10:11.000 We now know, and many didn't know at the time, about the concentration camps where they murdered over 6 million Jews.
00:10:18.680 It was, there are wars where both sides are in the right and both sides are in the wrong.
00:10:27.840 World War II is not one of those.
00:10:30.180 The Nazis, the world would have been fundamentally different had the Allies not prevailed.
00:10:38.680 And D-Day, look, D-Day was not guaranteed to be a success.
00:10:42.060 It was one of the most difficult military assaults ever planned, ever executed.
00:10:48.200 And when you look at, when you look at the cliffs they climbed, when you look at the elevation they had, the scale,
00:10:58.460 and you imagine doing it with hand grenades and machine gun fire coming down at you,
00:11:06.460 not to mention incoming fire from airplanes.
00:11:12.540 And, I mean, it is extraordinary.
00:11:18.760 My grandfather told me about D-Day.
00:11:21.600 He said it was a day that we all knew that many of our friends were going to die,
00:11:26.460 and that was accepted.
00:11:28.320 It was just how many were going to die.
00:11:31.380 Well, look, and if you were, if you were in the first wave of the boats, almost all of those soldiers died.
00:11:40.940 And it, there was, the stakes were enormous, and what our country did, without America in that war, Germany wins.
00:11:55.000 And we came in, and it was a moment that changed the course of history.
00:12:04.560 Senator, I want to talk about just the reaction first to Americans in France and being at this ceremony.
00:12:14.060 How are you and the rest of the people that are there, especially the veterans, how are they received by the people in France?
00:12:24.580 And then I want to talk about just you even, the logistics and getting to this event and how all this came about.
00:12:33.120 Well, look, the veterans are embraced, and people are applauding and saying thank you.
00:12:39.980 And, I mean, there's just an enormous amount of love.
00:12:44.640 And, look, President Macron was there, and he was very gracious, and he said quite rightly that the American invasion at D-Day,
00:12:58.180 and it was all the allies, but it was the Americans leading it, that it liberated France,
00:13:03.780 that France had been conquered by the Nazis.
00:13:08.200 And it's the reaction in seeing these heroes.
00:13:17.680 Most of them now are in wheelchairs, and they just have a line of people coming up saying thank you
00:13:22.500 and wanting to take pictures with them and shake their hands, and they're just, you know,
00:13:27.160 there's an enormous amount of appreciation.
00:13:29.620 When you got this, obviously, the invite to go, how does this work?
00:13:36.300 Who all got to go on this trip to, obviously, honor our men and women that gave the ultimate sacrifice, our young boys?
00:13:43.620 But you're going to honor and represent the United States of America.
00:13:47.760 What do the logistics even look like?
00:13:49.920 Well, sure.
00:13:52.040 So this is what's called a CODEL, which is a congressional delegation, and it's official travel by members of Congress.
00:14:00.680 And there are lots of CODELs.
00:14:01.940 This is part of the job that you travel to other countries, and you meet with military leaders, you meet with foreign leaders.
00:14:10.860 That is a very important part of doing the job.
00:14:15.340 I'm on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and so traveling to other countries, meeting with other leaders,
00:14:19.660 understanding that this situation is very important.
00:14:24.620 This CODEL, typically CODELs are organized by one or two senators.
00:14:29.620 This CODEL was organized by Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut,
00:14:34.780 and John Bozeman, a Republican from Arkansas.
00:14:38.580 And this was a big CODEL.
00:14:41.000 This was larger than normal.
00:14:42.620 Often CODELs are, in the Senate, three or four or five senators.
00:14:47.840 It's a typical CODEL.
00:14:49.780 This one, I think the council was 19, so you had a lot of senators that came.
00:14:54.660 And then there were a bunch of House members that came.
00:14:56.440 I actually don't know how many House members, but I'd say 20 or 30.
00:14:59.540 It was a big group of House members that were here.
00:15:01.800 And so, logistically, the way this one worked is that we met at the Capitol,
00:15:11.060 and then we went over to Andrews Air Force Base.
00:15:13.320 And we flew from Andrews Air Force Base to France on Air Force planes.
00:15:19.340 So it's what's called military air.
00:15:22.020 And so the Air Force maintains a number of planes that are used for official travel.
00:15:28.360 And so we left on Wednesday late afternoon.
00:15:34.620 We flew all night.
00:15:37.940 We tried to sleep on the plane as much as we could,
00:15:41.420 although, you know, according to my Aura ring tracker,
00:15:46.760 I had a total of 51 minutes sleep last night.
00:15:49.180 So it's not easy.
00:15:51.440 I'm glad to know you and I sleep as well on planes.
00:15:54.640 I can't do it no matter what, even overseas.
00:15:56.500 I've never been able to sleep on planes.
00:15:59.420 Yeah, it's just hard to sleep in an airplane plane.
00:16:01.700 I got 51 minutes that I've passed out,
00:16:03.920 but I find it really tough to sleep in an airplane plane seat.
00:16:10.020 So we landed early in the morning today.
00:16:14.420 So today is Thursday.
00:16:16.400 We landed early in the morning at about 630 in the morning,
00:16:21.840 and we all disembarked the plane and changed clothes.
00:16:28.600 So, you know, I mean, we traveled in jeans and traveling clothes,
00:16:31.080 but then we changed to put on a suit and put on business attire.
00:16:36.340 And then we all got in buses to head to the ceremony.
00:16:40.640 And there were two ceremonies today.
00:16:44.580 There was one, the American ceremony,
00:16:47.420 and that's at the American Cemetery,
00:16:49.900 and that both Joe Biden and Macron both spoke there.
00:16:53.880 And that had a lot of time honoring the World War II veterans who were there.
00:17:01.340 And then after that, there was an international ceremony
00:17:07.000 that featured a number of heads of state,
00:17:10.920 and Justin Trudeau from Canada was there,
00:17:14.220 and Prince Harry from the U.K. was there,
00:17:17.820 and that was predominantly driven by the French.
00:17:23.740 So the international event was very different from the American event.
00:17:27.200 So I attended both, and then after the events,
00:17:34.820 now we're up in Normandy, and the rest of the trip is in Paris,
00:17:39.660 so we got on Blackhawk helicopters and went from Normandy to Paris
00:17:45.220 and landed in Paris.
00:17:46.980 How long is that flight, out of curiosity?
00:17:49.260 How long is that?
00:17:49.960 And taking off from Normandy in a Blackhawk,
00:17:54.060 that to me just seems really, I don't know, touching historically.
00:17:59.740 I mean, you're taking the same flight that many people were, you know,
00:18:04.180 coming in and parachuting in.
00:18:06.400 Yeah.
00:18:07.020 No, it was really damn cool.
00:18:08.600 Like, there's no other way.
00:18:09.800 Like, as the helicopter's taking off,
00:18:12.240 and you're, like, looking at the beach,
00:18:14.540 and you're envisioning, when you're looking at the beach,
00:18:17.160 you're envisioning just 150,000 GIs landing on that beach.
00:18:23.740 You're envisioning the smoke and the screams and the blood and the machine guns,
00:18:28.220 and you're envisioning the ships as far as the eye can see
00:18:30.800 and the paratroopers raining down from on high,
00:18:34.100 and it was just kind of amazing.
00:18:35.820 And for a chunk of it, we flew along the coast before we cut in to go to Paris.
00:18:41.500 And so it was really, you're flying over the French countryside
00:18:44.880 and seeing the countryside and seeing the coast.
00:18:47.960 That was very cool.
00:18:50.020 And it ended up, I mean, it's now, what time is it now?
00:18:56.080 It is 11.08 p.m.
00:18:57.980 So this has been a very long day.
00:19:01.400 We landed in France at 6.30 in the morning
00:19:03.300 and just got to the hotel room at 11 o'clock at night.
00:19:05.660 So it has been a full day.
00:19:07.820 But it was, and then tomorrow I'm up early
00:19:14.360 and I'm meeting with the U.S. Embassy
00:19:17.320 and doing a briefing, a military briefing,
00:19:20.120 and we've got a whole series of meetings on issues
00:19:24.000 impacting France and Europe that I'll be attending.
00:19:28.880 And then also on Saturday we're going to go back to Normandy
00:19:31.940 and do a tour of the battlefields and have an historical tour,
00:19:36.080 which I'm really looking forward to as well.
00:19:39.100 Today was the ceremony itself,
00:19:41.300 but I'm looking forward to getting into some of the real details
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00:20:21.620 I was watching Biden on TV
00:20:24.540 and there was two faces that I noticed sitting there close to the front,
00:20:29.380 two men that you got to meet today.
00:20:32.340 And there's certain people and moments where you meet a person
00:20:36.920 in the context of some of their greatest work and it excites you.
00:20:41.400 Two of those people you met today was Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
00:20:45.340 These are, as you described them,
00:20:47.340 two master storytellers who've done a beautiful job
00:20:51.120 chronicling the incredible heroism of the greatest generation.
00:20:54.460 I could not agree with you more.
00:20:56.820 What was it like to be there in Normandy with them
00:20:59.460 and all that they have done to really raise awareness
00:21:03.240 of the greatest generation and the ultimate sacrifice?
00:21:07.960 Yeah, that was really cool.
00:21:09.500 Like, I had not met either one of them before
00:21:12.100 and they were both just kind of standing around
00:21:14.580 before the ceremony started.
00:21:15.860 They were talking to various people.
00:21:17.840 And so I came up and introduced myself.
00:21:20.720 I had a conversation with both of them.
00:21:23.340 With Spielberg, I said, you know,
00:21:26.300 I told him he's an amazing movie maker
00:21:28.100 and I love, you know this, I love movies.
00:21:30.960 I'm a diehard movie buff.
00:21:32.460 And I just said, you know,
00:21:34.020 telling stories is incredibly important.
00:21:37.060 And I actually, I relayed a story to him.
00:21:39.500 So Saving Private Ryan,
00:21:40.880 my uncle was a Vietnam vet
00:21:44.260 and he worked for years
00:21:46.620 as a counselor at the VA
00:21:49.880 dealing with veterans who had mental health issues.
00:21:54.240 And my uncle told me
00:21:56.180 that when Saving Private Ryan came out,
00:21:58.260 you know, the first 20, 30 minutes of it
00:22:01.200 where they're landing,
00:22:02.960 I mean, it's as intense a war scene
00:22:05.460 as I think there's ever been in a movie.
00:22:06.860 And what I told Spielberg is I said,
00:22:11.060 my uncle told me
00:22:12.180 that he had a lot of vets coming in
00:22:15.540 who were really triggered by that scene.
00:22:18.060 And what they told him
00:22:19.680 is that it got the sounds right.
00:22:22.720 And they said it was the first war movie
00:22:25.120 that got the sounds of combat exactly right.
00:22:29.760 And it was bringing vets back,
00:22:31.900 like being back in combat.
00:22:34.860 And so he was as a therapist
00:22:37.320 helping them work through that.
00:22:40.840 And it was interesting.
00:22:41.560 Spielberg was telling me,
00:22:42.600 he said, look, they went to great lengths.
00:22:45.420 You know, they took all the different weapons
00:22:48.700 and they fired them
00:22:49.900 and had the microphones
00:22:50.980 to number one, record the sound of them.
00:22:54.380 But they also, he said,
00:22:56.040 fired them into sides of beat
00:22:58.480 to get the like sound of them
00:23:00.340 hitting a body
00:23:01.700 and breaking bone and flesh.
00:23:03.880 But, and my uncle said also
00:23:07.480 the sound of ricochet and water
00:23:09.680 with the bullets,
00:23:11.340 that that in particular
00:23:12.880 was an aspect that was really potent.
00:23:18.460 You know, I also talked to him about
00:23:20.400 Schindler's List,
00:23:21.680 which was another incredible movie.
00:23:23.980 And I was talking to him
00:23:25.600 about how moved I was
00:23:27.780 by the scene at the end
00:23:29.020 where, you know,
00:23:29.620 Oscar Schindler is sitting there
00:23:31.440 after having saved so many people
00:23:33.880 from concentration camps
00:23:35.620 and, you know,
00:23:36.040 he looks at his gold watch
00:23:37.300 and says, you know,
00:23:37.980 my God,
00:23:38.820 I could have saved three people with that.
00:23:40.540 How do I have a watch
00:23:41.820 and three people are dead?
00:23:43.520 Like, like that,
00:23:44.720 the guilt he felt
00:23:46.100 that as much as he did,
00:23:47.160 he could have done more.
00:23:48.160 And it was,
00:23:48.860 that was actually a neat conversation
00:23:50.460 to have with Spielberg.
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00:25:55.280 I want to talk about the speech
00:25:57.280 and I was watching...
00:25:59.560 Actually, before that,
00:26:01.560 let's not skip
00:26:02.140 at Tom Hanks.
00:26:03.000 So Hanks was there too.
00:26:04.920 And so I went and chatted
00:26:05.740 with him too.
00:26:06.440 Now, interestingly enough,
00:26:08.180 Tom Hanks is actually
00:26:09.120 pretty tall,
00:26:09.980 which I didn't know.
00:26:10.700 So, it's...
00:26:13.340 When I met him,
00:26:14.320 he's, I don't know,
00:26:15.080 maybe he's 6'2 or 6'3.
00:26:17.780 He was at least...
00:26:19.380 I'm 5'11.
00:26:20.220 He was at least
00:26:20.880 three inches taller than I am,
00:26:22.120 which I didn't expect.
00:26:24.320 And he's kind of skinny.
00:26:25.440 He was tall
00:26:26.240 and kind of skinny,
00:26:27.020 which is not...
00:26:28.700 He's taller
00:26:31.480 than he appears in movies.
00:26:34.160 But he was very charming
00:26:35.660 and we chatted a little bit
00:26:37.820 and, you know,
00:26:41.240 he said...
00:26:42.280 You know,
00:26:44.040 he said something
00:26:45.580 along the lines of,
00:26:46.880 you know,
00:26:47.940 you know,
00:26:48.400 I'm not going to vote for you.
00:26:50.520 And I kind of laughed
00:26:51.780 and said,
00:26:52.080 well, you're not going
00:26:52.620 to vote for me yet.
00:26:54.260 You know,
00:26:54.520 I'm stubborn enough.
00:26:55.400 I haven't given up
00:26:56.100 on convincing you of that.
00:26:58.760 But it was, you know,
00:26:59.680 he did it in a way
00:27:00.860 that was not obnoxious.
00:27:03.060 Look,
00:27:03.240 both Spielberg and Hanks
00:27:04.680 are Democrats.
00:27:05.440 They're very vocal Democrats.
00:27:06.400 But, you know,
00:27:07.640 that's...
00:27:08.040 We were not there
00:27:09.000 talking politics that day.
00:27:10.500 I mean,
00:27:11.100 and you look at
00:27:12.080 whether it's
00:27:12.480 Saving Private Ryan
00:27:13.500 or it is
00:27:15.420 Band of Brothers
00:27:16.260 and the Pacific,
00:27:17.140 both of which
00:27:17.700 are just
00:27:18.440 incredible series.
00:27:20.740 I've watched both of them
00:27:21.840 and they do such
00:27:22.980 a powerful job
00:27:24.360 of recounting
00:27:26.100 World War II
00:27:27.940 both in Europe
00:27:28.680 and in the Pacific.
00:27:30.600 And, you know,
00:27:31.460 the heart
00:27:31.900 that each of them
00:27:32.940 has
00:27:33.340 for telling
00:27:34.780 those stories.
00:27:35.660 And I was
00:27:36.320 talking with
00:27:37.340 Spielberg
00:27:38.980 more than Hanks,
00:27:39.840 but I was talking
00:27:40.420 about how important
00:27:41.280 it was
00:27:41.780 to tell the stories
00:27:42.920 of these veterans.
00:27:44.820 You know,
00:27:45.060 we're losing them
00:27:46.100 every day.
00:27:46.800 We're losing them.
00:27:47.600 We're coming to the end
00:27:48.540 of when we're going
00:27:49.060 to have them with us.
00:27:49.940 And telling their stories
00:27:51.380 so they're not forgotten
00:27:52.820 I think is really,
00:27:53.980 really, really important.
00:27:55.360 Yeah,
00:27:55.540 it's vitally important.
00:27:56.920 I want to go
00:27:57.720 to the president's speech.
00:27:59.360 Lloyd Austin spoke
00:28:00.400 and then the president spoke
00:28:02.560 and I actually played
00:28:04.260 some of that
00:28:04.640 on my show.
00:28:06.000 And I said this
00:28:07.540 at the beginning.
00:28:08.240 I said I always root
00:28:09.480 for the president
00:28:11.060 of the United States
00:28:11.600 of America
00:28:12.100 on moments like this,
00:28:13.460 on today's like this,
00:28:15.080 to have an amazing speech.
00:28:17.520 And I root for the president
00:28:19.340 always,
00:28:20.040 my president,
00:28:21.340 always,
00:28:22.420 when it comes
00:28:23.260 to national security issues,
00:28:25.440 especially,
00:28:26.660 and when it comes
00:28:27.440 to honoring
00:28:28.060 our men and women
00:28:28.940 in uniform.
00:28:29.500 And the president
00:28:31.520 gave a speech
00:28:32.600 and I was watching it
00:28:35.700 with the best of intentions.
00:28:37.900 I wanted to root
00:28:39.020 for this speech.
00:28:40.460 But there were some moments
00:28:42.160 in that speech
00:28:43.480 that caught me
00:28:44.800 a little bit by surprise
00:28:46.000 and I wanted to know
00:28:47.620 your thoughts on this.
00:28:49.460 There was a couple points
00:28:50.920 where Biden
00:28:51.900 tried to invoke Ukraine
00:28:54.560 and he also said this,
00:28:57.900 which the media
00:28:58.860 even picked up on.
00:29:00.780 Here's what he had to say
00:29:01.960 during the speech
00:29:02.740 about democracy
00:29:04.000 in America.
00:29:05.380 Now the question
00:29:06.140 for us is,
00:29:07.400 in our hour of trial,
00:29:08.700 will we do ours?
00:29:11.060 We're living in a time
00:29:12.080 when democracy
00:29:12.800 is more at risk
00:29:13.600 across the world
00:29:14.600 than any point
00:29:15.840 since the end
00:29:16.680 of World War II,
00:29:18.620 since these beaches
00:29:19.320 were stormed
00:29:20.580 in 1944.
00:29:22.600 Now we have to ask ourselves,
00:29:24.760 will we stand
00:29:25.400 against tyranny,
00:29:26.780 against evil,
00:29:27.900 against crushing brutality,
00:29:30.360 of the iron fist?
00:29:31.880 Will we stand
00:29:32.440 for freedom?
00:29:33.700 Will we defend democracy?
00:29:35.600 Will we stand together?
00:29:37.280 My answer is yes
00:29:38.700 and only can be yes.
00:29:41.340 That was an interesting
00:29:42.540 point for me
00:29:43.400 because he said
00:29:43.960 democracy is more at risk
00:29:45.100 now than at any point
00:29:46.020 since World War II.
00:29:47.640 He talked about it
00:29:48.540 on a domestic side,
00:29:49.920 which was implying
00:29:50.860 I think Donald Trump
00:29:51.880 is a threat to democracy.
00:29:53.040 and then he implied it
00:29:54.600 with obviously Russia
00:29:55.820 and Ukraine
00:29:56.360 and I wanted
00:29:57.020 your reaction to that.
00:29:58.920 You know,
00:29:59.480 I'm going to say
00:30:00.120 this is an interesting
00:30:01.580 example of having
00:30:02.840 a different reaction
00:30:03.800 to something
00:30:04.380 when you're physically
00:30:05.500 there
00:30:06.020 versus watching it
00:30:08.340 on TV
00:30:08.960 or watching it
00:30:10.340 on Twitter.
00:30:11.220 look,
00:30:13.260 I know
00:30:13.940 on the way
00:30:15.780 after the speech,
00:30:17.520 like looking at Twitter
00:30:18.800 and people's reactions,
00:30:19.860 I know people are upset
00:30:21.100 that they view Biden
00:30:22.960 as politicizing it.
00:30:25.060 I've got to say
00:30:25.980 it didn't feel
00:30:26.960 that political
00:30:27.780 being there in person
00:30:29.780 and maybe it's because
00:30:31.900 frankly,
00:30:33.460 you're paying attention
00:30:34.200 to the veterans
00:30:35.220 and the heroes
00:30:35.820 you're in front of
00:30:36.540 and it's so dominated
00:30:39.540 things that I,
00:30:40.580 you know,
00:30:40.800 what Biden said,
00:30:41.660 I barely paid attention
00:30:43.120 to it.
00:30:43.580 Like it was not,
00:30:44.960 it wasn't the dominant
00:30:46.740 event of the day
00:30:47.820 and,
00:30:49.260 you know,
00:30:49.580 it was fine.
00:30:50.160 He said,
00:30:50.500 okay,
00:30:50.980 you know what was
00:30:51.940 actually stood out
00:30:52.880 much more to me
00:30:54.100 than anything Biden
00:30:54.900 said?
00:30:55.980 What was that?
00:30:56.620 Was Macron
00:30:57.220 did something
00:30:58.400 that was really cool,
00:31:00.880 which is
00:31:01.760 he awarded
00:31:04.100 the French Legion
00:31:05.280 of Honor
00:31:05.740 to,
00:31:07.640 it was about
00:31:08.160 eight or ten
00:31:09.080 American GIs
00:31:10.340 and,
00:31:11.940 and,
00:31:12.180 and he,
00:31:12.760 you know,
00:31:13.060 he,
00:31:13.420 and each of them,
00:31:14.460 they're almost all
00:31:15.400 in wheelchairs,
00:31:16.060 each of them
00:31:16.620 would stand for it
00:31:18.200 and they're teetering
00:31:19.220 and they'd have someone
00:31:20.020 helping them
00:31:20.500 but they wanted to stand
00:31:21.520 and he would pin
00:31:22.280 on their chest
00:31:23.080 the French Legion
00:31:24.560 of Honor
00:31:25.040 that I wasn't expecting
00:31:26.440 and that was just
00:31:27.100 powerful.
00:31:27.820 That was just like,
00:31:29.320 he,
00:31:29.580 he was literally,
00:31:30.280 and then it was funny,
00:31:31.260 Macron would lean in
00:31:32.220 and he would kiss them
00:31:33.060 on,
00:31:33.380 on both cheeks
00:31:34.220 as is the French way.
00:31:35.360 You could kind of see
00:31:36.220 these old dudes
00:31:37.360 being like,
00:31:37.840 hey,
00:31:38.040 why does this French
00:31:38.620 got to kiss them?
00:31:41.400 But,
00:31:42.020 you know,
00:31:42.480 it's,
00:31:42.880 you're being awarded
00:31:43.520 the French Legion
00:31:44.260 of Honor,
00:31:44.720 that's a pretty damn
00:31:46.140 big deal.
00:31:47.440 And,
00:31:47.920 and you think about it
00:31:49.080 for someone
00:31:49.680 who was 19
00:31:50.760 and,
00:31:51.840 and was right there,
00:31:53.240 I mean,
00:31:53.440 understand,
00:31:53.960 we're doing this
00:31:54.680 like,
00:31:55.440 right next to the beaches
00:31:56.880 where,
00:31:57.620 where they saw
00:31:58.140 their friends die,
00:31:59.000 right next to the beaches
00:32:00.120 where,
00:32:01.060 I,
00:32:01.360 I'm going to have to assume
00:32:02.780 that was the most
00:32:03.480 hellish day
00:32:04.020 they've ever experienced
00:32:04.980 or was certainly
00:32:05.540 one of them,
00:32:06.200 although,
00:32:06.780 those that continue
00:32:08.620 to fight in the war,
00:32:09.500 there may have been
00:32:10.040 others that,
00:32:10.680 that rivaled it.
00:32:11.980 But,
00:32:13.160 you know,
00:32:15.140 you think about it,
00:32:16.160 imagine being 100 years old
00:32:17.840 and the president of France
00:32:19.060 thanking you
00:32:21.080 for liberating France
00:32:22.240 and,
00:32:22.620 and pinning
00:32:23.480 the,
00:32:24.860 the legion of honor
00:32:25.920 on your chest.
00:32:26.660 It was,
00:32:27.320 I,
00:32:27.540 look,
00:32:28.320 most of us had tears
00:32:29.480 in our eyes during that.
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00:33:54.640 Anthony Blinken
00:33:55.700 came out
00:33:56.600 afterwards.
00:33:58.000 He did an interview
00:33:58.860 from Normandy
00:34:00.400 with the backdrop
00:34:01.820 behind him
00:34:02.460 of many of the heroes
00:34:04.020 and the crosses
00:34:06.040 of those tombstones
00:34:07.740 of so many
00:34:08.180 that lost their lives.
00:34:09.780 He had this to say
00:34:11.200 marking the 80th anniversary
00:34:12.580 of D-Day
00:34:14.300 and I want to get
00:34:15.340 your reaction.
00:34:15.980 And joining us now
00:34:17.340 from Normandy
00:34:18.140 the United States
00:34:19.660 Secretary of State
00:34:20.820 Anthony Blinken.
00:34:22.100 Thank you very much
00:34:23.060 for joining us
00:34:23.840 here on Morning Joe.
00:34:25.540 What should our allies
00:34:27.160 and enemies
00:34:28.560 take away
00:34:30.000 from the president's
00:34:31.760 speech this morning
00:34:32.800 in Normandy?
00:34:34.040 The same resolve
00:34:35.420 that the extraordinary
00:34:37.680 men and women
00:34:38.880 that we're celebrating
00:34:39.900 today showed then
00:34:41.320 he's showing now
00:34:42.820 because they did
00:34:44.100 what they did.
00:34:45.380 We're here today
00:34:46.320 and we not only
00:34:47.580 have responsibility
00:34:48.200 to honor what they did
00:34:49.380 but the real way
00:34:50.640 to honor it
00:34:51.080 is to make sure
00:34:51.660 that we're good
00:34:52.480 in our time
00:34:53.520 in our moment
00:34:54.140 in standing up
00:34:55.320 to the challenges
00:34:55.780 that we face
00:34:56.380 and one of those
00:34:57.280 we see now
00:34:58.440 is aggression
00:34:58.860 from Russia
00:34:59.400 not only against Ukraine
00:35:00.880 but against the very principles
00:35:02.800 at the heart
00:35:03.540 of the international system
00:35:04.540 that were put in place
00:35:05.640 after World War II
00:35:06.620 to try to make sure
00:35:07.820 that we didn't have
00:35:08.420 another World War
00:35:09.060 that we maintain
00:35:10.060 peace and security
00:35:10.960 and presidents determined
00:35:12.540 to make sure
00:35:13.360 we're standing up today
00:35:14.540 just as they stood up
00:35:16.280 80 years ago
00:35:17.060 and the president
00:35:19.200 talked about Ukraine
00:35:20.380 as one of the current
00:35:21.640 challenges
00:35:22.180 that exemplify
00:35:23.780 the fight against
00:35:25.360 dark forces
00:35:26.140 that never fade
00:35:27.520 and he made another
00:35:30.720 yet another commitment
00:35:31.960 he reinforced
00:35:33.060 the commitment
00:35:34.320 to Ukraine
00:35:35.880 and by the way
00:35:37.780 if I may
00:35:38.500 we're watching live pictures
00:35:40.000 right now
00:35:40.780 of president Biden
00:35:41.920 and the first lady
00:35:43.240 walking through
00:35:45.200 the cemetery
00:35:46.360 in Normandy
00:35:47.800 France
00:35:48.400 and as we look
00:35:50.340 at these pictures
00:35:51.140 which really symbolize
00:35:53.240 the losses
00:35:54.000 80 years ago
00:35:55.920 on D-Day
00:35:57.240 and talk about
00:35:59.140 the losses
00:35:59.640 that Ukraine
00:36:00.580 is incurring right now
00:36:02.540 from the same type
00:36:03.580 of aggression
00:36:04.160 the president
00:36:06.060 the president
00:36:06.080 did say
00:36:06.780 that the
00:36:07.420 support for Ukraine
00:36:09.320 would continue
00:36:10.860 that we will be there
00:36:12.440 for Ukraine
00:36:13.200 how does that
00:36:14.660 how does that parallel
00:36:16.480 with
00:36:17.160 some of the reticence
00:36:18.620 we have seen
00:36:19.540 in Washington
00:36:20.440 that actually delayed
00:36:21.820 the much needed aid
00:36:23.760 Ukraine needed
00:36:24.760 to push back
00:36:25.920 against Russian aggression
00:36:27.100 well you know Mika
00:36:30.300 that age should have
00:36:30.940 gotten there a long time ago
00:36:31.880 but I'm glad it's there now
00:36:33.280 and it's making a difference
00:36:34.580 every single day
00:36:35.300 we're pushing it out
00:36:35.980 to the front lines
00:36:36.680 making sure the Ukrainians
00:36:38.040 who need it
00:36:38.520 against this Russian aggression
00:36:39.560 have it
00:36:40.100 and can use it
00:36:41.300 but you know
00:36:41.920 there's a really powerful
00:36:42.880 parallel too
00:36:43.540 between what we're
00:36:44.700 commemorating today
00:36:45.640 and what we're doing now
00:36:47.000 back then
00:36:48.340 it wasn't just
00:36:48.860 the United States
00:36:49.620 here in Normandy
00:36:50.980 12 countries
00:36:51.940 came together
00:36:52.560 160,000 men
00:36:54.440 coming to this beach
00:36:55.740 coming to start
00:36:56.860 the final fight
00:36:57.620 that ultimately
00:36:58.280 11 months later
00:36:59.280 led to victory
00:37:00.180 in World War II
00:37:00.720 in Ukraine
00:37:01.740 we have more than
00:37:02.300 50 countries
00:37:02.960 standing up
00:37:03.560 standing together
00:37:04.380 making sure that
00:37:05.560 Ukraine has what it needs
00:37:06.440 to defend itself
00:37:07.160 and to push back
00:37:07.700 this aggression
00:37:08.140 and that's the power
00:37:09.500 of our alliances
00:37:10.140 and that's the biggest
00:37:11.160 difference maker
00:37:11.740 we have in the world
00:37:12.560 our adversaries
00:37:13.780 our competitors
00:37:14.440 they don't have
00:37:15.380 the same kind
00:37:15.840 of voluntary alliances
00:37:16.580 yeah sometimes
00:37:17.140 they coerce countries
00:37:18.000 into helping them
00:37:18.600 or maybe they pay them off
00:37:19.900 here we have
00:37:21.380 country after country
00:37:22.280 that volunteers
00:37:23.320 to stand together
00:37:24.240 stand together
00:37:25.700 in defense
00:37:26.380 of principles
00:37:26.920 that we share
00:37:28.020 and no need defending
00:37:29.000 we're seeing that
00:37:29.800 in Ukraine
00:37:30.220 we saw that
00:37:31.200 80 years ago
00:37:31.780 here in Normandy
00:37:32.320 you listen to that
00:37:35.260 it was very clear
00:37:36.280 that NBC
00:37:37.020 was wanting
00:37:38.180 to make that
00:37:39.020 and Blinken
00:37:40.140 wanted to make
00:37:41.140 that connection
00:37:41.840 and this deals
00:37:43.100 with the reality
00:37:43.800 of foreign policy
00:37:44.640 Senator
00:37:44.960 he said
00:37:45.300 his exact quote
00:37:46.580 there's a really
00:37:47.120 powerful parallel
00:37:47.960 between D-Day
00:37:48.780 and the Ukraine war
00:37:50.340 yeah no there's not
00:37:53.580 that's
00:37:55.800 look
00:37:57.140 this White House
00:37:58.800 does all politics
00:38:00.420 all the time
00:38:01.140 it's what they do
00:38:01.880 they spin
00:38:02.640 spin
00:38:03.600 spin
00:38:04.120 and the two
00:38:06.220 are fundamentally
00:38:07.080 different
00:38:07.660 you know
00:38:10.660 I wish
00:38:11.460 they would treat
00:38:13.480 a solemn commemoration
00:38:14.860 like this
00:38:15.740 for what it is
00:38:17.300 a solemn commemoration
00:38:18.520 and not treat it
00:38:19.640 as another day
00:38:20.920 in politics
00:38:21.720 now I will say
00:38:23.920 President Zelensky
00:38:25.200 was there
00:38:25.800 he was at the event
00:38:27.360 and so that did
00:38:29.640 add some of the
00:38:30.560 focus to it
00:38:31.320 and actually I think
00:38:32.020 tomorrow we're going
00:38:32.820 to be sitting down
00:38:33.420 and meeting
00:38:33.740 with President Zelensky
00:38:34.600 and listen
00:38:36.620 I agree
00:38:37.700 that we want
00:38:39.320 Russia to lose
00:38:40.120 that Russia
00:38:40.640 is our enemy
00:38:41.260 now Vladimir Putin
00:38:42.180 is not Adolf Hitler
00:38:43.100 he's our enemy
00:38:45.000 but he doesn't
00:38:47.020 have concentration
00:38:47.880 camps
00:38:48.320 or he's murdering
00:38:49.100 6 million people
00:38:49.940 right now
00:38:50.400 he is our enemy
00:38:53.760 and he does not
00:38:56.220 wish us well
00:38:57.100 and so I think
00:38:58.480 Vladimir Putin
00:38:59.180 is a KGB thug
00:39:00.240 it's in America's
00:39:01.760 interest for Russia
00:39:02.520 to lose
00:39:03.060 but
00:39:04.940 and we've talked
00:39:05.840 about this
00:39:06.400 at great length
00:39:07.180 on the pod
00:39:07.840 it is Joe Biden's
00:39:10.400 fault
00:39:10.680 and Tony Blinken's
00:39:11.860 fault
00:39:12.040 that Ukraine war
00:39:13.040 happened in the
00:39:13.700 first place
00:39:14.360 Joe Biden
00:39:15.640 gave
00:39:16.100 multi-billion dollar
00:39:17.740 gifts
00:39:18.240 to Vladimir Putin
00:39:19.780 when he
00:39:20.300 waived sanctions
00:39:21.160 on the Nord Stream
00:39:22.020 2 pipeline
00:39:22.800 sanctions that I
00:39:24.100 authored
00:39:24.480 I wrote the
00:39:25.160 legislation
00:39:25.760 wrote them
00:39:26.340 into law
00:39:26.900 and Putin
00:39:28.100 stopped building
00:39:29.060 that pipeline
00:39:29.980 the day
00:39:30.900 President Trump
00:39:32.100 signed my
00:39:32.900 sanctions legislation
00:39:33.980 in the law
00:39:35.100 if Biden
00:39:35.720 had not
00:39:36.200 waived those
00:39:36.740 sanctions
00:39:37.180 the war
00:39:38.260 in Ukraine
00:39:38.880 would not
00:39:39.580 have happened
00:39:40.020 if Donald Trump
00:39:40.860 were still
00:39:41.720 in the White
00:39:42.200 House
00:39:42.460 the war
00:39:42.880 in Ukraine
00:39:43.360 would not
00:39:44.120 have happened
00:39:44.760 it's Joe Biden's
00:39:46.160 weakness
00:39:46.500 that caused
00:39:47.680 the war
00:39:49.260 in Ukraine
00:39:49.760 and by the way
00:39:50.640 as much as
00:39:52.260 Biden and Blinken
00:39:53.100 want to see
00:39:53.720 themselves as
00:39:54.360 Churchill
00:39:54.740 and FDR
00:39:55.420 if there is
00:39:56.200 a World War
00:39:57.640 II
00:39:57.800 analogy
00:39:58.820 then Biden
00:40:00.640 is Neville
00:40:01.160 Chamberlain
00:40:01.800 he is the
00:40:03.080 one who is
00:40:03.740 weak
00:40:04.100 he is the
00:40:04.660 appeaser
00:40:05.240 he is the
00:40:06.000 one who
00:40:06.300 gave billions
00:40:06.940 to Russia
00:40:07.600 he is the
00:40:08.320 one who
00:40:08.600 gave billions
00:40:09.220 to Iran
00:40:09.920 he's the
00:40:10.360 one that
00:40:11.120 constantly
00:40:13.180 shows weakness
00:40:13.960 to our
00:40:14.400 enemy
00:40:14.720 which is
00:40:15.320 why
00:40:15.860 we went
00:40:17.100 from peace
00:40:17.900 and prosperity
00:40:18.640 what he inherited
00:40:19.400 three and a half
00:40:19.980 years ago
00:40:20.660 to two
00:40:21.420 simultaneous wars
00:40:22.520 playing out
00:40:23.120 across the face
00:40:23.940 of the globe
00:40:24.480 and
00:40:25.080 look I'm glad
00:40:27.160 Biden says
00:40:28.020 he stands
00:40:28.660 for freedom
00:40:29.200 against tyranny
00:40:30.040 he can't seem
00:40:32.600 to figure that
00:40:33.200 out in Israel
00:40:33.860 because
00:40:34.400 he's blocking
00:40:35.780 weapons
00:40:36.340 going to Israel
00:40:37.300 and at the same
00:40:38.820 time
00:40:39.300 blowing money
00:40:40.160 to Iran
00:40:40.960 that goes
00:40:41.440 to Hamas
00:40:42.120 and so
00:40:43.300 when it comes
00:40:43.940 to freedom
00:40:44.420 and tyranny
00:40:45.080 he manages
00:40:46.780 to be on
00:40:47.400 the wrong
00:40:47.820 side of that
00:40:48.540 an awful lot
00:40:49.520 yeah
00:40:50.200 no doubt
00:40:50.840 about it
00:40:51.340 I'm really
00:40:52.440 thankful that
00:40:53.140 you got to
00:40:53.680 be there
00:40:54.160 and we got
00:40:54.820 to talk
00:40:55.240 about this
00:40:55.840 and honor
00:40:56.480 our
00:40:57.440 amazing
00:40:59.060 brave
00:41:00.220 men
00:41:01.140 who went
00:41:01.680 and fought
00:41:02.260 and the
00:41:02.600 women
00:41:02.900 that were
00:41:03.480 involved
00:41:03.920 as well
00:41:04.640 by the way
00:41:05.800 you know
00:41:06.080 who I met
00:41:06.580 I met
00:41:07.620 the original
00:41:08.600 Rosie the Riveter
00:41:09.420 no way
00:41:10.980 no way
00:41:12.180 that was
00:41:12.640 really cool
00:41:13.460 she's like
00:41:14.280 100 years
00:41:14.840 old
00:41:15.200 but she
00:41:17.060 was the
00:41:17.460 original
00:41:17.940 Rosie the Riveter
00:41:18.960 in those
00:41:20.740 ads
00:41:22.140 you know
00:41:22.600 drumming up
00:41:23.180 support for the
00:41:23.800 military
00:41:24.140 that was very
00:41:24.740 cool
00:41:25.040 that's
00:41:26.020 incredible
00:41:26.520 well
00:41:26.960 what
00:41:27.320 what a
00:41:27.820 trip
00:41:28.240 you know
00:41:29.360 my first
00:41:29.840 question
00:41:30.300 on the
00:41:30.540 next pod
00:41:31.020 is going
00:41:31.260 to be
00:41:31.500 about
00:41:31.800 your
00:41:31.980 meeting
00:41:32.280 with
00:41:32.520 Ukraine's
00:41:33.980 Zelensky
00:41:34.760 so I'm
00:41:35.240 giving you
00:41:35.560 a heads
00:41:35.880 up
00:41:36.120 that's
00:41:36.420 what
00:41:36.520 everybody
00:41:36.880 listening
00:41:37.340 is going
00:41:37.620 to be
00:41:37.740 like
00:41:37.880 how did
00:41:38.240 that
00:41:38.640 go
00:41:38.940 and what
00:41:39.260 was
00:41:39.460 said
00:41:39.860 so I have
00:41:40.580 a feeling
00:41:41.000 we'll have
00:41:41.420 that for
00:41:41.960 you
00:41:42.140 coming up
00:41:42.680 on the
00:41:42.920 next pod
00:41:43.500 I'm glad
00:41:44.900 what a
00:41:45.940 great day
00:41:46.360 in history
00:41:46.900 what an
00:41:47.680 amazing day
00:41:48.380 to remember
00:41:49.440 and to honor
00:41:50.100 those
00:41:50.580 and I
00:41:51.500 really am
00:41:52.180 glad that we
00:41:52.680 got to talk
00:41:53.240 to you about
00:41:53.660 it live
00:41:54.380 from France
00:41:55.300 it's incredible
00:41:56.120 I want to
00:41:56.960 close out
00:41:57.640 with actually
00:41:59.260 a really cool
00:42:00.000 thing
00:42:00.360 so
00:42:01.040 at the
00:42:02.160 international
00:42:02.680 ceremony
00:42:03.260 they had
00:42:04.560 the international
00:42:05.160 ceremony
00:42:05.700 and there
00:42:07.600 was a lot
00:42:08.480 of music
00:42:10.300 they had
00:42:11.000 young people
00:42:11.760 singing
00:42:12.220 but they
00:42:14.000 had a
00:42:14.880 military
00:42:15.600 choir
00:42:16.320 singing
00:42:17.840 gory
00:42:18.700 gory
00:42:19.200 what a
00:42:19.580 hell of a
00:42:19.980 way to
00:42:20.260 die
00:42:20.680 which is
00:42:21.200 the formal
00:42:21.940 name of it
00:42:22.400 is Blood
00:42:22.740 on the
00:42:22.980 Risers
00:42:23.460 which is
00:42:24.340 a song
00:42:25.580 by American
00:42:26.200 paratroopers
00:42:26.920 and it's
00:42:27.680 look it's a
00:42:28.800 gory song
00:42:29.580 that they
00:42:29.940 sung about
00:42:30.600 what was
00:42:31.160 happening
00:42:31.540 and it
00:42:32.440 was amazing
00:42:33.200 seeing them
00:42:33.940 singing it
00:42:34.540 so I want
00:42:35.060 to close
00:42:35.540 it by
00:42:36.440 playing
00:42:37.100 I just
00:42:37.840 videoed on
00:42:38.460 my iPhone
00:42:39.200 the last
00:42:40.460 two stanzas
00:42:41.240 of it
00:42:41.540 and I
00:42:41.700 want to
00:42:41.960 close the
00:42:42.540 pod
00:42:42.920 by playing
00:42:44.320 that
00:42:44.760 because I
00:42:45.360 gotta say
00:42:45.900 in some
00:42:46.840 ways it
00:42:47.280 was dark
00:42:47.780 but in
00:42:48.140 some ways
00:42:48.660 it was
00:42:48.940 beautiful
00:42:49.420 these are
00:42:50.000 19 year
00:42:51.260 old boys
00:42:51.940 singing
00:42:52.380 they know
00:42:53.080 they may
00:42:53.540 be about
00:42:54.000 to die
00:42:54.480 but they're
00:42:54.980 going
00:42:55.500 willingly
00:42:56.480 into it
00:42:57.200 and so
00:42:57.680 let's
00:42:58.040 close
00:42:58.460 you know
00:42:59.360 Ben's
00:42:59.960 right
00:43:00.220 subscribe
00:43:00.680 to the
00:43:01.060 pod
00:43:01.320 give us
00:43:01.620 a five
00:43:01.980 star
00:43:02.180 review
00:43:02.640 send it
00:43:03.100 to all
00:43:03.340 your
00:43:03.460 friends
00:43:03.740 all that's
00:43:04.240 true
00:43:04.500 but
00:43:05.240 listen to
00:43:06.480 this
00:43:06.840 and just
00:43:07.360 think about
00:43:08.080 this is a
00:43:09.140 military band
00:43:10.200 military choir
00:43:11.880 in France
00:43:12.760 singing this
00:43:13.860 but
00:43:14.400 imagine the
00:43:16.040 19 year old
00:43:16.960 G.I.s
00:43:17.600 getting ready
00:43:18.500 to get on
00:43:18.980 the plane
00:43:19.560 and knowing
00:43:21.020 that they're
00:43:21.440 going to be
00:43:21.780 jumping out
00:43:22.620 really close
00:43:23.820 to the ground
00:43:24.620 with massive
00:43:25.860 machine gun
00:43:26.700 fire
00:43:27.220 and they may
00:43:28.680 not live
00:43:29.200 another hour
00:43:29.940 and yet
00:43:32.300 knowing what
00:43:33.180 they were
00:43:34.340 facing
00:43:34.840 they did
00:43:35.740 it
00:43:35.920 with
00:43:36.140 eyes
00:43:36.740 open
00:43:37.280 and
00:43:38.160 a
00:43:38.500 heart
00:43:38.980 full
00:43:39.600 of
00:43:39.900 love
00:43:40.260 for
00:43:40.500 America
00:43:40.840 is
00:43:41.540 everybody
00:43:42.440 heart
00:43:42.940 he cried
00:43:43.460 a
00:43:43.660 sad
00:43:44.000 looking
00:43:44.680 out
00:43:45.180 a
00:43:45.760 hero
00:43:46.200 feeling
00:43:46.660 and some
00:43:47.260 yes
00:43:47.660 and then
00:43:48.180 there's
00:43:48.400 to the
00:43:48.880 blood
00:43:49.360 he jumped
00:43:50.320 in
00:43:50.520 to the
00:43:50.940 ice
00:43:51.360 he
00:43:51.500 lost
00:43:51.840 he
00:43:51.960 stopped
00:43:52.340 to
00:43:52.520 climb
00:43:52.860 and
00:43:53.040 hooked
00:43:53.380 and
00:43:53.980 he
00:43:54.160 ain't
00:43:54.620 gonna
00:43:55.060 jump
00:43:55.480 no
00:43:56.060 more
00:43:57.720 gory
00:43:59.200 gory
00:43:59.720 what a hell
00:44:00.640 a way
00:44:01.100 to die
00:44:01.980 gory
00:44:03.300 gory
00:44:03.800 what a
00:44:04.480 hell
00:44:04.700 a way
00:44:05.200 to die
00:44:06.080 gory
00:44:07.380 gory
00:44:07.880 what a
00:44:08.520 hell
00:44:08.780 a way
00:44:09.260 to die
00:44:09.820 he
00:44:10.500 ain't
00:44:10.980 got
00:44:11.380 a
00:44:11.540 jack
00:44:11.880 no
00:44:12.540 more
00:44:14.040 he
00:44:14.720 counted
00:44:16.040 loud
00:44:16.660 he counted
00:44:17.640 loud
00:44:18.260 he waited
00:44:19.360 for
00:44:19.920 the
00:44:20.220 shot
00:44:20.740 he
00:44:21.920 fell
00:44:22.440 the
00:44:22.880 wind
00:44:23.300 he
00:44:23.700 fell
00:44:24.180 the
00:44:24.480 cold
00:44:24.920 he
00:44:25.420 fell
00:44:25.920 the
00:44:26.240 awful
00:44:26.860 drug
00:44:27.860 the
00:44:28.700 citron
00:44:29.780 his
00:44:30.300 wizards
00:44:31.040 he
00:44:31.380 out
00:44:31.860 and
00:44:32.280 rubbed
00:44:32.880 their
00:44:33.140 on
00:44:33.640 his
00:44:33.820 bled
00:44:34.440 he
00:44:35.640 ain't
00:44:36.380 got
00:44:37.140 a
00:44:37.380 jack
00:44:37.860 no
00:44:38.760 more
00:44:40.240 gory
00:44:43.280 gory
00:44:44.120 what a
00:44:45.020 hell
00:44:45.340 a
00:44:45.740 way
00:44:46.100 to
00:44:46.460 die
00:44:47.500 gory
00:44:49.420 gory
00:44:50.140 what a
00:44:51.060 hell
00:44:51.460 a
00:44:51.740 way
00:44:52.160 to
00:44:52.420 die
00:44:53.460 gory
00:44:55.340 gory
00:44:56.020 what a
00:44:56.980 hell
00:44:57.340 a
00:44:57.660 way
00:44:58.080 to
00:44:58.340 die
00:44:58.900 he
00:44:59.980 had
00:45:00.480 gone
00:45:01.240 a
00:45:01.480 jerk
00:45:01.940 no
00:45:03.080 more
00:45:04.440 this
00:45:08.040 is
00:45:08.180 an
00:45:08.320 i
00:45:08.460 heart
00:45:08.660 podcast
00:45:09.280 guaranteed
00:45:10.780 human
00:45:11.360 me
00:45:11.800 i
00:45:12.760 don't
00:45:21.120 i
00:45:21.280 have
00:45:21.780 to
00:45:21.900 i
00:45:23.800 have
00:45:28.820 to