Verdict with Ted Cruz - LIVE from Normandy： D-Day 80th Anniversary-Celebrating American Heroes

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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. 0.90

00:10:01.960 Yeah.

00:10:02.140 If Adolf Hitler lived out his life as the dictator of Europe. 0.85

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. 0.96

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. 0.75

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 0.71

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 1.00

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, 0.98

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 0.97

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 0.83

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 0.95

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 0.91

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.85

00:38:40.120 that Russia 0.72

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 0.94

00:38:59.180 is a KGB thug 0.99

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 0.77

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 1.00

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 0.93

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 1.00

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 0.72

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 0.72

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 0.99

00:44:58.900 he

00:44:59.980 had

00:45:00.480 gone

00:45:01.240 a 1.00

00:45:01.480 jerk 1.00

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

Verdict with Ted Cruz - June 07, 2024

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

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