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>> steve: you can see the president of the united states at the american cemetery in normandy. >> ainsley: very powerful day. >> bill: good morning, our coverage continues from france

and here in new york city 80 years later. here we have the president and first lady walking through the american cemetery and laying the wreath and honoring the heroes who made history on d-day. we'll take you through the next couple of hours together on this. welcome to "america's newsroom," i'm bill hemmer, >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." a pleasure and honor to spend this time with you, viewers and you these historical moments are important. 80 years since that day. so we have the first lady and the president in normandy. the president and first lady in france. we have a lot of the ceremony to come and you are going to have a chance to hear from macron as well. >> bill: we have a lot of great guests to get to relive the moments from 80 years ago with you. thank you for being here as we begin our broadcast. >> dana: we had just witnessed an extraordinary ceremony and a

military band playing taps in honor of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. [taps being played] >> bill: so that was from earlier. this is live now. a live look at omaha beach where the allies landed on this day. reading through all the information from earlier today and seeing the raw numbers of men and might and planes and boats, it is just extraordinary the mission that was launched, delayed at first because of bad wets and they chose this day on june 6th. this was from a ceremony a few moments ago. earlier the president spoke to a crowd of veterans and world leaders who were honored to be gathered there today.

>> president biden: we know the dark forces these heroes fought against 80 years ago. they never fade. we cannot let what happened here be lost in the silence of the years to come. we must remember it. must honor it and live it. we must remember the fact that they were heroes here that day does not absolve us from what we have to do today. >> bill: peter doocy is live american cemetery in normandy. >> president biden's overall theme is that it is his belief that the things that were happening here in europe in the 1940s in the run-up to d-day are not that different than the things happening here in europe right now. >> president biden: aggression and greed, the desire to dominate and control, to change borders by force, these are perennial dictatorship and

freedom. it is unending struggle. here in europe we see one stark example, ukraine has been invaded by a tyrant bent on domination. >> today could not be more different than june 6, '80 years ago. quiet enough today to hear birds chirping. sun shining and the men who stormed the beaches are now near 100 years old. president biden's remarks painted a picture of how terrifying that largest amphibious assault ever was with german positions above raining bullets and bombs down on allied forces below. sacrifices that president biden says were ultimately worth it. >> president biden: every one of them knew the probability of dying was real. they did it anyway. they knew beyond any doubt there

are things that are worth fighting and dying for. freedom is worth it, democracy is worth it. america is worth it. the world is worth it. >> president biden stressed during private meetings with d-day survivors as well as in his prepared remarks at the podium that those veterans saved the world, bill. >> bill: amen to that. nice to see you. want to bring in karl rove, you've been watching the broadcast throughout the day today. what comes top of mind to you at the moment? >> well, i was at normandy on the 60th anniversary with president bush and i was there on the 70th anniversary traveling with general tommy franks and on the 70th anniversary i got to interview a number of d-day veterans. i cannot tell you how moving it was. i talked to one elderly man who

jumped into d-day the day before his 16th birthday. i said well, how did you get in the fight? he said i was big for my age, grew up in kentucky, his dad a coal miner and said if you want to fight, go fight. his dad signed the papers attesting he was 18 years old. he jumped into normandy with 101st at the age of 16. they were dropped out of the zone, partnered up with some others from the 86th airborne similarly out of place, and spent seven days fighting their way back to the beach head moving at night in german-occupied ceremony. his storys emblematic of all of them. these were teenagers. teenagers and they saved the world. >> dana: such a pivotal moment

in history and the ones who are remaining still with us and are there even today as we saw in the speech that president biden gave, you had so many of them. this will probably in terms of the big milestones, might be the last one where we have them with us and what do you think we as a country owe them especially at this moment when we can sort of take for granted the freedoms that we have? >> yeah. we forget or maybe some of us never knew how vulnerable and fragile peace, democracy and freedom were in the world in the 1940s when the axis of evil, germany, japan, and italy were attacking the world particularly led by nazi germany in europe and by japan in the asian pacific region. liberty and freedom were under

fire and yet these young men and women took on an extraordinary task and literally saved the world. they saved democracy. america would not be what it is today had they failed. europe would not be what it is like if they failed. nazi germany would have begun its effort to dominate the world for not just a century but for a thousand years. the thousand year reich was the goal of hitler. the extinction of jews and others. i'm sorry to get emotional about it because i'm overwhelmed with the recollection of meeting these ancient veterans, some in wheelchairs and some walking with difficulty with a cane and yet to think about what they faced on this day walking into death, taking -- storming beaches that had been methodically organized by the nazis so ever inch was covered

by machine guns and rifle fire and artillery fire and they willingly went into battle because they believed in democracy and freedom and the right of every individual to live free in this world. >> bill: remarkable stuff. you were there for year number 60. 20 years prior ronald reagan had a moment. it was written by peggy noonan. it was the moment that turned his campaign and hit another gear and eventually went on to blow out mondale in a landslide. reagan embraced the moment. president biden did a good job today as well embracing the moment as we all have. you mention those guys in wheelchairs. i was telling dana this earlier in the week. i had the misfortune of a seven hour delay in cincinnati saturday morning and despite my displeasure, i had the honor of meeting a man who was 104 years old in a wheelchair hearing aids both sides, african-american

sitting in the corner with four different women mostly from delta and two family members helping fly him to atlanta and on to france. talking louder than everybody out there but he was so happy. you could tell that he realized this was a moment for him as well. karl, he was 20 years old on that day. 20 years old in 1944. >> unbelievable. and we need to remember them, honor them. i treasure the moments. i interviewed them on a boat between portsmouth and i couldn't stop weeping listening to the stories. they would laugh, they would cry, they would talk about comrades they lost. comrades who made it through to the end of the war with them and it was really an emotional moment and stirring. you cannot help but be grateful to be born an american to be in

the company of people like that who had served our country and served the world with distinction and they were ordinary people. guy from michigan who ended up living after the war in new orleans. kid from hazard, kentucky who celebrates his birthday sitting in a barn in france hoping that nazi soldiers will not discover he and his comrades. people who literally came off of landing ships into machine gunfire and have no understanding how they came out of that alive as their comrades and friends and to the left and right of them were mowed down. this is an extraordinary moment of courage. i met one of the young rangers who went up point dehawk. they climbed a cliff in order to take out an important nazi gun im placement led by a man who later went on to a storied career at texas a & m university colonel rutter. it is just amazing that people

somehow find this fortitude and courage to go into a fight like this and to begin to turn the tide. the moment that we secured the beaches at normandy was the moment that adolph hitler and the regime he led were set on the road to extinction. >> bill: you talk about the strength at the age of 20. imagine the strength you have at the age of 100, right? most people that age don't leave the house if they are even still with us. the average age went to normandy this time was 100 years old. sheer strength to get up and go back. karl, thank you so much. >> dana: much more to come as well. thank you. >> bill: you give great voice to it. thank you. >> dana: as we've been telling you it is a solemn day in normandy and 80 years since d-day. >> four guys on the ground deserve all the credit they can

get. paratroopers, armed forces, the ground troops.

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>> they come ashore. >> bill: commemorations being held worldwide 80 years since d-day. it turned the war. less than a year germany had surrendered. today u.s. navy seals reenacted the landing of the second naval beach battalion at utah beach in western france and stood by descendants of the soldiers who

arrived on the same sands on this day in 1944. >> you look at your watch and you are like okay, it's 6:30, utah beach, 80 years later. it just doesn't get more surreal than that. >> bill: right at sun-up. parachuteists paying tribute who landed behind enemy lines by name. the next ceremony at omaha beach. it will go on for some time and we'll watch each part of it together when it gets underway. president biden is in attendance for this one as well and other key leaders in northwestern france today. 18 past now. >> dana: a little other news going on. gun store clerk will continue testimony today in the hunter biden gun trial. rich edson has more from wilmington this morning. good morning, rich. >> good morning. court has just started. the jury is not seated yet, though. arguing, the attorneys, over an exhibit and working through

logistics to get back to the testimony. what it happens the gun store clerk will be cross-examined by the defense. hunter arrived 20 minutes before court began. the first day that first lady jill biden is not here. she is in normandy with the president. gordon cleveland is on the stand. attorneys have focused on the federal drug form. cleveland says he told hunter to fill out the federal purchase form truthful eye, take his time and he stood two feet from hunter and saw him answer no whether he was an unlawful user of drugs. to help paint that picture the prosecution called two of hunter's ex-s. is ex-wife found a crack pipe and had to scour their car for drugs to make sure their daughters didn't drive around with drugs in the car. his ex-girlfriend said he would

have him withdraw cash and saw hunter smoking crack every 20 minutes. she had no idea what hunter was doing when he bought that firearm since they hadn't spoken in that period for several weeks. prosecutors drew much of the evidence from hunter's laptop. agent testified it didn't appear to be tampered with out of hunter's possession at a repair shop. hallie biden is here today. he was involved with her. we expect her to take the stand today. the prosecution says they have a handful more witnesses and they might be able to finish their presentation with witnesses by the end of today and then up to the defense to start calling their witnesses. back to you, dana. >> dana: thank you so much. want to bring in jonathan turley. you have been following this trial. let's get caught up where you think it is today. this is -- you could look at this and say wow. obviously a troubled person, addict now having to face a lot of these things that he did with

family members and ex-family members. that's all bad. from the prosecution's standpoint how do you think they are doing with this case? >> well, the prosecution is doing an amazing good job in my view. this is a very disciplined case. what is really astonishing is how fast all of the defenses put forward by abbe lowell collapsed within 48 hours. there was a long argument that the laptop was tampered with and put it on an agent saying there is no tampering here. it is real and authentic. they said hunter biden wasn't doing drugs when he signed that. they have a text of him the next day trying to score drugs from a guy name mooky and a day after that doing drugs on the hood of a car. all these other witnesses saying of course he was an addict doing crack every 20 minutes when i knew him. they then said well, maybe someone else filled out the form. mr. cleveland said i watched him fill out the form. i told him to take his time.

every one of these defenses collapsed shortly after they were stated by the defense. at least to this question of why, why isn't he pleading guilty? it's an open and shut case. obvious he was doing drugs and that he had signed the form falsely. that might keep him out of jail. certainly would have avoided an embarrassing trial. the answer is, this is biden town. it is a biden who is standing trial in his hometown and this is the opposite of manhattan. here the jury pool could not be better for the defendant. i think the defense is using annulfication strategy. >> bill: a lot to work with. a memoir, you have an audio book, you have the laptop and on and on and on. on president trump's side now, you had movement yesterday in georgia. doesn't look like that trial will come anywhere near election day.

basically punted to next march. you have the florida documents case, that has been delayed. federal election case out of d.c. waiting on an immunity order on behalf of the supreme court that could come any day or two weeks from now. is it a stroke -- i'm searching for the question here and i guess if i'm on the trump team, it's really a stroke of legal luck it has gone this way. >> well, they have certainly broken in trump's favor in terms of the election. georgia looks like it is now dead letter until after the election. that's a bizarre case, the racketeering aspect connecting to trump. there are valid charges against some of the defendants but the overall racketeering case itself in my view is rather laughable. the two federal cases do not look like they'll land before the election. the one wild card is the d.c. case. we're waiting today and if not

today in the coming days for the ruling on immunity. if the court rejects both the lower court decision and the trump argument and finds those are both too extreme, it would have to send this case back to the judge for further proceedings. can she do that and still put the pedal to the metal before the election? she has tried. she has really turned this into a rocket docket in her courtroom. many of us still have doubts she could do that before the election. >> dana: jonathan turley, thank you for being here and following those trials for us especially the hunter biden one as we have the other commemorations of d-day to cover this morning. >> bill: well done last week. we hung on every word. talk to you soon. meanwhile donald trump heading to arizona today as his first visit to the key swing state of the campaign for 2024. it also comes on the heels of biden's executive order on immigration from two days ago.

former president calling that nothing but a gimmick with sean hannity last night. >> they did undo all of your policies with the stroke of a pen. now finally yesterday he implemented a new policy. however -- >> it's meaningless. >> millions are people are allowed to come in. it has nothing to do with border security. >> bill: now we go to maricopa county and we're in phoenix. >> good morning. the former president is set to arrive here in arizona later this afternoon. he is coming here for a town hall being hosted by turning point action. as you mentioned, bill, this will be his first trip to this battleground state in nearly two years. in that interview with sean hannity last night, trump addressed president biden's executive action on the border. the president hopes to drastically curb the number of migrants seeking asylum. the former president says it

won't help. >> he didn't need anything from congress. just shut the border. you say shut the border, sign an order and the border will close. i did it. we had the best and safest border in history. >> when registered arizona voters were asked in a recent "new york times" college poll what issue is most important in deciding their vote in november. economy came out on top followed by immigration and abortion. president biden has made a handful of trips to the grand canyon state since his narrow win in 2020 but trails trump in poll after poll. trump was last here for the 2022 mid-terms endorsing kari lake. she lost that election and leading gop contender for the u.s. senate seat vacated by sinema. lake is struggling against democratic congressman. trump's stop in arizona is a

western state swing including california and nevada. expect trump as well as rnc to push their swamp the vote usa initiative promoting absentee, in person, early voting and mail in. >> thanks for that and see you later today in phoenix. >> dana: up close look at migrant crime on the front lines. fox news took an exclusive ride along with the nypd to see how officers are tackling the trend. veterans fighting to keep the memory of d-day alive. our coverage. 80th anniversary continues. >> we did our job, came home, that's it. never talked about it for 70 years i didn't talk about it.

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>> dana: breaking news, accused long island serial killer heuermann is back in court

indicted on two new murder charges this morning. he has already pleaded not guilty to the murders of four women. nate foye is at the courthouse in new york. how did they add additional charges? >> well, dana, investigators have continued with their work and they said they would do that since heuermann's arrest last summer. he spent a full year in lockup and the hearing is now getting underway. he pleaded not guilty to the murders of the gilgo four as their bodies were found in 2011. the newest information we have from this indictment he is charged with two additional murders, one of them as far back as 1993. the two victims are sandra castilla and jessica taylor. taylor is believed to have been murdered in 2003. but castilla 1993, 30 years before heuermann's arrest.

today's hearing comes weeks after authorities searched heuermann's home for a second time. this is the home where he grew up and also where he lived with his ex-wife and two adult children. investigators found a vault last summer with a big iron door that's big enough to walk into. they searched woods 40 miles from gilgo beach and where authorities found the remains of taylor and another woman named valerie mack. they are two of the 11 victims that authorities found overall, at least partial human remains in 2010 and 2011 on long island's south shore. the district attorney says the gilgo beach task force continues to make progress. >> there were a number of necessary investigative steps that were taken. you will see the fruits of that investigation. >> so authorities first arrested

heuermann last july. his wife divorced him almost immediately after that . investigators used cell site data and dna evidence to catch him last summer. they matched dna from the crime scene to pizza crusts that he threw away. the district attorney is scheduled to speak as is heuermann's lawyer. this now makes six women that heuermann is accused of murdering. send it back to you. >> dana: nate foye, thank you. >> bill: from new york to the rest of the country, specifically florida with the rise in migrants comes the rise in migrant medical costs. get this. it will be a burden for our nation's hospitals. a report saying in florida those hospitals provided $566 million in healthcare to immigrants here in the u.s. illegally.

dana marie mcnicholl outside jackson memorial hospital in miami, florida. good morning there. >> good morning, bill. this is the busiest hospital in all of florida coming to migrant healthcare. 3900 migrants in six months. a new law signed by governor ron desantis says public hospitals are required to ask patients about their immigration status when they check into the hospital. now based on those answers, 54,000 people disclosed they are not lawfully present in the united states when visiting a hospital from june to december in 2023. costing florida an estimated $566 million. it is important to note that dollar amount is based on the assumption that all illegal migrants did not pay for healthcare after the hospital visits. immigration advocates say it is a deceitful assumption to make.

over 480,000 patients refused to answer questions about their immigration status. florida immigration coalition spearheaded a decline to answer campaign. >> we certainly did the work to let the community know that their immigration status is their business, you know, and not the government's business. >> but because of that, state healthcare officials we spoke to say the overall cost of illegal migrant healthcare is likely much higher than reflected in the report leaving hospitals on the hook for unpaid bills. >> there is a direct affect on the burden on taxpayers. again, uncompensated care. somebody has to foot this bill. it will fall on the backs of hard working floridians. >> and florida is expected to be the only state tracking this type of data. here at jackson memorial

hospital the e.r. department specifically saw 3200 migrant visits in a six-month period. >> bill: remarkable and the tab will go higher, we can bet on that. dana marie mcnicholl live in miami, florida. >> dana: fox news riding along with the nypd to see how officers are linking crime trends to the migrant surge days after two of their own were shot by an illegal teen migrant from venezuela riding a stolen scooter who has been arrested before. alexis mcadams has the story. >> we thought it was a wild night ride on the streets of queens and bronx but they see it every single day coming days after the two officers were shot by the venezuelan migrant. one of the officers was shot right in the chest. thank god it didn't go through body armor. the gang member is one example of growing crime. they are trying to get stolen

scooters off the streets. >> one of those nights. >> fox news hit the streets with the nypd. >> i got one moped. >> what is going on right now? >> something happened to a guy driving a stolen moped. that's how it starts, right? stolen moped, commit a crime on a stolen moped. >> the department's skilled community response team in queens patrolling a neighborhood they say is a hot spot finding guns, drugs and this guy who is a repeat offender. 49 arrests. is that shocking at this point? >> not at all. this is the second time in two weeks arrested by the same officer. >> we hit lots of hot spots around the city. 50 unregistered mopeds they've taken off the streets. >> a huge uptick in people committing crimes an scoot ears. >> armed moped crews are tied to

dozens of violent street robberies. these stolen mopeds are one example of crime connected to the ongoing migrant surge. this year the nypd says they arrested two armed venezuelan migrants on mopeds. charged them in connection with more than 100 robberies. >> 200,000 migrants come to the city, give or take. a small portion do not come here for the american dream. they came here to prey on new yorkers. >> people might be thinking what's the big deal about a stolen scooter or moped? it is like so many other crimes that robberies and other thefts and with the two officers on pace to the department for record scooter seizures. >> dana: all i could think was from indiana and chicago with the nypd you have seen a lot and we appreciate that. that was a great report. thank you. >> bill: remarkable stuff going on every day. emotions running high today in northwestern france. veterans return to the sight of

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>> i was in it from the beginning. i lost some great friends. all those people out there with the crosses, unmarked graves are our true heroes. >> dana: reflections on heroisms. today is the 80th anniversary of d-day. people sacrificed so much in liberating europe. we're fortunate to have martha maccallum in normandy joining us today and in-house historian on all these things. i want to play sound. you had a chance to interview a world war ii veteran. let's listen here. >> the only ones that can understand you is if you are a

combat vet. i have had ptsd that i've had all my life and never go away until you're gone. as long as people remember the vets are still around the guys feel good about it. some of the memories are good, some are bad. some are happy, some are sad and so that's all part of life. >> dana: from your front row seat your reflections now. >> well, it has been a remarkable day here. it was beautiful. we had these absolutely spectacular flyovers over these 9,000 crosses behind me and it was a momentous event and so moving the way that they orchestrated it. they were bringing the veterans, whether they were walking or in wheelchairs with their escorts and their back drop was the ocean. as if they were coming over the

hill and landed d-day over the berm and onto the stage. that was breathtaking. it is so moving to see their families with them. some of them have great grandchildren who are visiting this place with them for the first time. it is a very emotional experience and i think also one we need to keep in context of what we're experiencing right now in the world. threats really never subside and the courage and bravery it takes to meet them and steadfastness is represented by these individuals living examples for all of us. >> bill: just on queue as you say that. "wall street journal" today. d-day in modern memory. they write the u.s. has hardly been immune about a peaceable international community. the best way to honor the memory of d-day is recall the eternal lesson to preserve the peace you must prepare for war and it is a commitment comes with man and woman power and money and you have to plan for all of it. and i think it's an obvious

reflection now. if you turned around and walked through the cemetery behind you, it is remarkable. i have had the good fortune of being there, too. it strikes me so much when you see the star of david headstones and then you see all the others that are in a rectangular square shape. i look at the states where they came from and sometimes you come upon brothers that are buried right next to each other. there is at least 40 pairs of brothers who were killed that day. >> that's right. i did exactly the same thing, bill. walking among the crosses. we did it at twilight the other night. a beautiful evening here and what stands out to me. they are not birthdays on these crosses and stars of david. they were so young it says the day they died and the state that they are from and it is a walk across a map of the united states from new jersey to pennsylvania to south dakota to

texas to california, all of these young men who had so much to look forward to in life. i think that's what ron, who has become a friend over the years. we met at japan. we met there he fought there and always said to me the reason he comes to these events is to remember those who were the true heroes, who never got to live a life or who didn't get to have children, for whom so much was cut down so young because they loved their country and they wanted to fight to preserve it. >> dana: martha maccallum you'll be with us through this next hour as well as the coverage continues and the ceremonies and commemorations are underway. thank you so much. >> thanks, martha. the veterans sharing their stories on the 80th anniversary of d-day. so many stories, each one of those headstones we talked about is a story about life. more from normandy as our coverage continues.

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>> before we landed we had the wait for the tide to go out so we could get in closer. i drove an m-four tractor with a 90 millimeter gun on it. six men, 35 rounds of ammunition. >> bill: wow. he has some stories. world leaders honoring the d-day heroes who exemplify the importance of sacrifice and patriotism. we have a chairman of the monuments commission and joins us live from normandy. thank you for your time. your responsibilities are huge. 32 cemeteries -- sorry, 26 cemeteries, 32 monuments spread out over seven countries.

do any of them match where you are today? >> first of all, thank you for having me and i will tell you that i think they all do. normandy has the luxury of being our flagship in that it's the most visited of our cemeteries but they all are special and that's what the organization is all about. >> dana: general, for those people watching today and that might have children or grandchildren and they want them to understand and to feel the patriotism like the rest of us feel because we learned about it and maybe our grand parents were those who either died there or fought there in world war ii or in the pacific. what's the best way for them in your mind to help educate their kids? >> i'm glad you asked that question. the american battle monument commission is in the middle of a transition. we're transitioning from an organization that was focused on

memorializing and remembering to one that is shifting to educating. i've been on the commission now for six months and my goal is for the cemetery that you see behind me, 100 years from now when my children's children children come here this place looks exactly the same, we're still know their names and still remember them and that's the real purpose of the agency. >> bill: general pershing said time will not glim the glory of their deeds. that rings true for you, doesn't it? >> it does. it does. we're at a very interesting point. there is an american battle monument foundation that has been established and that foundation is going to help us in the way that other 5013cs

help other organizations like the smithsonian. we're in the very beginningings of our relationship with one another. what i would tell people out there, go to the ambc website, look at our cemeteries, look at our monuments. when you find yourself in europe for the olympics this year, we have a beautiful cemetery there in paris. go see them. teach your children about them. remember those who gave us the freedom that we enjoy and quite frankly take for granted on most days. >> bill: i was telling dana about the american cemetery in luxembourg. it is a place of devine glory where patton is buried. there is a sense of peace that overcomes you and as i mentioned earlier, every one of those headstones has a story and you are the man who is responsible for making sure that that endures and thank you for sharing your stori

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