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COVER THE SERVICE FORCES AS THE TROOPS PILE IN.
THEY PREPARE TO MOVE IN, 500 MORE SHIPS LAY DOWN A WITHERING
BARRAGE. TROOPS MOVE IN ABOARD LCTs AND
LSTs. IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE END
FOR HITLER'S DREAMS FOR ROYAL CONQUEST.
>> WELCOME TO "MORNING JOE." IT'S BEEN CALLED THE LONGEST
DAY, JUNE 6th, 1944, THE UNITED STATES AND ITS ALLIES STORM
ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL ONTO THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY AND UP
THE CLIFFS OF MORE NAN DIFFICULT TO FREE A CONTINENT AND SAVE A
CIVILIZATION. GOOD MORNING, IT'S JUNE 6th, AS
I SAID. WELCOME TO "MORNING JOE."
THIS ALSO THE DAY 49 YEARS AGO, WILLIE, THAT BOBBY KENNEDY
PASSED AWAY. WE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE
TALKING ABOUT HIM THROUGHOUT THE MORNING.
AND ALSO ANOTHER BIG DAY, WILLIE.
SOMETIMES IN THE HOUSEHOLD MIGHT HAVE BEEN CALLED D. DAY.
BUT CARLY HOFFER WAS BORN TODAY. MIKA IS WITH HER DAUGHTER.
THREE BIG EVENTS. >> THREE HISTORIC EVENTS, YES.
>> THREE HISTORIC EVENTS. WE'LL GET JON MEACHAM TO WEIGH
IN, NOT ON CARLY. THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE CREEPY.
INSTEAD, LET'S HAVE YOU WEIGH IN, JOHN, ON REALLY A DAY THAT
HAS COME TO SYMBOLIZE ACTUALLY HEROISM AND BRAVERY, NOT ONLY
FOR AMERICAN TROOPS, BUT ALSO OUR ALLIES IN BRITAIN AND ACROSS
THE WORLD. WHAT A REMINDER THIS MORNING AS
WE REMEMBER THE BRAVE TROOPS THAT RUSH BED TO SHORE.
WHAT A REMINDER THIS MORNING OF OUR ALLIES AND THE KEY ROLE THAT
OUR ALLIES PLAYED. >> IT WAS THE HINGE OF THE 20th
CENTURY, WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN 1944.
IT WAS WHAT WINSTON CHURCHILL CALLED THE GREATEST AND MOST
COMPLICATED OPERATION EVER AS THE ALLIES WENT ACROSS THE
CHANNEL. THE STORY OF WORLD WAR II IN
MANY WAYS IS THE STORY OF THE FORCES OF FREEDOM FINALLY DOING
WHAT WAS RIGHT IN THE AMERICAN SENSE.
AS CHURCH HILL SAID, YOU CAN ALWAYS TRUST THE AMERICANS TO DO
THE RIGHT THING, AFTER WE'VE EXHAUSTED EVERY OTHER
POSSIBILITY. BECAUSE OF ISOLATIONIST
SENTIMENT, BECAUSE OF AMERICA FIRST, THE UNITED STATES STAYED
OUT OF THE WAR LARGELY FROM SEPTEMBER 1st, 1939 UNTIL, NOT
ONLY WERE WE ATTACKED ON DECEMBER 7th OF '41, BUT IT TOOK
ANOTHER FIVE DAYS TO DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY.
WE ONLY DID THAT AFTER GERMANY DECLARED WAR ON US.
BUT AT THAT POINT, WHAT ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL
PERSONIFIED WAS THIS ENORMOUS CAPACITY OF THE FACT THAT WE ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER THAN WE ARE APART.
>> IT'S SOMETHING I TWEETED OUT EARLY THIS MORNING, JUST SHOWING
EXACTLY WHO WAS THERE WITH US, THAT, YES, THE UNITED STATES
CERTAINLY LED THE CHARGE, BUT THERE WAS ALSO GREAT BRITAIN,
DIVISIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CANADIANS.
WILLIE, TROOPS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT WERE SUPPORTING OUR
EFFORTS ON THAT DAY. BUT REALLY, JUST AN UNBELIEVABLE
DAY. WILLIE, WHEN EVERYBODY IS
TALKING ABOUT HOW THE BRITISH WERE REELING AND COULDN'T ENDURE
WHAT HAPPENED A COUPLE DAYS AGO, THE BRITS TOOK THAT QUITE
PERSONALLY FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT REASONS, BUT THEY ALSO
ENDURED THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN ALONE IN 1940 AND HELPED SAVE
CIVILIZATION TO KEEP US IN A POSITION WHERE WE COULD HAVE OUR
TROOPS HELP THEM STORM ACROSS THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY.
>> WE TALKED ABOUT D-DAY A LOT. STANDING ON THOSE BEACHES, OR IF
YOU'VE GOT TO THE CEMETERY THERE, YOU LOOK IN THE WATER.
YOU CAN'T IMAGINE IN YOUR MIND'S EYE WHAT WAS HAPPENING ON JUNE
6, 1944. IT DOESN'T SEEM POSSIBLE.
BUT YOU KNOW THE RED BLOOD THAT WASHED UP ON THE BEACH, IT
WASN'T JUST AMERICAN, IT WAS BRITISH, CANADIAN, THE BLOOD OF
OUR ALLIES THAT DIED THAT DAY WITH THE BRITISH PEOPLE.
WHEN YOU SEE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TWEETING AND
TALKING THE WAY HE'S BEEN IN THE LAST COUPLE DAYS ABOUT THE
BRITISH AND THE MAYOR O

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