US PART OF THIS STORY, GENERAL
ANTHONY TATA SO WE MAY COME BACK
TO YOU.
WE WANT TO BRING IN MARTHA
MACCALLUM.
SHE IS LIVE AT THE AMERICAN
CEMETERY IN NORMANDY, FRANCE.
YOU HAVEN'T MADE IT IS PART OF
THE WORLD, A SOLOMONS IMPORTANT
PLACE, TELL US WHAT IT IS LIKE.
AND INCREDIBLE SEEN TODAY.
>> Reporter: YOU SEE BEHIND ME
THE CEREMONY JUST STARTING TO
GET UNDERWAY, THE PRESIDENT
LANDED ON MARINE ONE A FEW
MINUTES AGO, AND INTERVIEW YOU
WILL SEE TONIGHT.
IT IS A STRIKING MOMENT.
I'M THINKING ABOUT THE 40TH
ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY WHEN
RONALD REAGAN -- THAT MOMENT,
FOR MANY WORLD WAR II VETERANS A
LOT OF THEM HAD JUST RETIRED
FROM A LIFETIME OF WORKING WITH
CIVILIANS IN AMERICA, FIRST
OPPORTUNITY THEY HAD TO COME
BACK SO THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN
THEIR 60s.
NOW YOU HAVE THE OTHER END OF
THAT SPECTRUM, THESE MEN IN
THEIR 90s WHO ARE MAKING THEIR
TRIP BACK AND MANY OF THEM FOR
THE LAST TIME ALTHOUGH HAVING
MET A LOT OF THESE INDIVIDUALS
OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS
THEY MAY BE GOING FOR QUITE SOME
TIME.
THEY ARE AN INCREDIBLY RESILIENT
A BUNCH OF INDIVIDUALS WITH
STRONG SPIRIT AND INCREDIBLE
STAMINA SO DON'T COUNT THEM OUT.
MANY OF THEM ARE IN THE FRONT
ROW AND I THINK ABOUT RONALD
REAGAN ON THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY
AND SAYING THESE ARE THE BOYS
WHO SCALED THE CLIFFS, THESE ARE
THE BOYS WHO TOOK BACK EUROPE TO
PARAPHRASE SOME OF THAT
EXTRAORDINARY SPEECH.
THIS IS A BIG MOMENT FOR DONALD
TRUMP ON THE WORLD STAGE TO
SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THESE VETERANS
ABOUT THEIR SERVICE AND TO SPEAK
MORE BROADLY ABOUT THE IDEALS OF
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN
CITIZEN.
WHAT IT MEANS TO SERVE.
WHAT IS OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD
ON HIS BROADSCALE?
THINK ABOUT THE CHALLENGES WE
FACE WHETHER IT BE WITH IRAN OR
CHINA WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY
FORCEFUL POWER ECONOMICALLY AND
MILITARILY ON THE WORLD STAGE,
THEY ARE SET ON A TRACK OF
DOMINANCE THEY WANT TO ACHIEVE
IN THE WORLD.
WE FACE A LOT OF THREADS, VERY
DIFFERENT SCOPE PERHAPS IN MANY
WAYS TO THE THREAT FACED IN
WORLD WAR II BUT THEY ARE GRAVE
AS WELL.
THE PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS THE
COUNTRY, ADDRESS THE WORLD ABOUT
WHAT IT MEANS TO STAND FOR
AMERICAN VALUES.
IT WAS AND UNDERSTOOD A MOMENT
OF WORLD WAR II, CRYSTAL-CLEAR
BACK THEN THAT THERE WAS EVIL IN
THE FORM OF HITLER AND HERO HEAT
OH AND TOJO LEADING THE FORCES
OF JAPAN.
THE AXIS WAS CLEAR ON THE THREAT
IT PRESENTED TO THE WORLD.
ON THE LEFT, I WENT TO YOU WILL
JIMA SEVERAL MONTHS AGO AND THIS
IS AN EXTRAORDINARY GROUP OF
INDIVIDUALS AND WE HAVE TO TAKE
A MOMENT TO REVIEW THEM, LISTEN
TO THEIR STORIES AND REALIZE WE
ARE REALLY BLESSED TO HAVE THEM
WITH US.
JILLIAN: WHAT IS THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING WE SHOULD LEARN
FROM THESE MEN?
>> Reporter: WHAT STRIKES ME AS
THEIR HUMILITY.
WE LIVE IN A TIME WHEN THERE IS
SO MUCH ABOUT SELF.
SELFYS, FACEBOOK, SOCIAL MEDIA
AND ALL THE STUFF SO CENTERED ON
SELF.
THIS IS A GENERATION THAT WAS
SELFLESS.
THAT IS A VIRTUE THAT WE HAVE
LOST IN AMERICA, PUTTING
SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF
BEFORE YOUR OWN INTERESTS, BEING
WILLING TO SACRIFICE.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
WE DON'T DO A LOT OF
SACRIFICING.
THINK ABOUT THE TRADE ISSUES AND
CONCERNS ABOUT HAVING TO MAKE
THE SMALL SACRIFICES THAT MIGHT
BE REQUIRED OF THINGS THAT MIGHT
BE MORE EXPENSIVE OR MADE LESS
AVAILABLE AND THINK ABOUT WHAT
WAS HAPPENING ON THE HOME FRONT
DURING WORLD WAR II WHEN PEOPLE
WENT WITHOUT BUTTER, THEY DIDN'T
BUY A NEW CAR ALL THOSE YEARS
DURING THE WAR BECAUSE ALL THOSE
FACTORIES, FORD AND GM WERE
DIVERGENT TO MAKING MILITARY
PLANES, ENGINES.
NOBODY WAS GETTING ANYTHING NEW
DURING THAT TIME THERE WASN'T A
LOT OF COMPLAINING GOING ON
BECAUSE THERE WAS A BIGGER
PURPOSE AMERICANS WERE ALL
UNITED IN.
I THINK IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO
THINK ABOUT THOSE VALUES AND
WHAT WE HAVE LOST.
THE PRESIDENT TALKED ABOUT
MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND
PEOPLE GIVE HIM A HARD TIME
ABOUT THAT BUT THIS IS THE KIND
OF THING HE IS TALKING ABOUT
WHEN HE SAYS THAT AND THIS IS A
GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT
A TIME WHEN AMERICA WAS GREAT
AND AMERICA IS STILL GREAT BUT
THIS GREATEST GENERATION HAD
SPECIFIC QUALITIES THAT ARE
WORTH REMEMBERING AND EMULATING
WHEN POSSIBLE.
ROB: WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
SACRIFICE AND WHAT THIS DAY
MEANS.
IF YOU LOOK AT A MAP OF WHAT
HITLER AND THE NAZIS HAD TAKEN
IN EUROPE IT IS IMPRESSIVE HOW
MUCH POWER THEY HAD OVER THIS
CONTINENT UNTIL WHAT WOULD
HAPPEN AFTER THIS DAY, THE
INVASION OF D-DAY AND NORTHERN
FRANCE, POLICE TAKING BACK THAT
PORTION AND THE ALLIES MOVING TO
PARIS, PARIS GETS LIBERATED,
THEY MOVE EAST AND NORTH TO THE
BATTLE OF THE BULGE, THEN MOVING
TO GERMANY.
THE SOVIETS MEET THEM IN
GERMANY, TAKE BACK GERMANY AND
THE ATOMIC BOMBS, AND WITHOUT
AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN THAT
WAR, THIS WAR WOULD HAVE BEEN
WON BY THE NAZIS.
>> ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE
SCREEN WITH LAURA IN COMMAND
THESE INDIVIDUALS AND ONE THING
I WAS STRUCK BY LOOKING AT THESE
GENTLEMEN, THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS
IN THIS GROUP WHO FOUGHT AT
NORMANDY, THEN THEY FIGHT IN THE
BATTLE OF THE BULGE WHICH YOU
JUST MENTIONED AND A COUPLE OF
THEM WERE THEN SENT TO THE
PACIFIC AND FOUGHT IN OKINAWA.
THINK ABOUT THAT TRIUMVIRATE.
THAT IS AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE
TASK TO PUT ON ANY INDIVIDUAL.
JACKPOT AND WAS IN OKINAWA AS
WELL AS NORMANDY, HE WAS A MEDIC
IN.
JUST EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF SO
MUCH SACRIFICE THAT IS TRULY
EXTRAORDINARY.
IN NORMANDY, THINK ABOUT THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED
STATES AND FRANCE.
I SPOKE WITH THE AMBASSADOR TO
FRANCE THE OTHER DAY AND FRANCE
IS OUR OLDEST ALLY.
GO BACK TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
GOING TO PARIS BEFORE THE
REVOLUTION, AND IT IS ARE TRULY
OLDEST ALLY AND TODAY YOU WILL
SEE HIM ANNUAL MACRON UNDER THE
PRESSURE FROM THE POPULIST ARM
OF THE POLITICAL SCENE IN FRANCE
TRYING TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMY IN
FRANCE, HAS A LOT OF CHALLENGES
AHEAD OF HIM, IMMIGRATION IS A
BIG CHALLENGE IN FRANCE AS WELL
BUT THIS IS OUR OLDEST
RELATIONSHIP.
OUR OLDEST FOREIGN ALLIANCE AND
ONE THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO
OUR COUNTRY SO THAT IS SOMETHING
I'M SURE THE PRESIDENT WILL
TOUCH ON AND MACRON WILL TOUCH
ON.
THEY STARTED WITH A CHUMMY
RELATIONSHIP, THE FIRST VISIT.
THINGS HAVE CHILLED IN THE MONTH
IN BETWEEN.
PRESIDENT MACRON TALKING ABOUT
FORMING A EU MILITARY FORCE
WHICH DID NOT SIT WELL WITH
DONALD TRUMP.
DONALD TRUMP TRIED TO BUILD UP
NATO.
THERE HAVE BEEN SOME TENSIONS
HERE.
YOU WILL NOT HEAR THAT SPOKEN
ABOUT TODAY BUT THEY WILL MEET
AFTER THIS.
PRIOR TO THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION.
JILLIAN: YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT
PAST PRESIDENTS AND THE SPEECHES
THEY GAVE ON D-DAY AND CAN YOU
TALK ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF
WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS ABOUT TO
SAY?
TO NO ONE'S SURPRISE THERE HAS
BEEN A LOT OF CRITICISM HOW HE
HANDLED THIS OVERSEAS TRIP,
CRITICAL HEADLINES BACK HERE AT
HOME.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS WORK TODAY.
>> Reporter: A BIG OPPORTUNITY
FOR DONALD TRUMP TODAY.
WE UNDERSTAND PRESIDENT MACRON
WILL SPEAK FOR 15 MINUTES OR
SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES AND
THEN DONALD TRUMP WILL SET TO
THE STAGE AND SPEAK FOR ROUGHLY
25 MINUTES.
THE REASON FOR THE PROMINENCE OF
THIS SPEECH IS THIS IS THE
AMERICAN CEMETERY IN NORMANDY
AND THERE ARE 9388 GRAVES BEHIND
ME, STARS OF DAVID THAT MARK THE
SACRIFICE BY ALL THESE MEN.
THERE ARE VERY FEW SPEECHES THAT
GO DOWN IN HISTORY BOOKS AND YOU
DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY ARE COMING.
THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND
THEY SPENT A LOT OF TIME AND
EFFORT PUTTING THESE WORDS TO
PAPER.
WHEN THE PRESIDENT WAS IMPORTS
WITH, ENGLAND, ONE OF THE TAKE
OFF POINTS FROM ENGLAND PRIOR TO
THE INVASION, THEY COLLECT THE
LIBERATION FORCE THAT CAME TO
FRANCE, QUOTED FDR AND HIS
PRAYERS TO COME TOGETHER AND
PRAY.
NO DOUBT HE WILL MAKE REFERENCE
TO THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE
HIM.
OF THE ARE LIKELY PART OF THAT
SPEECH, MAYBE RONALD REAGAN MAY
COME INTO PLAY.
THE PRESIDENT HAD THE UNIQUE
OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT
HE THINKS IS GREAT ABOUT AMERICA
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE IN FRANCE,
VIEWERS OF MY SHOW GOT TO KNOW
OVER THE PAST -- EXTRA
JILLIAN: 18 YEARS OLD AND SAVED
A LOT OF LIVES ON THE BEACHES
AND HE'S ALSO THE PERSON --
THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LAST BREATH
ON THE BEACHES AS WELL.
GETTING OFF SCRIPT, YESTERDAY HE
WALKED AROUND BEHIND ME AND PAID
TRIBUTE TO SOME OF THOSE MEN.
FIRST TIME HE HAS COME BACK
SINCE HE WAS 18 AND NEVER MADE
IT OFF THE BEACH LAST TIME.
THE ONLY TIME I WAS EVER IN
FRANCE WAS ON THAT BEACH AND NOW
I'M GETTING TO KNOW THE PEOPLE
OF FRANCE A LITTLE BIT AND HE
HAS BEEN SO STRUCK HOW WARM THEY
ARE AND THEY DON'T FORGET IT WAS
THE AMERICANS WHO LIBERATED THEM
FROM THE GRIP OF THE NAZIS.
THAT WAS A HEARTWARMING MOMENT
AS THESE COMMUNITIES THAT
WELCOME THEM WITH OPEN ARMS AND
SAW FREEDOM, THE FACES OF THESE
18, 19, 20-YEAR-OLD MEN WHO CAME
FROM AMERICA TO LIBERATE THIS
GREAT COUNTRY OF FRANCE,