someone who fought so long and hard. there i think the solution is to figure out how not to do it again. turns at your university like jimmy s idea. and matt a matter of weeks, there isn t a yearlong clause to investigate what went wrong in afghanistan, produce a report of their findings. they batted jimmy the undergraduate to not only take the graduate level class, but to be an unofficial co-professor. a retired u.s. ambassador and patterson. jimmy was basically the founder, the branch behind the course. and he was a huge benefit because jamie had, on the ground experience, in afghanistan. my first class was that. jimmy, when it came to yale, i think showed us that education to service is to. his service to the country didn t and when he stopped being a navy seal and serving an active combat. this idea that this is a new phase of this service to the country. and that he was there to learn something so that the world would be better. the class spent months speakin
all spent, and how you managing that? it s hard to tell how much money we have. we have to get the taxi and you have to get tickets both ways and it is really hard. and then ended up here maybe 150,000. alexander wants to find a home for his family. he wants to get a job. he is struggling to find work here in the united states. [speaking non-english] [interpreter] it would be easier if they simplified the job permit process. it is hard. we ve been here with five months with no income. [end of translation] we are just trying to help them and save as many people as we can, and we already brought 15 families here. five more are ready to come to united states. they approved. and more people are waiting over there in the country, in ukraine. it is very hard to choose. it s a choice no one wants to make. but the chosen, in the face of such great loss, are grateful
immigrated from ukraine years ago are doing everything they can, including opening their personal holmes and providing financial support. mariupol, ukraine, last christmas. mariupol ukraine, now. since the start of the war, more than 7 million people have been forced to flee ukraine. alexander urasov and his wife olga were just two of them. they were trapped in mariupol with their three children. i m at the u.s. at a park in brooklyn, new york. the daughter was about to celebrate her seventh birthday. it was just months after they left ukraine, and at times, it is still so hard for them to even tell their story. an explosion wave took out our front row door and looters came into whatever they liked. shell fragments remain in my back, and there is a hole in my head. the urasovs escaped, thanks to another family who lived 5000 miles away. he is my childhood friend we. met when we were five or six
for life. [speaking non-english] [interpreter] they are doing a noble thing. they help people get out of the country where the war is underway. [end of translation] alexander uses the word noble, and that is what alex, angela, and nick are, sacrificing their time and their hard earned success, just to help others have a chance to build new dreams. [speaking non-english] [interpreter] i dream of getting a good education here so i can have a good job. i want to go to school as soon as possible and make good grades. [end of translation] wow. erin burnett is here right now. erin, what a fantastic story. the urasovs so they had been trying to get jobs in the u.s. for five months. what is that? five months, don. and it s getting the work papers. they re here under what is called humanitarian parole status. you can get that and then you have to get work papers to be allowed to work. so alex is a crane operator. he simply can t get to work. you talked about it as affecting his dign