a little girl named abigail, turned 4 years old. she spent her birthday, that birthday and at least 50 days before that, held hostage by hamas. today she s free, and jill and i together with so many americans are praying for the fact that a she is going to be all right. mike: president biden speaking about the 4-year-old israeli-american girl that was own colluded in the recent group of included in the recent group of hostages for transport through the rafah crossing, alabama bail den abigail edan, one of the 17 hostages released today. i m mike emmanuel. mr. biden adding he would like a longer pause in order to get more hostages released from gaza. alex hogan is live in jerusalem with the latest developments. reporter: hi, mike. we just saw three thai hostages and one israeli-russian hostage move through the rafah crossing, and all the other hostages have just arrived at the or air base, but one of them was airlifted to the hospital because of serious medical concerns.
act that helped the loop u.s. and allies in world war ii. except the eight this time will be going to ukraine. alex. interesting. allie raffa, think you for that. following the president today. now, a member of ukraine s parliament. thank you for being here. let s start with the first lady, jill biden, and her surprise visit to ukraine today. you saw there with one zelenska. they were spending time together, looked comfortable to be in each other s president. how significant is this to you? hugely. you have to realize that all the visits by people from the west, members of parliament, world leaders, and in this case the first leg of the united states are seen here as an extreme sign of solidarity with the ukrainian people. particularly today on the mother s day, on the remembrance day, and one day before the victory, putin is
. 50 past the hour. nbc news has been granted an exclusive look where nato s response force has been deployed for the first time. u.s. services members are training beside latvian forces. josh, what more can you tell us about the u.s. presence there? well, jose, the u.s. and its nato allies regularly hold military exercises here in latvia. but they have taken on fresh relevancy and urgency. ukraine is only about 120 miles to the east of here. some of the u.s. service members from the 173rd airborne brigade that we spoke with today only showed up here about 11 days ago
the confrontation with the u.s. but there are things that we could do before we get to a no-fly zone. and that term has baggage. there are different ways we could frame it, like a secure humanitarian corridor, just outside of kyiv, helping them move. we could do these things in a particular way that s de-escalatory and deconflicted. there s a channel now established for that. but we could provide the ukrainians with the means to publish their own no-fly zone. that s what i ve been call for. that s the peace i wrote in foreign affairs on this land/lease idea. i was very interested in this article for foreign policy that you wrote over the weekend, calling for the u.s. and its allies to set up a land lease program, similar to the one provided, weapons and other assistance to u.s. allies in world war ii. how do you envision such a program working? it s amazing that we find ourselves in a world where
is that something that you think just won t happen because ukraine is not part of nato? actually, i don t think that s true. i think that s the position now. and it makes a lot of sense now, because, it s seemingly escalatory. but in reality, what we ve seen is a pattern over the course of the past ten days is hard positions on the part of the u.s. about what they re willing and not willing to do. and that s because of the human toll, the human catastrophe this war is having on the ground. the u.s. population, the western population is really not tolerating this kind of abuse of the ukrainian population, peace-loving population that did nothing to provoke this war, and the population, and frankly, our european allies are in certain ways ahead of our political leadership here in the u.s., with regards to where they re prepared to go. the risks are probably not as high as we would think they are, because the russians really simply don t have an interest in