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.
where weias he three years ago when allowed assad to go from a protest to a civil war. where was he when all of thia zeal zei zeidi iyazidias were being kidnapped. the refugee crisis was going to explode, they did nothing and now he has the gal to say that he s so much better than all of us because he wants to let in to the united states 10,000 syrian refugees? i find that actually shameful. jesse, let s stay on the refugee debate that s been going on. so heated over the last couple of days. there are 50,000 homeless veterans in america. there are somewhere around six million unemployed veterans in america. now the resettlement camp, the one down in new orleans, just said, they ve lost track of some of the refugees that have come in. we re going to spend a lot of resources tracking these people.
it s important to remember that many veterans still need our help. there are nearly 50,000 homeless veterans in america. homeless veterans. and the number of those who return home with drug and alcohol problems and unemployment are equally astounding. one agency is aiming to lower the numbers. they re called soldier on and they re a one stop shop for veterans. i went to the headquarters to learn a lot more. i had no home to go to. i gave up on myself. how do you serve my country and i come home and i can t have any help at all? we hear this from our vets all the time. but for jack downing of soldier on, it s unacceptable. if you listen to what veterans really say whether they put on the uniform of the