dozen israeli hostages handed over. what is their condition, will there be another truce extension? we don t know. we have tal heinrich back with us. so how is 4-year-old abigail doing? an update is coming: welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s go to northern israel where things stand at this hour. nate with more on that. nate? hi, neil. 12 hostages that spent 53 days in hamas captivity are back in israel tonight. happened in the past couple hours. many at shifa medical center and reuniting with their families. as part of this deal, israel re prisoners. the group includes 10 israeli women, two foreign workers. this is the fifth consecutive prisoner hostage exchange. take a look at this. here s the hostages that are finally back in israel. they range in age from 84 to 17. the youngest is mia, the 17-year-old daughter of a 59-year-old woman. they were released with their dog. mia was seen getting in a red cross vehicle with the family s dog after they were kidnapped from a kibbutz
possible. so many have been released. can you talk about how you did that? that is jim s legacy. it does give me joy in many ways. when jim was taken in 2012 through 2014, there was no u.s. hostage enterprise. there was no one to help me. that was part of the reason i was sent in circles and people didn t know. the government did not know what to do with me actually. and i was ignorant of our policy of nonengagement with captors. because obviously, if you don t engage at all, the captors will get rid of hostages and kill them and that is what happened with jim, kayla mueller in 2014. i was angry. i felt as a country we could do much better. thanks to many good people, we have.
which you were engaged. is there any second guessing of the nonengagement strategy? this is who the democratic nominee will run against, a gutterball player. reporter: right. i mean, look, joe biden has a very big, very experienced campaign team. some folks some new folks. i suspect there is probably some discussion going on even now about how they engage with this in some more completely way. but you re absolutely right. nothing will be off limits for this president. there is nowhere he won t go including as we are learning investigating the family members of the people he s potentially running against. joe biden when this race started was still holding onto the idea that you don t criticize the president when he s overseas. the politics stops at the water s edge. here you have one of the ultimate traditionalist candidates running a lot of this candidacy on restoring norms to this country and a president who s intent on smashing all the way through them. i mean, at some point you ha
will accompany the president. what s happening? that s a good question. we weren t in the lunch so we don t know what s happening but certainly i think it s fair to say that there s a high level of dysfunction between the trump white house and the president and his top cabinet secretaries. there s no question. the framing of the issue has been interesting. in the media we ve seen it reported again and again and again that trump is undermining his secretary of state. that mistakes was the president here. he s the president. if the president wants the north korea policy to be one of nonengagement that s his right and tom cotton s right, if rex tillerson doesn t agree with that either needs to execute the president s policy or he needs to step aside. if there is this under the radar disagreement between them, normal. what s not normal is it burst out into the open in this way again and again and again. it s not just north korea, it s iran in the certification and a number of other dude
for. explained what they re marching for. we will make a call for action to end longest war in 21st century, and 20th century. korean war never be over. we only have a cease-fire. when we make armistice, 1953, they said we will have a peace treaty within three months. that three months became 262 years. so we tried called for ending this korean war. and also to reunite the the 10 million divided families between north and south. and pew put wisdom is in every step of the process. i think nonengagement is risky, naive. and i believe that the kind of intellectual and strategy that this group has put together. i m honored to be part of it. if not, us, and now, who?