hostages come out and search more humanitarian relief into those who are in need in gaza. we ll hear more on the possibility of that extended truce later, from our correspondent on the ground. it all comes as m more israelis held by hamas including nine children as well as three foreign nationals were released on sunday. among them is abigail idan, the first us citizen to be freed. she was just three at the time she was taken hostage, and she spent her fourth birthday in captivity. her parents were killed by hamas gunmen during the october 7th attacks. members of her family have released a statement, saying. we hoped and prayed today would come. the family also thanked the qatari and us governments for helping to secure her release. here s her grandfather, speaking earlier. translation: it was wow . i couldn t believe translation: it was wow . i couldn t believe it translation: it was wow . i couldn t believe it until- translation: it was wow . i couldn t believe
hostages come out and surge more humanitarian relief in to those who are in need in gaza. we ll hear more on the possibility of an extended truce later, from our correspondent on the ground. it all comes as m more israelis held by hamas including nine children, as well as three foreign nationals were released on sunday. among them is avigail idan the first us citizen to be freed. she was just three at the time she was taken hostage, and she spent her fourth birthday in captivity. her parents were killed by hamas gunmen during the october 7th attacks. members of her family have released a statement, saying. the family also thanked the qatari and us governments for helping to secure her release. here s her grandfather, speaking earlier. translation: it was wow . i couldn t believe it until i saw her. i simply couldn t believe it. now i m a bit more relieved. not relieved completely, because there is happiness mixed with missing abigail s parents. there are other people w
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.
time, you feel you have been burned on the past, and you are aware, in the business yourself version wary of the way journalists to do do business? i m a little bit wary, the part isn t that journalists are bad people but the journalists are under the pressure to don t say something, get a source to say it and then quote quoth them and i think that s hard times if an idea for a story, they have to go out and interview people and maybe massage the quotes a little bit to get to where they want to go i don t think that is good for anyone. for all the flaws the news business have, a slightly optimistic view we appreciate you coming on to share your views. michael arrington, thanks for joining us. thanks very much. after the break, vice president biden with a rare sunday appearance. republicans still blame president obama for the oil spill even after that well has been capped. sound of sunday is next.
the offense? we did some reporting a couple of days running up to his sunday appearance to try to figure out the answer to that question, why does he attack so ferociously? i think in the sunday program he was pretty tempered. in past interviews with us he sen much, much more critical saying obama puts american lives at risk, he projects weakness around the globe and his policies are very, very dangerous. what we learned from talking to people around him is that he does that for two reasons. one, he authentically believes the policies are putting american lives at risk but he also believes not enough other people are speaking out anding a debate about terrific which he considers the most important issue in the country today. he knows when he uses sharp rhetoric is forces the white house to respond and forces a tub li public debate. mission accomplished as far as having another debate about whether or not these are the right anti-terror policies given