hour of "fox & friends" with a fox news alert. you're looking live at the westback where palestinian prisoner are set to be released any minute, this as we expect a group of at least a dozen or more hostages to be released later today after 13 were freed yesterday. rachel: some of the hostages are reuniting with their loved ones for the first time including this israeli boy who turned 9 years old while he was in captivity. he got to hug his family for the first time in seven weeks. todd: now to alex hogan live in jerusalem with the very late. >> reporter: good morning. we could see the release of today's new round of hostages any moment now. we will continue to monitor that. we are expecting to see 14 is israeli hostages in exchange for 42 palestinian prisoners. we have been hearing some conflicting reports today that potentially the number of israeli hostages could be 13, but we're also getting new video, these moments of these families finally being back together like this one right here. last night, yoni asher, calling for the release of his wife of and two little daughters, they are all back together. the four of them reunited at a children's hospital outside of tel aviv, and we could hear in this video saying one of the daughters saying she was dreaming of coming home. so far these are the faces of the 13 israeli hostages who are now free. doron katz-ash aer, raz asher, avive asher, danielle aloni, 45. amelia, 5 years old. ruth munder, 78. adina moshe, 72, hannah perry, 79, and ya a ffe, 85 years old. this is one of the moments of one of those reunions. that little boy who celebrated his birthday in cap at this time, running to -- captivity, running to grab his father, his father pix him -- picking him up, spinning him around in his arms, and the mother also released hugged by the older brother. this is a moment of celebration with, yes, but there is still a long road ahead to bring the others home. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: we are happy but we are not celebrating because there are more kidnapped people in captivity. and we need to continue and not stop our fight til all kidnapped are released, every last one. >> reporter: altogether, a historic day yesterday with the release of 13 israeli hostages, ten thai hostages and and one fill pee know. before anything else happened today, we'll likely see the same motions of the hostages being moved through the rafah crossing, they will go through medical checks before they are taken to medical facility it is, so we will continue to monitor that. we're also right now learning more information about a what the conditions were like for those hostages. one woman said she was actually in gaza saw able to watch tv and listen to the radio, and she says that she was able to watch what was taking place back home in israel. and it was on the radio that she learned while she was being held hostage that her son had been killed. guys, back to you. joey: alex, i i know they finally released a list of who should be released, i believe they haven't released that to the public or to the families, but what is the next step? so if they have that list and the hostages are about to be released, do they start the mobilizing families to join them? is it a while before families can see them? >> reporter: yes. these families on this list of 14 people, they have been notified that their loved ones are on that list. so they're given the heads up, and which family will know which hospital they can go to. there could be some changes to that hospital based on when the hostages are officially released if they do have very serious medical concerns, they would then the be moved to a separate hospital. but we do know we if the hostage family is notified has a child, that they would specifically be going to the children's hospital just outside of tel aviv. and if that child is with a mother or with a grandmother, that, those family units will be able to stay together at those the hospitals. so as much as there's this anticipation and excitement for the families to immediately be there at the border to greet them, that is not where they are doing the family reunions. all of this is playing out in the hospitals so they can be around doctors and ore medical -- other medical professionals. while these hostages do appear at this point to be widely in very good medical condition, there's, of course, a rot hot of underlying health conditions and concerns that you likely could have from someone who could have been underground for weeks. we have not been seeing the malnutrition and dehydration that could have been expected, but the doctors want to continue to monitor these families. so for those who have arrived at the children's hospital yesterday, doctors say they'll continue to be there for a couple of reasons, not only to monitor them, but also the psychological health and having the separate wing that is giving them a little bit of privacy and peace before if they try to readjust and readapt to their normal life, even returning home for the first time might be a very traumatic experience given that the hostages for weeks have been in captivity dreaming of going home. so the doctors really want to evaluate them before they do send them home. and i do have to say after being here for about five weeks covering this and talking to families day in, day out, it's very overwhelming. it's a moment of excitement finally, some good news that we're able to bring back home for our viewers. rachel: yeah, no question about that. thank you, alex. you have to wonder with some of the elderly hostages, they probably didn't have some of their medications. we understand why they want to keep them in the hospital, monitor them. they may look -- they do, right, they do look better than i think many of us expected, but you just don't know what else could be going on. i just loved seeing that picture of the whole family hugging each other. i just thought i would never want to let them go after that. todd: i never would, right. and i'm glad you brought up the kids, because we've seen images of the intake where the kids were going to be going initially, and you saw they had little teddy bears, all the things little kids are going to want on their return out of captivity, and that's obviously so important fortunate psychological aspect of this as well. that image we saw in alex's piece of the father holding two girls, i teared up, because i have two girls, and you think about what you would do in that situation. rachel: no question. let's are beige in kt mc-- bring in kt mcfarland. welcome, happy thanksgiving to you. these images are heart warming. they do bring a lot of hope, i'm sure, to other families in israel. at the same time, we see joe biden taking a lot of credit but not many americans in this first tranche of hostages that have come over. what do you make of how this has been handles having been in the trump administration yourself and how they handled situations with hostages and this situation? >> look, i mean, hamas, they're playing the whole world like a violin. the reason they took those grannies and those babies was they knew this moment would come. they knew that they could string out a ceasefire, some kind of a hostage exchange. they know they can't defeat israel militarily or economically, but they can psychologically. and that's why they're doing this. now, of course no americans were in that first tran the. they're going to -- tranche. they're going to dribble them out til the very end. hamas buys time, and what does it do with that time? it regroups, it rearms, and it gets ready for another round of fighting to destroy the state of israel. and yet i can't watch -- i mean, i've got little grandchildren. i watched those pictures. my heart is tugged for the families and what they're experiencing and the worry, are they going to get their little grandkid back, you know? it just breaks your heart. and hamas knows that. that's why they're doing it. they want to buy time, and ultimately, they want to look like the good guys in this. they want to look at the good guys who have taken good care of those kids, and they're releasing them to their families, and they want to have the whole world turned against israel. rachel: yeah. i mean, i don't know, i don't think hamas comes out looking so good, kt. in the end, we all know these are innocent civilians. >> just think of those pictures that you've just shown. if the kids are looking okay, the grandmothers look like they're okay and hamas -- they get what they want out of this. they get the picture of the humanitarians who are releasing it. contrast that to the pictures of israel going after gaza where you see leveled buildings. believe me, they're turning the public narrative against israel, and the longer this goes on, the longer the hostage situation is dribbled out -- and, remember, they're getting an exchange for the granmies and the babies. -- granmy -- grannies and the babies. what are they getting in exchange? israel has terrorists who are in jail. that's who they're getting exchanged for. so, okay, but we've all thought we could never be more horrified than the pictures we saw in october of the slaughter of the innocents, but those pictures have been replaced. and you're already seeing the anti-israel demonstrations in europe. you're already seeing china, russia, iran -- everybody coming out and saying this is all israel's fault. you seeing this on american college campuses and at the base of the democrat party. i'm really surprised that president biden has stuck with israel as long as he has. but the calls for making this cease fever not just temporary -- ceasefire not just temporary but permanent are going to start next week, and they're going to be louder and louder and louder. and yet israel, if they don't destroy hamas, destroy weapons caches, if they don't take out military commanders, israel's going to have the same fight two years later. todd: breaking news that egypt has that received positive signals of all parties for an extension of gaza truce for one or two more days. your reaction to that, and do you think that the release of hostages we are expected to see at any moment now will go as smoothly today as it did yesterday? >> i have every confidence that they're going to make -- the palestinians and hamas is going to make this work. they're going to have these hostage releases go slowly, carefully, and they're going to release the hostages. but they've got a lot of hostages. and this could stretch out not just for a day or two or a week, this could stretch on for a month p. and at that point the world is going to say, look, we've had a ceasefire, let's stop the killing, let's just be done with it, no more fighting. and that's where where israel's going to have a hard time because if israel isn't backstopped by the united states with weapons resupply, if israel has to figure out how to have an economy that works when belows of its population -- when most of its population, they're all being in the military right now, they're all been called up, israel's playing against the calendar, against the chock. they're playing against time, and hamas, they want to stretch this out as a long as they can. joey: yeah. participant of this is how much does hamas speak for hezbollah or the houthis or other organizations that are loosely connected or are upset at's israel through this fight in other places. there have been 73 attacks on united states forces in iraq and syria alone. you know, i look, well, americans were killed on octoberth, they were taken captive. we have american military in the mediterranean, and the american military is getting attacked daily. is america at war here and we don't even know it? >> you know, this is the sort of story that nobody's really reporting, joey, and i'm really glad you brought it up because this is all iran. what does iran want to do in the middle east? they want to destroy israel, kill jews, but they really want america out of the middle east, and they're going to chip away at american presence there. they're going to do these sort of unone-off attacks here and there. they're kind of provoking an attack. what happens if an american gets killed? i think it's amazing with all of these attacks that have happened in the last couple of weeks that an american hasn't gotten killed. what happens if an american gets killed? are we then in a war with iran like you said? american doesn't let american citizens get killed without response. so this situation is not over, and i'm very concerned that it could escalate not because anybody in america wants a war or because really iran doesn't want a war either, they just want america out of the middle east, the same way the palestinians want israelis and jews out of the area between they say the west bank, the river of the jordan river and the sea. the chant is get israel out, get the jews out of all a the areas of israel. remember, gaza is not an occupied country right now. it's not an occupied territory. the israelis, they left 15 years ago. what they want is they want all the jew, and all the israelis to get out of the region. iran wants israel and america out, and they're doing it by plague on the psychological weapons -- playing it on the psychological weapons that they have at their disposal. rachel: kt mcfarland, thank you for joining us and for your insights, we really appreciate it. >> is thank you. rachel: all right. well, as conservativism takes root across the globe, former president donald trump is going to buenos aires in december to visit with argentina's new president, javier milieu, and he is the first leader in the world to meet with him, he just met with the finder of the sound of freedom, and i spoke with daniel demartino, and he's also a manhattan institute fellow. here's what he had to say. >> latin america, as you and i know, has been plagued by many socialist governments for a very, very long time. and really what people need to understand is that the reason why there's so much migration away from latin america is because these governments have destroyed their countries, and we need to take those countries back to freedom, to economic liberty, to political freedom, to safety, tackling crime like many countries are starting to do. and i'm hopeful, you know with, it's not america. i think america has always been the beacon of freedom, an example. what it looks like now that argentina is going to provide the example for the rest of the spanish-speaking world, so that's what i'm praying for. i'm very excited for milei, and i think he's going to do well. rachel: we're seeing a will the of these movements not just here, but again eduardo is running for president in mexico. he shares many of the same views that the new president, soon to be new president of argentina holds. he wants to, you know, get rid of their central bank which is essentially give lent to our fer at least reform it significantly. he wants a lot of reforms including getting rid of the ministry for women and gender, these sorts of things, sort of returning to common sense. and returning the economy which there is, in argentina, is absolutely dysfunctional. they are facing 200% inflation, and it's really impoverished a lot of people. so it's an interesting movement, and many say it's because of donald trump. joey: i see the comparison, they also have what's called the dutch donald trump that we're reporting on, and when i hear him speak, two things resonate. he is hammering the drum about the dangers of socialism specifically -- rachel: yes. joey: -- and he's saying it in a language, in a vernacular that common people speak. there might be a four-letter, equivalent to a four-letter word for us in there, maybe that's the comparison to donald trump, or maybe it's the populist angle. but what it is, it's a movement. it's a movement within a country that's seen a lot of despair. i don't know everything about his politics, i don't know if i would even align with him, but i can align with with anyone who wants to so sound the aalarm on socialism when that's what our country is facing right now. todd: because of what we have done in the schools to your point, rachel, and you make it well. what i find fascinating is there are definitely political ebbs and flows not just in our country, but in other countries and throughout the world where you see movements that could be taking over our entire planet. and it seemed that for a time there the last couple of years everything seemed to be leaning left. you wonder if what we just saw in argentina, if what you just said about the dutch person, dutch president is true. this is all fascinating, and it does beg e the question what does all of this mean for 2024. and then the second part of that is, is this just a 2024 thing? are we going to go back in 2028 if trump wins in 2024, or is this weak-up call to not just -- wake-up call to not just america, but to the entire world? is the world realizing these far-left ideologies get people killed, lead to poverty, cause a lot more problems than the right-leaning capitalism of which you complain? if i think that's going to be the study of our time, and it's going to beg the question is the point where history looks back and says this is the turning point not just america, argentina, but for the world? rachel: i was going to say globalism is another part of this. a lot of these european and latin american countries are feeling the impact of these sort of global movements that feel like socialism, they feel like centralized, more centralized control. i think that it's going to be really interesting when you bring it back to america here. again, americans experienced what it was like to have president trump with very common sense, america first policies. hay had the best, most record wreaking economy prior to covid that we've ever experienced in our lifetime. record breaking on every front, making america energy independent, putting all of our energy and policy -- joey: well, there's common themes. immigration, green energy. rachel: and immigration, thank you. todd: coming up, abraham aa cords and former that'll lap negotiator adam bow lahr joins us on the impending hostage swap next. rachel: plus, china admitting rise in respiratory illnesses and knew 340e7b ya clusters. joey: the doctor is in, nicole saphier weighs the risk ahead. (car engine revs) (engine accelerating) (texting clicks) (tires squeal) (glass shattering) (loose gravel clanking) todd: and we are back with a fox news alert. you are looking lye at the gaza border, hamas expected to release a second wave of israeli hostages later today. 13 have already been field, but we are still waiting for the release of those 3 americans still in hamas captivity. abraham accords negotiator and ceo of rubicon founder ad -- adam bolar joins us now. as such an experienced negotiator in this region, 30,000-foot view, is this the deal that you would have made? >> i think this is a really tough one, todd, but i would have taken it. the reality is if you can get these people back, you take it it's going to be really painful for israel though. you're going to see hamas regroup. they're not allowed to use drones for surveillance, and my biggest concern here is you're going to have the world media pushing to extend and extend and extend. and it's not going to be acceptable. todd: joe biden said he is hopeful that americans are in the next tranche of hostages released, but i think anybody if looking at this even from a perspective, a commoner's perspective like mine if not even an experienced negotiator like you realizes that hamas is going to hold on to these americans until the very last moment to extract everything that they can. am i right? >> of course they will. they're going to use that the as leverage because they're a terrorist organization. and and i h