Reporter’s path twice crossed by Holbrooke

The World

The late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was more than just a statesman. He intervened personally to help an American journalist, David Rohde, twice: once in 1995 when he was detained by the Bosnian Serbs, and again after he was kidnapped by Taliban in 2008. Rohde shares his thoughts with anchor Lisa Mullins.

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