we need the water. >> reporter: holbrook defends his wells. without them he would lose his farm, too. >> we got water rights. when we bought the farm we bought the water rights. >> no you don't have the right just because it's your land, to dig as many wells as you want and dry up the water for the rest of the farmers down stream. >> reporter: texas is suing new mexico, citing the violation of a 76-year-old water sharing agreement between the two states. they say it doesn't cover private wells, and holbrook agrees. >> texas, they've been after our water for 30 years. >> reporter: but as the worst drought in the region's history continues even the wells in new mexico are going dry. and in texas the desert is reclaiming delgado farms. >> have you accepted those very realistic likelihood that you could lose this farm? >> no, definitely not. no, no. no, we're attached. >> reporter: but unless more water flows from the river or falls from the sky the loss of a way of life is on the horizon. heidi zhou castro, al jazeera, texas. >> more than 300,000

holbrook for the last time before he's released from holman. >> hey. mr.w are you doing today? good to see you. >> i wrote my aunt. she wrote back and said i had a place so i'm going to stay with her. >> that's a for sure thing? >> yeah, that's a for sure thing. you can call her. i told you last time i would probably go to the halfway house but i ain't going to no halfway house. it's one thing to be able to go somewhere and be comfortable where you're at and another thing to be forced to be somewhere you don't want to go. when i get out of prison, i want to be free. i don't want to have to abide by some more rules that are institutionalized, you know. >> well, keep in mind that your aunt will have expectations, also. >> right. i know, she -- >> she has chores to be done around the house. >> that's one of the main reasons why i'm going. she's -- she's not a midget but she's a small person. and she has problems getting around the house and doing stuff and running errands. she lives by herself. >> halfway house would be better for him, but like he said, he's

and in 2008, richard holbrook, the late richard holbrook, late special an say to kabul he said breakate in afghanistan is essential or all else will fail. if we fail in afghanistan we can't suppress that narc owe-state s that going to be the issue? is that really how we are going to fail? >> i think we are failing in after -- i think the united states has failed in afghanistan and i think it's in large part due to the fact that the country is governed by an incredibly corrupt leadership. there is pervasive corruption not just around the drug trade, but around all sorts of aspects of the roared government business. and there is very little security through large part because of the rampant and violent organized crime across the country. and there is sort of no end in sight for any of that. the other challenge is that the militants, the insurgents in afghanistan and across the board never pakistan, in fact, all over the world, are increasingly funding themselves through organized crime and they are diversifying their activities across the spectrum of organized crime activities. so they

so talking to him, richard holbrooke at the state department, is there any problem with me in the u.srking for this guy? james is the finest man i know. doing little investigation, a fine guy. i know he can't pay me, can't pay my air fare. you are a member of the kennedy generation, you have to go. john kennedy, i guess i got to go. so i told him. i go to kabul and try to stay in his house and write a campaign plan and on the way out gives me a rock. two weeks later i got reimbursed for my effort which was not a bad deal. at least i wasn't out 13,000 grand for the ticket. >> you want to hear me fight about you would think a guy who was going to cover where his wife had been, had been all over afghanistan in an armored vehicles, snipers, would have asked me something about the kid. he is driving around in some little bus, i e.d.s everywhere, this is pretty scary when the traffic starts. >> sometimes it was after i left, totally blew his house up it was a different thing, a kind of campaign plan for afghanistan, was really different. 1% is what we were predicted to get, a great guy, gre

glass of wine the next night he comes back to have glass of wine with the veteran diplomat richard holbrooke betrayed us understands that there's a calculation to the politics of her trying to get closer to him and yet is impressed with the effort nonetheless the relationship gets better there was a time in two thousand and ten where she was stranded in saudi arabia her plane wasn't working he went his plane picks her up what's her sleep in his bed in the compartment on the plane while he sleeps outside the door on the floor sort of playing the part of an officer and a gentleman and by the end of. the obama administration as he's as he's ags it in i'm sorry the end of the first term as he's exiting general petraeus gets a note from hillary clinton that says look you know as you know he had admitted to an affair she sent of notes have a little experience with this trying to suggest to him that there are comebacks that this was going to be the end of his end of the careers ability to be in public life and of course we quote him in an interview we did with him him saying that she would be a tre

richard holbrook was to bring the parties through a technique called diplomacy backed by force. that is a take away from bosnia and kosovo. the ability for the military force to create opportunities. i don't see it right now in syria. if there's a threat of force off the table or partially off the table. that limits the political space. >> you think it's a mistake pulling force off the table, not having it out there. >> unless the military situation on the ground changes, i don't think we'll see much movement in geneva, and i think that is something that we have to take into account, for sure. >> that is a sobering thought. thank you both for come in tonights. we appreciate it. before we wrap up, here are a few events in the week ahead. former president pervez musharraf appears in court. on thursday libyans go to the polls to elect a new constitution. still ahead - a tuny insect - a major threat to lives and live stocks. the fight for american skiers in sochi is not in the hills, but against father time. we'll have those stories with jessica taff next. >> a woman whose husband d

they get hundreds of millions of dollars per year, in 2008, the late richard holbrook said breaking the narco-state is essential. if we can't suppress that narco-state is that really the issue, is that how we're going to fail? >> i think we are failing, the united states has failed in afghanistan and i think it's in large part due to the fact that the country is governed by an incredibly venal and corrupt leadership. there's pervasive corruption not just around the drug trade but around all sorts of aspects of ordinary government business. there's very lil security through large -- very little security through large part because of the rampant and violent crimes across the country. and there's sort of no end in sight for any of that. and you know, the other challenge is that the militants, the insurgents in pblght pakistan and afghanistan and in fact all over the world are funding themselves, becoming more violent, more ruthless and more criminalized. that too is adding challenges for the average afghan person. >> the book is seeds of terror. gretchen pierson, thank you for joining us.

negotiate with the taliban began with the obama administration took office, when ambassador richard holbrooke assigned to pakistan and afghanistan. bergdahl believed to be held in pakistan. so far pakistan has done little to assert its influence. for the bergdahl family, of course, it is an excruciating situation of watch and wait. >> live with the breaking news, thanks so much. >>> top u.s. spy chief now admitting regrets about massive phone surveillance that spied on all of us. in a new interview james clapper, director of national intelligence said, quote, i probably shouldn't say this but i will. had we been transparent since the out set after 9/11 and said both to the american people and to their elected representatives, we immediate to make sure this doesn't happen again. here is what we will set up, how this will work, we wouldn't have had the problems now. is it possible to turn the clock back. now coming in variance & company and fox network. >> if clapper said, hey, if we had done this after 9/11, americans were in the mind-set to do anything to keep the country safe, they would hav

if you talk to every policy leader, i remember richard holbrooke coming on. on camera he would say one thing but off camera he would say it's hopeless. on camera he'd say we can't cut and run, we can't leave afghanistan. you ask him why and they would never say because of afghanistan. they would say because of pakistan. george w. bush didn't pay enough attention to afghan san. we tripled the number of troops, poured in $2 billion and the face of al qaeda is radically different than it was in 2001 when it needed the caves of afghanistan to project its terror across the globe. it's time for americans to come home. in fact, it was time four years ago. >> it makes sense. al, what we're looking at a couple of decisions that the president has to make and stick to. what are the chances that things unravel and we go back to the status quo, which seems to be a permanent presence. >> i don't think there will be a permanent presence. i don't disagree with much of anything that joe has said. so i'm not trying to play both sides here. but i do think having done what we di

hillary wanted richard holbrook after deputy secretary of state. the obama administration did not agree because it would have put too much power in the state department. hillary did not have a major brief. what she did mainly was to make friends and try to undo the damage that had been done by the bush administration in alienating allies and exacerbating enemies. >> president obama took over the economy, all of the focus of that presidency was on the economy. the press was paying attention was what going on domestically. >> philadelphia. >> will she win the presidency? yes or no? >> david answered that earlier. >> i was hoping the packers would win the super bowl. i am interested in the results, but i know no more than you or anyone else. >> on twitter -- does hillary have any interests or hobbies outside of politics? >> she is primarily -- she really does not like to exercise. she does not play any instruments. she says she cannot sing. i am not sure what else he likes to do. she does not like to do her hair, i can tell you that. she cannot do it

so we were talking, i called rich holbrooke, who was at the state department, and i said there is any problem with me and the u.s. working for this guy. he said, james, this is the finest man i know. so then i did a little investigation. i said, richard, this guy is a fine guy. i know he can't -- i don't think he can pay my air fare to tell you the truth. he says, you're a member of the kennedy generation. you have to go. and i'm like, well, shit, i guess i got to go. i go to kabul, and stay in a guy's house and try to write a campaign plan, and so on the way houston he gives -- on the way out he gives me a rug, and two leaks later i got reimbursed for my air fare, which was not a bad deal. i didn't make any money but at least i wasn't out 13 grand for the tickets. >> now, you want to hear what we fight about? you would think a guy who is going to kabul, where his wife had been, all over afghanistan, and an armored vehicle, with double snipers, would have asked me something about security? no. he is driving around in some little bus, you know, and ieds everywhere, and this is pretty s

so talking to him, richard holbrooke at the state department, is there any problem with me in the u.srking for this guy? james is the finest man i know. doing little investigation, a fine guy. i know he can't pay me, can't pay my air fare. you are a member of the kennedy generation, you have to go. john kennedy, i guess i got to go. so i told him. i go to kabul and try to stay in his house and write a campaign plan and on the way out gives me a rock. two weeks later i got reimbursed for my effort which was not a bad deal. at least i wasn't out 13,000 grand for the ticket. >> you want to hear me fight about you would think a guy who was going to cover where his wife had been, had been all over afghanistan in an armored vehicles, snipers, would have asked me something about the kid. he is driving around in some little bus, i e.d.s everywhere, this is pretty scary when the traffic starts. >> sometimes it was after i left, totally blew his house up it was a different thing, a kind of campaign plan for afghanistan, was really different. 1% is what we were predicted to get, a great guy, gre

i got permission from the state department and dick holbrooke who was working on holocaust issues to go to switzerland, i met with the swiss bankers association and gave the makati of this wall street journal article and i sit is this true? and they said yes, it is to an extent. we had our own -- we found that there are 732 dormant bank accounts which should have been returned and weren't and if we plus that of today's values that would be $32 million and we are going to return everyone. not taking the for face value we appointed paul volcker to a commission that work for five years, got major accounting firms, charge to swiss banks $200 million in accounting and we found that there were 54,000 possible accounts, 21,000 certain accounts, and the settlement was reached for $1.25 billion. with respect to insurance companies like winterthird and many others did the following. there were insurance policies on the lives of individuals and what happened after the war is the family's of those who were killed, life-insurance policies, tried to recoup and they were told that the policies had

. >> host: you write that richard holbrooke, special envoy, and the ambassador, were working against the reelection campaign of our allies there, hamid karzai, and she didn't seem to be very happy about that. how did that happen? >> guest: hamid karzai has his shortcomings but he knows what is going on in his own capital so the idea that we could do this and him not know we are trying to get rid of him was pretty naive in my view. and so when you see all these problems hamid karzai creates for us, his knowing that for all practical purposes we attempted to coach against him in the summer of 2009, probably didn't help the relationship. >> host: and he is still there, nursing some resentments i am sure. some questions from the audience. here is a statement first of all, a flat out position paper. thank you for your longtime commitment to protecting my family and country, get well soon, godspeed and go aggies. [applause] >> host: a little trouble reading this. it is my understanding of the chairman of the joint chiefs is director responsible to the president. what valuable input do we l