with holbrook being in here, it's his first time but it's a serious charge.placed in here. >> holbrook has been incarcerated for the two years leading up to his trial because he could not make the $3 million bail set by the judge. he thinks one reason it was so high was because of the tattoos he acquired ten years earlier. >> i think these tattoos probably got me the most trouble. that's life. when you're born and these are the cards that you're dealt during life. and there's a queen of hearts for my wife. a two of diamonds for my twin boys. four of clubs for my dogs and an a's for me. >> the skeleton is life? >> represents life and death. something -- something common everybody mythological times. you know? >> that one probe got me in the most trouble. i've got flaming skulls that are kind of in the genre of ed harding or his type of artwork. they're just flaming skulls like i said, and yeah, they do have some bling here. so they were rich pirates. the d.a. at the time quickly seized upon how negative that will particular tattoo looked and that i must be a v

if one diplomat has to be given credit, that diplomats would probably be holbrook.ut he played an important role in giving testimony. and negroponte's deputy actually the assistant secretary for the refugees later served as the deputy chief of the nation under negroponte in honduras. with the end of the carter administration, negroponte served for a relatively short time as colin powell's deputy of the national security council which meant that powell as well as hague became one of the patrons in his later career and then at the start of the reagan administration, he and barked on the most controversial portion as the ambassador to honduras and there's been a good deal of misunderstanding about honduras. the government had as the chief of staff of the army at the time, i'm sorry the head of intelligence at the time that negroponte arrived, the kernel who became a favorite of the americans because unlike most of the military who fundamentally couldn't have cared less about the communism or anti-communism, the general had religion on the subject. he had been trained a

if one diplomat has to be given credit for it, that diplomat would probably be holbrooke, but negroponte played an important role in giving congressional testimony, and negroponte's deputy -- actually, the assistant secretary for refugees, later served as the deputy chief of mission under negroponte in honduras. with the end of the carter administration, negroponte served for a relatively short i'm as colin powell's deputy at the national security council, which meant that powell, as well as haig, became one of his patrons in his later career, and then with the start of the reagan administration, he embarked on the most controversial portion of his career as ambassador to honduras. and there's been a good deal of misunderstanding about honduras. the honduran government had, as the chief of staff of the army at the time -- i'm sorry -- the head of intelligence of the army at the time, negroponte arrived, a colonel alvarez, who became a favorite of the americans because, unlike most of the honduran military, who fundamentally couldn't have cared less about communism or anticommunism, gener

holbrook for the last time before he's released from holman. >> hey. mr.re 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 not

the first question holbrook asks me is when does your contract expire? >> i was actually sitting there. >> you were there? >> i was in that room, yeah. >> and then started a hunt for somebody to run against karzai. when the day was over and they had holbrook, karzai called them and called me up to the palace and we talked about the meeting. i cannot remember who said, was it him or me, but one of us said, you know, holbrook is after both of us. that was -- that was the feeling already from the very beginning unfortunately and that suspicion became stronger and stronger and stronger throughout the election process unfortunately. i had established quite a good relationship with karzai already because -- some because of casualties. when he was going to choose his vice presidential candidate he came up to the office and said to the vice president, and then at first i pursued it. . i said, let me think about this. he came back and we had six meetings. i didn't succeed. why did he want to bring that? in the provinces he needed alliances in order to win the ele

and hal holbrooke does the best mark twain. none of these things wouldn't have happened without dick smith, the veteran makeup artist, a yale grad, world war ii veteran who started here at wnbc tv here in new york and found fame, fortune and hollywood. he gave brando jowls. dick smith was 92 years old. >>> lyndon johnson was known as an arm twister on capitol hill, but he's got nothing on alaska republican congressman don young. watch this. congressman young was caught by our own producer, frank thorp, grabbing the arm of a congressional staffer like he was a misbehaving 3-year-old in the checkout line. the staffer was trying to keep him from entering a meeting through a wrong door. the veteran congressman ranks fourth in the house. he has apologized. >>> the army has done this a lot lately it seems, and it means everybody has to get new stuff. they're changing camo patterns again. the current pattern was known as digi camo. when it came out ten years ago. the new stuff updated to look like some of the old stuff features muted

in "the atlantic was quot " -- >> he is referring to the fact out the president iced late richard holbrookinclude battle hardened --erans into the mets. veterans and diplomats. john kerry is visiting these different hotspots but how much can one person get that? , our diplomacyve with india -- mr. modi visiting nepal in his first visit. described india's nascent diplomacy. >> the indian community over here as well is all indians are .xcited about modi right now the indians are looking to how the united states reacts to modi and it is well-known that he did not have a visa to travel here before. throwing out the welcome mat for him is you'd as extremely important by indians for now. >> i would suggest that many cultures come you don't do this by telephone or technology. >> which is why secretary kerry has been traveling. >> may be too much for one person. governor, missouri's enlists the help of a national guard to quell the violence in ferguson. the most violent night so far in missouri. that brings us to our twitter question of the day. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance

holbrooke and 63, is the one thing for.both in the photograph released by the white house and on issues and laying the crisis in ferguson, missouri. a child of civil rights era can a group shaped by the images of violence in the, alabama and joint savings at columbia university were protesters remained in office after malcolm x. now in high office he pushes for policy changes and is declined wednesday to ferguson to personally promised justice in the case of a black teenager who was fatally shot by a white police officer. mr. obama, 53, is the one seeming to hold back in the white house photograph, contemplative, brooding as if seeking to understand how events could get so out of hand. he was too young and too experienced the turmoil of the 1960s growing up in a multiracial household in hawaii and indonesia. as he now seeks balance in an unbalanced time, he wrestles with the ghosts of history that his landmark election, however failed to exercise. so that in "the new york times." about that photograph that was released by t

this is the time when i really miss richard holbrooke.s the fact that we -- we need people who can look at this region that isis grew out of our fight in syria in part and they were an uncomfortable ally of the free syrian army and they began to move and you have attached to this a large sunni-shia struggle in the region. we continue to have this as an iraq-isis issue. to solve the problems they are both looking at the humanitarian side and can do deals with the devil and begin figuring out how they can bring in other stakeholders to look at how they're going to shape this region. the status quo, the line between countries we see today will not be here in five years from now or ten years from now and they need to be resculpted and that's the conversation the united states should do and the united states should be leading in that and we're not. >> i hear you reacting. did you want to react to something steve said? >> i think if you really want to deal with isis. your allies will be assad and iran. are you willing to work with them to deal