valerie nasser worked for richard holbrooke when holbrooke was at the state department under clinton.es that holbrooke and clinton had a good relationship but holbrooke and sometimes clinton were frozen out at the white house. quote, both clinton and holbrooke, two incredibly dedicated people, had to fight to have their voices count on major foreign policy initiatives. holbrooke never succeeded. nasser believes it was mostly due to political bitterness. people closest to president obama, nasr writes, wanted to settle scores for holbrooke's tenacious campaign support of clinton who was herself eyed with suspicious by the obama insiders. at times it appears the white house was more interested in bringing holbrooke down than getting the policy right. we could not get nasr to speak with us on camera. former assistant secretary of state james rubin worked with holbrooke and albright in the clinton administration. he called holbrooke the consummate foreign policy professional. >> clearly some personal grudges, some concerns that richard holbrooke was in the minds of the obama white house, t

holbrook for the last time before he's released from holman. >> hey. mr.pippin, how 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 s

foreignpolicy.com, he reports that the obama white house used leaks and other leaks to undermine holbrook tried hard to cut his boss out of the picture, too. those with the inner circle and veteran of the campaign were suspicious. even after clinton proved she was a team player they were concerned about her popularity and feared she could overshadow the president. had it not been for clinton's tenacity and the respect she commanded the state department would have had no influence on policy whatsoever. >> we have an excellent relationship with our white house colleagues. >> if you know holbrook, you know he was a formidable force in that job as in previous jobs. >> president obama depicted as a dithering commander-in-chief, one who casually abandoned his campaign promises and hid behind a berlin wall erected by his staff. the president had a truly disturbing habit of funneling major foreign policy decisions through a small kabal of inexperienced white house advisors whose turf was politics. the president's action from start to finish was guided by politics. no surprise that the policy took

he says the white house worked by leaks and other means to undermine holbrooke who died in late 2010. donald camp served under three presidents, most recently he was senior director for south and central asia on the council under president obama. he served as principle deputy assistant secretary of state for that region which khruz afghanistan and pakistan. he says his account is colored by the experiences of his boss. >> i think that the inner agency process was, you know, in this case worked. there were strong personalities involved and certainly holbrooke was one ever the stronger, but the issues came out in deputies' meetings in principles' meetings there. was an opportunity for everyone to have their say. >> as soon as i'm done here i'll tweet out to you the contents of the secret folder that he writes secretary of state clinton kept in her files at the state department but eventually turned over to the white house. rick. rick: thank you, james. thanks for the tony snow. its always nice to remember our old friend and colleague. >> reporter: you bet. jenna: the evolving war on ter

colt holbrook accused of stabbing a man. he says he stabbed the man in self defense because the man reportedly knocked him to the ground and then charged at him. holbrook claims the man cut him out in traffic several times before that fight. >>> christina loren is here to check that forecast. a lot of people anticipating great weather today. >> i bet you at least one will complain it's too warm out there. warmest day of the year so far. yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far only to be trumped by today. temperatures will peak today, we have mid 80s in some cases. fog up in san jose. not a lot to report right there. 10 miles visibility reported at the surface. as you head up the east shore, watch out. thick pockets really settling in now. take it easy out there. up in santa rosa and concord as well, reportsf less than a quarter mile visibility. when it comes to that fog, we'll be tracking it for you all morning long. future cast at 8:00 am. mostly cloudy at that point. we stop that clock for you again, getting into

he announced he was going to appoint richard holbrooke and richard mitchell in the middle east.as a lot of belief that you just undercut the most important issues in terms of being secretary of state. hillary clinton won't be able to be engaged on those issues, and here we are telling stories about her role in pakistan, what she did there and a sense that she was, in fact, ultimately a very powerful secretary of state. >> i don't think anybody should underestimate her, and i wouldn't underestimate her because of richard holbrooke or george mitchell. they were two key allies of hers. remember when she was appointed swuf state there was very much a team of rivals discussion. now, you know, the president and secretary clinton, that partnership has really changed the way the world looks at america. it restored our power in the world. had history will play itself out, and she will have an enormous role in this country going forward. sfwlu use the phrase -- you said hillary said make me a pumplging bag, and in this country there's a sense of the clintons as a brand that is anything bu

suppose richard holbrook had the confidence of the president, and as de the secretary of state and had been given the resources to do what he wanted to do. would afghanistan have been different? >> yes. >> so what was his magic plan that would have made him different if he had the resources, i'm suggesting, and moremportantly the coiden of thpridt. >> if he had the confidence of the president and the resources, he still wouldn't have had a magic plan. and he had no delusions about that. what he wanted to do -- >> there was no plan to be head had. >> was to begin the process of reducing our commitment there because we didn't have vital interests that justified that. so he was looking for various avenues to extricate ourselve. >> but he was-- yes. but also holbrook was trying to make a deal with the taliban. >> right. >> even though he knew was unlikely he could do it. he didn'thave any illusions about that. there had been things written that he thought copull this off. but he was also quite pessimistic about it. in the end i think he felt that if there was going to be a deal, some afgha

karen holbrook couldn't be here. i work in the emergency preparedness section and our section is responsible for medical surge events in the city. yesterday's exchange was really helpful in forwarding that planning ?oo ?a i'm greg jones, i'm the fourth surgeon for the marine expeditionary brigedand i'm representing the excellent sailors who were responsible for setting up and operating the shock trauma platoon. >> controls ingels, california national guard. i'm one of the airmen and soldiers, almost 21,000 strong, that answers the governor's mission. it's available to all civil providers out there and emergency responders and it is in california the substantial or the equal of many third world countries in terms of military force that can be applied to a disaster. >> i'm lynn wilder, i'm the emergency management coordinate roar at san francisco general trauma center and i'm also representing the san francisco council of emergency partnership which is the group of emergency management coordinators from each of the hos

. >> or beloved late friend richard holbrooke once asked me. what did i think? what was my sounded bite about this war. i said we will did due course learn whether it was an open success or -- >> noble. >> he object toltd notification of noble failure.ct he said, "failure can be noble." i said i guess you are not a shi'a. we have a whole i history of noe failure there. in many ways, this was a 9/11 war. this was a 9/11 war. the decision was made in the aftermath of 9/11. i never was a weapons of mass destruction person. to be honest with you, never of i never thought there were weapons of mass destruction.re how i knew, this i don't have any idea why i knew it. to me this iraq war, operation iraqi freedom was a war of deterrence against radicalism. we had gone to war against afghanistan. but these were not afghans who struck american on 9/11. they were arabs. someone drew the short straw. it happened to be saddam hussein. northeastern university, there are two -- >> it wasn't even the arabas world. it was al qaeda. >> yes, but there were-- reeb boys. i studied t

holbrooke's place when he passed away had a principle mission to do that but those negotiations broken because one, the karzai government was not involved, pakistan was not involved and the various influential groups inside afghanistan were also not involved. the fact that karzai is beginning the initiative i don't see anything wrong with that. i think it's the beginning of a very long process which is also troubled by the opposition that the factions have and the strong views. i mean people in afghanistan do not want the taliban to take control of any of the population inside of afghanistan after a negotiated settlement to be sure. jenna: you mentioned the factions though. it was interesting doing a little research for this segment i realize the state department does not list the taliban as a terrorist organization. there are different taliban-related groups, for example, a taliban, i want to call it a sector, a taliban group in pakistan that is listed as a terrorist organization, but the taliban overall as this overarching group. i thought our viewers might be surprised in that, gen

conflict at multiple levels with the state department and pentagon and the clash between richard holbrooke in the national security council and even fights within u.s. agencies and cotton was a glaring example and in the '60s and '70s they largely grew cotton. they would stitch carpets and so close. while the farm land turned to poppies touring the soviet occupation because the pork farmers needed to feed families and that was the best alternative at the time. fast forward to the current chapter. there was a well-founded desire to get them away from poppy not to mention is supports the insurgency and they said help us grow cotton again. some very smart experts thought that was a good idea. maybe not the most efficient but they wanted to grow it u.s. agency puts it roadblocks every step and objected saying that is not in their comparative advantage. but they would never export to the world market but it needed no way to get farmers to feed families. then a 1986 act of congress projects king cotton and bars taxpayer money from other countries cotton industry. they could have gotten a waiver