his name is alen muhic and he was born in gorazde, a town 60 miles from sarajevo that was besieged for much of the war. >> ( translated ): i knew that i was a war baby but i didn't imagine my life and my past to be what they are, that i was adopted and that my parents are not my biological parents. >> reporter: alen's muslim mother became pregnant after being raped several times by a serb man she knew before the war. aumatized, she abandoned baby alen in the hospital where she gave birth. and that's where he was spotted ho was workingic at the hospital during the si (ege. >> translated ): we brought him home for two or three months while was at the hospital. we played with him. we simply loved him and couldn't be separated from him. orter: muharem and his wife decided to adopt alen. >> ( tran wated ): i juted to get alen out of the hospital so he could be with us, and to educate him properly.af we werid what will happen to him if the red cross put him up for adoption. who would take him? what would happen to him? >> reporter: gorazde is not big place and gossip gets around. after some

. >> the sarajevo market was crowded with monday morning shoppers when death fell from the sky. >> billforce. the idea that he would be the american leader who would get nato to participate in its first military campaign was not something that was predictable. >> more than 60 nato jets began pounding bosnian serb positions around sarajevo overnight. >> allied fighters and bombers, most of them americans, swooped down on bosnian serb military positions around sarajevo. >> bosnian government troops are racking up stunning gains around north bosnia. >> the campaign will make clear that they have nothing to gain and everything to lose by continuing to slaughter innocent civilians. >> president clinton finally came to the right judgment. we don't have to put a boot on the ground. we don't have to send in our tanks. we can just bomb those bullies, and it worked. >> good evening from paris. this was a historic day for american diplomacy. the serbs and the croats of the largely muslim bosnian government committed themselves to a lasting peace. this scene would not have been possible without the

two decades on some of their children are campaigning for recognition this exclusive report from sarajevo. twenty four year old i know usage was conceived when a crow at soldier raped her mother during the war in bosnia growing up after the conflict without a father surname was enough to mark ajna as an outcast. yet the class maginot children born of war are not recognized as victims of war in bosnia and that often leads to discrimination. and i just. thought the most common problem these kids face during their upbringing is with documents. that's because their documents have names missing on them so these kids have problems and they want to start university. now i know is publicly defying social stigmas and challenging bureaucratic barriers she co-founded the forgotten children of war bosnia's first ngo linking children of rape so they can lobby together for recognition. twenty five years after the war our goal is to let these children come out and let both the bosnian state and society know that we exist so that we get legally recognized by the government. i mean as n.-g. o. for war chi

but at the end, we were moving into sarajevo to meet with president izabegavich at the time. people were outside applauding us, send peacekeepers, send peacekeepers, they wanted the u.s. to come in and help in the situation. so as we were walking in, there was a woman who grabbed my hand and said, please, please -- please do what you need to. we can't continue like this. and you need to help us. america needs to help us. i said, that's what we're here for. we're going to take as many facts as we can and bring it back. she grabbed my hand, touched my belly and said, i just lost my only son. you're going to be a mama. you have to help me. you know, and -- i got criticism for going as somebody who was about to have a baby. relative to the conversations that we're having, i think it increased my perspective for what needed to be done. sorry about that. >> that's fine. how influential was that co-del? >> it was extremely influential. it was bipartisan. and i think the ability to give information back in terms -- we were talking to the world leaders. we were talking to our people a

serbia, and so forth, nato got involved in that to assist with arms, including bombing of serbia, sarajevoto break up yugoslavia. host: with all that historic context, what do you make of these events? thatr: i am trying to say the billions we have put into nato as well as other european nations, what have the results been? if you have to look at history to determine that. bring it up to the common day of our involvement in nato, what do you think -- if you bring it up to the common in nato,r involvement what do you think we have gotten out of it? caller: i would say virtually nothing. let me give one more example. host: no, only because you have given a couple already. georgia, independent line. caller: thank you for your fairness. a lot of callers, when you are really fair they want you to be one-sided. you are a very fair channel. my thing is, our president is going on a tour throwing our allies under the bus. meetingving a private -- how private will this meeting being with vladimir putin? he has no shame in his game. if you check out the history, who built the trump towers, paul caste