cause. you ended up escaping. tell me how that worked. tell me how you got away. this is, as kristin mentioned, the rope part of the book. we were our captors felt so comfortable in terms of the pakistani military. there are pakistani military bases but the soldiers just don t come off them and challenge the taliban. so their first mistake, they moved us to a house that was only three-tenths of a mile from the pakistani base. i found a car tow rope in the house we were held hostage and we used that rope to lower ourselves down a wall. we walked to that base. at first, the guards on the base thought that we were potentially militants ourselves. they thought we were maybe suicide bombers. we spent 10, 15 minutes standing in a road with our hands up, after we took off our shirts and did other things, they let us on the base. this is a really important thing. there was a moderate young pakistani army captain that let me on that base. he let me call kristin and say we had escaped and he
it s a dangerous job, as david rhode knows all too well. he s a pulitzer prize winning reporter for the new york times and spent seven years writing a book on the taliban. there you see him. he was kidnapped in what was supposed to be an interview with a taliban leader. he spent more than seven months in captivity in afghanistan and pakistan before he escaped. his book has become a recounting of that time from both his perspective and his wife s perspective. kristin mulvihill who helped negotiate his release. their book is called a rope and a prayer, a kidnapping from two sides. they re joining us in the newsroom. we want to ask you a question. first, your husband comes to you, you have been married two months, and says honey, i m going on a trip. what did you say? well, actually i knew i had married a war correspondent. he made several trips to the region during our courtship. this was to be his final reporting trip so i supported it. i did not know about the
kristin, the book is called a rope and a prayer. what does that mean? yes. well, the rope is part of his daring escape which was successful, obviously. and then prayer played a major role for me, particularly as the months dragged on and it was hard for me to find that positivity within myself. i did say prayers. it was a way to surrender, acknowledge that i wasn t going to have control over the situation, but it was a way to surrender without giving up. for friends and colleagues as well, about a week before he escaped, they all took a moment at 10:00 a.m. on a sunday and thought about david or said prayers for him or lit a candle, everybody sort of rallied to send positive energy his way. so that was a large part of it as well. what s so interesting, you couldn t even really publicize this because you were afraid your captors would use this against you. they were demanding $25 million, wanted the release of 15 guantanamo detainees. how were you treated? how was it like being a
i m here today because those people helped me. wow. well, david, kristin, we are so pleased you joined us. the book is a rope and a prayer, a kidnapping from two sides. thank you for joining us. we ll be back after the break. stay with us. the history of my y the history of my y and they re also the history of coit. we ve been in business for 60 years and our greatest asset has always been our people. we use the plum card from american express open to purchase everything we can and with the savings from the early pay discount, we were able to invest back into our business by hiring more great people like ruben here. how can the plum card s trade terms get your business booming? booming is a new employee named ruben. [scraping] [piano keys banging] [scraping] [horns honking] with deposits in your engine, it can feel like something s holding your car back. let me guess, 16. [laughing] yeeah.
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