CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper January 15, 2014 21:23:00
So you just hold on and hope that it's going to come to an end eventually. >> reporter: david rode captured and held by the taliban in 2008 working for "the new york times" keeps in touch with the bergdahl family. >> you decide it's your job to stay alive and wait and hope there's some kind of resolution to the case and it's absolutely incredible that bowe bergdahl has stayed alive through these 4 1/2 years. >> the family of sergeant bergdahl released a statement today. i want to read part of it "as we have said many times in the past 4 1/2 years we request his captors to release him safely so...