Trying to Pay Down France’s Debt

Anchor Lisa Mullins talks to Pierre Haski, co-founder of the French political analysis website, Rue89 (Fr), about one of his reporters who recently tried to make a personal contribution to the French government to help it pay off the public debt.

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