marriage originated as a social construct that allowed family patriarchs to facilitate the transfer of chattel property such as livestock or daughters. (laughter) through lawful contracts and then afterwards having a party. okay. could anyone fighting for this marriage ban for same-sex couples define in the the most ignorant way possible? >> if marriage is radically redefined as being just a way of affirming private feelings of loving attraction then equality will require allowing people who love dogs to marry dogs and people who love ice cream to marry ice cream. >> jon: yes, that's exactly right. you know, i realize now that's not a bald head, that's a solar panel for a dumb ass machine. (cheers and applause) by the way, i just want to add very quickly... (barking) does your wife know that you can't see the difference between the consensual love that leads to matrimony and the enjoyment you get from a dairy queen blizzard? (laughter) nobody would mistake these two things. well, one guy might mistake them. >> i love fruit salad! >> then why don't you marry it? >> all right, then. i wi

these patriarchs, they fought in the civil war. it is unlikely to me that they wanted to keep fighting. but when you have lives taken and you live in a very biblical way, you have an eye for an eye. america was not a place where you could not always get justice. you had to mete it out your way. these were complicated times. tavis: i will make the assumption that there's something about these westerns that you like. what is it about these kind of timepieces that term -- that turn you on? >> we live in a society where, if you have a problem, chances are you're going to call your lawyer, call your agent, your pr person. back then, you had to arbitrate your own problems. there was a real reality. too many of the westerns are not good. it is the black hat and the white hat. life is a lot grayer than that. because there was nobody to arbitrate or problems, they became life and death situations permit you had to be incredibly resourceful about how you would protect your family. in a well-written western, i can throw myself into it and go,

each had a patriarch. it's still not exactly clear what started the feud. but many believe it was mccoy's allegation in 1889, that a hatfield stole one of his pigs. the first killing, 1882. ellison hatfield, shot by the mccoys. in retaliation, the hatfields kidnapped three mccoy brothers. >> please, let me take them back to kentucky with me, please. >> reporter: over time, the two families reconciled. >> the hatfield/mccoy "family feud" special. >> reporter: they went on "family feud" with a pig on the stage. a nod to the hog that started it all. and next week, the hatfield and mccoy reunion festival. we skyped with two of the organizers. nowhere in the back of your mind, you're not thinking i don't trust these hatfield people? >> no worries in the back of my mind. absolutely not. >> some of my best friends in school were mccoys. >> reporter: are you telling me the truth? you look nervous about this question. >> not at all. >> reporter: if the hatfields and mccoys can get along, anybody can. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> and it all started with a pig.

each clad had a patriarch, devil anise hatfield and rand'l mccoy.still not exactly clear what started the feud, but many believe it was rand'l mccoy's allegation, in 1878, that a hatfield stole one of his pigs. the first killing, 1882, when ellison hatfield was shot. in retaliation, the hatfield's kidnapped three mccoy brothers, >> please captain hatfield, let me take them back to kentucky with me, please. >> reporter: over time the two families reconciled. they went on the game show family feud with a live pig on the stage, a nod to the pig who started it all. and next week, the annual hatfield and mccoy reunion festival. today we skyped with two of the organizers. >> nowhere in the back of your mind are you thinking i don't trust these hatfield people? >> no worries in the back of my mind, absolutely not. >> some of my best friends in school were mccoys. >> reporter: are you sure you're telling me the truth? you look nervous about this question. >> not at all. >> reporter: as one of them said today, if the hatfields and mccoys can get along, anybo

since the purchase from the patriarch of the family, they have done a tremendous public service by investing their resources resources, mustaf, e equipment, foreign bureaus, the most expensive thing is you can ask. i wish them well. if you talk to and intelligence, the well-educated, prosperous american in the late 1950's, they relied on cbs radio, "life" magazine, saturday evening post. they york herald tribune. they are all gone. it has vanished but others took up the slack. we have to treasurer and celebrate but cannot expect they will remain forever unchanged. it will be little different. [laughter] >> can you talk about -- i teach information matter should -- literacy. my eight children say they get their news from jon stewart and twitter which i don't understand it. k new talk about the history of parity? >> wonderful subject. there have been lampoons lampoons, satires and one of the discoveries i made was the amount of satire and in direction of journalism of 18th century. even his own newspaper ad tremendous amount is not straightforward and did your objective reporting. in this murk

mail, bruce goes back and writes in his diary that he had just met hemingway and remembers him as "patriarchal with his gray beard, imposing physique, much like god as painted by michelangelo." so talk about fan mail. anyway, here's ernest as he's getting ready to go to europe. he's grown this beard, by the way, because of irritation from the sun during the war patrols on pielar. so ernest eventually shaves his beard and goes to europe and he is there as a war correspondent. he's driving around the battlefield looking for excitement. ernest gets a jeep from the army and he gets a private, and that's the sort of task force hemingway, and he's going around looking for good stories. the big story in august 1944 is going to be the liberation of paris. everybody can feel it building. nobody knows exactly how it's going to unfold or where the stepping off point is going to be for paris. ernest is doing a pretty good job as sort of a journalist tactical recon guy figuring this stuff out, and he sort of guesses that it's probably going to be that's the region he targets as he's driving around. here he

people have left the town the moment president new president would have a putin is heading to see the patriarch of russia. again and this mistress to our audience here more continuity and this is something that people some people in moscow get from frustrated with the changes in happen enough but as a country as a whole in a very turbulent world people cast a vote for stability in the person they know and again i'd like to stress as much as western media doesn't like it but i'm here putin is genuinely popular in this country when you look at the choice the russian people were given there was only one obvious one in my mind of he was he got the percentage of the sixty four percent ok that's a landslide victory by any standard again what could happen to mr zorra cause. he is the ninth or tenth leader to fall since the financial crisis we see mr putin returning because of the stability i was country i just went through dispersed any doubts of election fraud because i was there for twenty seven hours i was part of the election committee of one of the regions in moscow and i can tell you this this w

the family patriarch, mohammed, seen here in rare photographs, rose from a menial laborer to head onethe largest and most successful construction companies in the middle east. >> he built the airport. he built virtually everything that was standing more than two meters high had been built by bin laden. >> reporter: he had more than 50 children. osama was born in 1957, here in this riyadh neighborhood. he was the only child his mother had with mohammed bin laden before they divorced. then, bin laden and his mother, aliyah, moved to jeddah and lived here, apart from the other wives and children. mohammed bin laden died when osama was just 10 years old. >> the school was abuzz with the news that mohammed bin laden had been killed in a plane crash. >> reporter: with so many siblings, it's hard to say how close osama was to his father or how the loss affected him. this photograph from the early 1970s shows some of the many bin laden brothers and sisters on a vacation in sweden. osama was quiet and shy. his teacher says he rarely spoke up in class. >> he didn't show any particular signs of

as the family's patriarch continued to break sexual and religious taboos, rick and davida became hiss. >> growing up as a kid, i remember everything revolved, in our lives, around religion and sex. they expected us to have some interaction between ourselves, with the intent that we would marry, get married, and become the future heirs to the throne so to speak. meaning that we would be the next future leaders, the next gurus, the next david berg or next karen zerby of our time. >> not only were rick and davida encouraged to have sexual interaction, they also shared david berg's bed. >> i must have been 5 years old. i was married, supposedly to -- i was going to become one of david berg's brides and there was a ceremony with a ring and everything. and once i turned 5 years old, was when i was implicated to being one of his queens so to speak. and i remember, actually i used to look forward to going and spending time with him in the evenings, me and rick. because it was the only time he would actually let us watch cartoons. we were absolutely not allowed to watch any tv whatsoever. and

i joined because i wanted to help women, and be the patriarchal savior who came in to fix the problemsnot understand that i was making the problems worse. >> what is the reconciliation that will happen today between u.s. military and afghans for peace? >> part of this process is starting the process of reconciliation, which means we are actually listening to each other, practicing active listening. we have a long way to go to overcome a lot of the guilt and shame that we as soldiers and veterans feel for what we participated in. we want to start creating instead of destroying. >> it is the first time and afghan-led peace movement is working with a veteran-led peace movement. this is the beginning of something new and something better. reconciliation and peace. >> they were part of a reconciliation ceremony that concluded the march on the nato summit. graham went on to throw his medals at the nato gates, along with 40 other veterans of the iraq war and afghanistan. we end the show with a song called "hero of war." it was performed on the hot asphalt but has also been produced into a vid

. >> translator: herr fritzl was a patriarch, very authoritarian.usively for his use. but why would this lead to suspicion there was a second family being kept down there? who would get such an idea into their head? i ask you. it's like the former tenants now talking. it's all too easy to be wise after the event. >> there has been one admission of failure. austria's statute of limitations. fritzl's conviction for rape was wiped from the record books after ten years. had it remained on his record, perhaps more questions would have been asked. the austrian parliament is now changing the law, but some wonder if there is something about the austrian psyche. >> translator: we tend to look the other way when a child gets a smack in the face rather than be brave and intervene and say, what on earth are you thinking? what are you doing? we respect privacy so much that we don't pick up the phone and call the police to send someone over. everyone is left to mind their own business. we have a saying in austria, don't get involved. >> meanwhile, elisabeth and h

richard brevard russell of georgia was the great southern patriarch and leader, you know, of the southerners in the senate, and i wanted to know all about his relations with lyndon johnson. so ina went down to the russell library and the truman library, same thing. you know, we've gone through the papers of many senators of that period. earl clements' papers, for example, are in lexington, kentucky. tom clark's papers are out in the truman library, roosevelt library. we've spent, between the two of us, really endless months in different libraries. it's not just the johnson library, that you do the work. c-span: do you think that lyndon johnson would be as anxious as he was to have a library if he knew that a lot of the material that is in that library would end up in a book like this? what do you think he would react, what would be is reaction to this book? >> guest: lyndon johnson, as we saw as president, did not take kindly to criticism. however, when he reads all four books -- i think that when he sees the life as a whole, he is likely to feel that i gave him -- both in the bright sense a

bringing that story to life with a new miniseries premiering on monday and kevin costner stars as the patriarche this period of history of american history post-civil war. >> yeah, i do. you know, our country has -- the march across america and the fabric of the dna of the american violence, feuding and wars and it's a part of our history and i like going into it. >> you revisited it in "dances with wolves" and "silverado." it's a family feud that spanned generations and started a bloodbath which almost led to a war between the states. >> amassing on the borders, you know, and new york was writing about it at that time, i think a lot of things were happening and that civil war, maybe we've never quite recovered from it. but it's -- this -- it is -- it's our legacy, you know and it's not a fairy tale. i think the farther we get from our history sometimes people wonder did this really happen? >> right. >> and it certainly wasn't the only kind of blood-letting that happened after the civil warm, but certainly it's our most famous. >> it spawned international headlines and as i watched it, it seeme

well, we now know that joe ricketts the conservative billionaire and patriarch of the family that ownsrom the proposal leaked by "the new york times" to run a campaign ad against president obama. we know that tranks of the billionaire super pac donors are proliferating creating a bonanza of political consultants and creating a nasty and barrage of attack ads. with e no nae the post citizens united world, there is no way to hold politicians accountable. we know that joe ricketts of the world don't like their names in newspapers or cable news and if they are going to be writing million dollar checks, that is where they belong. we know in politics money cannot buy excitement. americans elect organization with a $50 million budget created by a group of wealthy donors decided that if you build it, they will come. it was to nominate a presidential candidate to represent the moderate middle and the increasie polarization f the other two parties. and the guest candidate is buddy roemer, and well shy of the 10,000 americans elect requirement. we know that money in politics is like a gun. it is

and it redemonstrates this idea that he's sort of this rich old patriarchal guy that doesn't understande one that folks will remember. the $10,000 bet and having the $15 million car garage, i don't think those are nearly as bad as not understanding nascar as a republican. >> on to question number two. a government study shows government spending is rising at the slowest pace since the earliest 1950s. a market watch columnist said that the obama spending bid that you hear about so much never heard. democrats are celebrating the news. republicans spin it. regardless, can president obama overcome the belief that he is a big government spender? >> i think he has more of a problem overcoming the belief that he is doing a terrible job as president. the fact of the matter is, he's cut back to the budget. but one of the reasons that unemployment has stayed so high is because of cuts in government jobs on the state level. i think barack obama is fine on the issue of spending. he needs to demonstrate that he can get people back to work. he needs to demonstrate that teachers and firemen of the loc

the family's billionaire patriarch has been linked to a proposed republican ad attack against the president certainly hasn't prevented a political smackdown in the president's hometown. lisa is back and she has more on this story. >> hi, wolf. this is a story that involves a controversial preacher, a successful entrepreneur and one of america's favorite teams, the chicago cubs. at the center of it is a man named joe rickets, the founder of ameritrade. his family owns the cubs and he's the force behind the super pac called the ending spending action fund that has now come under fire. joe rickets is a self-made billionaire who co-founded the firm now known as t.d. ameritrade. he believes passionately in the limited role of the government and lower government spending. >> when the free enterprise flourishes, everybody flourishes. everybody does well. >> reporter: it is this proposal which rickets' aides say that has put him at the top of the headlines and launched a battle in the hometown in the president of the united states. rickets' super pac has come under fire for a proposed ad campaign l

needed somebody to hold the screen and that's what was really important in this -- being the two patriarchsn a lot of the same roles as we've come up through our careers and for us to get a chance to play in a movie together, i mean, that's half the fun -- you know, we get to make our movies all our life and people, you know, see the movies but the relationships that come out of it, the friendships, you know, those aren't -- those don't really make it and that's what our life has been about and this has been a really good moment for me to be able to meet bill. >> bill, your great, great grandfath grandfather, we were on ancestry.com earlier this morning was in the confederacy, this hits a little bit at home for you to be in this project. >> i bought a book written by my dad, somebody got a small printing that these are the letters my great, great grandfather wrote to his wife in the battlefields. that's what formed my character. it was great material there. you're hearing it from a subjective point of view. i went to eastern kentucky and west virginia on my way to romania to see the real si

we needed somebody to hold the screen and that's what was really important in this being the two patriarchs. we have seen a lot of roles coming up through our careers and playing a movie together. we get to make movies in our life and people see the movies but the relationships that come out of it, the friendships those don't really make it that's what our life has been about. this has been a really good moment for me to be able to meet bill. >> bill, your great great grandfather, we were on an says tore.com this morning digging around. was in the confederacy. this hits home. >> i brought a book that i was given by my dad when i was in my early 20's some family member done a small printing these were the letters that migrate great grandfather wrote from the battlefield to his wife. that was what really formed my character of mccoy. i had a xerox and blown up. i shared with kevin such great because you are hearing it from a subjective point of view. i went to eastern kentucky and west virginia on my way to romania to see the real sites where this took place. you are hearing about it in an ob