i was very lucky in that, the brenners are a family of letter writers. everyone had a typewriter in the era before computers and bang away at typewriters in the middle of the night as children and my father and mother, long, long letters. anita brenner turned out to be the same kind of obsessive letter-writer pack right. all of her letters were in the university of texas, the great archives of the world. i was able to go on a traumatic day and see she had neatly kept hundreds of letters that my father and family wrote to each other in the 20s. i

i was very lucky in that, the brenners are a family of letter writers. everyone had a typewriter in the era before computers and bang away at typewriters in the middle of the night as children and my father and mother, long, long letters. anita brenner turned out to be the same kind of obsessive letter-writer pack right. all of her letters were in the university of texas, the great archives of the world. i was able to go on a traumatic day and see she had neatly kept hundreds of letters that my father and family wrote to each other in the 20s. i saw patterns, the anger that had gone on 60 years before i was on the planet that became stamped on us. it became our dna. >> anything that helped you get insight as to why so much of your brother's anger and passion into what you regarded as coo coo politics? >> that is an interesting question. it is hard. what i have learned is, i have written biographies, bingham family of louisville. we take a letter of a piece of evidence, there is a ah-huh, this anger daughter wrote a letter to her father. my grandfather wo

. >> nonsensen brenner strikes again. he wants to turn the select committee on energy and global warming into an investigation on green party initiatives and the climate gate. the 9/11 first responders bill passes. and glen beck's latest war. against fox. >> i know you and i have a special relationship. >> several news journalists have complained that beck's antics are embarrassing fox. roger told associates that if beck was at headline news, his event at the mall would have drawn 30 people. you know how many advertisers bailed out? 296. glen beck, too crazy for fox? all the news and commentary now on countdown. >> i believe you will have that answer. >> are good evening in new york. the republican party was born in 1854. they run the civil war and -- well, they won the civil war. we know that the republican party of old has been subsumed. heart and mind by the most radical wing, the tea party. a poll finding that 71%, well over 2/3 of republicans have a favorable image of the tea party wing and hope the candidates win in

the next reader is summer brenner. . >> i'm going it read today an excerpt from anana, queen of heaven and earth. i wanted to say a few words about anana. this is the oldest literary work that we have. these are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very passionate love, for dimusi, who is a shepherd who she takes as her husband, lover and king. and this is called the return. a lament was raised in the city. my lady weeps bitterly for her young husband. anana weeps bitterly for her young husband. woe for her husband, woe for her young love, woe for her house, woe for her city. dimusi was taken captive in aruk. he will no longer bathe in aradu. he will no longer treat the mother of anana of his mother. he will no longer perform his sweet task among the maidens of the city. he will no longer raise his sword higher

. >> reporter: to find out how unsafe, brett brenner of the electril safety foundation international took mow a quick shopping trip to $2 discount stores. we found a bunch of item like indoor sentence cords, outdoor extension cords, power strips, chargers and batteries. all at a bargain price. as it turns out, maybe too great a bargain price. >> some of the thing are dangerous. >>> t prove his pont, he cut open our bargain extension cord to show what consumers never see. >> you can see the difference in the amount of copper in the two devices is pretty starting. >> this is legitimate and this is what we brought today. >> correct. > that's a fire hazard. >> a different problem occurs with power strips. the one on the left has no brand name. there are spelling errors in the structions. >> this product is manufactured about it says thc. it has a phony u.l. code instead of a genuine underwriter's hologram. it has never been tested. look at these batteries. they look like dur a cell except they have an imtag energizer bunny on the package. >> when you use a counterfeit battery, what can g

they unfailed a monument to sign brenner.ad, yankees up, 4-0, but blew it. rays came back to tie the game at four. to the sixth. a three-run home run. 8-4 lead, yankees win 8-6, a game and a half up on the rays in the east. >> who's the better team? >> think tampa bay is. they might finish second and get the wildcard. >> what do you think, willie? >> i think the yankees have a better lineup but their pitching is suspect. they don't want to go on the road. >>> it's always philly with a story like this. remember the taser incident? >> why would you show this again? it's gratuitous. >> no, no, it's important context. he's tased. to last night's game. this time in a full body red spandex suit. look at this! he's trying to get away from security guards. braves outfielder, matt diaz steps and takes him down with a trip. yeah, that's the braves' outfielder. diaz said, i saw this idiot coming right after me and figured he'd be better off getting tripped than tased. tips his cap to the ground. this is a very important story. the bigge