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

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

another documentary is the story of buck brenner, the real-life horse whisperer. >> this horse tellsa bit about you. >> it's hard to stopwatching this film. to see him work with horses and hear his philosophy and understand how he operates, it's just a marvelous thing. >> reporter: and finally the finale of the most successful franchise in movie history. >> harry potter. >> reporter: warner brothers' harry potter and the deathly hall owes part 2 is the last of eight films in the series that has already taken in more than $6 billion. >> let's finish this the way we started. >> they really put a lot of money into these films and made sure to really treat the books with kid gloves. not to mess with them. just to give the fans what the fans want to see. >> reporter: perhaps there's something you want to see. >> yes. >> reporter: the summer movie season is upon us. take the plunge. >> what do you think was your greatest success? >> osgood: next, questions for henry kissinger. we all want our kids to eat their vegetables, but we all know kids would rather they just disappear. ♪ make me say

pieces of the puzzle -- >> the president had to make and the cia had to put together and it was john brenner called it a mosaic. >> yes, it was a mosaic. >> thank you, gloria borger, and if you want to read her column go to cnn.com/opinion and she writes a lot about how the osama bin laden attack was years in the makeing. >>> now, to this, have you seen this picture yet? look at that? that is a levee being blown up to prevent massive flooding in one town in illinois. here is the issue that the massive explosion was at the expense of all kinds of farmers just next door in missouri, and now they are suing. rob marciano is covering this one for us, and he is live there and 14th gowill join me next. and i'm like, "oh, promise mommy you'll never ever pick up a cigarette." i had to quit. ♪ my doctor gave me a prescription for chantix, a medication i could take and still smoke, while it built up in my system. [ male announcer ] chantix is a non-nicotine pill proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation,

that we have appropriate regulation so we do not fall victim to ththe crisis >> house speaker john brennerl nominate a catholic priest from portland, ore., as the next house chairman. he is a 60-year-old native of washington state, replacing someone who retired. the house is back to legislative business next week with a couple of bills dealing with offshore oil and gas drilling. one would require the administration to issue more drilling leases. next week, the senate will take up the controversy a bill that would in billions of dollars in tax breaks for large oil producers and increase tax breaks for clean energy producers. >> now available, the c-span congressional directory. it is a complete guide to the first session of the 112th congress. it has contact information, district maps, and committee assignments. it has information on the white house, supreme court justices, and governors. order online at c-span.org/shop >> president obama will be at fort campbell this afternoon meeting participants in the raid that killed osama bin laden. he will welcome back the troops that just returned f