and jack brister requested a transfer. and this is the kind of thing that you couldn't make up a novel that no one would believe this. two hours after he was killed, and i won't explain how he was killed. your readers can get the book. two hours after he was killed, the papers came through for him to transfer into the american army. >> of the three they came back, what kind of careers did they pursue? >> well, chuck was a man who was an editor at the daily dartmouth, he had been sort of a committed newspaperman from the time he was in high school and wrote for the greenwich, connecticut, newspaper. and he came back and went to work for the voice of america, writing press dispatches to they very quickly was diverted to an effort to found a new veterans organization. it's kind of an interesting story, too, called the american veterans committee which was intended to be a new organization for turning veterans just some world war ii. they envisioned it as a progressive organization, integrated, unlike the vfw and the foreign l

the democrats aren't going to philadelphia brister his bill. ... aren't going to filibuster his bill. wait a minute. that isn't mean... >> now the republican leader objects to his own idea. i guess we have a filibuster of his own bill. >> jon: wow! mitch mcconnell proposed a bill and now he's filibustering his own bill. let me put this in chess terms. mcconnell walked up to the table and sat on his own balls. in fact, the presiding office officer... ( cheers and applause ) ... claire mccaskill has to check to make sure she heard right >> is there objection to the original request? >> yeah, i object. objection is heard. jon: you see what you did there, mitch mcconnell? mitch mcconnell sat on his balls so hard, he broke claire mccaskill's neck. we'll be right wíwíwíwíwíwíwíwíwíwíwí ? -x welcome back. my guest tonight is the bishop of the episcopal diocese of new hampshire. his new book is called god believes in love. straight talk about gay marriage. please welcome to the program bishop gene robinson. >> thank you. i have a present for you. i brought

c-span: what was the story of jim brister? >> guest: well, jim was one of those cowboys, who spent most of his life at the ranch. he came there when he was about 18 years old. he was from oklahoma originally and he was a huge redhead with massive shoulders, strong fellow, and he had married a little woman, who was not 5' tall, named may, and may said that she wasn't more than 13 years old when they got married and he had worked as a--in the wild west show. he learned to ride horses early on, and he was quite a--quite a skillful rider and a fantastic roper. he could just handle a rope like nobody else. and he worked in the wild west shows that were going around the country. and he and may would follow the wild west shows, and that's what he did. and i think it must have been when movies started, silent films or something, people stopped going to the wild west shows, and then jim started working on different ranches around the country. and, typically, he would ride the--the wild string of horses, the--the tough ones that hadn't