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please welcome to the program daniel schulman. [cheering and applause] thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> the book is called "sons of wichita." i am very angry with you. you presented a book here that's very complex, that's very well researched. it's quite fair, and these koch brothers almost seem human in your depiction. >> i apoll jiesms. >> jon: how could you, sir? >> it is a fascinating story of these... i mean, the two brothers are sort of famous. there's four of them. >> right. so the interesting thing about this family is you really hear just about charles and david koch. of course there are four koch brothers. when i was researching this book, the political part of their story is almost the least interesting part of it. these brothers duked it out over control of the family company. one of them, what's got to be one of the most bare-knuckled brawl, legal brawls in history, and the interesting part about it is that when their dad died in 1967, bequeathing the family fortune to his son, charles koch finds a letter

wichita" author daniel schulman sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern on q&a. hill insit prospect jackson. hill was founded by a revolutionary war veteran from south carolina. when he realized he was going to die and the slaves would end up being sold or would become common slaves, he wrote in his will that at the time of his daughter's death, the plantation would be sold and the money be used to pay the way for them to emigrate to liberia where a freed slave colony had been established. they call it repatriation, and they talk about going back to africa. but you have to understand, these people, they were americans. 4,y had been your fourth 3, five generations. it was not like they were going home. they were going back to the consonants their ancestors -- to the continent their ancestors originally inhabited. was quite a risk. so, they took their culture, what they knew here, there. theourse, some of them took bad aspects, too. slavery was all they had ever known. -- they built houses like this one. after all, they are the ones who look this house. there are a lot of basically greek reviv

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with author daniel schulman talk about the koch brothers. after that, prime minister's questions at the house of commons. and later, the congressional ceremony for israeli president. ♪ this week on q & a our guest is dan daniel. daniel shul man, authors of sons of wichita. >> a lot of people associate the coke brothers. frederick coke is the oldest and this is really the tale of a historic industrial dynasty. i thought in the 2010, 2011 time frame you see charles coke a caricature of who these guys were. and once i started to peel back the layers of that a little bit look into their family background i said, wow, this is a really politics may be that's the least interesting thing about this family. in my mind i see them in the mold of the rocker fellers and the carnegies in the sense that their legacy will extend in so many ways beyond our lifetime. >> are they alive? >> yes. >> i want to show the cover of the book and ask you a little bit about each one of the four. an as we look at the book cover we see fred who is 80-year-old born august 6

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. >> author daniel schulman on the coke brothers, their rise to political power and their two-decade battle. so coke is this massive lawsuit that played out for the coke brothers, charles and david on one side. bill and fredrick and other chair holders of the coke industries. his starts in a board room hold out. this would have ended up deposing charles as the chairman. they would have take an greater roll until the direction of the company. the end rule result is bill is tossed out of the company -- >> by his brothers. >> and there's a really dramatic moment in the book where, you know, the board has to sit down and decide bill's fate. >> sons of wichita author daniel schulman tonight on c pan's q&a. >> on wednesday, denver struck down utah's ban on same marriage. the voter approved ban, they said, was unconstitutional. same sex couples are still not able to marry in utah. the decision is expected to be appealed to the supreme court. here's the oral argument from pril of this year. >> we're here this morning for 13-78 kitchen vs. herbert. council, you may proceed. > thank you, your

. >> daniel schulman author of sons of wichita. we thank you very much for joining us. >> been my pleasure. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program visit us at q&a.org. also available as podcasts. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> next, live, your calls and comments on "washington journal." discuss issues from early childhood to post secondary education. live at 4 p.m., the chilean president talks about reform efforts in her country. you had broadcasting and then cable came along and then satellite. what if satellite had said we are different than cable would have a different technology so we will take that and i consider ourselves to be responsible. satellite did not do that. come up with aeo different technology and say we don't have to negotiate for copyrighted material? we have said from the beginning this is not about being opposed to technology. they're still a technology there at aereo and maybe a business model but

our guestek on q&a, is daniel schulman. >> the book is about the four koch brothers. a lot of people associate the koch brothers. frederick koch is the oldest and this is really the tale of a historic industrial dynasty. they have a fascinating business story. they have a really riveting family story as well. >> what got you interested in it? >> i thought in the 2010, 2011 time frame you see charles koch a caricature of who these guys were. and once i started to peel back the layers of that a little bit look into their family background i said, wow, this is a really politics may be that's the least interesting thing about this family. in my mind i see them in the mold of the rockefellers and the carnegies in the sense that their legacy will extend in so many ways beyond our lifetime. >> or they all alive? >> yes. >> i want to show the cover of the book and ask you a little bit about each one of the four. as we look at the book cover we see fred who is 80-year-old born august 6, 1933. what you can say? >> he was the eldest and not interested in the family business. he

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author daniel schulman on the koch brothers. >> this lawsuit that played out between the koch brothers, charles and david on one side, phil and frederick, and other shareholders of coke industries on the other. this, and it's in a boardroom showdown that charles is a supporting. theuple of other shareholders were trying to expand the size of the board. this would have ended up deposing charles as chairman and it would've taken a greater role in the direction of the company. the in result is bill is tossed out because -- the company. -- >> by his brothers. >> by his brothers, and there is a really dramatic moment in the book where the board has to sit down and decide bill's fate. authors of wichita" daniel shulman sunday night at q&a."on c-span " >> patty limerick is a professor of history at colorado university of boulder and the incoming president of the organization of american historians. what is your job here? >> my job as president helps me catch up with my childhood.

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author daniel schulman on the koch brothers. >> there's this massive lawsuit that played out betweenthe koch otherss on one side and on the other side. this is a boardroom showdown. frederick, and other shareholders were eventually trying to stand -- they would have taken a greater role in the direction of the company. the end result is bill is out of the company a few years later by his brothers. there's is a dramatic moment in the book where the board has to sit down and decide bill's sta te. wichita" on c-span's "q&a." the status ofn on same-sex marriage and whether there will be another challenge in the courts from "washington journal"." this is 40 minutes. host: and thursday marked one year since the supreme court ruled portions of the defense of marriage act unconstitutional. here to discuss the current status of same-sex marriage in the united states is brian brown, president of the national organization for marriage. and sarah warbelow, what is the most significant development on this issue since a year ago thursday? >> you know, there are many ways which same-sex couple are

author daniel schulman on the koch brothers. lawsuitwas a massive between the group mothers and the shareholders, and this terminates in a board room showdown. they were trying to expand the size of the board, and this would have ended up opposing charles is the chairman, and they would have taken a greater role in the direction of the company. the end result is bill is tossed of the company, -- >> by the brothers? >> by the brothers. there is a dramatic moment in the book where the board has to sit down and decide bills. bill's fate. >> the head of the national institutes of health on tuesday said a lack of steady federal efforts tohurting your diseases like cancer, hiv, cure diseases like cancer, hiv and aids. >> thank you everyone for coming. welcome to the first of what will be a number of roundtables about our 21st century cures initiative. to accelerate the pace of cures and breakthroughs in the united states. as part of this bipartisan initiative we are going to spend 6, 8,xt number of months, review ther, to full arc of

. >> author daniel schulman on the koch brothers, their rise to political power, and their battle over their father's empire. >> this battle played out between the koch brothers, charles and david on one side, one side bill and frederick. this culminates in a boardroom showdown that charles ends up --porting -- boarding charles ends up thwarting. bill, frederick, and some others were trying to expand the board, and it would have ended up deposing charles s chairman, and they would have taken a greater role in the direction of the company. the end result is bill is tossed out of the company a few years later by his brothers, and there is a really dramatic moment in the board has to sit down and decide. 8:00 easternht at on c-span's "q&a." it was august of 15, i think, on a sunday, very much one of those moments when richard nixon essentially appeared on television, halfway through "bonanza," which was a great cowboy show. he interrupted the show to say, "we are not going to allow the dollar to be converted into gold anymore." this in many ways was one of the most significant events -- t

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many >> author it daniel shurman on -- daniel schulman on the koch brothers. >> so charles and david on one side and phil and share holders on the other. his culminated in a board room showdown that bill eppeds up thwarting. they were trying to expand the size of the board and this would have ended up depotsing charles as the chairman and they would have taken a greater role in the direction of the company. the end result is phil is tossed out of the company a few years later. >> by his brothers. >> by his brothers. there is a dramatic moment in the book where, you know, the board has to sit down and decide bill's fate. sunday night lman , c-span's "q & ." >> "washington journal" continues. host: we're back with the washington bureau chief of the detroit news. david, thank you so much for oining us. guest: thank you. host: we have 28 million recall cars in the u.s., on track to break a record. what's behind these big numbers? guest: g.m. recalled 2.8 million cars now tribt contributed to 13 deaths and 54 crashes. that has prompted the entire industry to take a new look at older safet

at 11:00 p.m., q&a with daniel -- danieluthor of schulman. , author of a book on the koch brothers. in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings and conferences, and offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house, all as a public service of private industry. we are c-span, created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> on thursday, outgoing israeli president shimon peres was awarded the congressional gold medal in a ceremony in the u.s. capitol. it is the highest civilian honor bestowed by the u.s. congress. after the presentation, the israeli president spoke about the friendship between his nation and the u.s.. also speaking at the ceremony were vice president biden and congressional leaders, including house speaker john boehner, outgoing majority leader eric cantor and senate majority leader harry reid. shimon perez leaves office on july 27. he will be succeeded by ruben rivlin. this is an hour and 20