strength from within our own fox news family. special reporter bret baier has a new book out today called special heart. it chronicles his life successes and good fortune but then the story takes a challenging turn. hours after brett and his wife welcomeded their first child into the world doctors had some alarming news for them and what a journey it has been since that day nearly seven years ago. joining me now, my friend and election night co-anchor, bret baier. great to have you here. i remember it very well because you and amy had paul. you sent out the typical e-mail welcoming in the world and shortly thereafter we received an e-mail, my husband and i dated july 1, 2007 not as we expected. thank you all for your kind words and good wishes after the last e-mail. now we would like to ask you for something else. your prayers.
calling to check on paul. and the strength and the fortitude and the grace to be able to make that call after she lost her daughter is pretty powerful. when you talk, the sub title of the book about how it s about faith and hope and courage and love it s not just the love that you experience in your own family and that s well documented in your book, it s the love that you experienced from those doctors, from other families, from others along the way and most of all, of course, the love that is highlighted within the four of you, you and now paul s little brother, daniel as well. i ve read this book many times how would i have dealt with this. i particularly asked that when i got to this passage that i want to leave the viewers with when you talked about how you had an overnight stay in the hospital. you write he woke up in the middle of night and asked me daddy why do i have all they
yeah. that was tough. tough time. we had the moment where we had this blissful 24 hours with that. when you meet your new addition and a nurse noticed he was turning pale. they took him for tests. they thought it was a bacterial infection. they called in a cardiologist. he diagnosed him with five defects. he had to go for an operation right away. paul needed emergency surgery. so you wound up going with him to another hospital and amy who had just given birth had to go home. she wouldn t up going home. you talk in the book, write in the book about her trip in that car next to the empty car seat and going home and what you heard in the nursery down the hall. we had this moment where we were getting ready to bring paul
action hours ago. this is what happens at the end of wars. that was true for george washington, that was true for abraham lincoln, that was true for fdr, that s been true of every combat situation that at some point you make sure you try to get your folks back. and that s the right thing to do. andy mccarthy is a former federal prosecutor who devoted his life to prosecuting terrorists and author of the new book faithless execution. you started an article the other day said writing about impeachable offenses the writing must stop but impeachable offenses must continue. we have a commander-in-chief who has replenished the enemy in war time. there s a lot of chiter chatter the last couple of days about this 30 day notification statute and did obama comply with it. what happened here is a profound
things. why do i have to do all these things these hard things and all my friend in school don t have to do it. and you said to him buddy because god has a plan for you. you are going to do amazing things in your life. he has big plans for you but he wants to test you first to see if you re up for it and you re passing that test. you re doing great and he looked at me and said okay daddy i love you. bret, it s a story of inspiration and thank you for sharing with our viewers. every dollar in this book will help every child as well. there are amazing things that s happening and we re happy and hopefully unanimous expiration to some people. i m so amazed by you and your family. beautiful story of love. all the best. thank you. today little paul is a very active athletic and growing almost 7-year-old boy. his parents say that s thanks to the doctors and nurses who took care of him and clearly also thanks to the love that he s received from his parents and