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bret: when charles krauthammer died last summer, daniel krauthammer inherited the job of completing the book his father left unfinished. charles previous book things that matter was a huge best seller. the point of it all would be the final word from the influential writer and commentator. daniel wondered if he was up to the task. the point of i the point of it all started as his next collection, he also had a book on foreign policy in big nideas he was working on. those two projects he was moving away with when his health crisis struck. but as things were getting better, and we saw, we thought we saw the light at the end of the tunnel, and i had jerry-rigged all kinds of stuff in the hospital room for him to work at his computer. so he got back to working on the book. on organizing it. starting to lay it out more.
colors in the right place. each time he moved one, a peace move. because the book is so expensive and cover so many topics. everything from baseball, chess, politics, life, fatherhood. it all needed to have an underlying tissue and core that ran through the whole thing. bret: daniel explains the court in the introduction to the point of it all. what is the point of it all, our life, the existence appeared are vast complex of humanity. politics should not say. keeping politics out of it was the point of my father s life work. individuals must find their own meaning. bret: he did not want to be defined by his disability at all. he did not want to talk about it. we did not want to shoot it in a way that it even appeared on d television. in fact, there are many people who watch fox and never knew that he was in a wheelchair. you were hesitant to include anything that focused on that. but in the end, you chose to do
charles krauthammer making his point. our friend and colleague passed away six months ago leaving behind his wife robin and sonav daniel. charles had been working on a book called the point of it all. he asked his son to finish it. i was surprised at how the book begins considering it is a topic charles did not want to talk about when i interviewed him a few years back. is there a way that we can talk about your family and being married, you are happily married, you have a kid. you don t want to do that at all? it is an interesting topic, but i have never done it. 2 million words, and you don t see any of it, there is a reas reason. bret: okay. all right, let s start again. i don t deny that i have a wife, but i never wrote about her, except for once i never wrote about daniel. when he was born, i wrote a column about his birth. and it was a good column, and it