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Unknown, but for duties. and i feel extremely grateful to have that jewish identity, and that is for my dad and my mom. >> bret: it has helped to deal with his loss? >> yes, it is a way to connect with him. i don't know if or where god comes into it, but i do know that i feel closer to him because of what our traditions gave us. >> bret: when we return... >> it is the one part of the book that my father would not have included if he was still alive. ♪ i want... ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. yeah. only pay for what you need with liberty mutual. only ...

♪ >> 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...

History of the jews. >> bret: [laughs] spoke with her was history of the jews part one and two. it was a series. i love those memories. we have lots of long car rides. >> bret: time in the car was precious. >> yes, a lot of the backbone remembers how he told things. he told it so well and in such a cohesive story that it was a grand sense of history. >> bret: i knew that he could fill to the commercial break, but i did not know it was three hours on the competition. >> we could do it now if there was recording back then, but no, i was the sole audience for that. yes, i mean, he knew the ins an...

Their lives that were intertwined in a deeply profound way. they met when they were both grad t students at oxford, and s college, which was an all men's college, and my mother's college was an all women's college had just bought the manor house. so my dad saw this forum and check where you want to live, single-sex, single-sex, coed, check. so that was the beginning of it. so theyd met there, and they began their relationship. and they were apart for a while, because my dad went back to america to go to harvard medical school, and my mom went on to practice law in londonrd and paris, and that ...

Of my dad driving, it was really more the aggressive driver growing up on the canadian ice. whenever it was snowing, everybody kind of running out there. the sky is falling. and driving to work without the snowplow coming up. >> bret: i remember he was leaving the garage one time and i walked out and i waved at him. i said, just a word to the wise, don't wave at me. it is very dangerous. >> yes, you have to go both hands on the wheel and break. one of my, probably one of my earliest memories in that van are my dad was driving us down the bridge, m which i had been viover, so my dad said, yes, ...