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Right? >> there was a very complex and subtle religiosity and spirituality and sense of identity that he had. his own family history, the people's history, the culture, the language, all the text, the great tradition of it -- >> bret: your father and mother liked to the music. >> they created an organization pro music at the break, thought to find and save and revise jewish music, classical music written by jewish composers in a jewish style that had otherwise been lost to history and to bring it back to the form that it was in. my father cofounded a hebrew high school, specifically so that i ...

"special report" every night, we would meet on monday nights, and it was too exhausting. >> bret: he blamed his lack of chess playing on me. >> thank you, by the way. but i remember when he mentions is monday night chess club. he had an entire room that was the chest room, it was monday nights, and they would have three, four, five games going at a time. and no talking. >> bret: genius, insanity, innocence, august 20th, 1993. chess enjoys in unholy reputation for psychic derangement. when not with frank madness, oddness, isolation. i remember psychiatrist friends of visiting me at a chess club...

The porch reading the declaration of the independence. >> absolutely. he had a very big picture view of the world of history, and i think that's what made his political analysis of a different order, he was not just talking about the politics that they get this candle or this election, it was what does this mean in the grand scheme of m everything? that's another layer of what i wanted to finish it for my dad and put it out there, because i think his ideas can apply at anytime, anyplace. >> bret: it's hard not to come away from that thinking that he was a man of true faith. right? that's next....

This was the way it was. >> bret: charles never wrote with more urgency than in the wake of the terror attacks. your dad was an advocate for muscular response post 9/11. did he look back and say, maybe we should not of been that aggressive? >> i think his words before himself very well in the book. >> "iraq was problematic. people forget that there was broad support from the public and congress including from those who became the highest ranking foreign policies figures in the obama administration. hillary clinton, john kerry, chuck hagel, and joe biden and they forget to the contacts. restori...

♪ >> bret: daniel krauthammer was born in 1985. by the time he was in high school, the cold war was over, the nation was saved, and the dot-com economy was booming. charles knew it could not last. but how do you get a bunch of teenagers to listen? >> here's how it works, there is a spring campaign in a fall campaign. >> bret: did he know all of your friends? >> yes, everybody went to our house. he was one of the favorites if not the favorite dad on the block. >> this game is so much like the real thing it is scary. >> i gave a lecture at my son's high school in the late '80s. i was trying to...