A new book. Things that matter is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kissandtell. Its a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces from the pulitzer prizewinning columnist. Or maybe its more than that. Are you decoding my book . I am decoding it right now. Like its entirely about me. [ laughs ] but its all written in hieroglyphics. Well, its not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. Lets start with part one of your book, and it is titled personal. And in there, the first column is really an incredibly moving piece about your brother. Marcel krauthammer died of cancer. He was 59. Charles writes this about his older brother. He taught me most everything i ever learned about every sport i ever played. He taught me how to throw a football, hit a backhand, grip a nine iron, field a grounder, dock a sailboat in the tailing wind. And how we played. It was paradise. Tell me about that. It was a paradisiacal childhood. My brother and i were inseparable. He was four years older, which is
thousands of crimes with guns. repeat over and over again. if we want to have a conversation about gun violence in this country. talk about using the laws we have right now and throw the book at the dirt bags violating our community. ainsley: well said. joe. thanks for having me on. ainsley: more than a year chins chakrabarti passed away. his stories live on in his final book. his son daniel on those stories coming up next. it s my job to say what i think is true. it s my job to say what i think will work. it s my job to call a folly a folly. there s the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there s performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that s the kind lincoln s about.
graced opinion columns with his elevated political discourse resonating with measures from all sides of the political aisle. it s my job to say what i think is true. it s my job to say what i think will work. it s my job to call a folly a folly. whether it straightens him out, i don t know. i don t know whether it s going to have an effect on them, but there is no other way for an honest critic to be. ainsley: gosh. we miss him, don t we. now a book of his writings collected by his son daniel is out in paperback. it s called the point of it all, a lifetime of great loves and endeavors. brian: here with more on his dad daniel krauthammer. welcome back. thanks for having me back. brian: what did you learn about your dad the first time through talking about it and how has it changed you today. when i first completed this and went to put it all together, i had to go back and reread everything he ever wrote, because i wanted to make sure nothing was
fan of his. i think he s a highly overrated pundits. i saw that. i couldn t believe it. thank you. i m going to make you look good. bret: obviously, he eventually went on to win. your dad didn t change his perspective when he realized how much anti-trump phobia there was in the media. he thought it was over the top. daniel: my father really, as he said many times, his job was to call a folly a folly. he certainly called out president trump many times for those qualities before and after the election. but he also. the point of it all and in all the months that he wrote about president trump when he was elected, he separated out what was real policy. it should be met that way.
reagan, they all stand out. i think that s overlooked. here s where i get close to almost religiosity. there is a kind of providential nature to american history. when we needed a lincoln, we got a lincoln. that saved the republic. in the 20th century we needed an fdr and we got an fdr and in the second half we needed a reagan we got a reagan. we have missed him so much over these past months here at fox. there is no one that really replaces him. there is there has been a void because of his knowledge of history. his knowledge of science. his knowledge of washington, obviously. but the intersection of science, culture, politics, history, that s a pretty big sweep. not a lot of people have that. it s my job to say what i think is true. it s my job to say what i think will work. it s my job to call a folly a folly.