game as much as he loved life. martha: thank you very much, good to have you with us today. so, my next guest recently wrote of charles, he had a singular presence there, a towering intellect, free of arrogance. here now, editor and a dear friend of charles, ab, i thought your call and that you wrote about him was so beautiful and one that he would be very, very proud of. the opening line just struck me so deeply. he once told me, the way i look at life, it is all an accident. everything. i can remember that moment. it was so searing, martha, as you can imagine. charles was looking up at me from his wheelchair. he had been in it since the age of 22. we were already good friends and we had all of those deep conversations that the general just described and brit in all of your guest. by the ones that you have had
this is an image from that, earlier this evening. obviously, it was a place that he loved so much, and they loved the fact that he loved them. they were his team. and that charles krauthammer loved nothing more than to be in the stadium. i really enjoy the pictures in the videos of bret baier and him there. he went with so many of his friends from special report. it is definitely a heartbreaking and potent moment for all the people and national stadium. they will celebrate charles for years to come. baseball was an extension of his life. it had real meaning to him. he understood the game, the complication. most people get bored by baseball because it is too slow. but the truth of the matter is, if you are really into the game, you are watching every pitch, and you re thinking what the picture is going to do, what the batter is going to do, and he understood the game fully and completely. in terms of what was happening out there. he loved the game, he loved the
the jets game. he was a great chess player. he would watch the masters. he was just a student. he loved life. he loved to talk about so many aspects of life. we will miss him. but you know, we have his words, we have his words. and, his words mean so much. you have so much good videotape as well. martha: we have, as bret said, he sets the standard for all of us. that will be a legacy for him as well. bill, thank you very, very much. thank you, bill. thank you for asking me. martha: always, we love having you. a spring and one williams who was listening to all of those with us, thank you both, so much for being here. i heard your elegant words about being france with charles print your thoughts as we hear all of these thoughts weighing in. there were emotions and memories that will be difficult but cutting through that is i
to attend group therapy. he hated it, so he skipped the session. he got in trouble for it. he was wheeled in and brought in to face the repercussions of this and take in order that he had to attend group. he said, i came into psychiatry to do with psychotics. people who came into my office and tell me that they are john the baptist. but this is the amazing thing about charles, he loved psychotics. he loved people, he loved anyone who came up to him in a baseball park. i sent an email from someone who went up to tell him what offense she was. one night at the nationals game, his friend had canceled him from a. he just left people. it was an amazing gift that he knew that we reviewed him an almost, as you can hear from you guys tonight, and you know, martha, he was the only person i know that people worship him. and charles knew that. he knew that people really
he put his first money on him. i saw that, i could not believe it. thank you. in recent years as a republican administration took office, charles did not shy away from his trademark, blunt, unabashedly critical analysis when it came to president trout. presidents don t talk like this, they never have. this is what it sounds like when you re living in a banana republic. aside from politics, he played chess, and he was an avid baseball fan. i grew up playing the game, i love to play the game. he loves nothing more than seeing his washington nationals play and win. with the white house on fire, the congress in chaos, and the world going to hell in a handbasket, we need happy news like that. this is why god created baseball, late, on the sixth day. friends on fox news channel remembered that quick wit and that charles loved talking to everyone. there were always in awe of