analyst. we think you should, even if the doctor has a different opinion. bret: what is your thought about all this? >> i don't like it. >> i have been trying to convince charles krauthammer is it for interview for some time. not one where he simply shares his thoughts on the day. but one where he pulls back the curtain and reveals beyond the extraordinary influential thinker, the life of an intensely private man. >> when i said don't like it, i'm not adverse to it, not that i don't enjoy it, but when it comes to interior life, it is not something that is very interesting to me. bret: more disclosure, charles krauthammer is a colleague and friend, but he only agreed to cooperate on a fox news reporting profile reluctantly as part of the publicity campaign for yes, a new book. "things that matter" is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kiss and tell, it is newspaper and magazine pieces from the polls are prize-winning columnist. or maybe it is more than that. >> are you decoding my book? it is all written in hieroglyphics. >> not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. bret: let's start with part one of your book entitled "personal" in the first column is an incredibly moving piece about your brother. bret: he 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 and nine are in, a grounder, doc a sailboat in the wind, and how we play. it was paradise." bret: tell me about that. >> my brother and i were inseparable. he was four years older, that is why this was a priceless gift. i got used to being around the big boys and taking the arrows and that is how you get toughened up. my parents were from europe, he was american, my brother. born in brazil, but that is a long story. he made me an american. >> krauthammer's mother is from belgium. his father was a real estate developer for what is now a province of ukraine. both jewish and left world war ii europe, they met in havana, moved to rio and eventually new york city where charles was born in 1950. when he was five, they moved to montreal, but they spent the summers at the family cottage in long beach, new york. charles remembers spending every day with his brother on the field, on the court or in the water. >> i don't think i owned it until i was 21. the pictures of family movies, my father, my brother, outside in the sun. i got reading. >> there was reading and startlinstudying. even carry his sons second grade report card around in his coat pocket. >> his model for us was i want you to know everything, i want you to learn everything. you don't have to learn do ever, but you have to learn everything. bret: he did not include a tv. >> my father did not allow it. once a week we've got the neighbors to watch. bret: inspired b uncles who are doctors, went to medical scope he had it assumed charles would follow. as an 18-year-old senior, internationally renowned canadian university, he was written by a different pod. political journalism. >> the editorship of the newspaper was controlled by the student council. i have elected to the student council and the paper was becoming unreadable. it looks like it came out of the soviet union, just could not read it. so we entered a coup to fire the editor. we realized what do we do now? they looked around and decided it is going to be me, so i said wait, i never worked in the paper. bret: pali sigh and a comet's major and writing about all things political. he applied to medical school to please his family and got accepted to harvard, he got into oxford as well to study political theory. we choose a life of science or life of letters? the brilliant graduate had enviable options but hadn't figured out what mattered most to him, so he split the difference be had he put off harvard, enrolled at oxford and while studying history's great political philosophers he met a fellow student from australia. attractive and brilliant too. a clerk to the chief justice of her home state supreme court, but so much would change in the three years between when they met and married beginning with his sudden decision to leave. >> i had this little epiphany of sorts, getting more and more abstract. i learned a lot and began to feel as if i was spitting out into the universe it had nothing to do with the real world. i called and said i would like to come into the class. i remember her saying one guy dropped out, we have a spot. so i grabbed a toothbrush and i didn't pack, i got on a plane and i left, that is how i decided to become a doctor. when i woke up in boston the next day i thought to myself oh, my god, what have i done. >> why did you choose psychiatry? >> i was looking for something happen between the reality of medicine and the elegance if you like of philosophy. psychiatry was the obvious thing, that was my intention, i was lucky because it was probably the easiest branch of medicine for me to do once i was hurt. bret: hurt, that doesn't even begin to describe it. bret: when did you realize the accident was life altering? >> the second it happened. bret: after the break. ♪ (holiday music is playing) hey! i guess we're going to need a new santa ♪(the music builds to a climax.) more people are coming to audi than ever before. see why now is the best time. audi will cover your first month's payment on select models at the season of audi sales event. visit audioffers.com today. you know your dunlike natural teeth. try new fixodent plus true feel. the smooth formula helps keep dentures in place. it's free of flavors and colorants. for a closer feeling to natural teeth. fixodent. and forget it. bret: welcome back to fox news reporting. so far you've met the young charles krauthammer. harvard medicine, class of '75. his life seems be going according to plan. but then no life ever really does. the snapshot was taken in may 1972. it shows a strapping 6'1" charles krauthammer standing on the beach. it is the confident smile of a young man on his way to making it. smart, athletic, handsome, driven. the future all his. >> spring break, i went with a bunch of friends to bermuda. that is the last picture of me taken standing. i didn't know it at a time and i was coming out of the water carrying my sandals i saw one of my friends with a camera and when i got to the top i stood there for a picture and thought nothing of it until i discovered it years later lying around in a box and remembering it was a faithful picture. bret: fateful because of what would happen at harvard that summer. >> 22 years old, tell me about that day. >> i went out, we had those and of my first year at medical school we are doing urology, the study of the spinal cord of all things. my classmate and i decided to skip the morning session. beautiful july day, we would play tennis instead. bret: they go back to class for the afternoon session but along the way they stop at a pool on campus, said down the books and pulled off their sneakers. >> very sweaty, very hot. we take a few dives and i hit my head on the bottom of the plural. bret: a freak accident says krauthammer. >> amazing thing, not even a cut on my head. it hit precisely the angle all of the four's was transmitted one spot, the cervical vertebrae which severed the spinal cord. bret: when did you realize the accident was life altering? >> the second it happened. i knew exactly what happened, i knew i wasn't able to move and i knew at that meant. i wasn't going to get out. i knew, yes. bret: he was paralyzed, unable to move his arms or legs. his friend thought he was clowning around and hesitated before diving down to save him. bret: was there ever a moment you thought this is the end? >> when i knew what happened and i knew i was at the bottom of the pool and i wouldn't be able to swim i was sure that was the end. bret: do you think back to that day often? >> not really. i kind of have a good distance from it. i see it as if it happened in a film. and interestingly enough people talk about a near-death experience, there was no panic, there was no great emotion, i didn't see a light, my life flashed before me. you get to a place where you are ready and then you suddenly are brought back to the world. bret: no cost but revelation as he was rushed to the hospital although krauthammer notes the irony of what he left behind. >> there were two books on the side of the pool when i picked up my friend. one was the anatomy of a spinal cord and the other is master of fate. quite a choice. i didn't know what was coming but if it very well. bret: coming up, krauthammer's fate lay in the balance. what he did next astounded his professors and classmates. >> i knew that would be fatal. it was not a question. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. 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>> i think the physical part was hard. learning to do everything again, i have a great capacity for erasing the memory. so it was long but it would seem very short. bret: teachers and classmates thought he was rushing his decision to resume his studies immediately. >> never thought about taking a year off for a couple of years off? >> i knew that would be fatal. it was not a question. bret: you just couldn't survive? >> my life would be over. and that is a little early for life to be over. bret: while nobody had heard of somebody with krauthammer injury standing up to the rigors of them at school curriculum, krauthammer commenced harvard to let him try. amazingly mere weeks after his accident, he resumed classes while still in his hospital bed. >> i was lying on my back and could move. the professors would repeat their lecture and project the slides on the ceiling because i asked the medical school to let me stay with my class. bret: you read by lying on the back? >> they how does a plexiglass played above my head he found from the posters of the bed and the nurses would put a book on it face down. he don't want to call them every minute and a half to turn the page so i put two books up at once so they would only have to come half the time. but you had to remember where you were. it keeps you busy. there was not a lot else to do. bret: he graduated on time in 1975 and near the top of his class. along the way he got the girl and married robin. but as he began his three years residency at the medical hospital, there were indications from the beginning that charles and psychiatry might not be the perfect fit. >> part of the residency is supposed to go to this weekly group therapy session and you didn't want to go. >> there were 12 of us, and there was a group therapy once a week, and i didn't go. i thought it was a pointless exercise, so i was called into the cheese office after seven weeks of not appearance and said to me why don't you go to therapy. i said i came here to give therapy, not receive it and he said you are in denial. i said of course i'm in denial, denial is the greatest of all defense mechanisms. i could be a professor of denial, i am an expert, but he wasn't very amused. bret: he gave krauthammer an ultimatum. go to group therapy or leave the program. >> so i went to the next 21 weeks of sessions or whatever it was but i didn't really say a word so when people would notice that they would say why aren't you talking. i said because i am in denial. i am not a big therapy guy. bret: you did not want somebody looking around your head? >> yes. i don't like to talk about myself, except with you, i guess. that is probably why i quit psychiatry. if you are not into feelings and emotions and all the back story, you ought to be doing something else. bret: in 1978 krauthammer took a government job in washington and what would become the national institute of mental health. it isn't what he really wanted, but it put him in the right neighborhood. >> i thought once i'm in washington, isn't that where they do politics? one thing lead to another. bret: the folks worried about him tossing a doctor livelihood but didn't discourage him. his wife would leave her career in law to become a painter and sculptor urged him to follow his dreams. >> she is the 1:30 five years ago encouraged me to follow my heart, my wit and humor and generosity of spirit has co-authored my life. bret: in a minute, charles co-author helps him answer a higher calling. and later, he finds himself moving left to right. after the break. you're down with crestor. yes! when diet and exercise aren't enough, adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol up to 55%. crestor is not for people with liver disease, or women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. tell your doctor all medicines you take. call your doctor if you have muscle pain or weakness, feel unusually tired, have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine, or yellowing of skin or eyes. these could be signs of serious side effects. i'm down with crestor! make your move. ask your doctor about crestor. how can in china,sumption impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in the u.s.? 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"time" magazine had chosen einstein the great scientist. charles disagreed. he picked the indispensable statesman who led the fight against hitler and sounded the alarm over communism. politics trumping science. that might explain why he traded a big-time medical career for a one-way ticket to washington. once hea here his eyes launchedo a help wanted ad is a political magazine the new republic. >> i showed it to my wife and asked why don't you apply. i said how can i apply, i've never written anything, said you write it, i will hand it over. >> called them. >> looking for managing editor for the left-leaning magazine. >> something that made you want to bring it down? >> he had no writing samples. >> what did you see in it? >> i just enjoyed talking to him so much i had this feeling he could write this down. >> he wrote about what he knew. his first article be expanding shrink protested how psychoanalysis was creeping into political discourse. president carter speech on the confidence. >> they like it they published it, it was republished on "the washington post," the first time in the article had been picked up by the post. bret: krauthammer wrote a few more articles and might have joined the staff except he got an even more intriguing offer. as a speechwriter for vice president walter mondale. >> when we got totally crushed in the election, got a call from republican said we think you are unemployed now, would you like to come and work for us? i said yes, sir, right away. >> so help me god. bret: the new president was promising big changes, even start in the world anew. the inaugural triggered a clash of ideas. >> in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem. >> and the new republic was in the midst of it. >> it was overwhelmingly liberal. they were the best of that era. still a democrat at the time, traditional liberal democrat. i was pretty hard lined on the soviets. hard for people to believe now, but they had a very powerful wing that was anti-soviet. bret: but those democrats were a dying breed and krauthammer agree more with president reagan said with his liberal readers. >> supported just about every element of the reagan foreign policy and pointedly get reaction from the leadership. one that caused the largest subscriptions in the history of the magazine. bret: what was his writing style? >> it was extremely step-by-step logical. if you can read it about something, you can still disagree with the him after youe through with it, you must have a pretty good argument. >> those arguments had conservative columnists wondering why they were not supporting the reelection in 1984. >> what he was writing is why don't you give up on the democrats, i was still one of those who wanted to save the soul of the democratic party and maintain the conservative element of which the magazine really was. bret: writing he still had a lot to answer for on foreign-policy and his domestic policy was far worse. the catalog of sins we believe the president has committed is too long. but he said he privately wanted reagan to beat his old boss, walter mondale. >> i worked for walter mondale in 1980, i liked him and had respect for him. as a personal matter as kind of a matter of honor i didn't want to vote against the man for whom i had respected. that is the only presidential election where i left that line blank. but if i had been the swing vote, i would have obviously have voted for reagan. bret: it was a turning point in his transition from the political left to the political right. >> a few months after the election i wrote something called the reagan doctrine. bret: it was provocative. he had praised him on a number of foreign-policy issues. he was now credit him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. >> i realize would reagan had done without a grand master plan was to challenge would at the time was whenever we take over the country it is ours and all of a sudden would reagan have done was to challenge that and so you don't get to keep what you got, we are going to challenge your possessions wherever they are, and i thought this was a really good idea and i'm going to give it a name. >> he invented the reagan doctrine, not reagan. now everybody has to have a doctor. charles made it mandatory to come up with a doctrine for every president. bret: even after the 49 state landslide, krauthammer was still not sure what to come up with reagan the man who he met in the white house in 1986. >> he invited me to lunch. all of a sudden what i'm hearing from him is a story about how when he and nancy were at the guesthouse of the president there was a giant spider on the ceiling and the question was how to get him off. i was thinking this is the most successful president in my lifetime, what is going on? bret: he said was only later that he realized what eluded about reagan. >> . no need to show how smart he was. he knew it i was asking, he didn't want to talk about it. he knew that he wasn't a dunce. bret: it would be sometime before krauthammer embraced a conservative domestic policy, texas, welfare, small government and other reaga reaganesque opt. >> i was skeptical but the end of the '80s i began to change. as a doctor i have been trained in evidence. if the treatment is killing your patient, you stop the treatment. i began to look and think about whether the view i had of the social democratic society was the right way and i sort of move gradually the idea more limited society, smaller government. bret: by that time krauthammer's world was falling into place. his son daniel was born. two years later he won the biggest honor in print journalism, the pulitzer prize. not bad for somebody who started in the business less than a decade earlier. without even a writing sample. he went from the family to see his father wh once worried about the jump from medicine to journalism. 84 and gravely ill. >> i went to the hospital, i said there is something i want to give you, and i gave him the metal. and he showed it to all the nurses. bret: he turned out to be krauthammer's final visit with his dad. >> so the last time i saw him was when the whole circle was closed and he could feel that the choice had been redeemed in some way. it was a very comforting thing to remember about the last time you see your parent. bret: krauthammer called the 1990s a holiday from history. the cold war was won. big government declared over, and 9/11 brought a new urgency to his commentary. >> people understand, there was a nexus between these weapons, the states and the terrorists and we have to attack them where they are. bret: he began appearing on the all-star panel and was soon an audience favorite. >> you have been a fixture on the special report and even still a lot of people don't know that you are in a wheelchair. they don't know the extent of your paralysis. >> i am sitting behind a table and it is true, i see hav how te people i meet are surprised to see me in a wheelchair. one of the more amusing of those incidents happened about eight or nine years ago and i remember i was at madison square garden and in the fox fox, sean hannity walks up the stairs and says what happened? i told him i was hurt as a medical student, but he told me even somebody i had been on the air with wouldn't know. bret: what is apparent is he has the attention of people in high places. just one example, krauthammer's opposition to white house counsel harriet miers that'l suy helped block her nomination to the supreme court, a comment on the panel apparently gave president bush a way out. >> i remember thinking how did they get out of this. it came to me on a special report. >> i think what the a message not to do is say look -- bret: is base basically went lie this, because the legal writings were covered by executive privilege, the senate could not that her, so she had to withdraw. >> i realized later that is what they did. bret: are you surprised by the amount of influence that you have with your column with "special report" that you heal or see things that happen as a result of a column or statement? do you ever think about it? >> i think about it and i find it worrisome. the reason is when i was totally unknown i could say anything i damn well please. bret: coming up, power players and power hitters from the all-star panel to the ballpark in eight minutes flat. you don't need to think that makes our lives possible. because we do. we're exxonmobil... and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isn't as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy. energy lives here. bret: welcome back to fox news reporting. krauthammer set out to write a book about the things that mattered most. and he didn't mean politics. bret: the palm one 19th street, one of washington's legendary power seems, and you know you are lunch with one of d.c. power players if his characters are on the wall. and today charles krauthammer is holding forth on the nuances of power. not be political power of the white house 10 blocks away, he is talking about the washington nationals and whether they can power a late-season playoffs run. >> finishing 14-2, 1 game ahead of us. harper, the works. >> i think charles and i are both people that write about politics to support our basal habits. bret: george will has written two books on baseball. >> numeral you first met charles? >> i think they can 82 because he was done with the new republic and did a cover story on me so i said interesting guy, taken to lunch and that is how we met. bret: how long did it take before you were friends? >> i think it was instantaneous. five years later i bought a new house in the first thing i did was build a wheelchair ramp in the garage so charles could get in. >> when you get together the first detox but is baseball and when you have dealt with all the important issues you go to politics. >> if there's time after. >> a senior writer for "espn"magazine has lunch with will and krauthammer a couple times a year to talk baseball. >> to say they are fans is an understatement had to say they love the game is an understatement. >> i love to play the game and as a kid my brother and i would go around on our bikes on the streets of long island with transistor radios hanging from the handlebars listening. this was our lives. bret: since the nationals came to washington in 2005, they have had no bigger fans then charles krauthammer. >> i began to do your show every night, that ends at 7:00, the game is at 7:10. from the garage at the stadium, i get there in the bottom of the first, how can i resist. >> he makes the trip in a special vehicle designed just for him that lets krauthammer excellent read and break with left-handed and steer with his right. >> everybody comes in for the first time is terrified. and i don't blame them, when i went for my driver's test the tester didn't want to get in. i told him he had to, it is the law. i think he passé because he was alive, he was so happy to be alive when it was over. bret: i waved to you and the next day said to me you really shouldn't wave. it is a little dangerous. somebody lets me into traffic i am tempted to take one hand to say thank you but then of course i would not have a hand on the steering wheel. bret: it took us eight minutes to get to the stadium. when we got to the seats the nationals are beating the braves 1-0. he went into endless mode right away as though he was breaking down a procedural move harry reid might use to thwart ted cruz filibuster. >> 1-0 count you want to steer on a breaking ball because it is slower. likely to throw a breaking ball, no. he's unlikely to try to steal right now. strike one, now he might go for a breaking ball. bret: nine innings with charles krauthammer is not just a debt the park, it is essentially grad school for baseball. >> this is an unfortunate matchup. the only reason he was there, he is the backup catcher who does not hit very well. can't run. bret: from time to time he writes about baseball typically in a way that transcends the sport. take his column about a 21-year-old pitching phenom who back in 2000 fell apart when he was picked to start a playoff game. with a huge nationals tv audience watching he couldn't throw a strike. he never pitched the same again. but instead of quitting, he went back down to the minors, learned a new position and returned to the majors as a hitter, the column is reprinted in his book "things that matter." in the personal sections a few pages after the piece about his brother. >> i was thinking about this column, it is not really about you but your last line, the catastrophe that awaits everyone from a single false move, wrong turn, fatal encounter, every life has such a moment, was distant wishes us is whether and how we ever come back. >> that is why the story resonated so much with me. i had my fatal encounter as did he. an element of that in everybody's story. do you want it enough and are you lucky enough, that is a part of it also be at bret: while the injury has kept him off the playing field and cords, he has pursued another competitive outlet. chest. bret: which lights you up more, baseball or chess when you're in the game? >> no comparison, it is chess. i gave it up. it is an addiction. it is a poison. you reach a point when you are on the internet middle of the night playing or you realize you're in a motel room. bret: her book was supposed to be a collection on essays, and things other than politics they didn't turn out that way. why? >> in the end everything depends ultimately on getting politics right. bret: you say science, art, poetry, baseball must ultimately bow to politics. >> i write about the paradox. a great physicist who owns a simple question, we know there are millions of habitable worlds out there. so there has to be thousands, millions of civilizations, why have you never heard from any of them. most plausible expiration is every time a civilization that she is consciousness and the kind of signs that will allow you to transmit a signal, they destroy themselves. can we regulate our politics in a way that will allow human species to flourish, produce all the beautiful stuff and that is a question that only can be answered with time. bret: battering the president and taking off the tea party. bret: hav heavies in the mail? >> my sis and reads most of my mail and she is now in therapy. bret: fox's reporting continues after the break. it's more than the driver. it's more than the car. for lotus f1 team, the competitive edge is the cloud. powered by microsoft dynamics, azure, and office 365, the team can gain real time insights and instantly share information around the globe. when every millisecond counts, staying competitive begins with the cloud. this is the microsoft cloud. bret: january 2009, 30 years after charles began his career here in washington. the new president was about to be sworn in. he wasn't sure what to make of barack obama. he got a chance to size him up at a small dinner party hosted by george will. it was a week before inauguration. >> i remember before the president-elect and i said i haven't been able to figure this guy yelled, will he essentially throw a bone to the left or i lefty who will throw a bone to the right? nobody had any idea. >> that was proud of the strength. >> we spent three hours with this new man, he leaves and we stay behind and essays in question, centrist, lefty, nobody knew. i figured him out after the first state of the union speech. >> we will develop powers like wind power, solar power. no longer afford to have healthh care reform on hold. it is the goal of the administration to ensure. >> i wrote five columns in a row about what kind of unusual political animal he was in giving an agenda as radical as any since fdr. fdr. he baits we said i'm not here to tinker, i'm here to transform america. bret: you've been pretty tough on this president and administration. >> i think he has done just about everything wrong. bret: justice is about to offend his fellow liberals back in the '80s, she is willing to take on conservatives he feels is wrong. >> have you seen the mail of some of the things you've said from ted cruz? i get the e-mails. >> my assistant reads most of my mail. here is now in therapy. just kidding. bret: if you listen to talk radio, it might really set his assistant over the edge. >> the 1980s he was working for both mondale. >> it is my job to call a folly a folly. if you leave the medical profession because you think you have something to say, you are betraying your life if you don't say what you think and if you don't say it honestly and bluntly. bret: do you think you will ever writing? >> no. i intend to die at my desk. bret: really? >> i would like to. not sure i can arrange it. ♪ ♪ (holiday music is playing) hey! i guess we're going to need a new santa ♪(the music builds to a climax.) more people are coming to audi than ever before. see why now is the best time. audi will cover your first month's payment on select models at the season of audi sales event. visit audioffers.com today. ever since we launched snapshot, my life has been positively cray-cray. what's snapshot, you ask? 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