david gregory: i wouldn't mind a little less disguise. [laughter] can i just speak about another kind of gift. my father was not a person of faith. culturally and ethnically jewish. as he approached the, he became more vulnerable. he became enthralled by the search. he didn't know where it came from. he was uncomfortable with some of the things i write about my childhood and about him. my mother's alcoholism. he all of a sudden as he gets closer to death is enthralled in the search. as he felt more vulnerable i would read to him from psalms. unusual vocabulary for both of us. on the wednesday before he died i was with him. i said dad i'm going to go now. i hope to see you again but if you die before i return i want you to know that my heart is full. we had been estranged at various times. at different points. i am just so happy that you are my father. i took his hand and i prayed with them -- him: into your hand i sold my -- my soul i place. he said that's beautiful. i said i will see you soon or i will see you in the world to come. he di

pleased to have david gregory back at the table. how are you? >> very well, thank you. >> rose: let's talk about the book then politics and media and everything else. >> okay. >> rose: how did about? >> it was something that was rising up inside of me a long time. it was a longing to grapple with the questions, who am i, how should i live, what is a life full of meaning and purpose. this arose at a date when i was very successful, covering the white house, married to a wonderful woman, great kids and starting to think, one, what else is there, what else is expected of me. we had young kids mix wife is a christian, a protestant, i am jewish, and she was challenging to lead our family in faith if we were going to be a jewish family to do it out of a sense of knowledge and lead us in a spiritual path, and those kind of things came together and made me want to go deeper and understand more. >> rose: and what did you discover? >> i discovered a lot about myself, about humility, about the search for goodness and how -- >> rose: this is reading the tor

david gregory: there is no time like now. it was tough. to go through. i succeeded for a long time very young. i had never known any setbacks. it was hard and it was embarrassing. i think it was unnecessary. it is about your identity as well as your job. the sense that people are looking at me and saying, what happened to him? he failed. something ugly happened to him. i felt that. the community, in our journalistic community. i was also stung by the fact that there was a fair amount of indifference to what happened to me. i try to take some responsibility for that. people didn't really seem to care that much. they didn't really reach out. when i have more friends? -- why don't i have more friends? me, washington is a tough town, it's a tough business, we get all that. if i did some of you put myself out more for other people, maybe i would've gotten more back. i colleague at nbc wrote that everybody always thought you were unstoppable. that's not really the way that i wanted to have been known. i did see myself as unstoppable but i didn't have the same

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judge andrew napolitano fox news senior judicial analyst and we welcome david gregory, former moderator the press" and author of the book "how's your faith." and syndicated crumbist charles krauthammer. i won't mention your book, we do all the time. >> it's still out there. >> what about the president and his repeated efforts to calm the nation. >> i think there's a level of resolve, there's a level of effort to relieve anxiety and to communicate the toughness that people want to see and i think he's been slow to do that. and i think it's also hard when you're trying to take a measured approach. you heard senator mccain. people are scared, they want decisive action, it's a complicated problem and strategy and when you're playing from behint when you've underestimated the threat it does little to soothe people. >> the criticism is he's not saying anything new, judge. he's not moving the ball, changing the strategy. >> i'm happy to be with my friend david. about the only thing i agree with him on is that this is a complicated issue. the president does not present any strength. the preside

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