Fox News Alert a lot to get to this our president Trump arriving in Canada where
the annual g7 summit is now getting underway this as tensions are escalating
between our president and the leaders of Canada and France on the issue of trade
both French president Emmanuel macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau have lashed out at the president for imposing tariffs on their steel and
aluminium industries but the commander in chief is sounding optimistic the
Allies will be able to find a solution on this issue watch it won't even be
hard and in the end we'll all get along they have trade barriers against our
farmers they don't mention the fact that they're charging almost 300% tariffs
when it all straightens out we'll all be in love again all in love again those
remarks coming after the French president tweeted this the American
President may not mind being isolated but neither do we mind signing a six
country agreement if need be because these six countries represent values
they represent an economic market which has the weight of history behind it and
which is now a true international force in quote so you caught that the United
States would no longer be part of the g7 if that were the case President Trump
responded this way please tell Prime Minister Trudeau and president McCrone
that they are charging the u.s. massive tariffs and create non-monetary Barratt
barriers the EU trade surplus with the United States is 151 billion dollars and
Canada keeps our farmers and others out look forward to seeing them tomorrow
end quote assuming that meant today g7 Kevin cork is live in Quebec City with
the latest on this and Canada this back and forth is escalating
actually yes indeed it certainly is Harris good afternoon to you the
president making it abundantly clear he feels like the u.s. is being quite
frankly treated incredibly unfairly when it comes to global trade deals and he's
planning to do something about it right here at the g7 of course we're in Quebec
City the actual g7 taking place in Charlevoix about an hour and a half from
where we are you mentioned the president on Twitter talking about some of the
very detailed specifics about his complaints not just about the trade
imbalance but also in particular about the way he feels like the US has been
treated when it comes to global trade deals of course the president making his
wake here the arrival of course looking for reciprocity looking to get our
trading partners to open up their trading markets to us kevin cork thank
you very much giving us the latest there from canada appreciate it and now this
we have sad news about one of the beloved members of our Fox family
Charles Krauthammer Fox syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor
releasing a letter today that we're going to read to you Charles writes I
have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months I had thought that
silence would soon be coming to an end but I'm afraid I must tell you now that
fate has decided on a different course for me in August of last year I
underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen that operation was
thought to have been a success but it caused a cascade of secondary
complications which I've been fighting in hospital ever since it was a long and
hard fight with many setbacks but I was steadily if slowly overcoming each
obstacle along the way and gradually making my way back to health however
recent tests have revealed that the cancer has returned there was no sign of
it as recently as a month ago which means it is aggressive and spreading
rapidly my doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks
left to live this is the final verdict my fight is over I wish to thank my
doctors and caregivers whose efforts have been magnificent my dear friends
who have given me a lifetime of memories and whose support has sustained me
through these difficult months and all my partners at the Washington Post Fox
News and crown Publishing lastly I thank my colleagues my readers
and my viewers who have made my career possible and given consequence to my
life's work I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest
debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking I'm grateful to have played
a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary
nations destiny I leave this life with no regrets
it was a wonderful life full of full and complete with the great loves and great
endeavors that make it worth living I am sad to leave but I leave with the
knowledge that I lived the life that I intended Fox News Sunday anchor Chris
Wallace joins us live from Singapore Chris your thoughts as we learn about
this about our beloved memory of this Fox Family Charles Krauthammer well what
the tears I hear in your voice are the tears that I shed about ten days ago
when bret baier shared a personal email very much along these same lines that he
had received from charles yet as you read the email as you just read it now
you didn't know where the story was going and it seemed hopeful and then as
he discovered to his shock the cancer had returned and there are two lines in
it when he talks about the final verdict is in my fight is over
and finally when he says that I leave this life with no regret it is such
quintessential Charles Krauthammer it is so graceful it is so honest it is
so brave there is so much to say about Charles Krauthammer I mean just just the
origins of his story at Harvard Medical School 22 years old jumped into a
swimming pool one day a strong strapping man and it and broke his neck and as
only Charles could tell the story he knew that he had broken his neck because
he was studying the central nervous system
in fact the textbook was on the pool deck and as he lay there at the bottom
of the pool before somebody rescued him he realized exactly what had happened
now you know so many of us would have crawled into a ball or been filled with
self-pity I never all the years I knew Charles ever heard
him express any sense of pity by me he let his life fully vibrantly yes he was
very badly disabled no use of his legs almost almost no use of his hands and
yet he lived a full life he had a car outfitted so that he could drive the the
streets of of Washington he loved his Washington Nationals he led a life of
passion and of great consequence I you know I think about Charles he went on to
become a great psychiatrist he then joined the Carter Administration and as
part of the Washington conversation then became one of the Masters first at the
New Republic and time and eventually we were honored and grace to have him at
Fox News you know a couple of things about Charles first of all you couldn't
read at a Charles or what and listened to a Charles commentary and not learn
from it and not be stunned by uh gracefully and beautifully and
forcefully it was written I think the thing that I admired most and admire
most about Charles though is that in a world in which we all are there's a
tendency to fall into tribes here in this camp or you're in this camp
Charles camp was his honesty his values his conviction he could be lacerating
and going after the excesses of liberalism he could be just as tough
going after the betrayals of his conservatism Charles if you're out there
if you're watching this with your beloved wife Robin and your dear son
Daniel who I know have been such a support to you in so many ways I want
you to know that I love you I flatter myself to consider by the
and feel so honored to consider myself a colleague of yours you are a great man
Chris Wallace thank you so many of us are sharing those sentiments about
Charles around here today so many of us feel so blessed to have known him to
have worked with him Chris thank you and Charles Krauthammer Harris won the 1987
Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary and in that you heard him
think all those that he has worked with through the years he began writing that
column for The Washington Post back in January 1985 what a career he has had
well in a couple of different careers you heard Chris talking about the fact
that he had that book on the nervous the central nervous system poolside when he
fell when he jumped into the pool he actually had gone to Oxford to study
politics but he ended up at Harvard and came out a doctor and practiced medicine
for a few years before getting into politics perhaps one of the people who I
know worked most often side-by-side in those big political moments here at Fox
News is now sitting next to me and that's Juan Williams one you had a
special friendship with Charles Krauthammer that went beyond politics
well it's very much about you know we have both big baseball guys in I
remember Charles driving me in his specially equipped van that Chris
Wallace just mentioned over to Nats Park and I said to him afterwards I said I
don't think I've ever put my life at such risk as Charles really I mean
here's a guy who's dealing with his paralysis and all that and he's just
whipping around through this it's pretty cool but you know Sandra mentioned the
Pulitzer I think that it's so important for people to understand Charles
Krauthammer was considered is considered to this moment the most influential
conservative columnist in America and that's why he came here
to Fox and you know I covered the Reagan White House in Charles Charles was
rising to fame at the same time my mentor at the Washington Post editorial
page was a woman named Meg Greenfield she was the one who really worked with
Charles and she's quoted it having said about him that there's no trendy when
Charlie hammer because I intellect was so is so astounding I mean Charles is
a guy that would come up here and tell me he's going to the World Chess Series
or whatever I mean joy was a chestnut baseball nut and you know it's great I
mean loved his wife Rob and lawyer artist son right Daniel but also you
know one of the most touching things I was dealt with with Charles was a column
he wrote and I don't know if you ever saw his book things that matter became a
huge bestseller Brett bear and he really worked that and in that book you tell he
is a column about his brother Marcel who died in his late fifties of cancer and
he tells the story about coming up here to Long Island Beach in New York during
the summers and they would sit on the dock they would play they would invent
games the brother was a little bit older he said his brother was his mentor and
everything taught him how to play games how to tie up a sailboat in a storm and
at the end of the column he writes there's a picture of him his brothers
arm over his shoulders and he says you know ever brothers ever young ever
summer Wow and there's this powerful sense of you know we all have these
moments in our life when we're together and it's that way with Charles I
remembered like going he was he's Jewish and he did something in washing so
astounding Harris he started something called Pro music hebraica which is
ancient Jewish music and he would bring it he brought it to the Kennedy Center
and put it on in advance of it well I know you mentioned I remember sitting
there with my wife we were like wow this is we wouldn't be at this concert if it
wasn't for Charles it was amazing you know I just go back to something that
Chris Wallace said and you know you can never count Charles out of any
conversation no right I mean he is just he elevates everything he is that high
tide that raises all boats and so you know as he puts out this letter today
and lets us know what's going on with him I'm hopeful that we'll continue to
hear from him and what Chris said resonated so much graceful innocent and
brave is those things that you say about Charles Krauthammer I just a real quick
story we met in a sport suite here at Fox News
and there was a big sport and sporting event going on and I walked in
and he kind of joked with me and he said so you know how much of this sport do
you play and I looked at the screen I couldn't even tell what it was and I was
like well I play everything not necessarily well and we kind of had a
laugh about that and he said make sure that you continue to try everything in
front of you because you never know when those biggest moments are gonna come so
we don't we don't know if his biggest moment is yet to come this letter tells
us something about his current journey but Charles is still here and if we know
him well and I don't know him as well as you do but you know that that spirit in
him is alive and well we will hear from him you know I just think it's important
understand he's he's a guy that lived life to the fullest and enjoyed life and
in that letter celebrated life still fell yet he's not down I mean so that to
me it's almost like an example of tremendous personal courage and
character so he's a brilliant man he may be the most brilliant man I mean you
were right we're all honored to have been able to engage I was arguing with
Charles about so I knew that could make you be quiet
oh he shut me he's terrific but it's the courage and even to this moment the
example to all of us about being a well I was gonna say being a man but being a
human being in the full standard and Charles continues to reach out and touch
so many and I know in his absence Brett there said I would get thousands of
requests for late I see on Twitter's I always did that responding to people on
Twitter saying you know this is as much as I can tell you and yeah and now of
course Charles breaks his own news with his letter very quintessential our
friend just a quick expression of love to his wife and to his son they're great
people and I think Charles you know his life and his love really is reflected
and we wake people they are Charles our thoughts and prayers are with you we'll
be right back
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