branch out to the cartoon network like he has. very good. a pope who is beloved. >> holy father, we love you! holy father, we love you! holy father, we love you! [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ]

>> it's 2:00 p.m. on the west coast, 11:00 p.m. at the value -- vatican. 5:00 in new york city, this is fox news channel continuing coverage of pope francis' visit to america. and some of the enduring images of these short days in washington, new york, and next philly, these particularly from east harlem and the smiling faces of the little kids. look at that on the left-hand side of your screen. the pope gets a lot of energy from them and i wonder if maybe all of us haven't in the last couple of days as well, waving the colors and the flag of the vatican as the pope came to school today.

kids, what did you do at school today? mommy and dad actually got to watch it on television. our lady queen of angels school where he visited with six students in particular from third and fourth grade, along with other children from the city's catholic schools and met with 150 immigrants and refugees, including day laborers and unaccompanied minors. two dozen students greeted him as we lose our camera shot from there, but it will be back no doubt as the pope makes his way to central park. i'm shepherd smith in new york. i know you are expecting to see the cast of characters from "the five". they are taking the perfect day off in new york city so we can bring you coverage of the pope's travels. i see a live picture of him coming through west drive in central park. you can see the signs down there. if you haven't been to new york in the last couple of years, you may not know that new york has become a very bicycle friendly city to the great consternation

of many and to the excitement of those who ride the bicycles, this is how we roll now. today, west drive is filled with the pope mobile and soon enough the fiat will arrive and the pope will take the pope mobile through the streets of new york city. all of which are blocked. there are eight-foot fences on fifth avenue. it is like nothing any new yorker has ever seen. the highest security in the history of the city all to make sure that papa is all good and it's possible it will happen today. it all leads up to a mass for tens of thousands coming at madison square garden. the world's most famous arena to host the world aes most famous man and fox news channel will carry that without interruption. pope francis just left the school i mentioned in east harlem. up next, travel a few blocks on central park. central park is sort of east of that.

we will come down to 72nd street. that's where the dakota building it. one of most famous buildings around. john lennon, oko ono. there's a street there that sometimes you can use on your car and sometimes you can't. today, you can't. only the pope can. he will enter on west 72nd street. he will take west drive right through the park. that's one of those park drives and this is central park south, the end of central park are before we get down into midtown and this is where they will stop. now, we know that he's going to go from there after riding through central park and greeting people. he will go from there all the way down to madison square garden and i don't think we actually know what root he's

going to take and if we, we wouldn't tell you, if there's anybody to do the pope harm, we won give them any more help than necessary. the route of travel, this is madison square garden, this is sixth avenue, on this side and seventh avenue on this side. the 30s, we're in the 30s here, so we don't know exactly where he will enter the building, but we know there will be a massive mass up there, up to 80,000 people have been given tickets to watch all of this and it's my understanding that he will take the fiat, chrysler sales must be coming up after all of this, he will take the fiat to this position where he will transfer into the pope mobile and we'll watch as pope francis makes his way to that sell la bra tory day. the pope spoke to world powers at the united nations and what a scene that was to meeting with young children at one of manhattan's poorest

neighborhoods. he also said prayers at the world trade center, alongside religious figures of several major faiths. he went to the 9/11 museum and spoke and prayed at the wall there, the slurry wall as we've called it, which held back the hudson river from flooding all of lower manhattan. it was the save i don't remember -- savior of so many people on that fateful day. he went to the pools. each of those now a massive pool on roughly the footprint of where those towers stood. he then prayed there and spoke with a number of people. throughout all of this, he's been speaking to little children and delighting crowds everywhere he has gone and this trip through central park, i think, is going to be fantastic. we don't have pictures of all what i'm about to tell you so just imagine it with me. eight-foot tall walls of fentsing around fifth avenue and all the tony stores which are

closed today. a lot of the cross streets, even haefs go up, sixth avenue, eighth avenue. all of those go up. odd avenues go down. a lot of cross streets are closed and they are all open for the pope as he wishes to travel, getting cameras along the way has been very difficult because people are packed ten, 15 deep along all the possible routes that the pope might travel and our julie banderas has a fantastic location which i believe is her apartment building. what a spot. tell me what's happening. >> it's not bad. the only time i've seen a crowd like this outside our apartment is actually on thanksgiving day and i would say the excitement and the mood here is bigger than the thanksgiving day parade and that's the biggest event of the year. security is a huge issue. you see the crowds. this is interesting, it sort of gives you an idea of the path the nypd has to keep the pope

safe. you have officers up in high up positions to keep an eagle eye on making sure everybody is behaving themselves. is police commissioner said this is the what they have. this thanksgiving, my place. >> i'm in. you can see the parade, i bet. we now have the pope mobile. the reason i mentioned it, the fiat -- go back to that shot again, i hadn't seen that. we thought the fiat was arriving but it was just some security. show us what's down there, julie. what's happening down there? >> if you can see here, this is seventh avenue, you can see the crowds. this is basically where all the crowds, thousands and thousands of crowds line up for the new year's eve celebrations to watch the ball drop. you are seeing a similar crowd here on 59th street, between

60th street up to 81 as it street is where the streets are closed off and the pope is supposed to make his way down south central park west. he will be taking west drive. central park west has tens of thousands of people. there were 80,000 tickets available for people to get tickets, so essentially they were giving away two free tickets a family, and essentially 80,000 tickets available. they had some 6,000 people still lined up hoping to get in. they are not letting you in without a ticket. you cannot get in even if you are a member of the media without a special press pass escorted by police at 1:30 this afternoon. david, go ahead and pan over to this black fence. take a shot of that. that's the eight-foot perimeter fence. they have been lining this thing up all week long. they final put the remaining several hundred feet of this fence up, so this essentially allows no one to end the park and they are not going to be getting past police and you look right here on seventh avenue. see the police officers lined up right there along 59th street,

and then along central park south, you've got barricades and barricades of people, all those people who couldn't necessarily win that lottery to get in the park, they are all lined up on 59th street too to catch a glimpse of history in the making. this is the pope's first visit to new york city. this is the first visit to central park, it's my favorite place in the city and it's an honor to know he's actually in my front yard. it's amazing stuff. everybody can't late. he's running a bit late though. he just left harlem, but he's on his way now and i've been following, in fact, cardinal dol dolens, he's sending out text messages today. he wrote what a joy to spend time with school children in east harlem, what a blessing. a blessing indeed to see the way the pope has touched new yorkers.

he's one now. >> we're going to get back to you. you mentioned 80,000 tickets and you said you sent them out in pairs. there are 40,000 pairs of tickets and 93,000 people signed up for 43,000 -- 93,000 people signed up for 40,000 pairs of tickets and here's an unfortunate thing. the security is so tight, it takes a while to get through these magnatometers. it's sort of standard airport scanning except it's being done by secret service and they are very thorough. if you have anything like a computer or whatever, you have to turn it on to show that it works. long and short, it's really tight, and security is slow and everybody who got a ticket has not made it in. so there are still lines of people trying to get in just to get a glimpse of the pope and some of the people who did manage to get a ticket because of the long lines are not going to be able even to get in. in central park today is our senior correspondent rick

leventhal. >> is there a way to boost the audio? >> there is a way to boost the audio. he's been working today off a transmitter which is kind of like face time but a little bit more sophisticated and you should be able to get a really cell signal out of there so we can get an almost tv quality picture out but because there's so many people, probably a lot of people are periscoping this or using data in some way, there's so many people in there that he can barely get a signal out. look at the pope mobile now. go to that other shot. the fiat has arrived and the pope -- let's listen to the sound from there if we can. this is the front end of the security detail. i can see that. these gmcs that you see are familiar around town with the red and blue lights on the front. you see those the lights on the visors, the ones that you pull down to look in a mirror and put in some make-up or keep the sun out of your eyes when you are westbound on the long island

expressway, these are ubiquitous. they have closed down all the roadways and he's able to move quite freely. they have restricted the airspace so we can't have choppers above all the time to show his movement. i'm told that rick leventhal is steady enough for the moment where we can go to him. how is the park, rick? >> it's amazing, shepherd. it's parked with people but you can hear a pin drop except when the nypd or some other vehicle rolls down west drive, a roar rises within this crowd because people are so excited and waiting to see pope francis make his way down west drive south from 72nd street where we are to the base of the park. >> you have to move fellas. >> there is a tremendous feeling of excitement here and a lot of relief from some people who were standing behind the eight-foot

fence and couldn't get it. it was taking so long to process some of the people with their tickets. we've heard people have been standing there for four hours. the typical wait time is three hours. they open the gates at 11:00 this morning. some people just getting in and finding spots here, pretty crowded down at the south end of the park, pretty crowded all the way here to 72nd where we're waiting for pope francis arrived. >> isn't it fun in? all of these massive american style suvs and there's the little pope mobile, the little fiat. he has a message here for all of us. you don't need big bad gas gusling to get around. the pope's message is this fiat is just fine with me. chrysler owns it these day and it's an italian thing. there's the security and the

vatican flags, out will step the pope. to get in this open air jeep, now the pope is on board. i know a number of new york city police officers well who have talked to me about their dealings with the fbi and secret service open this matter. this makes them nervous as cats. it's a security challenge for the authorities. they are convinced they have done the absolute best they can. the pope has been watching a lot, the pope told a newspaper in barcelona at my age, i don't have much to lose. he's not worried about it. we'll kill rick's mike there. no telling what he will say. let's lynx here come the pope! here's how this works. there's a traveling press pool that travels with the vatican.

any time you see some guy or woman for that matter dressed in suits and ties or the woman in dress and fanciness with a camera with his or her shoulder, you no he that is the traveling photographers that go with the pope, so they have a lead car here which will lead the pope mobile and all these security vehicles and they have live capability along the way, which is kind of sketchy, you know, because the signal, the cell signals are kind of weak with all of these tens of thousands of people out there with their cell phones, but they are going to give it a go and what we expect is this is in the park drive, the west drive of central park. he will emerge at 59th street and head down toward madison square garden. so 59th street, madison square garden is 34th street, between 34th and 32nd street, between the avenues, six and seven. they will make their way somewhere there and the pope will get out somewhere in that area and frankly, we don't know which way he's you can say it outloud, chuck?

what did i say? i meant 7th and 8th avenue. i was there just yesterday. that's where he's going. they will find their way there. they know the way. once he gets there, they will have mass at msg. you think about what all this pope has done today. he woke up this morning and addressed 170 world leaders at the united nations, 170 of them. the biggest gathering to hear an address of this kind ever on an anniversary there of the general assemb assembly. then he made his way hither and yon before going down to the world trade center, the 9/11 museum. then he went up to spanish harlem to talk to some kids at a catholic school. now he's pope mobiled through central park, heading to madison square garden, have a mass there. he's 78 years old. very impressive what good living will get you. let's listen.

[ cheers and applause ] >> this is a joke. this is a joke. >> the person saying this is a joke is a member of the traveling press corps, whatever he's says, he doesn't realize he's being heard, i'll apologize in advance for whatever he says. just listen. [ cheers and applause ] >> why two cars? [ cheers and applause ] >> keep it moving. >> you'll notice here it's september 25th in new york city. norm by now the leaves are changing colors, the temperature has dropped. people would be in long sleeves. maybe, you know, some dry fit,

long sleeve dry fit, whatever. not today. it's summertime weather in new york city, sunny and beautiful and all the trees are still green for the pope's arrival. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ]

[ applause ] >> you know, he wants to get off there and go say hello to kids on the sidewalk. you know he does. he always has throughout all of this, but if you'll notice, new york city is a different beast from washington.

it just is. whether he will be able to get off or just sort of remains to be seen. you remember pope mobiles of the past have been bubbled in. there have been bulletproof pope mobiles in the past. not this pope. this is just a jeep with the sides wide open and security encircling him, i'm guess trying to make sure nobody rushes him. i was kind of surprised and put off yesterday when he was walking along and people were just reaching out and grabbing him. like, where were your parents during what is rude lessons? at any rate, they want to be as close as they can. the natural sound mike has dropped out, the signal is hard to mick out with the trees and people on their cell phones, when the sound comes back, we'll bring it to you. all around the pope, members of the united states secret service, new york city police have secured the general area and so many more on board.

they have called this a national security exercise, the largest security event in the history of the largest city in america, and that's saying something because this city has hosted all kinds of mainly events -- major events over the many years but this is the biggest security event in the history of new york city. listen. well, they have killed the mike. my guess is the guy who kept talking, they pulled the plug on him. i don't know that for sure, but it would certainly stand to reason. i mention there on west drive, which begins at west 72nd street right on central park west, right at the entrance to the park at 72nd street, they will make their way to central park south after driving along central park's west drive. for now, the mikes are back. let's listen.

[ applause ] >> it's not going to be perfect. the technology is not yet perfect but it's certainly better than anything he will we've ever had. think about what they are doing, they are traveling along in a vehicle with no cables attached and somehow they are able to bring you a live signal with just probably a true view or something like that attached. basically, it gets a lot of internet signals and puts them together to try to boost it to get something of television quality. you can see it's kind of a bumpy ride. it looks sometimes they are shooting from a speed boat, but they are doing their very best. you can see their ambulances trailing, all kinds of security cars, an ambulance just in case someone needs one along the route and thousands and thousands and thousands of people from new york, from points beyond be, i'm guessing, new jersey, connecticut, and points beyond that just to get a glimpse of the pope.

let's bring in father michael collins,'s a former adviser at the vatican. and michael o'laughlin. the tweetible pope, a spiritual revolution in 140 characters. i found it fascinating that this pope has figured out how to communicate and tweet just like the kids. that's who going after? >> yeah. he's a star at it. he's figure it out. people are connected to and responding. >> people have been using hash tags involving him. he's made it more of a mission to capture the youth than any pope i remember. >> that's when he's happiest. when he's with dignitiaries, he's kind of dower. like he said, he wants to be out of his pope mobile and

interacting with the crowds. this is probably killing him with so many adoring fans. >> i saw him bless senator gillebrand in east harlem. she was smiling ear to ear. a leader of the highest order in one of most powerful states in the union and she seemed humbled and just shaking almost in his presence. that happens to everybody. >> the pope began as a high school teacher, that's why he's so good with kids and i was interested in the last couple of speeches that he's made in the united states, both in congress and then in the united nations today, they were very formal, intelligent, high powered if you like, they were aimed not just at the politicians who were listening but to all the voters who vote for the politicians and they were obviously prepared with other people because he would have made the excel i he ton. when he was at the school, he

spoke in spanish and that's exactly the way he speaks. the simple things, can i ask you a question? can i ask you and he knows all the tricks of the trade, when you are talking with kids you speak slowly because they have got to listen and he drops his voice again and then there's another silence and that builds up the momentum. you are right, i think he will love to be out. the pope mobile itself is a wonderful way to be able to see the pope these days. the first mobile was in fact made for the ireland visit of pope john paul ii as far back as september of 1979, a long, long time ago, but that was also a dangerous machine because when he was assassinated almost on the 13th of may 1981, it was in the same mobile that he's going around in st. peter's square, so the fbi have moved in with the vatican secret services to try to organize this visit and they are being careful for everybody's involvement which is a great thing to do, but it means that at least the pope is

in some way visible. i've seen him driving around in a car in rome. he drives a ford focus. he goes around with another american car, very simply. no escorts. none of these big cars. nothing. he zips around. >> in rome, you can just walk right up. >> you can. i was actually there one day and there was two out riders and a car and that was it. nothing else. the windows open waving. >> when you do that, you got to stop. he's reaching julie banderas. tell us what he's saying. >> this is so much better than thanksgiving day balloons. we're watching the pope to exit central park. you see the line, the police motorcade right here. this is west drive. this is the southernmost tip of central park. none of us really knew exactly what route the pope would be taking, so i feel like i just won the lottery because i didn't

enter that 80,000 ticket lottery. see all the people running. there you have, you know, members of the press, secret service, nypd, fbi, listen to the crowd, david pan down to here. these crowds just got so lucky because they don't have tickets and they are standing here with the hopes of the chance of a glimpse of the pope here in new york city and they are about to see him and the police are united here. right here, this nypd, this line of cars right beneath him. >> julie look at this. the pope has done it again. >> can you see him? what did he do? >> i think he's getting out of the pope mobile. he is. he's there with his personal assistant and his translator or interpreter who has been following along with him. there's cardinal dolens as well. i think they are going to say some hellos. indeed they are. julie, let's listen to this. it's going to be a beautiful thing. >> awesome.

[ cheers and applause ] >> hey,ship, the nypd on motorcycles. >> we're watching. >> okay, the nypd on motorcycles they took off on central park south. right now they are appearing to be preparing for the pope to be heading. i can't see the pope where i am because i'm covered by tree coverage. is he moving? >> he's on screen what he actually did was transfer from the pope mobile to the fiat and the fiat is not yet on the move but it is about to be and it's beginning of this 8-foot high fence. i hope we never have to see anything in new york again. it's unfortunate we have to seal him off because they would never do that in rome but i guess the security challenges here in the united states i suppose they felt like they had to do it, julie. >> it's interesting when you

talk about the pope mobile, because many people would have preferred for him to be completely covered by bulletproof glass and that pope mobile that has the glass on the front and roof he's been asked in mull interviews why he doesn't enclose himself in, he says look at my age i got nothing to lose and he really truly feels that it's more important for him to be able to be out and truch the -- touch the people rather than sitting behind a glass bowl. new york city was up under a huge task. the police commissioner bill brat ton has said this is the hardest challenge new york city has ever seen. i see a motorcade now. it looks like they are on the move. they are moving out of west drive, that's heading south on to central park south and then they will continue on, so he's gotten out of his pope mobile into the fiat so he can head into the new york city streets. there are no pedestrians allowed on the streets. all the buildings are being

cordoned off. i see nypd and snipers from my view. i just want you to listen. [ cheers and applause ] >> you think they are excited? >> it sure sounds like it. >> awesome. he actually just went by in the fiat and now all the emergency vehicles that are following him, and everybody here obviously very excited that they just got to witness this, shep. you can hear them right? >> for sure. one of things about all the security is we won't have cameras of the pope as he makes his way the rest of the trip from what amounts 59th street down to 34th street or so and a couple of avenues over. so during that time, let's get a quick commercial break in. when we come back, we'll have the pope at madison square garden. not the knicks for a loss tonight but the pope for a win. that's coming up.

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>> of the pope in new york city. the five will not be seen today. the pope will celebrate mass at madison square garden next. i want to show you a look as what's happening in new york city right now through the auspices of google and if you could take that other picture and i could walk in that other direction, there you go. this is new york city right now. this is a google view and all of these things, and you see these things all over the place, these things, look at the upper west side. this is central park. to the west side of central park and all along here. those are dead stops. everything is stopped. all of these reds mean it's very difficult for you to move, so the truth is you really can't do anything in new york city right now. we don't know the exact route that the pope is going to take and if we did we wouldn't tell

you because what if somebody out there wants to cause harm. they know they are taking some sort of sir cue to us route. father michael collins is with us and michael o'laughlin is with us. he doesn't like all of this security process business, does he? >> no, he doesn't at all. he's a pastor, when he was cardinal in buenos aires. he loves being with people and students as we saw earlier. he -- it comes with the office. he does his best to resist as much as possible. the highlights is the school visits, the prison visit, and catholic charities in d.c. that's when he gets to be with everyday catholics. that's what gives him his

energy. he's a 78-year-old guy going full steam ahead all day long. >> i talk to a few people who were in vespers right now newly reif you are bushed -- refurnished saint pat trit. pat cathedral. >> the maemg we've seen the last few days are very powerful. it's more the good energy that seems to exude from this man. people are warming to man. i've heard people say hope. i don't know why he gives hope but connected with that word periphery, he talks a lot about being on the periphery, when he was elected, he said go out to the periphery, we thought he

meant go to the suburbs of the city. what he really meant is he wants us to go out and meet people who feel excluded, on the margin, because of their orientation, because of their values, because of their economic situation, wherever they are, whatever they feel, but they should all feel part of one family. >> these are some pictures earlier from, i believe these are from east harlem as he was speaking with the kids and parents around there and afterwards the teachers and some local dignitiaries, including the mayor and the mayor's son were beaming with some pride. a big hug from the pope. we've gotten some pictures off twitter from central park and people's experiences there and our devices up in the moment. i heard people suggesting before this, we know you have a phone, we know you want to get pictures, but sometimes living the moment creates a better message for your mind than

staring into that camera, and i feel like some people were actually heeding that advice as they were holding the cameras above their heads and actually looking. it reed me -- reminded me of when ol' miss scored a touchdown to finally beat alabama last year and i had the camera above my head and watching the play. i have the memory and the video to prove i was there. >> everyone. you see priests and bishops saking pictures with theat thei mass. >> the pope hasn't arrived to his real message. his real goal is the philadelphia conference of families. he went to cuba. that was a fascinating crossover into the north american territories. then he went to washington to

make his visit to obama and united nations and the real place he wants to go to is philadelphia and the reason for that is every two or three years, the vatican organizes a world congress of families held in different places. this is the first time it's come to the states. this is the first time that pope francis has come to the united states of america. this is the first time we're receiving such an enormous platform. popes have been here before. pope benedict, pope john paul, but never has any pope attracted the attention of pope francis, and some people are saying, just as you were making the point earlier it is because of the social media platforms, people are tweeting, instagraming, facebooking, they are doing everything. his critics are silent for the moment. >> not all of them. >> pope benedict was fortunate enough to cover that as well. he went into the pope mobile

outside the yankee stadium and he went right by monument park and we were standing right above it and the enthusiasm was absolutely there and every person in there was awe struck. i think you are right. we can all share together on social media. a lot of people have gotten really good at it. donald trump is really good at it. we have enormous facebook following here. i think they are good at it. nobody as good as the pope. >> why else do you go stand in a security line for four or five hours to see the pope drive by real quick? >> you barely get that. >> so many people make the point about television and internet. we saw the pope. well, you didn't see the pope. you saw an image of him on tv or in a book or whatever. so he's come alive and his face has become very familiar to people. is he the most famous face in the world. i know forbes thinks he's the

most important person in the world. he's really impressive. >> he's never more impressive than with children. we've talked about it so much i feel like we're belaboring the point. i don't think we can really do that. everything he does is message for the rest of us. the frugalness of it all is a message and holding and cherishing and setting an example for the children is a message. >> the eyes of the world are on america today, absolutely, every part of the world is following part of this visit. it may not be able to follow the whole thing. but people are tuning in. they know he's in new york, they know he's on his way to philadelphia. he himself knows as well and that's why he came with this message. he's had an amazing platform of social media, getting to congress, getting to the united nations. he's talking about things that are very important to him, especially migration, global warming, the illegal trading of

humans by other humans, and he's really been challenging us as well. it's marvelous to hear somebody speak so simply. i know he's had to make most of his speeches in spanish because his english -- it's actually a lot better -- >> went very well in east harlem. >> he's doing really good, but at the same time he's ware this is an important platform. he can go back to the vatican and he can have all the millions of people go through the ceremonies every year. they got six million people visiting the vatican every year, he's never going to get a platform like this. this is something he's enjoying. this is 12:00 midnight in rome. he should be tucked up in bed for three hours already. here he is confronting an enormous crowd. celebrate mass with them. sleep later and he will have a couple of wonderful days in philly. >> remember, he's 78. >> i don't know how he's keeping up. >> i really don't know. michael, part of what they have

done is they have truncated his schedule when he runs long because he talks too much, he loses hi down time. instead of having an hour of down time for a 78-year-old man, he might get 20 minutes of downtown. >> he uses the downtime for meetings and prayers. >> he prayers throeft two hours a day. >> he's got a lot going on. >> mass tonight is exciting because he's had a lot of different venues where he's given different messages, but ton he will be speaking to everyday catholics. i think we should look for a message that really addresses the concerns of what families are going through, what everyday catholics are going through and this is one of the first times where he's had the opportunity to speak to people on that level. for the church, these excursions, if you will, these pope trips to foreign lands, especially one that the world watches in the way the world watches the united states, maybe is it -- they are not saying this is the reason the pope is coming, but the effect of this

is catholicism grows. >> yeah. this is an opportunity to show the vibrancy of this church. there's a lot of positive stories, of hopeful stories, people engage in really positive charity work, people living out their faith and this is an opportunity for pope francis to see this firsthand and for the world to see the catholic church in the united states is a strong, vibrant community. >> the weird picture you just saw is madison square garden with the lights down. we're boosting it a little bit electronically but the pictures are dark in there and the pope is arriving. live pictures i believe of the pope arriving outside. oh, that's a uni lat, but the pope is arriving at madison square garden. i've just seeing it on a local channel. if we can go back to that big map that we were showing you earlier, the google map that we got, see the red lines along the east side of manhattan. these red lines along the east

side, this is manhattan over here. this is fdr drive, the east side of manhattan. roosevelt island in the middle and outer boreughs here. rather than taking the avenues, which is come -- this is msg, it's hard to see from being so close, but msg is just down here somewhere. can anybody find it for me? 34th street. i could have just straight down the avenue, but instead they came over here, no doubt, in case anybody was wanting to do him some harm. you don't have to follow me. you can stay over there. >> father, this mass is going to begin pretty quickly, and the message is similar tonight to the others. we've had messages of hope, and faith and charity and being good to those who need help, and one that i thought has been really interesting and he's treaded the fine line of it all is life.

he talked about the sanctity of life, all life at all stages of life and without being specific, he's talking about both abortion and the death penalty which are very -- >> and youth nash -- euthanasia. cradle to grave. it's interesting, some years ago, somebody made the point to him and said why don't you talk about these issues a little bit more and he said well, you know, we do talk. we do make a point about all of these, but he says are you know, these aren't issues we have to get hung up on all the time. contentious moral issues, what's more important for us to be down with the people. he made a wonderful analogy, i would love if the church could be a church for the poor but i would like it to be a field hospital so when people are injured, from their problems, we badged -- bandaged them up, we give them medication and heal them and then maybe we talk

about more. at the beginning, we talk about him being a school teacher. i don't know if it's the spanish in him that's coming out. i love the simple language and the way he uses his hands and he gets you really into the whole thing. his face is so embracing, and then when you start listening to him, i've been following him for the last couple of years, obviously, he says the same type of thing again and again and again, so now i can almost repeat it by heart but i never forget that face, those images, the smiles, the belly laugh, throwing back the head. a great sense of humanity. >> you talk about the church being able to accomplish all those goals for the people, think about if the church does that from catholic charities, hospitals. >> correct. 18 million people in this country alone last year were treated in catholic hospitals and they weren't catholics by any people. >> they are for everybody. >> they are open for everybody. one of thing i'm saying, i'm 30 years a priest. i'm so proud of this pope. he encapsulates so much

goodness. he gives a vitamin injection to the world and the church and especially in america where he's suffered so much. i think he's a great person. he's got his defects he's the first to tell you. >> he's arriving now at madison square garden and being driven along on a golf cart inside the world's most famous arena. let's take a listen. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> the mass is schedule to begin in ten minutes. they asked people, it's approaching 6:00. they asked people to be here by 3:30, entry began at 2:00 but everybody had to be in madison square garden by 3:30. trying to get a bunk -- bunch of new yorkers to do something like that as instructed hours in advance. that is a herculean task. god must have been involved. considering the earlier arrival, there was a two-hour event call the journey of faith to keep the crowd entertained and sort of excited for what was to come. the warm-up act if you could. listen to who the warm-up included for these lucky people madison square garden. jennifer hudson, gloria estefan and harry connick, jr perform

today. madison square garden has been refurbished to the tune of a couple hundred million dollars the last couple seats approxima people, relatively comfortably, but as can you see, there's a bunch of standing room only, and there went another woman reaching out and grabbing hem like he is some sort of her property. i ask only what is wrong with people? at the conclusion of this mass today, all should expect to remain in place for about 30 minutes as they have to get the holy father out of the arena unimpeded. those who come to hear from the president from time to time, the president has to leave the building before you can get out of there. he is going to use the same chalice that paul the 6th used when he celebrated mass way back on october 4th of 1965. the greetings continue. the trip around the lower floor of madison square garden

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♪ ♪ >> you see on stage a special chair that was built for pope francis for a mass here at msg in portchester, new york by day laborer who's are affiliated with a catholic agency that protects the rights of laborers. don boscoe workers theshgs call them. young men at lincoln hall boys haven and lincolndale, new york, built the altar you see to your right there. you see the cross above and an enormous crowd. bishops and priests from across

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around 6:30 eastern time. half past midnight in rome, and we'll have live complete coverage here. first it has been an extraordinary day in politics, and brett baier begins our political coverage right now. >> house speaker john boehner facing a republican revolt stuns everyone by saying he is leaving. this is "special report." >> good evening, and welcome to washington. we'll get to our top story on speaker john boehner's resignation in just a moment. as you look live, madison square garden and new york. within the hour pope francis will celebrate a special mass at this arena. the site of countless major sporting events, concerts, political gatherings, and once nay lifetime happenings. this is certainly one of those occasions. 20,000 plus there at had son square garden for this mass.

it will be celebrated in english, spanish, and latin. it will also include prayers of the faithful in polish and german and italian. you can see the crowd gathering there. the pope getting ready for this mass. we will dip into the service throughout this program and bring you full coverage when the pope begins his homily. first, behind me right now there is the kind of shock rarely seen in the nation's capitol. a place where secrets generally go to die, but house speaker john boehner's jaw-dropping announcement today that he will leave congress at the end of next month caught everyone by surprise. it has set off i tsunami of activity in preparation for what comes next. carl cameron at the values voters summit with reaction of conservatives and presidential candidates to this move, but we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel who is live on a stunned capitol hill tonight. good evening, mike.

>> brett, evening. house speaker john boehner found himself on the opposite side of the issues from his most conservative members amid calls from them for his ouster, boehner decided to call it quits. a wonderful day for john boehner after he shocked house republicans this morning by telling them he is resigning as speaker and as a member of congress effective october 30th. after hosting pope francis's historic visit to the capitol yesterday, aides say boehner told his wife and chief of staff that he was going to real estate sign ahead of an expected leadership challenge. >> when you are the speaker of the house, your number one responsibility is to the institution. having a vote like this in the institution, i don't think is very healthy. i've done everything i can over my term as speaker to strengthen the institution. >> he told majority leader kevin

mccarthy two hours before sharing the news with republican members at 9:00 a.m. >> all of us today are stunned by the dramatic and courageous decision of the speaker of the house, john boehner, to retire at the end of october. i yield back. >> boehner said he is proud of what his team has accomplished. >> we're now on track to cut government spending by $2.1 trillion over the next ten years. we made the first real entitlement reformat nearly two decades, and we've protected 99% of the american people from an increase in our taxes. we've done all this with a democrat in the white house. >> leading democrats, including president obama, praised boehner for being honest and doing his best at a very difficult job. >> we have obviously had a lot of disagreements, and politically we're at different ends of the spectrum, but i will tell you he is always conducted himself with courtesy and stability with me. he has kept his word when he

made a commitment. >> the president said he hopes the next speaker recognizes that in a democracy you don't get 100% of what you want, but the most conservative members were often frustrated when boehner compromised on various issues and were calling for him to go or to be removed. >> instead of the issue at hand, which is to get back to the institution, to do the job we promised the american people we would do and get on with doing what we have to do to fight barack obama. >> as for the next speaker, majority leader kevin mccarthy, jeb hestering and tom price from georgia are early names that have emerged. >> that's up to the members. having said that, i think kevin mccarthy would make an excellent speaker. >> the jockeying to be the next speaker is underway and will take some time to play out.

>> for many of the conservatives in attendance, it was a victorious end to a long struggle. of course, carl cameron is at the summit tonight. >> the gop presidential candidates on their cross-country courtship of conservatives was a big part of the pressure leading up to. marco rubio broke the news to 1,000 social conservatives at the values voters summit. >> just a few minutes ago speaker boehner announced he will be resigning. >> the time has come to turn the page and allow a new generation of leadership in this country. and that extends to the white house and the presidency as well. >> donald trump has called gop leaders stupid losers for month months. >> speaker boehner, you know, some people liked him on a personal basis. do people like him on a personal basis? anybody? you know, we want to see -- we want to see the job being done properly. >> then he turned on marco rubio, and the crowd turned on

him. >> this clown marco rubio. i have been so nice to him. i've been so nice. i've been so nice. >> ted cruz. >> hoping to pick up trump supporters ted cruz, one of boehner's top i critics, explained the rights exaspiration to leaders. >> what on earth did they accomplish? >> when i ask that in grassroots gatherings across the country, and i have asked that question many times, the response is always the same. >> absolutely nothing. >> he followed his tearful day with the pope sending jokes. >> i wonder if we could get scheduled a meeting with pope francis and the president, just the two of them, for a little while. >> in south carolina john kasich suggested he was a casualty in the gop's war between tea party and establishment. >> john has been a great patriot and a great speaker and, you know, i think our party better get its act together and we better be figuring out what we

are for instead of tearing ourselves apart, which is what increasingly seems to be happening. >> louisiana governor bobby jindal welcomed his retirement and said mitch mcconnell, you should be next. by contrast ben carson didn't make any remarks and did issue a statement in which he was favorable in which boehner had a silent demeanor that "many should learn to copy." brett. >> carl cameron. thanks. what do you think of boehner's move? let me know at facebook.com/brett baier or use the _#special report. huge news to report tonight on the clinton e-mail scandal. hundreds more emails about libya have been discovered. some of them related to the benghazi terror attacks. these are new. chief white house correspondent ed henry following this breaking story tonight. a friday afternoon bombshell despite the state department

repeatedly insisting it's turned over all of her benghazi-related emails to republican trey gowdy. fox has confirmed the department found new clinton emails related to libya and is in the process of turning them over to the house select committee on benghazi just weeks before clinton's october 22nd public testimony. committee staffers have not seen the content of the new e-mails and the friday revelation buried amid other major stories like pope francis's visit and the resignation of speaker john boehner raised eyebrows at the benghazi panel where aides say it's curious the emails are being produced after the state department shuffled its staff handling document production. gowdy's spokesman jamal wear saying, if indeed this is a sign the stonewalling and political protection effort that was previously being run by the department is diminishing, the committee welcomes it. the proof will be in the production." the associated press also reported obama administration officials have now discovered a chain of emails clinton failed to turnover involving personnel matters she discussed with

retired general david petraeus, raising new questions about clinton's e-mail since in august she signed this document certifying to a federal judge she had given the state department all work-related emails. >> we went through a thorough process to identify all of my work-related emails and deliver them to the state department. >> the drip, drip continues with the conservative group judicial watch obtaining this document suggesting clinton signed off on the arrangement allowing close aide uma aberdeen to have several overlapping roles. >> i was not directly involved in that, but everything she did was approved under the rules as they existed you about the state department. >> a new poll shows democratic socialist senator bernie sanders has opened a 16 point lead in the critical state of new hampshire. the cnn, wmur fwran it state polls has them at 6%. clinton pulls in 30%, while vice president joe biden gets 14%. >> a clinton aide told me tonight the form she signed -- not the arrangement allowing her

to work for state. the clinton foundation and an outside consulting group, and now the a.p. is saying aberdeen provided financial information to show whether she had conflict of interest or not. >> is the benghazi committee -- about hundreds of emails they didn't get? >> they just are struggling to understand what happened here. there's over 900 emails involved in libya, we're told. some of them about benghazi. there was a subpoena months ago from the chairman trey gowdy. was that subpoena ignored? was it defied by officials at the state department or in the clinton campaign? these are answers that have to be addressed. questions that have to be addressed. on top of that this is happening not in a vacuum, but with an fbi criminal investigation. what else is in that server that we haven't seen? >> ed, thank you. federal reserve chair janet yellen is back in d.c. tonight after receiving emergency medical attention during a speech in massachusetts last night. a spokesman said yellen felt dehydrated after speaking for nearly an hour. she is okay. stocks were mixed.

the dow gained 113. the s&p was off one. the nasdaq dropped 48. for the weeks the dow is down a half a percentage point. the s&p 500 lost 1 1/3. the nasdaq dropped three. the stunning announcement today that the speaker is quitting, and what comes next in the house republican caucus? as we head to break, a live look at madison square garden in new york where pope francis is starting to celebrate a special mass there. we will have live coverage as we listen in heading to break. stay with us. before i had the s burning, pins-and-needles of diabetic nerve pain, these feet... ...served my country... ...carried the weight of a family... ...and walked a daughter down the aisle. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and he prescribed lyrica. nerve damage from diabetes causes diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is fda-approved to treat this pain. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions.

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♪ >> the choir at madison square garden. some 20,000 for this special mass conducted by pope francis. we're expecting to bring you live coverage there when he gets to his homily. he has been very busy already. the pontiff, you remember, is 78

years old. he spoke to world leaders at the united nations this morning, visited the 9/11 memorial site, a school in harlem, and had a ride through central park all before arriving here at the mass. we'll be back there live. let's get more reaction to house speak irjohn boehner's announcement that he will step down at the end of next month. it's quite a story today here in washington. oregon congressman greg walden is the chairman of the national congressional committee. he joins us from baltimore. thanks for being here. speaker boehner arrived at an event in baltimore. we appreciate your time. >> first, your reaction. it shocked pretty much everyone here in washington. >> i would fully agree, brett. we were all shocked. john boehner has done so much to help us in the republican side get back to the majority, take back from nancy pelosi and her crew, and then the biggest majority since 1928.

meanwhile, also worked so hard -- $2.1 trillion and $2.9 trillion and kept 99% of americans tax increase whz they were being -- obviously people are frustrated across the country about what's hadding. john boehner did an extraordinary job with a very difficult set of issues and players. >> you know, congressman, as you lay out all that he has done obviously he is leaving for a reason, and if you listen to the people at that value voter summit in washington, many of them conservatives who have been very angry leadership in washington or there seems to be a lot of anger and pushback. >> i share it in the sense that we're frustrated too. the frustration comes from the fact that it's hard to govern in these times, and especially when you have a white house that has a completely different political agenda that exceeds the law and some of us would argue the constitutional authority and as

we try to push back with the tools that we have, there's not as much as we would like to do either. we share that, but when it comes to family values, john boehner has been in the forefront of moving their agenda forward that's positive. it's just people are just frustrated, and we are too. we got to get on a new path for america and hopefully with the new president we will. >> the government funding runs out next week, and there is still this stand-off about funding planned parenthood. the current way forward is said to be a continuing resolution which happens a lot here in washington. that would fund the government, including planned parenthood, into december. there's going to be conservative pushback to that as well. is next week's vote easier or harder because john boehner is announcing his resignation. >> i don't think it -- it's still the same set of issues, and, by the way, if you have other big ones to deal with, transportation, the debt ceiling and all that, none of that changes. nor has it changed who is in the

white house. nor has it changed the make-up of the senate and the rules in which they operate. i think going forward we're going to investigate what planned parenthoodhood was up to. the speaker announced our conference today the creation of a select committee to do what trey gowdy has done on the permanent select -- or on the select committee on benghazi. wul we'll do the same thing to look at these horrible videos and if laws were broken, how we can change the law to make sure the border is protected. >> the senate already has the volts. they couldn't muster the votes in the senate to pull out that 23 million out of the overall

funding bill for the government, and that makes our job very difficult as well. >> congressman, is next week's vote on a clean cr, in other words, funding everything, kind of a test vote for speaker or being a part of the leadership? >> i don't think it is. i think people are going to make up their own minds and just as before when we've had these difficult votes, you'll see a swrort come forward that doesn't believe shutting down the government is a good way to go. we got to reform spunneding, cut spending. we've done a lot of that, as i mentioned at the beginning of the interview. $2 trillion and some. another $2.9 trillion coming our way as a result of entitlement reform. we're making progress even in split government and even when barack obama in the white house. some walls are just too high to get over right now. give us a republican president, 0 in the senate like they had when obama, reid, and pelosi got us obama care, and we can show you what we can do. >> quickly, you're in

leadership. speaker boehner mentioned mccarthy as a possible next speaker. is that who you are voting for? who do you think becomes the next speaker of the house? >> he think ultimately he will be elected when this decision is made sometime in the coming weeks. stroo you'll have conservative pushback there as well. congressman waldon, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> as we look live to madison square garden, the papal mass continues. pope francis has begun a short time ago. the pope's motorcade made his way through new york all the way here. we will take you to that mass when the homily begins, but on the other side of the break, we bring in our panel for some

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♪ give to the one who wants of you ♪ >> madison square garden. mass conducted by pope francis underway. we'll have live coverage throughout the service and, of course, pope francis's homily. the big story here in washington as we've been talking about speaker boehner stepping down. >> it's become leer to me that this prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreprable harm

to the institution. this morning i informed my colleagues that i would resign from the speakership and resign from congress at the end much october. this morning i woke up, and i said my prayers as i always do, and i decided, you know, today i'm going do this. as simple as that. >> john boehner is a good man. he is a patriot. he cares deeply about the house and institution in which he served for a long time. he cares about his constituents, and he cares about america. >> speaker boehner making that announcement today. he will leave congress, not just step down from speakership. he will leave congress at the end of october and it shocked washington. he made the announcement one day after meeting with pope francis in his office. he said that meeting had an affect on him. he said the ability to bring the pope to congress and meet with him changed his perspective on things. let's bring in our panel. steve hayes, writer for the

weekly standard. charles kraut hammer. >> look, i have no doubt that the presence of the pope in washington d.c. affected john boehner and the way that he thought about things. at the same time i think john boehner had been planning this for a long time. he sent out the message to his closest deputies. he was recruiting help among other members of the house of representatives to try to get him to ascend to the speaker position. this is not anything new necessarily, but john boehner just made it official today, the day after the pope spoke to the congress. >> the time issing interesting, and if you listen to what he said, wheel it is probably the case that it's true, his allies tell me he would have survived a

speakership vote and another coup attempt. i don't think he wanted to shut the government down, and i think what are you looking at in terms of what's going on and the house republican ranks is an ungovernable situation. with all due respect and great, you know, luck to kevin mccarthy should he take the speakership, he will have the same forces at play. mark levin, the talk show host today said you thought -- kevin, the next incoming speaker to succeed boehner, kevin mccarthy, same thing minus ten. you have bobby jindal, governor of louisiana saying he should step down. the outside pressure is only going to be exacerbated and stoked by presidential waste where they want outsiders and not insiders, and so the new leadership team is going to face the same challenges. >> boehner could see what was going to happen. either he was going to be defeated or he would be

humiliated by a los vote for the leadership or he was going preside over the house because it shut down the government. he didn't want to go out that way. he has wanted to leave the office for a while. i think that's why he picked today. >> pope francis has just started his homily. we're going to dip into this. listen to his message. >> people have seen a great light. the people who want with all their toys and hopes, their disappointments and regrets, the people have seen a great light. the people of god are called in

every age contemplate this light. the light for the nations. this is what elderly -- joyfully express. the light meant to shine on every corner of the city on our fellow citizens, on every part of our lives. the people who walk in darkness have seen a great light. one special quality of god's people is t to see, to contemplate even in moments

of darkness, the light which christ brings. god faithful people can see, discern, and contemplate his living presence in the midst of life, in the midst of a city. together with the purpose we can say today the people who walk, breathe, and live in the midst of smog have seen a great light, have experienced a breath of fresh air. >> living in a city isn't always

easy. in multicultural context presents many complex challenges that are difficult to solve. big cities are a reminder of the hidden twitches present in our world and the diversity of its cultures, traditions, and historical experiences. in the variety of languages and costumes, mixed cities bring together all the different ways in which we human beings have discovered to express the meaning of life wherever we may be. but big cities also can feel the

faces of all those who don't appear to belong or second class citize citizens. big cities amid the roar of traffic, beneath the rapid pace of change, so many faces pass by and noticed because they have no right to be there, no right to be part of the city. there are the foreigners. their children who go without schooling, and those deprived of medical insurance, the homeless, the forgotten elderly. these people stand at the edges of our avenues and our streets

in deafening anonymity. they become part of an urban landscape, which is more and more taken for granted in our eyes and especially in our hearts. knowing that jesus still walks our street that he is vitally a part of the lives of the people that he is involved with us in one vast historical salvation filled us with hope. a hope which liberates us from the forces pushing us to isolation and lack of concern for the lives of others, for the

life of our city. hope which frees us from empty connections, from abstract analysis or sensationalist routines. a hope which is unafraid of involvement, which acts wherever we happen to live and work. a hope which makes us see even in the midst of smog, the presence of god as he continues to walk the streets of our city because god is in the city. [ applause ] >> what is it like that light traveling lou our street? how do we encounter god who

lives with us amid the smog of our cities? how do we encounter jesus alive and at work in the daily life of our multi-cultural cities? the prophet isiah can guide us in this process of learning to see. he presents jesus to us as a light, and now he presents to us jesus as a wonderful counselor. the mighty god, the everlasting father, the prince of peace. in this way he introduces us to the light of the sun so that his

life can be our life. >> tells us how many people came up to ask, master, what can we do? the first thing that jesus does in response is to propose, to encourage, to motivate. he keeps telling his disciples to go, to go out. he urges them to go out and others where they really are. not where we think they should be. to go out again and again. to go out without fear, without hesitation, and go out and proclaim the joy which is for

all the people. the mighty god. in jesus, god himself became emmanuel. god is with us. the god who walks along side us who gets involved in our lives, in our homes, in the midst of our pots and pans as st. theresa of jesus liked to say. the everlasting father. no one or anything can separate us from his love. go out and proclaim. go out and show that god is in the midst as a merciful father who himself goes out morning and

evening to see if his son has returned home and as soon as he sees him coming, run out to embrace him. this is nice. [ applause ] >> take up, purify, and elevate the dignity of his children. a father who is brave, is glad tidings to the poor, healing to the afflicted, liberty to captives, comfort to those who mourn. prince of peace.

go out to others and share the good news that god, our father, walks at our side. he frees up from anonymity, from the lives of emptiness, and selfishness and brings us to the school of encounter. he moves us from the fray of competition and he opens before us the path of peace. that peace which is born of accepting others. the peace which fills your heart whenever we look upon those in

need as our brothers and sist s sisters. god is living in our city, but church is living in our city. [ applause ] and god has a church who lives in the city want to be living in the dough. they want to relate to anyone, to fan at everyone's side as they proclaim that marvel of the wonderful counselor, the might where i god, eternal father, the prince of peace. the people who walked in the darkness have seen a great

light, and we christians are witnesses of that light. >> pope francis in madison square garden with his homily at special mass. he has talked to american lawmakers on capitol hill. he has talked to the homeless, at catholic charities here in washington d.c. he has talked to schoolchildren in harlem. he has talked to the world's leaders and diplomats at the united nations and now he spoke to the people of new york from madison square garden. again, with a message of helping people in cities, helping the poor, helping those who can't help themselves. as this man continues, we bring back our panel. steve hayes and charles krauthammer. charles, this visit is

continuing from here. he will go to philadelphia for a big celebration of the family. we talked about it last night, but your assessment of pope francis and how this visit has gone. >> we just heard sort of a purist religious or if you like spiritual message contrasted a little bit with what he said in congress, also with his involvement in some of the political issues of our time. >> with this wonderful image of god walking among you in the street of the city. i thought it was a lovely homily, and it's the one that was sort of wrun versal, and unlike speeches where there are political policy elements involved, there was quite moving and sort of universal in its

message. >> i was really the most touched in all the different messages he has given by what speaker boehner was, which was he said the pope said please pray for me, and he said who am i to pray for a pope? this is what he has done. he has gone, and he has talked about the injustice of port and peace and he has literally told crowds please pray for me. i was really amazed by that. >> he is an unbelievable speaker. the messages that he delivered to the bishops and lay population have been inspiring. i think at the same time meaningful. i have to say that i'm struck by what he hasn't said as much as what he has said. he hasn't spoken at length about isis. he hasn't spoken at length about persecution and christians in the middle east and elsewhere. i think when we look back, we'll look back and say where was that conversation? where was that issue? he spent time on climate change, immigration, but we haven't

heard about those things, and i think a lot of us would like to hear more from him. >> another speech as you listen in to the mass. we'll come back on the other side of this break. have a sunse.

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yesterday. >> up with day after that meeting speaker boehner saying he woke up and decided this is the day that he was going to announce his resignation. we're back in the panel. we'll be heading back to that mass in just a bit. steve, will you see voters, at least the cheers that speaker boehner was resign, and you get a sense from conservatives around the country that that's a big deal, about leadership and how wrup set they are about it. >> yeah. look, i think speaker boehner has a mixed legacy, right? on the one hand he was managing

a fractious element within his party, and he had to do everything he could to keep them from sort of bucking up, and at the same time keep the house functioning. on the other hand, speaker boehner was the one who commissioned the special committee on benghazi. we would not know the things we know about hillary clinton and her e-mails were it not for that decision that speaker boehner made. i think he deserves a lot of credit. i think he could have been much more aggressive in confronting democrats and conifronting the minority as it went along. what you have now is a sort of fractious conservative minority within the republican caucus eager to have a fight and they want to have a fight, and they want to find a leader. do they find a leader who can asecond to the speakership? i'm dubious, but they certainly want to have a fight, and i think they'll have a pretty significant say as this goes

into a discussion about how the house republicans conduct themselves. mccarthy pretty much has the votes sown up for speaker. of listening to the members. has done a good job of earns their trust. that doesn't mean when you get to a government funding bill or debt ceiling increase those kind of tough oats that kevin mccarthy can stop a band of people refusing to support a consensus bill there is a democrat in the white house republicans in the senate don't have 60 votes to stop

a filibuster. they have what they have. they have a great enormous majority in the house, but that's what republicans have. they have a wimpier majority in the senate and they don't have the white house. and so, it just doesn't mean because, you know, he is a good man and going to hear them out he is not going to face the issues going forward. interestingly speaker boehner is trying to spare speaker mccarthy a rough beginning taking every tough vote in the coming weeks before he leaves on october 300th off othe table. extending the highway bill which expires october 31, increasing the debt ceiling. export/import bank authorization. a budget agreement. which would mean next week we just have a quick baby bill that last as few weeks. and then a big, contentious compromise with democrats comes down the pike. conservatives will freak out. and that's designed to let

the new speaker come in on smooth ground. does the next next leadership team vote for that compromise with democrats. >> wishful thinking in this caucus in that environment. >> that's what they want to do to clean the slate. yes, as it gets closer to presidential election and someone like ted cruz is advocating huge fights on the other side, the pressure is going to grow as i mentioned from the outside in on that leadership team no matter what. >> it's not just ted cruz. take a listen to marco wriewbio making the announcement and also bobby jindal. >> just a few minutes ago speaker boehner announced that he will be resigning. [cheers and applause] i'm not here today to bash anyone, but the time has come to turn the page, the time has come to turn the page and allow a new generation of leadership in this country. [cheers and applause]

and that extends to the white house and the presidency as well. >> here is what i say in response to speaker boehner stepping down. mitch mcconnell, it is now your turn. [cheers and applause] >> the surrender caucus needs to surrender their gavels turn it in. >> they are throwing a lot of red meat out there, charles. that's the environment in which speaker boehner now before the end of october is supposed to get all this stuff through. >> i saw with rubio he sort of navigated his way between stomping on the grave and being polite. the phrase he used a new generation is exactly from john kennedy. it's actually in his inaugural address a new generation of americans. the torch has been the past. that's been the theme of his campaign. when you are looking at the legacy of boehner. i understand the anger and frustration. i think it's directed on the wrong thing. the people who are cheering are people who want to see

the government shut down over certain issues of principle as they see it although i think looking at the results of all these shutdowns in the past, they have all back fired. i think what boehner and to some extent the whole leadership in the congress ought to be sort of chastised for is when they won such a sweeping victory in 2014, they should have been prepared and ready from the beginning to have alternatives, not just to oppose alternatives to obama, alternatives to obamacare, ready to be presented. a tax reform package. they had months. it isn't as if the opening of the congress was sprung on them unexpectedly. they did not do that. they approved a trade bill, which i thought is in the national interest, but they didn't advance the conservative causes in a positive way that would have shown that the republicans have an agenda and would have forced the president to exercise a veto and

revealing himself as the left wing president he is. >> steve, what is his legacy? i think he has a mixed legacy. on the other hand, he was aggressive. certainly he was aggressive on the question of benghazi. we would not know what we know about hillary clinton and her emails were it not for the decision and i think it was a courageous decision by john boehner to impanel a benghazi select committee on the other hand, had you conservatives that wanted to fight and not fight in irresponsible way about obamacare but actually fight on the merit. make the articlement and that was met with, i think a deep skepticism, not just by john boehner but also by the leadership in the senate republican caucus. look, i think john boehner was by and large a good leader. he had a difficult job. he did what he he could. he did what he could and i think in a largely successful way, but republicans are looking for somebody who will confront president obama. actually have a challenge

and a significant win. we will see that in the coming weeks. >> and the presidential election as well. i want to turn to hillary clinton. big news tonight about these emails that we confirmed. hundreds of emails that had never been turned over to the benghazi select committee. hundreds of emails on libya. we don't know how many emails specifically about the benghazi terrorist attacks but here is how the a.p. writes about it the obama administration has discovered a chain of emails that hillary rodham clinton failed to turn over when she provided what she said was the full record of work-related correspondence as secretary of state. officials said friday. adding to the growing questions related to the democratic presidential frontrunners unusual usage of a private email account and server are while in government. now, a.b., this is quite something. this is after weeks and weeks of hillary clinton saying i have turned everything over that dealt with work. i have turned everything over that dealt with

benghazi. he mean, we could play a litany of sound bites in which she says. this and now, on a friday, during pope coverage, when speaker boehner has stepped down, we get 900 emails on libya? i mean, this is crazy, right? >> i think everyone at home is asking how does this happen? and all four of us are asking the same question. >> this has been a devastating week in which we learned that the fbi has found work-related emails that were previously deleted on the server but they recovered them next to the personal ones. under threat of perjury, she has sworn that she turned over not just told us at a microphone several times, turned over all her work relegalitied email. many, many statements including that one turned out not to be true. >> let me just read this. this is is the actual under penalty of perjury, i hillary rodham clinton, that the following is true and correct. while i do not know what information may be responsive for purposes of this lawsuit, this is the

judicial watch lawsuit, i have directed that all my emails on clinton email.com, in my custody that were or potentially were federal records to be provided to the department of state, and on information and belief that this has been done. as a result of my directive, approximately 55,000 of these emails were produce to the department of state december 5th, 2014. cheryl mills did not have an account, that's her chief of staff on clinton email.com. huma abedin did have such an account which was used at times for government business. >> we have learned that the statement she made about how she was helping out with what was a routine record request from the state department and also went to her predecessors. she turned over her 55,000 pages. she has deleted more than she has turned over. now she didn't really turn everything over. it turned out that wasn't the case. the state department suddenly learned she had a

private server and said wait a minute, could you please give us back our government records. this has only been in the last few days that we have learned that all of those things, along with many statements she has made regarding this since march 2nd are not true. >> the greatest irony is there in s. no evidence so far that nobody has looked at all 900. there is anything necessarily incriminating in the text of it. it doesn't really matter it just shows that nothing she says can be trusted because every time she assures you it's all turned over, it turns out it wasn't. and that statement is clintonian and lawyerly. >> newest poll in new hampshire has her down 16 points. >> no doubt it's having an effect. we know what she says hasn't been true. you can point at 10 different statements that she has made that have been proven to be be false. she is going to have to answer these questions. i don't think she has a good answer. >> so, does this independent council happen? >> i don't know about an independent council. but she has answers to

provide that she is not willing to provide. >> a.b.? >> it's going to be very hard for the justice department to get in the way and impede an fbi investigation. we will see what they find. >> the drip never stops. >> it will be interesting to see what the committee does in this interview with her. it is now the top of the hour. 7:00 p.m. eastern time. pope francis is conducting a special mass in front of a packed crowd, some 20,000 madison square garden in new york. it is the finishing touch on what has been a busy and meaningful day for pope francis. let's get a recap now from senior correspondent eric shawn in new york. >> in the hallways of the united nations his arrival sparked a frenzy. pope francis extold the work of u.n. employees and went to the general assembly chamber to challenge the big shots. his was a pastors pointed homily to world leaders a defined call to the more than 150 of them for human

dignity, fairness and values. >> sleuth respect for life in all its stages and dimensions. >> he touched on the themes of his papacy from economic injustice to protecting the environment. he criticized what he called the developed nations selfless and boundful power and prosperity. a cull purr of waste, he said. and called for the protection of religious freedom many amid the heart wrenching refugee crisis and continuing religious execution. >> comic and social exclusion is a complete denial of human paternity and a very grave offense against human rights and the environment. snrl and ground zero he paused, prayed and laid one white rose at the cite of the 9/11 attacks. and in a non-denominational

prayer service under ground in the 9/11 memorial museum, a clearly pained and moved pontiff spoke emotionally at the loss at what he called the failure to settle conflicts through dialogue that led to what happened there. >> thousands of lives were taken in a senseless act of violence and destruction. you can feel the pain here. it's palpable. >> the international community clearly considers the united nations a moral beacon of human values. but it will be up to those who wereere today to determine whether or not what the pope preached from that podium will actually be put into practice. bret? >> eric shawn live outside the united nations. eric, thank you. just down the road madison square garden, that is where this special mass is underway and has been. you heard the homily here on fox news channel. this mass is for the preservation of peace and justice as pope francis continues his trip here in

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only begotten son. we may be effective and nurturing among all the peace that he let us live reigns forever and ever. >> almighty. -- amen. >> pappa francisco at every single mass, every single day, we pray for and in

union with francis r. pope and now here you are. [ applause ] [ laughter ] [ applause ] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause]

>> it is clear how much we welcome you, how much we love you, how much we need you, how much we thank you for your visit. you have seen our cathedral. [cheers and applause]

you you have seen our cathedral. you have seen our catholic schools. have you seen our catholic charities. and now you lead us in the most important and powerful act we can do, the holy sacrifice of the mass. [cheers and applause] here you see pappa francisco people from our parishes, our sisters and brothers our sem narayans, our priests our bishops. our organizations, our

ministries, our he can could ecn eccumentical. god's faithful people, it is so radiant on an evening like this, is it not my brothers and sisters. [cheers and applause] it is so radiantly evidence that god is our father that jesus is our lord, our savior, our older brother that mary is our mother, that saints. [cheers and applause] that saints like isaac jobs and the jesuit northern american martyrs.

saint catary. saint elizabeth ann see seton. saint francis saber. saint patrick are our relatives. >> it is so dazzlingly evident this evening that the church is our family and our holy father, thanks for visiting us, your family. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause]

[cheers and applause] >> the lord be with you. >> and with you. >> blessed be the name of the lord.

name of the lord. >> god with you, the father, and the son and the holy spirit. >> amen. >> go in peace. glorify the lord by your life. >> thanks be to god. >> and, please, i ask you don't forget to pray for me. [cheers and applause]

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♪ ♪ >> the pageantry, the pomp, the circumstance of a very special mass at madison square garden in front of some 20,000 people there in new york city as you see pope francis after a long day celebrating the preservation of peace and justice mass as his eminence cardinal timothy dollan of new york said i pray for you at every mass and now you are here. you saw the thunderous

applause and standing ovation from those 200,000 in madison square garden. a very special night in new york. let's get more now on the ground from senior correspondent rick leventhal who is at the garden. good evening, rick. you were at central park earlier today. have you seen this pope in your city. your thoughts? >> well, first of all bret, certainly a special night and special event in the world's most famous arena which normally hosts rangers games and knicks games and concerts. this is the most peaceful crowd ever seen. living in a big city is not always easy, the pope said. yet, big cities are a reminder of the hidden riches present in our world and the diversity of its cultures, traditions and historical persons experiences. he made his most of just under 4 0 hours in new york

city. visiting with dignitaries and heads of state at the united nations. visiting with the victims' family members down at ground zero. going to a school in harlem to meet with some of the less privileged and then, of course, taking a trip through central park which we were there to witness a pretty amazing experience for some 80,000 people who, in some cases, took three to four hours to get through the airport style security and magnetometers that were lining certain entrances to the park. the rest of the park lined with 8-foot security fences. people couldn't get in unless they went through that security. pretty strenuous exercise for the faithful who didn't seem to complain that much about waiting three to four hours to get inside central park on a beautiful, beautiful day. they waited patiently. the excitement built. this was a wonderful group of people who were really just honored to have a moment to be be in the ora as one person told me of the pope. we spoke to some people afterward to see how much it

moved them. we saw the effect that the pope had on these people through a woman's tears and through a little boy's eyes. >> i was raised catholic and it makes me think of my grandmother and family traditions and so it was just an emotional moment for me. i will be sending the video and the photographs back to my parents. >> it was an awesome experience seeing him. it was really cool. and he was standing on the pope mobile very fun. >> this is, of course, department of homeland security. so the united states secret service is in charge. the fbi is on the ground gathering intelligence and the nypd is here in force as you might imagine, making sure the streets are safe. can i can tell you, bret, on a friday night, in new york city, eighth avenue especially you with 20,000 people in the garden, eighth avenue would normally be packed.

pretty remarkable. 800,000 people such n. the park and 2 othousand in the garden no vehicles on the streets because people were warned better not drive in the city today. there were some 80 blocks closed at one time. right now, traffic is flowing on eighth avenue because there isn't much traffic to speak of. certainly a remarkable day here in new york city. and remarkable day for the faithful who came to see the pope and they got their wish. >> an amazing day, rick, if you think about it also amazing the stamina of this pope. he is 78 years old. we are told he gets up at 4:00 in the morning and now he we are talking 7:39 eastern time. just finishing this mass. but he talked to the u.n. today. he talked to a school in harlem. he took a drive through central park. and now just finished a mass. pretty remarkable. >> it is. absolutely. he is almost 79. he turns 79 in december. he is traveling to philly tomorrow. he has a packed weekend ahead of him. he has a lot of events scheduled. he is not resting much. he is making the most of his time on the ground here in

washington as you well know and then now in new york city and then on to philadelphia tomorrow morning. he has shown remarkable stamina and strength and fortitude and has impressed a lot of people with the time that he is taking. of course, he is not always doing what the security wants him to do, but certainly it's what the people want to do. they want to meet him. they want to touch him. they want their selfies with him and he has been very gracious about all of that. >> doing a lot of it, rick leventhal outside of madison square garden. thank you. it's been an honor to bring you that mass for most of this hour. but there is other news. we told you about speaker john boehner announcing his resignation. there are other things, believe it or not, happening in washington. we are going to visit with the panel about the white house and the chinese president. they met today. president obama and the chinese president. now they are at a state dinner. what if anything was accomplished? what wasn't? he we will talk about that after a quick break.

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his remarks along side chinese president ping centering on one of the thornest disputes between washington and beijing. growing complaints of chinese hacking of

government and corporate data bases. >> i indicated it has to stop. the united states does not engage in espionage for financial gain. >> cyber incursions bike the breach of personnel management had been linked to chinese hackers though the obama administration has yet publicly blame beijing. >> we must enhance strategic trust and a mutual understanding, respect each other's interests and concerns. be broad-minded about differences and disagreements. >> president x said his country would discuss cyber crime. analysts warned evidence of real change could be much harder to come by. >> always with the imposition of costs are we actually going to change chinese behavior. this behavior is impedestrianed in the communist party and in the ministry of state security and enterprises that actually conduct the cyber attacks. and also, you have got to

remember that he is obsessed with the rivalry of the u.s. so this, stopping it, would be the last thing that he wants to do. >> and it's not just cyber security that has the white house concerned. there is beijing's alleged currency manipulation in order to prop up falters economy. the assertiveness in the south china sea where it continues to redisputed lands and carbon footprint which some argue combat climate change. the matter may have been mitigated somewhat as the two leaders pledge greenhouse gas emissions. one more nugget on cyber security. it is worth noting that when asked about the possibility, a future sanctions on china. if they failed to act decisively on cyber theft. the president neither talked up nor shot down the notion. at the white house, kevin corc, fox news. >> back now with the family on that issue. steve hayes, a.b. stoddard and charles krauthammer. charles? >> when you hear the president say of cyber

attacks, in the presence of the president of china, this has to stop, your heart sinks. this is a president who said assad has to go. this is a president who said you crossed the red line, you will suffer. here is a president who said iran is going to have to come clean on nuclear activities. shear a president who said you can not evade other countries. and next crimea in the 21st century says this and backs it with nothing. the chinese have launched the most massive attacks in the history of the computer age. we know about the whole list of them, the theft of industrial data, the theft of our -- of information about millions of americans. and rather than show the chinese there is a penalty, he says this has to stop and we have come to an understanding. what understanding? on what? do you think the chinese care anything about obama's words on this? the chinese will continue until they find a retaliation or some response. in the nuclear age, it was called deterrence.

and it worked. one side understood if you do x, you are going to suffer. the chinese do, this and this see how we do nothing. about other defiances of obama. and there is nothing in that so-called understanding that we have put any trust in. the chinese are going to continue to walk all over us until they see a response and they haven't seen any. >> you know, a.b., ronald reagan said trust but verify there is the climate change deal we are hearing about now. the cyber security deal that the administration is getting ready to trust china as charles just mentioned. you have the iran deal where we are trusting the nuclear inspections in iran. and russia on ukraine which we will talk about in a minute. it does add up, this administration. and specifically in china, there are many people on capitol hill who just weren't happy this even happened at all. >> you know, it's interesting, they are having dinner tonight, and it's not a happy situation.

clearly, the chinese have gotten the upper hand very quickly. if you look at what is happening in terms of the south china sea, the build up of the reefs into military installations. >> this was the arrival by the way at the state dinner we are showing at the white house. >> so president obama is going to stress whatever agreement they came to on a climate pack to be finalized in december because he will say that that's a positive, you know, that's progress. that's a positive development. but just to stand there and say i indicated it has to stop is not an agreement and it's not a deal. now, the thing about the chinese obvious part of national defense. they are looking on information as many million americans as they can. our consumer information, our healthcare information, whether you are inside the government or out, going back decades and nothing is

going to stop them from doing this unless they are hacked back. and so to say i just talked to him and i indicated it just has to stop is an obvious capitulation. that's not criticizing obama. that's -- i mean, it's not a deal. he actually got two levels of climate. >> let's criticize obama. this is an embarrassment. this is a statement that never should have taken a place after a meeting that should have never taken place. it's like catching a rob are, a thief, a burglar walking out of your house with abundant electronic goods and saying to the thief don't do it the again the next time. we know what the chinese have done. everybody has acknowledged it hillary clinton made a statement from her campaign where she acknowledged the cyber theft, the cyber attack. the obama administration cannot possibly deal with this in any kind of a

sophisticated way. what they are doing, instead, is pretending it doesn't exist. the president says i have indicated that i don't want to see this happen again, that's an embarrassment to even say that there never should have ban state dinner and meeting and retribution and embarrassing that there wasn't. >> along that same line you have the same week the director of national intelligence clapper says he doesn't really know exactly what was taken. we also have new estimates now of how many fingerprints were taken in this hack of office of personal. we are talking about millions and millions of people affected. >> it's is the same in the dealing russia. russia and chinese see the game as zero sum game. traditional view of great powers going back a thousand years. this is not new. but obama and kerry imagined that when the sen tray became and it became the

21st, all the rules, disappeared, we are now living in a cooperative, international environment. the phrase you will always hear obama talk about, whether it's about iran or russia or china is they have to live up to their ernesto national obligations. the other side laughs at that. this idea that somehow we are bound to international agreements that aren't worth the paper they are written on is the theme of this administration. and the worst thing, it isn't that they believe it, but they act upon it. and the russians, the chinese, the iranians, the syrians understand it this administration can walk all over and, in fact, you better hurry because there is only a year and a half left where can you do a hell of a lot of walking. >> just give me one perspective. somebody up on the hill that defends the administration on china, on russia, saying, what? what are they saying? they are saying -- they are engaging? >> i mean, there is a lot -- you know, often, it will be couched with, you know, these are difficult

problems. but that the president is -- that these are problems with no good answer. that, you know, what do you do with the chinese? they are hacking, what do you do with putin? it's tricky, we are not going to attack him. there is -- it's usually a response that we are going to make more trouble than we already have. and that these are -- you are sort of damned if you do and damned if you don't. >> the administration has one response to all the criticism. what do you want? war? as if the only alternative is capitulation or war. and that's been -- they have no other arguments. >> the only defense of this is if you see diplomacy as an end in itself. if you see diplomacy as sort of a good in its own right. and if you see diplomacy, the process of diplomacy as a good while they are engaging in diplomacy, what ultimately matters, of course, is the results of that diplomacy, not the diplomacy itself. >> we talked about russia. there is a growing concern

of russia's expanding military footprint in the middle east. u.s. military sources are telling fox news that the russians have now set up a military coordination cell will in baghdad, along with iranian and syrian military commanders. fox news has also learned that three days ago, on september 22nd, the shadowy iranian quds force commander soleimani was spotted in baghdad. remember, he was the guy who went to moscow as well. that's according to intelligence sources. while the purpose of his trip was to meet with the iraqi she a commanders sources say also met with russian military commanders now on the ground in baghdad. this comes as u.s. officials confirm russian pilots have begun flying over syria. utilizing 28 fighter jets that appeared in the past week. they are not coordinating with u.s. led coalition. and here is how the u.s. defense secretary described russia's military presence. >> the phrase i have used before is to poor gasoline on the isil phenomenon,

rather than to lead to the defeat of isil. >> fox news also has learned that those russian fighter jets landed in iran to refuel on route to syria. we are told the russians used a trick they learned from watching the israelis. they disguised the flight path of the warplanes by i having them fly under cargo planes disguising their radar signature. the cargo planes were flying over iraq with permission, claiming to bring humanitarian aid to syria. as of tuesday, secretary of state john kerry refused to call rush shaption build up offensive. >> for the moment, it is the judgment of our military and most experts that the level and type represents, basically, forced protection. >> president obama, meantime, meets with russian leader vladimir putin in new york at the united nations on monday, where hopes to get, they say, a better idea

of russian intentions. back with the panel. steve? >> well, look, i mean, we shouldn't engage in the kind of discussion the owe obama administration wants us to engage in. they want us to pretend that we are not seeing what we are, in fact, seeing. what we are seeing and we should be clear about this. is a takeover of the middle east by russia, iran, syria, this is happening. it's happening in realtime. we are watching it happen. we can monitor the movement of airplanes and military equipment. this is what is happening. john kerry would like to us believe if we just say the right things, if we are diplomatically smart, we can avoid the eventuality that we are all seeing happen. this is the same thing that we all saw happen with ukraine,y when the the administration said well if he we just pro-my a diplomatic offer to vladimir putin he will take it he didn't take it he was never going to take it. it was delusional to think he would take it that's exactly what's happening now.

the extent to which we deceive ourselves in the event of thinking we can avoid some kind of confrontation in a way that suspects not at odds with reality, that's the problem. >> okay. let's say russia is there to fill the vacuum that the u.s. has left in the middle east and they are intent on dealing with isis because they have their own problems with terrorists in the caucuses. >> that's the cover. and that's the perfect cover. so, as long as -- no matter what putin does, he is going to say, we're trying to stop isis. so, is going to meet with obama. he is going to tell that exact thing to president obama. and we will sit here washing them do what they do but they will, under the guise of destroying isis. strength their ties to the iranians, sponsor terror. sell everybody weapons of mass destruction, keep assad in power. go after the moderate rebel forces in syria of which we

have helped 9 get on the field who haven't been captured or killed. and they can continue to it say we are doing a good work of trying to stop isis from building a caliphate. >> charles, i mean, think how much things have changed just in the past six to eight months. think how much they may change in the next 15. >> but that's because we have leadership that, as steve says is delusional. is kerry not embarrassed to say that this is defensive? force protection? the russians are sending in combat aircraft with air-to-air missiles. isis has no eafers. isis has no helicopters, isis doesn't even have balloons. what is the air-to-air missiles all about? of course it's to give the russian dominant of the airspace over syria. iran already has it over iraq. when obama came into office, we were the ones who dominated iraqi airspace and there couldn't have been the resupply of weapons into

syria over iraq when we were there until obama, of course, evacuated and now iran is in charge. russia is in charge. of course, as soon as the nuclear deal was done, anointing iran as the hegemon of the region, as everybody in the region understands a total capitulation to iranian aims and power, the russians understood it's now open season. we're going in and we and the iranians are going it to establish dominance over the region. our allies in the region, especially the arabs, the israelis, at least, have real strength in their military. the gulf arabs, the jordanians really don't. they are terrified and they have a right to be. they are going to have to survive a year and a half and they are not sure if they can. >> the russians say that the talks on monday have to do with syria. the administration says they are going to deal with ukraine. so, you have two different peppers. >> what do you think it's going to be? guarantee it will be syria. >> well, panel, thanks for

sticking around. what an amazing few days we have witnessed with pope francis here in washington and today in new york. tomorrow, it is on to philadelphia for the pope. where one million people are expected to attend a mass sunday. this day began with the pope admonishing world leaders over what he called the desire for profit and power. he also said man has no right to damage the environment. he called for greater assistance to the poor. from there he went to ground zero and met with survivor families. he also said a prayer there at the mommy. later the pope met with school children in the east harlem delighting the youngsters there who will obviously remember this day for the rest of their lives. after a quick trip through central park, finally the mass which we just saw here on fox. unforgettable day for new york, america, the world. thanks for watching us. and thanks for having us into your home tonight. that's it for an expanded "special report," fair,

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