many were calling the 1981 assassination attempt of john paul ii and one woman attacking benedict xvi08 and 2009. >> i will tell you after the mob scene on the first night of the brazil trip unfolded in which the papal motorcade was basically hijacked, i spoke to churchman and cardinals who were holding their breath and frankly saying on background, dear god, i hope we don't have to go back to the conclave next week because i hope this guy doesn't put himself in harm's way. >> his love for the people, hope to reach the people, to touch the people, to get involved with the people, is so overwhelming. it is more a pastoral desire to reach the people and to touch them. ♪ >> his final mass along rio's iconic beach drew 3.5 million people according to the vatican. he challenged believers to be vocal. >> translator: don't be afraid to go and to bring christ into every area of life, to the fringes of society. even to those who seem furthest away, most indifferent. the church needs you. your enthusiasm. your creativity. and the joy that is so characteristic of you. >> bikinis gave way to rosa

how did he compare to benedict? guest: as a person from the new world like all of us, i'm excited to have a pope from the new world who is free from some of the eurocentric baggage that has been part of the historical culture of every preceding pope. he's talking about reforming the curia, which is a good idea, too -- the lastrchical pails of monarchism into the holy see and bring it into a modern governments architecture. -- governance architecture. i'm hoping the latin pope will be able to use the social justice platform he put forth to call for a more people centric foreign policy in latin america, which is based on providing education and employment and betterment to the people, therefore building a stable building block for future democracy. host: how much do degree -- agree about his statements on helmick -- homosexuality? i think he is seeing a good thing, let's not have the entire discussion in the church focused on a few issues. if we believe in the separation of church and state, why have ambassador to the

the sisters at saint benedict and saint pius added a few things too. [laughter] initially, young clarence thomas was called to the priesthood and he entered the seminary. the call gradually lost its strength and eight cool and bigoted comment by another extinguished. he enrolled at holy cross college. yeah law school came next. after earning the elite degree, he had difficulty finding a big- city law firm job. so he accepted an offer from the attorney general of missouri and served as an assistant attorney general in jefferson city from 1974-1977. after a brief stint in corporate law, he followed the then senator danforth to washington dc, just in time for the reagan revolution. over the next dozen years, terrence thomas served in all three branches of government as a legislative aide to senator danforth, as chairman of the equal opportunity employment commission, and circuit judge on the united states court of appeals for the d c circuit. along the way, he met and married virginia, his soulmate. [applause] in 1991, he was appointed to this agreement c

but i look to the left, and this is where benedict arnold started his run, and i said that ii had toings that they did that they all have numbers with invisible ink. she got the word out to washington and watch out. we don't know who or when, but it's going to be big and we have to be aware of it. and they said, we had our antennas up, and we were able to stop and he was going to hand off west point, all because it was infiltrated rightuntil the nexus of the british command, which was new york city where we sit today. lou: the people that made up this spring. i'm trying to ask you so we don't spoil this. do you know everything about them to every detail in history and are there new areas to explore? >> in this book is like a news story. it's like the battle of yorktown and looking at the stepson of george washington, he noted that james irvington was a royalist and this includes the battle of yorktown and he turned it over to the french. and they were towards the corner and the british still didn't know what happened. they said washington didn't defeat us, they outfight us. >> that's

barry like gives the benediction. -- dr. barry black gives the benediction. >> let us pray.y good and perfect gift, we thank you for this bust that reminds us of the power of a single life. lord, thank you for the gift of example rate lives, for people like sir winston churchill, who left indelible footprints for us to follow. we praise you that sir winston served your purpose is for his life in his generation, leaving the world freer, wiser, and safer. inspired by his great life, may we push back the horizons of our hopes and move into our future, fueled by faith, focus, and fortitude. we pray in your great name. amen. ♪ ♪ >> we will be fighting in the streets with our children at our feet and the morals that they worship will be gone. and the men who spurred us on they sit in judgment of all wrong they decide and the shot gun sings the song i tip my hat to the new constitution take a bow for the new revolution smile and grin at the change all around pick up my guitar and play just like yesterday then i get on my knees and pray we don't yet fooled again ♪ no, no, no. the ch

this is where benedict arnold started is run. my goodness. i have to start this. did, we know were as agent 355. they all had numbers, encryption , use invisible ink. she penetrated social circles and got the word that there was a general about to switch sides. we don't know exactly u.n. to, but it will begin we have to be aware, and when he wrote is by no and the urging of his kids in 1840's said, i was urged, we and our antennas up to my words not his, and were able to stop. he was going to hand off west point, given the goes sign. all because this group infiltrated right into the nexus of the british command which was new york city, where we sit today. lou: and the people who made up this rain, i am trying to ask this so we don't spoil it. do you know everything about them? is every detail -- sitting there in history books for others? is there new or are there new areas to explore? >> in this book we brakes and news and approach it like a news story. and the battle of yooktown. we looked into and out of the step grandson of the george washington here noted jame

benedict had an -- 86th minute point, and the purple patch continued with an away win over stuttgart. they have raised hopes that they could rejoin the european elite at the end of the season, qualifying for the champions league. >> stuttgart look to attack the start. to break the deadlock. in good form -- the visitors took the lead before halftime. was at the keeper before finishing the move. and plenty to smile about. stuttgart struggled to create chances with early equalizer. there were no such troubles in the 73rd moment met -- minute. a second goal would steal victory. stuttgart, as for they celebrate their fourth win in a row. >> around up of the bundesliga results so far. they salvaged a point in frankfurt. wolfsburg also drilled. freiberg picked up a rare three points. and on friday -- an impressive wind here -- win. the dortmund and bayern game is still underway. that leaves the table looking like this at the moment. will be following in dortmund anxiously right now. they could finish the weekend in second place if dortmund moves to bayern-munich. three points clear in the ra

the thing is benedict arnold is like a curse word. we don't take the name seriously. but in this moment when they hand me this document, i can picture benedict arnold with a pen in his hand signing this, and they were numbered. the first one signed by george washington, and number five was benedict arnold, and it's real. not some boring thing in the history book, and now history is alive. so we count down all the conspiracy and go through them and of course put in the crazy stuff, like ufos and the ufo chapter we h we give you the actual documents the government asked you to fill out if you saw a ufo. you think our government is doing useless stuff right now? a whole department figured out what the questions should be. did your ufo have blinking lights. check yes, check no. how many ufo's together, if you had three, a triangular pattern? check yes, -- >> god bless america. a whole department, good questions, i like the blinking lights. now you're working. and of course, we count them down not to ruin the end, but, it's the 50th anniversary, we all know because if you

once deciphered, this particular manuscript is benedict arnold's conditions for the act of turning over the important post of west point to the british. this sheet is a contemporary translation of the coded document and i'll read a passage from that. if i point out a plan of cooperation by which sir henry shall possess himself of west point, garrison, et cetera, et cetera, cetera, et cetera, 20,000 pounds sterling book we purchased for an object of so much importance. another item from henry clinton's papers is during 1777. they are written in code in various forms for the right of the recipient both would have a mask, a piece of paper with some shape or multiple shapes cut from that and both having this now, the writer would place the mask over another sheet of paper and would rate the intended correspondence in the shape of that opening. and then i'm a meticulously construct a letter around it so that in the case where this letter would be captured by the enemy, the actual intended message would be. to anyone who doesn't have an doesn't know to use the mask question. in this case, wil

. >>> pope benedict is launching an unprecedented survey, issues ranging from gay marriage to divorce. a list of very specific questions are being sent to parishes around the globe. >>> nothing enhances the views of mt. fuji like a jet back, if you can get one. the jet man, best way to check out japan's iconic landmark is with a jet pack, traveling 125 miles an hour, dropping from a helicopter, you see there. he flew around the mountains nine times. he has also jet packed across the grand canyon and the english channel. fun, but i would probably be freekd out there. >> the craziest thing about there is that mt. fuji is very tall. he's flying around in those high elevations, he has to be freezing cold. he's not encapsulated well. >> it's a thin suit. who knows. >>> the supreme court hears arguments on the separation of church and state in the town of greece, new york. they will decide if the town endorsed a specific religion by opening meetings, almost exclusively using christian prayers. >>> on this day in 1995 the nfl's browns decided to leave cleveland as reported on the "today" sho

listen, benedict is a very humble guy. he genuinely enjoys people's company.tionalist. people always talk about his listening skills. i think it's fair to say that he didn't project this kind of love for ordinary people and particularly love for the most broken and the most vulnerable people in the way that frances does. there are a lot of different ways of describing frances. people have called him the people's pope or the pope of the poor. all that captures something. at bottom, the best description is the pope of mercy. he believes what the world needs to hear right now is a message of compassion and a message of tolerance and special love for the most wounded people on the planet. he's not only saying that, he's doing it. you've shown the images. he has remarkable ability to project that idea of mercy. >> he is compassionate. john, we are, although he is the leader of the catholic church, we talked about one man. has the church changed his views about some of these social issues? we know about this new questionnaire that is coming out globally. but his vie

>> reporter: you know, there's no reason to think that pope benedict is completely pleased by this.ng. he felt that he was no longer in a position but with his health and his age to run the catholic church the way it needed to be run. he stepped aside of his own free will and made way for the election of someone like pope francis. so there's no reason to think that he's in any way saying wow, i wish i would have done a better job. in fact, he's probably taking a little credit right now for making the decision and allowing someone else to take his place. he said himself that he wasn't up to the job anymore. and you know, a lot of people think he did the right thing and did something that was probably difficult for him, but ultimately obviously very good for the catholic church. >> thank you so much. love getting your perspective on this. really appreciate it. >>> more world news now. she's afraid to return to italy and for good reason. amanda knox still could be convicted of murder. her retrial for the 2007 stabbing death of her british roommate is winding down in florence. italian p

semi-progressive view of the world or are they conservatives who are already in place under john paul and benedict xvi? here in the united states we're looking at maybe a handful of archbishops who could be promoted. and what's interesting is in at least two cases, in philadelphia and in baltimore, who are sort of due for red hats, the two archbishops there are culture warriors on the conservative side and emphasizing the issues that pope francis has said maybe we need to pay less attention to. so whether or not they get red hats will be interesting to see. >> and at that meeting in february the pope has said he wants the cardinals to talk about the church, and there's another big meeting scheduled later on next year where they're going to address some of these big controversial issues like aufshl contraception and gay marriage and some of those kinds of issues. and this week we also heard that the vatican has solicited input from different jurisdictions around the world asking these jurisdictions to ask people in the pews what they think, what they know about some of those controversial issues. h

kate benedict says her daughter seen in the red top was beaten up after being bullied. it started when her daughter stopped a group of girls from giving marijuana to a younger student but the district says it is not investigating this as a case of bullying because a one-time conflict between the girls. >>> time is 4:40. we are learning how much the bat kid's make a wish adventure in san francisco cost the city. the city spent $105,000 mostly for the civic center celebration that capped off the day. originally it was the plan for the mayor to provide him with a chocolate key to the city along with a few hundred volunteers. but as the word spread it become larger than expected. >>> safe wise names saratoga as the safest city with a population of 20,000 or more residents. los altos ranks third. san ramon, cupertino all rank in the top 20. >>> time is 4:41. tensions over what a school uses to represent itself. the reason a vallejo high school may lose its mascot today. >>> tour bus ban going into effect and it will make it more difficult to catch a glimpse of a famous attra

how did he compare to benedict? guest: as a person from the new world like all of us, i'm excited to have a pope from the new world who is free from some of the eurocentric baggage that has been part of the historical culture of every preceding pope. he's talking about reforming the curia, which is a good idea, too -- the lastrchical pails of monarchism into the holy see and bring it into a modern governments architecture. -- governance architecture. i'm hoping the latin pope will be able to use the social justice platform he put forth to call for a more people centric foreign policy in latin america, which is based on providing education and employment and betterment to the people, therefore building a stable building block for future democracy. host: how much do degree -- agree about his statements on helmick -- homosexuality? i think he is seeing a good thing, let's not have the entire discussion in the church focused on a few issues. if we believe in the separation of church and state, why have ambassador to the

and the italian media is reporting that the nsa spied as well on the vatican, spying on both pope benedict and pope francis. the nsa has now just issued an outright denial of the italian media reports. and unless you think the united states is alone in spying efforts, the russians are trying to keep up with us. russian operatives reportedly handing out goody bag to world leaders who were attending september's g-20 summit meeting. it turns out the russians were giving the delegates souvenir usb drives, phone chargers and teddy bears they had bugged. they bugged a teddy bear. who would have imagined? the russians deny the italian media report. joining us for more on benghazi and other foreign policy challenges facing the nation, general jack keen, retired four-star army general, former army vice chief of staff, fox news military analyst. general, great to have you with us. >> good to be here. >> this is, as i say, sordid politics, but it masks a real issue. and that is the ability of congress to participate in the governance of the country. what's your reaction to the administration position

up to help coordinate charitable activities and currently the pope -- both pope francis and pope benedict had been working to kind of clean up some of the activity and put the vatican bank in a more rigorous footing. but it's a small bank in the scale of things. and so i don't really know what kind of threats they would imagine the holy sea would pose. >> it's very, very interesting i appreciate you giving us some insight. jimmy aken, senior apoll gist. >> the white house said in a statement that the discussion between the leaders will focus on the long-term relationship between iran and the relationship. that partnership is something the prime minister is extremely concerned about as the security and stability of the rock unravels. prime minister al-maliki made the message today while speaking at the united states institute of peace. >> there's one message iraq's prime minister has been pushing during his visit to washington, d.c. this week. help me fight terrorism in my country, a cause, maliki says will not only help iraq but the region. here's what he said during the speech this morni

benedict is expected by april next year. figures released in the us showed only one hundred six thousand people were able to sign up for obamacare in october the white house has been facing a backlash over the rollout of the healthcare reforms which has been plagued by technical problems president barack obama acknowledged that people were disappointed when you're frustrated. and i think it's legitimate for them to expect me to have to win back. some credibility on this health care law in particular. and on a whole range of these issues in general the affordable care act is supposed to extend health coverage to millions of uninsured americans. long running political scandal in gemini taken up the town on thursday with a jail sentence for alms not be as high tide he was handed six years in prison for tax evasion. in the nineteen nineties by the gate millions in the legal test the nation to the governing ctu putting it to gemini two decades extradite him from canada its. canadian police have broken up one of the largest child

to my heart again bhutan is central to last twenty two days with forty five witnesses testifying benedict is expected by april. us president barack obama has changed his legacy on it. the healthcare oval hole that season comes and there isn't a bright note of the week it seems to be hiding in the obama brand to only around a hundred thousand people have signed up for the program which is meant for millions of uninsured americans the program's website is taking much of the blame but the political damage. well it's already been done as easy as buying shoes on the internet that it was the government's promise when the website open for business easy registration steps would open the door to information about the cheapest insurance options and how to claim state subsidies. launched the website hasn't been watching property and few people have been signing up president barack obama acknowledged four year old was disappointed and frustrated regardless of what congress does ultimately on the pres the united states and expect me to do something about it. so in terms of how light and tender approac

and once this particular manuscript, benedict arnolds conditions for the active turnover the important post of west point. a contemporary translation of the coded documents. we will read a passage from that if i . out a plan of cooperation by which certain ratio possessed himself of west point the garrison, 20,000 pounds sterling , i think, will be achieved purchase for an object of some much importance. another example of an item from in the clintons' papers is written during the expedition in 1777. a number of items in clintons' papers are written in code, various forms with a writer and the recipient of would have amassed, piece of paper with some shape or multiple six cut from a. of having this mask, the writer would place the mask over another sheet of paper and there would right. intended message with anyone who does not have. forming gone from hands. the rebels imagine that he is don once the mask is placed over the manuscript, reiterate a similar sentiment but provide and the clintons thoughts on the matter. gone to chesapeake bay, the greatest part of the army. landed. left to

gunman may have had them stored above and then again if they didn't have them stored in an encoding benediction. relating toward the fourteenth relating to them to the offbeat work if they can't the pto that will come out with deacon. well we can go with it to them that they get to ride a white male coming out and opening fire we do know that you wind it up. i believe. to that of that the twelveth once the client at the airport like right now. i imagined their planes flying in and out to work on that business operations going on there imagine there must be a lot of confusion considering during the shooting. lots of people who would taunt or security clearances are out and ran to take cover and winning on offer as there is including the runway in hiding behind claims of the tarmac and stuff therefore deal with that now as they try to reopen. i got home today. nothing good can be a bit creepy and i like to bake in a kind in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. what would it be now. although when compared to the airport have been shut down. now that we've been to think of complaint that i will

including benedict arnold. he knew how good the spy ring was. hey, tell me who they are. i would like to meet him. and thank goodness or they would be killed. he kept their secret and letters and we are able to do the book arou around the letters. and we knew what he asked him not to do and in terms of specific instructions and also knew what he thought of them. and he had extreme esteem for them. i wouldn't have found out until they commemorated washington once he became president in the 1790. spies what are you talking about. i went to long island university and i never heard about this. and really since 1990, me and my body bruce studied this and this is not a new york story but american story and pursue it like a fox news story and get the best historians and have them debate the issues, we could bring new information to it and that's what we did. >> it is an amazing book. it is a best seller for a reason. people are enthralled by it. i think there is a piece that you bring out. george washington was a deep and intense and authentic faith. this was not just a military

coordinate charitable activities and currently the pope both pope francis and his predecessor pope benedict had been working to kind of clean up some of the activity there and put the vatican bank on a more rigorous footing and integrated into the european banking system but it's a small bank in the scale of things and so i don't i don't really know what kind of threats they would imagine the holy see would pose dollar very very interesting i really appreciate you coming on and giving us some insight on that jamie a senior apologist at catholic dot com thank you you thank. and it's no secret that the life of former government contractor edward snowden has been anything but normal for the past five months but just a few months after getting asylum in russia it seems like the whistleblower may be headed back to a normal gys because according to his lawyer he's now secured unself a brand new job artie's igor piskun up has more putting so i thought he could fit in a lawyer who's also been representing edward snowden in russia the former n.s.a. contractor will start working for a major russian w

the apartheid state because today we have been ones to decide on boards or go by this time from benedict event with the typical them from norse styles. and about a sea of orthodoxy. its pointy and in caves we offer this lies in this situation is like a slice of swiss cheese. we of the whole works but a disconnected from each other. and what this site is going with dan pacific ocean off the set them on the ground. you wouldn't buy a situation in which his client would go many of the port a video it but once that if you wish in on the bug bites bit and this is going to need for the south african edition of the bun is beyond question where did the dynamic of the pulpit would change and the dynamic of the solution which in just one. okay mama stay thank you very much for enlightening us on the situation here in the palestinian territories and on the negotiation team process in which you won't be protested getting as far as we understood today thank you very much for watching this edition of the interview here on false but got stay tuned for more news woohoo lose. ay ay ay. d. do you. do you

including at the time benedict arnold he thought was on his side. spies were. so what he did is, he kept their secret and he kept the letters we were able to do this book around the letters of george washington correspondenting back and forth to them. we knew what he asked them to do and not to do and what he thought of them. in fact i wouldn't have found out about it until they were commemorating to thank his spies and i thought spies what are you talking about. i went to long island university and never heard about this and really since 1990, me and my buddy bruce have been studying this. i realized this was not a new york story, it was an american store yixt get them in rooms like this and have them debate the issues we could bring new information to it and i think that is was we did. it is an amazing book. people are enthralled by tit. he was a man of deep and intense and authentic faith. he genuinely believeding to. i wanted to get the guy who was by his side. the fifrst time he heard shots. washington would be in front of the battle and there

. >> when jim jones was asked to give the benediction for the new suicide prevention barrier that had been erected. >> that's right. only a year before jonestown took its own life, jim jones was praying over a suicide prevention barrier. in that summer of 1977, jones was facing increasing criticism from some members who fled the church because they no longer believed in jones. when "new west" magazine published an expose article about church beatings, jim jones suddenly decided to leave the country. he began putting his flock on planes to south america, by the dozens, day after day. teenagers and young children were among the first to go. parents followed. >> i got this phone call that says, it's time for you to go, and this voice entered my head that said if you don't go now, you will never see your child again. >> leslie wilson had become pregnant at 18. this is her son jakari. the father took the boy to guyana first so leslie followed. what was it like in guyana? beautiful? paradise? >> not paradise by any means. >> did it feel like you were in captivity? >> oh, right away, right a

which celebrates and a if i weres o our -- affirms our unitty and in the challenging words of a benedictione deep within our hearts, may god bless us with anger and injustice oppression and exportation of people so that we may work for justice, freedom and peace for all. and may god bless us with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection and starvation and war. and so that we may reach out our hands to comfort them and turn their pain into joy. and may god bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in this world so we can do together what others claim cannot be done. and so in this season of thanksgiving we humbly ask these blessings in the name of the one god who created us all for the sake of a beloved community and in thanksgiving to god for the inspiring and courageous life and legacy of president john fitzgerald kennedy. amen and amen. >>> ladies and gentlemen, please stand as we retire the colors. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ drum tapping ] ♪ [ bagpipes playing ] >> pretty remarkable day in american history as we remember 50 years on. peter johnson jr. was in d

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like pope benedict, why is he on there? nobody reads that. >> apparently our producers are. >> there are people on there that are influential. >> the map who i love that wears the weirdest outfits is shawn our producer. >> and at the thrift shop. >> wait, shawn shops at the thrift shop. is that true? >> true story. >> how edgy. >> pop culture does have -- a lot of these people have influence, more than we do, because they exist in pop culture. that's where the young minds are that they are polluting. ♪ ♪ >>> all right. time for "one more thing." kick it off, please. >> as a former prosecutor, i've served on death penalty panels in los angeles. wherever you find yourself on the spectrum of supporting death penalty, if you're for justice, you should read this book. it's called "the death of punishment, searching for justice." >> great holiday book. >> this is important if you care about justice in this country. a professor of law has written it. >> once again, the big powers did not mention the united states, including the pa

now, he's not, he loves pope benedict, his predecessor.t's great care was the mind, the brain. he had this ability with this amazing precision and reasoning to present the timeless trues of the faith. what a gift he was. pope john paul ii the man of fortitude and courage, we needed that. i think now what we're saying and pope francis knows it, we need somebody to restore that sense of embrace, that warmth, that tenderness and he's doing it on steroids. right? and there's your lead-in to the a-rod story. >> god loves the yankees, cardinal, you know god loves the yankees. this gets difficult, though, because now the pope has this message that comes out and cardinals like yourself it is now about putting the boots on the ground, so as it were with the message and there will be conflict. you will have catholics who will say what is this about homosex all t homosexuality? you have been outspoken in the church. how do you balance this, he's the pope, the supreme figure in the catholic church but how do you balance with people who aren't going to

in the challenging words of a franciscan benediction, may god bless -- bless us with discomfort and eat so that wef-truths may live deep within our hearts. may god bless us with anger at injustice, oppression, and exportation of people so that we may work for justice, freedom and peace for all. tears toless us with shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war. so that we may reach out our hands to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. may god bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in this togetherthat we can do what others claim cannot be done. in this season of thanksgiving, we ask these blessings in the name of the one god who created us all for the sake of a beloved community and in thanksgiving to for the inspiring and courageous life and legacy of president john fitzgerald kennedy, on men. amen. amen. >> please stand as we retire the colors. ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our program. we thank you for your attendance. >> 50 years to pretty much the hour that president kennedy was assassinated in dallas.

the sisters at saint benedict and saint pius added a few things too. [laughter] [laughter] initially, young clarence thomas was called to the priesthood and he entered the seminary. the call gradually lost its strength and a bigoted comment by another extinguished his determination. he enrolled at holy cross college. yale law school came next. after earning the elite degree, he had difficulty finding a big- city law firm job. so he accepted an offer from the attorney general of missouri and served as an assistant attorney general in jefferson city from 1974 to 1977. after a brief stint in corporate law, he followed the then senator danforth to washington, d.c., just in time for the reagan revolution. over the next dozen years, clarence thomas served in all three branches of government as a legislative aide to senator danforth, as chairman of the equal opportunity employment commission, and circuit judge on the united states court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. along the way, he met and married virginia, his soulmate. [applause] in 1991, he was appoin

pope, benedict the 16th drawing a large crowd, john paul too. there's a renewed excitement about christianity around pope francis. again, because of his focus on not just talking about the heart of christianity, but the way he lives it out in an overt way, in keeping with his name. >> chris stefanick, president of real life catholic church. thank you for being on the program. >> it's been an honour. >> in the midst of the barack obama minister efforts to pass immigration reforms supporters note 300,000 undocumented mexican immigrants are deported from the united states every year. some are u.s. citizens children, born in america, forced to leave when their parents are deported. jennifer london has their story from across the border in tig -- tijuana. >> along a rutted road. you'll find a secondary school in eastern tijuana mexico. for 13-year-old emily, who used to live in burbank california, her new school is as strange as the country she calls home. >> i like it way more over there. it's prettier, i have friends. i had my whole life over there

. >> and the internet is all abuzz about pope benedict. >> francis. >> pope francis, thank you. wusa9 will be [ male announcer ] want to upgrade your entertainment? switch to a fios triple play online for $89.99 per month guaranteed for the first year plus your choice of a $300 bonus with a 2 year agreement. last chance! this deal ends november 16th! fios is 100% fiber optic so you get america's fastest, most reliable internet, and unbeatable tv picture quality. so get fios now with your choice of bonus. this amazing deal is going fast! don't wait! offer ends november 16th! visit verizon.com/greatdeal. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. we've always been on the forefront of innovation. when the world called for speed... ♪ ...when the world called for stealth... ♪ ...intelligence... endurance... affordability... adaptability... and when the world asked for the future. staying ahead in a constantly evolving world. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. >>> 10 after 6:00 on this wednesday morning. it's cold outside but a beaut

. >> demonstration against the catholic church, and pope benedict. >> for us, all religions are bad becausen, our base, domination of male upon women. and in a few seconds, security services started to catch us and they arrested us. >> when the pope announces his retirement in february, 2013, femin activists celebrate by scandalizing visitors at historic cathedral of notre dame in paris. >> for me, it was one of our most successful action. you need to shock people and video, they are viral. the video, and the pictures, they are everywhere now. >> for us it's more important to have five cameras around than 50 people, because we know that behind each of the camera, there are a thousand million minds. >> despite the beatings and arrests, the group continues to grow all around the world. >> we don't need to recruit. at the beginning, yes. now people, they want to be femin. >> we have people from different countries that want to start their own femin branch. >> our goal is to make the first women's revolution in history. this is our goal. . >>> this sunday, two news making one-on-one interviews.

proximity of the pope so he can come into contact with him that was practice under john paul and benedictmething about the love pope francis has for coming into contact with these folks. >> you and i just spoke a couple days ago. he puts out this survey, asks the parishioners, people around the world what do you think about same-sex marriage, divorce, what do you think about single moms raising kids, these are things that the church did not reach out to the catholic, parishioners and ask them those questions. is he a revolutionary in some ways, trying to change the church or the faith? >> look what he does on doctrine or structures we don't flow yet. in some ways he has achieved a revolution. eight months ago, when we were on cnn's air talking about the church, sauking abo talking abo everybody meltdowns. we are talking about the pope that has the world's attention. if that's not a revolution, i'm not sure we've ever seen one. >> bollywood arriving at the white house, first lady michelle obama showing off her indian dancing skills all a part of the white house's celebration. the indian fe

and the italian media is reporting that the nsa spied as well on the vatican, spying on both pope benedict and pope francis. the nsa has now just issued an outright denial of the italian media reports. and unless you think the united states is alone in spying efforts, the russians are trying to keep up with us. russian operatives reportedly handing out goody bag to world leaders who were attending september's g-20 summit meeting. it turns out the russians were giving the delegates souvenir usb drives, phone chargers and teddy bears they had bugged. they bugged a teddy bear. who would have imagined? the russians deny the italian media report. joining us for more on benghazi and other foreign policy challenges facing the nation, general jack keen, retired four-star army general, former army vice chief of staff, fox news military analyst. general, great to have you with us. >> good to be here. >> this is, as i say, sordid politics, but it masks a real issue. and that is the ability of congress to participate in the governance of the country. what's your reaction to the administration position

i went to meet pope benedict. i had to bring up the subject of iraq. turned the page and said, mr. ambassador, there's been enough said about iraq. it's time to bring peace and stability to the people there. we worked on other issues, such as combating human trafficking, aligning the holy see's security -- work. it far pope benedict continued to speak out strongly against the harsh comments in 2005 and 2006, spoke as anainst using religion excuse for violence, coming to terms with radical islam. host: our guest is former ambassador to the holy see, residing in the vicinity of the vatican. your questions for francis rooney about the position and what he does and the u.s. callests at the vatican -- using the numbers on your screen. you can tweak your questions or comments, or e-mail us. your questions or comments, or e-mail us. how did you end up with a position? guest: george bush appointed me. it is usually around 35% of the president's ambassadorial appointments are people like me. a post like the holy see, which is dependent on the priorities of the president, lends itself to an