. >> the former anglican archbishop of capetown, south africa, desmond tutu is this year's recipient of the templeton prize, given to those who affirm life's spiritual dimension it comes with the world's largest annual award, $1.7 million. tutu was chosen for his work quote advancing spiritual practices such as love and forgiveness. tutu was an outspoken critic of racial apartheid and later chaired south africa's truth and reconciliation commission. in a 2010 interview on this program, tutu said he has never called himself an optimist. >> i am a prisoner of hope, which is a different kettle of fish. optimism is too light. >> at the vatican, pope francis this week paid homage to several of his papal predecessors, on tuesday the pope prayed before the tomb of john paul ii, on the eighth anniversary of his death. the day before he became the first pope to visit excavations of the tomb of saint peter, under the basilica named for him. >>> also this week, the vatican responded to questions about why pope francis usually speaks prayers rather than singing or chanting them. the spokesman sa

know, i think that's an excellent analogy, instead of mandela, there is somebody better that is desmond tutudela in the civil rights of south africa tutu is a reared figure but communist and said very outrageous things about capitalism and the united states and gets a total pass and i do believe you are right. that's what's going on here. that it doesn't really matter about public policy anymore. to the. >> no. and here's where that becomes very, very important. a mainstream journalist, not some right wing nut or anything like that, mark halperin of time magazine, i have mentioned this to you before, but it's important enough to say ag n, mark al principal said and ts -- hall said hall said the media is very susceptible to doing what the obama campaign wants. why is that important? because the obama campaign wanted benghazi to use one example to go away. and the mainstream media pretty much helped it go threhe lack of in. if they do what he wants, and that's different from liberal bias. that becomes something more. you are on to something here. >> bill: absolutely and here. >> activism. >> b

nbc news learned that archbishop desmond tutu is in a hospital for an infection. he was in good spirits this morning before checking in. our south african correspondent reporting that he's going to undergo tests expected to be there roughly four or five days. >>> here's a look at other stories topping the news now as airline flyers are feeling the brunt of the sequester cuts at airports around the country, harsh words for the faa administrators at a house appropriations subcommittee hearing earlier. >> you didn't inform the congress of this sequester impact and what you plan to do about it. this imperial attitude on the part of the administration and you're the most recent example of that imperialism is disgusting. >> the fbi and secret service are investigating the hack attack on the ap twitter account. a tweet went around saying two explosions in the white house and barack obama injured. the dow jones immediately took a nosedive after that dropping nearly 130 points. 200 billion in revenue wiped out but it quickly rebounded after learning it was a false report a

i just pulled up the visa bulletin desmond tutu of those delays were. the outcome of a u.s. citizen would wait over seven years to even begin the process, if it individuals from mexico we're talking over two decades. if we start talking about categories which are now apparently under siege of the families for marriage children and siblings of your citizens, those backlogs go back decades as well. it should be clear that we should not recognize a false dichotomy between business immigration and family-based immigration. they interrelate. many of our most important innovators and often nor is actually came to the family system, not merely the business system. they may dissuade highly skilled immigrants who have families from choosing to emigrate to deny states and especially in the case of individuals who are members of the lgbt community. it may force us to live our own citizens who emigrate to other countries in order to keep their families impact -- and tactics addressing i can do is give you examples to tell you in my experience how this actually impacts people. we see fam

group of elders that nelson and all brought together, 10 of us under the chairmanship of march desmond tutuand co. cnn, brahimi dealing with syria, et cetera and i was trying to make it clear that i'm one of of the younger alders. [laughter] was try to address certain issues and recently last year the situation you described in sri lanka was coming before the human rights council. it can be difficult for governments of the human rights council to pass a resolution criticizing the country. sri lanka mounted a huge can paying to prevent itself from being criticized and we felt it was important to remind the human rights council of the scale of violation of the lack of real accountability and justice processes to address that issue. we were quite active in the human rights council passed a resolution criticizing sri lanka. they gave sri lanka a certain things, but mainly was a resolution, which held them to account and were not at all pleased and mysterious, they can resolve strongly not enough progress was made on this issue. it's important to have the courage not to become political and say

where would we be without that king in desmond tutu and the people who have used faith to spark movements sake of ourselves. and so i think that the power of faith really is when it combines its energy. it is hopefulness. around the country, i feel a lot of hopelessness out there. people are coming to these events, they're just looking for hope. they're hungry for hope. so i often tell great little league story that just happened last year. my team, they were 9-year-olds. they were losing because 9 10-year-old league last year, young league. we lost four. down 5-0 in the fifth game. top of the order has gone down. up comes the bottom. two kids to no fault of their own get on base. i mean they walked, right. up steps the worst kid on the team, stefan. he can't play. his parents are internationals. he hasn't got a clue about baseball. the ball hits the bat. and it goes into the outfield. and two runs score. starts a rally. we win 11-5. stefan is on second base. he's a brit. he's polite. he goes off to shake hands with the shortstop. i said stefan, you can't leave the base. said oh, i've nev