fairly small funeral. you ll recall when we covered the funeral of pope john paul ii, that was a big event with state leaders coming here to rome. it will be a lot smaller for pope benedict, and that was certainly the wish he had. one of the final letters that he published, he asked for forgiveness from those he wronged. what can you tell us about that? reporter: yeah, that was really an interesting passage. the pope left behind that final letter that testament he wanted to leave behind for his followers in the catholic church and elsewhere. there were point where is he praised his family, he thanked his family, and his homeland of bavaria and germany and all the folks he worked with at the catholic church. he was one of the most influential figures here in the vatican since the early y80s. he said, to all those i have wronged in any way, i sincerely
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fame? it s difficult to see what there s nothing left in that world for you to conquer. well, it was really my own bar that i set. the height of that bar is something i will probably never reach. i always demand more of myself. one of the reasons i think i stopped writing songs, was because i recognized, this is as good as i m going to get, with songwriting. and rather than being aggravated and frustrated that i couldn t write it, better, i m going to do it a different way. i m going to just write music. so, i recognized, what is it clint eastwood says? a man s got to know his limitations. i recognize mine. you are live in the cnn
florida that made its all the way to canada. then we had this flooding in kentucky. these are all consistent with climate change. so we ve got to change the way we do business in a lot of places. it seems like we were getting reminders in 2022 about how much work is left to do to address climate change. there were hurricanes in florida, a heatwave in europe, a monsoon in pakistan. what stands out to you as you look back in the last year? well, how unprepared we are worldwide. bangladesh pakistan, rather, was a catastrophic situation. and it s still going on. people have talked for decades about climate refugees, people moving on account of changing weather. well, we have climate refugees here in the u.s. now. people leaving florida, they re
implications repealing roe v. wade, pivoting to the economy is a smart strategy? i think it s the only strategy they have when you have 70% of american public saying that we ought to keep roe v. wade as it is and keep it on the books. so, what they re doing is talking about the leak instead of roe v. wade. but it s kind of ludicrous in a way that they re doing it because of course they ve been using cultural issues as awe way to get at the democrats, the woke democrats, et cetera, et cetera. if there ever was a cultural issue, it s abortion. and now they re leaning away from it because we re close to the midterm elections and they know that it s going to bring out those young voters that david is talking about. it s going to bring out suburban women. you know, whether it will be enough to get democrats in more seats, we just don t know. but it certainly will close that enthusiasm gap that the democrats currently have. the democratic senator from west virginia, joe manchin, was