to earth cam, thousands of revellers are expecting a soggy countdown. we ll go live to the big apple later in the show. gillian: first to our top story this hour, the world is now mourning of loss of a historical religious figure. the vatican is announcing death of pope emeritus benedict xvi. and charles has more on his long lasting legacy. what a story he had. pope benedict xvi had an impact on catholics across the world in a position he never imagined himself in. for decades cardinal joseph ratsinger had been a key advisor to pope john paul ii, as a staunch conservative. and took the cardinals just two days to give the job to a german, scholarly man who didn t appear to want it. as pope benedict xvi, he rattled relativism, what might be true for someone, might not be true for someone else. and he will be remembered not only for his birthday celebration in the white house, a stop at ground zero and a mass in yankee stadium, but also, by the way in which he addressed the ca
world. what matters, there are saints in the church and he did a great job of promoting that and really living as one. alicia: given enough time any leader will preside over a time of scandal, as did this pope. how do you feel he handled it over the course of his service? i think he did an amazing job. that being said, it was an enormous task, much worse than anybody thought, and nobody was prepared for this. and so, i think you have to grade him on a curve in the sense, this was a difficult, difficult job, but he, without any compromise worked to protect those who had been injured, to remove those who had done the harm and to purify the church which is a big, big task, talking more than a billion people. and one thing i just think is so interesting, he really felt differently about the spotlight than his predecessor and pope francis, isn t that true? he was a very thigh man. he was amazing. before he was pope he used to walk to work. i met him multiple times and he d walk across
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