his health had deteriorated over the last several days prompting pope francis to ask for prayers. for the first time in history, benedict resigned in 2009 citing age. and let s go to barbie nadeau in vatican city, in st. peter s square. barbie, what s the mood there as people gather there and reflect? reporter: you know, it s a real mixed bag. there are a lot of people who hadn t heard of the death of the pope, they were out here enjoying a beautiful day in rome. there are priests gathering here. we ve seen nuns and faithful people who are mourning the death of this 95-year-old icon of the catholic church. his legacy was a little bit mixed. he was the first pope in 600 years to resign. we re in a situation a little bit without precedent. usually, you have a papal
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the day before, i think, had made all these public allegations about boris johnson, knew about these parties. he s lying. we also hadn t heard from him since all the revelations had emerged in the daily telegraph that there had been these parties in downing street the night before prince philip s funeral. so there was this wealth of material, really, that i had to put to him. and i remember thinking, well, what i ll do is i ll start off with cummings. he ll do obfuscate, deny, like, kick into the long grass, wait or whatever. and then once we ve done that, then i m going to bring up the queen, because then he cannot get out of this interview because he can t not answer the questions about the queen. what surprised me was a couple of things. number one, and i think it was a sign of the turmoil in downing street, normally those things are very carefully mapped. you know this and you know this.
which i take full responsibility. that was what we call a pull clip, isn t it, where you kind of interviewing him on behalf of everyone? and normally they re only there only like a couple of minutes. but you had them like a fish wriggling on a hook. well, that was an extraordinary moment in that we hadn t - seen him for a while. and dominic cummings, the day before, i think, i had made all these public- allegations about boris johnson, knew about these parties. he s lying. we also hadn t heard from him since all the revelations had i emerged in the daily telegraph l that there had been these parties in downing street the night before prince philip s funeral. so there was this wealth of material, really, - that i had to put to him. and i rememberthinking, well, what i ll do is i ll start off with cummings. he ll do obfuscate, deny, like, kick into the long i grass, wait or whatever.
opponents. and how under joe biden it has gotten even worse. i ve got to say, for the people who watch the view, that was a perspective they hadn t heard before. there s another exchange that i had with whoopi where she was attacking republicans with the obsession of the media. she was screaming about january 6th, saying, you guys are all violent, and she said, our side doesn t engage in violence. i just had to laugh. did you miss an entire year of antifa riots across the country where our cities were burning? and she looked at me and said, i don t know of any entity for the riots. that really says something. see when so many people today are in the silo and they only hear one side, so i appreciate you going in and trying to educate that other side to what s going on. i m kind of curious.