he just turned 78. he impressed people with a very moving sermon at the funeral of pope john paul. already one of the most powerful men at the vatican and he will be pope benedict. and the final wave from the former joseph ratzinger, the dean of cardinal is now pope benedict xvi. and we thought pope for life. obviously he s writing a new modern history of the catholic church. you can read more of my thoughts about the pope and see a longer version of this flashback on our website. that wraps up this hour of chris jansing & co. richard lui is coming up next and is in for thomas roberts.
thank you so much. by the way, if it doesn t say cj at the end of the tweet, somebody else tweeted it, so i m very, very i learned from eric two years ago when we started jansing & co. that wraps up this hour of the program. i m chris jansing. thomas roberts is up next. hey, thomas, be careful out there. @jansing co-. dear chris, have i ever told you you are as smart as you are beautiful? let s put that out. i expect a reply with cj at the end of it. good morning. the agenda next hour, defending drones. john brennan the president s pick going on the hot seat. the hearing promising to be the most public, probably the most telling of the administration s use of drones to kill americans overseas suspected of working with al qaeda. senator richard blumenthal will be here. and then we talk about new jersey governor chris clity defending his grirth and calls a
games. a mega merge ser about to take off. mandy drury is here with what s moving your money. cnbc reporting this, a deal between american and us airways pretty close to being done. that s absolutely right, chris. and as american airlines and us airways, which by the way is the parent close to reaching a merger agreement in a deal that would create the world s largest airline which is possibly going to be an announcement of the deal in the next couple of weeks. now, the talk here is, chris, that an all stock deal between those two air carriers would be executed as a reorganization plan that takes amr out of chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and the combined company would be worth apparently more than $10 billion. so as we say, we could be getting that finalization of an announcement in the next couple of weeks. we ll have to watch out. is another story i know you ve been watching, jansing & co. meets at 5:30 in the morning. i m going to say we re not always completely awake, but
it does feel like change is coming. thank you so much, richard. that wraps up this hour of jansing & co.. i m chris jansing. thomas roberts is up next. when what you just bought, just broke. or when you have a little trouble a long way from home. as an american express cardmember you can expect some help. but what you might not expect, is you can get all this with a prepaid card. spends like cash. feels like membership.
division two years after this country was united. almost 6:00 p.m. in cairo. ayman, thank you. that wrap up this hour of jansing & co.. i had a really good weekend. monday comes awfully too fast. chance for friday coming soon. richard, thanks so much. good morning, everybody. agenda next hour, parallel policy agendas. will one debate extinguish the other? how will the president get both those plans through congress? we ll take a look. then, the 60 minutes interview. monday morning quarterbacking is in full swing. the president and hillary clinton sit down together for a 30-minute interview. did we watch the president anoint his successor four years in advance? the gop pushing a different tone to package the same ideas that cost them the 2012 election. will that strategy work? and i have diabetic nerve pain. i felt like my feet were going to sleep. it was like pins and needles sticking in your toes and in your feet.