it may be hard to believe, but pope frin francis and reality star kim kardashian are now embroiled in the same debate causing outrage in turkey. during a mass on sunday, the pope used the word genocide to describe the mass killings of armenians by turks. armenia has been commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the killings which brought kim kardashian to the country, who has been a long-time advocate for armenian genocide awareness. by the way, just before his election in 2008 president obama also referred to armenian killings as genocide. he said then as a candidate,
boston globe, as you ve been working this beat for many a year, the pope has won demd the mafia before, this time different because of the word usage, excommunicated. what did he mean by this? how big a deal is this? pope haves been speaking out against the mafia for a long time. this is the first time the pope has used what we in the catholic world like to call the e word, excommunicated. this is sort of the nuclear option in catholic life, the most severe penalty any pope can impose. technically speaking, the pope didn t ex-communicate anyone on saturday. there s a whole process the church has to go through to do that. this is a whole shot across the bow against the mafioso saying he s willing to apply that penalty in individual cases if it comes up. bear in mind, brooke, a lot of these maf osi types consider themselves faithful catholics. they go to mass on sunday, they give money to the church.
vibrant and robust economy, all the rest is just talk you. know what supports this health care plan? a vibrant economy. what are we holding back? you know what the shutdown is costing? 300 million a day. when you tell somebody that no longer 40 hours is a full work week, it s now 30. i ve talked to people when i come out of mass on sunday in western pennsylvania, out of my k mart and my walmart and talk to people and they say would you please get this fixed for us. i would agree with you. shutting down the government is something most people don t like. but i would also say, if we re not moving in the right direction to fix everything for every american and we re not going to get it done this. piece of legislation is so big and so comprehensive, we still don t even have all the let me ask you about the republican strategy. i still don t quite understand. as the congresswoman said, there are numerous republicans who have broken with their party with, their speak for say to democ
it is my understanding that these crowds are bigger and louder and more june lent than when jubilant than when morsi came into power. we understand that these are the largest crowds from even before the revolution two years ago. the local staff we have talked to hearsay there are streets full of people tonight that have never been full of people before. even during the height of the revolution two years ago. by all estimates these are the largest crowds. our local guys say that remember two years ago many egyptians will go out and protest against the government and against the mubarak era and against the military. now the egyptians are fully comfortable to go out and to protest. they came out in mass on sunday. they nef left tahrir square. they never left the other cities and countries across egypt and they have been partying all night. it started yesterday because they believe last night the military came out on the side of the opposition here against the morsi regime here.
he is beloved by this community. they feel he understands them. that is something they might support. ditto with cardinal ouellet. so when all this comes down to it, do you think because there is no front-runner, that this could take a lot longer? everyone said, look, this should be done in a few days, but is it possible that it s not? reporter: it may not be, erin. everybody i m talking to now, even cardinals say, we could be in for a thursday. if it goes as long as friday, they have to take a day off for prayer and reflection on saturday, and the vote would resume on sunday. this could roll into next week. all right. still to come, outfront, horse meat in america. we re going to take you to the first processing plant to exist in the united states in six years. and nearly eight months after cops say he opened fire in a colorado movie theater, james holmes is going to enter a plea.