the pope as a rock star shaking the hands of anyone who wished to greet him. touching the heads of every child he could find. tomorrow he will talk to muslim refugees trapped inside the notorious pk-5 camp, threatened by christians who are surrounding the camp. pope francis on a mission to try and end a decade s long civil war, a big ask in he s risking his life trying to do just that. harris? wow, i tell you, religion is such at the center of so much of what s happening over there. paul tilsley, thank you for giving us the walk-through on the pope s visit. more ahead on the news that proek at the top of the hour. president obama visiting the memorial for the paris terror victims. his trip drawing strong criticism from some people who are saying the president needs to get his priorities straight in their opinion. the fox news politic
the pope as a rock star shaking the hands of anyone who wished to greet him. touching the heads of every child he could find. tomorrow he will talk to muslim refugees trapped inside the notorious pk-5 camp, threatened by christians who are surrounding the camp. pope francis on a mission to try and end a decade s long civil war, a big ask in he s risking his life trying to do just that. harris? wow, i tell you, religion is such at the center of so much of what s happening over there. paul tilsley, thank you for giving us the walk-through on the pope s visit. more ahead on the news that proek at the top of the hour. president obama visiting the memorial for the paris terror victims. his trip drawing strong criticism from some people who are saying the president needs to get his priorities straight in their opinion. the fox news political insiders about to join me at home base.
it sounds like he made a prayerful decision. there s no denying how even from the outside, how frustrating it appeared his job was to try to coral a republican conference that in recent years had grown, again, a testament to political abilities. for him to do it during the shining moment, he tried to get two popes before this one. this one comes here, he blows everybody out of the water. he s alone with boehner, he gets the credit for having him before congress and then not only does he kind of elbow in on the pope s moment but he could have waited and done it today. why? is this about his emotional impulsiveness? i m not really sure. you talk to each other all the time. like a big fraternity down there. this does point out point to more difficult challenges the republican party has to face. we ve seen so many challenges
and i think we can hear the beautiful church of st. pat s be hind us as the bells are going off. does anyone feel intimidated to talk about the church and conflicts with the church? . coming up, you ll hear more from thomas robert s panel interview on the pope s impact on the u.s. let s go to politics and a shake-up for the race in the republican nomination. a new cnn poll shows carly fiorina surging. she s gained 12 points putting her in second place and now ahead by one point of ben carson. donald trump is still leading the pack and he s down eight points. joining me now is rich galen. and howard dean, former vermont governor. good to see you both. rich, any sense of relief from the gop establishment that donald trump may be losing some steam here?
spokesman said unaware of the allegations and downplayed the report. what do you say to that? yeah, but here s the question. the nsa also says collecting bulk data on americans is not spying. so, you have to parse their words, okay? because when director clapper came to congress, he said they weren t collecting any data. they ve lost a lot of credibility. but the other thing here is, they may well have collected data on the pope, but they re saying it wasn t spying because they didn t listen to his phone calls. i think we need to know, were they monitoring his phone calls? were they collecting any records on the pope? and i expect an answer from the president. just to be specific, what difference would if make, for lack of a better phrase, what difference would it make if the president denied this publicly? well, it makes a difference because, do we want to be the country that is spying on the pope? for goodness sakes what good is that? but if the nsa does that help our sta