and healthy new years eve. we are continuing to follow the breaking news out of the vatican. pope benedict the 16th has died at the age of 95. the vatican says the retired pope passed away early this morning. his funeral will be held on january 5th in st. peters square. presided over by pope francis. that is the man who became leader of the catholic church after benedict resigned from the role in 2013. msnbc looks back on his life and legacy. it was a resignation that shocked the catholic church. pope benedict, less than eight years after his election, he became the first pope and seven centuries to voluntarily retire. he said that he lacked the strength of mind and body to do the job. he felt like he was being prevented from being the pope in a way that he felt the pope should be present for the people of god. he was born joseph rat singer in wartime germany. in the deeply catholic weijia bavaria. he and his brother george people became priests. both eventually landed
is over. just ask the falcons, one second they were almost super bowl champs and the next thing you know they are watching brady hold the trophy. you can t brag about a victory that hasn t happened. and you can t hype up a bill that hasn t done a darn thing yet. unless you are joe biden. today our commander-in-chief, who is taking a victory lap over his massive infrastructure spending bill. my partisan infrastructure law that i signed and it was a once in a generation investment in our nation s roads, bridges, railroads, ports, airports, water systems, and high speed internet, i really mean it. this is like a new industrial revolution. jesse: primetime launched an investigation into joe biden s new industrial revolution. a trillion dollars and a year later, and biden s broken ground on one project. a heated sidewalk in a small new hampshire town. and the project is not even close to finished and it won t be before winter. the city of berlin, new hampshire, has a 17% pov
i m feeling much better. doctors told me i didn t suffer cognitive damage. okay. so the primary continued as planned with fetterman s name on the ballot and fetterman won. he became the democratic nominee. that was the last that most voters heard about john fetterman s stroke. for months, fetterman remained in semiseclusion. as the campaign progressed, the polls tightened, he had to venture. he had no choice. videos surfaced of fetterman speaking at rallies in what seemed a bizarre and highly disjointed way. some wondered if he d suffered, quote, no cognitive damage. they rushed forward to bring science to bear on this question. in clifford chen s considered opinion as a respected medical professional, who works at a major research university, john fetterman was absolutely fine. fetterman was, quote, recovering well from his stroke. he had, quote, no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office. in other words, john fetterman was as sharp and as healthy as you o
quick-whited you are. it s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. because you would be in jail. [laughter] jesse: and debates are really your last chance to deliver that knockout blow. are you better off than you were four years ago? is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? is america as respected throughout the world as it was? jesse: but, last night, in the pennsylvania senate debate, john fetterman knocked himself out the second he opened his mouth. hi, g good night everybody. i m working to serve pennsylvania. jesse: only got worse from there. campaign dr. oz is a carpet bagger who owns a lot of homes and he has gotten some traction on that. did he debate you have to show off your policy chops. fetterman couldn t even spew slogans. no, here s what i think we have
are they going to roll over or say republicans are cheating white wing extremists literal i have a plan to steal the next presidential election they are not making a secret of it. the right wing control supreme court may be poised to rule on giving state legislatures, yes, you heard me that correctly. state legislatures the power to overturn presidential elections. just think, if that happens, the 2024 presidential election could be decided not by the popular vote, or even by the ache critical condition chauvinistic electoral college but by state legislatures. many of them republican controlled. jesse: hillary thinks the supreme court is going to dump the electoral college. that s not going to happen. democrats are getting into their bag of tricks a little too early here. usually you lose and then you claim you got cheated. hillary is premature election denying. bill doesn t have that problem. so, where s the media? this makes three elections that hillary says has been 1208