not only is she brilliant and she can bring out the drama when it s appropriate, she s a really good actress. but she s white. betty white was on the radio in the 30s. right. she was born in 1922. think of that. i know. working nonstop. yes. she did a television show before television was invented. she did a show, and she ll say that, i m using a betty line. she did that 5 1/2 hours a day, six days a week. she would sing, she was a consummate performer. but kindness is what stands out the most. to most people that meet her, she s so kind and giving and lovely. she s just full of grace. when you walk into a room with that cast and you look around, is it a struggle to find that kind of not chemistry, but coherency. chemistry doesn t just happen. you can t make chemistry. you can t get it out of nothing. it has to just be there.
strength in the last few months has deteriorated to me to the extend i have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry. with hindsight being 20/20, had there been any rumors that something like this was coming? reporter: we possibly benedict xvi even hinted at it himself, he said if he felt his strength and his body wasn t up to speed to comply with the duties that were that are expected of a pontiff, and very heavy duties like traveling around, attending ceremonies, working nonstop. at 85, that s tiring for everybody, for any man his age, let alone a pontiff and the pope and leader of 1 billion catholics around the world, but nobody really believed that
the olympics in 2016. that s a massive amount of growth, explosion of growth that s going to happen here in term of what they re going to need, in term of infrastructure. the u.s. wants to be a key trading partner to make sure they re creating more jobs. the president will never be too far away from libya or the story developing there. do we expect that to be on the agenda and you probably expect the president to make any comments to the like of you, reporters, on this trip as well about libya. we certainly hope so. because the bottom line is that this military action among the u.s. and its applies we stress could start as earl as this weekend against the libyan government. you would think the president would want to address that as it s playing out here while he s on brazilian soil. interesting because brazil is a nonpermanent member of the u.n. security council. they actually obtained from that
this day would come where something would pop up in the environment. that was inevitable. but the tendency is to overreact to that. there s universal consensus in the medical world that the amount of radiation showing up in the spinach and milk psychologically people will react to it that way. these workers literally putting their lives on the line working nonstop. they need a victory. but when we hear words of a little victory that maybe the levels at that one reactor are near zero, will the public buy it? people might not believe what they re hearing because of some of the missteps early. especially on the issue of food and when are things going to be safe again? in a crisis, the most important commodity a government can have is credibility. once you lose your credibility, it s hard to get it back. there have been missteps in this
fled to saudi arabia. today s fighting appears to be taking place near the presidential palace between government troops, armed gangs, and loyalists of the ex-president. cnn has more live from tunis. can you still hear gunfire? reporter: well, it s gone right now. but let me explain, don, where we are. we are in a hotel room, not because we re lazy or something, but we re stuck here. for five hours, there were gun battles around this hotel in downtown tunis, next to the ministry of interior. and with a lot of headquarters for the opposition parties around us. behind me, cnn team working nonstop, and we were asking about the police and security forces to even close the curtains and not come close to that because there are snipers from militiamen and from the army, and we will be shot at. don? can you take us outside and tell us how dangerous it is and