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Church and shocked the faithful around the world as pope benedict xvi was the first pope to resign in almost 600 years. david: for more now on the life of pope benedict. were joined by jonathan morris and current roman catholic priest, father, his resignation is part of his historical legacy. is that what he will be remembered for? >> well, i think in the immediate moment probably thats going to be in all of the obits, but i think that would be unfortunate because you have here a mind, one of th...

Have you seen any -- youre right on the border. have you seen any signs of that? >> yeah, its funny that you havent seen the memo because the front line agents, we havent seen the memo either, which is completely and totally disastrous, if theres going to be attacks on migrants, its going to be us that are going to have to deal with the attacks. you would have thought the dhs would have prepared us, given us a heads-up. put plans in place to deal with potential attacks, but weve seen absolutely ...

Votes, maybe well see some democrats and republicans coming together. they talk a lot about finding common ground on energy legislation, which is one place that well be watching closely to see if they can. david: i want to talk quickly about the fallout from the midterm elections because there was a red wave in certain states, and in florida in particular, ron desantis did extraordinarily well. is he kind of now pushing out donald trump as the leader of the republican party? >> i think a lot of ...

Thank you for your analysis. >> good questions, thank you. david: well, to ukraine now where a new barrage of russian air strikes pummelled key infrastructure sites and now another country may be getting closer to be getting involved. wait until you hear this next.

David: right, but jonathan, there are some significant questions about the way that the catholic church will look in the future, whether priests will be allowed to get married. obviously you decided not to remain as a priest. you wanted to have a family. would you have preferred to remain a priest and having a family or do you think that pope benedict was right in holding the line on that? >> hey, listen, i think thats a great topic. it deserves a lot of time and pope francis was very gracious t...

People off his scent or might there be an accomplice here? >> i would argue theres not one. this kind of crime is hardly ever done by two people, its usually a single person, single subject crime. i think hes playing games. he wants to manipulate, he wants to be in control and i think he was playing games. i could be wrong with that, but my best guess is that he was playing games with those cops that went to arrest him. david: that does seem to be another, again, profile of murderers, that they-...

And steve scalise says the first vote the house takes will be a vote to repeal the irs funding that was in that spending bill last year, and that will unite republicans. i mean, they will be excited about that. thats something they campaigned on, as you noted, its going to be dead in the senate, its never going to reach president bidens desk, but interesting that mccarthy and steve scalise are trying to start the year out on a note they know will bring republicans together after animosity. david...

Half of the year was dreadful until the beginning of march. so, look for the beginning of the year to have significant volatility, but with volatility becomes opportunity. because whats not being priced into the market is all the bad news is in the market. inflation, the fed, corporate profits, the dollar, whats not being priced into it is when does fed pivot? when does inflation come down? maybe the dollar comes down a little bit. so, these things for average investors, yes, youre going to have...

High inflation. what about 2023? whats it going to bring? more cheers or jeers? lets go to wealth ceo, david raglin and danielle, what a panel, good to see you. danielle, i want to focus on nasdaq, down the most, down 33 1/3%, due to the fact that when interest rates go up which they have been doing to help with inflation problem, all of these start-up companies for the high-tech companies who borrow money in order to start up go bust because they cant keep up with it. so where will interest rat...

United states as possible and thats why youre not seeing action from the administration. even to include protecting the united states citizens. david: and meanwhile, as you mentioned, you have border patrol agents doing processing rather than actually guarding the border. you have ice agents that, according to some, the doj, the department of justice, is kind of sitting on their hands, not helping them at all, in fact, in some cases discouraging them from doing due diligence. we had an m-13 gang...