live pictures of st. peter s square in vatican city as we continue with our special coverage of the funeral of pope benedict xvi. very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster live from london. funeral for pope emeritus has just come to an end a short while ago at st. peter s square at the vatican. pope benedict asked for a simple ceremony. pope francis presided over the funeral delivering the homily a short while ago. before that, nearly 200,000 people paid their respects to the late pope during the last three days of public viewing. benedict will be buried in the vatican crypt inside the basilica. t the. now that the funeral services are over, what are your personal reflections? what did it mean to you as a catholic? well, one of the things that i was thinking as i looked out and saw all of these people that pope benedict had known for so many years was the real sort of scope of his caree
limits, knock yourself out. if this was about policies, they would have been able to reach a resolution before it came to this degree of chaos. this is about hostage taking. this is about flexing. and this is about at the end of the day, does the math work. last night a bunch of mccarthy s allies came out and said there are four votes that are immovable. that didn t include scott perry and paul gossar. this is not about policy or whatever. it s not. this is, hey, this is what we want. we re going to, as you say, flex. they want power and the whole idea of the speakership, right, is to put the center of power in one place, right? where you a group of people get together and say, this is this is the person we have decided who s going to lead us but instead of the person they decide is going to lead us, they are lieding that person. do you understand what i m saying? be yeah, of course, its the
mccarthy is looking at concessions that could erode his power. cnn s lauren fox is joining us. i know they broke overnight. they were going to come back at 8:00. they did adjourn. what has happened in the hours as kevin mccarthy appears to be making more and more concessions that would weaken him even if he does become speaker? yeah. those concessions the big news overnight, kaitlan. one would lower the concessions to lower a vote to oust the speaker. a month ago that was a majority of the conference. a week ago it was five members. last night mccarthy offered just one member. that s something that would erode a speaker s power. they have to raise the debt ceiling. they have to fund the government. they have to pass a farm bill. kevin mccarthy is looking over his shoulder knowing just one member can threaten his speakership, that is going to be a major problem. other con selgss he made, this