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Health. a spokesman revealed benedict has a pacemaker and recently underwent surgery. >> over the past few years, hes certainly slowed down a bit. you can tell he had trouble negotiating steps. he started using the cane several months ago. not huge things. but a number of smaller ones, which take their toll. >> and still left for the vatican to decide is what exactly the ex-pope will be called. we havent had an ex-pope in six centuries. >> we have no idea what to do with him. we dont know where ...

Lead leaving it up to the college of card nams to make that decision as it always is. shepard smith streams live out of rome italy. they are revealing a little bit more about pope benedicts health. they will us about that. >> reporter: we now know bill that the pope has apace maker and has had one for many years. in fact had one installed before he became pope, and then just about three months ago, bill, in the greatest of secrecy the pope left the vatican, went to a hospital, had the batteries ...

Wont have any part in the selection of the next pope. instead, he will continue to write. he, of course, has a new pacemaker in or the new batteries in his pacemaker, and hell play a part in the church, certainly, but not to differ with the new pope or to clash in any way which is exactly how the last pope ended up abdicating his position when there were multiple popes that were claiming the papacy, and that was the great western schism. in 1415, as your guest mentioned before the commercial bre...

Now, the jobs been around for more than 20 centuries, but what does a modern, 21st century candidate look like? i want to go now to msnbcs chris jansing, who has been hosting her hour, "jansing and co.," over in rome. chris, you started your hour by announcing this prophetic pic of a lightning strike in vatican city yesterday. this news was really like a lightning strike to everyone around the globe. has the vatican talked more about any decisions behind the scenes? we do know that the pope has ...

Are mature enough and ready to produce a pope, and that would be a good thing, arthel, because anywhere between a half and two-thirds of the worlds catholics are part of this southern church. now, the process of choosing a new pope will get started around mid march. it was revealed today by vatican officials that pope benedict vxi had had a pacemaker for years and that three months ago he had had those batteries replaced. of but that did not have an impact on his decision to step down. that had ...

The streets of chicago and what is apparently becoming a tremendous gang problem here. >> thank you very much, kevin. greatly appreciate it. the president will be in chicago on friday and well cover, of course, his visit to his hometown in the middle of a gun crisis and a gang crisis. thats been going on far too long. new information about pope benedicts health tops the stories around the "news nation" today. the pope fitted with a pacemaker and that its battery replaced three months ago in th...

>> and yet, people will want an opportunity, dont you think -- >> they will want to and theyll have their chance when -- the other thing the pope does on sundays, the greeting from his window. youll see an extra big crowd, i think, from that. and the audience, that audience will be overflow, obviously. >> he has not made any secret of the fact, in his statement, that his health has been failing. his brother has talked about that in the last 24 hours. and were also learning about a pacemaker, a m...

Division in the church? all of these things percolating and these folks and catholics wonder why, what happens when theres a pope and a former pope. >> alisyn: shepard, you know italians, some of your closest friends, i can say this because im italian-american. we love the theatrical. we love drama. we love opera, we love palace intrigue. is there a lot of discussion about conspiracy theories of perhaps not believing that this is just about his health? >> of course. and absolutely. and, but they...

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Im sunny hostin in for paula faris. >> im john muller, rob nelson has the morning off. were going to find out what the president and house speaker boehner are saying after a face-to-face meeting over the fiscal cliff. also this half hour, hopes and prayers for nelson mandela. the human rights hero is in a south africa hospital this morning. also coming up, new hope in the fight against alzheimers disease, experimental surgery to implant a kind of pacemaker for the brain is showing early succ...