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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...

now, an interesting fact is that the prefect of rome today, italian media expects during those days between that and the future, tearing the, fifth next thursday, he expects about 60,000 people to come down for that occasion. compare that to the more than 4 million pilgrims who came down for the funeral of the last pope who died, who was, of course, john paul the second. then on thursday, the vatican said that the funeral wouldn't be held in the morning, in st. peters square. you will be presided by pope francis, again, the first time in modern times we know that a pope has presided ...

prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. >> boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course -- >> so beautiful. >> -- was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it's all a definitional thing. you're really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not jus...

Benedict has died at the age of 95. in a statement saying the pope has to wake early this morning. his funeral will be held on january 5th in st. peters square, presided over by pope francis, the man who became the leader of the catholic church, after benedict resigned from the role in 2013. joining us now is nbc's foreign correspondent, claudio la bungle at the vatican. claudio, what can we expect here in the next several days? >> hey, lindsey. we'll, if attic in just issued some new guidelines in the last 20 minutes. what's going to happen is until the january, that remains of emeritus bened...