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Hamas. is he someone who can be a credible negotiator if good will prevails and they can get both sides to the table? is abbas someone who has the sort of political power to negotiate on behalf of all palestinians or not? >> by himself he does not. i think he is not the leader of gaza. this is quite clear. who is, is a different question. his people are quite divided on what they feel about him. he is very much at the moment a sort of compromise candidate. he can come to the negotiating table if he has buy-in from a lot of other people behind him and that has been lacking. people like barguti ...

Compromise candidate. somebody who wasn't strong in the beginning but came out winning. shep? >> shepard: amy kellogg off saint peter's square for us this early wednesday morning in rome. archdiocese agreed to pay $10 million to settle four cases of sex clergy abuse. cases that happened under the watch of the former l.a. bishop mahoney who is now at the vatican to elect a new pope. timing is interesting it revolves around michael baker. is he right now in prison for molesting a little boy in 2007. two more cases of abuse that date back to 1986 were expected soon to go to trial. recently releas...

Which is one of the big things they're going to have to deal with. perhaps the austrian archbishop, brianna, he's taken a top line on this. but there are about ten different cardinals, argentine in a, brazil, peter turkson from africa, from ghana, so it's a wide open field. it's interesting because you need a super majority, 2/3. 77 votes. so it's going to be someone who is a compromise candidate probably. someone who appeals to various different sections of the cardinals, not someone who is an outright favorite. i think someone who's a compromise candidate. that leaves it wide open. >> they c...

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