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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. we're 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 that's going to be in all of the obits, but i think that would be unfortunate because you have here a mind, one of the greatest intellect of our era. i think even his detractors will acknowledge that and i think the...

Have you seen any -- you're right on the border. have you seen any signs of that? >> yeah, it's funny that you haven't seen the memo because the front line agents, we haven't seen the memo either, which is completely and totally disastrous, if there's going to be attacks on migrants, it's 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 we've seen absolutely nothing and david, unfortunately, that's par for the course with this administration. they gi...

Votes, maybe we'll see some democrats and republicans coming together. they talk a lot about finding common ground on energy legislation, which is one place that we'll 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 the house-- we've seen a lot of house republicans hold back and senate republicans hold back on ou...

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 that's a great topic. it deserves a lot of time and pope francis was very gracious to me in giving me dispensation so that i could leave and pursue having a family, marriage and a fam...