Sistine chapel. Shortly will head to a palace for a meeting with italian president , before later meeting with the Prime Minister. In a couple of hours, the president will tdepart for the g7 summit tomorrow. The president and pope at times had a contentious relationship particularly over rhetoric and Climate Change and immigration. Before the meeting pope francis dialogue allows us to plan for a future in common. Through dialogue we build peace taking care of everyone. With all of that as ts background, joining us hallie jackson. Good to have you with us. This had the possibility of being one of the more awkward stops on the trip. I believe it is day five now. How did it go. Whats your take on how it played out . Reporter i couldnt tell you what day it , it has been a whirlwind week as you might imagine. As far as how it went, listen, i think about as choreographed and scripted as it might go. Theres nothing overly unusual about this. Both men did their part, played their part. Saw Pre
And queen of belgium and theyll meet with the Prime Minister of belgium. It will be the official welcome of the host country and then nato with the 28 member nations. This issen a opportunity for donald trump to mend some fences after calling this organization obsolete and then retracting that after he had a chance to meet with the secretary general and to have a bit of time in office to get a different view of how nato is a force in the world. It is expected that some of the conversation here which had originally been about things like russia and ukraine as the anticipated heavy story lines, now with the tragic events in manchester, theres an expectation that confronting terrorism and isis and al qaeda and the lone wolves that are especially showing their power in europe in particular, that that will be a big part of the conversation. For President Trump the issue of terrorism has been a thread throughout his journeys for the last several days, wanting to get nations in the arab and m
Papal library. He will go to the Sistine Chapel and leave for brussels for the g7 summit. Despite not officially meeting before, the pope and President Trump had a contentious relationship considering his rhetoric and Climate Change. Pope francis treated dialogue allows us to plan for a future in common. Through dialogue, we build peace taking care of everyone. We have chief White House Correspondent hallie jackson. This had a chance of being an awkward stop on the tour given the fact there has been through social media an exchange of the views on the pope and things he said at press conferences on the campaign trail. How did it go . How diit play out . Reporter as scripted i think is a fair characterization at this point. We know this is a carefully choreographed exchange. It was. The president with a lot of pomp and circumstance coming in to the papal residence and going to the Papal Library and court yard. Meeting pope francis for the first time and his delegation from the u. S. Gre
President Joe Biden marked Ash Wednesday by participating in a private mass at a Warsaw hotel with a Polish priest who spent six months in prison for anti-communist activism.
don t write that, you re going to look foolish. and i got a phone call from john paul asking whether i would meet with him. as a practicing catholic, i joked with him that he was more conservative than my views were, and i went to see him, and the conversation was all about poland. he never once mentioned anything about catholicism. it s a true story. we were walking from one end, if you ve been to the papal library, it s about as wide and as long as this room, with a simple desk at one end and nothing much else in it. he said, would you like a photograph? and i said, your holiness, i would like one. and we were walking from the desk to the other hand, he put his hand out and he said, senator, remember today i spoke to you as a proud pole, not as your pope.