to sell them submarines. the united states came in with the uk to upgrade those submarines. the deal with france went down. the president expressed regret and said it was not handled with grace, but he says there are big issues in the world and that france is an extremely valuable partner on the world stage. a lot to discuss about the president s trip, including a meeting earlier today with the pope. cnn s chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins us from rome. kaitlan, the meeting with the pope, some contention there, but the white house says it went smoothly. let s focus on what we just saw. a month ago the president was in a position he didn t like the word of apologizing, at least trying to make amends with france. even here the gesture, the president of the united states went to the french embassy in rome for this meeting. the both leaders i think trying to put them behind them and say, yes, there might be some tension there but we have bigger issues at play.
the pope and the two met for 90 minutes and an unusually long amount of time presenting biden with a challenge coin that represents his son beau. the tradition, is and i m only kidding about this. the next time i see you and you don t have to. you have to buy the drifnlgts back noam no drink flowing yesterday. there you going off the personal sales pitch the president made. house progressives are holding their votes and manus, raju on cap pill. the white house doing its best to spin this delayed vote but obviously not what they wanted to see on the heels of the president making his way to capitol hill yesterday yeah. i think when you have the speaker of the house, a very powerful speaker of the house as well as the president of the united states come up and urge action as quickly as pop, the speaker being explicit she wanted something yesterday and having it not happen, that s what you didn t plan but having talked to white house officials, one thing that s been repeated
Hear from the sheriff himself and he s going to be in court. we ll continue to track the case and thank you for your time on inside politics today. hope you have a fantastic weekend. erical hill picks up our coverage right now. president biden jid-in admitting the handling of a deal to sell submarines. france recently pulled its ambassador from washington saying it met with italy s president and prime minister and he gan the day to meet with pope francis. he has a warm relationship with