climate crisis, energy prices and disruptions in the global supply chain. they are all on the agenda, but the u.s. president joe biden comes without an agreement from lawmakers back in washington on his truly sweeping domestic agenda. for the second time in as many months, house democrats have postponed the vote on the trillion dollar infrastructure bill. progressives say they won t support it unless it moves in tandem with a much larger economic and climate package. meanwhile, here in rome, president biden is hoping to mend fences with u.s. allies, especially france. he s scheduled to talk with hips french counterpart president emanuel macron in just a few hours. president biden will soon head also here to the vatican to meet with pope francis. he s only, by the way, the second catholic to serve as president of the united states. i want to bring in our vatican correspondent delia gallagher who is watching all this for us. for president biden, this will be, as it always is, h
including the pandemic, poverty, and the climate crisis. you know, the climate crisis is now at the heart of the biden economic agenda. it is actually where the biggest chunk of money in the $1.7 trillion plan is allocated. there s no question the president and white house are focused on get thing passed after a whirlwind and probably somewhat unfulfilling 24 hours of negotiations on that. it still hangs in the balance. and that might be where at least a big part of the president s mind is even as his motorcade heads to vatican city momentarily. so let s go there. you can see him, chris cuomo, waiting right by st. peter s square. chris. here we are. good to see you, john. good to see you, brianna. it s a very interesting dynamic here. on one level you just have obvious history in terms of president biden being only the second catholic united states president to meet with a sitting pope, right. obviously the first was president kennedy, 1963. controversy then, controversy
good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, october 29th. i m brianna keilar with john berman here. and chris cuomo is standing by in rome, where president biden is meeting with pope francis. they are discussing a range of issues, including poverty and the climate crisis. the climate crisis is at the heart of the biden agenda. it s where the biggest chunk of money is actually allocated now. there s no question the president and the white house still focused on getting that plan passed away a whirlwind and probably somewhat unfulfilling locations. that still hangs in the balance. that s not where the president is right now. he s in with the pope in this historic meeting. let s get right to chris cuomo outside st. peter s square. chris. even though, john, we don t know exactly what s happening, i have to believe the pope is not going to give advice to president biden to change the name of his spending bill. we are with cnn chief national
and this young mother, this dp, was killed on a movie set because of money. and that s really what it boils down to. and that s the sad part about this. stu, you raise a lot very important concerns and questions that i think have to be answered if you want to make sure this doesn t happen again in the future. we appreciate you speaking with us, stu brumbaugh, thanks. new day continues right now. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world and in the metaverse. it is friday, october 29th. i m john berman alongside brianna keilar. chris cuomo is standing by in rome, because president biden has just wrapped up a meeting with pope francis. america s second catholic president spent 90 minutes, 90 minutes, a very long time with the pope. and in a matter of minutes here the president is set to sit down with the president of italy. so let s get right now to chris cuomo in rome. chris? all right. thank you very much. they absolutely had a mee
that s hilarious. good morning, welcome to morning joe, i can t tell if it s funny or not. i am snack sure. willie, was it funny? was it a funny? it was supposed to be a ted lasso s quote which is why he s coming under mockery this morning. it s halloween. we love it. willie, i am wondering what do you think of facebook changing their name? if moussilini thought about this in 1994, hey, wait, my name is mourny. i thought it was the onion. they had a horrible let s call it a month since these documents leaked since francis hougan testified before congress. we learned so much and had many suspicions confirmed based on their internal documents and the answer from facebook is hey, we are called meta instead of facebook, is that better? the question is what will cheryl sandberg do if she was still working with the a company? she would change the name to meta, she just did. she disappeared. it s a disappearing act for good reason. i am just curious, we have jo