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For close to 90 minutes. thats triple the length of the meeting that president trump held with pope francis back in 2017. aside from just looking genuinely happy to be there, you could tell that president biden had been looking forward to this visit for some time. i know this is true not just because of how warmly they hit it off but also because of the gift that he brought for the pope. if you, like me, sort of make a habit of following the visits that world leaders make to the vatican, you kno...

Rep. Henry Cuellar announced on Thursday morning during his “Conversations with...

Sirious xm progress. and former aid to clinton in many, many roles. im courious from both of you, where are we? how do you describe this moment where we are? paul, to you first. >> well, the president may be in st. peters basilica, but his bill is in purgatory. right now, but theyll get it. im confident they will. why do i say that? well, to put it in perspective, f.d.r. had 318 democrats when he was president. l.b.j. had 295. those guys could lose 100 and still pass their bill. clinton and obam...

Stalling about the vatican, the pope. stalling asked how many divisions does the pope have? it seems when that pope was polish, he had just enough to help bring down the soviet union. >> i was just going to say, if we look at the relationships between presidents and popes and the cold war, thats right at the heart of everything. you can point to pope paul he had much impact at that time. just to put a button on the story of lbj, around christmas time in 1967, the pope presented president johnson...

So we have to flush it out with legislative language, but im hopeful that in the weeks to come, were going to pass both that bipartisan infrastructure framework and the build back better act. >> do you understand the conversation? and again, this is what jeremy was talking to, that a lot of the american people feel, you know, this morning, the white house coms director went on "morning joe" and said, you know, praise pramila jayapal, the progressive caucus leader saying, look, she had great thin...

Some great moment, john. my favorite when l.b.j. handed the pope a bust himself provering that donald trump was not the only president who had a high opinion of himself. there had been other meetings that gone a bit better. lets hope today as well. >> nothing says hey, i am a humble guy just to serve the lord and the people than giving someone your bust. it was one of those moments. >> awkward. >> you know there was president reagan and john paul ii, something that comes to mind. also, the presi...

A Scottish university will on Thursday hand over to a Nigerian delegation a Benin Bronze that was among thousands looted by British troops in 1897, the third European institution in two days to return cultural artefacts to their African homelands.

To patty murrays point, what do you say to that argument. youre really going to let one 74 year old guy from west virginia kill a family medical leave? >> i think its an outstanding question, this seems to be what man joe manchin has said in worries drawing the line, i have a feeling maybe that maybe back on the table, i think, eugene make some great points, part of the problem here is the expectations were so high, the notion is transformational along the lines of lbj or fdr, just created enorm...

Democrats in a way that lbj never had to, as he goes overseas to two critical summits. and politically, terry mccauliffe, theyre saying they have to be done just a week ago. it is important for the race and the midterms. what the president is saying is that youre going to lose the house and potentially the senate if you dont back me. >> were going to focus on what is in the bill. >> but senator, how do you get the infrastructure bill, the

A Cambridge University college and Paris museum will on Wednesday hand back cultural artefacts that were looted from West Africa during the colonial era, setting a precedent that will pressure other institutions to return stolen works.