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We got excited seeing him this close, to see him walking towards you. >> i saw him in washington and as i was waiting, there is a little receiving line, my hair was standing on the end. i'm not catholic. and then what i said in here, i said first all of new york loves you catholic and non-catholic alike and congress was just inspired by your speech. i said just about everybody would agree it was one of the best, if not the best speech we have heard and cardinal dolin said what a compliment and he said yes, thank you very, very much. a humble modest man but amazing. >> there is, i mean, this ar...

Again. i think back to the message that ronald reagan and pope john paul ii sent to those behind the iron curtain back in the late '70s and '80s. and it inspired -- we heard stories later, it inspired people locked up in soviet gulags. here we heard both the president and the pontiff speeblg about religious persecution. and too many christians across the middle east and across the globe have believed that their plight has been ignored for too long. it certainly wasn't today on the world's largest stage. >> exactly. what's great about this, this is a theme pa pothat pope francis going back to b...

Senate herself to show uh thanks to his colleagues fsh for support they have shown her and her family since senator pinckney was killed. jennifer did not speak publically on this visit. the the outpouring of support for her from other senators was public and very moving. >> this state loves you and your girls. they love the entire pinckney family. we can keep our arms wrapped around you and this family forever. it's the least we can do for our brother clement. >> members of the senate former presidented a receiving line for jennifer pink any. one by one the members came forward to pay their re...

It's the least we can do for our brother clementa. >> members of the senate former formed a receiving line for jennifer pinckney. one by one the members came forward to pay their respects. it was a moving moment there on the senate floor in south carolina. that's what happened in the south carolina senate today. immediately after that same body gave final approval to remove the confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol. the final vote was 36-3 following it up with a receiving line clementa pinckney set up uh. now the legislation passes to the other house. for a little while this a...

Girls. they love the entire pinckney family. we can keep our arms wrapped around you and this family forever. it's the least we can do for our brother clement. >> members of the senate former presidented a receiving line for jennifer pink any. one by one the members came forward to pay their respects. it was a moving moment there on the senate floor in south carolina. that's what happened in the south carolina senate today. immediately after that same body gave final approval to remove the confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol. the final vote was 36-3 following it up with a re...