Speaking to reporters in Agra, India, Vice President JD Vance was asked about being one of the last people to meet with Pope Francis.
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00:00What does it feel like knowing you were maybe one of the last officials to meet with him before you died?
00:04Yeah, you know, I've thought a lot about that.
00:06I mean, it's pretty crazy, actually.
00:09And obviously when I saw him, I didn't know that he had less than 24 hours still on this earth.
00:13I think it was a great blessing.
00:15But, you know, I think he saw a lot of people.
00:18I think he affected a lot of lives.
00:20And I try to just, you know, remember that I was lucky that I got to shake his hand
00:24and tell him that I pray for him every day because I did and I do.
00:27In his final Easter message that the Archbishop read in St. Peter's Square,
00:33you know, he talked about not stirring up contempt against the vulnerable and migrants
00:37and the logic of fear not being something world leaders should yield to.
00:41Do you have any thoughts on that?
00:43And has his death caused you at all to reflect on the policies of the Trump administration in any way?
00:48Well, I think that obviously a lot of people, especially in the American press,
00:52want to make the Holy Father his entire legacy and even his death about American politics.
00:57I think he was obviously a much broader figure than the United States of America.
01:01He represents over a billion Catholics worldwide.
01:04Yes, I'm aware that he had some disagreements with some of the policies of our administration.
01:08He also had a lot of agreements with some of the policies of our administration.
01:12I'm not going to soil the man's legacy by talking about politics.
01:16I think he was a great Christian pastor, and that's how I choose to...