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Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Vice President Van said yesterday that the Pope should be very, very, very important for the |
| 0:06.1 | Pope be careful when he talks about matters of theology. Do you agree with that sentiment? |
| 0:11.3 | You talk about matters of theology? Yeah. Isn't that his job? |
| 0:15.8 | It is. Senate Majority Leader John Soon responding to Vice President Vance's advice to Pope Leo. |
| 0:24.0 | And despite backlash for posting a picture depicting him as Jesus, |
| 0:29.1 | President Trump shared another religious image on social media yesterday. |
| 0:33.5 | This one shows Jesus embracing the president to which Trump wrote, the radical left |
| 0:41.2 | lunatics might not like this, but I think it's quite nice. Yeah, no, it's not the radical |
| 0:46.9 | left lunatics that are upset about this. It's actually, it's people of faith that are offended by this. |
| 0:57.3 | And the continued use of Jesus in these grotesque AI generated images, it's not the radical left. |
| 1:04.9 | I thought, my gosh, Republicans, I thought the radical left were godless. |
| 1:15.0 | So I'm not sure why he would think that would upset the left. |
| 1:16.4 | It's actually conservative. |
| 1:25.8 | So you can read many of his longtime supporters and read the Times yesterday, Ross do thought, talking about how bad this is. And again, the continued savaging of the Pope and the continued justification of the |
| 1:31.3 | savaging of the Pope by the Vice President and the President is, again, your problem is not |
| 1:40.9 | from the Manhattan Young Marxist League. |
| 1:44.7 | The problem is coming from inside your house, sir. |
| 1:49.2 | You might want to stop mocking Jesus Christ. |
| 1:53.3 | It's what the kids call a 90-10 issue, |
| 1:57.8 | and you're on the 10 side of that equation there. 90% are deeply offended by that. |
| 2:06.7 | Also, Vice President Vance was asked what the administration has done that he's proud of. |
| 2:12.6 | We'll play for you that answer. We're also going to talk about New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani, who's |
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