After meeting with the Pope yesterday, J.D. Vance responds to his passing.

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Will Haines is joining me in studio.

We've got a pack show later on. Rick

Grinnell and Mike Pompeo will be joining us to discuss some of the latest news coming out of

Washington, D.C., as well as some of those negotiations still happening in Iran.

But of course, we're going to open the show with what everyone's talking about is that it's the

passing of the Pope. The Pope has died today on Easter Monday, aged 88 years old.

We have seen the Pope just yesterday giving an Easter address and meeting with Vice President

Vance. So, of course, we knew he had a lot of health problems, had a lot of health struggles over the last few months.

It did seem like things were maybe getting better for Pope Francis. But unfortunately, he passes, let's say,

you know, being the Pope, be able to do the Easter address just a few hours before you pass.

It's pretty phenomenal. And, you know, there's a lot of, look, there's a lot of controversy with

this Pope over the last few years. And I think we're going to talk about that coming up in the

next segment of what the future of the Catholic Church looks like and how it plays on the world stage versus how it

plays in America, as we have seen a rise in American conservatives joining the Catholic

Church. And we do have a statement from Vice President Vance, who again, just met with him

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