let's listen in. >> right up against the vatican walls there. >> very excited to be at the vatican to have the opportunity to say a few words to the academy about the need for a moral economy. in my country and around the world, we are seeing a handful of very, very wealthy people become wealthier while most people are becoming poorer. in fact, the top 1% of people on this planet now own more wealth than the bottom 99%. that, to me, is unacceptable. it is unsustainable. it is immoral. and together, we have got to change that. and i have been enormous impressed by pope francis speaking out and his visionary views about creating a moral economy, an economy that works for all people, not just the people on top. and what he has said over and over again, we cannot allow the market just to do what the market does. that's not acceptable. we have got to engrain moral principles into our economy, and there is no area where that is clearer than in the area of climate change. the greed of the fossil fuel industry is literally destroying our planet. the scientists are virtually unanimous. climate

and he brought a syrian refugee family to the vatican. of course he didn't go there and pick them up. we have had one family already living in an apartment near van. they will tack care to help them in the first six months because the rules are for the first six months, you cannot work. so somebody needs to far pa pa pay whereas now the pope goes to lesbos and actually picks up these three but would you be able to describe the process? would it be the kate a would have mid the families in the course hours he was there, and they were selected based on certain criteria? >> my feeling on that is that the pope just said i want this to be done and however many we can take and whom ever they are, it doesn't matter. the fact is that there are three muslim families. the family last year was a catholic syrian family, but i don't know that was a request from the pope in particular. clearly it had to be cleared ahead of time and presumably the pope, as is his way, leaves it to the people on the ground, leaves it to the ngos and people working with t

that's vatican city, and bernie sanders is going to speak before this vatican conference. he's hoping to meet with the pope. those are actually bernie sanders supporters. see them? bernie, bernie, bernie. he may be coming out right now. let's just watch for a second. okay. so bernie is just arriving. take the banner down, please. >> okay, you see people in rome, some excited to see bernie sanders coming to deliver his speech. he's hoping to meet with pope francis. don't know if he will. harry, why did bernie sanders take a break to go to vatican city? >> that's a great question. i think that sanders, honestly, feels a kinship and a camaraderie with the pope, and they're speaking the same language, except that the pope is talking about global matters of income inequality and climate change, and that's in bernie sanders' wheel house. he sees a true comrade, and i don't know, you're invited to the vatican. you say, okay, i'll show up, and i think that it plays well in this country. i think that if hillary clinton had been invited, i think he'd have gone to rome. it just shows

bernie sanders is in the vatican talking about it. but she's been on the foreign stage policy stage much more than him, so i think it's a nice contrast. after last night's shout fest. >> neither candidate has even mentioned the debate out loud. just a few hours after what was by far the most dramatic democratic debate. stand by. a lot more to talk about including those words at that debate. the gloves, they were off amid a number of other cliches as well. bernie sanders and hillary clinton exchanged some of the fiercest blows yet. we'll discuss who came out on top if anybody. donald trump blasts a rigged system that is stacked against him? we'll talk about his new attack on his party, a wall street journal op ed. pretty dramatic words. neutrogena® cosmetics. with vitamins and antioxidants. now with foundations in shades for more skin tones. once i left the hospital after a dvt blood clot. what about my wife... ...what we're building together... ...and could this happen again? i was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was th

the vatican will be responsible for their legal status, their asylum, and will house them in the vatican at least temporarily. now, it's likely this was something that's been in the works for weeks and perhaps the most important part is that the families landed in the island of lesbos weeks before the agreement between turkey and the eu. this is an important legal status because it means they are not eligible to be deported back to turkey, which so many who arrived after march 20th are. >> atika shubert, what a story this morning. thank you. >> the funeral for the ex-nfl player who was shot and killed after a traffic accident, that is today. but now the suspect's attorney is going on the offensive. he's accused of new orleans police department of nice conduct and now wants nemov the case. >> if you're looking for a little excitement on your next business trip to san francisco, here's quick way to get your adrenaline soaring when you're off the clock. >> i'm benjamin augustine, i'm instructor at an indoor sky diving facility. we simulate the actual freefall. most of our customers are non-

officially the vatican had really distanced itself leading up to that trip. but senator sanders was staying in the same hotel where the pope lives and greeted the pope on his way out this morning. we caught up with the senator on a terrace overlooking the vatican just after that meeting. are there pictures of this meeting with the pope, or was it behind closed doors? >> well, it was neither, but we chose not to do pictures. we didn't want anyone to think it was political. >> reporter: but it is political, isn't it? >> no, it is-- if i was really being political, i'd be in new york city right now and not here in rome. >> reporter: and later, the pope went on to also say that that was not a political meeting. he said it was just politeness. and the pope said that anyone who saw it differently should "see a psychiatrist." jim. >> axelrod: seth doane reporting for us tonight from the vatican. thank you, seth. after meeting with the pope, sanders returned to campaigning in new york today with the new york primaries coming up on tuesday. in the republican race, don

bernie sanders, the overnight flight to the vatican. we don't know whether or not he'll see pope francis but already, he has had the paparazzi around him and he's talking about, you know, why he left the campaign trail to speak about economic justice in rome. >> a brief address to this conference he's there attending and focusing on the things we've heard from him all across the course of this campaign talking about global financial deregulation that he says has driven a lot of the problems that the country and frankly, the world face. standing on a stage that, you know, he probably wouldn't have had the chance to stand on had he not mounted such a spirited insurgent campaign against hillary clinton and you have him explain this trip that way saying this was essentially a bucket list item, this is something if he didn't do it, he would just regret it for the rest of his life. there, you can see him getting off the plane in rome. they flew overnight after the debate and after that speech and something of a mob scene and danny freeman did

you see sanders is in vatican city. let's bring in maria cardona who is a hillary clinton supporter and democratic bernie sanders supporter nomiki konst. i think we have the numbers we can put on the screen. $205,617. why did this take so long if this is kind of a no bold headline return? >> what we're seeing is he's very much like the average person. when they're busy they prepare taxes on their own and he released them during the tax season. and what better way to call attention to the fact that hillary was hosting a $253,000-a-plate dinner last night for the dnc which is giving money to the campaign in very curious ways. what better way to show what bernie sanders makes in a year is what hillary makes in an hour giving a speech. so this is a tale of two campaigns here. you have bernie sanders who is a man of the people, his campaign is funded by the people, and you have hillary clinton who we now learn has made $11 million in 2014 alone from giving wall street speeches and we have now learned she's giving $570,000 to

lisa: the vatican has completely distance themselves from him. it's been a bit of a slow day on the campaign trail. what happens in new york, the vacuum gets filled. here, this thing is getting a lot of coverage. david: hillary clinton is campaigning in buffalo. you can watch that on the bloomberg. ted cruz will make an appearance at the colorado republican assembly. what is it? why has he decided to go? david: we are getting great education in this country about how delegates are selected. mark: in the florida recount, we hasned that every state different voting rules and in florida, it is 67 counties, has different ways of voting as well. now, we are learning that every state has to from ways of picking the delegates. , there is a multi tiered process. it is one of many states where there are indications that ted cruz's delegate operation has been more sophisticated the donald trump's. ted cruz has personally gone to north dakota and colorado where he can appeal to delegates in a way that has so far paid dividends for him. lisa: it's interestin

i would like to talk about the vatican right now. >> okay, on the vatican, will you be meeting with pope francis? >> that is not yet clear. something i very much would like to do. the pope's schedule is determined by the vatican, but i would certainly be enthusiastic about that. >> is it on the table? >> i think there is a possibility but that has not been scheduled. >> does that mean -- >> sorry? >> does that mean you're feeling confident about new york? >> it simply means this is an invitation from the vatican from a pope that i have enormous respect for. in terms of the level of consciousness he's raising on the need to have morality in our economy. that we cannot, as the pope often tells us, simply be worshiper of greed and money. that we have got to create an economy that works for all people and not just a few. all right. we'll see you guys in brooklyn. thank you very much. >> there he goes. kasie hunt there is right beside the candidate, as she is always. covering the latest news for us. and senator bernie sanders saying that, announcing that he is going to be going to rome. going

a journey that's led her here to the vatican. asked in kids to send in samples of their tumors. 65 people did. under the supervision of her father, a scientist she discovered a common mutation. >> cbs news medical correspondent max gomez introduced ilana at the conference. >> she was able to take her own cancer, grab it by the horns, do genetic sequencing on it and find out what it was that caused her cancer. >> ilana said her research could one day help find cures for more common cancers. >> if someone else had gotten this maybe it wouldn't have turned into something as beneficial. >> she returns to the lab this summer but first heads back to harvard for finals. cbs news vatican city. >> vice president joe biden will speak at the conference tomorrow about his cancer initiative. his son died after brain cancer. >>> a review of snow totals in january set an all time record in new york. the 26.8 inches will be closed to 27.5 inches. a communication error between the weather forecast office and the central park conservancy led to th

he met with reporters outside the vatican. bernie sanders is meeting with bernie sanders supporters outside the vatican in rome. what about the new york primary? that is starting on tuesday. you would i think if he closing gap with hillary clinton he would want to be here. we asked people outside of st. patrick's cathedral outside of rome what he told us. >> if he wasn't talking about things with basically christian values to begin with, it might not be appropriate. we think everyone needs a decent way to maintain themselves in the world. any place you speak about that is a good thing. reporter: so bernie sanders who talks about a moral economy is in line with what the pope says with regards to a moral economy. but of course the new york primary is the headline. on tuesday mr. sanders will find out if voters agree with him. he is closing the gap. sienna college poll earlier in the week at one point had hillary clinton ahead by 20 points. she is only ahead by 10 points. the national fox poll shows on national level she is only

sanders flying to rome for a vatican conference on economic and social justice. there was no meeting with pope francis, but a chance for sanders to speak on the world stage. >> we must reject the foundations of this contemporary economy as immoral and unsustainable. >> reporter: for clinton, a quick visit to harlem. >> and i now know where to come when i want a good game of dominos. >> reporter: before heading to hollywood for a weekend of star-studded fund-raising with george clooney. but tonight deep divisions are hanging over the democratic race after their brawl in brooklyn. >> i am sure a lot of people are very surprised to learn that you supported raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. >> you know, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. >> that's not accurate. >> i have stood on the debate stage with senator sanders. >> reporter: their voices rising, wolf blitzer had to play referee. >> if you're both screaming at each other, the viewers won't be able to hear either of you. >> reporter: a fierce fight over minimum wage to the influence of big b

sanders is saying he's going to the vatican next friday. there's a debate next thursday in brooklyn so after that he's heading to the vatican for a conference on the economy. he says he'll go back to the campaign trail a week from saturday. this is very interesting. pope francis did not issue the invite. i was told by a senior vatican source i was speaking to. bloomberg is quoting another vatican official saying bernie sanders invited himself, this was a breach of protocol in the middle of a presidential campaign. the vatican official said, that's not true. sanders did not invite himself. he was invited by a monseigneur who is holding this event on the economy. it's interesting because bernie sanders earlier was talking about how he and pope francis see eye to eye on a lot of issues. >> pope francis, to my mind, has been an extraordinary leader in making the world conscious of the levels of the wealth inequality that exists on our planet. >> they obviously do not see eye to eye on a lot of other issues like abortion though. you're already s

but no words that the vatican is willing to share. there were no words, no promises, no other endorsements. just a greeting. >> reporter: nothing of the sort. what's interesting is that one of our producers spoke with jeffrey sacks, columbia university professor and adviser to professor sanders, who is also close to the pope. he suggested that it was pope francis who took the initiative, so there's a bit of a mystery in all of this. hopefully we will get to the bottom of it. >> nonetheless, if you get a chance to shake the hands of the pope, you still have bragging rights to say i was in the room with the pope, i got to shake hands. that's still a nice story to be able to tell. ben wedeman, thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> we are also learning that bernie sanders, the senator, is expected to land in new york in about three hours from now from that trip from that encounter. >>> coming up, trump and cruz, they don't get along but there is one thing they can agree on, they both think the economy is doomed. this as we wait for donald

look at vatican city right there. what a gorgeous shot and robin is there for a very special event. >> buon giorno, america. yes, i'm here in the middle of moderating and participating in a history-making conference. it's something that is very near and dear to my heart about stem cell research. yep, doing that here at the vatican. it could provide hope for millions including one young girl whose story i cannot wait to share with you and i will later this morning. but now back to you in new york. amy and george. >> all right, robin, thank you. we know the vatican is especially important for robin. there before her own stem cell transplant. nice to see her back. >>> we'll begin with that severe weather outbreak across the country. heavy rains and strong winds at least 17 tornadoes reported damaging hail too and this morning, more storms are heading south. ginger here with the latest. hey there. >> we are in the midst of the most active severe weather outbreak so far this year. anywhere from nebraska to kentucky, even c

he vowed that the vatican will look after them. a charity sets them up with their initial need that francis said he will take full responsibility for them. uma, they are all muslims and they all lost their homes in bombings. when asked why this particular dozen were chosen. pope francis said because their documents were in order. that's quite important given all the security concerns and also, he said a reason for their privilege, uma, that their children has died. >> very, very lucky, indeed. amy, thank you very much. >>> well, we continue on capitol hill back in this country. >> it is the latest drama among speaker ryan house leader and lawmakers who are still feuding over this. john kasich is getting the meet in the big apple. the city's relatively small pool of republicans. zulu-6-9er... clear for take off. roger that! see ya! we are outta here! woo! when you're living with diabetes. . . . t pay. and could save you in out-of-pocket medical cos. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plan

up a hectic schedule has an event in brooklyn tonight, hours after meeting with pope francis at the vatican. >>> i want to begin out west where we are awaiting results for the republican delegates in wyoming. a contest that had ted cruz and donald trump launching attacks at one another today. >> after he talked about new york values, talked about it in such a disgusting way, who in new york would vote for this guy? and who in new york would vote for the other guy who is in favor of nafta. again, i'm sorry, folks. you only got trump. that's all you have. you have to have it, okay? >> now it is easy to talk about making america great again, you can even print that on a baseball cap. but the real question is do you understand the principles and values that made america great in the first place. >> cnn's ana cabrera is in casper, wyoming. we were supposed to hear wyoming results by now, it is taking longer than expected. what's going on? >> reporter: as you can imagine, they're being extra careful because of scrutiny the election process received this cycle. we know here there are more than 500

bernie sanders in vatican city and he is not meeting the pope. he is busy with a trip of his own but is attending an economic conference there and told reporters why he made the trip today instead of working for much-needed votes in new york. >> i believe the pope has played a historical, an incredible role in trying to create the new world economy and a new vision for the people of our planet. what he is saying is that we cannot continue to go forward when so few have so much and when greed is such a destructive force, not only in the united states, of course, but throughout this world. so this is -- i have long been a supporter of the economic vision of pope francis, his views on climate change have played a profound role. let me tell you, i'm a member of the senate committee on the environment. pope francis' encyclical has played a profound role in turn inging many minds around about t urgency of the moment. when i received this invitation -- i know it is taking me away from the campaign trail for a day but when i received this information it

ecuador's president has cut --rt of the vatican to climb cut short his visit to the vatican to fly home. he declared a national emergency. russians are getting a and rescue teams were they are needed. several other latin american countries have stepped in. >> neighborly solidarity in the wake of tragedy. the present -- the president of columbia meets with search and rescue teams down in ecuador a day after earthquakes rocked the country's north west leaving hundreds dead. >> rescuers are going with equipment and rescue dogs. they will be there as long as is needed. other latin american countries are also lending a hand, including chile, sicko and venezuela -- mexico and venezuela. who will help there in his first 48 hours. ,escuers, doctors, k-9 units experts in hazardous material. >> on the ground, humanitarian aid has begun arriving. meanwhile, the ecuadorian leader cut short his state visit to italy to deal with the crisis. briefed by officials among the debris after declaring a state of emergency in six provinces. 14,000 security personnel to the affected areas. the president said t

a journey that led her here to the vatican. she turned to youtube and asked other kids with her same type of cancer to send in samples of their own tumors. under the supervision of her father, a scientist, she discovered a common mutation in each sample. >> alana simon. [ applause ] >> reporter: cbs news medical correspondent dr. max gomez introduced alana at the conference. >> she was able to take her own cancer, grab it by the horns if you will, do genetic sequencing on it, and really find out what it was that caused her cancer. >> reporter: alana says her research could one day help find cures for more common cancers. >> if someone else had gotten it instead of me, maybe it wouldn't have turned into something beneficial. >> reporter: alana return to the lab this summer but first heads to harvard for finals. cbs news, vatican city. >> pretty remarkable. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," we'll show how acres of farmland are taking root in chicago's south side. we talk with a curator of ted talks, chris

there was a "bloomberg news" report suggesting, quoting another vatican official suggesting that bernie sanders invited himself. had broken protocol in some way. what my source from the vatican is making clear, it is not a direct meeting as you say with pope francis. yes, this pope as well as bernie sanders have a shared agenda perhaps on the economy in terms of income inequality but there are obviously sharp differences between the vatican and bernie sanders on abortion, on same-sex marriage. a whole host of social issues. so it is being made very clear to me, it is highly unlikely bernie sanders will have one-on-one with pope francis. last thing he want to do get in the middle of this hotly-contested u.s. presidential campaign, deirdre. deirdre: that would be seem to be diplomatically wise. he had henry, got to see you as always. >> good to be here. deirdre: wisconsin radio show charlie sykes will be my guest later on in the show. i will will ask him what he thinks of sanders's trip. obama's campaign in a race to finalize regulations that affect all kinds of businesses. in is first se

this is vatican city here. >> yes. this was the house of the pope. >> reporter: bishop marcello sanchez sorondo invited sanders brought world attention to a usually obscure conference at an academy which advises pope francis on issues like social inequality. by inviting senator sanders-- here's his name plate-- you're really wading right into the middle of a major political moment. >> that is important. >> the pope. >> reporter: the pope has already figured in this campaign after donald trump suggested building a wall between mexico and the u.s. "a person who only thinks about building walls," he said "is not christian." would you ever see a donald trump name plate here? >> i don't see it. you can find maybe. >> reporter: officially, the vatican has distanced itself from this invitation and has told us the pope will not meet senator sanders. this trip was billed about being above politics, scott, but, rather, it sooms to be all about politics. >> pelley: seth doane, the man in rome. seth, thank you. on this, the third

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there is a lot of internal stuff going on in vatican city. just focusing on this one question, is this a good use of bernie sanders' time flying off to rome? erik: unless he gets a meeting with the pope. me. is a clickable to there are a lot of disputes about whether he is invited or not whatever. theink he's sort of likes notion of being invited by some arm of the vatican to go. jew that he is. [laughter] go 48 hours before a campaign -- primary must-win, it seems ill-advised. whether he was invited or lobbied for an invitation -- matt: we have images of him standing under the sistine chapel with the pope. john: before these controversies broke out, i looked at this and said this is a long trip. this is a must when primary for him. foreign maybe helps his policy credentials. the pope has become a liberal icon in some ways. mark: if he got a photo with the pope, i would say would be barely worth it. john: if you loses the new york primary by a point or two having york,two days out of new if he loses this primary by a point, people will say th

he said that, although the vatican stressed this was not a political visit. that this was a humanitarian one. one. >> the pope demonstrates in this way that everyone has to engage themselves in solutions or try to help the solution for these situations. >> reporter: however, by his very presence here, by some of the things that he said and by taking back those 12 syrian migrants, this was a political act and a moral visit, a short visit, a symbolic one, but a very, very significant one. back to you. >>> when we come back, a cyber attack targets one local police >> reporter: a 12-year-old boy from long island is facing arson charges. he was playing with a plumber's torch in hempstead last night. the garage caught fire. it was completely in flames when the fire department got on the scene. nobody was hurt. newark's police department computers are back up and running after a recent cyber attack. authorities tell us a virus infected their systems last week, temporarily locking down the servers. there's no evidence any information was compromised. a backup system

a detour to the vatican where he actually met the pope. but let's be clear. this was not a papal endorsement of bernie sanders. more of a sanders endorsement of pope francis. the crucial new york primary just a few days away, it's a must win for both democrats, and yet both of them spent the day thousands of miles away consulting with higher powers. no pictures yet, but as he left the papal residence this morning, bernie sanders was glowing after a brief audience with pope francis. >> he is a beautiful man, and there is a radiance that comes from him. it was a very, very wonderful moment to me. >> all: bernie, bernie, bernie. >> reporter: sanders had gone to vatican city on a wing and a prayer unsure they'd actually meet, no promises given, accepting an invitation to speak at a vatican conference on the economy and the environment. >> and i have been enormously impressed by pope francis speaking out and his visionary views. >> reporter: pope francis begged off the conference citing his trip to lesbos today to meet with syrian refugees, but sanders spent the n

anne thompson live for us at the vatican. nbc's alex seitz-wald is covering the democratic presidential campaign. the other candidate in this race, hillary clinton. her first stop was at harlem senior center here in new york. that's before she heads out west for those fundraisers that anne mentioned. why did she choose to make this stop today at the senior center? what's the significance there? >> reporter: it was just the other day that it was pointed out that neither hillary clinton or bernie sanders had visited a public housing facility. today hillary clinton went to visit a senior apartment with the city council, coincidence or not, and she spoke about what she wants to do about affordable housing, especially for the latino community. this is a group she's targeting in new york. housing is so expensive for many people. take a look at what she said. >> i'm making investing in affordable housing a major priority of what i call my breaking every barrier agenda. so we're going to create more incentives from the federal govern

he is leaving the campaign trail thursday to travel to vatican city. some sanders supporters really worry since he's an underdog is it in his best interest and best use of his time to do this especially given the fact he's not even publicly meeting with the pope? >> there's not a lot of primary voters hanging out at the vatican, that's for sure. yes -- >> is this odd to you? >> it is. listen, i love the pope. i think bernie connects wonderfully with the vatican these days, but yeah, i think it's odd. he might have agree and then realized oh wait a second, i'm also running for president. >> yeah. doesn't really work with my schedule here, but could he be thinking of a general election here and you're looking at what a jewish politician going to speak at the vatican. i mean, does that really resonate with some voters? >> well, all of that is good. i like the sound of that, but you have to get the nomination first. >> i was going to say -- the new york primary. >> i think that would have been a good thing to do in -- you know, july or august if it was loo

the senator spoke at a vatican conference. he was talking about the impact of political money on the big system. here is part of what he said. >> the consequences have been even more dire than the disasterous effects of financial bubbles and falling living standards of working class families. our very soul, our very soul as a nation has suffered. as the public has lost faith in political and social institutions. >> can one run for office without supporting big money donors? >> i think in a presidential race you have to be financially viable. i remember when i was running after two primaries unless you have resources you can't keep on running. i think for instance with hillary clinton in california, i know that sanders is attacked her for the clooney fund-raiser. this is very common. this is money going to the democratic national committee. bernie sanders has a lot of money from actors, from the hollywood community. he's raising more money than hillary clinton. this is money that is from individuals in california that care abou

he is going to the vatican i guess tomorrow. that makes sense to me for someone running for mayor 15 years ago. i'm not so sure it makes some guy in the middle of a presidential campaign right now. >> i want to come back to the vatican thing in a minute. let me stick with this one thing. it seems to me the tensions between the two campaigns have escalated in the last few days. they got to new york and the gloves, which had more or less been on for pretty much the democratic throughout the democratic nomination sort of came off and both campaigns are much testier with each other. who is getting the better of the negativity in a political sense if you know what i mean? >> it's hard to tell. i think at this point, it's probably hillary clinton. i'm not surprised. i'll tell you why. you don't expect it from bernie sanders. he sort of presented himself as a different politician. so when you see him doing this stuff, it doesn't seem right. it doesn't fit right, because one of the things that's been so refreshing about this, at least t

." >> in this way that everyone has to engage themselves in find solution or try to help >> the vatican says all three families fled syria after their homes were bombed. a catholic charity is helping to resettle them. >>> now to campaign 2016, the presidential candidates are spread out across the country with the new york primary just days away. donald trump campaigned upstate. john kasich also spent the day in new york, first at a deli on the upper west side before speaking at a synagogue on long island, and ted cruz spent the day in wyoming. meanwhile the democratic candidates were also busy. hillary clinton is in california for some big ticket fundraisers, ask bernie sanders is back in new york tonight. he met with pope francis while visiting the vatican this morning. >> find out how long this great weather will last. coming up next. >>> it's finally starting to feel and look like spring. tulips are in full bloom and will be for the nest two weeks. there will be more than 13,000 tulips and other spring flowers on display. what a perfect day for tulips. elise finch is here with how lo

he said the vatican would take care of the refugees, whose homes were bombed in the syrian civil war. newshour special correspondent malcolm brabant is in lesbos and joins me now. you malcolm, what was the purpose of the pope's visit? what prompted him coming right now to that island? >> this is entirely consistent with pope francis' desire to thrust himself into the front lines of situations around the world which need attention drawn to them. he's been to the central african republic. and he needed to come to lesbos to show solidarity with the greek people who have been taking on this enormous burden, but most of all, he wanted to come and look in the eyes of the refugeees and migrants who were here to show them they mustn't give up hope, that he has great affection for them, but also send the message to the rest of the world they should not be rejected. >> stewart: was it seen as a critique of european policy? >> he went to pained of pains to point out that this was not a critique of the european union's deal with turkey, who sent people back on this island after march 20. but he c

he was just leaving the vatican. there's been a lot of talk about whether this visit will have a payoff for him, especially looking at the numbers as we see now between him and hillary clinton here in new york. are you concerned that that trip might hurt him? >> not at all. the senator is really honored to be highlighted by this conference at the vatican talking about social, economic, and environmental justice issues that effect the whole globe. he's honored to be there, and he will be back in the empire state tomorrow campaigning. i think he gets a lot of people who are following those issues and know that he's -- globally connected to folks concerned about those issues. >> one of the findings is among sanders supporters 30% said they would not support secretary clinton if she were the nominee. focus in the republican party was about divisions there, but there's some serious divisions within the democratic party. do you believe sanders supporters, if hillary clinton is in fact the nominee, will be able to rally aro

as jonathan vigliotti reports from vatican city. the president says the disease needs international attention. >> reporter: joe biden came to vatican city in search of allies in the fight against cancer. he and the pope delivered passionate speeches on fighting cancer in a conference of regenerative medicine. >> it's a great honor to be back in the vatican. >> reporter: biden thanked the pope for comforting his family after the loss of his son who died of cancer last year. and then tried to rally international support behind the white house's so-called cancer moonshop program. which aims to develop new treatments and find a cure >> we should be doing everything possible to find cures and treatments with urgency. >> reporter: biden hopes the pope's seal of approval will persuade other companies and medical research and data. calling on the international community to make the latest in cancer treatments available to the poor saying these illnesses affect millions throughout the world. biden at times expressed from us thaition that the

himself to that vatican conference. our own reporters are looking into it. i don't know how it came about. can you tell us how that vatican invitation came about this week? >> i can't and don't have the details myself, but i can tell you this. i know the politics of the new york primary are extraordinarily complicated. as a lifelong practicing roman catholic, i can't imagine how complicated the politics of the vatican are. i find out before i say anything on that issue. >> as somebody who interviewed bernie sanders moments after the pope's speech, i know how moved he was by the pope's speech and identifies with the pope on the social values. >> he does. and i would just refer to everyone with his speech at liberty university where he invoked pope francis in a call for a moral economy. whether it's changing to work for people or very environmental sustainability. that's why he accepted this invitation. >> tad devine, good to see you. thank you very much. >>> bill clinton weighing in, as we say, on the whole issue of whet

they claimed that the vatican sister rose claimed that the vatican had signed off on it and said the arch diocese could sell it but you say that was a false translation? >> yes. can you see, greta, we have the false translation that was given to the arch disease. and then we have the correct translation that came from rome. >> did someone deliberately do a false translation? do you believe that was deliberately done to deprive the nuns of being able to sell the property and get the proceeds? >> well, truthfully, it's our property and i can't say what was deliberate or not deliberate. but, to me, as a person looking on, everything that's been happening to us has been deliberately taken away our property, our right to our money just to make sure we have no income and this is all to me done deliberately and our property -- >> and what i understand. >> we bought it. >> correct me if i am wrong, the arch disease wants the proceeds and they have $660 million judgment that they have to pay off for clergy misconduct in the sex abuse scandal or the money goes to your order to support your ord