00:00The reaction to this is to say, well, you know, he shouldn't have said that.
00:04And look, there are certainly things that the Pope has said in the last few months that I disagree with.
00:08Let me just take like one very concrete example related to this conflict in Iran.
00:14So the Pope said something where he said, and I'm going to try to remember the exact quote,
00:20but he said that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword.
00:24God is never on the side of those who wield the sword.
00:27I'm pretty sure that he said that exact statement.
00:30Now, on the one hand, again, I like that the Pope is an advocate for peace.
00:35I think that's certainly one of his roles.
00:37On the other hand, how can you say that God is never on the side of those who wield the
00:42sword?
00:43Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis?
00:49Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated Holocaust camps
00:53and liberated those innocent people from, you know, those who had survived the Holocaust?
00:58I certainly think the answer is yes.
01:03And I agree.
01:03Jesus Christ does not.
01:04I agree.
01:05Jesus Christ certainly does not support genocide.
01:07Whoever yelled that out from the dark, he certainly does not.
01:11I think that's pretty easy.
01:12I think that's a pretty easy principle.
01:17Okay, so here's a guy.
01:20Let me just say this.
01:21This is a guy.
01:22No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:25First of all, random dude who's shouting.
01:27Can I finish my point, and then I'll respond to what you just shouted?
01:30Is that okay?
01:31Okay, great.
01:32Yeah, can we give him one second to answer this?
01:35So let me just finish this question on the Pope,
01:37and then I want to respond to what this guy said.
01:38So, number one, when the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword,
01:47there is a thousand-year, more than a thousand-year tradition of just war theory, okay?
01:53Now, we can, of course, have disagreements about whether this or that conflict is just,
01:57but I think that it's important, in the same way that it's important for the Vice President of the United
02:00States
02:01to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy,
02:04I think it's very, very important for the Pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.
02:10And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been,
02:14again, hey, random dude screaming, I told you I'd respond to your point.
02:18I just want to respond to this question first.
02:20But I think one of the issues here is that if you're going to opine on matters of theology,
02:26you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth,
02:29and that's one of the things that I try to do,
02:31and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant.
02:35Now, to respond to this guy here, he said,
02:39I believe he said the administration supports a genocide in Gaza.
02:44And here's my response to that.
02:46When we came in, the humanitarian situation in Gaza was an absolute catastrophe.
02:52You know who's the person who got a peace agreement in Gaza?
02:56Donald J. Trump.
02:57So if you want to complain about what happened in Gaza...
03:05So if you want, sir, to complain about what happened in Gaza,
03:09why don't you complain about Joe Biden in the last administration?
03:12We're the administration that solved that problem.
03:19And by the way, not only was our administration, like the administration that solved the problem,
03:26but the president...
03:30Excuse me, sir.
03:32Right now, right now, you see more humanitarian aid coming into Gaza than it has any time in the past
03:41five years.
03:42Because we have taken that situation seriously.
03:45And that's one of the things that I'm proud of about our administration,
03:49is whether it's there or Thailand and Cambodia,
03:53we have consistently tried as much as we can to solve these problems,
03:58not just complain about them like the guy who just ran away angry.
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