Reporting live Thursday from the Vatican ahead of Saturday’s funeral mass for Pope Francis, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson ended the show with a veiled hit on President Trump as a contrast to Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders as the former (using the catch-all phrase “American politics”) embraces “flash and hubris” while the other show humility and love.
In much the same way his commentaries at the end of CBS Evening News Plus go (as well as his hot takes in general), they usually have a connection to current events and this was no exception.
“In three separate conversations I had today with a cardinal and archbishop and a priest, the comparison to American politics came up when talking about how the next pope will be chosen. But there is a significant difference between the two systems,” Dickerson began.
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