At a press gaggle on Wednesday in India, Vice President JD Vance was asked about his trip to the Vatican and India.
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00:00on doing it. Can you talk about the trip just broadly? Obviously it was very personal for you.
00:04You're Catholic, your wife is Hindu. Is that something that you have thought about over the
00:08past couple of days is just Americans and frankly the world learning more about you and your family?
00:13You know, it's really been an amazing and a special trip. And, you know, I say this all the
00:17time, but I'm very grateful to the American people for giving me this job. But I don't know that I
00:21felt more grateful than in the last week. To be able to go to Good Friday services at the Vatican,
00:27really the capital of the Catholic Church in the world. To be able to spend Easter Sunday at,
00:33right, I mean, we were steps away from the tomb of St. Paul, one of the great evangelists in the
00:38history of Christianity. And then to come here to India, the birthplace of my wife's parents,
00:43and get to experience this beautiful country, the culture, the food, which my kids have become
00:47really obsessed with. You know, my son said Indian food in America is good. Indian food in India is
00:52really, really good. And so we've had just a great time, a great trip. I think we've done a lot of
00:57good for the American people. We've done the people's business. But it's been incredibly
01:01personally enriching and rewarding, and we've had a good time.