Pope Francis attends a solemn mass to commemorate the Feast of the Epiphany at the St. Peter's Basilica on January 6, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican.

Presidential Talking Points: Climate Change, Racism and Gun Control

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 22, 2015

Listeners call in to report how Charleston and the pope's climate change encyclical went over at religious services over the weekend. Then, Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for The Washington Post and Eli Stokols, national political reporter for POLITICO, discuss how Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment and the mass shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina are playing into the 2016 presidential race.

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