"You're meeting with the Pope?" "Yup".

[Old Crow]

365. LOL. I see you are down to your weak-sauce responses now.

In all seriousness, thanks for the thread. It's been a lot of fun debating this topic, and I mean that sincerely. I've gotten a somewhat better since of who you are and I don't mean that in a bad way, either. By and large, all your questions strike me as honest and civil, which is always a good thing.

I hope you haven't been offended by some of my sharper retorts. I enjoy debate, try to do it with a sense of humor, but there's no denying that it can be rough-and-tumble.

I've learned a bit, too. Yes, Sanders uttered a lie with that "Yup!". To my mind, it's not a big deal, but it was a lie and I think he knew it: If you watch your own video, you'll see he looks down a moment while delivering that "Yup!", which tells me he knew the answer wasn't true.

What do I wish Sanders had done? Well, in a better world, he would have held up his hand and said something to the effect of, "Let me stop you right there, Joy. I don't know if I'm going to get a chance to meet the Pope. I hope I do, and we'll see about that. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. For the time being, I'm simply attending, by invitation, a Vatican conference, and I'm honored to be a part of it."

But this is in the midst of a heated primary, I think Behar's question caught him by surprise, and he was in front of a large studio audience, just waiting to cheer. The situation with the Vatican was still unfolding and the Vatican had not excluded the possibility of meeting the Pope (nor have they). So Bernie Sanders was human and uttered the "Yup." I can forgive him for that. It's probably too much to ask you to forgive him the "Yup," but you might suprise me.