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Nana wouldn't be here.
Wally wouldn't be here.
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At the Vatican today,
tens of thousands packed into St. Peter's Square for Pope Francis' funeral service led by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Ray.
And the peace of the Lord be with you always.
The Vatican estimates some 200,000 people turned out.
The crowd included dozens of foreign leaders, including President Trump,
who met with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky right before the funeral got underway,
as Deepa Shivaram reports from Vatican City.
The White House says they'll release more details of the meeting,
which they called, quote, a very productive discussion.
It was the first time Trump and Zelensky have met