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Bono Meets With Vice President Mike Pence In Munich

Bono is in Germany right now for the Munich Security Conference this weekend. On Friday, he delivered another speech about how development of education, employment, and empowerment can prevent extremism in third-world countries, and yesterday, he briefly met with Mike Pence. The U2 singer thanked the Vice President for defending the President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), helping to get it passed in 2003 and renewed it in 2008. Watch their conversation below.

Bono meets Vice President Mike Pence in Munich: "You're the second busiest man on earth." https://t.co/RgGAioQJyG pic.twitter.com/xB7ZFi1A4t

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 18, 2017

Enjoyed chatting w/ Bono at @MunSecConf. Discussed prior effort to twice pass Africa AIDS assistance & future security in developing nations pic.twitter.com/LJcvF4mXid

— Vice President Pence (@VP) February 18, 2017

Trump and Kanye, Bono and Pence.

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