In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[EX Q]: President Barack Obama gave Pope Francis a box of seeds as a gift, a fitting token as their first-ever meeting provided a fresh start of sorts between the administration and Catholic leadership after years of strained relations. "These, I think, are carrots," Obama told the Pontiff, showing him a pouch from the box, which was made from timber from the first cathedral to open in the United States, in Baltimore. The Pope gave the President two medallions -- one symbolizing the need for peace and solidarity between the two hemispheres -- and a copy of "Evangelii Gaudium," or "The Joy of the Gospel." The book was penned by the Pope and calls for a new era of evangelization and a renewed focus on the poor.The meeting is called a step toward smoothing tensions with CatholicsAbortion and Obamacare mandates on contraception are areas of disagreementOne place for common ground: the plight of immigrants and the poorPope Francis' popularity could give President Obama a small bump in the polls 
 Question:"One of the things that would delight _ is if some of that popularity would rub off.
[EX A]: Barack Obama

[EX Q]: (CNN) In their final meeting before pivotal nominating contests Tuesday in Ohio and Florida, the four remaining Republican presidential candidates are sharing a debate stage once again -- this time in Miami, where CNN's Jake Tapper takes the reins as moderator. Here are a few of the most memorable lines from Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich. (For the blow-by-blow, check out the CNN live blog.) Trump makes the case he's bringing in new voters to the GOP: "One of the biggest political events anywhere in the world is happening right now with the Republican Party. Millions and millions of people are going out to the polls and they are voting. ... The Republican establishment, or whatever you want to call it, should embrace what's happening."Trump on Trump's success: "The Republican establishment, or whatever you want to call it, should embrace what's happening"Rubio: "I'm against any changes to Social Security that are bad for my mother"Kasich: "I'd be maybe running for president of Croatia if it weren't for immigration" 
 Question:Kasich perhaps leaving some room for contesting _ at the convention: "Math doesn't tell the whole story in politics."
[EX A]: Donald Trump

[EX Q]: Washington (CNN) It wasn't Donald Trump's day. June 9, 2016 -- the day that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with a Russian lawyer to get opposition research on Hillary Clinton -- was a 24-hour period that the businessman-turned-presidential candidate likely hated: The spotlight wasn't on him. But more than a year after that unseasonably cool Thursday in New York, what happened on June 9 has intensified the spotlight on Trump -- now president -- and his family. News of the meeting between Natalia Veselnitskaya, billed in an email as a "Russian government attorney" and three of Trump's top campaign aides has rocked the Trump White House and led Clinton's vice presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine, to speculate whether Trump Jr.'s behavior amounts to treason.June marked the unofficial start of the general electionThe meeting was scheduled for 4:00 p.m. in Donald Trump Jr.'s office 
 Question:Obama's backing of Clinton was always assumed, but _ quickly responded.
[EX A]:
Donald Trump

