Two years ago, some folks were surprised when Pastor Rick Warren, a renowned evangelical minister, invited a Democratic senator from Illinois to join him for a World AIDS Day summit with a Republican senator before Warren's traditionally conservative Saddleback Church congregation. "I've got two friends here, a Republican and a Democrat," Warren explained. "Why? Because you've got to have two wings to fly." The task of eradicating HIV/AIDS worldwide is simply too great to accomplish without bipartisan cooperation. Warren led the congregation in a prayer for those suffering from HIV/AIDS around the world and a prayer to rid the world of the deadly disease. He was followed by the Republican senator, Sam Brownback of Kansas, and the Democratic senator, Barack Obama, who both called for bipartisan cooperation in combating HIV/AIDS. (You can read Barack's remarks before the Saddleback congregation in 2006 here.)
This afternoon, Barack will return to Saddleback Church as the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. He will join the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, in their first overlapping appearance of the general election.
Warren will talk with each of them individually, asking questions about their personal values and how those values would impact decisions they would make as president of the United States.
Barack will speak for the first hour, and Senator McCain will speak for the second hour. You can watch the video streamed live from Orange County at 8 PM EST tonight here at CNN.com.
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