we re about 30 minutes away from that. he is expected to call for other nations to exert their sovereignty to solve challenges. a situation sure to be front and center today is iran. president trump tweeting this morn, despite requests, i have no plans to meet with iranian president rouhani. i m sure he s a lovely man. different from what we heard from president rouhani who spoke with nbc s lester holt in an exclusive interview. translator: there is no such program for a meeting. mr. trump did not create conditions necessary to bring about the atmosphere conducive to a meeting. our guest is a bloomberg opinion columnist and editor as well. nbc s andrea mitchell, our chief foreign affairs correspondent. we talked in the break, andrea, can t remember u.n. general assembly s you ve been to and