Hear what he has to say about a variety of topics. Once again welcome our viewers in United States and around the world. Im Wolff Blitzer joined with christian amanpour. The pope nets miss an opportunity to delve into a crowd. Thousands hoping for a glimpse of him. And hell come out after his speech. They hope they will be able to shake his hands then. And as we await his departure from the vaticans diplomatic admission cris chrohris cuomo i what a pleasure to be able to witness this. No pope has ever addressed congress. Is he going to talk about political things . Of course he is. Thats why hes here. He wants to talk about big issues like global warming. Like income inequality. Like immigration. He was very quick to point himself out as the son of immigrants and talking about america as the unit, north america, central america, south america all as one. Now, the question is how does he apportion it and what is his tone . I think were going to see his biggest, his most grand speech tod
and to the american lawmakers and all their guests there in congress will speak in english without a teleprompter. he will presumably read his speech. again we re really eeg irly awaiting this. there s been so much anticipation and so much question about what exactly the pope will say. whether tone he will take. he met the speaker of the house john boehner shortly ago when he came in. john boehner of course a practicing catholic, a committed catholic. very excited to receive pope. he himself extended the invitation to the pope. and just before this day said look i m not here to pick a fight with the pope. let us let him appeal to our better angel. there you can see the pope surrounded by archbishops and the cardinals. his italian secretary of state. that is the number two figure in the vatican. and you can see off camera to the right of the picture is the president of the u.s. conference of bishops. catholic bishops. and that is archbishop joseph
i mean, i think what you re asking is in relation to iran, you know, the chinese obviously need feel that they need and our customers to the oil production with iran and other economic agreements that go on. so they are in a very difficult position here of how do they support not having a weapon be developed and not undermine their need for the energy resources that they are buying there. and shying to do the calculation of cost benefit right now as with other countries, what they d like to see happen as a diplomatic solution to this activity, probably even if it included some sort of nuclear capability, whether it be for energy or more, if that gets foreclosed, and they have a very hard decision and they have to think their way through that and to the extent they have to go someplace else for that energy in the future, if i were to happen come and i put pressure in the south associate. they clearly have their need for energy sources very high on their lives. they have
dollar deficits and you have said in the shares. you know the challenges that we face. back in 1977 you were one of the first people to ever introduce a biannual budget bill. do you support that concept? i have always thought that it made sense to try to extend, because we were fighting a budget battle every year and frankly we would have been better off establishing a two-year process in which we would have said you know, it would give us some planning for the future. it would allow us to look not just at the moment but also what we need for the next year and frankly it would have provided a little more stability within the congress of the answer to your question is kent i still supported by annual budget. hopefully maybe i can when you started several decades ago, how would that affect the military planning in your budget planning rather than a single year? i think it would give us the opportunity to establish a much more stable approach to funding defense if we kne