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Chris y pope francis is getting ready to deliver a major address to the u.n. general assembly. he ll be speaking in spanish with english translation. he ll be speaking of all the major issues affecting the world right now, climate change, peace, poverty. he ll go through step by step by step. this is a critically important speech pope francis will deliver. on the right of your screen you see microphones up on capitol hill where we just learned stunning news the speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner has decided to resign. not only as speaker of the house but also his seat in u.s. congress at the end of october. it opens up a whole new door, who will succeed john boehner? who will be the new speaker of the house? what will happen to this funding bill that has to be approved before the end of september in order to keep the u.s. government operating, because the u.s. government will run out of money at the end of september ....
disagreement. bob woodward chronicles it all in this book. he s done it again, a great deal of controversy there. the president, very concerned that he felt as though frustration boiling over, according to the book, that the military was boxing him in. general mcchrystal, he asked for 40,000 more troops in afghanistan. the president undertook that review, wanted a painstaking look at exactly how those troops were going to be used. they ended up with 30,000. he had an exit strategy. that s something that officials at the pentagon were very much against, according to the book, as well. but then the president telling lindsey graham, of all people, the republican from south carolina, according to the book, i can t lose the whole democratic party. in the context of needing that exit strategy. so there is no shortage, you talked about the holbrooke and biden going at each other. mike mullin against his deputy, petraeus. and right on down the line. even an intel report revea ....