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President Trump has a love-hate relationship with the United Nations, but on Tuesday he’s hoping to win the organization’s support when he addresses the General Assembly.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with NPR’s Ron Elving (@NPRrelving) about Trump’s prospects there and the week ahead in politics. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

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VIBES-LIVE RED CARPET EXCLUSIVES - TERRI & FRANK HATCHETT. This very dynamic Husband and Wife Duo - Hosts of "The Hatchett Chronicles" Frank Hatchett's work is well known with the Grammy winning Album "Mis Education of Lauryn Hill". Uncle Ben Uncle Ben's - Book of the Week - This weeks selection.... The Bible. Epic!

The first Gallup national poll into religion was carried out in 1935. Ever since - but especially with the arrival of the internet - pollsters have fed a hungry media the latest statistics about belief in God and church attendance. How important is the polling industry to our understanding of religion? What can the polls not tell us? What is their relationship to academic social sciences? Professor Robert Wuthnow from Princeton University argues that polling on religion is a huge waste of money and creates rather than reflects categories of believers and non-believers. Also joining Ernie Rea to discuss the promise and pitfalls of religious polls are Professor David Voas from University College London, Katie Harrison from the Faith Unit at Comres and Andrew Graystone, founder and former director of the Church Media network.

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President Trump will press his case for reform of the United Nations when he makes his first address at its headquarters in New York. In December last year, Donald Trump tweeted that the UN was 'just a club for people' to 'have a good time' and soon after said it caused problems rather than solving them.

Also in the programme; how North Korea's nuclear ambitions are impacting on Japan's commitment to its pacifist constitution and; Nobel prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk, on myths, identity and the complex struggle for meaning, at the heart of modern day Turkey.

Photo: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley smiles while US President Donald Trump speaks before a working lunch with UN Security Council member nations, April 2017. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images.

Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and resident scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; and E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discuss their new book A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported (St. Martin's Press, 2017) about why the election of Donald Trump is a symptom of U.S. democracy's dysfunction and citizen action is needed to repair it.

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Ed O'Keefe, Congressional reporter at The Washington Post, talks about the latest dealmaking between President Trump and Democratic leaders in Congress, plus other national political news of the day.