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President Trump gave a toast to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. He greeted the world leaders in the room and raised a glass of red wine to the "great potential of the United Nations."

Michael Cohen, a close associate and former lawyer for President Trump's business, was set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee today as part of the probe into election interference by Russia. But the committee's staff canceled the meeting this morning, per The Washington Post.

What happened today: Cohen had arrived with his attorney for the interview but left after about an hour since committee staff had informed him they didn't want to interview him. Committee chairman Richard Burr and vice chairman Mark Warner said in a statement that the committee broke the meeting off because Cohen broke an agreement not to release a public statement before the meeting. Cohen will be rescheduled for an open hearing.

President Trump addressed the UN General Assembly today, discussing everything from the escalating North Korean threat to the Iran nuclear deal. It was the first such speech of Trump's presidency, and he used the platform to urge the world's leaders unite in aggressively ramping up pressure on Pyongyang.

Hardline on North Korea: "No nation on earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles," Trump said. "The U.S. has great strength and patience but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea."

President Trump's speech Tuesday before the UN General Assembly will focus on North Korea's "destabilizing, hostile, and dangerous behavior," as well as the threat posed by Iran, a senior administration official told reporters on Monday.

Although the official would not go into details on what specific actions Trump will ask other nations to take with regard to the two countries, the official said Trump will stress that "nations cannot be bystanders to history." North Korea is a "shared menace" that will "only become more formidable" if nations don't do anything, the official said in a preview of the speech.

The Senate has approved a bill (89-8) that authorizes $700 billion in military spending, per the AP. It would allocate $640 billion to core Pentagon ops and $60 billion to wartime missions.

Some key points:

• In response to the North Korean threat, it would expand missile defense systems from 40 interceptors to 58, using $8.5 billion.
• The amendment that would have invalidated Trump's proposed ban on transgender service members did not make it in.
• It wouldn't close any military bases, as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he wanted to do.

Up next: A joint House-Senate conference over priorities and differences of opinion.

On Saturday, the international anti-poverty organization Oxfam rented out Donald Trump's childhood home in New York City, (it's on Airbnb for $725 a night) and hosted four refugees who told their stories to reporters also invited there. This was planned to draw attention to the refugee crisis, with Trump at the U.N. this week.

When asked what he would say to Donald Trump, Ghassan al-Chahada, a Syrian refugee, told NBC News, "I would advise him to remember, to think about how he felt when he slept in this bedroom. If he can stay in tune with who he was as a child, the compassion children have and the mercy, I would say he's a great person."

Go Deeper: With more stories from the refugees.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters in the Pentagon that the U.S. is planning to send more than 3,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, per Reuters.

"It is exactly over 3,000 somewhat and frankly I haven't signed the last of the orders right now as we look at specific, small elements that are going." — Secretary Mattis

This comes about a month after Trump announced his plans to carry forward the war. There are already about 11,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Go deeper: Trump's plan for Afghanistan.

This has been updated with Secretary Mattis' full quote.

Before meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, President Trump announced he is talking with Chief of Staff John Kelly about hosting a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on the 4th of July after watching France's Bastille Day parade.

Quote: "It was military might and, I think, a terrific thing for France, for the spirit of France. People don't know what great warriors they are in France, but when you see that and you see all the victories it was a tremendous thing. To a large extent because of what I witnessed, we may do something like that on July 4th."

Flashback: Trump asked for military vehicles to partake in his inaugural parade, but that didn't pan out.

About the meeting: Macron mentioned he would like to talk about nuclear proliferation as well as moving forward on the Paris Accord.

Roy Moore, the current frontrunner in Alabama's GOP Senate runoff, used racially insensitive language to refer to Native Americans and Asians during a campaign speech yesterday, per The Hill.

• The quote: "Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting. What's going to unite us? What's going to bring us back together? A President? A Congress? No. It's going to be God."
• Not the first controversy: Last week, CNN's KFILE dug up a radio show interview where Moore refused to condemn the idea that gay people deserve the death penalty. Moore gained public notoriety as Alabama's Chief Justice by ignoring a federal court order to issue same-sex marriage licenses in the state.
• The state of play: Moore is leading the race despite President Trump and congressional Republican leadership endorsing Luther Strange, his opponent.

Moments before kicking off a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, President Trump said he thinks there's a "good chance" of peace between the Palestinians and Israelis, adding, "people say it can't happen, I say it can happen."

On Iran, Netanyahu praised Trump for calling the nuclear pact a "terrible" deal and said he wanted to discuss how to reign in Iran's "growing aggression in the region." Trump has until mid October to determine whether his administration will move to re-certify the nuclear deal.

Go deeper: The Iranian president said the U.S. will pay a "high cost" if the nuclear deal collapses

Michael Flynn's family has set up a legal defense fund to help pay for the "the enormous expense" of legal bills that the former White House national security advisor is racking up thanks to his central role in the federal government's Russia investigation, per Politico.

• Flynn's brother and sister, who told the AP back in July that they were in the early stages of starting the fund, said they are reaching out to Flynn's "supporters, veterans, and all people of goodwill" to help ensure their brother can properly defend himself.
• The fund will not accept donations from foreign governments or money related to President Trump's campaign or business.
• Flynn thanked his siblings on Twitter Monday morning. He also shared a link to the fund.
• The Daily Beast reports Flynn is expecting his legal bills to exceed $1 million.

Go deeper: Michael Flynn, Jr., has also reportedly become a focus of the Russia probe.

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that if Trump follows through on his threats to nix the nuclear deal, America would pay "such a high cost."

"Exiting such an agreement would carry a high cost for the United States of America, and I do not believe Americans would be willing to pay such a high cost for something that will be useless for them."

Rouhani added that exiting the deal would "chip away at international trust placed in the" U.S. This weekend Rouhani told police officers in Tehran that the Trump administration's rhetoric "amounts to bullying."

Context: The Trump administration last week re-approved sanctions waivers for Iran as part of the deal. The deadline to re-certify the deal as a whole, however, is coming mid-October. Rouhani's comments come as world leaders gather for the UN General Assembly, which Trump and Rouhani are both attending.

President Trump, in his first appearance at the United Nations headquarters in NYC Monday, criticized the group for falling short of its full potential due to "bureaucracy and mismanagement." Key quotes:

• Trump's main message: "I think the main message is 'Make the United Nations great. Not 'again.' 'Make the United Nations great.'"
• Later today: Trump will hold separate talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron.

"President Trump's legal team is wrestling with how much to cooperate with the special counsel, ... an internal debate that led to an angry confrontation last week between two White House lawyers," the N.Y. Times' Peter Baker and Ken Vogel write at the top of column 1: