Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Thursday,

the 21st of September, 2023.

Today, a recap of this week's U.N. General Assembly, whilst we look at some of the Iranians

released as part of the prisoner exchange, and a new election conspiracy theory is spreading

online.

It was a full agenda.

The United Nations General Assembly this week, President Joe Biden spent three days in

New York for the gathering and met yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli leader has pushed a meet with Biden at the White House since his return to power

last December, but Biden upset over Netanyahu's plan to overhaul Israel's judicial system

and concerned about his commitment to democratic checks and balances was reluctant to give him

a high-profile, over-office meeting.

They met instead at a Manhattan hotel.

Despite Biden's criticisms, he stressed that U.S. commitment to Israel is ironclad.

Netanyahu said Israel is committed to democracy.

Biden invited him to visit Washington by the end of the year.

Both Biden and Ukrainian leader Valoromir Zelensky addressed the Assembly on Tuesday, warning

against pulling back on support of Ukraine in its war with Russia.

And the week was also marked by comments from Iran's hard-line president, Ebrahim Reyesi.

He slammed the U.S. for pulling out of a nuclear deal in 2018, and called sanctions on the

country a political tool.

His remarks came the same day this week that five Americans imprisoned in Iran were

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