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By more than a dozen women. president trump doesn't think he needs congressional approval for a military strike against iran. >> i like the idea of keeping congress abreast but i wouldn't have to do that. >> sure. nancy pelosi said you must have congressional approval so you disagree with her on that? >> i disagree. >> members of congress have debated this. the president ordered the strike in retaliation for iran downing an unmanned american spy plane. senate democrats weighing whether to block the annual defense policy bill. the idea would be to force a vote requiring congressional approval...

Explosions. >> ed lavendera, the death toll stands at 29. those numbers did rise over the course of the evening, so we're watching that closely. and we keep getting new video in as well as some eyewitness accounts. we'll stay on this throughout the night. we have more breaking news now. the hunt for whoever drove the heavily loaded truck through a berlin christmas market. this time last night, police had a man in custody. what they did not have, they say, was the evidence the to keep him. joining us again tonight from berlin, cnn's fred rick pleitgen, fred, what's the latest on the investigati...

To the current pope. cnn's fed rick pleitgen joins us. >> this happened in 1980 when benedict was the archbishop of munich. at that time he allowed a priest to come into the archdiocese of munich who had known track record of sexually abusing children. now apparently what happened then is that people lower down in that archdiocese allowed this priest to go back to work. apparently benedict knew nothing about this but they allowed him to go back to work. he started abusing children again. this priest was convicted in 1986. he spent 18 months on probation and was later brought to other churches ...

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