Tonight from the north lawn. Good evening, john. John bret, good evening to you. Just twice before u. S. President s, both of them democrats, have presiding over peace agreements between israel and its arab neighbors. So what happened today counts as a historical foreign achievement. One this time democrats barely even paid attention to. John for the first time in 26 years the Prime Minister of israel sat down with representatives from arab nations at the white house to formally establish diplomatic ties. Israel, the United Arab Emirates and bahrain today signing the Abraham Accords the people of the middle east will no longer allow hatred of israel to be fomented for excuse for radicalism or extremism. Path to todays historic moment began in may of 2017 when President Trump met with the leaders of 54 arab and muslim nations. His message then put aside all differences and work towards the future. A future israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today said could be far different than
Families. And for their nation itself. No one could make that choice for them. They had to do that themselves. Today the world sees that theyre choosing cooperation over conflict, friendship over em anity, prosperity over poverty and hope over despair. They choose a future in which arabs and israelis, muslims, jews and christians work together, pray together and dream together side by side in harmony, community and peace. Once again, let me congratulate the people of israel, the people of the United Arab Emirates and the people of the kingdom of bahrain. God bless you all. This is an incredible day for the world. This is a really wonderful and beautiful occasion. I want to thank all of the members of congress for being here. Senators, congressmen, congresswomen, we just appreciate it so much. Everybody wanted to be here. Its a very important day for the world. It is a very important day for peace. Before the parties sign the accords id like to ask Prime Minister netanyahu to say a few
The president stressing gains in the u. S. Stock market on a day up more than 1300 americans died. Also breaking, at least 35 People Killed in western wildfires that now blackened an area of california about the size of connecticut. The gulf coast is bracing for hurricane sally. It just strengthened to a category two storm with with 100 Miles Per Hour winds and rapidly intensifying. Expected to reach landfall late tomorrow, early wednesday. First, lets go to jim acosta. Jim, the president is out west tonight in phoenix, arizona. Once again, completely ignoring the science of the pandemic as well as Climate Change for that matter. Reporter thats right, wolf. This is the new abnormal on the campaign trail for President Trump. The president is on his way to a latinos for trump event in phoenix at this hour. That event appears to be again another potential health risk for supporters as there will not be, show you pictures, not much social distancing going on. You can see from pictures of t
Test does not guarantee a safe holiday. America is back. Those were the words from president elect joe biden as he announced key cabinet picks and a promise that the United States is ready to lead. Biden making moves as the formal president ial transition finally gets underway. He says communication from the Trump Administration to help with his transition has been, quote, sincere, and the white house has now signed off on a major step in that process. President ial daily briefings for the president elect. All this comes as biden became the first president ial candidate in history to get more than 80 million votes as ballots are still being counted. Earlier he spoke about the nominees for his administration. This is not a third obama term because we face a totally different world than we faced in the obamaBiden Administration. The president President Trump has changed the landscape. Its become America First, its been america alone. We find ourselves in a position where our alliances ar
Entire Republican Party. Not just donald trump, to the point that republicans up and down the scale are joining in trumps increasingly absurd and last gasp and overturning the election. Trump is now straight up screaming on twitter for the election to be overturned. And he followed through on a pledge to join in allu ludicrou texas lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to overturn the election in four battleground states. And paxton is under fbi investigation and is under indictment on felony charges of securities fraud. Maybe he will be jumping in line for a pardon. They are asking by k and ted cruz has already been asked to argue the case if it reaches the high court. But this disease in the republicans is so virulent that even the two individuals that claim to represent or want to represent the people of georgia, perdue and loeffler say they support the lawsuit. The old conflict of states rights have been thrown into the garbage. Some have applauded saying go for it. Now 17 states have j