terror or other threats to the united states and its partners like israel. those threats still exist. i'm very glad i was speaking today about peace breaking out. and it is breaking out more quickly than we can say the official sermon is to memorialize the diplomatic achievements. a few weeks ago, with major help from the united states and the trump administration, israel and the united arab emirates, reached the first arab israel peace deal and 26 years. abraham accordance the shared religious roots that christians, jews, and muslims all hold in common. it makes the uae the third nation and the very first in the gulf to normalize relations with israel.

the words of the prime minister, full and official peace, for diplomatic agreement with embassies. between tel aviv, dubai, and abu dhabi. we've come a long way way indeed both have made sacrifices to make thisea deal possible they understand that both arabs and israelisac will benefit from the peace and prosperity that tearing down barriers. america will also benefit reducing tensions about regions.

to be sure work does not finish and no single step like this should be confused for an overnight miracle. in this case, we and congress have an obligation to review any u.s. arms sales package linked to the neal. must continue ensuring that israel's qualitative edge remains unchallenged. but the winds are changeable mr. president, and they are bringing good newsbr f for peace all across the region. cturse are a few extreme voices, perhaps sensing their moment is slipping away, or not at all happy. a predictable group of characters and bring the uae as traders to the arab or muslim world. but unlike iranian or al qaeda

terrorist, everyone who is actually living and the 21st century, is celebrating this major progress. this major step forward as documented in a signing ceremony at the white house tomorrow. but in just a couple of weeks, but is left between the announcement of the abraham accord and the official ceremony tomorrow, another arab state has joined the parade toward peace. on friday, september 11, israel and bahrain announced their agreement to open formal medic relations. after egypt, jordan, and the uae makes the fourth historic step towards normalization by neighbors. president trump in the prime minister and the king called the agreement quote i historic breakthrough to further peace

in the middle east. and indeed, reports suggest are still more arab states may not be far behind. this is a new course with the potential fundamentally change the middle east.pr dennis ross, former senior diplomat adviser to president obama and a long-time practitioner of the peacees process, wrote to just yesterday that these agreements are bona fide breakthroughs. they're changing the political landscape of the middle east and the israel/palestine stalemate the better. that is dennis ross from the obama administration. that is how former obama administration officials successes. this work to have peace pipe historic opportunity that american leadership in diplomacy has made possible.

that mr. present on a totally different message, i had hoped, and republicans had hoped that the american people had hoped that the senate would be spending this week finishing up another bipartisan agreement on coronavirus relief. we want to get hundreds of billions of more dollars into the pipeline for kids, for jobs, for healthcare. but unfortunately, senate democrats chose to block it all, our democratic colleagues voted against hundreds of millions of dollars to help americans fight the virus. this was o not even a vote on final passage is a procedural vote to break the filibuster and move forward with something. senate democrats nevertheless filibuster the aide. and then a few short days later, right back to signaling that a democrat joe biden,

would abolish the filibuster. and permanently analyze the institution to more easily force radical change. this threat to permanently disfigure, to disfigure the senate as been the latest growing drumbeat in the modern democratic party war against our governing institutions. stthere is former senator reid starting the nuclear exchange back in 2013 there been years of unprecedented tactics to deny president trump the government the people elected. it's been the latest -- least fair, least thorough and most rushed impeachment inquiry in modern history. and now mr. president, the most shameless, the most shameless hypocrisy. senate democrats happily use the filibuster to block

coronavirus relief and senator tim scott's police reform bill at the very same time they are conspiring to destroy that very tool so they can ram through the radical agenda if they ever win power. great a hypocrisy. great a hypocrisy, nothing more. we've had former president obama called for limiting the filibuster, another jim crow relic. about one month after his party is that to kill that senator scott reform bill. you former vice president biden's allies in the senate daydreaming, daydreaming about ending the filibuster even if they themselves use the filibuster to kill the pandemic relief for working families. democrats want completely different sets of rules, depending on whether or not they hold power.

different set of rules depending upon whether they hold power. though into a certain rights when they have the minority and steamroll them if they get a majority. here's nbc news, democratic insiders are putting it behind the scenes to wage an all-out war on the senate filibuster. veteran party operatives, activist groups, and supportive senators are coordinating the message. and strategy. this takes in measuring the drapes to a new level. democratic leader and his colleagues are not just measuring the drapes they are calculating how much kerosene it would take to burn the drapes down. they aren't just threatening to pass radical policies like medicare for none, or the

green nude deal, oh no, no, no. the far left is a hotwire democracy itself. things like packing the supreme court with new seats while packing the senate by handing out new statehood to one individual city. i set it a few months ago, today's democrats have lost patience with playing by the rules and want to wage war on the rulebook itself. they are saying as much out lou loud. perhaps our colleagues think promising a shameless power grab his only way to energize the radical far left. the real effect, the real effect is to make mistakes in these issues completely and totally clear to the american people. the framers designed the

senate to be the countries firewall is with the senate was out in the beginning. for democratic friends concluded their ideas it would never clearly high bar. if they think their ideas could never clear the high bar, it is their bad ideas that need to be scrapped. not the core checks and balances. our government. ♪ ♪ c-span's "washington journal", every day were taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day. with policy issues that impact you and coming up tuesday morning, presidential historian craig surely will join us to discuss campaign 2020. in new yorker magazine writer

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