News. Just 90 minutes ago, the president announced the united arab emirates, uae and israel, will establish diplomatic ties. Uae is only the third nation to recognize israels existence. It will be known as the abraham accord, and id like to ask our ambassador, david freedman, to please explain why were doing and calling it the abraham accord. Abraham, as many of you know, was the father of all three great faiths. I wanted it to be called the donald j. Trump accord but didnt think the press would understand it. Well have more details on what this accord means ahead in a few moments. Were going to begin with the struggle against the pandemic and a sign of hope for the economy as new weekly jobless claims fell below 1 million for the First Time Since the beginning of the pandemic in march. However, the unemployment numbers have piled up. We are now up to 15. 5 million continuing claims. And judging by the sevenday passenger of virus fatalities, were seeing some of the deadliest days since the spring as we barrel towards fall, which, of course, means also the election. And in a new interview this morning, President Trump explicitly said hes opposing a request for Postal Service funding in the new relief package because he wants to stop the expansion of mailin voting. They want 25 billion billion for the post office. Now they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. In the meantime, they arent getting there. By the way, those are just two items. But if they dont get those two items, that means you cant have universal mailin voting because theyre not equipped to have it. Joining me from capitol hill is our capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. Kasie, you know, so many times you and i sit here trying to read between the lines of what a politician really wants out of something. The president saying it outright. He just doesnt want to do this because he thinks its going to help mailin voting which he believes in his own head hurts him. He seems to, chuck, which is a little bit for those of white house have watched how elections have played out in the past and Speaker Pelosi talked about this today. She said we worked so hard to get out the democratic vote and the mailin votes would come in and republicans suddenly would be doing better than they were in the election day vote. Essentially saying this is something a lot of republicans have done for a long time. They have figured out how to do it well. This is one of the many contra dictions between the president himself and his campaign. Hes trying to actually, you know, convince people to vote by mail if you look at the way theyre approaching voters state by state. So it is a little bit confusing and he came straight out and said it. Of course, weve also seen him try and theres two pieces here, right . Theres the ballots themselves, who is going to vote by mail, and theres also, whether theres the opportunity to cast doubt on the results based on any chaos that might come out of that. You and i, i think, are anticipating a lengthy drawnout post election day process and democrats saying the way we avoid that is by making this a landslide election. We know the polls had to tighten ahead of election day and there are going to be a lot of states and a lot of question marks coming out of this. And any additional chaos gives the president more opportunity to try and cast doubt or muddy those waters, chuck. Kasie, yesterday we had some a sharp exchange of printed words between Speaker Pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin. What did we learn today . Are we looking once again at september now before capitol hill might address Coronavirus Relief . Thats not what anyone is saying definitively but thats how its starting to feel. This rotunda is silent. Nancy pelosi is going to california for the Convention Speech next week. There are no signs these talks are about to get restarted. And congress tends to only work well when there is a big deadline. Thats what Mitch Mcconnell was betting on when he set this billup against the deadline of Unemployment Benefits running out. Thats when they started negotiating in earnest. The house passed a bill back in may saying it doesnt make any sense to wait that long. But now were at an impasse, and its very difficult to see what breaks. An incredibly high stakes game of chicken and neither side seems inclined to let the other one win right now. Thats the big next deadline on the calendar. This is going to get really tough for people if they dont do anything. Kids are going to go back to School Without money. Theres a lot of people that need a lot. Its possible the politics will change in the meantime. Standing here today, its hard to see how. Chuck . If they dont do something in the next week, to be to look at it through the lens of politics, it isnt going to help people in time for the election which also seems to be a bit of a head scratcher on the president and Senate Republican side of things. I dont their stance on this. Kasie hunt, thank you. We continue to reach out to the postmaster general dejoy. He has continued so far to decline our requests but well continue to ask. We look forward to having him on when he is available. Now to more of that breaking Foreign Policy news that the United States helped broker a diplomatic breakthrough between the uae and israel. Uae is joining egypt and jordan as only the third arab country to officially establish diplomatic ties with the jewish state. If you were to bet on what would be the third arab country, most would have said uae. Israel agreed it will suspend declaring sovereignty over occupied parts of the west bank in return for this. Surrounded by advisers in the oval office, the president said more deals will follow if he is reelected. If i win the election, i will have a deal made with iran within 30 days that will make a very fast deal. Theyre dying to make a deal but theyd rather negotiate with sleepy joe biden. Joining me is nbc news correspondent carol lee. And, carol, in some ways, if you follow the middle east closely, uae has always wanted close ties with the west in general. So of all the arab of who would be the next arab country, uae was always at the top of this list. How did this come to fruition today . Well, the white house says this has been in the works for some time, as far back as a year. So theyve been trying to get a number of state of gulf states to formalize or, you know, normalize in some way relations with israel. Chuck, for years, in recent years, there have been these informal warming of ties between israel and some of its neighbors. In large part because theyre united against iran. When you talk to white house officials, thats really what this is about is uniting the region against what the u. S. Sees as its biggest adversary, the Iranian Regime and thats where the uae comes in. Now the president saying that other countries or states are going to get on board here. What i would expect is that thats some of the other countries that are, as you said, similar to the uae in the sense theyre a little more leaning towards the west or embracing of the west, not necessarily the big gulf state which is saudi arabia. I think thats something that is a little less likely for sure. But the white house says that the leader, the crown prince of uae and the leader of israel, Benjamin Netanyahu are both going to come to the white house in coming weeks and sign this. And for the president s perspective, this is a moment where he can say his dealmaking skills paid off and he got a Foreign Policy victory. No doubt there is, as you point out, theres been an informal israel suni arab state. Carol lee, thank you. While carol was doing her report there you probably saw us showing you some pictures of a group of gentlemen walking into it was joe biden and his security detail going to the dupont hotel. And we expect to hear from biden and harris. They are getting a Public Health briefing. Lets turn back to the 2020 race. Theyll receive this from their Public Health experts. We can expect to hear from them after their briefing soon. Weve learned next week at the Democratic National convention, biden and harris will deliver their Convention Speeches at the chase center in wilmington. So lets bring in nbc news president ial historian Michael Beschloss and White House Communications director under president obama and for the Hillary Clinton campaign, jennifer palmieri. Jen, let me start with you. As somebody who has had to worry about how to put together a big speech, had to put together a big event. Arguably, two of the most important speeches a candidate gives are those convention acceptance speeches and you cant do it in front of a big audience. How do you think theyre doing so far, jen . I talked to Stephanie Cutter yesterday who is managing Convention Programming for the convention as part of the for the circus. I feel like they have a good plan. The democrats are pretty good at putting on a show. Well, first of all, weve all had to adapt. Were into the sixth month of having to adapt. So the democrats have figured out how to adapt the convention as we have in our own lives and audiences have a broader expectation than what youd normally expect from a convention. But also, what you are really doing is programming two hours every night. Two hours of Network Television every night. And theyve got a good plan down for a lot of speeches in shorter amounts of times. It may end up being more watchable, dare i say, than other conventions. But it is going to be theyre going to have harris and biden both in a very large venue, but they did want to preserve that stage and have them have the presence of the backdrop that they had always imagined for milwaukee. And i think if you consider meaningful president ial speeches, as beschloss is well prepared to do. Fair enough. Theyre doing the theyre adapting as best they can and probably be a pretty good show. Michael, put the before we get to the convention aspect. Put this week in context here. As far as running mate rollouts. Where does this fall in your mind . I think joe biden gets an aplus for running mate selection and roll out because you think of the number of times when this has really gone off track. The worst example of recent times perhaps in both optics and also decision was 1988 when george h. W. Bush chose dan quayle without being fully aware hed be vulnerable to charge hes used special family influence to get into the national guard, perhaps to avoid being shipped off to vietnam, and the optics, jen knows this as a negative example to be avoided. Quayle is told, go down to the riverfront in new orleans. There was george h. W. Bush and barbara with a huge crowd. Quayle had to basically force himself through this crowd. His speech was not prepared. He gave a silly speech that sounded like a High School Cheerleader which was actually much less than he was capable of. Its the opposite of what you want to see today. Yeah. Jen, what do the democrats need out of this convention . I am of the mindset these conventions may have minimal impact but i dont know. I also see plenty of polling that shows enormous interest in november. Will that translate into enormous i think well have enormous interest in Kamala Harris speech and joe bidens speech. What im curious of is the overall interest in these two weeks. I dont know. Well, its not like theres a lot competing with it, right . So i could imagine actually getting relatively big audiences. They do have an interesting the democrats have a range of interesting speakers at their disposal, as well as entertainment. So i think that you could get because theres not a lot going on, you could get a pretty good audience. I do think you want to do a few things. You want to remind people of whats happened in the last 3 1 2 years under trump because there is so much. Put that in context. Thats one thing you want to do. You want to introduce harris. Theres a lot about joe biden that people dont know still, even as well as we think we do about his about his life and his challenges. You want people to know that. But i think that sort of the alchemy of the ticket, the two of them together. What the sum of their parts, what that is for the country you want to introduce. You want to use that. And i love nominating speeches. Ive gone back and read some of the ones from past years. Even for candidates that dont win like mario cuomo. He wasnt even a nominee, but these speeches a keynote. He was the keynote, yeah. Snapshots of america in time and so in that way, i think this speech that joe biden is getting ready to give is really important for an historic context, let alone historic context, let alone the impact on the election. You know, michael, i was trying tong think ever differe conventions that have had impacts. The 92 Democratic Convention and the pat buchanan 92 Republican Convention. Thats where you feel as if the conventions played a role in shaping the perception of the election. Whether it moved numbers, you can debate that, but those were consequential conventions and that 92, if youre biden, thats the model youre hoping to have out of this where you got a little momentum going in like clinton did. A little momentum going in as he was trying to catch perot and, boom, it took off like a rocket ship. And ross perot pulled out and clintons numbers went up and he was never down again between then and election day. The negative example to look at is 1968 chicago when there were riots and blood in the streets and Police Rioted and it looked as if the Democratic Party was not capable of running in the country which is exactly what Richard Nixon said. And as a result, the history of what were going to see next week is 1972. The nixon people who were terrible at many things but they were very good at managing tv. They realized there was no suspense about who is going to be nominated for reelection which was nixon, so they decided for the first time, seems old hat now, but was new then, to turn this into a tv show and maximize the tv time to make nixon and the Republican Party look as good as possible. And that is now what particularly people in jens line of work are going to be doing next week because not only this year because of the covid. It is entirely possible within a few years well not see campaigns with crowds. Jen, i was thinking about this. You said youve been doing work with the circus. It looks to me as if the democrats are light years ahead of the republicans right now in figuring out how to do a pandemic production. Yes. I have a feeling that the president s going to see some things the democrats do and say, i want that. And theyll have to scramble in three days to try to do the equivalent. Youre so right. Even in march, i think the democrats had the notion that they hoped to still do a convention but they knew it was going to be socially distanced but theyve always been thinking that were not going to have a were not going to have big crowds to react to. And its interesting to talk to them about it because in some ways, theyre improving on the program and we may not even when its safe may not four years from now go back to exactly the same model that were used to seeing because really whats always mattered say televised audience. Cheering crowds are great but theres better ways you can spend that time and youre so right, chuck. I bet hell see things hes doing that he will want them to pull off in the span of three days and it will be difficult to do. No, in that sense you almost feel sorry for the Republican Convention planners because theyll have to watch and anticipate. Hes going to want that, hes going to want that. Its going to be the mad scramble on that end. Michael be Michael Beschloss and jen palmieri, thank youp. President trump is going all out to moderate suburban women reverting to some old racist stereotypes. Derek johnson, president of the naacp joins me next. 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