University. Plus, trailing in the polls. The president floats delaying the election, blaming without evidence increased mailin voting. These elections will be fraudulent. Theyll be fixed. Theyll be rigged. Many republicans push back. Well cope with whatever the situation is and have the election on november 3rd as already scheduled. Why even mr. Trumps allies say this time hes going too far. Also while honoring john lewis, president obama takes on President Trump. George wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators. And who will joe biden choose as his running mate . I am going to do everything i can to make sure that he gets elected, and once elected, make sure that hes a successful president. Ill talk to a rising contender, congresswoman karen bass of california. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief Foreign Affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. Journalist and author robert dr
963,000 americans have filed firsttime claims for Unemployment Insurance last week. First time the number has been less than 1 million since the middle of march. 28 Million People are still receiving some form of Unemployment Benefits as the economic catastrophe. President trump tells fox news why he opposes a funding booth for the u. S. Postal service. They want 25 billion, billion, for the post office. They need that to have the post office work so it can take all these millions and millions of ballots. In the meantime they arent getting there. By the way, those are two items. If they dont get those two items, you cant have universal mailin voting. The u. S. Postal service disputes the notion theyre not equipped to handle the load. They say theyre able to adjust to the high volume of political mail. In the midst of all this the president announced a diplomatic break through. Its a lot. He said israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed to normal relations. Israel will not declare sov
Reaction, very short, brandnew reaction from joe biden. President trumps comment today regarding holding up funding for the Postal Service ahead of a lot more ballots being mailed than usual. Lets go, lets go, come on. The democratic ticket has not left delaware, theyve spent the last 40 minutes or so getting a briefing from Public Health officials about covid19. We do expect more formal remarks from biden and Kamala Harris in the next hour or so and Kamala Harris was pretty prolific during her own candace t to my candidacy but nothing like weve seen in the last two days, she broughto megan her first 24 hous the running mate. Yesterday we had our best grassroots fundraising day of the campaign, more than double our previous record. And in doing so we set record for online political fundraising and i think i know why. So i hope, i hope you will join us as well. Both biden and harris are going to deliver their convention remarks next week live from delaware on backtoback nights. As harri
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Died. A new projection from the cdc suggests another 18,000 or more people could die in the next three weeks. Meanwhile, the test Positivity Rate which shows how fast the virus is spreading is going up. Its rising across 2 3 of the u. S. Compared to last week. U. N. Infection numbers are Holding Steady at half the country. Florida and california seen in red are the most dangerous hot spots. U. S. President donald trump spent sunday playing golf without a mask. Its his 284th visit to one of his own clubs since taking office. In the midst of mixed messages, mr. Trump has used much rosier terms to describe the outbreak than his top experts. Jeremy diamond has more on that. Reporter in recent days we have watched as President Trump has continued to downplay the severity of the coronavirus falsely claiming time and again that the rising cases we are seeing in the u. S. Is due to an increase in testing. The president also continuing to hawk hydroxychloroquine, the drug that has proven to be