good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the gulf coast is bracing for tropical storm sally as it gains strength today slowly moving west. it is likely to become a hurricane later today or tonight, and produce life-threatening storm surge. this is wildfire, continuing to ravage the west. more than 30 now died from the historic fires raging across california, oregon and washington state that have already burned nearly 3.5 million acres. an area the size of connecticut. president trump is set to leave nevada for california this hour to see for himself.

the consequences of the warming planet. science, he continues to deny, as he rolls back president obama's clean air regulations and state environmental rules in california. democratic presidential nominee joe biden will counter a program with a speech about global warming today. a speech he's giving in wilmington, delaware. kamala harris heading to her home state in california to survey damage. all this comes on the heels of president trump last night flouting nevada's state limits on crowds to hold an in-door rally packed with supporters. for the most part only those immediately behind him were wearing masks, there was no social distancing. geoff bennett joins us from the white house and msnbc news correspondent mike memoli as well. the president denies science of global warming, going to california. his last visit, at least during the fire zone, was really notable for the discomfort of governor newsom at the time, and

it's not clear to me, when they say he's going to see local officials, whether governor newsom will even be there today when the president's there? >> reporter: that's not clear, andrea. now we have two instances, two latest examples of president trump not wanting to be inconvenienced by or bothered by science or public health. starting with that huge halrall indoor rally in nevada you mentioned. tons of supporters. very little social distancing, very few masks. the only passing reference the president made to the fact he was flouting social distancing restrictions was when he told supporters if the governor comes after them the president said, i will have your back the entire way. and the president also has given an exclusive interview to the "las vegas interview journal" asked why he settled for a rally as an indoor facility. they canceled six sites because the governor wouldn't let it happen, all external sites and how the president ended up at that manufacturing fast owned by a friend of his.

also asked if he thought he might be susceptible to catching covid. the president's response, i'm on a stage, it's very far away. so i'm not concerned at all. of course, health officials, experts say, that it's not at all how it works when it comes to covid transmission. all unfolding as rightly point out the president is on the way to california on a briefing of destructive and deadly wildfires. the president started the day, still out west, retweeting a slimt scien climate science denier. how he's started the day. belittled western states for not got adequate forest management and echoes to what he said back in 2018 when he visited then paradise, california. take a look at this. >> take care of the floors of the forest. very important. i was with the president of finland and he said they spend a lot of time on raking, cleaning, doing things. they don't have any problem.

>> reporter: so the president's criticism then and now really ignores the fact that it's largely federally managed land that accounts for a lot of the burned acreage, and as california officials have said, this goes beyond, the size and scope of these fires, goes beyond any sort of forest management issue. this has to do with climate change, whether or not the president wants to acknowledge it, andrea. >> and the governor, governor sisolak, called it his appearance there, reckless an selfish. he, we point out will be on msnbc i believe later this afternoon, geoff. i think in the 3:00 hour. but nevada is clearly an important battleground state. it's a state that hillary clinton did win and that the president is very, very much trying to capture this time around. and, mike memoli, joe biden coming out today with a climate change speech and kamala harris heading to california where there has been so much devastation and where environmental rules have been

rolled back by the president. i believe there's a lawsuit there. the state suing the federal government for rolling back the clean air standards? >> reporter: yeah. that's right, andrea. with 50 days now to go until election day, we're seeing another week on the campaign trail with a mix of travel by joe biden to those battleground states, but also in-person, not virtual events in his home town of delaware. obviously, the campaign likes to offer contrast of presidential style, leadership with president trump and the former vice president. today we'll see him in the next hour as a museum of natural history, of all places, andrea, to talk about the fact that the science of climate change is undeniable and a strong statement from biden over the weekend. he attacked the president for denying that science calling climate change an imminent and existential threat to our existence. he also said that meeting the climate change threat and defeating it is the most

consequential thing we can do in this campaign. he's laid out four crises the country is facing. focused largely on the first two which is the pandemic, which is the economic crisis that followed, but the climate crisis was one of those as well. andrea, we're also seeing kamala harris change her schedule as well heading to her home state to survey the damage herself. she talked a bit about the framing of this climate issue over the weekend. let's take a listen. >> if you look at the tragedies that people on the gulf coast have faced because of other extreme weather conditions, i think most americans should understand that we are all being impacted and people are dieing because of these extreme climate changes. >> reporter: senator harris there linking the storms as well as the fires we're seeing to this climate crisis putting it front and center before voters. andrea, also worth mentioning, as we've seen the pictures, geoff talked about the scenes, as the president was

campaigning, non-socially distant, no masks in the crowd. biden the remarks here again to a socially distant limited audience of the press corps as we expect his events over the week, again, will continue to abide by those strict protocols as the vice president tries to show he is following those and not at war with those democratically elected officials as well. >> and 50 days until the election. we are in the final, the final spring, really, both of you guys are going to be both traveling virtually and for real all over the place. thank you very much. the candidates go head-to-head in the battleground states. now we turn to the fire sweeping the west coast where millions of acres scorched in 0 oregon high winds devastated entire towns more than a million acres burned there. 500 million forced to evacuate. 10% of the state's entire population including many on front lines like this fire chief.

she and 12 of her volunteer firefighters all lost their homes. >> the human spirit that's being shown right now with the kindness and the support is exactly what all of us needed. >> in california, firefighters are making some progress. the weather there has changed a bit slowing the spreading flames, but bracing for high winds expected to return later today. joini ining me from a small tow california completely leveled by the fairs. erin, thanks for joining us. air quality, a huge concern. home you're being careful as well. >> reporter: absolutely, andrea. that's why i'm wearing a mask right now. we're seeing scenes of total devastation. this is the product of the north complex fire. the largest fire in the state of

california's history this was once berry creek, someone's home, and you can see completely flattened. this is a scar that lasts for years. i was speaking to one couple who lost their home in 2018. the paradise fire, which was the deadliest fire in california's history. they've been homeless ever since. they've been homeless for two years. they were camping not far from here and they had to evacuate. this is one of many stories. they told me they're in shock and they're not alone. take a listen. >> you know, five blocks from here there's hundreds of people still in. temporary housing trying to find housing from the campfire two years ago. >> the dpsd and you're reliving everything all over again. >> reporter: fire officials tell me this is just devastating especially to small communities.

they simply do not have the infrastructure to be able to come back from this and people living day to day trying to make ends meet. it is certainly an uphill battle. andrea? >> erin, thank you so much, and we just got word governor newsom is indeed going to be at one of the briefings at least with the president today. that was not clear from the white house schedule. thank you. thank you very much, erin, for being out there. and sally, the tropical storm sally, has now been declared a hurricane just in from the hurricane center. and that hurricane forecast is coming up. plus -- and we expect to have al roker on that. in the program. plus the bombshell book. revelations from bob woodward's interview with president trump keep coming including new audio recordering outside just today. the inside scoop is next. and super spreaders, college students spreading coronavirus at an astonishing rate. more on that later this hour.

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new revelations from veteran journalist bob woodward ahead of tomorrow's publication of his widely anticipated book "rage." president trump who often expresses admiration for dictators and strongmen defending his relationship with turkish president erdogan in one of those many conversations with woodward. >> everyone says what a horrible guy. you know, for me it works out good. i tell you the relationships i have, the tougher and meaner they are the better i get along with them. they'll explain that to me some day, okay? maybe it's not a bad thing. the easy ones are the ones i don't like as much or don't get along with as much. >> on the "today" show earlier bob woodward expanded on the president's efinty for strongmen like putin, erdogan or kim jong-un exclusively with savannah guthrie. >> he is the face of the united

states to the world, and he has said, and there it is, hey, look. i get along with these bad guys, but not the good guys. >> joining us now for the inside scoop, former republican congressman david jolly of florida, former senior aide to the clinton campaign in 2016 joel and assistant dean of the school of public affairs, university of texas. welcome all. david, first to you. in the old days, like more than four years ago, republicans in the senate would have been really upset, senate and house, about the president cavorting with dictators? >> yeah. the party that likes to say it is strong on national security but also representing ideals of democracy on the world stage. i think the nuance we often miss in donald trump. donald trump finds this affinity with some of the world's

strongmen because he likes strong leadership, and the notion that even as the ruler of a government he should be beyond being checked. right? that is the whole purpose of the congress, and he doesn't think congress should have that ability. but what he mistakes in strong leadership is that by creating an affinity with these other world leaders, he is not that he's embracing but overlooking the human rights atrocities and abuses. if you think of a kim jong-un or a erdogan or an mbs and consider during his administration what their regimes engaged in, in the realm of human rights abuses and dislocation of populations, that is where donald trump's affinity with them is exactly antithetical to the u.s. message on the world stage. >> and, of course, most troubleal of all is in russia, because of the election. most troubling i guess in terms of world peace would be what he has done with ut sothe saudis am

jong-un kiven kim jong-un is a world power. meanwhile, the president's relationship with the pandemic and the way described about the pandemic exposed by bob woodward ahead of that book release. we see first of all how he kept talking about it going away. it's going to disappear. up know, it's not something we have to worry about. it's not as bad as the flu. and what was very clear in savannah's questioning today is that all of the things he said february 7th, he only, woodward tried to explain, that he didn't understand the full impact until he learned about the january 28th briefing, and that's that critical january 28th briefing, joel, where he was told by his national security advisers robert o'brien, this is going to be the worst crisis you face. told by matt pottinger, deputy national security adviser in that briefing, worked in china,

a journalist in china, told by sources this is a lot worse than they're letting on, and that that awe preceded january 7th when he told woodward on tape that it's not something to worry about. it was only in may that woodward explained he really understood the full impact of that. >> andrea, stands out to me, this is the only thing maybe in donald trump's adult life that he has not been able to bluster or bluff his way out of. the management of this crisis. there is nobody to call in, bone spurs, so he doesn't have to serve. there is no fake, fake that he can use to fake he's a new york socialite covering himself. this requires leg real leadershd stewardship and a real thablt he lacks. his only strategy is to wish it away. there isn't an option he has other than act like it doesn't exist, speak of it in the past tense and treat it as if it is something that has happened to

him as opposed to something that is a challenge for him as our leader. >> i want to also talk about the president's schedule. the president's schedule during the week before february 7th. so he had just been briefed. then on january 28th he's briefed. gets the whole intel briefing. january 30th, he receives another briefing. january 31st, just been, you know, told how hellacious this is going to be, he leaves for mayfor mar-a-lago. super bowl weekend. hardly a president told there's a national emergency, certainly what happened after 9/11, which is what happeneded with president obama after a number of things, you know, that were critical. where everything is canceled and you buckle down with your foreign policy and your health advisers and figure out what to do next, joel? >> absolutely. you know, andrea, it really just

belies the point that this is an experiment gone wrong. that the donald trump experiment has gone wrong, because up until the fact there was a real challenge, you know, donald trump could fake, he could head fake like he could do this job. again, at a moment that requires real leadership, of seeing something above yourself, he's failed. it's dragging all of his other numbers down. all of the things he normally would rate high in, being a strong leader. being someone who's strong on the economy. it is cratering all of those numbers. he knows it. his campaign knows it. the only opportunity he has for survival is to shirk and act as if this didn't happen and that this is not something that lies at his feet, which obviously it does. >> well, victoria, talk about joe biden trying to do something about hispanic voter outreach, because he's actually lagging behind hillary clintonin some communities. what does he have to do to explain himself to energize the hispanic community and we

shouldn't talk about it, a lot of different communities. clearly cuban-americans largely in florida and new jersey and other people who have been more negatively affected, of course, al the border by the immigration policies. >> right. so the latino community in the last several decades has become a national game, right? whereas before you had in the southwest and pockets of southern florida. that's no longer the case. we do see the big prize in florida, right, in general. this is the state that is a must-win. you pointed out, andrea, joe biden has less than half of the latino vote from the latest nbc poll. whereas hillary clinton got just about a third of that vote. in terms of what the biden campaign ho as to do in florida and a number of other places is twofold. persuasion and mobilization. going into the latinos in the past voted democratic, maybe independents, maybe even leaned,

the big r, voted for barack obama. needs to be a micropocketed way to bring those voters over. a pocket of about 15% to get those, and then there's the mobilization piece of it. we know regrettably latinos have the lowest turnout rate of any group. so florida, arizona, california, texas, you name it. it's really about mobilization, and it's worrisome, because in the middle of a pandemic, how do you mobilize those with the most effective strategies? door knocking. really that one-on-one engagement, which we really don't see right now. so i think that when we're looking with what the biden campaign needs to do in the next 50 days is zeroing in through research and we do know that they have been bringing in pollsters to help with them, but figures who they can move and the ones they can't, move on and focus on the mobilization.

>> certainly talking about nevada, arizona, new mexico, texas, but then when you get back to florida, david, mike bloomberg is vowing to spend $100million just in florida and targeting hispanic voters and latino voters and trying to defeat them, defeat trump in florida, his adopted home state. >> for context, $100 million is essentially the entire cost of a state-wide race in the state of florida. look back at rick scott's gubernatorial and senatorial runs, a historic amount of money scott was spending and now it's historical bloomberg is spending. the question whaush, what will message be? biden camp with bloomberg supports will not play the game on donald trump's field. not going to be about law and order and immigration and other issues trump wants to talk about. it's going to be personal. for the hispanic community, about access to affordable health care and for the entire

state about donald trump's handling of the pandemic. your question with joel was right on. donald trump knew. he said to woodward he knew early that this was an airborne, an airborne virus. well, andrea, the entire state of florida and the country was running to buy hand sanitizers the first few months. we weren't told is was airborne and should wearing a masks until late spring. donald trump's inability to handle a crisis and that's the message you'll see bloomberg's money support in the state of florida. >> leave it there. david, victoria can and joel, thank you so much. and breaking news now. tropical storm sally rapidly strengthened and is now a hurricane, this just weeks after hurricane laura caused major devastation. al roker joins me. what's the significance and what about the track and new orleans, obviously, on a lot of peoples minds of concern? >> right now, andrea, the track is to the east of new orleans,

which is good news for new orleans. however, that could change. and take a look right now at the atlantic. how active it is. we've got hurricane sally, hurricane paulette, tropical storm storm vicky and a tropical depression and this is very, very usual. you mentioned, currently not with 85 mile-per-hour winds. 95 mile per our winds moving west-northwest at 85 miles per hour winds, and it is strengthening now to a category 1 storm. the track brings it to the east of new orleans. that's the weaker side of the storm. so the stronger side is going to be alabama, mississippi, the florida panhandle, but you can see that sewn of uncertainty. new orleans is still within that cone. we have to watch this carefully. landfall sometime late tonight, probably tomorrow morning sometime. locally, we could be looking at 24 inches of rain.

we're talking massive flooding with this system, and a storm surge 7 to 11 feet in spots along the louisiana coast. depending on what time high tide is. this could be devastating. winds will be a major issue, but not as big a deal as the heavy rainfall that could cause massive flooding. the winds will continue to move onshore late tonight into tomorrow. those tropical force gusts and then hurricane force gusts. look at that 83 mile-per-hour gusts by tuesday evening into biloxi and the winds stay strong. here's the problem, andrea. this thing is going to be a slow mover. it's right now moving at 6 miles per hour. its forecast to slow down to between 3 to 5 miles an hour. we can talk about about 3 miles per hour. because of a big ridge of high pressure and steering winds way up north, there's nothing to push this thing out so the rain will continue. this is a direct result of climate change. more blocking patterns, weaker

steering currents. this is the most active h hurricane season seen since 2005. in fact, many of these storms had formed, earliest storms on record. once you get to cristobal and eduardo and go all the way through to now, teddy and vicky. we've were only got one remaining storm name this season, after wilfred. we go to the greek alphabet. also, the california wildfires, 3 million acres burned. first, third and fourth largest fires in the state's history burning now, andrea. climate change making summer and fall both hotter and drier. more extreme fire weather days, and california heat waves are averaging three to four degrees above average. we still have dense smoke advisories, red flag warnings. bad news, fire alerts issued today, dry conditions. another approaches kicking up

gusty, chl y local winds. good news, maybe see more showers in the pacific northwest but a while before they get a break as far as weather is concerned and the heavy rains start coming in. we are watching the tropics, this thing from new orleans to the panhandle of florida, andrea, everybody la to be concerned about sally and ready for it. >> wow. that is a lot of bad news. thanks so much, al roker. thanks for the warnings. and we appreciate your being here. meanwhile, millions of college students around the country back to classes despite the threat of coronavirus. but it's what they're doing off campus that is the biggest worry. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us. this is msnbc. stay with us this is msnbc.

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here now more than 6.5 million cases of coronavirus in the u.s. more than 195,000 people have died during the pandemic. a grim total rapidly approaching 200,000. here are the facts at this hour. house democrats are now investigating new changes, charges, rather, of political interference after reports that democrat of health and human services communication aides

request and received ability to review and seek changes to crucial coronavirus scientific reports. those reports published by the cdc to try to make them match the president's non-scientific statements. covid hot spots from partying and big college states are spreading fear of further spread only a few weeks into the start of the school year. in florida starting today, bars able to reopen state-wide at 50% capacity, but not in south florida where the mayors of miami-dade and broward and palm beach county say, no so fast. concerns opening bars could be a catalyst for spreading the virus. nbc's kerry sanders is in fort lauderdale where this is becoming quite a hot issue. are people accepting these restrictions which go along with everything that dr. fauci told me? okay. >> reporter: sorry. didn't mean to step on you,

andrea. what were you saying about dr. fauci? >> well no. just saying he says indoor dirning which means bars and restaurants, the most dangerous thing that people can do right now, aside from campaign rallies? >> reporter: indeed. exactly. so many of these questions about congregation and what you have in south florida is the question you really have across the country. balancing the spread and health of people, because you don't want to see it spread. you want to maintain health. on the other hand, you have businesses and in south florida, you have bar businesses that have been essentially shut down since st. paddy's day. in many cases fearful they will not be able to survive this. bars worried that if this continues, that, in these three counties down here, population of ar 6.5 million people, if they're unable toll reopen, that when it comes time to reopen they won't be able to. this is what the association for the hotel, lodging and restaurant association had to

say. >> these poor people that they're jobs and their livelihood are depending on getting a paycheck, and they can't get back to work, and these owners, by the way, have property taxes due, and all, mortgages due. utilities. and zero income. so it's -- it's a shame. i mean, we're hoping that the federal government will push through another phase of ppp, because our numbers have run out. they've run out of money. they've run out of time. >> reporter: and, andrea, the real concern here is, how long can these bars last? but the same token, if they reopen, does it just prolong the situation with coronavirus? >> indeed. and what about the bars that serve food? how do they decide between restaurants and bars? >> reporter: it's really kind of a loophole, to tell you the

truth. some bars have morphed and went ahead and got licenses to serve food, but it can be something as simple as a ladle out of a crock pot. in one case selling beers with a bag of potato chips but it's given them a loophole to open up. in miami-dade county, broward and palm beach county, enforcement if you're a bar you're a bar and not to reopen. >> reporter: kerry sanders, thank you so much. and joining us now, director of the texas children's hospital center for vaccine development. doctor, great to see you again. a lot of developments since we've last chatted about vaccines i want to talk about that and also first ar the super spreader events, like these, some of these restaurants, the college kids who are out partying off campus, on campus, as well as campaign rallies, indoor rallies yesterday in nevada. >> yeah. i mean, the problem is, we never really brought down transmission in this country to a containable

level, and if we had done that we could have had a good fall. we mutt a number -- a number of in measures to bring down contamination. the point, had we done this over in july by end of september, end of this month, by october 1 could have safely opened up schoolsened colleges and even sporting events, but the white house did not want to do that. they never wanted to launch a national plan to control this virus, and we have this terrible situation now. we're accelerating to 200,000 american deaths by end of this month. andrea, canada this weekend celebrated the fact that they went 24 hours without a death. they had 26 deaths all last week, and a nation of 40 million people. we could have been in the same place had we had that leadership, but we chose not to.

>> and it's also extraordinary that the cdc has been altering reports. the press office, the p.r. people, getting the scientists to alter these very valuable reports. always been relied upon. just as we were entering the stage where we're going to need their recommendations as well as the fda, of course, on trust in a vaccine. >> absolutely right. we've learned that the white house is tampering with mmwr, the morbidity and mortality weekly reports. this is a document around since the 1950s, the most non-partisan apolitical document you could possibly imagine. used to be printed out on white sheets of paper. before, it went exclusively online, and it provides important information. this was the first time that we reported pneumonia in an aids patient in 1981. where we learned

hispanic-americans have a three times higher death rate from covid-19 than those younger under the age of 65. life-saving information. the idea the white house would meddle with it is just, just outrageous and this is what we're seeing over the weekend in this rally in nevada. complete defiance of science. trying to, bringing together huge numbers of people indoors without masks, and in an area where there's still a considerable level of virus transmission. there will inevitably be covid cases coming out of that event and i hope nobody dies as a result. this is a white house that, and a president, that is campaigning, and hoping to get re-elected based on an anti-science disinformation platform. never seen anything like it. this is why we're a great nation. we're a great nation because of our research, universities, and institutes and our science horsepower and it's all being tossed aside or marginalized, and towards what end?

just so we can accumulate deaths from covid-19. >> very, very briefly, do you have any concerns about astrazeneca at least in britain's restarting their vaccine trial? >> well, part of the problem, you know, andrea, is the fact there's no communication strategy for operation warp speed coming out of the white house. so in the absence of a communication strategy and a plan, what you're getting is basically letting the companies provide the communication, and so all we know is that the ceo of astrazeneca on a teleconference to financiers i think from jpmorgan talked about there were some possibly a couple of serious adverse events, maybe transverse my oh lighties or multiple sclerosis. this is now how the american people want to find out about these things. we need solid communications coming out of washington or at least atlanta, but there's nothing. there's a vacuum, and this is creating a lot of concern and

nervousness among the american people about vaccines and now we have two, three large surveys showing up to half of americans will refuse covid-19 vaccines even if made available. this is a self-inflicted wound that was caused by the white house and absence and unwillingness to communicate. >> doctor, thanks very much. meanwhile, an historic piece. tomorrow the united arab emirates are sighing a new deal. stay with us. (♪ )

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i'm joe biden, and i approve this message. bahrain announcing it will establish full diplomatic relations with israel a month after the united arab emirates normalized relations bringing number of arab countries recognizing israel to four. egypt did in 1979, jordan in 1994. historic deal signed tomorrow at

a big white house ceremony. the question now, will other arab states follow suit? joining me now is an ambassador to the united arab emirates to the united nations. welcome. thank you very much for being with us today. >> thank you. >> this is going to pave the way, do you think -- well, it's exciting about the uae. sort of relations unofficial relationships and a lot of connections between the uae and israel we know and between the saudis and israel as a matter of fact, not acknowledged publicly. so do you think sudan and oman might follow suit and what about the possibilities of your close neighbor saudi arabia actually joining as well? >> andrea, thank you very much for hosting me and i hope you and your family are well. first of all i would like to acknowledge as you've just said this is indeed a historic signing of an accord tomorrow between the united arab emirates and israel and underoversightyus

the u.s. two dynamic entrepreneurial economic power houses decide to sign a peace accord and work and cooperate towards bettering opportunity and hope for the region. this is a moment of optimism and one that is shared around the regions. regional reaction interesting. overjot positive. i think the international reaction positive. the secretary-general of the united nations welcomed this agreement and everyone has seen it as a step change in promoting a new dynamic for the region. a dynamic of hope and optimism. i'm delighted to be here and witness this important signing. >> what about the palestinians? they're obviously being left out of this and some people feel they're being sold out? >> well, i think this is a sovereign decision of my country, the united arab emirates to sign this agreement and recognizes a reality that israel is a part of our region and has a role to play. along with the united states and

other actors in maintaining regional peace and security. we have at the same time reaffirmed many times over decades our long-standing commitment to a peaceful resolution of the palestinian/israeli conflict based on the two-state solution, based on u.n. resolutions, and international consensus. that ultimately has to be negotiated between the two parties. the palestinians and israelis. i think the empty chair policy has not seen the kind of dividends for peace we hoped to see in our region and i think the uae and our leadership and his highness in taking this bold step recognizes we can be a player, a partner, but peace and security with the united states, with others in the region and at the same time maintain our firm compliment to a two-state solution and hopefully help achieve that endeavor if our help is indeed asked for from the sidelines by talking to the israelis, having a channel of cooperation with the israelis, by being a partner for

counterterrorism in the region, by being a partner for peace and stabilities in the region. i think the economic opportunities, the peace dividend that will emerge from that agreement, are too enormous not to take this opportunity to step forward. i think this is the right step for us as our country step for us, as our country takes this important step, as well as the bahrainis, and i think we can build on it to provide an opportunity for hope for everyone in the region, including the palestinians. >> and have you submitted a letter for the f-35 stealth planes to the pentagon or is that still pendinging? >> i'll defer that question to our embassy in d.c. i cover the united nations and multilateralism. but i think that, of course, any part of a peace agreement includes a security dimension and the regional security is a very important conversation that we have been having for a number of years with the united states. that request predates this accord. it's been on the table for a

long time. we have many challenges that we share, that we are facing together in the region. and i think that's going to be an important piece of the regional security architecture. so i hope that can move forward in due course. >> ambassador, thank you so much for being with us today. look forward to a very big day tomorrow. >> thank you, andrea. meanwhile, out on the west coast, the latest on the manhunt for the person who shot two l.a. sheriff deputies in their squad cars. stay with us. f deputiesn ithei cars stay with us lan with voya gives us confidence. yeah, they help us with achievable steps along the way... ...so we can spend a bit now, knowing we're prepared for the future. surprise! we renovated the guest room, so you can live with us. oooh, well... i'm good at my condo. oh. i love her condo. nana throws the best parties. well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement.

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this case. law enforcement sources tell us that investigators are starting to focus in on street gangs in the area. they are now offering a $100,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of this suspect. but at this point, investigators have not said if this is in any way related to some of the civil unrest we've seen in the area over the last few months. the night of the shooting, a small group of what deputies described as anti-police protesters showed up at the hospital, taunting officers and chanting that they hoped those two deputies would die. however, local leaders have come out, condemning the shooting, and pleading for peace. both of those deputies are expected to survive. andrea? >> that's the only good news, is the survival. thank you so much, gadi schwartz in l.a. that does it for this edoifitiof "andrea mitchell reports." up next, steve kornacki is in for chothd chuck todd for "mtp today on msnbc. uck todd for "mtp" today on msnbc keys on the dash.

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