old for our kids anymore. we aren t as competitive in education as we have been in the past and as the p said if country that out educates us in terms of providing what their children need today will out compete us tomorrow economically. all right. all right. melody barnes, i hope you and chuck are having a swell time out there in colorado. we re handling the heat wave here in washington. wish you were here. yes. thank you. okay. chuck, do the trivia. colorado edition of trivia. in 1972, colorado said no thanks to hosting a major sporting event. what was it? it was the 1976 winter 0 fim lick games after denver won the bid. voters went to the polls, rejected the bond that would have financed the games with public funds. only state to reject the olympics. savannah, what makes this
money and in making an argument and he ll certainly continue to do that. well, as if the president didn t have enough on his plate, he is on the road trying to help democrats maintain control of congress. the talk in washington is that holding the house may already be a lost cause for democrats. but let s look at the numbers. for that, we turn to stu rothenberg. let s lay it out as we go here. for republicans to gain control of the senate, they have to have a net pickup of ten seats, of the house, 39 seats. let s start with the house and give us the most likely scenario. well, remember. they need to net 39 in the house, savannah, but losing a handle of their own and need to knock off 34 hr 35 democrats. right now, we believe the republicans have substantial gains, 25 to 30 range. other people who are talking 35, 40, 45. it is a big year and won t know
both sides. appointed senator bennett fending off a challenge of romanoff and aunch launched a fv ad. take a look. it s like a rigged casino. washington takes special interest money. wall street gambles with our economy and then washington bails wall street out. special interests in washington have more power than the people. and that s not just wrong. it s corrupt. the difference is, i don t take a dime of their money. bennett running as far from washington as he can tells voters in his latest ad he is anything but some sort of elitist. while others learn to read, you struggle to make sense of the page. and while others moved ahead, you stayed back. but in the end, you per severed to help kids, you challenged the old way of doing things. and now, you re asked to serve. so you set out to fix a broken washington. for colorado.
system, but the idea that he talked about, the idea of learning english and assimilate, the things that he said in his speech, those are good politics and something he campaigned on. a lot of states in this country generally agree with the idea of it. if he was to marry basically letting the dreamers stay in this country, with a kind of hawkish immigration bill like this and put that on the floor. that s a big issue for the democrats. and how about republicans? he would be trying to unbreak a broken washington. at this point he just wants to win. i went to a lot of trump rallies, they weren t chanting build a new immigration system, they were chanting build a wall. on the other hand, because so
oh, i can hardly stand the suspense, chuck. good morning, everyone. july 8th, 2010. i m savannah guthrie live in washington. i will not be le-fawning over lebron, chuck. no. we ll discuss, savannah, what to do and what the next move will be. i ll leave. you can have that hour. no. but it s possible we may decide to do this hour one more time again tomorrow but stay tuned to the end of the show and let you know. i m chuck todd live in aspen. so let s get to the lebron rundown. we re going to begin with the russian spy saga. call a flashback to the cold war. u.s. officials appear on the verge of swapping alleged agents with moscow. pete williams is nbc s justice correspondent. pete, round up the usual suspects. we re suddenly still have spies in moscow and handle this case? reporter: well, so it would