game was so strong. here is what he had to say we can expect from him in the general campaign. jenna: this is a match up of a liberal democrat and a con tefr tiff republican. we will be talking about reducing spending and protecting hreub ertsz and the things that colcitizens care about. reporter: buck was immediately endorsed by his former opponent jay norton jane norton has night who inch kourpbld all her supporters to get behind ken buck and the republican party. jenna: thank you very much. rick: we are going to talk to karl rove more about the primaries. first we want to carl about new tensions between the white house and liberals. sar cat particularly saying that literal critics should be drug testing. gibbs slamming the professional left in an interview he gave to the hill saying, quote they will
the president, personal intervention showing he can get democrats excited to cut the enthusiasm gap. no question he showed he can do it in colorado and that is a purple state, not a blue state. that is an important state. a lot of the president s critics talked about how he couldn t win in virginia and couldn t help in new jersey and couldn t help with scott brown s opponent. colorado is a critical state for the democratic party and the president seemed to have a real impact last night. he showed he can have a impact within the party. the challenge in the general election to show he can have an impact in a general election. it will be interesting. michael bennet wanted to beat romanoff in a primary and will bennet want him back in september and october for fund-raising. can barack obama go from 08 go into that purple state and make the case? easier though, because bennet opponent jay norton but the tea
nbc s chuck todd. you took it seriously when he said he could do the first three minutes of our show. go ahead, chuck. there it is. well, you know, what am i supposed to do? wax eloquent about something random in the air? what am i going to learn? how about this? what am i going to learn over the next three hours? what we do is i ask the question. i answer my question. i ask you what you think of my answer. and then yeah, it s self-awareness is the first step, joe. 8:00 key. first step. so we re going to go to news and we are going to break down these numbers but really quickly, chuck, mark halpern and i were just talking on the set. it was a good night for the democratic party last night in several places, wasn t it? it was. it s like a lot of people want to say, geez the democratic party, if you think of it like a hospital patient, they are in icu in critical condition. they are in serious condition but there is a pulse and there are signs of life and, you
an insurgency going on. just a lot of voters that are unhappy with the status quo, with washington. brown: special correspondent kira kay reports on a very different campaign, this one in rwanda, where hutus and tutsis turned out in large numbers we want peace, but we need peace in our hearts. there is still a lot of suspicion. there is still a lot of fear. there is still a lot of frustration. ifill: and energy and environmental writers eric pooley and darren samuelson explain the rise and fall of this year s climate and energy legislation. that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ifill: six americans were killed in the medical team ambush in afghanistan, along with two afghans. the remaining two one british, one germany were identified today, and the taliban has claimed responsibility for the murders. the ten internati
with washington. brown: special correspondent kira kay reports on a very different campaign, this one in rwanda, where hutus and tutsis turned out in large numbers we want peace, but we need peace in our hearts. there is still a lot of suspicion. there is still a lot of fear. there is still a lot of frustration. ifill: and energy and environmental writers eric pooley and darren samuelson explain the rise and fall of this year s climate and energy legislation. that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ifill: six americans were killed in the medical team ambush in afghanistan, along with two afghans. the remaining two one british, one germany were identified today, and the taliban has claimed responsibility for the murders. the ten international aide workers lost their lives thursday in the remote and rugged northeast corn