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
democratic senate primary in colorado, check. ken buck winning the republican senate primary in colorado, check and also in colorado the tea party candidate pulling an upset in the governor s race. check again. democrats are hoping weaker, more conservative, less-funded republican candidates will help them hang on to governorships and the senate this fall. plus, the new nbc news/ wall street journal poll tells us something we probably already knew. americans are fed up with everybody, both parties included, but it also told us something we didn t know, that the democrats may have figured out a way to push back a little bit and maybe cut their losses. and there are those in the gop who are having second thoughts about some in their party who want to change the 14th amendment. they are looking at long-term damage to the party with hispanic voters and are saying enough already. also, so-called the professional left is still seething over robert gibbs outburst yesterday. is t
corporations are. i ll tan his hide in the playbook. and we ll have the very latest on the plane crash that killed alaska senator ted stevens. but this, of course, is the story that has me fired up tonight. nancy pelosi showing leadership. she brings the democrats back, and they scored a huge victory for the american working class today. late this afternoon the house passed a bill to save hundreds of thousands of jobs for fire fighters, law enforcement, police and, of course, public school teachers. the vote was 247-161, and i love it. the speaker of the house got cut right into john baron s course time to get a win for the american people. the tan man put it like this. this bailout to the teachers unions is some of the most irresponsible policy that i ve seen. the american people are screaming at top of their longs stop, and washington continues to spend, spend, spend. why don t you just say you want to fire teachers, and they are not important? but it s about the
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now the troubled actress is headed to rehab today, monday, august 2nd, 2010. headed to rehab today, monday, august 2nd, 2010. vi captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. i m ann curry in for meredith. as you know the only thing keeping the oil from flowing into the gulf is the new containment pipe placed on the busted well last month. that could change with the so-killed static kill method. as early as today engineers will try to kill the well by forcing cement and maybe mud into it. some gulf coast residents are fearing it will pave the way for bp to cut and run. coming up, we ll hear what the company s ceo is saying about that. and we have a woman accused of going on a rampage and stabbing her two young nieces while she was babysitting them in an up scale neighborhood north of new york city. it has neighbors including one known celebrity on edge. details coming up. also, the high points