site of tonight s first debate, first presidential face-off. a preview from both campaigns with obama deputy campaign manager stephanie cutter and romney senior adviser former missoury senator jim talent. michael benefit from colorado on the changing political landscape out here in a battleground state and chris cizilla, dan balls and jonathan martin with a viewers guide on what to watch for tonight. andrea mitchell reports live in denver on msnbc. i m meteorologist bill karins with your big travel forecast. big changes in the midwest but until the cold air arrives a warm day from minneapolis to kansas city, all the way coun through texas. we do have a soupy airs mass, humidity in the air along the eastern seaboard. a chance of showers, but they will be isolated during the day today. the cool air arrives in chicago tomorrow.
in the street, you know, demanding that those militias and those, you know, terrorists and islamic militias are disbanded. that gives us, you know, great hope for, you know, what can happen in a place like libya. thanks so much, robert gibbs, see you in denver, be there tomorrow. thanks, andre ya. up next, the testy senate debate in massachusetts. and still ahead, mitt romney s debate strategy. we ll talk to his top adviser kevin madden. join us in denver at the site of the first presidential debate. among our guests obama depppy campaign manager stephanie cutter, michael benefit and jim talent. this is andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc.
to the president in which he demanded that democrats scrap the health reform bills that have passed both houses of congress even if they are changed to include these republican ideas that the president is endorsing. senator mcconnell also of course denouncing the idea that democrats use budget reconciliation rules to pass reform with a simple majority in order to get around the republican filibuster. mean while not only does it seem clear that health reform is going to be passed using the reconciliation rules, it also seems possible that what passes may include the public option, the popular measure that passed the house but was traded away for votes that never materialized in the senate. the effort to put the public option back into the senate bill followed a letter last month calling for a simple majority vote in the senate. it was initially made public with just four signatures on it those of senator michael benefit of colorado gillibrand of new york merkley of oregon and sherrod