it's beautiful to watch. >> >> todd h.: second place in breckenridge, colorado. the man who dominated the defending champion, kevin rolland from la plain, france. wow is all i can say >> luke: it as full-scale french weapon. look at the size of these doubles. all the way down the pipe. his ability to put together a run and seamlessly execute is beyond comparison. look at the giant 1260 at the bottom, three doubles in a row, unprecedented, kevin roland takes the "w." >> todd h.: that's how it shifts down at our first stop at breckenridge. kevin rolland sits atop the leaderboard. dorey second, adams third. keep your eye on kenworthy, perkins, and yater-wallace. at 16 this kid is sensational. i would not be surprised to see him on the podium for the overall >> luke: a huge amount of talent throughout the field. look for some of the young americans to strike through and show you flying colors. >> todd h.: this is the count-down to the men's superpipe finals. as we said, 12 of the world easily best. surveying what they have to tackle. the 22-foot superpipe here at kil

h. w. bush. this from "politico." todd platts will not seek another term. back to the presidential candidates. comments in the debate about turkey and here's an update on that story. host: and then "the washington post" -- we showed you the moment from monday night's debate what he was asked about his comments in the past about janitors and food stamp president. hos host: 10 story about 2012 politics. the electorate is split over obama in a new poll. president obama's job ratings have crept back from lows. host: todd is for the internet blackout in virginia. caller: this will ruin the economy even worse. they will not fund internet web sites now that might be the next innovation. host: ok. caller: it is just going to destroy it more jobs in the game companies that i'm a big fan of. but they get their game out commercially and they will not be able to do that anymore. host: you say this will destroy jobs. caller: yes. host: what about the millions lost by the music and film industry? caller: that is not true. they make millions of money. if companies made a better service, they would not be los

todd is nbc news political director and chief white house correspondent. he joins us now from tampa, florida, site of tomorrow night's nbc news presidential debate. you see the set there behind h m him. chuck, let me ask you how the debates may have hurt romney in south carolina and how you expect him to change, perhaps, when he goes back on the podium tomorrow. >> well, it is interesting we do sort of -- mitt romney telegrafd he'll get more aggressive against speaker gingrich. speaker gingrich has shown his ability to be aggressive with the moderate, a little bit with his opponents. it will be interesting to watch romney do this. four years ago, almost in this exact same period in the presidential race, he was feeling the pressure from huckabee and mccain, romney went on the attack and his numbers went down even lower. in fact, at the florida debates then he was very aggressive and it didn't help him. he struggles walking that line of going on the attack and at the same time without turning off voters and newt gingrich is somebody that knows he lives for these moments. he knows how to respond and sort of get under mitt romney's skin in a way that we haven't seen in a while, l