captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a thursday morning. i m savannah gurthrie. and i m matt lauer. i d pay to watch. i like the free debates. it ll be fun. withless than 50 days to go to the election, mitt romney s ramping up his campaign schedule. he s hoping to turn the page on the controversy over his leaked remarks that nearly half of americans see themselves as victims. it s the latest in a series of stumbles that have one influential columnist using the word incompetent to describe the romney campaign. we re going to get reaction from the governor s camp straight ahead. also ahead, will a former green beret convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and daughters more than 30 years ago get a new trial? his story was made famous in fatal vision. today the author of that could testify at a key hearing in this case. we re going to be there live. then a very interesting legal battle. one mother s emotional figh