0 people. i think this very first debate next week may be his last best chance to make his case. do you think if the debate s a flop for mitt romney that all of a sudden some super-pacs and big dollar donors, some of the establishment, do they begin to abandon him next thursday? i think it will certainly heighten and go to defcon five. what s the next color is on the homeland security chart, i lose track of them, we ll probably go to. i think what mitt needs to do, craig fuchsia. is really be himself. stop trying to be a conservative. he s not. we re not talking about a guy with deep ideological convictions. his real moral convictions are in his family where he has a picturesque american model there. beyond that, he s known for making money for himself and other people and creating jobs for those who don t have wealth. that s who he needs to be. it sounds like steve is saying let mitt be mitt. is it too late for that? well, it s not as though people don t understand who
3 c3 esto es nbc news, today. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today. i m savannah guthrie. i am willie geist. there are a lot of questions about the deadly workplace shooting in minneapolis. it happened at a sign making business, the founder among the victims. the shooter dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. we will get the latest in a live report straight ahead. also, a look to next week s first presidential debate. will it be make or break for mitt romney? the political dream team, brokaw, gregory, todd here to weigh in. thirst, remember the guinness world attempt for the most pullups in 24 hours. there has been a significant development overnight. we will talk to david coming up. we want to begin with the deadly shooting at a business in minneapolis. kevin tibbles is there. good morning to you. reporter: savannah, witnesses say the alleged 36-year-old gunman may have lost his job here at the accent sign company sometime yeste
romney s home away from home where he has a vacation spot. governor romney s favorables continue to be underwater in all but north carolina now. combine these numbers with what we ve seen all week, how worried are republicans? how worried are they that we re approaching the point where it might be time to focus on the congressional races? i think people are getting very worried, and i had a pollster doing conservative polling for three decades on my show last night. he said it may be time to go back to a 1996 model of telling the american people, listen, if you re going to re-elect bill clinton, you better have republicans in the congress to make sure to keep him in check. i think it may be a little early for that yet. i think the president still has weaknesses because of the economies, and i think because of that mitt romney s gin more chances than he otherwise would to make his case to the american people. i think this very first debate next week may be his last best chan
ich begi wednesday in denver. no we also have received this memo fm a romney senior adviser that mes it sounas though romney is the underdog. let me read a portion o now. saying president obama is uniquely gifteead is widely regarded as one of the most talented political communicators in mdern hitory. this will be the eighth one on one presidential debate of his political career. for mitt romney, it will be his first. so what is at the root here? is this a little reverse psychology? right, they re trying to lower expect takings for their respective candidate, making the other guy seem like he s lincoln or douglas or the greatest debaters in the history of the united states. so that if they don t do so well, the expectations game is a little lower. reminds me when al gore was debating george w. bush in 2000, al gore, the vice president of the united states, was seen as a great debate, george w. bush not so much. but then al gore, you know, had some fumbles and in terms of th
we ll tell you today, friday, september 28th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m savannah guthrie. and i m willie geist in for matt on assignment. a lot of unanswers questions about that deadly shooting. it happened in a sign-making business. the shooter is dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound. we are going to get the latest on this story in a live report straight ahead. also, a lock ahead to next week s first presidential debate. will it be make or break for mitt romney? we ve got our political dream team of brokaw, gregory and todd all here to weigh in this morning. all right. and then on thursday you ll remember david goggins kicked off his guinness world record attempts to do most powellups in 24 hours. well, there s been a significant develop overnight, an