game changer this plane is, but is it worth the billion dollars price tag? the most basic cost benefit of the airplane is its survivability. you can spend a lot of money on a cheaper airplane and you are going to die. and that s just as bold as i can be. war is an ugly business. and when we want to fly these fighters, we want not only just to go in and do our mission, we want to bring the airplane and the pilot home alive. that was jon scott reporting. thank you very much, very exciting stuff. a new invention by a young air force grad could soon make a difference on overseas battles. this is what we have been using. it doesn t look that intimidating. no, of course not. it is really unassuming. how this new breakthrough could one day save the lives of those in combat. just like the m. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you re a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children. we re the williams family, and we re usaa me
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yeah. when you look at new hampshire, typically the top thing people look for is strong leadership and you know, you saw yesterday they were looking for somebody who can beat obama and i think what that says is, you know, that romney did work hard. he got a solid win in new hampshire. not to take away from that but the reality is he won by default more or less. the people looked at other candidates, gosh, we might like where they are better than we like where romney is but we don t feel like they would match up as well against the president. so it has to be romney. jon: a lot of talk has been made and a lot of ink has been printed about dissatisfaction with the republican field but you know, our post exit polling didn t find that to be the case. we asked if you re satisfied with the candidates, this is new hampshire only poll, and 66% of those in new hampshire said yeah, we like this republican slate. now 31% said they didn t.
hiding a nasty political surprise. jim angle takes a look at that live from washington. hey, jim? reporter: hello, jon. it is clear no issue is more important in this election than jobs. even though the official unemployment rate has fallen those in both parties say the jobs situation is far worse than it looks. one of the most recent employment report, we saw the unemployment rate decline but we saw 50,000 people leave the labor force. that can t be a good news story. i don t think we should forget as bad as the unemployment rate has been the actual job situation in the country has been worse than that because of these ways that they don t get measured. reporter: what doesn t get measured those who lost hope of finding a job and quit looking for one, what are known as discouraged workers. firm numbers don t count them unemployed. six million people are in that group. in fact a huge portion of the total unemployed, some
spent time on this morning has a whole section, jon, dedicated to the most controversial pageant moms. back to you. jon: mom was right there. reporter: right there. jon: yeah. i guess if mom wasn t there that might abetter thing. i don t know. jenna: thought we would have a conversation like, is that appropriate? i wonder if it is appropriate? no, it is not appropriate. reporter: not appropriate. conversation over. jenna: and we re done. jon: what some people will do to be on tv i like this reality television a whole lot better. jenna: live news. our own reality tv. should have a camera in the newsroom. what do you think about that? catch conversations at media desk, foreign desk. interesting stuff. not quite as interesting as toddlers. we have new reaction as the u.s. supreme court takes up issue of profanity on the airwaves. hit tv shows gets ready to test the boundaries of public taste. wow, i have a daughter who bites and a partner who stinks. you want to know the