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Ron paul now running in fifth place. it gives you an idea how dr dramatically things can change in two months. how will the field look come january. hear what the senior advisor to george w. bush says. he's a well known fox contributor, best known for his white board, the one and only karl rove. sir, how are you? >> fabulous. how are you, sean? >> you want to add more texture. i understand you have a perspective going back to 2008 that's pretty interesting. what have you got? >> first of all, let's use one set of numbers which is the real clear politics average of all the recent polls. you're ...

Year. mostly from the sale of books. and on that income, they paid $453,000 in federal taxes. the refund, reportedly about 12 grand. by contrast, vice president biden and wife jill earned about $380,000 last year and paid $86,000 in federal taxes. the price of oil went down again today. it's the second major drop in crude in the past week. but so far it's not stopping the price of gas from skyrocketing. it never does. it's a lagging indicator. drivers in six states now paying an average of $4 or more per gallon. we will look at what's driving up the cost at the pump and what could bring them d...

Million of those jobs created in over a year. that's the right direction. >> what about the temporary workers? you said like 30,000 that were added. is that significant? >> we're watching the temporary workers because that's often kind of a foreshadowing of an economy that's going to be getting -- labor market, rather, that's getting better. it's a lagging indicator. the economy is getting better but not adding jobs because businesses are so scared. they have been adding temporary workers. they have been adding contract workers so that's been an area of some action. you want to see them turn i...

Event are they raising the crisis level to this number five which is the same as the three mile island crisis? >> reporter: first of all, i'm trying to wrap my mind around the fact that it's only been a week. somehow it seems it's been weeks with all that's been going on in this poor country. here is the reasoning. this is something called the international nuclear and radiological event scale. it's a scale that goes from one to seven, one being, of course, least problematic, seven being a chernobyl. today the japanese agency decided to race ise it to a lev five, the equivalent of three mile i...

>> you really believe that if you don't keep developing and bringing new products on, you're never going to recover? >> you're not. innovate or die. you can't just hunker down and hide during this period of time. you have to continue to invest. >> because that, he believes, is what protects jobs on the ground. and puts planes into the sky. the folks at cessna don't expect everything to come bouncing back right away. in fact their industry tends to be a lagging indicator. as the economy gets better, they slowly come along behind it. but, they think, when they do come back, they will be stronger...