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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. >...

Donald trump and the job he's doing. independents about two-thirds opposed to the job he's doing. not split. but republicans still broadly speaking, two-thirds, 70% supportive of this president. as long as that's true, a republican member of congress, let's say in a safe congressional district looks at it and says there is zero to gain from me breaking with the president. all i'm asking for at that point is a primary challenge some time next year. so unless and until they make that collective decision, that politically for survivability they cannot tas idly or otherwise support this president,...

>> david, moscow probably has not had a chance to digest this particular interview. they'll see it in its entirety tomorrow. but that is one of those very rare references donald trump actually mentioning vladimir putin in connection to syria, may be the first time he's done it since this crisis developed and all he's saying is that vladimir putin is backing a very bad person, an evil person. he thinks it's bad for russia. it seems as though the president of the united states dsn't just how long vladimir putin has been backing assad or why he backs assad. what is the -- what do you expect the r...

Bad person, an evil person. he thinks it's bad for russia. it seems as though the president of the united states doesn't just how long vladimir putin has been backing assad or why he backs assad. what is the -- what do you expect the reaction in moscow to be tomorrow to those comments from donald trump? >> well, david was speaking about the survivability of sean spicer. putin has been doing survivability for 17 years and he does it by setting his own agenda and not like, you know, when was the last time you saw vladimir putin say, you know what, you're right, i was wrong about that, about any ...

What he cannot do is cross a redline that has been firmly established and a penalty is being affixed to that. second of that, bashar al-assad's military is on the narrow margins of survivability. the air force and all practical purposes barely exist anymore. the syrian air army no longerns desists. that is why they need conscripts and mercenaries from afghanistan and iran and iraq to fight the war for him because the syrian people will not fight on behalf of bashar al-assad. he does not have the bandwidthal to risk conflict. >> bill: doesn't he have the iranians -- >> he didn't have it before,...