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was a navy fighter pilot, he -- >> rose: there's no doubt he's a good pilot. >> he understood what he had to do was stop the dive. >> rose: right. >> so by inverting the plane, he inverts the surface, and it makes the plane go up. >> rose: a navy piled would know that. >> yeah, a navy pilot would know that. and of course when we talked to our experts they said, "yeah, that would be a last-ditch effort." and then they said, of course the engines wouldn't run for very long." we said, "good, we'll pull that in the movie ( laughter ) >> rose: why this film for you? why fly. >> you know, i-- know it all comes down to the script for me. when i read a screen play i can't put down, and when i read a screen play that's unique and really well written and complex, i feel it's worthy to do. and then i had heard tha that denzel was interested in doing it, and when i readed screen play it was like he was perfect for the part. and i called him up and said, are you really interested in it? and he said, yeah, i am." >> what they called me and said bob zemeckis. i said, what? when do we start? >> rose: did
to get rid of and increase the size of the navy. it depends on whether you feel now is the time to increase defense spending or put it in our economic debt crisis. it's a pretty good distinction. but to what end? the debate was supposed to give you a framework on what the president would do with foreign policy and we didn't get a lot of that. gwen: molly, you've been going out on the actual campaign trail with people who are door-knockers and so on every day. i wonder whether these issues we talk about in our little hothouse in washington come up when people are trying to get voters to though -- show up to vote? >> they do. it's easy to say voters don't care about x, y, or z but voters are smarter than we think and they pay attention and are processing all this in a very careful way. one woman in florida said the reason she's still undecided is she has all the debates on d.v.r. and wants to do her homework. gwen: what? what? that sounds awful to me! >> i know. but there was tremendous earnestness. a lot of the undecided voters are people who legitimately see validity in both can
: john ward owns lil' john's septic service on the outskirts of helena. he's a navy veteran. he'd been elected to the montana legislature in 2004. >> this district actually encompasses this side of the valley, north of... >> ryssdal: he showed me around. and he told me about the surprise he ran into during his 2008 campaign. >> i knew that i was going to have opposition, but i had no concept whatsoever of the power and viciousness. >> ryssdal: in the republican primary that year, ward faced a conservative challenger with little political experience, a guy named mike miller. >> he wasn't a good campaigner. he was afraid of people. and he wouldn't appear at places. >> ryssdal: and then just days before the primary, ward's district was blitzed with mailers from a bunch of outside groups attacking him. >> here it is. >> ryssdal: wow. "john ward voted with criminal coddling liberal activists." "are high energy prices killing you?" "john ward had a choice." instead you raised their taxes. "mothers against child predators." "certified to be true and accurate." >> well, yeah, you can say anyth
in kind. and perhaps they sink part of the iranian navy, but perhaps they also go after those same nuclear sites that israel damaged, but perhaps did not completely destroy. who knows what would come after that? that's where the danger lies. >> another major challenge, the messy fallout from the seismic "arab awakening" that began nearly two years ago. bringing the rise of elected islamist governments in egypt and elsewhere -- and a raging civil war in syria. here, too, stark rhetoric masks murky differences. romney says he'd do more to arm syria's rebels but has not said the u.s. would do the arming. the obama white house has resisted doing so, for fear heavy weapons would end up with anti-american jihadists or terrorists. vali nasr is dean of the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. >> the differences between the candidates at the moment do not appear very large because our response to the arab spring has been fairly consistent across both political parties. >> in afghanistan, likewise, the two candidates agree on withdrawing the remaining 68,000 combat troops by the e

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