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world. lets go outfront. well, good evening, everyone. im erin burnett and "outfront" tonight, and welcome back, congress. we missed you. we really did. after four weeks away from washington, the house is returning to work today, hopefully rested and ready to make up for an abysmal 2011. the track record. full of failures. they didnt raise the debt ceiling which caused americas credit rating to be cut which hurts all of us. and they didnt agree on a budget. causing several near shutd...

Has, but i think those people who are his strongest supporter, they have to be surprised. i dont think there were a lot of people on his side who thought we would get the 540,000 signatures much less 640, 740, 840, 940, 1 million signatures. >> no, they didnt. >> that is extraordinary. >> didnt see it coming. >> he has raised some money, koch brothers money is there tonight, in fact, he is here in new york, $2,500 per person fund raiser hosted by hank greenberg, former ceo of aig. he is not in w...

Right now we have our fol working to relee our records on thursday so the amecan people can see them. >> do you thinkgovernor rney is hiding something? >> i dont know that. you are the reporter. i think the country deserves transparency, and these are big issues and not issues you can hide from. i will try to set the ample to provide leadershipo do he right thing,nd then goveor romney has to decide what he is going do. thats his decision, and i will let you determine why he makes that decision. ...

Working to relee our records on thursday so the amecan people can see them. >> do you thinkgovernor rney is hiding something? >> i dont know that. you are the reporter. i think the country deserves transparency, and these are big issues and not issues you can hide from. i will try to set the ample to provide leadershipo do he right thing,nd then goveor romney has to decide what he is going do. thats his decision, and i will let you determine why he makes that decision. >> going back to the film,...

On behalf of investors including pension funds for working people, firefighters and the like was equivalent to saying what aig did in coming up with complex financial instruments that ultimately led to financial collapse or subprime lenders, and are you suggesting thats the equivalence in how ruthless they were? >> all im saying is theres an article i believe in the "washington post" this morning in which somebody who was an investor and a deal maker says flatly he got to a point where he would ...

To us, the taxpayers, for 500 million dollars, ben, what do you think. >> its enough to make you throw up. its stunning and amazing and if those people at solyndra can find other jobs and want to get other jobs im sure they can replace them with people who do not need a bonus. it shocks me, the greed and rapaciousness and lack of shame of the people at solyndra is disappointing. >> neil: adam. >> this isnt shocking at all. if we want to talk about how the business world works, when a company goe...

30%, its enormous. >> i cant imagine the unwind at solyndra is as complicated as aig. >> not even remotely to be compared. not remotely to be compared. and charlie put it-- >> you cant just sell solyndras assets. >> how can you say that, think about it. >> charlie has nailed it completely its incredibly complicated. >> you have to sell solar panels for pennies on the dollar. >> dont have to sell them at all. >> and for home depot, lowes and-- >> and how about selling them at all. i hate to defen...

Retained talent. >> aig was lab rinth, and nobody knew where the bodies were, you needed a team to work on that. you dont need that for solyndra, thats a joke. >> nobody is bidding for these guys, its a totally different thing. >> neil: there is that. >> no one wants-- >> by demand. >> nobody wants the stuff. >> yeah, where are the personnel going to go. theres a couple of wendys, where are they going to go. president obama making a push for american companies to keep jobs right here in the us o...

To be around. solyndra, solyndra, might keep them because these are the guys in the hazmat chemical suits that fit. they fit these guys perfectly. so dont leave. >> neil: were out of 44 long. >> in the liquidation days or-- >> trying to sell. >> its nothing, the technology, bad technology. >> you have a problem with it, dagen. >> im not going to be hypocritical as talked about the first segment. i didnt have a problem with the aig bonuses youve got to pay to keep people. i dont like bailouts. i ...

About the bosnian war. she was at the white house today. actually i think we have video that she and brad pitt -- that is a ticket you want to get to go to the oval office to see. i remember when she came to the bush white house, because she did all that work with the united nations. everyone said she could havent been more lovely. what she said about president obama there were things she thought had gone really well and things that hadnt gone so well. she didnt detail it. >> bob: she focused on...