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just days later on march 12th and 13th george kaiser is listed on the white house visitor logs. hes been identified as a major solyndra investor, there he is dent tpoeud as visiting the white house. about a week later the white house announces a conditional approval for the loan. in may and june george kaiser visits the white house again. in august 09 the white house asks the house of management and budget if it can, quote, speed along final approval of the loan. on september 3rd the d...

politically for this white house its not such a bad thing for them to have a low bar set of maybe $300 billion in the initial reports, and then have some democrats who have been saying you need to go big and bold maybe criticize that over the next 24 hours and then have the president step out tomorrow and say, no actually its 400 billion, or 500 billion. there is a little bit of mystery here. there is also a lot of pressure on this president. the last time he used a setting like this. ...

$300 billion worth of spending. we are now being told it could be much, much more. we are hearing roughly 170 billion would go to extending unemployment benefits and maintaining payroll tax breaks already in place. ed henry is live from the briefing room now. >> reporter: there is confusion about what the price tag really is. there have been initial reports suggesting maybe it will be $300 billion. ive been getting waived off that figure and suggesting to me maybe its going to be more ...

>> we all know this crisis is coming, and knowing at some point the president will have to sign on on to some solution. so its worth asking, where in the world has president obama been for the last month? where is he? what does he propose? what is he willing to do to reduce the debt? >> no one can suggest in any way the president is not engaged in what is going on in the country. he is briefed at least once a day by the vice president as to these negotiations. hes following that. on mo...

county which borders mexico. initial reporting said that illegal immigrants may be responsible, but the state police are saying that they have no leads on any specific suspects thus far. trace gallagher is watching all of this for us as it develops in our west coast new newsroom. >> reporter: the new mexico state police are handling the investigation as you said. we have been in contact with them and quite frankly they are very annoyed with a lot of the reporting on this story, people ...

Economic data beginning to fuel speculation that our economic recovery which we thought was getting momentum may be losing that momentum and that is a scary prospect. it could start to possibly go in reverse. lets take a look at where we are today, the april unemployment rate, 9 percent, not a good number, that does not tell us the whole story right now, were waiting for new unemployment numbers as well, the number for april, which is considered the most accurate measure, is a shocking 15.9%. th...

Were going at a very subpar pace. martha: how long do we stay in this kind of environment, do you think? >> until we get the fundamental head winds changed, stabilize the dollar, that shouldnt be hard. bill clinton did it, why cant this guy? martha: why cant this guy, dan? >> i have a slightly different perspective than steve which is no surprise but i do think were in serious trouble, in large part because the federal government has certain levers it can pull to influence the economy, spend, it...

very different backgrounds, though each of us has chosen to walk a different path in life, were united by one great, overwhelming passion; we love america, we believe in america. [cheers and applause] today were united not only by our faith and belief in america, were also united by our concern for america. this country we love is in peril, and that, my friends, is one reason why were here today. now, a few years ago americans did something thats really quite american in its nature, it...

Lets talk about how to solve it. democratic strategist dan gerstein and jason lewis is of the jason lewis show. welcome to you both. i want to start with you, dan. alan colmes was just on he says the ryan plan will decimate medicare. everybody acknowledges something has to be done. why is the ryan plan unworkable for you. >> its unworkable because it would fundamentally change and really obliterate medicare as we know it. that is unacceptable to democrats. i think its a bad policy, but even wors...

emerging in paris. experts have analyzed the data from the black boxes. the details are store rivet hor. during a free fall of 10,000 feet a minute they went straight to their deaths. greg palkot is live in london. >> reporter: it has been some two years since that crash. today, today we are getting new details about that horror ride. lets go through some of the data retrieved from the black boxes on the bottom of the atlantic ocean. some two hours into the flight the plane is well ove...