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president obama on the number one issue facing the country today? that and much more ahead. first our top of the hour look at what you need to know right now. first that breaking news i just mentioned. cnn confirms that jonathan silver, the head of the energy departments controversial loan guarantee program is resigning tonight. dan, what do we know about the particular official and why is he leaving? >> reporter: well, that official who headed up that controversial program which com...

have a significant effect for our economy and for middle class families all across america. what these independent experts have also said is that if we dont act, the opposite will be true. there will be fewer jobs, weaker growth. so as we look towards next week, any senator out there who is thinking about voting against this jobs bill when it comes up for a vote needs to sdmran exactly why they would oppose something that we know would improve our economic situation at surnl such an ur...

Use against the white house when they approved the loan guarantee program, and bush approved using it against solyndra and theres a double standard giving bush a pass and republicans who had the loan guarantee, standard-- >> and green energy and green jobs, the administration gambled the policy on green jobs would make everything work and only later we discovered premised on $7 a gas and told the american people and short of $7 every one of these projects is underwater. >> jon: and operation fas...

Use against the white house when they approved the loan guarantee program, and bush approved using it against solyndra and theres a double standard giving bush a pass and republicans who had the loan guarantee, standard-- >> and green energy and green jobs, the administration gambled the policy on green jobs would make everything work and only later we discovered premised on $7 a gas and told the american people and short of $7 every one of these projects is underwater. >> jon: and operation fas...

Allisons law firm received $2 million for representing green companies that applied for doe loans. representative spinner tol abc news the couple took elaborate steps to avoid conflict between his government work and her legal work. question today about spinners role, white house spokesman jay carney denied any impropriety. >> its my understanding in regard to the gentleman you just mentioned he had no connection to overseeing a loan guarantee program. >> the white house later added that spiner ...

Green companies that had applied for those very same loans. the white house said today that spinner had no role in deciding who got loan guarantees. >> its my understanding, at least with regard to the gentleman you just mentioned, that he had no connection to overseeing the loan guarantee program. >> representatives for the spinners say the couple took great pains to avoid conflicts between his government work and her legal work. the $18 billion loan guarantee program ends tomorrow and with tha...

Allisons law firm received $2 million for representing green companies that applied for doe loans. representative spinner told abc news the couple took elaborate steps to avoid conflict between his government work and her legal work. question today about spinners role, white house spokesman jay carney denied any impropriety. >> its my understanding in regard to the gentleman you just mentioned he had no connection to overseeing a loan guarantee program. >> the white house later added that spiner...

Competitive advantage. the price of silicon used by solyndras competitors had dropped by more than be 85%. still, the ceo didnt give a hint of a problem last november when he told a congressional committee we have about a thousand people here in fremont, and we intend to hire about 30 sales and marketing people throughout the year. meanwhile, the administration had disagreements over the loan guarantee program, some felt that companies that didnt need the money were actually getting government l...

Answers. >> our capitol hill correspondent kelly odonnell joins me now. not just from the hill are we hearing this talked about, take a listen to what michele bachmann had to say at cpac. >> vice president joe biden said this about the loan guarantee program for solsolyndra. this is exactly what the stimulus program was all about. greed and corruption. >> kelly, this company was the poster child for the presidents green jobs agenda. how much is fact finding and how much is political grandstandin...

Should have the obama administration following on with the bush administration failing to implement my law from 2002 where potassium iodide is distributed out to a 20-mile radius around nuclear power plants in our country because thats the greatest threat, thyroid cancer. thousands occurred around chernobyl. we have to protect our own citizens. and i believe we have to begin to question the loan guarantee program. the secretary offal ener energy chu is the banker in chief of the nuclear industry...