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>> that is what the program was designed by congress to do, to take bets. >> take bets? with tax dollars? the obama administration loaned the in town solyndra after they had been warned it was financially unstable. >> true engine of economic growth is companies like solyndra. >> and now the target of that ad, friend of mine, congressman, surely, you cannot say they are off base. there is a lost taxpayer money being "bet," which is not working on solar products. >>guest: actually, the entire sola...

Vote for a better economy. and a stronger america. vote republican. >> as goes mississippi so goes the white house. outgoing republican governor joins me now and has been helping the current candidate campaign. we reached out to the democratic candidate who was not available. welcome, governor. >>guest: thank you for having me. >> tell us the story, you have had a nice run in the governors house but you have to step aside because of term limit. you say keep the republicans in place. why, sir? >>...

How in the world did an outside investor get in front of the taxpayer on the solyndra loan. i need to know that? >>guest: you have to get it from someone else, there are investigations underway in congress and the justice department and the answer will be there. but one of the things issue should keep in mind we are in the process of building a very successful clean energy industry in the united states and there are 320,000 men and women in the clean energy sector, 100,000 in california alone, a...

The chairman of the national democratic party came here a couple weeks ago and she said in a democratic rally, the road to re-electing president obama begins in mississippi on november 8. well, of course, obama didnt carter mississippi last time and i dont think he will carry mississippi next time but to that is the stakes if the democrats want the election to turn on that, we in mississippi are glad to take that message and say well, we think the road to replace president obama begins in missis...

For us. and larry if we bail out impress we are bailing out an economy of $400 billion a year but ... italy, france, germany. these are bigger economies, ten times the size of greece, right? >>guest: that is right. we witnessed dramatic political and economic events in greece in the past week. what we see in an interconnected interlinked global economy. the over vents -- the events in greece affect other places such as italy and it is spreading and moving to italy. and silvio berlusconi, the pri...

That both he and the republican candidate who i talk about have run positive campaigns. not a lost mud slinging. this is what i would do as governor, here is what i would try to change. that has been positive for our state. unless something happens unusual, phil will get elected if there is a large turn out. in mississippi in last five governors elections republicans have won four. the one governors election won by liberal government because we had unusually small town out and that is why republ...

Not that time. >> well, it appears it is the time because now figures show wall street banks and brokerages have taken in more money under president obama so far than all eight years under president bush combined. that is okay but my guest says this is where it gets tricky bashing the fat cats while taking campaign cash from them at the same time. bob? he says fat cats and millionaires and billionaires but on the other hand he has his hands out saying, donate to my re-election campaign, right? >...

Lot of republicans have not been zeroing in on this and, when it comes to election, it is about poppism, the populist wins, whoever is fighting for the little guy wins and this is the message into 2012. >> the other thing that you put together the financial regulation reform, the big document that passed, they left fannie mae and freddie mac out, and the executives make, the top executives, make in the neighborhood of millions. right? so is this not wall street fat cats right there? >>guest: the...

You make decisions and move on. i made what i thought was the right decision. 2012 is an interesting election, most elections to reelect the incumbent, whether the president or governor, they are referendum on the incumbents records and if the election next year is a referendum on president obamas record particularly his record on jobs and growth we will have a new republican president, but you can see the democrats are trying to make it about anything else but obamas policies and the results th...

The state of ohio similar to what went on in a neighboring state, wisconsin. is that right? >>guest: right. >> and it takes the wisconsin collective bargaining power and expands it further? >>guest: yes, you can look at this a number of ways. this has serious political influence. the republicans would hike to take away some of the power the unions have. but ohio being a state that has high unemployment rate, very union friendly they are looking to have this vote obviously. the last thing the rep...