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ridiculous headlines. rest assured that as long as im in this office youre in good hands. good night. and god bless america. are we done? >> were off. >> who is on huckabee tonight. >> bob turner. >> oyp.vay. >> tonight on huckabee. one of the most conservative members of the senate. who does south carolina senator jim demint think is the best candidate for the white house? and the white house knew solyndra didnt have a solid business plan but pushed for a half billion dollars loan any...

kosher. they call me oybama. disaster looms for obama in 2012. let me be clear. i am doing a great job. everything is congress fault. in fact, just a few nights ago, i told those good folks who paid $35,000 a plate to attend my fundraiser i have a better chance of winning the election in 2012 than i did in 2008. so dont worry about these ridiculous headlines. rest assured that as long as im in this office youre in good hands. good night. and god bless america. are we done? >> were off....

rich and the middle class to pay uncle sam the same percentage of their earnings, and republicans are saying today, that it is a bad idea. >> what it does, is it adds further instability to our system, more uncertainty, and, it punishes job creation and those peoe who create jobs, class warfare may make for good politics, but it makes for rotten economics. >> reporter: the new minimum tax rate for millionaires is named for president obamas billionaire buddy, warren buffett who thinks i...

there, live in washington. great to see you. how much will the buffett rule change the tax rate, if you are a millionaire? >> reporter: we dont know yet for sure but we have an idea what the president might think is fair, because back in 09 he did support a 5-4% millionaire surtax, as a possible way to pay for health care reform and toms speech will not have specifics about the new rate or how much revenue the new buffett rule might raise. but, the president does want the rich and the ...

impact. our dan simons is there. dan? >> reporter: were expecting a news conference in the next 15 minutes. where hopefully well get more information from federal investigators as they comb through the wreckage looking for clues as to what brought that plane down. in the meantime i want to introduce you to another eyewitness. this is bes bessi murphy, a nur far west virginia. what did you see? >> i was further away. i was in the pits area. at the point i did not see the actual impact. ...

eyewitness. this is bes bessi murphy, a nur far west virginia. what did you see? >> i was further away. i was in the pits area. at the point i did not see the actual impact. what i had heard was all call for medical personnel as they were asking for people to leave. so i responded, and when i got on the scene, they were quickly within just a couple of minutes from my time to get to the area, they already had the people triaged, had the ambulances available, had the situation pretty muc...

2.5% from 3%. that is $150 billion in lower business. a double-dip recession lets remember would be extremelyou no see all kinds of job losses to have a recession, and yet for 17 consecutive months we had job growth, tepid, but job growth. then suddenly in august we looked and there was no job growth at all, so that adds to the worry. the economic data are horrible. the weekly jobless claims rose this week. the manufacturing is slack, the retail is slack. consumer spending is down. it ...

done, as solyndra and the department of energy enter a financial agreement. in may of 2010 president obama says, quote, companies like solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future. and that brings us to august 31st, solyndra announces it is suspending operations and laying off 1100 people. an f.b.i. raid comes a few days later. where is the white house today on the scandal? fox news digital politics editor chris stirewalt joins us live from washington. hrao...

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...

recent recession supposedly ended. jenna: dennis kneale is here with more. >> reporter: the stock market shrugged that off yesterday when the bad numbers were first reported, you know, i think its because weve been so worried about europe was one reason, so they had late help there. more than that, jenna when you bend down so long it looks like up. not only did they say there is a one in three chance of recession, id take those odds, id bet against it. they ratcheted down growth from 2...