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Decision-making on the loan portfolio at the department of energy. he was working on the so-called announcement value in solyndra for the white house, object sentence plea for the president and vice president if they wanted to make speeches based on solyndra. there was another element here that came out of the house panel report, jenna, and that is, is that the stimulus program that was enacted in february 2009 basically wiped out an extra cost that company that got loan guarantees would have to...

>> well, it is -- >> d.o.e.? >> it is extremely unfortunate what has happened but if you look at the time decisions being made, was there incompetence? was there undue -- any influence of a political partnature and i would have to say no. >> that was energy secretary steven chu who appeared before a house subcommittee defending the half billion dollar federal loan given to the now bankrupt maker of solar panels solyndra. in september of 2009 the $535 million loan was approved under president oba...

attempt, congresswoman gabrielle giffords im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." first, an apparent shake-up in the republican race for the white house after a turbulent week that saw herman cain finding new allegations of sexual harassment and rick perry stumbling sadly in a debate. newt gingrich leaping towards the top of a pack in a stunni stunningcome back. jim acosta is watching the race for us as he always does. where do things stand right now? >> some candidates are ste...

Furloughed as part of state budget crunches, so the people who were supposed to give it out are out of aion. >> exactly. generally, bottom line, what the guys are trying to say is the white house and congress who passed the stimulus program were very well intentioned in trying to get billions of dollars into the system to try to create jobs and get the economy going, but they bumpedun against the reality on the ground i. you know what? we dont pay them -- this isnt like good time charlie and say...

Five other states are having outages. im ainsley earhardt. now back to "on the record" with greta. thanks for watching fox. check us out online at foxnews.com. watching. >> okay. better hold your breath, stunning testimony about president obamas green jobs program. ed, nice to see you. hearing from the energy department watchdog? >> reporter: the energy department watchdog from the labor department and this is essentially a discussion about that greenions program created as part of the economic ...

Jones gained 178 points, s&p rose 20 and the nasdaq added 33 points. im ainsley earhardt, now back to "on the record" with gret a. thanks for watching. >> okay. better hold your breath, stunning testimony about president obamas green jobs program. ed, nice to see you. hearing from the energy department watchdog? >> reporter: the energy department watchdog from the labor department and this is essentially a discussion about that greenions program created as part of the economic stimulus program, ...

To your employment that north of 9 percent would have been 15 percent without the stimulus. >>guest: that is what blinder did. >>neil: do the math backwards, congresswoman if you talk about, say, the two million jobs, they are arguing were gained through stimulus, you cannot say, if you took that out, the unemployment rate would have been 15 percent without it. >>guest: that is exactly what they calculated using all kinds of economic models say diagnosis -- saying if we did not put the people to...

Were seeing now. and i think this idea of making a mistake now and then. jack kennedy made a huge mistake with the bay of pigs. he listened to his generals and warriors and they said it would be a campaign against castro. he didnt ask the right questions. he learned his lessons. when he said im the officer in charge, difference one who blew the bay of pigs, his job approval went to 83%. the highest of his presidency. it wouldnt hurt president obama to say, you know what? that stimulus program, i...

private sector added 110,000 jobs in october. and president obama makes a new push for money to fix the nations roads and bridges in a speech this hour. hell call on congress to pass the transportation component of his jobs bill. which includes money for infrastructure. the president will use a bridge in washingtons georgetown area as a backdrop and well take you there live. the speech is set for 11:25 eastern time. and we have new pictures today of a jetliners dramatic emergency l...

Student loan payments, offering refinancing for underwater homeowners and boost hiring and training for veterans. if you disagree with how the president is handling these three items, how would you do it differently. >> this sounded familiar, dont they? how similar they were to what the president offered during the first version of the stimulus program when he said it would help between 7 and 9 million people and helped maybe a million folks. were trying to focus on fixing the system. taking mon...