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More than 1500 people have died and millions are left homeless after three weeks of monsoon rains. the bank moving money set for loans for other projects in pakistan. im ainsley earhardt we now return to on the record with greta in alaska. >> greta: what is the latest on the february 09 stimulus money? is it all spent? nope. how much is left company should it be spent on more stimulus projects or something else? steve moore joins us. steve february 09, how much do we have left of our stimulus mo...

Years, and former georgia republican congressman bob barr who ran for president in 2008. thanks to both of you for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> congressman frost, let me start with you. the republican national committee says 69 house democrats have scheduled no town halls. are they running from angry constituents? >> oh, absolutely not. i suspect what youre going to see is house democrats spending the entire time in their districts. theyll go out to work projects, you know, some of ...

Rise to 9.6%. meanwhile, it was a late night as we were talking about earlier for president obama who celebrated his 49th birthday yesterday in chicago. he had a dinner with friends including valerie jarrett, gayle king and oprah. mrs. obama in spain at a five star resort with the daughter. today, president obama will tour a ford plant on the citys south side and attend a couple of democratic fundraisers as we just heard from michelle malkin. clayton, over to you. >> thank you, steve. a new repu...

Unemployment. mccain and senator coburn detailed 300 wasteful stimulus projects. >> what the american people have done is awakened to the incompetency of washington. >> point to projects poorly inconceived or planned or mismanaged. for instance, $545,000 for new windows for visitor center at mount st. helens in washington state. the center has been closed for two years and no plans to reopen it. $2 million to send researchers to the indian ocean and east africa to capture, photograph and analyze...

Biologists hope to relocate 7b 70 to 80,000 eggs during the turtle season through september. to money and politics now. two republican senators take aim at president obamas $862 billion stimulus plan. in a news conference last hour, senators john mccain and tom coburn listed what they call the 100 worst stimulus projects. this is their third such list. coburn says the focus is on projects that dont give taxpayers their moneys worth. >> there is no question, the stimulus bill has had a positive...

Jobs, but the republicans say that there are also examples of waste. >> reporter: $1.9 million to capture, analyze and photograph exotic ants. more than $700,000 to develop a computerized dance program in north carolina and nearly half a million for smokers to receive a smartphone to help kick the habit, and almost $700,000 to figure out why mon dees respond the way they do when something is unfair. some of the stimulus projects were republican senators john mccain, and tom coburn say were wasti...

Today, republican senators tom coburn and john mccain will unveil a ynew report detailing stimulus projects that are costing jobs and hurting small businesses. one of the projects detailed in the report, the academy of sciences giving nearly $1 million to research exotic ants. another report, more than $70,000 going to wake forest university to research the effect that cocaine has on monkeys and those are your headlines. we reported that one about the cocaine with monkeys, right? >> its about ti...

And community development proje projects, and those, too, will start to wind down soon and what we are left with is a mountain of debt to put a drag on the economy and not a boost. >> reporter: now the vice presidents office which is overseeing the stimulus plan defended the program noting that the examples given by the two senators account for 25% of 1% of all of the money spent on all stimulus projects. >> wolf? >> thank you, lisa. and in "the situation room" right now, breaking news, bp beg...

Unemployment. mccain and senator coburn detailed 300 wasteful stimulus projects. >> what the american people have done is awakened to the incompetency of washington. >> point to projects poorly inconceived or planned or mismanaged. for instance, $545,000 for new windows for visitor center at mount st. helens in washington state. the center has been closed for two years and no plans to reopen it. $2 million to send researchers to the indian ocean and east africa to capture, photograph and analyze...

For what americans make. it goes back to the currency issue with china. the oil deficit. the president running around encouraging factories at very high costs that, you know, employ 300 more people to make batteries doesnt do a whole lot to deal with the energy deficit. there are things we could do on both those scores but the president doesnt like the answers. >> like what? >> we have a lot of onshore natural gas were not using and build out the natural gas pipeline in new england. we could do ...