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And meantime, let's talk about what's being called the sugar bailout, the government might have to step in to prop up stumbling sugar prices and that could cost us more if we want our sugar fix and we all do. >> we all do. absolutely. let me give you a background here. the department of agriculture is enough for 142 billion hershey kisses. it's in the name of trying to prevent a way of default for processors who have borrowed $862 million under a government support program and now you've got u.s. sugar prices that have fallen 18% since the loans began in october. and this could leave the progr...

Of $142 billion in federal aid headed for that, only $40 billion made it directly to victims from fema. that is incredible. not right. >>guest: it is not right. when i saw that, cuomo is coming to washington, and you showed the capitol you should have dollar bills coming out of the window because when the governors come to washington they want money with their palms up. that is what governor cuomo wants. he wants the federal government to write a big check to the state. we found with katrina, of the $140 billion, according to independent government auditors, there was rampant corruption and fr...

Motto there at countrywide. a lot of ways to do this. not checking things. not doing this. not doing that. whatever the details are, bottom line is this. the united states basically five years after everything blew up suing bank of america for a billion dollars. fannie and freddie have so far had about 142 billion in bailouts. another 50 more coming. that's a billion. we're looking at 200 billion in total bailouts coming at the minimum. >> wow. it continues. brian sullivan, thank you so much. we have much more "morning joe" straight ahead. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart have teamed up t...

Government loan granted to start a company in which obama fundraiser was a main investor. investigators claim the white house is stonewalling requests for documents but the white house says 187,000 pages of documents have been turned over and still there is no evidence of wrongdoing. the supporters say the republicans aren't doing themselves any favor. >> the obsession with solyndra is a sign of how weak the republican agenda is. this is not a big issue and not something people are voting on in the fall. >> the solyndra issue is set for another hearing on capitol hill next month. bret? >> bret...

Government loan granted to start a company in which obama fundraiser was a main investor. investigators claim the white house is stonewalling requests for documents but the white house says 187,000 pages of documents have been turned over and still there is no evidence of wrongdoing. the supporters say the republicans aren't doing themselves any favor. >> the obsession with solyndra is a sign of how weak the republican agenda is. this is not a big issue and not something people are voting on in the fall. >> the solyndra issue is set for another hearing on capitol hill next month. bret? >> bret...