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defended a controversial $535 million government loan to a california solar panel company that eventually went belly up. the solyndra drama continues. >> reporter: continues, and will for some time. the president when asked about that, jonathan silver, the man who has been heading up the loan program, which, of course, is the controversial part of this program, because of a guaranteed loan that was given to that solar panel company that president obama visited, and that went belly up in august, that's really what all of this stems around. well, he has resigned, and to listen to the d...

About how social media is playing a role in organizing these protests. we go live to the scene. mohamed, good morning to you. you were tasked this morning with keeping an eye on the updates from social immediate area on twitter, on facebook coming out of egypt. it was striking to talk to you this morning. there's not a whole lot you can report and there's a reason for that. >> reporter: that's right. social media has played such an integral role in getting protesters out into the street and demonstrating in egypt in the last several days. in the last several hours the internet has been shut do...