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Including the women a minorities. >> it turns out many are not getting the cash, at least not in the way intended and joining us now is president of nikon contracting and engineering, jean louis, thank you for jing us. >> good morning. >> some of the stimulus money was minority owned or women owned businesses, your contracting company is, why haven't you gotten any of the stimulus min money? >> you ask me, i don't know, why, i'm bidding and doing everything that's necessary and even spent my own money to learn how to deal with the, you know, government and in the bidding process. and still hav...

The ground learning how to use the sikorski. american tax dollars will pay for whatever helicopter is chosen. megyn: when do they expect a resolution to this. the gao, government accounting office, is looking at proposals. there is another company who put in a protest to say they are against the way the bidding process was handled. they are not helicopter manufactures. they do integration systems it's up in the air which helicopters will go but sikorski is pushing hard and they have an argument you should buy american. megyn: a big legal setback for acorn, the left wing group. a federal appeal...

Russian helicopter manufacturer and they are the ones to get the order likely. so american sikorski want to get to be part of the bidding process, but they were excluded by the terms of the proposal. those are the two helicopters side by side. a defense industry analyst describes it this way. >> at the end of the day the afghan military veterans who are still in the military are familiar with how it works, how it operates and how to maintain the. the sikorski product is built by an american company and it would require new procedures for these people. >> reporter: i coursey is willing to -- si...

Money is spent and action is taken, the rebuilding of haiti cannot really begin. >> it's interesting. he basically -- his company took a big gamble. they've spent $25 million to build this facility, to get the equipment down. they're good and ready to go. the question is, will they get hired to do the job? there are obviously other companies dha are qualified and there will be some sort of bidding process for, it but it's not clear at this point whether it's usida, clinton commission, the haitian government. they've had a lot of meetings with the high shan government, a lot of buy-in, but at t...

Family whenever we went to new york, the boys, to sean. he was just -- he -- i tell you, there's two sides to him. he could fire someone in a second. we prevented him from firing someone. there was a security guard, wouldn't letmy two boys on the field. of course, they didn't have passes -- >> larry, thank you. >> larry: he went up -- >> we're out of time. larry's back tomorrow. time for anderson cooper and "ac 360." we're live in port-au-prince keeping them honest. thousands of people are spending yet another night in darkness in plastic tarp-covered shelters. more permanent, but very much li...