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just days later on march 12th and 13th george kaiser is listed on the white house visitor logs. he's been identified as a major solyndra investor, there he is dent tpoeud as visiting the white house. about a week later the white house announces a conditional approval for the loan. in may and june george kaiser visits the white house again. in august 09 the white house asks the house of management and budget if it can, quote, speed along final approval of the loan. on september 3rd the deal is done, as solyndra and the department of energy enter a financial agreement. in may of 2010 p...

politically for this white house it's not such a bad thing for them to have a low bar set of maybe $300 billion in the initial reports, and then have some democrats who have been saying you need to go big and bold maybe criticize that over the next 24 hours and then have the president step out tomorrow and say, no actually it's 400 billion, or 500 billion. there is a little bit of mystery here. there is also a lot of pressure on this president. the last time he used a setting like this. a joint session of congress to push one single plan it was healthcare on 9-9-09. he won in the end...

$300 billion worth of spending. we are now being told it could be much, much more. we are hearing roughly 170 billion would go to extending unemployment benefits and maintaining payroll tax breaks already in place. ed henry is live from the briefing room now. >> reporter: there is confusion about what the price tag really is. there have been initial reports suggesting maybe it will be $300 billion. i've been getting waived off that figure and suggesting to me maybe it's going to be more than $300 billion when you add all of this up. one of the remaining questions as you mentioned tha...

>> we all know this crisis is coming, and knowing at some point the president will have to sign on on to some solution. so it's worth asking, where in the world has president obama been for the last month? where is he? what does he propose? what is he willing to do to reduce the debt? >> no one can suggest in any way the president is not engaged in what is going on in the country. he is briefed at least once a day by the vice president as to these negotiations. he's following that. on most every day he meets with his advisers as to what should be the next step, so i think it's unfair...

county which borders mexico. initial reporting said that illegal immigrants may be responsible, but the state police are saying that they have no leads on any specific suspects thus far. trace gallagher is watching all of this for us as it develops in our west coast new newsroom. >> reporter: the new mexico state police are handling the investigation as you said. we have been in contact with them and quite frankly they are very annoyed with a lot of the reporting on this story, people saying that illegal immigrants were involved in the shooting, because they say they quite simply do ...