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President's green energy agenda and how it is helping or hurting job creation. the question raised today, are timely considering the ongoing financial scandal involving solar panel maker solyndra. doug mckelway is live in washington with more on this. hi, doug. >> reporter: good afternoon, jenna. we're expecting quite a speck kag -- spectacle when ceo and cfo are expected to plead the fifth before a house committee. this is prudent maneuver to protect themselves against misstatements that could be used in the ongoing justice department investigation of solyndra. some republicans believe there ...

Maneuver to protect themselves from potential misstatements that could be used in the ongoing justice department of investigation of solyndra. republican inquisitors also wonder if there are other reasons? >> there has been a suggestion, we haven't documented it there is suggestion that perhaps that testimony was trying to be manipulated by white house. he is though are very serious allegations and something a committee like the oversight committee is supposed to dive into. >> reporter: the hearing got underway at 9 clin 0. we're watching closely the key solyndra players not expected to testif...

Actually complying with that request. bill: to that point house republicans have said there are e-mails that show the white house pressure the department of energy to expedite these loans. now, have you seen those e-mails? >> i specifically have not but we have people on the energy and commerce, cliff stern and others that have been diving into that. we're also looking into not what are the loan guarantees but the undue influence where you have people who are going to testify before congress and -- congress and there's been a suggestion, and we haven't documented this, a suggestion that perhap...

Because of the nature of america. you heard, i'm not a gun owner. this is not my issue, but you heard charlie dent, the liberal congressman from pennsylvania who is a republican say he's got multiple weapons. it's not going to happen, but we could stop and say if someone is buying a lot of weapons in a short period of time, ought not the authorities to pay a call on that individual if they have gotten ten weapons in a week, the las vegas shooter went on a weapons purchasing spree that had me shaking my head. it's a legitimate place to dive into, but we won't get there if we try to assign blame...