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Around $30,000 for registration fees. total out the door, $640,000 worth of travel expenses. >> bill: for how long? >> two or three days. >> bill: so they owe us $141 billion, the folks, they owe the folks and rack up this. i don't understand why 100 had to go. couldn't ten go? >> they say they were getting all of these people in one place so they could maximize the number of meetings with customers and save money 'cause they got them all in one place at one time. >> bill: i don't know whether that's true or not. do you? >> yes, i believe it's true. that's what they said. >> bill: no, no. but ...

You took them on junkets and played golf all over the world. you didn't think it was wrong. >> i should have, but i didn't. i can't unring the bell. i fell from where i was. i went to prison. i've been punished and i'm trying to make some recompens by talking about it. >> sean: we're talking about solyndra, 1.2 billion with sun power, a total of 35 billion in green energy. in many of these cases you got big bundlers, people donating huge money for the president in this case, obama. they get access to the white house, and then companies that they're supporting get all this money. >> right. >> s...

You took them on junkets and played golf all over the world. you didn't think it was wrong. >> i should have, but i didn't. i can't unring the bell. i fell from where i was. i went to prison. i've been punished and i'm trying to make some recompens by talking about it. >> sean: we're talking about solyndra, 1.2 billion with sun power, a total of 35 billion in green energy. in many of these cases you got big bundlers, people donating huge money for the president in this case, obama. they get access to the white house, and then companies that they're supporting get all this money. >> right. >> s...

Senate majority leader harry reid and nine other senators who went on junkets to far away places like china and the city of macao, china's closest thing to las vegas. the fun and games are all over next week though. one of the first big battles that awaits this congress is the question of raising the nation's debt ceiling. the u.s. is expected to reach its current debt limit of $14.3 trillion on may 16th, a little more than two weeks away. if congress doesn't figure out a way to raise it, we could default on our debt on blick ghangsd would be devastating for the markets and for this economy bu...

Shockingly the medieval warm period was removed from this graph which became the iconic image of the panel's 2001 report. >> instead of a big bump in the medieval period as had been in the 1990 report and much lower temperatures since. they've straightened out the bump and produced a huge increase. >> sean: more troubling a finding in the ipcc's first assessment report that the warming we've witnessed over the past few decades could be due to natural vary ability. scientists who contributed to the second assessment report came to a similar conclusion. >> the u.s. bureaucrats realized if a seco...