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[♪...] >> bret: now, fresh pickings from the political grapevine. michigan hybrid battery plant propped up with $150 million in taxpayer money is putting workers on furlough. before a single battery has been produced. two years ago, president obama attended the ground breaking for the compact power facility. he touted its opening as evidence, manufacturing jobs are coming back to the u.s. the plant was supposed to produce 150,000 batteries a year. while creating hundreds of new jobs. it turns out, there are only 200 workers and they're only working three week per month. company spokesman say...

Power point in 23010 states the secretary of the into your approved this project. the administration is under pressure to promote green energy production. it would be difficult politically to refuse approval of the project. congressman cliff stern who led the investigation surrounding the failure of the taxpayers funded solar company solyndra is calling for a probe. >> this is similar to solyndra. it puts pressure on the white house. e-mails came from the faa that i have seen and shows that the white house is pushing the faa for political reasons. >> white house dismissed stern's latest accusa...

Review of any power facility in the history of the northeast u.s. if we're on any fast track i would hate to see the slow track. >> reporter: in fact the faa is again reviewing the project after the u.s. court of appeals overturned the agency's ruling last october that the 130 proposed turbines propose no hazard to aviation. rogers will believe that faa will rule in cape wind's favor regardless of political pressure pro opponents. heather: thank you, molly line from our new york city newsroom. thank you, molly. gregg: we're getting brand new poll numbers just out on the health care law and how...

Same thing when it comes to the vote. let's change the tax code to get rid of subsidies. but look at everyone. not just where you get headlines from. and if you go down to energy, then fine, let's talk about regulating p but let's not add more regulations. >> setting standards where hey, if you are an industrial power facility and you belch two thirds of all of the energy that you burn whether from the sun or natural gas we can't have that because we are funding two sides of a terrorist war that is with that money. we should get utility. but we're not going solve this here. >> we don't get to ...

Control. this is only-- the conferences are only the tip of the iceberg. this agency controls 14,000 properties, buildings, many of them, you helped me focus on -- being vacant, under utilized, losing millions of dollars -- >> greta: this is, the whole insanity. every time we need office space, instead of using empty buildings, we rent those. every place you look, it's more inefficient and more wasteful. it is other people's money. that's the problem. it is other people's money. >> right here in washington, in three empty buildings. one two blocks from the white house. a huge building empty. 1...