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Now, the justice department insists though he was first briefed about it last year, the attorney general, but he was not briefed about the problems with the program. just the broad aspects of it, shep. shepard: lots of topics today, ed, including the controversy about the federal money loan to the bankrupt company solyndra solar company. the president s broader line he was trying to put in the broader context. taking chances produce clean energy jobs. not all of them have going to work out. he doesn t want to wave the right flag of surrender allowing china to take over solar panel manufacturing in the case of solyndra. he said there was no political mall feigns here. take a listen. there were going to be some companies not work out solyndra was one of them. the process by which the decision was made was on the merits. it was straightforward. the investigations continue on the hill because questions are being raised about why the president and his top aides missed some warning s ....
We have to get this done. then in the next breath he basically had a not so subtle warning to republicans that if they don t take bold action and support this jobs bill in his words they are going to be run out of town by voters. take a listen. i would love nothing more than to see congress act so aggressively that i can t campaign against them as a do nothing congress. the problem for the president though is it doesn t look like he moved any votes either with this news conference or his travels around the country in recent days. that s why he in, in part, is bringing senate democrats over here tomorrow to the white house to have a strategy session because at this moment they do not have the 60 votes to get this jobs bill through the senate next week, shep. shepard: he spoke on other subjects as well, ed, including the fast and furious gun running scandal and said specifically he has confidence in his attorney general. yeah, eric holder is in the crosshairs right now. this prog ....
Including by top advisors like larry summers at the time who was saying that this loan program might not be all it was cracked up to be. that s why we are still seeing investigations into this. undermined the president s green jobs agenda, shep. shepard: ed henry at the white house. a reporter also asked the president today about the demonstration against corporate greed here in new york. demonstrations which have spread to other major cities. some live pictures here out of portland, oregon. we will hear from the president and some of the protesters coming up inside pox fox report. i mentioned speaker boehner s criticism earlier. he wasn t the only one giving the president tough time today. mike emanuel on capitol hill. what s the word from other republicans? it was a month ago today that speaker john boehner and majority leader eric cantor wrote a letter to president obama asking for a meeting to work on a bipartisan jobs plan. the meeting never happened. and so republicans say ....
Picked up by multiple cameras, can you figure out speed, direction, height, and also you can actually plot the orbit of where these things come from. and that information may help scientists better predict meter rode activity in space and develop better ways to develop astronauts and space craft,. shepard: shep it is help track debris that lands on earth. in that museum they have meteorite that two years ago came crashing through the roof of a local home. they have a ceiling tile to prove it most meter rights go completely unnoticed, landing in fields and forests and quite often the ocean. these cameras are going to help narrow down the area where space debris may have landed, whether it s a meteor or some of that man made space junk you were talking about, shep. shepard: jonathan serrie. trade agreement with the united ....
Troops after 2009 when president obama made the change in strategy that it has really made a big difference in helmand province in particular, taking away the poppy crop, being able to destroy the poppy crop which were really a crash crop for the taliban. really what it has done is taken money out of the taliban s purse. so, therefore, they haven t been able to buy the materials that they need to supply the taliban in the area. they really no longer can face us man on man. the most striking figure, shep, since 2009, when president obama swimped strategy and added those 30,000 troops, two thirds of the 1700 u.s. service members killed were killed since 2009. shepard: well, the defense secretary is in brussels today and seemed to be reassuring nato that the united states is not heading for the exits. in fact, urging them not to do the same and telling them ....