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Chapter in that, steve. there's apparently another solar company in the news today? is. >> reporter: right. yes, this is the house committee on energy and commerce pushing ahead with their probe of abound solar, a company based in colorado. it's another company that went out of business after getting a large loan guarantee from the department of energy. the committee wants to foe what doe knew about problems with the solar panel maker. in a letter to energy secretary stephen chu, committee chairman fred upton says, quote: just months before doe closed abound's $400 million loan guarantee, abou...

Martha: a fox news alert. seeking justice in the solyndra case. house republicans looking at some new legal action against a money maneuver that may have put the private investors in solyndra ahead of the taxpayers who are on the hook. so the focus here whether the energy department may have broken a law when they restructured that $55 million federal loan to a failing solar panel maker. hot topic. brand new hour of "america's newsroom." glad you're with us. i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning to you martha. republican cliff stearns says the white house is violating its o...

>> time now for hits and misses of the week. mary, first to you. >> i'd like to give a backhanded hit to the democratic senate committee that released a clutch of e-mails on the solyndra scandals. showed it'd show a vigorous debate within the administration whether or not to throw taxpayer money towards the solar panel maker, indeed, they did show a vigorous debate and many were horrified by the company's finances and also showed how big campaign donors have had access to really the highest he reaches of political power. they sure clarified the obama's economic plan for next year. >> a relucta...

>> time now for hits and misses of the week. mary, first to you. >> i'd like to give a backhanded hit to the democratic senate committee that released a clutch of e-mails on the solyndra scandals. showed it'd show a vigorous debate within the administration whether or not to throw taxpayer money towards the solar panel maker, indeed, they did show a vigorous debate and many were horrified by the company's finances and also showed how big campaign donors have had access to really the highest he reaches of political power. they sure clarified the obama's economic plan for next year. >> a relucta...

Involuntarily. it tells you a lot about the way the president looks at these things. he gave no ground whatsoever on solyndra and no ground whatsoever on fast and furious. in the argument for what he is trying to do now, the president said we did stimulus and i don't apologize for it and we need more of it. >> bret: play the sound bite about solyndra. question about the solar panel maker, that got loan guarantee of more than $500 million. >> now we knew from the start that the loan guarantee program was going to entail risk by definition. they were going to be some companies that did not work ...