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Segment last week on the waste that was in the original stimulus. $1.9 million to collect, photograph and study different species of and i -- of ants in east africa. $363,000 to help the national institutes of health promote the positive impact of the stimulus project. you want more like this? >> i'm not going to defend those. nor will i defend the millions bush spent to say look at tax cuts i got. this is a tiny amount of money. we need a lot of money. businesses -- it's a catch-22. people aren't going to have demands up until they see the economy is fine. and it's a downward spiral. megyn: i...

Pump mud from the top down ideally forcing oil back into the reservoir. the obama administration extremely concerned about a deadly clash on the israeli-lebanese border. the sides differ on the details. but our best information indicating that an israeli commander and at least two lebanese soldiers are dead. u.n. peacekeepers are trying to keep the peace. two republican senators are calling out 100 stimulus project that is they consider, and i quote, stupid or inappropriate. they include $500,000 for new windows at mount st. helens visitor center. and then a study to discover how monkeys r...

11. but it turns out that the stimulus money wasn't actually being spent on the wine train. it was being used on a massive flood project we found out. they had to actually elevate the tracks and move the tracks. so while it looks like a pretty fancy wine train, it was just in the way. so they had to spend $54 million of stimulus money to move the tracks. and we also learned, josh, that the funds actually created 600 jobs, and those jobs were expected to last two or three years. so i don't know how that one ended up on the list of the worst 100 back in december. but the napa valley wine train c...

Business model but it wasn't about banks and no sense holding up the strongest consumer protection that we've ever had in this country. >> right, but if fannie and freddie were such a big part of our economic downturn, why not include them when they had the chance? >> well, because it's gonna take time to walk through all of those details and the housing market, as you know, is in a very fragile spot so if you just impose that on fannie and freddie right now, the fear would be that you would do some if not irreparable, some serious harm to the housing market. as i say, is it does not make sens...

About it. what they've gotten the white house to do, they'll get more surrogate travel, more like the vice president, the first lady, cabinet members will go out and campaign on behalf of the house members because they say look, the president is campaigning a bunch for the senate but not so much for the house. also, they want better coordination, the house members do. when you announce a big stimulus project in my district, i would like more than 24 hours notice because right now, in some case, they're getting that or less. >> right. so because of what gibbs said on sunday, nancy pelosi earned...