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call." "american morning" continues right now. >> i'm ali velshi. the obama administration trying to defend its decision to award stimulus money to solyndra. a solar power company that went bankrupt. taxpayers are on the hook for more than half a billion dollars. >> i'm christine romans. u.s. officials concerned about terrorist groups setting up long-term residence in post-gadhafi libya. >> should our lawmakers cut back? we will talk to one senator that says yes on this "american mornin morning". >> good morning. good morning. it is thursday, september 15. welcome "american morning."...

than the testimony in court? none. none. >> he's set to be put to death next wednesday unless they grant clemency. no two hours, john boehner will reveal the republican plan to create jobs and close loopholes. they said they could go along with some of the president's jobs plans until they found he would raise taxes on wealthy americans. the line for first time jobless claims jumped 11,000 for a total of 428,000. it's the highest number of first-time claims since june. the postmaster general is outlining a plan that could cost 150,000 jobs. they want to close more than 300 mail...

State-of-the-art fence and send troops to the border and want to secure that border, it will cost $100 billion, you tell me republicans where you're going to take that out of the defense budget. take it out of afghanistan, take it out of iraq. if you want to spend it, fine. i think the president could call their bluff that way. >> why doesn't he do that? why isn't there another request for time later in this week? >> i don't know. but i think that's the way you got to do at them, it seems to me. you have to play their game better than they do. >> what does the president have in mind? do you ha...

Secure that border, it will cost $100 billion, you tell me republicans where you're going to take that out of the defense budget. take it out of afghanistan, take it out of iraq. if you want to spend it, fine. i think the president could call their bluff that way. >> why doesn't he do that? why isn't there another request for time later in this week? >> i don't know. but i think that's the way you got to do at them, it seems to me. you have to play their game better than they do. >> what does the president have in mind? do you have any idea? >> to get some grand compromise somewhat to the righ...

You want to spend $100 billion building a gigantic state-of-the-art fence and send troops to the border and want to secure that border, it will cost $100 billion, you tell me republicans where you're going to take that out of the defense budget. take it out of afghanistan, take it out of iraq. if you want to spend it, fine. i think the president could call their bluff that way. >> why doesn't he do that? why isn't there another request for time later in this week? >> i don't know. but i think that's the way you got to go at them, it seems to me. you have to play their game better than they do....