solyndra. according to e-mails, they overstepped his authority by actively pushing for solyndra's application. >> reporter: white house aide describes it as the administration debated whether or not to give the company another $5.4 million as energy secretary and his staff wanted to. the aide didn't, they wrote something that we can't say on tv. that is the hundreds of pages of new e-mails obtained by fox news. we also learned that steve spinner that raised half a million for president obama and got a gig as an energy official was one of the main drivers of the deal. his wife was working for a law firm that represented solyndra. the highest levels of our government were very aware of