government intervention, you know, can help the economy which is something that republicans have been arguing all along is not necessary that you need to have the free market and let the free market take its course and not have government intervention. megyn: he s, he has to do this, marc, because he s said openly that he supported t.a.r.p., the bailout of wall street, however you want to phrase it. he s on record as saying that, now he s making a different case which is i supported it, and it was an accomplishment on president bush s watch, not on president obama s watch, and don t believe president obama when he says it s the policies he barack obama backed that got us out of this mess. it was t.a.r.p., it was george bush and hank paulson. yeah. look, i mean, he said he would do things differently, he would have rejected the auto bailout that the bush administration did, he probably would have structured t.a.r.p. differently, but this is reality. we re conflating two different
for the failed taxpayer funded loan to solyndra. the now bankrupt solar company. republicans in part, according to the president. take a listen to what he said. he says congress, democrats and republicans put together this loan guarantee program and then he went on to say this. while speaking to npr. obviously we wish solyndra hadn t gone bankrupt. part of the reason they did is because the chinese were subsidizing their solar industry and flooding the market in a way solyndra couldn t compete. but understand this is not our program per se. megyn: the president suggesting solyndra was not just his administration s mess, but a a bipartisan mess. so this is interesting to me.