on coming up with a plan for the deficit. at this hour, things really don t look good. our congressional correspondent kate baldwin is standing by. she s in the capitol building now. kate, congress, washington, missing deadlines becoming all too familiar. where do we stand now? i think we can say, don, at best the super committee is on the brink of failure as talks have all but fallen apart. especially in the last, i would say maybe 24 hours really. the question, the conversation is now kind of how and when the committee is likely to make its formal announce they have failed versus they are near some kind of agreement and could be making an announcement anytime soon. of course there can be a hail mary pass at the 11th 0 hour but with such little time left it seems unlikely the committee will be able to reach any sort of agreement and more likely they have failed. evidence of that, don, just listen to the dramatic shift in tone among committee members themselves. they fanned
close politicians got to fannie mae and freddie mac, including him. they reached out to him. he was a former the web of business dealings, the enterprise of newt gingrich after he left congress is one that i think journalists will explore. speaking fees, about reagan. as he said he was a small businessman buttal a consultant, strategic adviser, someone who gave advice. if he wants to talk about that in terms of being valuable and had some wisdom and knew the ways of washington, fine. but that is what he was decrying in the course of the debate, politicians being close to those companies. david gregory, host of meet the press thank you for joining me. on sunday you have senators john kerry and jon kyl will be joining david on your local nbc station. coming up patriotic millionaires go to captiol hill and demand their taxes be raised. that s in the rewrite. and the late-night comedians give us their take on the week in political comedy. a bluetooth connection, a stolen-vehicle
but that is what he was decrying in the course of the debate, politicians being close to those companies. david gregory, host of meet the press thank you for joining me. on sunday you have senators john kerry and jon kyl will be joining david on your local nbc station. coming up patriotic millionaires go to captiol hill and demand their taxes be raised. that s in the rewrite. and the late-night comedians give us their take on the week in political comedy. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now.
the white house decided not to send congress all of the related documents to the solyndra loan. this has to do with the president himself, doesn t it? this means members of congress are not going to get a glimpse of what is on the president s blackberry or anymore internal documents from the white house relate to the solyndra loans. two investigators asked the white house to release all of the internal documents, anything that mentioned the solyndra loan whatsoever and send them to captiol hill. the white house counsel sent a letter to them this afternoon. we got a copy of it and it says, we re not going to do this. we re not going to send you the documents because you have 70,000 pages of documents from agencies, 900 pages from inside the white house and to be bottom line it for you, erin, this is consistent with other administrations. we have always heard of executive privilege. the president always protects, traditionally the right of their advisers to give them unvarn
solyndra loan. this has to do with the president himself, doesn t it? this means members of congress are not going to get a glimpse of what is on the president s blackberry or anymore internal documents from the white house relate to the solyndra loans. two investigators asked the white house to release all of the internal documents, anything that mentioned the solyndra loan whatsoever and send them to captiol hill. the white house counsel sent a letter to them this afternoon. we got a copy of it and it says, we re not going to do this. we re not going to send you the documents because you have 70,000 pages of documents from agencies, 900 pages from inside the white house and to be bottom line it for you, erin, this is consistent with other administrations. we have always heard of executive privilege. the president always protects, traditionally the right of their advisers to give them unvarnished advice. so this isn t that big of a surprise but expect political fireworks a