romney for his time at bain capital investing private money. this was about taxpayer money that was vested and came to not and a loss of 1100 jobs. you see this would be a subject mitt romney would enjoy raising. i would add another one and it s leadership. the person who made the decision was the secretary of energy, and he s still in office. he s still the cabinet secretary and this was a profound business blunder. this is a very smart man, a scientist, but he made this mistake and he s still in office. and the question should he have gone? should the president have asked for him to go? that would alleviate i think some of the p. r. pain. i think the obama administration is of the view that this is how it works. you are going to plant this kind of seed money out there, sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn t. that s the point they make when they talking about the enterprises that bain stead in that didn t turn out well. but even at the very beginning, you know
with edwards. the judge declared a mistrial yesterday after deadlocked jurors were able to return a verdict on only one of six counts against him. chris clackum reports. reporter: north carolina. reporter: the stunning fall from grace for john edwards was cushioned a bit when the jury acquitted him one on of six campaign fraud charges and deadlocked on the other five. thank goodness we live in a system that has the kind of system we have. those jurors were an exemplar for what jurors are supposed to do. reporter: it comes after nine days of deliberations and resulted in the judge eagle s declaring a mistrial on the remaining charges. charges that s almost $1 million provided by donors fred baron and rachel bunny mellon to hide edwards pregnant mistress rielle hunter while he ran for president amounted to illegal campaign contributions. edwards attorneys argued the money was a gift and at least on one count, the jury agreed. for that, edwards was contrite. whil
us, this is not the kind of building that is built by private enterprise. this is the kind of enterprise, the kind of building that s built with half a billion dollars of taxpayer money. it s not just the taj mahal of corporate headquarters, you probably also heard inside there are showers that have lcd displace that tells you what the temperature is of the shower water and the robots inside actually pro disney music tunes. back to senior political analyst brit hume joins us. thanks for joining us. nice to be here. that s quite a site. a stunt or effective? possibly both. solyndra works for romney as a campaign subject for a couple reasons. one it goes to waste and spend wig is one of his criticisms, and it also goes to the question of who vests other people s money well. obama campaign is attacking mitt romney for his time at bain capital investing private money. this was about taxpayer money that was vested and came to not and a loss of 1100 jobs. you see this would
us, this is not the kind of building that is built by private enterprise. this is the kind of enterprise, the kind of building that s built with half a billion dollars of taxpayer money. it s not just the taj mahal of corporate headquarters, you probably also heard inside there are showers that have lcd displace that tells you what the temperature is of the shower water and the robots inside actually pro disney music tunes. back to senior political analyst brit hume joins us. thanks for joining us. nice to be here. that s quite a site. a stunt or effective? possibly both. solyndra works for romney as a campaign subject for a couple reasons. one it goes to waste and spend wig is one of his criticisms, and it also goes to the question of who vests other people s money well. obama campaign is attacking mitt romney for his time at bain capital investing private money. this was about taxpayer money that was vested and came to not and a loss of 1100 jobs. you see this would
and good evening, everyone. i m matt lauer. in for brian tonight. after a day of courtroom confusion and drama, there s a verdict and a mistrial in the john edwards case. a trial about campaign finance corruption that included weeks of sensational testimony about his private life and his very public fall from grace. late this afternoon, following the verdict, we heard from edwards himself for the first time right outside the courthouse. i want to make sure that everyone hears from me and from my voice that while i do not believe i did anything illegal or ever thought i was doing anything illegal, i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. and there is no one else responsible for my sins. i also want to say a word about my own children. cate who most all of you have seen, has been here every single day. she has been here no matter what. no matter how awful and painful the lot of the evidence was for her. evidence about her dad, evidence about her mom, who she loved so, so dea