role in lightsquared. while other people have been getting out of a hedge fund that is essentially behind this, george soros has invested in harbinger hedge fund and also a lot of the nonprofits that george soros has backed in the past has also essentially gone to bat for lightsquared when it comes to regulations because, you know, there are some in the gps industry, particularly in the part of the gps spectrum that would be impacted that would impact military broadband, they say that could foul up the gps for our military satellites, maybe not a good idea to turn that thing on. darrell issa s committee is investigating. they re going to figure out how deep these ties go back because a lot of those e-mails going back and forth talk about how much money they ll be giving to the obama campaign come this cycle. they talk about campaign donations and then they talk about policy and the same thing, does that seem right?
in a statement, the white house said, quoting, there was no attempt to influence the testimony beyond its consistency with the administration, end quote. light squared believes it is the victim of political pressure of its own. it says that it was denied a chance to speak at thursday s hearing. it s accusing the g.p.s. industry of using partisan politics to kill the competition. heather? all right. thank you very much, doug mckelway reporting for us. we do want to clarify at the beginning we were talking about the $25 billion in government loan guarantees that went to energy companies along with companies like solyndra that was in 2008. greg: two american hikers jailed in iran for more than two years could be a step closer to freedom. the country s foreign minister said the countries are willing, quote, unquote, in the near future to commute the prison sentences for shane bower and josh fattal did not give any clear indication on when the two men could be released. the latest wor
this year is when we started to get concern. in a statement the white house said there was no attempt to influence the testimony beyond the consistency with the administration, and the company believes it is the victim of political pressure, saying it was denied a chance to speak at the hearing and accusing the g.p.s. industry of using partisan politics to kill the competition. thank you very much. a tea party activist running to defeat speaker boehner next year in the primary, and speaker boehner will run for the 12th term as an ohio congressman and has rarely seen a close race. according to the cincinnati inquirer the new challenger says he will campaign on one single issue: speaker boehner s support of federal funding for planned parenthood. he reportedly saying he is anti-abortion candidate. first they shot it. then tracked it. but hunters did not stop there, their deadly encounter with a
with the administration, end quote. light squared believes it s the victim of political pressure of its own. it says it was denied a chance to speak at thursday s hearing. it is including the g.p.s. industry as using partisan politics to kilt competition. arthel? doug mckelway thank you very much reporting from washington. learning about the deaths of the daughters of two political families kara kennedy has died. 51 years old the oldest child of the late senator edward kennedy. brother patrick says her sister died while at a washington area health club. her health gave out from the strenuous effects she had been receiving for lung cancer. eleanor mondale, the daughter of the former vice president walter mondale has also died and she was also 51 coincidently. a family spokeswoman says that mondale died today at her home in minnesota. she had been diagnosed with brain cancer years ago and our condolences to both families. absolutely. we are also getting word about another political
gps and they think that this technology that light squared, the company that has given to the democratic party is proposing, and that they got permission from the fcc under the obama administration to pursue, that that technology would make the faa blind as well in terms of air traffic controllers using gps. jenna: those are very serious accusations to consider, or just ramifications from this new technology. you said light squared is the name of that company. have they issued any sort of response so far? reporter: yes they ve pushed back very hard. they say that this is partisan politics. this is a company that is based in restin, virginia. they say their owner has given to republicans as well as democrat -gs. they say this is the gps industry not wanting to upgrade, spend the money to upgrade and that they are using partisan politics on capitol hill. here is the statement from light squared itself that we ve obtained. it says, it s also ludicrous to suggest light square s success d