including by top advisors like larry summers at the time who was saying that this loan program might not be all it was cracked up to be. that s why we are still seeing investigations into this. undermined the president s green jobs agenda, shep. shepard: ed henry at the white house. a reporter also asked the president today about the demonstration against corporate greed here in new york. demonstrations which have spread to other major cities. some live pictures here out of portland, oregon. we will hear from the president and some of the protesters coming up inside pox fox report. i mentioned speaker boehner s criticism earlier. he wasn t the only one giving the president tough time today. mike emanuel on capitol hill. what s the word from other republicans? it was a month ago today that speaker john boehner and majority leader eric cantor wrote a letter to president obama asking for a meeting to work on a bipartisan jobs plan. the meeting never happened. and so republicans say
answers. our capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell joins me now. not just from the hill are we hearing this talked about, take a listen to what michele bachmann had to say at cpac. vice president joe biden said this about the loan guarantee program for solsolyndra. this is exactly what the stimulus program was all about. greed and corruption. kelly, this company was the poster child for the president s green jobs agenda. how much is fact finding and how much is political grandstanding? reporter: a combination of both, thomas. one of the reasons solyndra is in the cross hairs is because the president visited the company, the department of energy backed it and it got a lot of support from the administration at a time they thought it presumably was a company that could have an impact in the industry.
ties to the terrorist group in afghanistan. top officials have indicated this week that there is evidence that pakistan s intelligence agency is supporting what is called the haqqani network and now going one step further saying they believe that the support is coming from the agencies highest ranks. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is standing by with the latest. barbara, a lot at stake right now, and what are the officials saying? well, wolf, pakistan is supposed to be one of the u.s. s closest allies in the war of terror and the united states gives them billions of dollars in aid, but for the third day in washington, tensions are ratcheting up. today, a top u.s. military official said indeed, it is the top leadership right at the top of the isi, the pakistani intelligence service that is supporting the haqqani network with money, training and advice and supporting the attacks within pakistan and some of those troops killing u.s. troops in afghanistan and of cour
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evergreen solar inc. received $5.3 million and filed for bankruptcy protection last month. spectrawatt received $500,000 and filed for bankruptcy last month. another filed for protection in 2010 and olson s crop service and olson mills acquisition company received $10 million and filed for bankruptcy protection. first two are energy companies. isn t this incredible? this is the whole green jobs agenda that destroyed spain s economy. we thought it was a great idea. let s use the stimulus money that we didn t have. it s all about ideology here. which is so wrong! therein lies the problem. it s about ideology. it s not about actually making investment in a company that s going to create a permanent job. clearly these 1100 jobs weren t permanent. where are we going? we have to wait, this technology will be in place some day but don t risk, especially with the financial condition that the country is in. don t risk our money speculating on whether solar is ready for primetime. it s n