workers and then promptly saw its offices raided by the fbi. a senate energy confirmation hearing now dominating the day as the white house scrambles to defend its decision to hand out this hefty loan. trace gallagher with the breaking details now from our breaking news desk. trace? reporter: and remember, megyn, the white house still maintains this was a worthwhile investment in a company that was very promising, but yet many experts say there was nothing about this company that was at all promising, and they re pointing to the facts in 2008 before this loan was issued, that in 2008 solyndra reportedly lost $232 million, that the price of solar panels at that time had dropped 50%, and that the price of solar-grade silicone had plummeted. but solyndra wasn t using silicone, the chinese were, which made it almost impossible for them to compete. now, a woman who claims that she works for the firm that built the solyndra plant called in to the mark levin show. levin says she w
the u.s. soccer team tearing up the field in the feel-good story of the summer. the field in the feel-good story of the summer. nightly news begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. while it s sometimes hard to remember what flying was like without the bins and the ziplock bags and the shoe and laptop removal and the occasional shouted cry of bag check, the tsa has been around now for almost a decade, there are 51,000 of them all wearing those blue shirts, working all flights, all shifts and their job is to keep the skies safe. 2 million people a day get screened at u.s. airports, 700 separate checkpoints at airports across the country. and while the tsa is used to complaining by now, this was complaint day in washington. the agency took the heat for everything we have seen here, the aggressive patdowns of kids and the elderly, the big bureaucracy they have become, and questions about imagination and common sense and how safe we really are
she has fun. but laura never takes it personally. that is the key to win your argument. that was funny. you got to admit. getting him on every can sert series he had, every obscene comment they made. what i really want to say to you, i ll say silo green. say what? somebody has to explain to bob what the title of the song is. explain it to him after the break. earlier today, president obama awarded the medal of honor to the second living soldier to receive it for service in afghanistan. leroy petrie lost his right hand when he threw a live grenade away from the soldiers in a raid against the taliban. that, my friends, is a real man. forget matt lauer. we salute him. thank you for your service. you know what i see about that, for so long they refuse to give the medal of honor to living soldiers. it was done pos posthumously. the fact they ve done two of
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. while it s sometimes hard to remember what flying was like without the bins and the zip lock bags and the shoe and lap top removal and the occasional shouted cry of bag check, the tsa has been around now for almost a decade, there are 51,000 of them all wearing those blue shirts, working all flights, all shifts and their job is to keep the skies safe. 2 million people a day get screened at u.s. airports, 700 separate checkpoints at airports across the country. and while the tsa is used to complaining by now, this was complaint day in washington, the agency took the heat for everything we have seen here, the aggressive patdowns of kids and the elderly, the big bureaucracy they have become, and questions about imagination and common sense and how safe we really are given their $8 billion budget. it s where we begin tonight with nbc s tom costello. reporter: with it s tactics already making it one of the most ridicu
host: the law is on their side. guest: yes. unless they ve claim sovereign immunity, these lawsuits would be brought and once the money exist to pay them back, they will get their money back. with interest. that is what happened in 1979. how does that affect future interest rates? one art one academic paper argues there will be a permanent adverse affect from then on simply because the sense of the treasury bond as being a perfectly safe investment would be eradicated. that is the concern here. people think of it as pretty darn safe. maybe even that just a tiny bit of risk may mean higher interest rates. realistically, bondholders will be paid back eventually, even if we had a two or three month standoff. host: arizona, independent line. caller: my question is similar to previous callers, that the constitution set it up so that congress has the authority to make debt going forward for bonding. the debt that we are discussing where we possibly be in default is that that has