somebody high up within the obama white house and when you look at the list of who got money you have ten members of obama s 2008 financial committee and at least a dozen campaign bundlers. this is not a coincidence. judge jeanine: and in this case, george kaiser. the whole idea of the refinancing deal where american taxpayers are put at the end of the line behind the hedge fund guys, did he answer that question as to why he would put americans whose money it is at the back of the line and change the whole deal so there is no chance of our getting our money back, a half a billion dollars? lieutenan let s be clear. the language of the loan guarantee act that authorized these things in the first place specifically says you cannot subordinate the taxpayer debt to other sources and he clearly did that. he said well, i only thought it was the first financing, rehe financing was not subject to that and i have advice from a
solyndra ground breaking. the company dug itself into a hole almost immediately. bleeding money even as president obama was touting it as a success. but by february this year, the company was broke. according to an administration email, quote: the optics of a solyndra failure would be bad, closed quote. instead of letting the company shut down, the energy department approved a refinancing deal, guaranteeing that in the event of bankruptcy, private investors in soldra would be repaid before american taxpayers. months later solyndra executives reported back to congress they had doubled their revenue. but within weeks of those meetings, solyndra declared bankruptcy. no comment. judge jeanine: 1100 employees were laid off and taxpayers were stuck with half a billion-dollar
vice president biden hails the solyndra ground breaking. the company dug itself into a hole almost immediately. bleeding money even as president obama was touting it as a success. but by february this year, the company was broke. according to an administration email, quote: the optics of a solyndra failure would be bad, closed quote. instead of letting the company shut down, the energy department approved a refinancing deal, guaranteeing that in the event of bankruptcy, private investors in solyndra would be repaid before american taxpayers. months later solyndra executives reported back to congress they had doubled their revenue. but within weeks of those meetings, solyndra declared bankruptcy. no comment. judge jeanine: 1100 employees were laid off and taxpayers were stuck with half a billion-dollar
solyndra ground breaking. the company dug itself into a hole almost immediately. bleeding money even as president obama was touting it as a success. but by february this year, the company was broke. according to an administration email, quote: the optics of a solyndra failure would be bad, closed quote. instead of letting the company shut down, the energy department approved a refinancing deal, guaranteeing that in the event of bankruptcy, private investors in solyndra would be repaid before american taxpayers. months later solyndra executives reported back to congress they had doubled their revenue. but within weeks of those meetings, solyndra declared bankruptcy. no comment. judge jeanine: 1100 employees were laid off and taxpayers were stuck with half a billion-dollar
and these are people who regardless of whatever refinancing deal they get, they ll still be in the hole and will continue to dig themselves into that hole. greg, appreciate your add voe casas. i respect what you re doing with your time and your career. and appreciate the time to talk to you. thank you. greg emerson, check him out, mainstreet.com. coming up, hardball has a busy one. voting is soon to develop, or so they say. chris matthews following all the action with his analysis. first, when the people supposed to protect you are actual liz those preying on you, speaking of our government. one woman s mission to expose institutional corruption and sex trafficking now the topic of a new blockbuster movie. she s here with the director of that film, next. [ groans ] [ marge ] psst.