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solyndra that went belly up. joining kristin welker at the white house right now. is this basically a reaction to some pressure the white house looking into its own independent research here? reporter: it absolutely is. this the white house basically saying they are as concerned about a possible mismanagement of taxpayer dollars as congress is. of course, it comes with some risk because if this independent review shows there was mismanagement, that could be bad for the white house. but what they re hoping is that this will clear the air. so, here s what happened on friday. white house chief of staff bill daley announced this independent review and announced he was appointing herb allison, a former bush administration official and obama administration official to conduct this 60-day review. we want to make it clear. it s of the entire loan program. not just of that solyndra loan. he ll be looking into how these loans are carried out and making recommendations about the future, how it
that right? i think it s a former solyndra lobbyist, but it would be hard to find any corporate interest that was not represented at that fund-raiser. romney has criticized the obama administration for the solyndra loan. that s gotten a lot of attraction. he s also criticized some of the auto bailouts, a general motors lobbyist there, so those kinds of contradictions are not hard to find on a list like this. michael isikoff, as ever, thanks so much. thank you. and we ll be right back to clear the air. [ male announcer ] want to achieve more with your money? pnc virtual wallet gathers your spending and saving in one place. credit and debit purchases, checks, bills, and other financial information. it lets you see the details as well as the big financial picture.
the white house decided not to send congress all of the related documents to the solyndra loan. this has to do with the president himself, doesn t it? this means members of congress are not going to get a glimpse of what is on the president s blackberry or anymore internal documents from the white house relate to the solyndra loans. two investigators asked the white house to release all of the internal documents, anything that mentioned the solyndra loan whatsoever and send them to captiol hill. the white house counsel sent a letter to them this afternoon. we got a copy of it and it says, we re not going to do this. we re not going to send you the documents because you have 70,000 pages of documents from agencies, 900 pages from inside the white house and to be bottom line it for you, erin, this is consistent with other administrations. we have always heard of executive privilege. the president always protects, traditionally the right of their advisers to give them unvarn
solyndra loan. this has to do with the president himself, doesn t it? this means members of congress are not going to get a glimpse of what is on the president s blackberry or anymore internal documents from the white house relate to the solyndra loans. two investigators asked the white house to release all of the internal documents, anything that mentioned the solyndra loan whatsoever and send them to captiol hill. the white house counsel sent a letter to them this afternoon. we got a copy of it and it says, we re not going to do this. we re not going to send you the documents because you have 70,000 pages of documents from agencies, 900 pages from inside the white house and to be bottom line it for you, erin, this is consistent with other administrations. we have always heard of executive privilege. the president always protects, traditionally the right of their advisers to give them unvarnished advice. so this isn t that big of a surprise but expect political fireworks a