inappropriate for tv. essentially bleep show. and shows an obama donor who went on to work for the department of energy, top post and who s wife worked for a law firm who worked for solyndra. and steve spinner is that man and quote, any word from omb, the white house breathing down my neck on this, getting itchy to get involved if needed, i don t want that, steve. and the e-mail vase that it had intimate knowledge and knew what was going on and the republicans are not pleased and saying that doj, some in the administration thought the department of justice needed to approve the loan because it might be illegal, but the department of energy went ahead with it anyway. jamie: awful lot of people involved. every time we learn a new development and how are republicans responding to it
patty: you ve navigated through asteroid belts, right? george: oh sure, plenty of times. patty: compared to that, navigating socialsecurity.gov is a snap! george: really? patty: it s so easy, even kirk could do it. bret: this is a fox news alert. breaking news tonight concerning the solar panel company solyndra that got a half-billion dollar loan from the federal government. hundreds of new e-mails were released this evening just before the show. that show, energy advisors and former fundraiser for president obama steve spinner was more actively involved in the loan than obama administration officials previously acknowledged. the energy department announced spinner s resignation thursday in the just released e-mails, spinner writes, i the office of the vice president i have the office of the vice president and white house breathing down my neck on this. he refers to a big event and
solyndra. according to e-mails, they overstepped his authority by actively pushing for solyndra s application. reporter: white house aide describes it as the administration debated whether or not to give the company another $5.4 million as energy secretary and his staff wanted to. the aide didn t, they wrote something that we can t say on tv. that is the hundreds of pages of new e-mails obtained by fox news. we also learned that steve spinner that raised half a million for president obama and got a gig as an energy official was one of the main drivers of the deal. his wife was working for a law firm that represented solyndra. the highest levels of our government were very aware of
they wanted to put $5.3 million, considering they put in $500 million to put in, that is nothing. so to point to it, here is a green energy company that is creating jobs. this is smoking gun and barack obama, he knows that solyndra represents washington, d.c. cronyism. steve spinner was named as a top energy official and his wife worked for solyndra and her husband lobbied to get the loan. you look on the president s website. he was going to funnel money into tech projects. he did it through the stimulus. it was bailout essentially. but here is the skachbld. the real issue is whether or not an obama donor george kaiser was
on the fact pattern. steve spinner was running the program. he formerly did a bungler for the president, raised a lot of money. his wife at the law firm, not on the actual case and a law firm with hundreds of attorneys. huge law firm. not like his wife was working on the case, just to be clear, but, yes, it was the same firm. we re in the weeds s solyndra right now. i want to play this clip, sterns bite. a republican congress person basically making the point tim made at the beginning which is, look, we can note go up against china s industrial policy on exactly this issue. let s take a look. we can t compete with china to make solar panels and wind turbines. i heard there was a republican member of congress whose engaging in oversight on this and despite all in the past have the been supportive of this loan guarantee program, he concluded, we can t compete against china when it comes to solar energy. well, you know what?