clean energy initiative. solyndra. a california-based solar energy company boasting revolutionary technology. it s here. the companies like solyndra are leading the way. judge jeanine: on august 31st, the flag ship sank. less than two years after getting an astounding a $35 million loan from the u.s. government: now investigators are saying that loan was a bad bet from the get-go. in 2009, a private credit ratings agency warned solyndra was headed for failure. but the obama white house forged ahead anyway. days before the ground breaking ceremony at solyndra s new plant, the loan still hadn t received approval from the office of management and budget. so administration officials pressed them. white house chief of staff rahm emanuel wrote to see if there was anything he could do to push things along. two days later, loan approved. vice president biden hails the
solyndra. a california-based solar energy company boasting revolutionary technology. it s here. the companies like solyndra are leading the way. judge jeanine: on august 31st, the flag ship sank. less than two years after getting an astounding a $35 million loan from the u.s. government: now investigators are saying that loan was a bad bet from the get-go. in 2009, a private credit ratings agency warned solyndra was headed for failure. but the obama white house forged ahead anyway. days before the ground breaking ceremony at solyndra s new plant, the loan still hadn t received approval from the office of management and budget. so administration officials pressed them. white house chief of staff rahm emanuel wrote to see if there was anything he could do to push things along. two days later, loan approved. vice president biden hails the
embroiled through these allegations, that he is somehow involved in this, but we don t know whether that s true or not, but we think we should do our part to help anyone who has been embroiled unfairly in our publishing activities. assange says wikileaks has offered $50,000 to manning s legal defense fund, but just last week the bradley manning support network said that funds promised in july still hadn t come through. it hasn t been proven that manning leaked anything to anybody. now to other developments we re following for you. a massachusetts jury has ordered tobacco company lorillard to pay $152 million in all to the estate to a woman who died from smoking. this was the first case to tackle the company s alleged marketing tactics of the 50s and 60s handing out free cigarettes to children outside housing projects. lorillard did lure kids in that way and did cause marie evans to become addicted and die of lung cancer at the age of 54.
residents shows she s not alone in her anger or her doubt, one in five say they ve lost income to the spill, about one in ten say they ve lost their jobs, and a quarter think that they will have to move away from the gulf as the true impact finally becomes known, anderson. yeah, and ken feinberg says that mental health issues are not going to be paid for, counseling and the like is not going to be paid for in this $20 billion fund. and i think, last i heard, bp still hadn t said whether or not they were going to pay the states. i know louisiana long agoerk months ago had asked for a few million for mental health counselling and stuff. i think they haven t gotten word on that. we ll double-check on that tomorrow. but local officials, how are they reacting to all these new studies? well, i ll tell you, anderson, what they are doing is pressing fast and hard right now to make sure that bp and the feds stay engaged on the cleanup and restoration of the economy here. i ll tell you, what