question. yeah, i think it s a perfectly legitimate question to have. i mean, lord knows, if dick cheney and his energy committee have seats on the board of enron, they want to know what they knew an and when they knew it. and that s it for the panel. but stay tuned for the president s unique address to congress last week. @@
president obama went to solyndra solar panel plant and touted green energy and the stimulus. we can see the positive impacts right here at solyndra. reporter: but this summer after ceo brian harrison told members of congress that solyndra s financial condition was improving, department of energy or doe officials let lawmakers know the company was facing decreased revenues. obviously there was a form of due policety. the board was monitoring what happened. it was the bush administration that first considered loaning money to solyndra and one says that obama officials are likely to stress that point tomorrow. this just didn t start with the stimulus, but this was the first loan guarantee of the obama administration. so, that s going to be the problem. solyndra s ceo was supposed to testify tomorrow at the hearing. but congressman stern says the company wants another week to prepare. in washington, molly
they re the left or right, because we can. we re monitoring it and asking the justice department to continue doing a reasonable check, but i think that s where the line has to be drawn and each of the members that wrote that would say the same thing if it was msnbc. bret: last thing. american family voices, liberal advocacy group says it s going to file a complaint with the house office, congressional ethics about alleging that you have used your public office for personal gain. how do you respond to that? theres 308 million americans and every single one of them has a right to file with the outside group, but the allegations they put in the press release they re going to file have shown to be less than truthful. the new york times did a piece and they ve had them do four corrections so far and still haven t corrected some of the inaccuracies. i came to congress as one of the richest members of congress, with any luck i might leave still having some of that. if i cared about money
money wasted? or is it going to be something more and worse? in a kind of financial scandal of the obama administration, with i we haven t had and we ve had republicans following every stimulus dollar, looking for waste and abuse because you think in a program that big it was just going to be a mess, and there were going to be scandals left and right, which there haven t been. but this, i think, is an example of now, you know, the stimulus spent money on things that didn t pay off and didn t create the jobs it was supposed to. and now, the only question, is there going to be anything worse. it couldn t come at a worse time for the president who is trying of course to get more money out of congress. bret: the fbi went to the company and obviously is starting an investigation and agents were at the company last week. yeah, and some scynics might say that s useful for the obama administration, i can t speak on this until we have a full investigation. kicking the can down the road. whe
washington, this is special report. good evening, i m bret baier, there are conflicting signals coming from the white house tonight about just how strongly president obama will insist that his new stimulus plan be passed by congress in its entirety. the president was back on the road today to push his plan. chief white house correspondent ed henry reports, the president made his pitch on someone else s turf. the second stop on the home states of republican leaders tour. this time, john boehner s ohio, with president obama again saying the jobs debate is not about politics. even as he charges unnamed republicans are just focused on denying him a viory. give me a win? this isn t about giving me a win. this isn t about giving democrats or republicans a win, it s about giving the american people a win. about giving ohio a win. , but the white house seems to be sending a mixed message how to define victory. in a round table with hispanic