lost $232 million, that the price of solar panels at that time had dropped 50%, and that the price of solar-grade silicone had plummeted. but solyndra wasn't using silicone, the chinese were, which made it almost impossible for them to compete. now, a woman who claims that she works for the firm that built the solyndra plant called in to the mark levin show. levin says she was vetted, she's legitimate, and here's what she said. play it. >> while we were out there, while we were building it -- because it is a half a billion dollar plant -- everyone already knew that china had developed a more inexpensive way to manufacture these solar panels. everyone knew that the plant wouldn't work, but they still did it, they still built it, and, um, basically, they stole that money. obama flew out and did an appearance out there and, actually, they're filing bankruptcy next week. >> reporter: a man who was just laid off by solyndra sold the "san jose mercury news" that solyndra was tossing out faulty solar panels every day. he said this, and i'm quoting: at least $100,000 a day was thrown away. if they're wasting 100,000 a day, how much is that a month or a year? of course that's going to lead to bankruptcy. now, remember, independent auditors also raised the red flag. e-mails from inside the white house, inside the energy department also questioned whether this was a bad deal, yet instead of being scrutinized, the president showed up, he touted this company, the loan was fast tracked, and today during a department of energy hearing wyoming senator john barrasso had this to say. >> i don't think we should be blaming china or the markets or previous administrations. the perfect storm appears to be a fed that was, a federal policy rushed decisions and demands of a pending public relations campaign by the administration. >> reporter: the administration maintains the changing markets could have changed the fate of solyndra and, apparently, they have a lot of people supporting them because aside from the federal loan, more than a billion dollars of private investment money was also poured into this solar panel maker back in 2007, 2008. megyn: and now the fbi wants to know whether solyndra misrepresented the status of its business to us, to private investors, to whom else? we'll find out. trace, thank you. >> reporter: okay. megyn: we are keeping an eye on the daily white house press briefing where we expect a tough round of questions on the scandal. more and more news organizations are covering it. last night brian ross actually spoke to our own bill o'reilly about the information emerging -- investigation emerging regarding the solyndra scandal and how he expects the story to get increasingly uncomfortable for the administration. >> i think they believed in it in a way, and this was going to be the model, this was the future -- >> but how can you believe in it if your own guys are telling you, hey, the company's going down? it looks to me like they don't care. >> they don't want to hear that. the loan was put on hold by the bush administration on january 9th of 2009, and six days after the new administration took office, it was back on a fast track and was approved very quickly. now, the questions today were not answered very well by the people from the administration. how did that happen? >> nobody knows. we weren't here, we don't know. megyn: interesting. that full interview, i think, is posted on foxnews.com right now, so check it out if you'd like. and now the money given to solyndra, part of a $38 billion green technology program. the president promised that it would create or save some 65,000 jobs. a new report finds nearly half of that money has already been spent, and just over 3500 new permanent jobs have been created. but the white house is now challenging that report. stu varney, anchor of "varney & company" on the fox business network. stu, let me just ask you this, put this in perspective for our viewers who have not been following this that closely. the between jobs program which has been a priority of the obama administration, it's never been more scrutinized than it is right now in part because of what we've seen happen with the taxpayers' $535 million, basically, down the drain on solyndra. >> reporter: that's true. it is solyndra which has brought to the fore the shortcomings of the green jobs program. this is a program that is really not going well at all. we've spent or committed, i should say, half of the $38 billion put aside for the program, and as you pointed out, megyn, we've only created 3,545 new, permanent green jobs. now, the report that appears in "the washington post" today, that's what all this fuss is about, the report goes on to say the administration is claiming 33,000 grebe jobs -- green jobs have been saved at the ford motor company, just that one company alone, 33,000 jobs saved. but when you look into it deeply, it appears that ford got $5.9 billion worth of loan guarantees in order to redo a couple of factories to make fuel efficient cars. and all the people that work in those factories are considered to have had their jobs saved by the green jobs program. it is not a program that is working well at all. megyn: so we've got just, you know, to do the math, we have a program that costs $38 billion, it was supposed to save 65,000 jobs. what we have now is half of the money spent and 3500 jobs. the administration pushing back and saying, well, you've got to count all these jobs, 33,000 jobs at ford. and i guess a couple of others. you reject the jobs saved at ford why? >> reporter: because, well, that's a stretch, isn't it? to say that you have saved 33,000 green jobs because you do a makeover of some factories so that they no longer produce suvs, they produce more fuel efficient cars. you're calling that green jobs and that they've been saved? i think that is a stretch to credit that to the green jobs program. but let's break it down a little bit more. if the admission met its entire target which, by the way, is downgraded to 60,000 groan jobs -- green jobs, it would still mean that we are committing $640,000 for each and every one of those jobs from the taxpayer. that is a very expensive green job, period. megyn: wow. that is a big number. stuart, thank you. >> reporter: sure. megyn: check out "varney & company" on fbn every morning, monday through friday. the treasury department has now joined the fbi and congress into their probes into this loan given to solyndra. to learn more about that and the e-mails that the white house sent about solyndra, we brought some of them to you yesterday including this deal is not ready for prime time, you can go to foxnews.com. this story, you're going to be hearing more about it over the coming days. we're happy to keep you updated, foxnews.com, if you like. fox news alert, house speaker john boehner addressing jobs and the economy at an event in washington. let's take a quick listen to the speaker. >> until we as a government act. and the responsibility for fixing this toxic environment for job creation is a bipartisan one. the situation was created by washington's inability to let our economy work. it was created by government intrusion and micromanagement, and i think we've got a responsibility to work together in the coming months to remove these barriers and to liberate our economy. this is what the american people are demanding of us. everything we do in the weeks and months to come needs to start with asking this question: are we addressing these problems, or are we making them worse? the budget control act of 2011 signed into law just last month establishes a joint select committee of congress for the purpose of identifying $1.5 trillion of deficit reduction. many have expressed their doubts about the joint committee's chances of success. now, listen, i understand the skepticism, you know, a joint committee, after all, is no substitute for the president who controls most of the arms of government. but i think the select committee has a huge opportunity. it has. megyn: has a huge opportunity and a huge responsibility. if you want to hear the rest of mr. john boehner's remarks, check it out at foxnews.com where we will be streaming those remarks live. an alert coming in, incredible any video in of a deadly cruise ship fire. watch this. you can see a thick cloud of smoke. wow, look at that. look at that. you don't see that every day. billowing from the ship. we're told at least two people are dead, nine others injured. some people escaping the flames on lifeboats. the ship was traveling off the coast of norway when it caught fire and limped into harbor. laura ingle's life in our newsroom with the details. >> reporter: police in norway are saying they expect an explosion in the engine room sparked the fire that has been described as big and intense by fire crews. let's take a look at that video again, that big, black cloud pouring out of the ms innordless cruise ship, dangerously close to portions of the ship's decks where passengers evacuated from. all passengers and crew members have been accounted for, and the fire is under control. no passengers are injured. there are still six crew members being treated in the hospital for bushes and smoke inhalation. the fire started just before the ship arrived northwest of oslo. more than 100 passengers were evacuated into lifeboats before the smoldering ship reached the port. the other were able to get off the ship when they got in there. the norwegian operator of the ship confirms the two who died were crew members down below. while it's not clear what caused the possible explosion in the engine room, the chief of the fire by gate say -- brigade said they are looking into reports that the electricity was knocked out. they tell us that passengers can still salvage their seven-day vacation if they want to. the company is now offering those who abandoned ship to jump aboard one of their other cruise ships in that area, they operate several. if passengers want to go home, they will be given a credit for another trip in the future. investigation underway. megyn. megyn: laura, thank you. new questions for president obama's re-election campaign. does he need to change his strategy to deal with unhappy jewish voters? 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's heart-healthier than butter. with omega-3s. 64% less saturated fat. andlinically proven to help support healthy cholesterol. ♪ put a little love in your heart ♪ megyn: well, new concerns for president obama and his party in 2012. the stunning victory by republican bob turner in a heavily democratic and jewish new york city district raising questions now over whether jewish support for the president is eroding. jewish voters make up a large population in some key battleground states including florida and pennsylvania. so does the president need to change his campaign approach to secure the jewish vote? the white house, apparently, thinks it may. joining me now, sally kohn, founder of movement vision.org, and matthew brooks, executive director of the republican jewish coalition. all right, panel, thank you so much for being here. >> nice to see you. megyn: you've got this one election down in d.c., i mean, new york, we had bob turner on the show yesterday. the white house may be saying, hmm, how did he lose that district, but it appears they themselves may be a little nervous, sally, because they've hired a jewish outreach director, and they've sent david axlerod and debbie wasserman schultz out to reassure donors, so that tells me the white house may, indeed, be worried about the i screw vote. what do you think? >> i think they're doing that in part to counter some of the rhetoric which is trying to drive a wedge between him and the jewish community. in the ninth district of new york, voters -- first of all, there's two realities. one is the majority of the jewish voters in that district are orthodox jewish voters who don't represent the majority of jewish voters across the country -- megyn: but his opponent was an orthodox jew. >> not that that necessarily correlates to jewish concern over president obama who remain very favorable toward president obama. the second point, though, is that 7% in that election even with that high orthodox jew turnout, 7% said attitudes or policies about israel were their number one concern. voters are concerned about a number of things, not obama's politics which, incidentally, has been quite capable to past presidents. megyn: there's a piece in "the wall street journal" today that suggests the numbers are a little different than sally cited down in new york in this district. he said that a public policy poll that was taken days before this election showed that a plurality of voters said israel was very important in determining their votes, and among those voters they voted 71-22% for the republican. do you think that that is a harbinger of something to come for president obama when it comes to the jewish vote? >> oh, it's absolutely the case, megyn. look, nobody can look at this race in the new york nine district and see that obama doesn't have a problem in the jewish community. i mean, you see all this sort of tortured kind of spin on the part of democrats to spin this away, but the results out of new york nine are absolutely crystal clear, and it's what we've been saying for over a year now. he doesn't have a messaging problem, he has a policy problem in the jewish community. and i think that in many ways the new york nine race is a canary in the coal mine which i think should send shock waves through the democrats as we head into 20 the, and i think you're correct, megyn, in places like pennsylvania, ohio and in florida in particular the jewish community is going to be very important, and i believe is going to continue to send a message to this administration that they are really concerned about his policies. megyn: here in new york there's a high jewish population as well, but there's, you know, no chance that new york is going to go red in the next -- >> yeah, i know. new york is not going to be a battleground. megyn: yeah. so the white house is going to be focused on states where it could swing the votes. sally, separate and apart from whether you believe there's erosion in the jewish support, how important do you think the jewish vote is to the democratic party in general and president obama's re-election? >> historically, it's very important. no more, perhaps, or less than any other community in the united states though. and i think that the larger issue here is twofold. one, i do think the president has a messaging problem, as he has had with a number of other positive things that he's done in his presidency where he's failed to sell those things as fully as he could to the american public. what he's done on israel has been as solid and as supportive of israel as every past american president and, frankly, past and current leaders in israel. he needs to do a better job talking about that. but the larger thing that's going to bring jewish voters along as well as all voters is what he can do on the economy, and that's about getting his jobs plan passed. megyn: dan, it's been said that president obama's built the most one-sided argument existence israel -- against israel. do you agree with that? >> there's no question that this administration has been openly hostile in many ways, and to try and compare him to past administrations, i think, this administration compares very, very unfavorably. this administration has used the strongest diplomatic terms to condemn israel's building in it own capital of jerusalem. it has put tremendous international pressure on israel to not build in be settlement communities, natural growth in areas within the west bank, and more importantly it is starting to dictate terms, calling on israel and the peace process to return back to '67 borders with land swaps which a lot of people in israel and elsewhere, rightly so, believe is going to put israel at -- megyn: i'm up against a hard break, so i've got to run -- >> that's a misconstrual of his perspectives. megyn: thank you both for being here. before we get to break, we've got some dramatic video this week of these good samaritans lifting a burning car off of a trapped motorcycle riders. that rider is now speaking from the hospital bed right now. we'll have that for you shortly. call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. if you have painful, swollen joints, i've been in your shoes. one day i'm on p of the world... the next i'm saying... i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressively got worse. my rheumatologist told me about enbrel. i'm surprid how quickly my symoms have beemanaged. 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