peter filed a class action lawsuit against solyndra claiming the company failed to comply with labor laws. leaving employees in the dust with no notice and no severance pay. former employee joins us. good evening. >> good evening greta. >> greta: first of all, what does solyndra do? >> we make -- we made solar panels for businesses, mainly. for their rooftops. >> greta: how long had you worked for solyndra? >> for a little over4 1/2 years. i started almost in the beginning. the company was a year old when i started. >> greta: tell me how you found out that you were essentially out the door? you had lost your job and when? >> it was a wednesday morning. i got a call from a buddy. he said at 7:30 in the morning they are closing their doors.

you might not -- i need to come in right now. he called a little later and said yeah there's going to be a meeting at 9:00. i should be here. i rushed over there and got into the meeting. and the ceo basically explained that the company was shutting its doors. and they are going to lay-off almost all the employees, except for 10% or so. everybody was pretty shocked at that news. nobody said anything or asked him any questions. everybody just walked out at that point. he spoke for maybe 10 minutes at the most. and we walked out and gathered our things together and boxes and things and went downstairs to hr and they gave us a pamphlet. i asked the hr person, are we going to be getting our vacation pay? she said no. you are getting 90 days

accrued pay. i thought is ridiculous. i went out and kind of shell shocked from the whole experience. and went home and tried to gather my thoughts. the next day filed the suit. i don't take it lightly this whole suit. something i would not normally do. under the circumstances, i had no choice. >> greta: did you have any idea that the company was in trouble? were there any signs 20/20 hindsight to suggest this company was my word, wobbly? >> umm, they were hiring people a week prior. they were still hiring people. things seemed pretty normal. people would come and go. we were a transitioning over to manufacturing. the equipment was basically all built. now was the time to start building the product and selling it.

there was no indication that they were gonna let go 1,000 employees. there was no up case of that. >> greta: what was your job there? >> research and development engineer. working in the product development group. we basically did the assembly of the panels. all the pieces it took to -- you kind of put it together. once the tube was made, then it was our task, our group to design all the pars that brought the whole thing together in a panel we were feverishly working on cutting costs of the panel. to try and compete with the chinese panels, basically. >> greta: the ceo and the people at management, did they live high off the hog? were they living lavishly? did they seem to be spending

lavishly or not? >> i would not have seen that, i don't know, i don't think so. >> greta: were you there when president obama visited? >> i wasn't in the building. i was at the time i was in another building. but i saw the live video feed of it. it was a proud moment to have the president visit your company. at that point we thought wow, we are going to make it. the president kind of backing us in a sense. you figure okay there may be some bumpy times, ultimately there was never a thought they would chose their doors. >> greta: were there bumpy times? did you have some question whether the company was thriving? >> well, you know, the company transitioned from rnd status to manufacturing. -- r & d status to manufacturing.

they were transitioning nor to a manufacturing company. it was a normal transition in that sense there were minor lay-offs here and there. nothing that our group in product development worried about that much. we were trying to cut costs. we were needed. >> greta: peter, thank you. i do hope you can find a job quickly. i'm certainly mindful of the fact how tough the economy is and how rotten it is to get laid off. thank you and good luck. >> thank you. >> greta: joining us congressman cliff sterns. you are chair of the subcommittee that has done hearings on this company. >> correct. >> greta: any idea why the fbi raided them? >> i assume the reason is because there appears to be fraud or theft or bogus accounting. and they couldn't understand the department of energy couldn't understand the books. listening to the employee, august 19th, 2009, the

department of energy staff in an e-mail that we discovered, predicted they would run out of money in september 2011. more than twyears ago doe predicted they would run out >> greta: a 535 million dollar guaranteed loan is huge. who was doing due diligence on this? >> they sent red flags to the administration -- >> greta: meaning the white house? department of energy head, secretary of energy. and said due diligence is required and we don't have it. we think you are rushing to judgment. for some reason whether they wanted to show they are creating jobs in the solar panel industry or political reasons they decided to rush ahead at the expense of taxpayers and the due diligence wasn't there.

>> greta: now they have egg all over their face they had these photo-ops and promoting and looks great. there are far more grievous things. for instance, i find it more grievous they knew about it a year ago and allowed a restructuring of the loan that suddenly were not first in line, meaning the taxpayers to collect when the bankruptcy proceedings went forward or would go forward. we were suddenly not first in line. suddenly the rich private investors were. >> energy policy act of 2005 say all taxpayer loans have first shall we say, on the money that is left overin the bankruptcy. this restructuring allowed -- these two hedge funds to get their 75 million dollars back, ahead of the 535 million of taxpayers. >> greta: why? >> i think that is against the law. >> greta: why, who did that? >> department of energy lawyers through legal language indicated they felt

restructuring allowed them to do it because the initial 535 was the initial contract. restructuring an allowed them to it. it is a one sentence line in the act which says you cannot subordinate taxpayers. >> greta: what business is it of theirs to suddenly -- it is so extraordinary. they know the company is in trouble. there is no chance to try to protect uspdn the taxpayers. the first thing they do is throw us down the steps. >> exactly. the fact i have e-mails showing two years ago they thought they would have no money in september 11 -- in september 2011. >> greta: are you getting full cooperation from the white house? >> we had to subpoena to get from -- >> greta: that is not a good sign. >> we finallyahñi started gettig information.

now we sent a letter the white house and the administration including solyndra and trying to get information from them. at this point we are hoping they will cooperate. if they don't, then obviously we have to do a subpoena for that. >> greta: i'm hoping president obama will turn to the white house and say cooperate 100% and don't play around with this and fight subpoenas because the >> i think they do. >> greta: congressman, thank you. now to jobs. while the president is trying to sell his plan to americans, the nation got blasted with more bad news today. the labor department says jobless claims rose last week by 11,000. there's more. why is the situation looking bleaker? >> obviously, there's been a lot of fear and uncertainy. there's a lot going on. we are recovering from this near death experience this is not a rebound from your typical recession. this was life-threatening for

the financial system. tectonic plates where we are going from a society that makes stuff to a society that bits of intellectual property that requires some kind of change. we are going from 20, 30 years of binging on debt as a government and people with home equity loans into frugality. it is like a bone marrow transplant in some ways. the patient to try to cure. we need more spending for the economy to recover. we need less spending cuts to rein it in so we can get well and spend and start recovering. there's that vicious cycle. there's one other factor and i'm hearing it more. federal government, also state and local, especially federal government is also very much at fall. if you want to know why, i can give you reasons. >> greta: give me the reasons. fold in the fact we are willing to flush down 535

million dollars federally guaranteed loan that doesn't show we are vigilant in terms of how we handle our finances, but go ahead. >> another guy who raised 200 million, from private investors if it is a good product you don't need a government guaranteed loan. why is government also hurting the jobs situation? short term gimmes and gimmicks. cash for clunkers. tax increase -- tax decrease, cut will only last a year. you need permanent reform. obamacare uncertain i don't know how much it is going to cost me in 2013? raising tabs hurts the economy, obama admitted in january when he said keep the bush tax rates in place. this week he proposed a double tax increase on people who earn over 200k. worse this pernicious anti-business bent this approach that punishes the

successful while protecting lag guards and failures. -- we have a deluge of new regulation and crackdowns, investigations aimed at businesses that succeed like google and ibm and protect businesses that fail and file complaints. home building, wireless, tough competition, some knew near death experience experiences. the obama administration is investigating for anti-trust, all over the place. i had a guy in shanghai tell me, a chinese entrepreneur tell me a few years ago he said we the government came knocking on our door, used to be to tell us what we are doing wrong. now it is to ask how can we help you build your business? the obama administration is what the chinese government used to be. when they knock on your door they are there to tell you what you are doing wrong. >> greta: figure that the obama administration is doing

right that you can credit and say glad they are doing that? >> not yet. not one single thing. >> greta: can't you think of something? >> we will be able to ship goods to colombia for no tariff. [ unintelligible ] let companies bring their cash home, 1.6 trillion with no tax or 5% tax. that could help. they are looking at that. they are taking forever. >> greta: i gotta go. thank you. >> thanks. >> greta: he's an american hero. hours ago a 23-year-old marine dakota meyer awarded the highest honor for bravery. the medical recognizes his brave actions in afghanistan in 2009. a group of american trainers,

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. >> greta:ig corporate law firm in boston getting special treatment from congress? is the president going to sign off on that special treatment tomorrow? the politically connected firm was hired to represent a drug manufacturer. they are supposed to apply for a patent extension for one of the dug company's products but they missed the deadline that is called legal malpractice. the firm got sued and agreed to pay 214 million dollars for its malpractice. unless it won an appeal or if the firm could successfully use its political connections to get special treatment from your congress. tomorrow president obama signs off on the special treatment for this politically connected law firm. senator session says this is not right. i guess unless the american people really flood the white house switch board between now and tomorrow, in

your words, a well connected law firm is going to get a big bailout? >> i think that is correct. throughout the legal system everyday people file lawsuits. if they file them one day late, the average joe thrown out of court by some big law firm who knows the time limits on filing actions. when this firm and the big client they represent missed their deadline, i did not feel they needed a special act of congress to protect them from their error. >> greta: it is wilmerhale, big boston law firm on the hook for 214 million dollar malpractice claim unless congress passed a particular amendment. it passed in the house. and you tried to fight it in the senate but you didn't make. >> no. it didn't pass in the first vote in the house. they had a second vote and it failed by one vote. then it passed by a few votes. then it came here.

i had been blocking it for 10 years. this has been going on for 10 years. lobbyists all over town have been engaged in working for this special interest. and to me, greta, you're a lawyer. you know the legal system must be objective and fair. the oath the judges take is to do equal justice to the poor and the rich. i do believe that this was a circumstance that should have been decided in the courts as to whether or not they missed the statute of limitations. the united states congress should not have been involved and giving a special alteration of the statute of limitations for a special interest. >> greta: it is part of a big statute the new pent law the president will sign tomorrow. it was sort of slipped in, little hanky-panky of how the amendment got slipped in, in the house how does that happen? >> i don't know what happened in the house.

the first vote it failed by one vote. the bill -- >> greta: same day? >> same day. it was brought out of committee without this language in it. chairman smith did not support this language. they got a second vote through some mechanism. it passed by a few votes the second time. it came with that language in it. i moved to take the language out. had a lot of supporters, but it want enough. people said well if we don't pass it the bill would have to be revoted in the house of the but it would have passed the house again. there was no problem with that in my opinion. that became the basis for some people not to support the ledge -- the amendment. >> greta: a lot of americans are unhappy with these special deals. the firm would have been on the hook for 214 million dollars. but the other side of the issue is, had this not happened the -- if the congress weren't giving

protection to the law firm, giving the bailout in your terms, is that there would be 500 million to a billion dollars that the drug company would have lost which would have been savings to the consumer. >> consumer would probably have gotten less expensive drugs. and the commerce department president bush opposed the legislation. they wrote a letter us to explaining those kind of costs. i guess the basic principle of the statute of limitations. to me, as a lawyer, that's just basic. you miss the statute, you are out. an argument was made this is unfair. there's a special mechanism in the congress to deal with these special unfairnesses that if they exist, but you can't do that if the matter is still in litigation. this matter was still in litigation when congress passed the special act. >> greta: you have jones and nader who agree with you. no special bailout for a rich

connected law firm. do you think president obama is aware of the fact when he signs that tomorrow this law firm is off the hook for their mistake? >> i think it is an opportunity for him to think through this matter. maybe take a strong action. the patent bill will pass again. it has strong support. i support the ing patent bill and do support it -- it would be a strong thing. it would be a good opportunity for him to be counted on an important issue of principle. >> greta: the big winners are the drug company, the law firm, the lawyers and lobbyists who pushed for it. >> the insurance companies who insured the law firm. law firms have insurance for that records and omissions. all of those probable were the ones that would have shared the loss it wouldn't have fallen on any one of them totally, we don't know. whatever, you know to whom

much is given, much is required this is a great law firm, no doubt, i hear good things about them. that's not the question. the question is, should they -- >> greta: it is not fair. fundamentally, it is not fair. >> i agree. >> greta: lobbyists, any big names managed to maneuver this through? >> i think every lobbyist i know in the last 10 years has come by at one time or another. that is an exaggeration. but we did have a lot of people work this issue hard. and they made a lot of good arguments. when you come to the bottom line of it, the matter was in litigation. they had an opportunity to defend themselves if they were right. it is up to the -- i think it would be up to the courts first to decide the matter. then if they want a special bill relief act, let 'em bring it under the right procedures.

i was tacked on to a bill that most people want odd to see pass. the patent bill. a lot of support for the patent bill. by getting it on that bill it was the train that carried this amendment. >> greta: disgraceful? >> i think it was very wrong. >> greta: thank you senator. >> thank you. >> greta: coming up, a dirty little secret that could cost you a lot of money. senator mccain is here to explain. >> we have a video for you if you thought your parents or grand patients were confused by modern -- or grandparents were confused by modern technology, you have to stick around for this. >> i want to take a picture. >> take photos, oh dear. ♪

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>> greta: big troop withdrawal in iraq might cost you big money. here's how. when the government pulls troops out of a country it hires contractors to do some of their jobs. guess what? contractors are more expensive. right now there are 175,000 u.s. contractors in iraq and afghanistan. of those around 25,000 are security contractors. those are the ones who do the jobs that our troops would otherwise do. how many more will there be after the iraq draw down and how much will it cost you? we asked senator mccain.

recently, i spoke to one of my colleagues who works at the pentagon, jennifer griffin. i had her find out how many civilian contractors we have in iraq and afghanistan. the estimate she said, fluid, but up or down from 250,000 people. how can we afford that? what are they doing? >> a lot are people working on projects, you know things that are part of their rebuilding effort of iraq. there are some of them who are paid for security reasons. obviously, if we have a very large state department presence there, civilians, they need protection. apparently they are going to be provided by some of these civilian contractors. well, that's very, very expensive. it is very expensive. far more expensive than the use of u.s. troops. so, when we say we are withdrawing it down to 3,000 troops, then what is the point

here? you can't be -- it can't be just to save money. >> greta: it seems to me it is possible we could draw down 20,000 troops then put in 20,000 contractors. now we can go to the public and say we are down 20,000 troops meanwhile we have the contractors doing the work of our military to protect the embassies or whatever. >> i think they are saying these military contractors can do the security requirements while our military could do the counter encourage agency, intelligence, -- counter insurgency, intelligence and peacekeeping roles. if we are pulling out everybody but 3,000, obviously we would have to increase those that are there for security reasons. >> greta: isn't that something that our military did? how did we become -- come -- having these civilian contractors in these war zones? >> at the beginning it was

because we did not have sufficient numbers of troops to carry out the whole counter insurgency effort we were involved in. which then meant hiring, nine out of 10 are former military, to do basic security, which didn't require these special operations and other capabilities. now it has become larger and larger to the point where it has become a very expensive part of our effort in iraq and afghanistan. >> greta: as a citizen, i feel a little had, when i fan out we are drawing down our troops. we are really leaving 250,000 people that we are paying for that are e military because we don't have the men and -- to are ex-military because we don't have the men and women to do it so we are leaving a force there of some kind. >> the significant number of these are the actual contractors. they are out there helping the iraqis build things, restore

bridges, infrastructure. >> greta: but we are paying for it, right? >> yes, a lot of. >> greta: are they paying for any of it, iraq? >> i don't think they are if nip. we continue to believe once their oil revenues are restored they will pick up more and more of the expenses. >> greta: any indication that is happening? we seem to know more about our military than we do about our contractors. >> what is disturbing was the recent inspector general's report, with some 20 to 30 billion dollars in iraq and afghanistan, had been wasteed and misspent. in the case of afghanistan, in some cases, the money has gone to the taliban. that is not an acceptable use of the taxpayers' dollar. >> greta: that is outrageous, horrible >> it is outrageous. >> greta: anything you can do about it? or i -- i guess i can report

on it. 20, 30 billion dollars is -- we get used to these big numbers. >> i might correct myself, i think was all in afghanistan. the same thing happened in iraq. >> greta: twice as much. >> i don't know. i honestly don't know the number. but there has been a lot of waste over the years in both afghanistan and iraq in a noble effort to try to help them rebuild their country. clearly a failure of oversight and accountability. >> greta: let's say we pulled out all troops. let's say you are a civilian contractor and you have a five year deal with the u.s. government, do you leave at the end of the year and get paid your whole contractor stay and do your work and hope for the best? >> if you are a civilian contractor you have an obligation to your employees,

whether iraqi or american citizens and you have to do what is necessary to ensure their security that's a decision i think they would have to make. it think it is obvious that a minimal force of 3,000 americans, soldiers and military, is really not going to be able to do very much of anything. >> greta: who hires the contractors? secretary of defense? >> that's a military function. state department does a lot of it as well. >> greta: who oversees it? >> i think the armed services committee is primary responsibility and the appropriations committee as well. >> greta: hard for me to think is working well for the american people with the amount of waste and fraud and the fact that it used to be american military now we've got these people, i don't know they answer to there's no command structure the sreuflians and they are over there in our name.

i can only say we exercise oversight. it was an act of congress that appointed this committee, or commission to track down this money. and we have to continue to exercise our oversight responsibilities. it is harmful obviously, as you have expressed, it is harmful to american public opinion and support for our efforts there. >> greta: is there any effort to collect the money back from the contractors who have committed the fraud? i realize we can't get i back from the taliban. even prosecute for those, fraud is a crime. >> one of the biggest problems we have in afghanistan today, besides our problems with pakistan providing safe haven for the haqqani network and others is the corruption at the highest levels of government. it is an issue that general petraeus and now general allen will tell you they've worked on and worked on but it is still a very serious problem.

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>> greta: about 19 billion dollars of taxpayer money given out in error. how did this happen? find out in 60 seconds. but first to our new york

newsroom. >> reporter: the spray tan stuff, i'll be watching. here's the news. u.s. senate approving 6.9 billion dollars in disaster aid following a record year for natural disasters. fema and the army corp of engineers running short on funds to help victims of hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires. the house will take up a competing bill next week worth 3.7 billion dollars. >> intense fire aboard a norwegian cruise ship killing two and injuring nine. more than 200 passengers forced to flee the ship. three rescue workers hospitalized with minor injuries. no terrorism suspected. i'm arthel neville. now back to greta. >> greta: there is no nice way to this say. you are being ripped off. new labor report says you can blame your state government.

taxpayers in 50 states shelled out 180 billion dollars in jobless benefits since 2008. 10% of that cash, 19 billion was wasted. given out in error. how did this happen? joining us is economics reporter for the "wall street journal." how did this happen? >> there are a lot of different ways this happened. some of it is outright fraud. people applying when they are back to work. some of it is just error. if you have particularly complicated unemployment insurance program, it is easy to make a mistake on the form. that has some states up in arms with the obama administration calling this waste, fraud and abuse. >> greta: according to your reporting looking at the labor department statistics you have a situation, the stay of louisiana, 43% of -- the state of louisiana, 43% of their payments between 2008 and 2011, 43 was improper, that's a lot.

497 million dollars. >> yep,. six states the administration hoefpbed in on saying your error rates are high [ unintelligible ] they said this isn't acceptable you can't have a 43% error rate. though you pay for these benefits, we are going to come in and monitor you closely. >> greta: i blame the federal government. i realize it is state money. [ talking over each other ] >> they did a 19 billion dollar lousy job. >> the problem is states have broad latitude how they want to create. no two programs across the states are the same. >> greta: which is stupid. here's my other favorite part. the vice president and secretary of labor have come up with an idea we are going to shell out another 192 million dollars to crackdown on the wrongful payments on the states? >> yes. that is the plan.

the goal is, you spend money to save money. the problem is if you talk to the states, they are going to say you are not going to save in 19 billion dollars. not all of these payments are made to people who won't get benefits any way. maybe you can upgrade some computer systems but that is not going to give you the massive savings you might expect. >> greta: the state should do this properly, make things plain and simple. the government which is supposed to regulate to make sure the states are doing it instead of coming to the taxpayers and saying now we have to spend 192 million dollar extra because we haven't done our job and the states haven't done their job. >> i think they are saying we are not doing as great a job as we could have and we know we to fix this. they don't like it being called waste, fraud and abuse. >> greta: tough! i don't care their feelings are hurt with what it is

called. if the payments are improper, this is not about being nice to the states. this money belongs to the taxpayers -- whether it is infront right for -- inappropriate for whatever reason if it shouldn't go there. >> cracking down on people getting unemployment benefits, some of these people would get benefits any way. you could try to cut back, some of it is a paperwork error. >> greta: why should we pay for paperwork errors? if you want the money, do your job right i don't mean the recipients the states. >> the states do have an issue on their hands. i don't think it would be a surprise to find out the computer programs are not up to par. that's no surprise to anyone who has worked in state government. who had to deal with systems they have. >> greta: thank you.

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the president is looking for a dinner date. what about vice president biden? and just trying hard to get us excited. here is the latest. president obama's reelection campaign, they're having a contest where contribute year was win a chance to win dinner with the president. or if you come in second a mid afternoon hot pocket with joe biden. >> and that is your last call. thank you for being with us tonight. we'll see you tomorrow, go to gretawire.com. you can see the video and you can blog with us. o'reilly factor is next. good night from washington. whoo! o'reilly is next and here he is. >> bill: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight -- >> america is going to be guided by some set of values. christian values that this country was based upon. >> bill: governor perry entering the very controversial waters of church and state.