white house press secretary jay carney joins me from inside, a little warmer there.come. >> thank you, chuck, thanks for having me. yes, nice and warm in here. >> let's start with what senate republicans wanted to make sure we in the media all knew last night, basically after your briefing, which was that they support this, too, and now the question is how to pay for it. in "the wall street journal" this morning apparently two ideas out there that's different from what's in the united states senate which is the millionaire surtax, republicans are talking about selling broadband spectrum and increasing airport fees. is the white house open to that? >> you know the president put forward in the american jobs act a way to pay for this, the entire american jobs act, including his proposal to both extend and expand the payroll tax cut for 160 million americans. the senate democrats put forward an alternative way to pay for it and that bill will be voted on later this week, and the president supports that measure, the surtax as you said on millionaires and billionaires, ask

officials like jay carney saying they cooperateed enough and turned over 85,000 pages of documents. energy department documents they do not believe are relevant. sort of side issues. they want white house memos that republicans on the hill might show there is influence by george kaiser, obama fundraiser who was also an investor in solyndra. white house denied influence but yesterday an e-mail emergencyed from george kaiser to colleague at solyndra saying in part when ken and i were visiting with a group of administration folks in d.c. in charge of the stimulus process -- this was in 2010, by the way -- the white house, not the energy department, kaiser stress and solyndra came up >>> every one of them responded simultaneously about the thorough knowledge of the solyndra story suggesting it was one of the prime poster children. the reason it's significant is back in september when this first arose, jay carney insisted from the white house podium george kaiser never did lobbying on solyndra. now this suggests that maybe george kaiser from the solyndra investor was actually talking to

joining me now for an exculusiv interview, white house press secretary jay carney.for joining me tonight, jay. >> thanks for having me, lawrence. >> jay, as you see in the poll, the numbers look very good for the president when you match him up against a likely republican. as of tonight, i think we would all have to bet the most likely republican is mitt romney. will you be able to campaign against mitt romney the way the republicans have been basically finding fault with his former life as a liberal? >> well, lawrence, what i can tell you is with regards to mr. romney or any of the other potential republican nominees, the only thing we're really focused on when we look at that is the fact that their economic ideas are all very similar, not just to each other, but to the ideas that got us into the mess that this president has been trying to get us out of for these last few years. i mean, there's no question that we had a lot of work to and americans are justifiably frustrated with the fact the economy is not growing fast enough, jobs aren't being created in substant

for example, jay carney points out they have already turned over 85,000 pages of documents. real fight here is the fact that republicans like joe barton, who you just heard from a moment ago think they are mostly getting nonresponsive documents from the energy department. other agencies what they really want are some memos, emails from inside the white house. the west wing to try to show whether or not there was political influence involved in this. the white house continues to insist that would be a nuisance to turn over those documents and they also say there has been no evidence so far that there was any political muscle going on here, shep. >> shepard: ed henry live at the white house and previously in the cube. ed, thank you. a news corporation executive today denied misleading british lawmakers about the tabloid phone hacking scandal. news corporation is the parent company of this channel. earlier this year it closed down britain's news of the world tabloid after accusations that staffers there hacked the voice mails of people whom they were covering. today a parliamen

. >> facts uncovered this week may bunch a hole in jay carney's september claim in multiple visits to the white house, obama campaign fundraiser and solyndra investor george kaiser did not lobby for the company. >> he was involved in a lot of charitable efforts. and it's our understanding that while we haven't looked in to every meeting and that he might have had here, that that was the focus of his conversations. generally speaking at the white house. >> house republicans reveal that e-mail kaiser wrote to a solyndra board member in march of 2010. 2010. >> today, carney noted that e-mail was written months after solyndra had already gotten the loan. although was also months before the company got the original deal restructured so that taxpayers were moved to the back of the line in case of default. >> what i can point you to is george kaiser himself with the committee reaffirmed in his words he never lobbied this administration. >> white house officials also note republicans did not play up other documents. such as the kaiser e-mail in october 2010 saying, "i doubt whether roush brow

hogan was placed at mystic valley by carney, sandal and associates. there's a testimonial on the recruiting firm's website where hogue an writes it's amazing with your help i was able to find a school i never thought existed. now the mystic valley community is left dealing with another side of hogan it never thought existed. as a parent does it bother you to think that this guy is doing this? >> very much so, especially since he's teaching our children every day. it does bother me a lot. reporter: the school has sent an e-mail to parents and staff reiterating much of what the school told us but also stressing the school's insistence that any applicant for a position be candid and forthright about disclosing past employment positions. we asked the state department of elementary and secondary education which granted kevin hogan an educator's license what it thought about all this. after all, hogan didn't do anything illegal. a spokesman says the department will certainly look into the situation and added we expect teachers to hold a very high moral stan

we've heard the white house -- we've heard jay carney say that top officials in the administration stando provide assistance in the form of expertise. now, at the same time, there's sort of this sensitivity as you can imagine to certainly tread publicly on an ally like germany, like france. we know that president obama is speaking constantly to hear carney say it to the chancellor, to president sarkozy, and what we're seeing really from the white house now is a focus instead on -- you'll hear this, let's focus on what we can control, and that would be our economy here, that no matter what happens in europe we need to make sure we can do everything we can to shore up our economy. the focus there is on the president's jobs plan which he is continuing to push and will continue to push this week as he goes to pennsylvania with his message on wednesday. >> brianna keilar, good to see you. thank you very much. >>> question for you -- should a judge be able to decide on a case she worked on as a government lawyer? when the judge is a member of the highest court in the land and the case is the p

congressman carney? >> well, it's hard to say but we have been making progress.ve these pieces of legislation that have been introduced. we're getting sponsors from both sides of the aisle. and coincidentally, just in a meeting i was part of yesterday, the secretary of labor was talking about a work share program that the department is working on that mirrors very much our employee act where we encourage businesses to hire people who are on unemployment, put them to work, give them on-the-job training, and get them back to work frankly. this mirrors something the administration is doing. so it's an opportunity in our minds to reach across the aisle, reach to the administration, to get support for this program as well. >> now, let me quickly from both of you, and congressman, why don't you go first. let's talk about the super committee. things do not look if you read the quotes and watch body language things do not look positive. number one, do you expect a deal to be reached? number two, what does it say if one isn't? what does it say about congress? >> well, i c

they contradicted themselves we'll likely find more. >> i don't it rises to the level for jay carney making a mistake, probably given bad information. rises to bombshell. because george kizer in the e-mail that were released the shrekive release told the lobbyists to back off. pulled back because they pressure him too much. vy yet to see other than bungling, no question they bungled this. any proof to lead to us believe political influence on high pushing it through. because of a donor. >> bret: g.o.p. aide typing in through ed henry reporting this is a start, but the white house has more in the system. the committee wants to see the documents. >> there is a reason administration is withholding. if you look at the documents. you discover that solyndra was protesting how much of a going concern it was. and supported by the energy department in the protest emphasizing how much sales were increasing doubling every year. except it was losing $3 on every panel costing them $6 to make. that is the kind of accounting that made the soviet economy a remarkable success. energy went along with

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jay carney's basic answer is the president is entitled to interact and speak with any state he wants.believes the taxpayers should pick up the tab and he will continue to do that. megyn: a fox news alert with new details on a story that broke an hour ago. a california judge not holding back. michael jackson's former doctor receiving the maximum punishment the law permits. he was convicted of supplying the king of pop with a lethal dose of propofol. >> the request for probation is denied. the court imposes the high term of four years imprisonment in this case. megyn: that's the least of what the judge said today. adam housley outside the los angeles superior court. that judge let us know how he felt today. >> reporter: the defense team said they felt the judge was openly hostile towards dr. murray. that comes as catherine jackson said she felt the judge was extremely fair and she said she wished the sentence could be more than just the four years mandated by law -- not mandated by law, the most he can give by law. the judge went through a detailed account of why he felt he should give

bottom line is here's what jay carney said in september. take a listen. >> he did not lobby administration officials with regard to this, with solyndra. he was involved this a lot of charitable efforts, and it's our understanding that while we haven't looked into every meeting that he might have had here, that that was the focus of his conversations generally speaking at the white house. >> reporter: so the conversations were not about solyndra, and yet an e-mail yesterday came out from george kaiser himself to a colleague, a solyndra board member -- you, remember, george kaiser was a big investor in solyndra -- and he said among other things: >> reporter: that is from george kaiser himself, that suggests if not lobbying, he was at least in the west wing of the white house discussing solyndra. that may contradict what has been previously said by the white house. there was another e-mail that came out yesterday involving solyndra officials, one of them saying in february of 2010, quote: >> reporter: that might get a little bit of a mention h

. >> jay carney noted the supercommittee is a congressional panel and downplayed suggestions that china may eclipse the u.s. putting the burden of the debt crisis on europe's shoulders. >> that is a sideshow to the focus. the focus is a european problem with a european solution. for which they have the capacity necessary. >> president has problems at home. today invokeed god as he mocked house republicans for spending time this week on a bill to reaffirm in god we trust as the national motto. >> i trust in god. but god wants to see us help ourselves. putting people back to work. >> they fired back it was a procedural matt they're took a few minutes to work on it. they are waiting for senate democrats to act on them. >> thank you. house speaker john boehner slammed president obama over what we told you about a minute ago, his statements that the country is better off than it would have been if he had not taken the steps he has so far. here is the speaker's reaction. >> are you kidding me? why don't you go ask the 14 million americans out of work, whether they're better off today than fou

i wish that he hadn't had jay carney do all of the talking for him. hear that the fbi was probably in the mix coordinating some of these evictions that happened but at the end of the day it is about real change. it is about getting to the frustrations and he is making that happen better than -- >> mike: here is what he said. let's take a look. >> the most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles, that we are on their side and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you are supposed to do is rewarded. >> mike: steven crowder you been to four cities looking at some of the occupy protests. did you see hard work, responsibility and doing what you are supposed to do? >> none of the above. and i give barack obama an a on this one actually for abject failure! i think it is important to note he will do what he always does. >> mike: jehmu almost picked you. >> she did, underneath the table. he likes to throw people under the bus. this is not th

carney saying today you know our position about gses and the need to deal with them. but they don't have a specific response for that, to that request. the refusal to speak out against another potential u.s. bail-out came the same day mr. obama met in the oval office with the president of portugal. which got international bail-out and is now dealing with the massive public transit strike. protests of the nation drastic austerity measures. >> with the president today pressing the super committee to get serious about deficit reduction in this country, house republicans raising objections to the fact that the $4 billion saved on swag and other perks is not really going to deficit reduction. instead, the federal agencies can take the money, spend it on other programs. bret? >> bret: ed henry live on north lawn. thank you. international news activists in syria say the security forces killed eight protesters across the country today. this amateur video purports to show civilians coming under fire. there is also a report that syrian troops pounding villages and chasing army

that coming from the white house press secretary jay carney today. he said the president's thoughts and prayers were with the victims of abuse, and their families. but he would not comment on the decision to fire longtime coach joe paterno. a federal investigation was launched to determine if the university failed to report the incident, as required by law. >> universities have an obligation if there is criminal conduct, or criminal investigation there. we need to know about those things. we're going to look at whether that happened or did not. obviously, what happened at penn state is an enormous tragedy. we will do a thoughtful and thorough investigation. >> if penn state did violate their role, the school could face a maximum fine of $27,500 per violation. >> but there be more investigations into the school? >> they could dig deeper into this, but we are also during from the president of the n.c.a.a., saying they're watching the developments for now, but deferring to the investigation to see what comes out of it. however, if based on those tasks t

he made a nice little statement through jay carney to try to say it was their safety and the public that he was concerned about. bs. the bottom line is this defend is device i have, this president is using class and race warfare and in his tactics, his politics and his ideology and it's insulting to people who are in the lower economic areas, lower economic part of america, if you will, that are being used by him instead of being uplifted. >> the question, bill cunningham, i have for you is to what extent is this a factor in this coming election? a year away -- >> sean. >> yeah. >> sean, could you imagine if barack insane obama had gone through the same scrutiny that herman cain and others have gone through the last several days? and can you imagine if they went to column paw, if they went to harvard, can you imagine the scrutiny of obama's connection to bill ayers, who is a domestic terrorist? how come herman cain plays by a different set of rule than obama? can you tell me. >> obama only got one question in the campaign last cycle about bill ayers. now interestingly, bill ayers did tal

jay carney is right. we have locked in an embration with a regime we can't trust.g because it has nukes that we can ignore it. the one card that is missing here is india. after all, who is the most threat by loose nukes in pakistan? or by pakistan that becomes a fundamentalist islamists regime? yes, us. yes, parts of the west. but india above all. india, you know has the intelligence services acted in pakistan. and what i don't know but i hope is we have arrangements with the indians that if worse came to worst in the end, the indians surely had contingencies to seize the nuclear weapons in pakistan. if they end up in the wrong hands. as i'm sure we do as well. in essence, there is an america-india alliance here that is unspoke and has to be exploited. we are eventually going to leave afghanistan. one can hope that india will fill the vacuum. >> chris: some experts in washington say today that part of the problem and part of the region for the tension is the u.s. has ra two-pronged strategy. on one hand we want to fight and beat the taliban. on the other hand we wa

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white house press secretary carney said on the record back in september that a man named george kaiser not lobby administration officials with regard to solyndra, and he is a billionaire and one of president obama's most prominent supporters head of the george kaiser family foundation. and, also, a major investor in solyndra, and kaiser has visited the white house 17 times, and the e-mails shed some light on the substance of the visits that carney described "a couple of weeks ago kaiser wrote to the board member mitchell in early march of 2010 when ken and i visited with administration folks in washington, dc would were in charge of the stimulus process, white house not doe kaiser stresses, and solyndra came up, and each of them responded simultaneously about their thorough knowledge of the solyndra story suggesting it was one of their prime children." and early that same day mitchell told to ken, that kaiser foundation executive it appears things are headed in the right direction and energy secretary is apparently staying involved in solyndra's application that continues to talk up th