host: up next, cliff stearns, looking into solyndra.irst, a news update. >> a new obama campaign memo is slamming rick perry's and mitt romney's tax proposals, saying the rich would benefit at the expense of the middle class if a republican wins the white house in 2012. the memo describes the plans as far right, and draws parallels to proposals by congressional republicans. texas governor rick perry will announce his economic plans today, and will propose giving americans a choice between their current income tax, or a 20% flat tax rate when he announces part of its plans for the economy later today in south carolina. he laid out his intentions in an op-ed piece in "the wall street journal." he is calling his plan to cut, balance, and grow. the only history professor running for president offered stern lessons. newt gingrich said "i literally felt like i was the recess monitor on the playground watching those two kids," referring to the back-and-forth between the former massachusetts governor and current texas governor last week. finall

. >> the president referring to florida republican congressman cliff stearns chair of the house energy committee who said the government should no longer subsidize green energy programs due to their lack of competitiveness. stearns initially supported it and now says the obama administration is putting taxpayer money at risk. republicans are asking for all white house communications regarding that solyndra loan. >>> now to the 2012 republican field in just a few hours massachusetts governor mitt romney heads to the citadel to lay out what aides are calling a sweeping foreign policy plan. the romney campaign released excerpts from the speech called an american century saying that will we must lead the free world and not be a nation of followers. in the address romney is expected to call for a halt in defense spending cuts, wants new funding for missile defense and review of the military presence in afghanistan. he may be the front-runner but herman cain's numbers continue to rise. the former godfather's pizza ceo made headlines for juan wall street protesters saying big banks aren't to

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zoned off and if you did get into it, you would be >> we're joined on the telephone by chairman cliff stearns, chairman of the commerce, trade and consumer protection panel of the united states house of representatives. i would welcome the chairman by notifying him we are here on the set and stuart pratt is with us. he is the president and c.e.o. of consumer data industry association. can you give me some idea, can you volumize how much data is in your association, by the way, stuart? we represent a lot of different models, c csumer credit associations --. >> how many --. >> they have probably 250 million credit reports and we're updating four billion data elements a month. >> that's a sizable amount, is it not, evan hendricks who is editor and publisher of "privacy times". by the way he has written this great book, a great read --. >> named book of the month. >> credit scores and credit reports, how the system work and what you can do. do you want to comment about anything he has said? >> information about social security very valuable. one of the tough things about sit that we don't own dat

host: congressman cliff stearns from the six district of florida. we will go to carol, on the republican line from michigan. caller: going back to nancy pelosi, do you think it is a coincidence that her brother- yes meet brother-in-law was on the board, and money was going back to california? guest: coincidences' a good word. i have seen it time and time again where people bet of supported the president are involved with these investments and also have the id vantage of talking to the white house and try to get them -- also have the advantage of trying to talk to the white house and get them to process these. we have an example of someone pushing the solyndra loan, and at the same time his wife was the legal counsel of solyndra. they ended up giving two $0.5 million to this law firm, and he was in the department of energy pushing cylinder. he then felt uncomfortable, and had an ethical review of the situation, and actually got a written opinion saying he should not be involved in solyndra, he should recuse himself. he said he did, the three days lat

republican cliff stearns says the white house is violating its own pledge of transparency by refusingrn over key document. >> what is the white house trying to hide? we intend to pursue this investigation and we fully expect the white house's cooperation which representative fred upton pushing for some time as is cliff stearns. john fund senior editor of "american spectator" magazine. john, welcome. >> thank you. martha: what is the difference here in what they're pursuing in terms of breaking the law? >> i think the green jobs initiative obama administration was fated to programmatic because the government ising picking winners and losers. governments don't do that very well. taxpayers usually come out the loser. this is different. solyndra was clearly failing in february of this year and the government restuck toured the loan to keep the company alive and restuck urd in such a way that future investors in the company will get their money back before the taxpayers get their money back if the company goes belly-up that is unprecedented. basically the government is saying we'll bail ou

we are watching on the 17th, sir, thank you for your time, cliff stearns out of washington. hemmer, fox news.dom, also e-mail, and twitter. this topic is hot t. will only gain more steam as we move into the next month. bya, because you asked. next hour, great questions about these tax reforms. we'll get to them in the next hour. martha: that's coming up. in the meantime, a slow landslide, claiming one house and it's now threatening others. now the homeowners say they think their city is to blame for what's happening to their homes and they are suing the city. we're going to talk to this homeowner, next. >> walk into this house, i haven't actually figured out the details but that's one of the choices. what we look at are the hard choices. we're just normal people for the most part here and it's really ugly. the choitses -- the choices the choitses -- the choices are all really ugly.g right, wh. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios... five whole grains, 110 calories. hey, it's sandra -- from accoun

you asked cliff stearns some very good questions about what was it that they billed for for almost $2.5ou, as a taxpayer, thank you. we are going to find out. we will keep you posted. >> all right. sun polar -- sun power, rather, another company that is in the news. are you going to be looking at sun power? there are reports they got a $1.2 billion loan and they seem to be -- may not have been the most prudent, because according to some calculations there are 15 permanent jobs created out of this loan, which means it's $80 million aion. >> i'll tell what you disturbs me, the fella that ran this program for the department of energy just quit, as you know, resigned last week. he was described by secretary chu as outstanding in every way, outstanding job in his performance and all of this and that. i hope as a taxpayer that we do not find any more problems with this program than what we have already discovered discovered wh solyndra, but we are not going to let the trail go dry. weil see where this takes us. we have a request in to not only the department of energy, but also to the white h

cliff stearns shares the energy oversight committee. fter that, john still gordteeln on the income tax system. ♪ ♪ host: usa today, no 1 million homeowners will get a shock to save on their mortgages. president obama made an announcement. announcement.

. >> this is to fred upton and cliff stearns who heads up the subcommittee.hey are essentially saying your most recent request for white house communication from the first day of the current administration to the present implicates long standing and significant institutional executive branch confidentiality and executive privilege no. >> remember from the bush administration there was a time when congress wanted vice president cheney's energy committee was meeting on energy policy and they wouldn't turn over that. this is not an unusual development. it just intensifies the clash. an ongoing political battle. this is not the last we'll hear of this. >> sometimes cooler heads prevail and they offer up some documents. this seems to suggest they're not going any further. >> they say we'll continue to work to ensure that there will be more documents and more communication so i would not be surprised if we do see more documents coming in the coming weeks just not internal white house documents. more documents could come from the agency. >> we need these documents t

host: congressman cliff stearns from the six district of florida. we will go to carol, on the republican line from michigan. caller: going back to nancy pelosi, do you think it is a coincidence that her brother- yes meet brother-in-law was on the board, and money was going back to california? guest: coincidences' a good word. i have seen it time and time again where people bet of supported the president are involved with these investments and also have the id vantage of talking to the white house and try to get them -- also have the advantage of trying to talk to the white house and get them to process these. we have an example of someone pushing the solyndra loan, and at the same time his wife was the legal counsel of solyndra. they ended up giving two $0.5 million to this law firm, and he was in the department of energy pushing cylinder. he then felt uncomfortable, and had an ethical review of the situation, and actually got a written opinion saying he should not be involved in solyndra, he should recuse himself. he said he did, the three days lat

congressman cliff stearns is a republican from florida. >> i understand that they're trying to meet to come up with a solution, but i'm a little bit pessimistic, because it's taking so long. >> reporter: while analyst norman ornstein, at the american enterprise institute, is more optimistic. >> we've got two potential deals here. one is they do what their mandate is, that's about $1.2 trillion in budget cuts. another is they go for the stars, a $4 trillion overall grand bargain. >> reporter: whatever the figure, ornstein says the two parties have to make some progress now, even if the final bargaining goes down to the wire. >> this is an endgame. endgame negotiations go right to the end, that's november 23. but you can't wait to do all the details, if you're going to do some kind of significant debt reduction plan. you've got to get a lot of it in place, and then cut your deal, if you can reach one, right at the 11th hour. >> reporter: in the meantime, the committee will continue behind the scenes negotiations. its next public hearing is scheduled for november first. >> brown: again, t

cliff stearns is the chairman. they will continue their look into the investigation of loans to the failed solar company, solyndra. he will have testimony from treasury department officials, gary burner is the chief financial officer for the treasury department branch that provided the loan guarantee. that recently released e-mails from february showing mr. burner had concerns about the energy department's restructuring plan for those loans. which allowed some private investors to be paid before taxpayers in the event of a default. the solyndra loan guarantee were part of a broader program to begin during the bush administration aimed at stimulating renewable energy industry. the hearing should get underway shortly. we will let you know, the house has a series of votes likely coming up at about 10:15 a.m. eastern so it's possible this committee will break at that time for votes. we will carry live coverage here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conv

the latest word that congressman cliff stearns wants the president's blackberry to be part of the communications because he wants to know if he personally made any assurances to anybody, yeah that loan is going to go through, you don't have to worry about that. that's what they're looking for, charlie. >> the whole situation where they had the press conference, wanted to roll it out, get this sealed up before president obama made, basically a sort of, you know, midterm campaign sort of thing, you know, appearance. i mean that is just, it is devastating and it does not speak well for sort of the cool, no drama manner that president obama promised us. martha: we'll see. if the blackberry has to get turned over. as we all remember they wanted the president not to have a blackberry for security reasons. now he manned up being sorry that he did. charlie hurt, from "the washington times.". >> thank you, martha. bill: fox news alert right now. a new jobs number out this morning showing 103,000 jobs added in the month of september. unemployment rate holding steady, 9.1% again. from the fox business netw

representative cliff stearns who heads the subcommittee released a statement saying, quote, documentsreveal a disturbing prev reince of wealthy donors and bundlers littered throughout the loan guarantee process with direct access to the president's west wing inner circle. and now allegations of political influence and impropriety involving other loan recipients are rampant. it is a topic we do not take lightly. the white house strongly disagreeing political influence played a role in how loans were handed out. officials are insisting there was a proper vetting of the companies including solyndra. president obama said it's important we invest in the green industries and he said some are going to succeed and some are going to fail. >> this issue's not going to go away. >>> member of the economic protest occupy wall street movement are refusing to heed a new york city mayor michael bloomberg's order to temporariiy vacate the park tomorrow. rick stengel is joining us. a new cover story, return of the silent majority. what's the political impact of this occupy wall street movement, rick, r

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host: cliff stearns of the oversight committee that your the ranking democrat on, has this to say.hese funds are honorable and that would allow the use of other funds for the use of abortion. -- these funds are fungible and would allow the use of other funds for the use of abortion. he is called into an -- i called for an investigation into planned parenthood. guest: for many years, after the hyde amendment was adopted, there was strict auditing and accounting guidelines of and no federal funding was spent for abortions. but mr. stern send some of the other people to the far right of their party think that is if you get money for cancer screening and for checkups and for birth control, that allows you to use other money for abortion somehow. that is a false premise. frankly, for millions and millions of americans, their only access to prevention and to health care is through a planned parenthood clinic. i am not talking about abortion. i'm talking about cancer screening. if you eliminate funding for planned parenthood for the important healthcare services that women need, they will