and alan greenspan is on the hill and saying lee raymond's speech. and itsen solyndra, the solar company that grabbed headlines and failed. if big oil was behind that, given that their animosity towards kind of renewables and the subsidies renewables require. evidence of that? not making making the bad loan t fanned the flames of the criticism? >> guest: the american petroleum institute, a trade group in washington, made their spunup communications machine that seizes every opportunity and they're political allies did the same thing. but i think that the underlying question about alternatives and exxonmobil is, they're a corporation, they can pursue whatever business strategy they want. the question is, as a country, do we want to create subsidies and incentives for a shift to alternatives and a loan program that ended up with sew lynn contract providing it, why wouldn't we? if you look at it, we have been talking about how everybody in this country shares an interest in the lowest cost energy possible, consistent with a sustainable environment. that

they have direct lines, for instance, during a lee raymond days to dick cheney. call on washington when it helps them. the interest to get a geopolitical conflict. but one thing i found interesting. you talk in here about politicians getting it wrong. i think i found the page number. it is even more to add today. here it is. this quote from tillotson. the global free market for energy provides the most effective means of achieving u.s. energy security. the theory. does not really matter where you get oil from this one is to give more oil and put it in the bathtub and we have more supply. in the global market the nationality of the resources of little relevance. energy made in america is not as important as energy being simply made wherever is most economic. >> shrek. >> exxon mobil has carried that message for a long time. it goes back to raiment. tillotson. obviously communicating it to a lot of the republican allies. that point. lobbying is heavily skewed to the republicans and the party. yet that is not the message you are hearing from politician today. you're

the panel is led by former exxon mobil chairman and chief executive lee raymond.n wide-ranging authority over nearly nine months of investigations to cross check findings of management and regulators. remember that trade cost jpmorgan more than $7 billion. it also cost the jobs of several key executives. last june, cnbc's mary thompson asked ceo jamie dimon how his complacency as ceo should be penalized and here's what he said. >> my comp is completely set by the board of directors. 100% set. i assume they'll incorporate this in how they evaluate me. but i'm going to leave that to them. i think it would be inappropriate for me to tell you what the board will do. >> looking squarely at dimon's pay. it's fallen over the past five years. but he still remains the highest paid wall street executive, earning $23 million in 2011, with $1.5 million base salary, $4.5 million cash bonus and the rest in jpmorgan stock. at this time, guys, it's unclear how much the board, which meets today, will dock from his pay. even in the face of the loss -- the bank has managed to post r