this is the guy who is behind solyndra. >> i'm not defending solyndra.here are sleaze bags in everyn industry and they may be one of them. but let's don't give up thisvery idea of doing things to society that will make the world a better place. >> look at this list of companies that taxpayers paid for that have gone bankrupt. bound solar, a 123 systems, subsidiary, enter 1 range,ncl fuels, beacon and so one after the other that went broke. >> you look at all these, too. they have ties all back to a democratic administration. >> not all -- >> most of them do. in the most open, honest administration in history. >> it sounds terrible whend you read this list of thesele w companies that stumbled. in fact, i think if you look atm it in a broader context, failure rate of companies like this far less than in the private marketplace. not every investment succeeds, whether it be a government investment or private investment. but that doesn't mean we stop investing in our future. >> why should we have the government insuring that some of them succeed? s putting th

and this is the guy who is behind solyndra. >> i'm not blaming solyndra.leaze bags in every industry. this includes our sincerity aries and beacon powder and so much, one after the other. >> if you look at these. they are the most open and honest administration in history. >> it's terrible when you read this listof these companies. i think if you look at it in a broader context, the failure rate is far less than in the private marketplace. >> why should we have the government ensuring myth. >> many are trying to gain traction as well. >> we want all of those things as well. we are losing the debate because with every debate government grows. john: coming uu, privileges for moviemakers. movie makers. governmentompete to offer special breaks to hollywood to make this movie land less american to get their as a business owner, i'm constantly putting out fires. so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cascard from capital one, i get 2% cash back on ery purchase, every day. i break my back around here. finally soone's cogniz

this was the guy behind solyndra. >> i am not defending solyndra.here are sleez bags in every industry. let's not give up the idea of doing things a society. look at the companies taxpayers pay for that have gone bankrupt. the a 23 systems the range, fuel, beacon power and one after the other that went broke. >> they have ties back to the democratic administration. >> the white house in the most open honest administration. >> sounds terrible when you read this list of these companies that stumble. in fact if you look at it in a broader content the failure rate is far les than the marketplace. >> the government is assuring putting their thumb on the scale and saying these little guys over here are somehow better than gain attraction in silicone valley. >> in the end we make judgments. you can't just throw up your hands and say i am not just going to do anything. i want military prisons and maybe welfare. >> we want all of these things, too, better and cheaper. >> if we did all of those. that would be one 35th of the budget. i am okay with that. >> dr

and this is the guy who is behind solyndra. >> i'mnot blaming solyndra.leaze bags in every industry. this includes our incerity aries and bean powder and so much, one after the other. >> if you look atthese. they are the most open and honest administration in history. >> it's terrible when you read this list of these companies. i think if you look at it in a broader context, the failure rate is far less than i in the private marketplace. >> why should we have the government ensuring myth. >> many are trying to gain traction as wel. >> we want all of those things as wel we are losing the debate because with every debate governme grows. john: comiing uu, privileges for moviemakers. movie makers. government compete to offer special breaks to llywood to make this movie land less we asked people a question, how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might las i was trng to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'gog have to rethink this thing. it's h

and this is the guy who is behind solyndra. >> i'm not blaming soldra.aze bags in every industry. this includes our sincerity aries and beacon powder and so much, one after the other. >> if you look at these. they are the most open and honest administration in history. >> it's terrible when you read this list of these companies. i think u look at it in a broader context, the failure rate is far less than in the private markplace. >> why s government ensuring myth. >> many are trying to ain traction as well. >> we want all of those things as well. we are losing the debate because with every debate government grows. hn: coming uu, privileges for moviemakers. movie makers. government compete to offer special breaks to hollywood to make this movie land less ♪ what is this place? where are we? this is where we bring together the fastest internet and the best in entertainment. we call it the x1 entertainment operating system. it looks like the future! we must have encountered a temporal vortex. further analytics are necessary. beam us up. ♪ that's my phone. he

anthis is the y who is behind solyndra. >> i'm not blaming solyndra.leaze bags in every industry. this includes our sincerity aries and beacon powder a so much, one after the other. if you look at these. they are the mostpen and honest administration in history. >> it's terrible when you read thislist of these companies. i think if you look at it in a broader context, the failure rate is fr less than in the private marketplace. >> why should we have the government ensuring myth. >> many are trying to gan traction as well. >> we want all of those things as well. we ae losing the debate because with every debate government grows. john: coming uu, privleges for moviemakers. movie makers. government compete to offer special breaks to hollywood to mak this movie land less american to get their friday night, buddy. you are gonna need a wingman. and with my cash back, you are money. forget him. my airline miles will take your game worldwide. what i'm really looking for is -- i got two words for you -- re-wards. ♪ there's got to be better cards than this. [ ma

we saw solyndra and fisker. these are serious problems. we need new ideas. and federal subsidies simply prop up otherwise failing businesses. they don't make it a successful business. it crowds out real innovation. >> and where is the executive order for keystone? >> right. >> the terrible irony here is that we're slamming small businesses, two-thirds of their profits go to taxes. and that money is going away from small businesses paying to the government to these green energy companies. it's like putting green lipstick on a pig when it's going to companies like solyndra or fisker or companies the chinese then buy. >> yeah. we're now subsidizing chinese companies. you're as appalled by that as we are, aren't you? >> yeah. but we're not really subsidizing them. we're just picking bad businesses in some cases -- >> and giving them money. >> and the chinese are taking advantage. but, again, you can't weight this all in one direction. we've also invested in some very successful ones like tesla and more importantly -- >> i think rick just hit upon something. peop

administration's 2010 energy loan program which saw the high profile default or solar panel maker solyndra. >> this is what happens when the government takes winners and losers with taxpayer money. >> reporter: at a house oversight committee hearing this month, democrats cried foul. >> as much as the majority would like to manufacture a scandal there simply isn't one. there is no smoking gun. this is no solyndra. >> reporter: then they walked out in protest, while republicans grilled the freelancers unions executive director about her group's dealings with the obama administration and about $340 million in loans used to launch health republic co-ops in oregon, new york and new jersey. >> we did everything we said we would do to help those co-ops launch successfully and to move them quickly to self-sufficiency. and it worked. the co-ops were sponsored -- i'm sorry. the co-ops we sponsored launched on time as independent entities. >> reporter: james martin chalks it up to politics. >> i know the number of attempts to derail the affordable care act. >> reporter: he's confident health republic

the solyndra loan guarantee program had $1.5 billion to companies that went bankrupt. we could have paid for hardening for that program. >> and when you say solyndra, the government was investing in this so-called energy program that at the end of the day everyone knew was going belly up and wasn't going to work. so why can't -- i mean, this is not a partisan issue. there are bills being proposed. >> it's not. >> there's the shield bill and then sipa. why is it taking so long for congress. i mean, everyone wants to be a hero here. why not do it? >> look, in the last congress, we passed the grid act out of the house which addressed this exactly. it authorized the regulations. they could regulate against cyber, kinetic, emp, and it stalled in the senate. it's interesting that the four senators are now writing about it but they had the opportunity to solve this problem. again, we don't have to go and pass this on to ratepayers. people already pay enough in taxes. they are already funding the department of energy. $30 billion budget, less than 10% one-time costs because th

solyndra. who will that company be? we'll have to wait and see. >> we do. gerri: thanks for coming on. good to see you. >> thanks, gerri. gerri: stay warm. more to come this hour including wells fargo, moving back to guess what, subprime mortgages. bottoms-up. more states losing restrictions on the sale of booze. what is means for the your state's bottom line and well, yours next. [ female announcer ] it's time for the annual shareholders meeting. ♪ there'll be the usual presentations on research. and development. some new members of the team will be introduced. the chairman emeritus will distribute hiusual wisdom. and you? well, you're the chief life officer. you just need the right professional to help you take charge. ♪ to help you take charge. (voseeker of the sublime.ro. you can sepate runway diculousness.. from fashionhat flies off the shelves. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. and ly national isanked highest in car rental customer satisfaction by j.d. power. (natalie) ooooh, i like you

i'll tell you something, we already have the energy crisis throwing pork around, things like solyndra which is putting green lipstick on a pig and we have those bills with pork in them. the only way we can get bipartisanship. >> steve, we were going in the righdirection. we had the sequester which all of the politicians said were terrible. we had the partial government shutdown but government spending went down and, gues what, the economy did better in the second half of 2013, exactly what all of these so-called disasters were kicking in. that's when the economy did great. >> that's true, david. the government sucks resources from out of the economy. they take it from we the people. this farm bill is really pig sty and the american people are getting a stench from it. i don't mind using pork to get a flat tax through or cuts in other spending through or reform in social security but they've got nothing from this. this is just pure pork. >> pork is good when it's something that you like. >> aga, the fact is that the private sector does better, it seems, at least it did in 2013, when th

some of that money went to companies like solyndra. costing taxpayers 535 million.of about $3.5 million. and, of course, the plans certainly did not push the unemployment rate down to 5%. in this new 70 page report on the anniversary of the stimulus act, the white house uses economic bollard on. it created about $1.6 million a year. one supporter says the plan worked. >> without it we would have been dealing with 6 million fewer jobs in the economy which would have dramatically added to the unemployment rate. without it, we would have had family seeing their income fall even further than they actually did. peter: the president's former top economist said it was impossible to judge the impact of the stimulus plan on the economy because we do not know how the economy would have held up or not without the stimulus plan. sandra back to you. sandra: thank you for bringing that to us, peter. peter: there will be a test. [laughter] dennis: would you believe just one single gallon of the priciest inc. would cost you a whopping $9600? with that, you could bite 29 gallons of

and then the president picked out special items this he liked that the green program and solyndra, remember that? and now wasteful spending 3 million to study a turtle crossing in northern florida. 219 to study women students what happens when they drink to which. don't think we need to dispense that money. >> there were recent polls that fox put together. how do people feel about the economy. is the worst over. the worst is yet to come according to the poll. 58 percent polled said it is going to get worse. snrgs heather, people are holding on to their money. a lot of folks keeping their money on the sideline. people are nervous and anxious and wondering if there is another shoe to fall. >> how can the administration recover from this and the democrats. >> the democrats said we didn't spend enough. i don't so a way out of this box particularly given the performance on obama care. they will tout the improvement coming up months. nremember the last cbo report? people will be able to quit their full- time jobs and have a choice. >> that will carve 2 million jobs out of the question. that is ri

can construction are before the for the economy and country than loan guarantees to the like like solyndra>> what does it say to the brave and men and women who served the country. we have freezing pay and cutting thee in the commissionaries a billion taken out of that and prices will go up. >> to the military that bore so much stress in the past ten years it is it a wrecknition that the president doesn't believe in military power not as something to be used, but the importance of the deterient capability. is it fair to say he doesn't believe in american military power? >> is that fair? >> he doesn't pay the level of attention to america national security that presidents since franklin roosevelt. he is wary of american military power and our adversaris understand that. take the case of iran's nuclear weapon's program where president obama repeated in a bored fashion all options are on the table. no one believes. that iran is moving to nuclear weapons and see the reductions in the capabilities and china see the projections and they draw the appropriate conclusion, the president is weak in i

. >> the true engine of economic growth will always be companies like solyndra. >> never mind the company that went belly up and then coughed up 1100 jobs and a half billion taxpayer dollars. now talk of more dollars. hundreds of millions more dollars. >> this incident is just proof positive why the government should stay out of this kind of business totally and completely. >> wait a minute, wait a minute. there was a study on -- yes. >> funded by the system russ and. >> yes. >> that's like the funhouse mirror thing. forget about the billions of stimulus, prisoners, dead people, president obama said today that vice-president joe biden has done a wonderful job policing waste, he is taking his recovery act government-wide. >> this plan will create or save 3.5 million jobs -- >> these programs did create jobs, but not net creation. >> you're the chief economist there. where didout get your degree? at a baking school in where are you cooking up these numbers? -- [bleep] >> you've said going to give me 3.5 billion new jobs. if told you i would lose 20-pound, from now or the weight you're going

this thing as predicted hasn't left a trace in the sand except, you know, the ruins of the solyndra plantnel. that i student to see the vice president's newly discovered talent. so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches? 24/7. i'm sorry, i'm just really reluctant to try new things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? look! mommy's new vacuum! (cat screech) you feel that in your muscles? i do... drink water. it's a long story. well, not having branches let's us give you great rates and service. i'd like that. a new way to bank. a better way to save. ally bank. your money needs an ally. if ...hey breathing's hard... know the feeling? copd includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that helps open my obstructed airways for a full 24 hours. spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiri

. >> stop spending boondoggles on -- >> solyndra. >> it should have gone to the troops. >> $50 billion drawdown on defense spending in the next ten years. $50 billion increase in food stamps. >> by the way, we have 283 ships right now. in the '70s, what did we have? >> 595. >> we cut back. >> i think that was the '80s. >> i checked. >> okay, well, fine. okay, good. >> dana, you said a good point. we don't know who our enemy is. we never will. we never do, bob. >> who do you think -- >> what do you think they would have said on september 10th? who is our enemy? september 11th, it was clear who the enemy was. >> it was clear before september 11th. >> i keep saying we have to go and we start it up again. it's like saying we'll have one more beer. >> president obama says his volunteers are doing god's work by pushing his botched health care law. is he right? >>> and later, often considered by many to be dana's fantasy dream date, who is alex tribeck? >> correct. >> the favorite game show host, ahead with us in the studio on "the five." >>> welcome back, everybody, to the fastest seven, thr

. >> you have to love this line, except the ruins of the solyndra plan the. you talks a lot about getting bill clinton back to the center, and try angulation you're known for. i watch obama, and he always seems to cling to his cad callism, he doesn't seem to have that flexibility or practicality or pragmatism of bill clinton. is this going to be his legacy? stubborn radicalism? >> yes, i think it is. you either believe he's a total incompetent, who could not bring jobs back and could not get the economy moving or you believe his efforts are malicious. i believe that obama is attempting to transform america from an employment based society to an entitlement based society. he's trying to take people from working for a living, spending long hours, advancing to waiting to open the mail for the new entitlement check. >> the thing is, when 50 million americans didn't work, the son of stimulus didn't work, we have the lowest labor participation rate in -- since 1978 and 50 million americans on food stamps. >> i'm saying it worked. his goal in signing 15 million more

some of that money went to companies like solyndra which went bankrupt and cost taxpayers $5 35 million. and they found the plant fell short of the goal of 3.5 million jobs saved or created by the end of 2010. and the plan certainly did not for push the unemployment rate down to 5% by the end of the 2013 as this famous graphic from the white house predicted. critics and supporters faced off. >> it is the five-year anniversary of the president signing a stimulus bill supposed to get unemployment below 5%. here we are with millions of people that dropped out of the employment system. >> it wasn't a failure. >> it certainly didn't fix the problem but that's because the problem was really hijack. and the recovery act was designed to deal with the problem of a scope that turned out to be much greater. >> in a 70-page report released today, white house economists said their model estimate that the recovery act saved or created about 191.6 million jobs a year through 2012. >> peter, i have to go back to mitt romney's point, frankly. the promise was made five years ago. and the promise technica

. -- solyndra on steroids. all grown up and not moving out. kids at home. we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness if you qualify, and new car replacement, standard with our auto policies. so call liberty mutual at... today. and if you switch, you could save up to $423. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? freakout, the irs is warning people they may not be able to handle all of the phone calls and wants people to go online instead. this is the agency responsible for enforcing the health care law. to kate rogers. what's the latest? >> tax season is here, and the irs is reports the presidents' day holiday is typically one of the busiest time s during the holiday. so if you have a question, don't call them. they said because call volume is so high, tex payers may be better visiting the website itself. if you want to know where your tax refund is or you have questions, the irs commissioner said the website is, quote, the best place to get quick help. this may leave worker

but then to give it to the politicians who gave money to solyndra, the biggest shareholder with the bigis perfect. and you also dealt with nepotism in your special last week, your show last week. again, nepotism, you know, like athletes inherit skills from their parents, is a lot of athletes whose parents were professional athletes. there is nothing wrong with that. >> i agree. and nothing wrong with will smith putting his own son in his movies because nobody forces us to go to those movies. >> that's right. so i mean parents are going to try to give their children opportunities at every level, some can't, but if i can give my children opportunities, i'm going to do it and i don't think there is anything wrong with that that's just the luck of the draw. >> what's wrong is when government takes our money by force and gives it to the politically connected. that's evil. >> okay. but that's corruption i don't think that's built in to the fabric of this country. >> when they spend $3 trillion they are going to do that some of the money is going to their friends. all right. >> john stossel, e

it seems this administration would like to see a whole lot more solyndras and a lot fewer george mitchells. what an incredible opportunity we have right now. but we can't fall victim to what hyatt called the fatal conceit. we cannot believe that government invents, creates or produces. it doesn't. what it often does it stifles creativity, invention, production. the only thing that can stop this great energy renaissance is the government getting in the way. and i will note, particularly with this administration, it's been doing that more and more. right now, federal lands contain 43% of the nation's oil reserves and 28% of the nation's natural gas reserves. but significant portions of that land are not available for development. the number of new leases has fallen by 42%. from 9,661 to 5,568 between the bush and obama administrations. now, you may be confused because if you saw the president's state of the union address, he proudly took credit for expanding oil and gas production. what he didn't mention is that it's expanding on private lands. not on government lands, on private lands. the

money went to companies like solyndra which wasn't bankrupt and cost taxpayers $535 million. found the plan fell short of its goal of 3.5 million jobs saved or created by the end of 2010. the plan certainly did not push unemployment rate down to 5% by the end of 2013 as this famous graphic from the white house predicted back then. critics and supporters faced off >> the actions of this administration have taken have not been something that has yielded more jobs growth and greater income for the american worker. >> half of the money was spent on tax cuts, things republicans historically loved but apparently don't love it now. the rest was insufficient to deal with incredible shock to the system. >> in a 70-page report released earlier today white house economists said their models estimate that the recovery act saved or created about 1.6 million jobs a year through 2012. this will be a data clash going into the election. back to you. david: get too many of those. peter barnes, thank you very much. good to see you, peteer. >> one of the top tax stories of last year, twitter's i

critics note among other things it helped invest in companies like solyndra which went bankrupt and cost taxpayers over $500 million. they say that the stimulus act did not bring unemployment down to 5% by the end of 2013 as promised in this famous chart we all saw. remember that? >> i remember that. >> you got it. it was 6.7% at the end of the year and charles, one of the architects of the plan, white house economist christina roamer said that in late 2012 her biggest regret about the stimulus bill, it wasn't big enough. charles: well, you know what? peter, here is the thing, there was nothing new-dealish about it and nothing that stands out with that respect. it wasn't eisenhower, roads, projects which we were told or hinted it would be. there was no hoover dam. there is nothing you can really pinpoint as a success and af i' got to tell you the white house put out a report and put out a new metric. 6 million job years. so, that's a full-time job that lasts for one year. so, essentially they're saying they created a bunch of temporary jobs. >> we have a term in washington, it's called m

this law was an amendment to the entire infiltration law, and under the solyndra any of the 60,000 non-jewish african refugees who have fled the sudan, have fled from oppression , fled from extreme poverty seeking sanctuary in a jewish state which they believed embody the lessons of dollar cost any of them can be detained and held without charges will without trial for as long as three years. currently thanks to this law which passed there are thousands of non-jewish africans, entire families sleeping in the desert facility which was built basically decide the prison where palestinian political prisoners were held during the first intifada. you can read a fascinating account of the present in a book called prisoners by jeff eagleburger who was a guard there. they are sleeping, and the supreme court was issued a challenge by an israeli civil rights groups about this detention facility which has the reminiscence of this country where japanese citizens of the united states were held basically in an internment center for years because there were deemed to have any raise blood. according to this d

people say, we need rules to prevent like solyndra, george kaiser a billionaire who gave money to obamaule. no rule can stop this. once government is spending three plus trillion dollars, they're going to gather there and the connected will suck it up. >> when they spend, we pay. >> right. >> in and around washington, you say it's getting built up. we were in alexandria, that's where people are make the most money, that's where the private contractors are. what's most interesting, this president in particular keeps on harping on the fact that we got to level the playing field. the rich have had it too good for too long. but in reality, they have taken a lot of that money and have not leveled the playing field. they pick favorites. >> suddenly al gore has $200 million. when he was vice president, he was selling cows for $6,000. after he left office, is he so brilliant? no. it's connections. it's privilege. >> what about hollywood? how do they factor in? >> you have drew barrymore. you have the sheen family. at least we volunteer to give them money. with government, we're forced to give t