now solyndras, solarcity and sunrun are getting rich off arizonans.hey're using your hard-earned dollars to subsidize. we don't need this corporate style welfare in arizona. get information at azsolarfacts.com. >> solar companies. conservatives last year came up with a plan in arizona to demonize solar energy. specifically to fine people $50 to $100 every month for the crime of using solar power in arizona in the land of the sun. the original plan was you'd have to pay $50 to 100 bucks to use solar power in arizona. eventually the fine got winnowed down $5. it's basically a $5 fee that you have to pay if you want to use the sun as a source of energy in arizona. amazing. land of the -- the flag, arizona. now it's happening again in the only place in america that's more synonymous with sun than arizona is. >> have you tried child orange juice from florida? it comes in a handy carton like this. squeezed, chilled and ready to serve. you can buy it at your food store or have it delivered to your door. it's got everything, too. vitamin c, quick energy, wond

solyndra represents commercial interest. policies to be done by consensus. in john quincy adams is dead set against slavery and argues vociferously to the cabinet and he was overruled by only one pushing that. could is fascinating is his diaries i have not read all 70,000 by have read many thousand the most anguishing passages are the nights following the debates. the person who has the same vision of with john calhoun. in with slavery and has an amazing resources. so let me educate you how we see slavery in the south. so here is the answer to your question and he says i am secretary of state the he doesn't sarah will run for president so there is so much i can do. panera end is very clear someone needs to be rolled out against slavery. it is not public pronouncement and what does he see as the end? nothing could as a bloody civil war that will cover over this. in winning will come he is not sure. with united states expanding it comes up again it is very interesting. across the north american in the continent. aha into think about texas and means they will h

solyndra goes into finance even after he abandons medicine because i care about people but not really. [laughter] but to be so indifferent he takes refuge in numbers. that is a moral position that not a moralistic character. >> but i thought what was so moving i thought the story to be very moving. >> me to. >> let me interrupt you i'm trying to find true is. [laughter] -- truce. >> but it is true that i have no interest to write a book of less i feel something so i write about very dry things of baseball statistics high-frequency trading who cares? if you told me that if all i knew the stock market was raped him here is how you could explain to the world that nobody else knows i don't care that much. a little bit and not enough to write about it. that what i care about is this character walks into this world to discover it is fake and how he behaves once he has the understanding. it is the moral choices no question. the batting cages my emotions. so i have to feel something. also i was sitting there fit i realized this with my seven year-old on my lap watching "60 minutes" about the

solyndra those conditions i had no choice but to relieve him. >> host: but there was a history if you don't know general mcchrystal was a special operations commander who had tremendous success before afghanistan in a war hero and also was taken a very feared al qaeda commander who was essential to capture saddam hussein and his staff made unfortunates in candid remarks to a "rolling stone" reporter. when he was called out on the carpet after he made other unfortunate remarks remarks, not sensational but off the reservation are closely tracking with the president's preferred policy tradition he already had a couple of strikes against him. he said that general mcchrystal did not take any steps to defend himself. even though there was the argument that he could have used. why? >> guest: i think general mcchrystal was assuming some things and then there had a detailed conversation with him. but i think he knew he had made the decision to allow this non-traditional reporter for to be a part of his entourage in he was stunned by the article in the army inspector general report says he not

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solyndra the national security act of 1947 the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are one of the advisers to the nsc. the president's senior military by sirhan and both president bush is above the din to watching to a different chairman and virtus differ president's it never saw either be obsequious or the president tried to intimidate them or deal been there views to be sarcastic gore harsh to be insulting or intimidating in any way. despite the fact of the number of locations the to always make sure i consider critical for be to get the most blunt possible advice from my senior military officials. i will give you an example but when it came time for the to decide to extend a military tour in iraq and afghanistan from 1250 months. to decide if this is a very difficult decision and they knew would have big consequences for military families. by senior military adviser comes to me and says the troops know you have to make this decision did they teach you are an asshole for not making it. that is the calendar i tried to encourage among the senior military that they would disagree with the o

>> that's to solyndra. $54 billion. neil: wasn't it sold as infrastructure? >> it was all sold as infrastructure. we all bought into it. neil: not this guy. >> but everybody else fell for it. added $1,800,000,000,000. the president is setting us up. when he discusses tax cuts. okay we have to spend a lot more money on infrastructure. neil: you read my mind. i think this will be part of a deal that i'm all for reforming the tax code, tracy. but you've got to agree to a hike in the gas tax. i could see a number of republicans who would go along with it. >> money management has not been a trait we've seen possibly out of washington. anybody know where their social security is? there's a list. a million dollars spent on a fruit fly sexual attractiveness study. that's important news, isn't it? neil: fruit fly says, i'm so not interested. >> that's right. neil: oh, my god. >> this is what they do down there. they waste our money. he probably is coming to the table because he has nothing better to lose. neil: that is a good point. >> where's the money that was alloc

solyndra actually made it. believe it or not. you know what it is? it looks like an old cd player. >> that means i will no longer complain that my water is not hot enough. >> exactly. >> oh, my gosh. >> this isn't really a gift for me. it's a gift so i'll stop complaining to you. >> i like it. >> can you get a close-up of that, america. >> look at that, america. >> it's like a flying saucer for your mug. and you also get free silica gel. >> don't eat those. >> there are children at home who will go, oh, silica gel. >> brookstone makes great products. that not one of the ones i have. >> that's true. >> this is for you. merry christmas. >> okay, thanks. >> she gets two things. >> where's the second one? >> look at the little reindeer. >> i like the wrapping paper. this might be awesome. >> oh, who is this from? this is a little provocative. >> not from me, but i would have sent you something provocative. >> who at this table got me sexy time? who is it? who is it, baby? >> show us. >> who is it, baby? this is a gift i can put to very good use. >> that'

technology and let them bring that a person in, train them, get them up to speed -- >> they tried that, solyndraaughter] charles: what's really amazing is how much waste and fraud is rampant in all this government spend, especially those programs designed to help the most needy in society. in november an audit was dope of all -- was done of all these food assistance programs. take a look at this chart, i mean, this is really, really shocking. this is from the treasury inspector general, they go over some of the irs stuff, and all these programs are designed to help americans with lower wage, the earned income tax credit, for instance. $14.5 billion or 24% of it paid out erroneously. you know, maybe it was stolen, it was fraudulent. and then $7 billion may have been misallocated to the additional child tax program. that's 30% of that budget. 30%. now, the level of abuse in this stuff is just amazing, but google food stamp fraud. whenever you have a three-day weekend, just google that and see the headlines like the teacher in atlanta that stole $8 billion. the list is endless. here's my theory, by

solyndra is a default. the portfolio has had a numeral fall -- 2% default rate. i don't know of any other portfolios that have this kind of success rate. it's very easy to find the 1, 2 3 projects that have defaulted. it's a 2% default rate. assuming we find and have a great pipeline of interesting projects, we intend to deploy them. >> i do have one last question for you -- is there anything that we can get it done or they targeted opportunity if you're dealing with the chairman lisa murkowski on the senate energy committee next year as opposed to the chairwoman mary landrieu? >> first of all, when it comes to the climate action plan which is our main guide to what we are doing in the energy space supplemented by energy security concerns and obviously driving the economy through the new manufacturing programs etc. we are exercising all of those programs through existing executive authority. we will continue to do that. >> so you don't want to deal with the senator? >> we have a good relationship with the senator. i think it is very well known that we have worked

. >> do you have regrets for things put in for solyndra and other companies like that?think there's a role for government to step in, when we use fossil fuels, we are putting pollutants into the atmosphere to cause climate change. >> now you are referring to co2 as a pollutant? >> well, the supreme court said it was. >> okay. all right. we'll see. >> jason, thank you for coming in. >> all plants need to breathe and we breathe out, right? i don't know if i would call it something similar to sulfur dioxi dioxide. a particular pollution to destroy environments, right? >> we need it. beyond a certain environment, it can be harmful as well. >> okay. in the past where we have had 20 times the amount of co2, it looks like the warming proceeded the increase in c oso2. >>> we'll have pictures from the ground on the uber protests. >>> and we'll check in on fedex. then at 8:00 eastern, the crippling effects of the lower oil prices. why con summsumer gains will co a cost. >>> if you are just waking up, breaking news from sydney, us a trail y australia. this is a hostage situation a

that looks like thinking that was misplaced and ended up in solyndra and other elements. >> i don't know what the president will do. 50/50. >> how economics of oil prices have changed what keystone is all about. >> we're still going to use hydrocarbons. i don't know if it does change that. anything that's exporting on the continent, it's going to be good. you think it's -- >> i'm just saying, if you actually were to project out that you think oil was going to be whatever it is. if you think oil stays where it is, for example, for some serious duration of time, unclear -- >> we could pass the middle east instead of just tying the middle east. >> that's the danger. the middle east. i think this arab spring, the april spring is not over. i worry about disruptions in the region. i worry about the saudis. you know, they're our friends, but i worry about some of the stabili stability. >> nothing is unequivocally good, but this is obviously -- >> but the saudis are our allies. so the good news, the good press would be to say forget about opec and now we're becoming energy independent. for natio