it's amazing to me that you pick out the d.o.e. n the defense spends $5 billion on the ospry and it doesn't work. it doesn't work. it doesn't work. it doesn't fly. it flies up and then it goes. >> eric: i'm telling -- >> bob: the biggest waste of the money is the defense department. we never talk about it. >> greg: i love that bob is admonishing you for calling him a clown. that might be the best thing i've ever seen. >> dana: and the suggest. >> kimberly: that, too. very subtle. >> bob: one shot after another folks, after another. >> greg: i love you. >> bob: sometimes i can't make it out of here. i'm just saying that i think you -- by the way, the d.o.e. investigations, there are thousands and thousands of grants out there. they are investigating 300 of them. >> eric: let's talk about what this is. this is a congressional hearing -- >> bob: tell us what this is. >> eric: stay on the subject, shall we? this is congress and how they spend the money. $60 million of travel within the department itself with the contractors. several hun

gave accountants at treasury les than 24 hours to go over solyndra's books, rushing it along so the d.o.ecould issue a press release. the treasury says it found flaws in solyndra's finances but says it can find no evidence the department of energy paid any attention. the treasury wasn't really involved in the solyndra loan. it just cut the check. it's not clear if they had any legal obligation to examine the loan in the first place. >>> markets are quiet this morning, even after good news. first time jobless claims fell to a new four-year low. as you mentioned, we get the big jobs number, the jobs gained in the past month tomorrow. the stock market won't get a chance to react, though. the markets are closed for the good friday holiday. jon? >> thank you very much. >>> president obama paying special tribute to a classic film about fighting prejudice and racism in a small southern town. the president introducing a special screening of "to kill a mocking billions bird "this evening to celebrate the 50th anniversary of this brilliant movie. the audience will include children from several d.c.

when you are taking questions for the d.o.e., i don't think you focus on what can be done as to whether or not the commitments are being kept. that's my two cents worth. over to iran, as you try to work through this rooub rubik's cube and try to get things ratcheted down, it's best to start with what's the other side thinking? you read this stuff and you -- it's hard to comprehend why you push the youthful and why they continue to pursue something that everyone in the world doesn't want them to do is it homegrown politics or what is motivating them to continue to do this? >> senator, briefly on the question about nuclear monitorization, i will certainly provide you with information that i hope makes it as clear as possible that we took our obligation seriously and there may be debate about how fast we are going and where we are doing it. that i don't have any expertise on it. i acted in good faith. >> i believe you did, but the comfort level needs to be raised. >> i will do what i can. i will have the answers delivered with macaroni and cheese and other comfort food that helps make that

however, chicken and egg, we don't have the infrastructure to support it, so how is d.o.e. involved in helping us get to the level where that readily available resource can be put to good use? >> excellent question. first, i agree completely with fred smith about his assessment of liquefied natural gas in heavy trucking. a couple hundred filling stations on major interstates, and that's a significant part of our transportation energy use. it's 20%. you can offset a lot of that. we looked at the numbers. it looks very promising. payback periods, something on the order of three, four years for an investment in a more expensive truck. the filling station the private sector is getting behind and investing hundreds of millions of dollars. so the heavy trucking, very few filling stations, we think it's a great way to diversify our energy supply. when you go to delivery vans and personal vehicles, different, because you can't have selected every 200 miles on an interstate. you need a lot more. we think compressed natural gas is the solution. however, we need better storage. you eit

the watch list. but also suggested that d.o.e. needs to commit sufficient people and resources to resolve its contract management problems. you still have obviously nnsa as well as environmental cleanup about 60% of your budget on the list. further, very recently the national academy of sciences issued a report that talked about serious management issues or hampering the work at nnsa weapons laboratory noting persistent levels of mistrust calling the relationship dysfunctional. what additional actions are you taking relative to the national academy's report in that just persistent year in and year out appearances of these agencies on that watch list? >> with regard to the watch list, as you noted, the office of science is now off the watch list. if you look at their recent record, it's 100% on time and on budget. and that's an existence movement from the department of energy that one can develop very complex multibillion dollar budgets and carry them through on projects. and so when i knew that when i walked in the door. concerted