. >> congressman tim murphy was at the congressional hearing and we'll talk with him in a moment.'s congressman murphy today in an exchange with the executive director of the energy department's loan program's office, johnathan silver. >> we talked -- this staff talked with the company on a regular basis. >> i really want you to stop throwing everybody else under the bus. i hear you throwing all your stuff under the bus. i want to know. you're in charge. you've handled loans of this size and now you're saying it's everybody's else's fault except you and you're in charge. tell me what you did, you're the one in charge, with half a billion of taxpayer's money now saying it's all my staff's fault. i didn't know. i can't do anything about it. >> joining me live from washington, republican congressman tim murphy. thanks for being with us. the loans to solyndra represent over 1% of the loan guarantees under that energy department program. it's the only one that's gone bad. the white house says, look, sometimes businesses fail. in your opinion, what makes this bankruptcy different? >> it

. >> congressman tim murphy was at the congressional hearing and we'll talk with him in a moment.s congressman murphy today in an exchange with the executive director of the energy department's loan program's office, johnathan silver. >> we talked -- this staff talked with the company on a regular basis. >> i really want you to stop throwing everybody else under the bus. i hear you throwing all your stuff under the bus. i want to know. you're in charge. you've handled loans of this size and now you're saying it's everybody's else's fault except you and you're in charge. tell me what you did, you're the one in charge, with half a billion of taxpayer's money now saying it's all my staff's fault. i didn't know. i can't do anything about it. >> joining me live from washington, republican congressman tim murphy. thanks for being with us. the loans to solyndra represent over 1% of the loan guarantees under that energy department program. it's the only one that's gone bad. the white house says, look, sometimes businesses fail. in your opinion, what makes this bankruptcy different? >> it

we're going to speak to one of those fired up lawmakers coming up, republican congressman tim murphy had a huge, heated exchange on all this yesterday on the hill. he's going to join us and tell us what he thinks. >> i hear you're throwing all your staff under the bus. i want to know, you're in charge, you handled loans of this size, now you're saying it's everybody else's fault but you. you tell me what you as a person in charge did, with half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money, now saying it's all my staff's fault, i didn't know, i can't do anything about it. you tell me what you're going to tell the taxpayers. martha: it's a race against time in nor waeurbgs they're trying to stop a fire-damaged cruise ship from tilting over. take a look at this brand new video that's just in showing rescued passengers finally reaching the port in that investigation thael helped them to get to land after they escaped the intense flames that killed at least two people and injured nine others. the ship was traveling on the -- off the coast of norway when its engine reportedly caught fire, it mana

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i can't do anything about it. >> joining me live, republican congressman, tim murphy.hanks for being with us. they represent over 1% of the loan guarantees under that energy department program. it's the only one that's gone bad. the white house says, look, sometimes businesses fail. in your opinion what makes this bankruptcy different? >> it makes it different because in january of 2009, the credit group already voted unanimously to say -- this is not good. it was a couple weeks later that suddenly that decision was reversed. and, also, in september of that year, you saw the e-mail that says, this whole company will be out of money in 2011. mr. silver came on board in november. he said it wasn't my fault. everybody came before me. he also said shortly after that exchange we had, that they didn't get one check. the checks kept coming. even though comment after comment was showing this company wasn't doing well, they didn't have the money. they went to restructure loans and this is when a real bomb went off here, too. the law clearly says, we pass, that they cannot chang

bill: tim murphy, thank you for your time.live in nevada you understand why they are so desperate for jobs. the billboard behind us we can show you. the economy in nevada is worse than anywhere else in the country. the color scheme here. the darker the red, the more trouble you are. nevada leads the country in unemployment at the moment. they lost going back three years 82,000 jobs. the unemployment rate in nevada is at 13.4%. that's more than 4 points higher than the national average. they are desperate for jobs out there but the question remains is whether this is money well spent and that's something a congressional committee is trying to get to the bottom of. martha, 19 minutes past the hour. martha: this comes from the ridiculous rule departments. two little words causing a huge controversy. we are saying bless you after someone sneezes could actually get you in trouble. we'll tell you what that's all about. this is getting interesting. the murder trial that has dripped the world. amanda knox, we are learning that we'll h

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