the irs says solyndra's plan can't be approved because the purpose is to let solyndra's owners avoid future taxes. the only reason for it to exist post confirmation is to enable owners to exploit the tax attributes. >> according to the irs pose breaks are worth more than ones set aside for creditors. if it goes through they may get little to nothing for the loan. the irs goes on to say the company's owner to preserve the operating losses as they privately prepare for the fact that solyndra will go broke. it affects the bankly plan slated for wednesday. >> as government taxpayers hope we get some of that one back. statly ann? >> time for fox news health fix. a roundup of the week's top medical stories. the deadly meningitis outbreak and how doctors are reacting now. anna kooiman has that now. >> the meningitis death toll is on the rise. 13 are now dead. it is claimed for the outbreak leaving doctors across the country to boycott the use of compounding arm sees. in the united states there are now 3,000 of them that's up virtually none in 2000. they are over seen by state boards and pha

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. >> don't forget you put 90 billion, 50 yearrs worth of breaks in solar and wind to solyndra, and fis car and i have a friend who said you don't just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers, this is not the kind of policy you want to have. >> bill clinton tried the approach i am talking about. we created 23 million new job went from ficit to surplus and businesses did very well. so, in some ways we have data on which approach is more likely to create jobs and opportunities for americans and i believe that the economy works best when middle class families are getting tax breaks so they have money in l pockets and those of us who did extraordinarily well because of the magnificent country we are living in. >> so what came out on top after last night's showdown? we'll ask obama delegate brian benjamin and fox news contractor angela mccowan. >> thank you. >> it was a long night. angela who won and why? >> of course romney did. people want substance and solution and not glorified speeches. obama is good at that and he didn't have the teleprompter and he had to defend what he did.

solyndra as we all know abound>> president obama touted a lot of those initiatives last night if you listen today. >> got through 30 minutes of it. >>> if only we had the money to buy one of those if is kariye -- fiskar cars. >> we are hours from the most heated debates in recent memory. it happened hours ago. who won? we have a fair and balanced debate that's coming up. >>> a sign of the times as an economic program that is meant to help those less fortunate hits an unhealthy level. 1979 mother teresa awarded the noble peace prize. well, if it isn't mr. margin. mr. margin? don't be modest, bob. you found a better way to pack a bowling ball. that was ups. and who called ups? you did, bob. i just asked a question. it takes a long time to pack a bowling ball. the last guy pitched more ball packers. but you... you consulted ups. you fod a better way. that's logistics. that's margin. find out what else ups knows. i'll do that. you're on a roll. that's funny. i wasn't being funny, bob. i know. >> welcome back to "fox & friends first". i am heather childers. >> i am heather nauert. round t

you put 90 billion dollars worth of breaks in solar and wind to solyndra, and fis car and tesla and i friend of mine said you don't just pick winners and losers, you pick the losers, this is not the kind of policy to get america energy sescure. second topic you said you get a deduction for taking a plant over sea. i have been in business 25 years and i have no idea what you are talking about. maybe i need a new accountant but the idea for getting a break for shipping jobs over seas is not the case. we do have to bringg money from over seas back to. >> gretchen: that line happened to her. i got to hear that was to me, that is the mitt romney that a lot of people didn't think existed and wanting to see more of which is calling out the factings. >> brian: i lot of people sing nursery rhymes or talk about greenn energy. >> steve: put an eight year old in front of that thing because they don't understand what is going on. it is interesting wall street journal said that was the best debate effort by a republican nominee since ronald reagan since 1980. what happened to the united states. mic

. >> steve: or the solyndra money. take the solyndra money and things they did on green energy. let's use it on wire energy to make sure the lights don't go out every time the wind blows really hard. >> gretchen: topic of discussion in the town that i live in. now the rest of your headlines and search for a shooter. police in michigan look for a gunman who is shooting randomly at passing cars. in response, they're stopping cars along roads and freeways that appear to be involved in suspicious activity. witnesses describe the suspect's car as irritate a dark 1998 oldsmobile alero or 1998 toyota camry. he has fired at 22 people so far. but nobody has been killed. >>> they're considered crucial to afghanistan's security and stability. moments ago, learned afghanistan will hold presidential elections on april 5, 2014. the last election held in 2009 was criticized over allegations of voter fraud. current president karzai now allowed to run again because of term limits. there were concerns he'd try to delay the election. >>> justice in the murder of border patrol agent brian terry. bo

you tell me why it is that this administration, which could come up with $530 million for solyndra to reward political cronies cannot come up with $20 million a year to open these voting information centers that are required by federal law? and this administration, the justice department has sued states like florida trying to enforce the law against illegal immigration voting, alien voting that has done nothing to insure the protection of the right to vote of our military men and women. i find it absolutely appalling. >> steve: and if you look -- i believe it was in july that the administration sued -- what was it? in ohio to block early voting for military members. >> yes. the administration and the democratic national committee took the position that giving military voters three extra days for early voting discriminated against nonmilitary voters. and they won that suit in front of a liberal federal judge. so this administration and the department of justice under eric holder have been very aggressive in claiming that any efforts to protect the integrity of the election somehow disc

separate accounts used for solyndra program. when it was dicey, they moved off line -- remember, the taxpayers are paying for the e-mail accounts for these people. so we had a record, we have access to the record. we know who is controlling it, you can't just slip slip and fall on delete. they didn't agree and moved over to private e-mail accounts for certain things they didn't want us to know about. >> steve: sure. and speaking of hitting the delete button, it sounds like shortly after the benghazi attack, they put one thing up and then next thing you know, it disappears. here is a full screen of what they had put out on their web site and it says, oftentimes these concerns are the result of increased mediattention to the issue rather than credible evidence of a terrorist plot. you know, in the beginning they were trying to blame the movie and it was spontaneous. next thing you know, within 24 hours, the government knows it is terrorism and poof, that thing just disappeared, chris. >> yeah. i think rewriting history is just a t

that's how much solyndra may have cost us. the number more than doubled what you, the taxpayer, originally invested in the failed solar company. a court recently okayed it's bankruptcy despite objections from the government. next. and finally, 2%. that's how much you will make if you are pop har in high school. a person found people like ferris buehler, who can adjust to any social relationship, have better relationships in college and in the workforce and end up making 2% more money. now you know. brian, mr. popularity? >> in many ways mitt romney succeeded last night by shifting the debate to one issue that americans care most about. >> in order to be able to fulfill our role in the world, america must be strong. america must lead. and for that to happen we have to strengthen our economy here at home. you can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. you can't have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing down it's growth rate. you can't have kids coming out of college, half of whom can't find a job to

meanwhile, the administration insists that all loan guarantees given to green energy companies like solyndra were based on the merits and not on political cronyism. >> brian: new e-mails obtained by the washington times paints a different picture. stuart varney is here. last night he said the success of the green companies were better than the average investor on wall street. >> ryan had some good points to be made if joe biden would let him without interruption. but that was not going to happen. look. these e-mails from the washington times show that a contract award, awards of taxpayers' money to green energy companies are not based on merit. no. they're based on political string pulling. if you're a green energy company and you want to get your hands on some taxpayer money, how do you do it? you go through the political process. you ask for mittcal strings to be pulled in your favor. these e-mails demonstrate precisely that in the case of bright source. that is a solar energy company with a big project in california. that project was in some trouble. they wanted more government money. so

to solyndra and face cure and tesla and inner one. i have a friend who says you don't just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers. >> good exchange there. real quickly because we're out of time. if you had to give advice to the president? how would you change the thing? it's a town hall format? who is probably going to do better in a town hall. >> the conventional wisdom is that the president connects better with voters than governor romney does except that governor romney on wednesday night shows that he connects very well with voters. he did a much better job than the president. the president has got to get into the debate prep sessions and work hard. there is no substitute for preparation. >> yeah. can you prep too much though? >> absolutely not. it's just the way you do prep. you have got to be -- you have got to know the issues. have you got to have a strategy. which the president didn't have. then you have got to be mentally prepared which it didn't appear the president was. >> what was the most surprising thick for yo

. >> since solyndra lost half a billion dollars in bankruptcy and looking more closely at this, is now the time, given that we're doing belt tightening and have such a problem with deficit and debt to invest in these. i feel like these came up during the debate and the fact checkers made a point, you only hear about the failures and don't necessarily hear about the ones going forward. and this company had to layoff or plans to layoff 800 workers because they were counting on a tax break that will expire the end of this year and people aren't buying this product anymore if they're not going to get a tax break for it. >> clayton: they get incentives to get a hybrid car and mitt romney made a point during the the debate, a friend pick winners and losers in this thing, but you tend to pick losers, referring to the failed companies and stimulus, his line during the debate, you recall. >> alisyn: good line. and. >> clayton: a zinger. >> alisyn: what else is happening. aspiring actor and martial arts expert has been charged with the killing of missing new hampshire student, and he's expected

. >> and like 50 year's worth of breaks into solar and wind, to solyndra and fisker and tesla. and i had a friend that says you don't just pick the winners, you pick the losers. >> peter: and what do you say about that? >> i think it a fantastic quote. i think that mitt romney when responding to barack obama talking about exxon, and making tons of money at the pump. and in quebec the government was making so much off the gas at the pump and people got mad and put up a pie chart on the gas station and showed you the profit margin for the gas company versus revenue to the government. i would have pro cussed on that, young people probably want cheaper gas, it not about free stuff, but keeping the government in constitutional parameters. big bird, and you go everyone where young people are saying mitt romney wants to kill big bird. he doesn't. he want him to operate on a-- i grew up with big bird, ab big bird lunch box and kids love that one. if big bird can't make profit with merchandise and big bird should probably be defrocked. >> peter: a lot of folks under 30, about 12% of ame

we can't shovel hundreds of millions of dollars to companies like solyndra. we just can't do it. leave that money in the private economy for companies that are meritorious who can really create jobs. >> you say that the third key issue is religious freedom. what do you mean? >> well, it's this whole phony war on women that i believe my opponent and the democrats have cooked up just because their records on jobs and the economy is so bad. she says things like well, because we don't have 51% of congress filled with women, we have to spend all our time talking about contraception. but if only congress were full 51% of women we could talk about debt and deficit and jobs and the economy and taxes. we don't have the luxury of waiting until there are 51% of the seats in congress filled with women to talk about the main issues in this election which are debt and deficits and bringing those down. getting the economy freed up. getting taxes down, regulation. but she always talks about the fact that we need more women. and this is kind of a central centerpiece of her existence. >> yet, ther