. >> former employees of the bankrupt solyndra solar company turned up for a job fair. drew hundreds of job seekers. former workers received special seminars because it has been tough for them to get good jobs. some have decided to change careers. >> right now i'm trying to get into the medical field. it's a more stable field. fda regulated. can't be formed out. >> more than 1,000 people were left job less after fremont base went bankrupt last year. >> recall of a popular sunscreen after a handful of people catch fire. >> lance armstrong's bad week gets worse. the new allegations he is facing. >> a major cool down across most of the bay area and more changes on the way. coming up, the coolest day of the weekend. the giant's sunday forec >>> how about that? a live look at coit tower in orange light in honor of the giants. kept their season alive with a huge game 5 playoff win. now back to the bay area for another must win do or die game on sunday afternoon. >> lance armstrong's fall may be getting even worse. tonight new allegations that he tried to buy a win. according

bankruptcy judge to reject the proposed reorganization plan of failed bay area solar power company solyndra. irs attorneys filed papers this week claims the plan's purpose is tax avoidance. >>> two celebrities topping new list, not an honor they like. on the list of top tax evaders in california. according to the state franchise boordy beyond warwick and steven seagal are money the top five owing the most unpaid taxes. warwick who now lives in new jersey owes california 2 1/2 million dollars. segal the actor only owes a fraction of that, $350,000. >>> black friday the big shopping day after thanksgiving could be messy for the world's biggest retailer wal-mart workers are threatening to strike black friday one of the biggest shopping days of the year. the threat comes a day after dozens of employees in 12 states launched a strike against the company. the strikers are trying organize a union and they accuse wal-mart of blocking their effort and retaliating by firing union organizers. >>> if you have been watching sue you know this is true, seems like traffic in san francisco is getting slower

. >> republicans are calling it shades of solyndra. a 1 2 3 systems lift um battery maker received hundreds of millions of dollars in government support filed for bank situation. mackenzie company received more than 2 by million in state federal funding to help it run its operation providing battery for electric cars and other products. also been plagued by defective product. shares in the company initially sold at 20 dollars yesterday. they were going for just 6 cents. >>> looks like the i-pad mini business to make its debut. apple september thought media invitation saying we have got a little more to show you. apple scheduled event for next tuesday october 23 at the california theatre in san jose. that takes place at 10:00 a.m. . mini is expected to have 7. 85 inch screen with starting price of 249 dollars. apple wants to go after the market of amazon kindle and other smaller tablet computers. apple stock went up 10% after the announcement. shortly after that best buy revealed the offering its own tablet in stores next month. >> high

solyndra, fisker karma, and tesla. this is not the kind of policy want to have. you want to get american energy secured. megyn: governor romney at the first debate, blasting president obama over the long line of failed green energy projects. now there is a new project on that list. an electric car battery maker announcing today that it is filing for bankruptcy after receiving nearly $250 million in your money. more than 100 million in state tax rates. plus, stuart varney joins us now. he is a host here on fox business network. another one bites the dust here. so how much novartis did this company get? >> they got $249 million worth of grants. that is a check from the taxpayer, plus, a lot of state aid going into their system as well. essentially, they are bus. another green energy bus. this comes on the day of the presidential debate. president obama wanted to back electric cars that have not been selling where. they were set to make a payment. they don't have enough money to keep going and they are likely to keep going bankrupt. megyn: they were supposed to be s

he spent billions of taxpayer dollars on investments like solyndra and tesla and fisker. it only added to her dad. energy prices are up. he rejected the keystone pipeline from canada, and cut in half drilling permits and leases. even if gasoline prices soared to new highs. the problem with the obama economy is the misguided recovery and causing millions of people to endure lengthy unemployment and poverty. [cheers] [applause] that is why 50 million more of our fellow citizens are on food stamps and president obama took office. that is why 3 million more women are now living in poverty. that is why nearly one in six americans today is stagnant. we receive the latest round of discouraging economic news. last quarter, our economy grew at 2%. after the stimulus was passed, the white house said we would be growing at 4.3%. slow economic growth means slow job growth and declining take-home pay. that is what four years of obama policies have produced. americans are ready for change. pro-growth, for jobs, for more take-home pay. we will bring that to them. [cheers] [applause] now

he wants to pick with winners and losers solyndra, losers in his case. we know where that leads. we have seen the last four years. we don't want four more years like the last four years. >> reporter: the debate at the university on long island is going to include foreign policy. to that end the governor is rolling out the foreign policy ball. he has a big speech on foreign policy at virginia military institute in lexington. >> gregg: tell us how big the first debate is playing out in the campaign ads. >> reporter: both sides are trying to portray the other as the bigger fiber. he has new ad from both campaigns and both are saying the other is untruthful from taxes to anything under the sun. take a look. >> i don't have five trillion dollar tax cut. if you just implemented it would cut five trillion dollars. >> i will not produce the taxes paid by high income americans. >> is that actually true? >> the latest, not telling the truth about mitt romney's tax plan. the ap says doesn't add up. abc news, mostly fiction. >> it won't be near 5 trillion dollars. >> reporter: you can expect

another administration favorite follows solyndra into bankruptcy and takes millions in taxpayer money with it.

attorneys say avoiding taxes is at the heart of solyndra bankruptcy plan. >> they filed a document in federal court opposing a bankruptcy setting saying it would result in net operating officers that could be used to set offset income. they failed after getting that huge government loan and filed for bankruptcy last year. the irs says the bankruptcy would result in the creation of a holding company with no employees and no business operations, but with up to $350 million in tax breaks that could be used by solyndra's investors. the irs says tax avoidance was the main purpose of this plan. one of the investors is hreupl linked to billion care george kaoeurzkaiser, a prominent democratic fund-raiser. they are pushing ahead with bound solar in colorado. it went out of business after getting a large loan guarantee from the defendant energy. the committee wants to know what the doe knew about problems with the solar panel making. in a letter to the energy secretary chew he says quote, two months before doe closed a $420 million loan guarantee they were experiencing efficiency and technolog

bill: are you putting the company in the solyndra category? >> it was very close. a123 was given $249 million in grants, that is not loan guaranties, that is taxpayer check. they have used only half of it, cord to my sources, that is lost money. if they go bankrupt that money is lost. you can put that in the solyndra column. bill: maybe this comes up tonight. stu varney. martha: we're just getting started on this sunny tuesday morning. the government announced just moments ago the how much the average social security check will go up next year. you have might not be too happy about it. we have a live report on that. bill: we'll ask the voter which side this format favors? good question. can president obama explain the failed promises from last time around? bob and andrea on deck. martha: senior republicans fired over secretary of state hillary clinton taking the fall for the terrorist attack in libya. senator john mccain says he has more questions that need to be answered. he joins us live to explain why as former defense secretary donald rumsfeld demands answers f

it does sound, dan, a lot like what we heard from solyndra. >> reporter: yeah, martha, there are similarities. that debacle cost taxpayers $500 million. this one cost us $70 million two investigations are surrounding abound. one is criminal investigation in the county. d.a. is looking at allegations that they committed securities fraud by not telling investors about manufacturing defects before taking their money. they want to know what the department of energy knew about product flaws and when they knew it. employees said there were major problems to the panels known basically to everyone several months before the loan was finalized. >> there were certain problems with the kind of solar panel they were making. we heard one from employee, whistle-blower employee, that the solar panels worked fine as long as you didn't put them in the sun. >> reporter: what were some of the problems? they weren't puttings out energy they were expected to and catching fire, some of those panels. martha: unbelievable. this raise as question whether or not the government should invest in independent companies and

>> don't forget you put $90 billion, like 50 years worth of breaks into solar and wind, to lind to solyndra, and tekskla. i had a friend that said you don't just pick the winners, you pick the losers. martha: that got a laugh from the reaction. it goes to the heart of the question as to whether the government should be attempting to pick winners and losers in new technology. >> and they should not. this is a perfect example of how governor romney was so prepared, that $90 billion number that he used to refute the president's claim that oil companies make too much money. secondly president obama tries to take advantage of people's lack of understanding that there is a difference between a profit and a profit margin. he takes advantage of the fact that a lot of people don't understand that oil companies have to invest billions of dollars over many years to make that profit. and so when governor romney came back with the $90 billion i thought that was an excellent statistic to refute the misinformation that the president was trying to get people to believe. martha: yeah, you know you touch on

solyndra was stranded out there and it went bankrupt. it was not competitive. if they had to do it over, they probably wouldn't give them a alone. >> host: was a smart events investment for the taxpayers to make? >> guest: you have to look at it in the context of the whole stimulus program people will say, was that the best way were the only way, because remember that those were the days of 2009 this was meant to just jump start things. it went bankrupt. >> host: are tax credits for alternative energies a good idea? >> i think it is important to diversify our diversity supply. i think solar, i think that we do need to see these costs come down, they continue to be technological innovations. i think that encouraging them in a reasonable way, not only have we incentives, but many require a certain amount of utilities. california has a goal of one third of renewables coming from renewable energy, which is a big goal. both in energy terms of environment. >> host: would even come and see? >> this issue right here and right now, because a lot of people in congress wa

getting in to healthcare and doing education and getting in insurance business and picking winners, like solyndra. you have the government basically interfering with the public sector and free market enterprise. i majored in economics at harvard. i don't understand why people don't hear milton friedman. >> neil: very well put. scott mcnealey. thank you. scott's point you don't need economics degree from harvard to figure out as bill clinton would say basic arithmetic. it's working against both party right now. it's working against americans right now. the way things are going, we're piling debt at $4 billion a day, every day, every day. think about that. to me if a party does anything at all, address the growing debt. we're having arguments about big bird and whether he's surviving. they're planning a big bird sympathizing march to support pbs. mark levin says we're seriously plucked. bob... oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it's always good to have a backup plan, in case i get hit by a meteor. wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize

. >>> bay area solar company solyndra may not get the reorganization it proposed. attorneys with the irs and the department of energy asked a bankruptcy judge to reject the plan. the irs says the plan's main purpose is tax avoidance. there is a hearing now on this issue set for next week. >>> quite the spectacle today in los angeles as the space shuttle endeavour is moved through city streets to its retirement home. endeavour is being transferred from los angeles international airport to the california science center at exposition park. the 170,000-pound spacecraft will be on display there for museum visitors eventually . this is a live picture of from the streets of l.a. there you can see the shuttle is moving at 2 miles per hour. four computer controlled transporters will negotiate the shuttle along the 12-mile route where in some cases it will be inches away from buildings. >> in some places the wing tips will extend beyond the boundaries of the streets over the sidewalks. >> reporter: what do you do then? >> just move very carefully and slowly. we tell people t

. >>> are we going over to solyndra now? bay area solar company solyndra may not get the reorganization it pro prosed. attorneys for the irs and department of energy asked a bankruptcy judge to reject the plan. thers says the plan's main purpose is tax avoidance. there is a hearing set for next week. >>> we are staying on top of a massive fire at a san francisco restaurant. >> let's get the latest from liz and i get some traffic issues out there as well. >> it has shut down a street in the area and it could be impacting muni, as well. so this is san francisco's west portal neighborhood. the fire has been upgraded now it a three-alarm response. so there are a lot of news crews on scene and fire crews, as well. we just learned it's the squat and gobble reporter. flames are seen shooting from the roof. that's the address right there 9 west portal avenue. the closest cross street is uloa. west portal is shut down in the area. fortunately we are not hearing about any injuries. what is being impacted is muni possibly because it's

president, these are the government investing in companies, investing in solyndra. this is a company, this isn't basic research. i want to invest in research. research is great providing funding to universities and think tanks, great, but investing in companies, absolutely not. >> governor -- >> that's the wrong way to go. i'm still speaking. i want to make sure we make america more competitive and that we do those things that make america the most attractive place in the world for entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses to grow, but you're investing in companies doesn't do that. in fact, it makes it less likely for them to come here because the private sector is not going to invest in the solar company. >> i'm happy to respond to you. >> if you're investing -- >> have the floor for awhile. look, i think anybody out there can check the record. governor romney, you keep on trying to, you know, air brush history here. you were very clear that you would not provide government assistance to the u.s. auto companies even if they went through bankruptcy. you said that they c

he wants to make sure what we're doing is making sure investment will flow to keystone rather than solyndra, a123, $089 billion in tax detroit alternative energy. instant won't work. >> i'm going to carry that argument on. let's go into this energy thing because we do have the recent development of very cheap energy in this country through natural gas and we have price friday -- prices in the country -- tell me -- $3 a cubic foot. and let me just ask you, jarred, the point that grant is making here. namely, the administration is hampering, hindering the development of natural gauze as rammedly as possible, and that's holding back the development of manufacturing because it's a -- >> look, i couldn't disagree more. i think what is hindering the use of natural gas in manufacturing is the fact that the infrastructure is still young. for every $10 we spend on energy, only one is on natural gas right now because we simply don't have yet the infrastructure to employ that in -- >> bring the gas to the manufacturing -- >> and to have the machinery actually run off that kind of gas versus fossil fue

why solyndra is one of the kingdom and the military because of who they love. while thousands of families have been able to service the bravely, oklahoma. you did that, and so, if you buy into the cynicism that says change is not possible, that the best we can do is more tax cuts for folks a top, and the rest of these folks have to figure it out, if baker and then get your voice can make a difference, the lobbyists and special interests, the people who write $10 million check to try to buy this option, those who are trying to make it harder for you to vote. the washington politicians who want to tell women what they're doing it comes to health care choices when women are perfectly capable of making those chosen some cells. that is what is at stake. and only you can make sure that we move forward. only you have the power to move us forward. we have always said that real change takes time. more than one year. more than one term. more than one president. more than one party. it cannot happen if you are somebody who writes off half the nation before you even took o

it was filled with hundreds of millions of dollars of corporate cronyism that went to companies like solyndra. all of that money came from somewhere. it came out of the pockets of taxpayers or it increased our debt to china. that is where the money came from. as president obama said, there were not as many shovel ready jobs as he thought. >> pay down the debt and the deficits and create a growing economy. that is what we are focused on. we are focused on small business. that means cutting their taxes and streamlining taxes. make sure the have the loans that they need. we want to see made in america. rebuilding our infrastructure. build towns, roads, and water systems across our state. we need to refocus on building new roads and projects. i can tell you, we have tough choices to make. we can tighten our belt. we can cut spending. we have to do it precisely and carefully. we cannot have a "slash only" approach. >> can you suggest something that you would cut? she talks about cutting taxes and getting small businesses of the loans they need, but she has not done any of these things. what we nee

congress to set priorities, stop funding things like so lender and prioritize social security come -- solyndra, and prioritize social security and medicare. >> with the fiscal cliffs looming and the president saying we need to cut defense spending, what would you do to save jobs at military bases and national laboratories. >> this is also an area where congressmen heinrich and i have strong disagreements. he was the only member of our house delegation to vote for the prospect that would lead to across-the-board defense cuts starting in january. we have party lost 3000 jobs here in new mexico since he went to -- already lost 30,000 jobs here in new mexico since he went to congress and average take- home pay is bad. congressmen -- is down. i've read work to restore the defense cuts and avoid a devastating -- i would work to restore those defense cuts and avoid a devastating impact on our economy here in new mexico. >> i think it is important to remember whose seat we are seeking to fill. senator jeff bingaman said that version of what i voted for was a huge distortion, and it is. i voted to make

solyndra is another one of the democratic things they felt good about giving money. let's talk about the paper industry. when she had a chance, when the paper industry said would you vote to have epa back off because if not, of which will lose thousands of jobs in wisconsin. she said no, i will vote for epa against the paper industry and it will probably lose 7500 jobs because of that. >> tommy thompson -- my concern is that the company filed the rules. there is a procedure. they have tried to create their own set of rules. what happens when you bypass rules? let's talk to people in wisconsin and washington and adams county who have a pipeline that come through their counties that have burst, spilling 50,000 barrels of oil into their environment. that is what happens when you bypass rules. we cannot let these large powerful interests create their own will. the lobbying firm in washington d.c. that represented the folks -- behalf have a diversified portfolio. -- we have to have a diversified portfolio. >> the company would have many jobs in wisconsin. she voted for th

you are looking at guaranteed freddie, fanny and solyndra and meanwhile the role of government protect us is going un. and why doesn't government get back to what it is supposed to do instead of infringing on rights >> things have change would. we have a great recession not the great depression but it is darn closs and americans are saying they are fed up and want manage done and give me change from somewhere. >> they got that way because that's what happened. federal government got in the middle and changed it they are the people who are responsible for it. if you didn't have what dodd-frank repeated again. you wouldn't have monopolies and all of the things if the government was not in there. competition. if i had 15 people making a product and selling that product. best product would come out. two or three people doing it that doesn't happen and the federal government is the cause of all of this and not the solution. >> i totally agree. >> they are better off not doing something than doing something wrong. >> wayne, you said the constitution was written by people afraid of the govern

solyndra got $534 million of your money and they went bankrupt. who owns solyndra? 20 of the richest men in the world. a billionaire got a $500 million loan from you. do you think he is really sincere that is going after the 1% when he is taking your money? do you know who approved the solyndra loans? he is married to the solyndra attorney. solyndra's attorney that negotiated the loan is married to someone in the department of energy that helped approve a loan. does anyone remember the kennedy family? they got $1.8 billion. i am guessing there in the 1%. it is for a company called bright source. i do not do high finance. the gross revenue is $30 million. they got a $1.8 billion loan. there is a slow cycle right now of going bankrupt. we had for five other companies going bankrupt. the president thinks he is smarter than all of you. out you decide go by a the prices. he said i'm going to make a whole industry of this something that is not profitable. i'm going to do by reporting rich people with loans. he should not let the demagoguery said. you should not let it be

but not pick winners and losers, not invest in specific companies, not to pick industries, and, like, solyndra and so forth and get out in front of themselves. those are the areas most important of the role of government with business. it's important mitt romney delivers that message tonight. david: to the middle section, corporate taxes. the interesting thing is despite the fact we have thee highest corporate tax rate in the developed world, the effective tax rate, because of the deductions and the special deals and all of the things that were worked out between the lawyers and lobbyists in washington and the politicians, the effective tax rate is 10%-12%. the government receives out of the $2 trillion that the corporations make in profits the, the government received $200 billion. maybe tonight's the night to have a bold specific plan and say, look, we're just clerking 12% of revenue from corporations. bring the rate way down to 15%, making it very competitive, and bring businesses home. what do you think of that, steve? >> well, you know, that's a great point. part of the reason why the eff

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lot of conservative supporters of romney that he missed key opportunities of the he didn't mention solyndra when the president was touting a green energy program, things like that. of course the libyan situation. did he miss the bet on those? >> i don't think so because he talked about the economy. went through key points of economy, what he will do to fix our economy. the critical issue in this country we've got to get the american people back to work and we have to grow. that is what governor romney will have to do. david: all right. >> the other issues are important but growth is the most important. david: as part of growth people have been saying for a couple of years now we can't really consider our economy growing until we get housing in order. these new housing numbers look pretty good. don't they? have we turned the corner in housing? >> i david, i think we turned the corner. we've been investing in housing the past three years. we've been in the business 25 years. we've been on the bottom. we're starting to come back. we're 850,000 homes per year. we're off a high of 1.8 million ne

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

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

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

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

. >> 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 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