CNN 2011-09-17

 John King USA, CNN weeknights 7 eastern.I wanna read from one of the email exchanges that has people curious and some people suspicious of whether the White House was trying to help the donor¹. This is an email exchange August 31. The special assistant to the then chief of staff F.R noted² the vice-president's announcement at Slendual, The vice-president was planning to go out for a trip, and ask whether quoted--there is anything we can help speed along on the OMB side. Essentially³ the chief of staff office is saying can we help speed the process up. But how was that any different? I bet your office from time to time has called whether this small business administration or the veterans administration to help a constituency and say, hey, the bureaucracy is bugged⁴ up, gummed up, speed this up.

Look, when you're looking at 535 million dollars, shouldn't someone be asking a question is this valuable or not, particularly when the administration itself said. You know, what, if this thing goes forward, they could be out of cash by September of 2011. That was two years, a year and a half before September, 2011 came about. Their own stuff that they had to show that this is not perhaps going to be a valuable company. Why then are they speeding forward, why are they going against what the law says in terms of restructuring to try and push this before the evidence is there. We've seen evidence that they knew that in fact it cost 6 dollars per panel and they were selling them for 3. Who makes money that way? The taxpayer⁵ loses.

We've dealt with the politics question, but I just want to ask you clearly, cause people are watching us at home. You say you want to find out, you'll bring the witnesses, we speak today, you have zero evidence of any wrong doing, correct? You are just suspicious?

Well, we've got now, you know, we try to get the documentation earlier, we scheduled hearings and the administration literally⁶ didn't show up. They promised this that they were going to provide documents, they never came. Finally, we resorted to the last resort, and that was a subpoena⁷, and middle July, we served the subpoena the administration, it still took more than a month to get a lot of the stuff that was there. And as we're examining now a lot of the stuff that we finally got. We're now finding these emails that nobody knew about before, so we're going to see exactly where these taxes, how did this thing get approved, and how, who made the decision to restructure the loan, so that in fact, at the end of the day because they did go belly⁸ up, in direct contradiction to the energy policy act of 2005. Did someone make the decision to put the taxpayer last instead of first when filled chapter 11.

1 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

2 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

3 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

4 bugged   

vt.在…装窃听器（bug的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• The police have bugged his office. 警察在他的办公室装了窃听器。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He had bugged off before I had a chance to get a word in. 我还没来得及讲话，他已经走了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 taxpayer   

n.纳税人

参考例句：

• The new scheme will run off with a lot of the taxpayer's money.这项新计划将用去纳税人许多钱。
• The taxpayer are unfavourably disposed towards the recent tax increase.纳税者对最近的增加税收十分反感。

6 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

7 subpoena   

n.（法律）传票；v.传讯

参考例句：

• He was brought up to court with a subpoena.他接到传讯，来到法庭上。
• Select committees have the power to subpoena witnesses.特别委员会有权传唤证人。

8 belly   

n.肚子，腹部；(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分，膛

参考例句：

• The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
• His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。