Fisker is the one who has lost $200 million of taxpayer money.

It is either incompetence or political influence.

All I am asking is Tesla, Ford, or Nissan ever send you an email saying, you know what, we can't meet payroll if you don't give us some American tax dollars.

Did that in any way, in your judgment, influence the ability for Fisker to get a loan?

It makes no sense to me how the Department of Energy can actually approve this loan from the get-go: under-collateralized, CCC rating, second generation product yet unseen, first generation incomplete, and they can't meet payroll before…

Okay, no political influence involved getting this loan, and yet you lost $200 million of taxpayer dollars...

When you take taxpayer money and you lose $200 million, that is the risk you take.

Not only in this situation with Fisker did taxpayers lose $200 million, but the fact that we have the program jeopardizes all those...

It has to be one or the other. It is either complete incompetence from the Department of Energy...

Their absence does not absolve them of the responsibility to answer questions to the American people they have a right to know.

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