>> I WAS GOING TO SAY A FEW MORE
CARS SS SS ON THE STREET THIS MO
>> THAT’S KIND OF REFRESHING.
RECORD-BREAKING COLD
TEMPERATURES HAVE LEFT MILLIONS
WITHOUT POWER AND CLAIMED MORE
LIVES YESTERDAY.
AT LEAST 30 DEATHS HAVE BEEN
REPORTED FROM CAR CRASHES TO
CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING MAINLY
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH AND
SOUTHEAST.
TEXAS HAS SEEN THE MOST
FATALITIES AS 2 MILLION HOMES
AND BUSINESSES THERE ARE STILL
WITHOUT POWER, IN SUBFREEZING
TEMPERATURES.
>> OH, MY GOD, THAT’S HORRIBLE.
>> A HOUSE FIRE KILL EDED A FAMI
OF FOUR IN HOUSTON, AS THEY
APPEARED TO BE USING A FIREPLACE
TO KEEP WARM.
FROZEN WIND TURBINES HAVE CAUSED
CONSERVATIVE POLITICIANS TO
CRITICIZE THE STATE’S RELIANCE
ON RENEWABLE ENERGY.
BUT THE WIND POWER ONLY MAKES UP
A PORTION OF THE LOST ENERGY IN
TEXAS.
YESTERDAY AN OFFICIAL WITH THE
ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL OF
TEXAS SAID 16 GIGAWATTS OF
RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION,
MOSTLY WIND GENERATION, WAS OFF
LINE.
NEARLY DOUBLE THAT, 30 GIGAWATTS
HAVE BEEN LOST FROM THERMAL
SOURCES, INCLUDING GAS, COAL AND
NUCLEAR ENERGY.
MAJOR OUTAGES IN THE POWER GRID
CAME FROM THERMAL SOURCES SUCH
AS NATURAL GAS AND COAL, NOT
RENEWABLE SOURCES.
>> SO, WILLIE, I KNOW THIS WILL
COME AS A SHOCK TO NOBODY, BUT
GREG ABBOTT’S LYING THROUGH HIS
TEETH WHEN HE’S BLAMING
RENEWABLES FOR THE GRID GOING
DOWN.
THE FACTS IN HIS OWN STATE BY
THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT, BY PEOPLE
WHO FOLLOW THIS SHOW HE’S JUST
LIES THROUGH HIS TEETH.
HE CAN’T BLAME AOC.
HE CAN’T BLAME THE NEW GREEN
DEAL OR RENEWABLE.
IT’S ALL HIS FAULT AND ALL THE
FAULT OF THE TEXAS LAWMAKERS WHO CONTINUED TO UNDERFUND THEIR
CONTINUED TO UNDERFUND THEIR
ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE.
>> WHAT A STRANGE INSTINCT,
PEOPLE DYING IN THE STATE OF
TEXAS BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE
ANY POWER, ANY HEAT, TO RUSH ON
TO HANNITY AND BLAME A
CONGRESSWOMAN FROM NEW YORK FOR
THE GREEN NEW DEAL WHICH DOESN’T
EXIST.
THE GOVERNOR OF THAT STATE, NOT
PUNDIT OR RADIO SHOW HOST.
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE, WHO
THEORETICALLY IS MANAGING THE
CRISIS, RUSHES OUT TO BLAME
SOMEBODY ELSE.
TED CRUZ, TEXAS SENATOR,
REPEATEDLY HAS MOCKED POWER
OUTAGES IN CALIFORNIA, NOW BEING
CRITICIZED AS TEXAS GRAPPLES
WITH WINTER STORMS THAT HAVE
CAUSED MANY TO LOSE POWER.
AS WE SAID, AFTER BEING CALLED
OUT BY THE HILL, SENATOR CRUZ
OWNED UP TO HIS OLD TWEET,
TWEETING, I’VE GOT NO DEFENSE.
A BLIZZARD STRIKES TEXAS AND OUR
STATE SHUTS DOWN.
NOT GOOD.
>> WELL, GOOD FOR HIM FOR OWNING
UP TO THAT.
>> YEAH, HE DID ANYWAY.
>> SORRY.
>> TEXAS GOVERNOR ABBOTT
CORRECTED CRITICISM OF THE
STATE’S POWER INTAKE MONDAY,
TWEETING THAT NATURAL GAS AND
COAL GENERATORS WERE ALSO
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FREEZE.
THIS, THOUGH, WAS BEFORE
APPEARING ON FOX NEWS.
>> OH, NO.
>> TO BLAME THE OUTAGE SS, AS I
SAID, ON THE GREEN NEW DEAL.
>> THIS SHOWS HOW THE GREEN NEW
DEAL WOULD BE A DEADLY DEAL FOR
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
TEXAS IS BLESSED WITH MULTIPLE
SOURCES OF ENERGY, SUCH AS
NATURAL GAS AND OIL, AND
NUCLEAR, AS WELL AS SOLAR AND
WIND.
BUT YOU SAW FROM WHAT TRAY SAID
AND THAT IS OUR WIND AND SOLAR
GOT SHUT DOWN AND THEY WERE
COLLECTIVELY MORE THAN 10% OF
OUR POWER GRID.
IT JUST SHOWS THAT FOSSIL FUEL
IS NECESSARY FOR THE STATE OF
TEXAS AS WELL AS OTHER STATES,
TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WILL BE
ABLE TO HEAT OUR HOMES IN THE
WINTERTIME AND COOL OUR HOMES IN
THE SUMMERTIME.
>> WOW, JUST A BREATHTAKING LIE.
AGAIN, THE OFFICIAL FROM THE
ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL OF
TEXAS, WHICH RUNS THE POWER
PLANT, SAID MOST OF THE POWER
KNOCKED OFFLINE CAME FROM
THERMAL SOURCES, PARTICULARLY
NATURAL GAS.
MOST OF THE ENERGY THERE, JOE,
IS FROM NATURAL GAS.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS,
THEY’RE NOT READY FOR
TEMPERATURES.
THEIR PRODUCTION FACILITIES ARE
NOT READY FOR TEMPERATURES LIKE
THIS, THIS KIND OF EXTREME
WEATHER.
PERHAPS THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN,
WHICH IS ANOTHER CONVERSATION.
BUT THE IDEA THAT FROZEN WIND
TUR BIENS BLAMED ON ALEXANDRIA
OCASIO-CORTEZ, CAUSED THIS IS A
PREPOSTEROUS LIE.
>> IT IS A PREPOSTEROUS LIE.
THEY COULD HAVE PREPARED FOR IT,
CHOSE NOT TO PREPARE FOR IT
WHICH, OF COURSE, IS REALLY
GALLING.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS ALSO SO --
IT’S JUST GALLING.
AND I’M JUST THINKING BACK TO
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR.
JEB BUSH.
WHEN WE WOULD HAVE TERRIBLE
HURRICANES COMING THROUGH OUR
STATE, YOU WOULD NEVER SEE JEB
BUSH.
>> GOSH, NO.
>> ON FOX NEWS OR CNN, OR MSNBC.
NO.
WHEN THERE WAS A CRISIS AND
PEOPLE’S LIVES WERE IN DANGER,
THAT WAS THE ONLY THING THAT JEB
BUSH WAS FOCUSED ON.
>> RIGHT.
>> AND IF HE WERE TO GET ON, HE
WOULDN’T BE ASSIGNING BLAME.
HE WOULD SAY STAY IN YOUR HOMES.
YOU CAN GO TO MIDDLE SCHOOL X TO
GET FOOD HERE.
HE WAS CONSTANTLY WORRIED ABOUT
THE CRISIS ON THE GROUND.
HERE, PETER BAKER, YOU HAVE A
GOVERNOR IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF
TEXAS’ GREATEST CRISES IN QUITE
SOME TIME, WHERE PEOPLE ARE
DYING, AND MILLIONS ARE WITHOUT
HEAT IN SUBFREEZING WEATHER.
HE’S GOING ON A SHOW TO MAKE
IDEOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS?
THIS LOOKS LIKE AN EXTENSION OF
DONALD TRUMP’S GOVERNMENT BY
GESTURE.
IF YOU CAN’T GOVERN, THEN JUST