HELP TO THE STATE.
HE IS DOING THE EMERGENCY
DECLARATION.
HES DOING WHAT HE CAN DO.
TEXAS, AS WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE
PREVIOUS SEGMENT IS KIND OF
GENEROUS.
ITS SELF-CONTAINED.
ITS CREATED ITSELF AS THE
REPUBLIC OF TEXAS WHERE THEY
REGULATE THEMSELVES.
THIS IS A ISSUE ABOUT CLIMATE
CHANGE AS MUCH AS ANYTHING ELSE
AND THE LEADERS IN TEXAS DONT
BELIEVE IN IT BECAUSE OIL
COMPANY, OIL MONEY.
WHAT, IN KNEE RI,THEORY, COULD T
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DO TO HELP
THIS STATE AND THE CITIZENS WHO
DONT DESERVE TO LIVE UNDER THIS
OIL OLIGARCHY?
>> NOT A GREAT DEAL IN THE SHORT
TERM.
EVEN THE SHORT TERM WHAT COULD BE DONE IS NOT HAPPENING.
BE DONE IS NOT HAPPENING.
THIS IS REALLY BIG KA DAS TROECA
YOURE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
THIS IS PURELY CLIMATE CHANGE.
THE POLAR VORTEX IS WOBBLING ON
ITS AXLE AND DIPPING FURTHER AND
FURTHER SOUTH.
PARALYZE MADRID JUST WEEKS AGO.
ITS PARALYZED TEXAS.
THATS JUST BAD PLANNING AND
PREPARATION.
OKLAHOMA HAS FAIRED FAR BETTER.
THERES REALLY NO EXCUSE FOR NOT
BEING PREPARED FOR THE EFFECTS
OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
IN THE MOVIE, "THE DAY AFTER, "
THIS REGION, TEXAS AND MEXICO IS
THE PLACE WHERE AMERICANS FLED THE POLAR VORTEX IN THE CLIMATE
THE POLAR VORTEX IN THE CLIMATE
KA TRASCATASTROPHEKA TAS TROE--
THIS IS WAKE UP CALL.
TEXAS HAS THEM ALL THE TIME AND
USUALLY THEY ARE LOCALIZED.
A HURRICANE STRIKES NEAR
HOUSTON.
THOSE FOLKS EXPERIENCE IT.
THIS TIME, MOST OF 26 MILLION
TEXANS GOT A HORRIBLE TASTE OF
IT FIRST HAND.
THEY ARE STILL GETTING IT FOR
WEEKS COMING.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
THE HARDEST STORY TO DO ON
TELEVISION IS CLIMATE CHANGE
BECAUSE PEOPLE TUNE IT OUT
BECAUSE ITS SOMETHING SO
DISTANT.
ITS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME IT
SNOWED IN MIAMI BEACH.
I WAS LIKE ITS COMING NOW.
REPRESENTATIVE, I GUESS THE
QUESTION IS POLITICS HAVE TO
KICK IN HERE AT SOME POINT.
WE ARE ANNOUNCING TWEETS FROM
TED CRUZS WIFE WHERE THEY WERE
PRELANING THEIR TRIP TO RUN OFF
TO CANCUN BECAUSE THEY DONT
FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO CARE
ABOUT THE THEIR OWN
CONSTITUENTS.
THEY CARE ABOUT WHERE THEY CAN
HAVE A NICE WARM VACAY.
IF POLITICS ARE NOT HOLDING
REPUBLICAN LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE,
WHAT THEN?
>> ITS A HUGE PROBLEM, JOY.
ITS A MASSIVE PROBLEM.
ILL TELL YOU THAT, FOR
INSTANCE, ERIC JOHNSON WHO IS
THE MAJOR OF DALLAS.
WHEN HE WAS IN THE STATE
LEGISLATURE, HE PREPARED SOME
LEGISLATION THAT WOULD HAVE
REQUIRED STATE AGENCIES TO
SUBMIT A REPORT FOR HOW WELL
THEY WERE PREPARED FOR AN
EXTREME
EXTREME WEATHER CONDITION RIGHT
NOW THAT WERE HAVING.
EVERY REPUBLICAN VOTED AGAINST
IT.
EACH AND EVERY TURN OF THE WAY,
WHETHER ITS CHANGE IN THE NAME
OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION TO
REFLECT WHAT IT DOES, WHICH HAS
NOTHING TO DO WITH THE RAILROAD
COMMISSION.
ANYTHING THAT BRINGS
TRANSPARENCY, ANYTHING THAT
EDUCATES THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHATS
HAPPENING WITH ENERGY HERE, THEY
JUST TURN THEIR EYE AND TURN
THEIR HEAD BECAUSE THEY THINK
THEY WONT BE CHALLENGED AND
STATE IS SO REPUBLICAN THEY WILL
NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
THATS THE ATTITUDE THEY HAD
WHEN I WAS IN THE STATE
LEGISLATURE AND THE ATTITUDE THE
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION HAS
NOW.
ITS THE ATTITUDE THAT GREG
ABBOTT HAS.
AS LONG AS THEY KEEP GETTING
ELECTED STATEWIDE IN TEXAS,
INCIDENTS LIKE THIS WILL
CONTINUE TO OCCUR AND AS ITS
BEEN STATED, WE WERE LITERALLY
SECONDS AWAY FROM THIS ENTIRE
GRID CRASHING AND US NOT HAVING
POWER FOR WHO KNOWS HOW LONG.
UNLESS WE START HOLDING
REPUBLICANS ACCOUNTABLE IN THE
BALLOT BOX.
THEY HAVE TO STOP THINKING THEY
CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO AND
MESS OVER TEXANS AND KEEP
GETTING AWAY WITH IT.
>> JOY -- VERY QUICKLY.
SURE.
>> I BELIEVE, AT THIS POINT,
THIS IS A KA CATCATASTROPHE SO B
ITS GOING TO REQUIRE FEDERAL
INTERVENTION.
THATS GOING TO BE TRICKY.
WE HAVE A RIGHT WING GOVRPING