texas. we are here today to not only help the families of the teachers who tragically lost their lives and provide the benefits they are due but also help all employees of not only this school district but surrounding school districts to make sure they have access to mental health and behavioral health services. we recognize not all employees of these districts are members of our system and healthcare program but we want to thank our partners for extending the benefits to everyone employed in this district or surrounding districts. thank you. >> now texas employees retirement system. >> i'm the executive director of the employees of texas. retirement benefits but more important, health insurance benefits to state employees but also employees of higher education in the community so local community college employees will get health insurance from health selected texas providing blue cross blue shield of texas and we have activated 24 hour crisis hotline to help connect medical and mental healt

of the texas house of represent. before she was old enough even to vote. in the early 1930s. she barely lost an election to serve as a texas including that houston. and she was actively involved in support of several other political campaigns in texas including that of us senator tom connelly. will an oviedo quickly forged an intimate personal and professional relationship that led to their ownership of the houston post and they became pioneers of the broadcast industry in texas will help create one of the first radio stations in texas kprc radio and he and oviedo together eventually started another television. i television station. i should say kprc tv, which is was one of the earliest television stations in texas after oviedo worked with will during the 1930s to bank to houston post one of the most influential newspapers in texas. she took her place on the national stage as the founding commander of the women's army corps during world war two now, i'll say more about that in a moment. after the war however oveda re

and it is not just texas. and all we think 26 states in the country are likely to partially or completely ban abortion. which is going to create complete chaos for anyone seeking care. and just like the attacks we are seeing in texas and around the country, on voting rights on transgender people, these laws are going to especially impact folks in rural areas, young people, people of color the same people who already face the biggest challenges to accessing affordable reliable healthcare. and i just have to point out the hypocrisy of the people who are doing this to us. politicians who claim to care about children. okay i'm going to use mississippi as an example but texas is a good example two. soap mississippi is a state other any mississippi folk in the room? okay go thank you. welcome, welcome i'm so glad you're here. so you know the story too, right? mississippi the case for the abortion ban is before the supreme court poor state in the country the maternal mortality rate is twice the national average. and

bryan is in a second term in the texas senate what he represents 16 counties in east texas. he obtained his undergraduate degree from university of texas where he's been honored as he outstanding alumnus and his law degree from baylor university when he was honored as the young lawyer of the year. while in the state senate bryan has received numerous accolades including the taxpayer champion award, the defender of the american dream award, and the horizon award from the texas right to life. we will then be joined virtually by the honorable kyle ardoin. kyle is louisiana's 44th secretary of state and is the president-elect of the national association of the secretaries of state. he served in that role since 2018 after serving for nearly a decade as the first assistant secretary of state. since his election, kyle has championed -- strengthen louisiana's election laws and its cybersecurity including laws that valid harvesting, about trafficking and requireic managerial or managed service providers to register and report to the secretary of state. because of these efforts the ag

that's the texas revolution. so taxes that republic of texas was not recognized by mexico mexico did not ratify the treaty that santa ana signed under duress. after having been defeated, so this is a republic of taxes. and at first they don't have any desire to enter the union. they're just another republic it's almost like jefferson's dream of that north american continent of six or seven republics all governing themselves, but not all under one one government. so that's 1836 then. back a little bit to to the territorial growth. so here's the here's where the the push for territorial growth is coming from in the united states. politically. it's coming from the jeffersonian side. first the republicans really the democratic republicans who then rename themselves a democratic party in 1827, and they're the agricultural party and their sense. they do not have a sense like the whigs do that wealth can be created through innovation and a division of labor. you got to pull it out of the ground or you have to grow it. t

texas. he obtained his undergraduate degree from the university of texas where he's been honored as the outstanding alumnus and his law degree from baylor university where he was honored as the baylor young lawyer of the year. while in the state senate brian has received numerous accolades including the taxpayer champion award the defender of the american dream award and the horizon award from the texas right to life. we will then be joined virtually by the honorable kyle arduin kyle is louisiana's 44th secretary of state and it's the president-elect of the national association of the secretaries of state. he served in that role since 2018 after serving for nearly a decade as the first assistant secretary of state. since his election kyle has championed legislation to strengthen louisiana's election laws and its cybersecurity including laws that ban ballard harvesting ballot trafficking and require managerial or managed service providers to register and report to the secretary of state becau

as texas town talking about conroe texas where i grew up. in east, texas and where i 10 years after brown versus board of education integrated our town's schools they have been. there there in many places in the south resisting integration and they'd come up with something called the freedom of choice plan. under which white parents was supposed to pick white schools for their kids everybody knew what they were supposed to. do, you know white parents would pick white schools black parents would pick black schools and everything would go on the way had gone on for you know, since the end of the civil war and after reconstruction and jim crow, but my parents decided to do something different. they decided that they would send me to a white school. my mother taught at booker t washington, the inevitably named black school booker t washington nothing wrong with that bookery. washington was a great man many ways that were to k through 12. my older brothers were at booker t washington as well because i was beginning school my parents thought that

i'm not here bragging about, texas. texas accounts for about 10% of everything in america the population gdp but for food fuel transportation, it is a critical state. and once if the system had gone black getting it restarted after going system black would have been effectively impossible not just for days but perhaps for weeks. it would have caused a nationwide recession. so, let's be clear about the stakes here at about what almost happened because of mismanagement of the texas grid. okay, so the key point here. what is the key, you know after the the ercott disaster all kinds of reports came out a lot of academics, so don't blame renewables. don't blame renewables. oh and those silly texans, you know, those silly republicans down there. they're saying oh, oh the renewables were partly to cause for this. yes, absolutely. 66 billion. these are screen grabs. i'm going to show you a lot of screen grabs today. these are screen grabs from the wind industry lobbies own website and the solar industry's lab their own numbers

but then georgia-pacific pioneered the texas two-steps. they assigned the shell company, and have been stuck in bankruptcy more than four years now without being paid a dime and all other creditors have been paid in full. since then the dominos have continued to fall as one extremely wealthy corporate family after another, all of them, worth many billions of dollars used the texas two-stem. and now even johnson & johnson. they're worth more than $450 billion and credit rating is higher than the u.s. government. bankruptcy is intend todaysy sis the honest, but unfortunate debtors seeking to reorganize. when the richers and most powerful corporations in the company are using the federal bankruptcy system to avoid paying the most vulnerable people in the country, something is wrong. the system needs to be fixed. the texas divisional merger law was never intended to be used this way. it explicitly was intend today preserve all rights and creditors under existing laws. out of state companies have misused that law to avert the federal bankruptcy

and a lot of time in the other texas cities. then when i became secretary of housing and traveled to 200 different american cities and every one of the 50 states you begin to pick up patterns and trends and one of those that jumped out at me was that there is emerging in texas in these places dallas, fort worth and the north houston galveston in the southeast and austin san antonio in the southwest of this triangle. a mega complex of cities that can hold their own in the country and indeed our gravitating to that kind of pinnacle role that great metros play in the world. the singapore's in tokyo's and frankforts and milan's in london's etc and in this this triplex of metropolitan and economic strength. is a coming reality that we in texas haven't fully appreciated. nor have we interpreted in the sense of what does this mean for the future of texas? we'll talk about that in a moment. i had worked a long time with david hendricks who covered city hall in my time then later went to the business section of the express news. he was b

throughout texas. power demand is at 70000 megawatts about what was on february 15 when the third load shedding. when it goes to zero. that is not the only wind this is just last month. again, high power demand we are 50000 megawatts of wind again goes to almost zero. again, and again, and again. they are not required to provide power power is dear in there in is the rub. and doctor dressler said we wile just fix. what he's saying is you have to subsidize the thermal generators to come into the market when they are needed. and so the windrm and solar guys can free ride and that is the right word, on the thermal generators. mckinsey report you don't have to believe me, or the biggest respected energy consultant companies in the world issued their analysis in december, what did they say the worst of the problems occurred during extended wind and drought. and i heard this will build more transition i will come back to thaty. for 12 days. a lot of people say there's a lot of gas the availability of gas a p

what is it about texas this issue that texas is leading the way? guest: it is similar to the national problem. a recent gallup poll says that 80% of the public wants access to abortion and thinks roe v. wade should be protected. summarily, in texas, is about 65% to 70% in my own district. we did a survey. the votes were 72% for protecting access to abortion. they are not listening to the public. they are listening to the base, their own views, and the plan they have had for decades. the problem is that we need a change in government that will listen to the public and to judicial precedent. host: on that bill to codify roe v. wade that passed the house but was not able to overcome the filibuster in the senate, it was your colleague henry cuellar who was the only democrat against that bill in the house. what are your thoughts on his stance on this issue? is this something that democrats should shun other democrats over? guest: i have known mr. cuellar for a long time. he is catholic like i am. we just have different views. i am a former judge. i beli

next we hear from democrats at the arena summit in austin, texas. wendy davis has the words not deeds of political organization. ♪ ♪ ♪ thank you, good morning. good morning, good morning, good morning. i'm so to be here with you. thank you so much for that wonderful introduction. thank you all so much for showingd up with your energy, ad your desire to do good in the world this morning. i was asked by our friends at arena to begin byth talking with you a little bit about why i got into politics. how i got into politics. but i thought it might be better to start the question really are the answer to the question, who was i when i showed up to do that? it is a question i hope you ask yourself today and on this journey ahead, why am i showing up? who am i? what are the values bringing forward to creating what my desire to get involved in some way. whether it is to run for office others to work in the nonprofit world on an issue that you care very much about. regardless of what it is showing up for reason. showing up for something in your own pers

then i was when i grew up in texas or lived in, you know, even lived in the texas governor's mansion. i'm very very aware of problems in the world. i'm aware of problems that women face in afghanistan for instance or in other parts of the world where women are oppressed. i'm very aware of pandemic diseases now and hunger in the world because i've had the chance to visit so many parts of the world, but also i've heard of all the things that the president works on every day. i know the issues that he deals with and so i'm aware of what those problems are. i think every one that comes to this job comes with a special interest. i was a teacher in the library and that's really where i focused a lot especially the first on developing the national book festival and helping the president with no check the no child left behind act because that was my expertise. that was my career and what i've been interested in. my whole life, but i will say that sometimes first ladies are trivialized by what we call a pet project and in fact our contributions to the united states from first ladies in many ma

we had those in texas. we did learn this process so much and what we're doing was being scrutinized of such a presumption i guess common sense reforms senators words these not for a long time that makes sense. texas already had early voting days in new jersey, more than new york. more than present by the sum said delaware had zero early hvoting days. they still have fewer than texas but we expanded the more prove expanded access to make sure folks get access the ballot. it accesses both security so important and we understand that. it's interesting if you look in the senate bill one the reform bill i knew look at the other measures with teeth, they are aimed not so much individual voters were trying to cheat, that happens. the real problem is in some places those election officials are cheating and misleading people or the ballot harvesters for the paid politicalet operatives that try to get between the boater and her ballot. crackdown hard so folks have access and they are allowed to vote in a way that's g

everyone welcome and thank you for being here at the 2022 texas book festival, live from austin, texas. my name is brian sweeney. i'm the proud member of the advisory board at the texas book festival. and though i am biased, i firmly believe it is the best one in the country. so thank you for being here. we are absolutely delighted today to have two unbelievably talented authors on our panel talking about the environment both past and future. i'm going to start at the end. i'd like to welcome maya cave and ross and to austin and to the book festival. she is an author. lawyer and activist. for 30 years, she has led the delaware river keeper network, which is the area where she grew up and lives now with her family. and she is the founder of the green amendment for the generations, which is the subject of her book, which has been updated. it is called the green amendment the people's fight for a clean, safe and healthy environment. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome maya, keith and rossum. and sitting to my right is a gentleman that i've had the opportunity to work with previously, bee

we have the sinks in texas now. we did learn this process so much of what we were doing was being scrutinized. such a presumption against everything we were doing. you're such a presumption we were just trying to do something nefarious when these in fact were reforms on their face pretty follow-through we are just common sense reforms expanding access was an important theme. :: d : we thought of that ourselves we've all been using that early voting days jersey more than new york, more than president biden then delaware which had nero voting days until recently. they still had fewer than texas. we expanded those more. we expanded access to make sure folks could get access to the ballot. we wanted to work on access as well as security. both are very important. if you look at the penalties, our reform bill and you look at the other measures with teeth, not so much at individual voters who are trying to cheat. that happens. the real problem is in some places those election officials or those ballot harvesters, those pai

was a-- what happened in texas was a unique ly texas problem. the storm, they give us the idea that we don't have to worry about it now. a dangerous way to think about the problem. the first question, is it a problem in every part of the room. and second, is this a one off program or looking at it as it's happening again. do we expect it to happen again. >>en just because it's 100 years, the clock resets every year and we had a major storm in which nerc made recommendations and included winterize and the rubs are merging. my first book on enron back 20 years ago, nationally we were burning fubic feet every year for the close store so the electric grid is more and more dependent on gas, but the two systems are regulated separately, the two networks, so there has to be rationalization not just in texas, but it's an attribute if we look at co2, but vulnerability if. >> and i think and alex spoke about the few cost of energy. if you really want to put wind and solar into the true cost of energy in that. i understand what the professor was talking ab

in austin throughout texas. power demand is at 70,000 megawatts, about what was every 15 when they started load shedding . wind goes tozero . that's not the only one. this is just earlier last month. again, high power demand at 50,000megawatts. wind again to almost 0 . again and again. they're not required to provide power when power is geared. and therein is the rub. and doctor kessler said will just what he was saying is you have to subsidize the thermal generators to come into the market when there needed. so that the wind and solar guys can free ride and that's the right word on the thermal generators. mckenzie, their report. you don't have to believe me one of the most respected energy consultants in the world . their analysis in december, what do they say, the worst of the columns occurred during an extended wind drought. and i heard this, will just build more transitional. it will come to that. but it was over ercot for 12 days. a lot of people say there's gas, there was a lot of gas se run down. the avai

that's what we're cracking down on in texas. voters like that have a right to vote however they want to vote and people who are doing what does were alleged to be done here are nggoing to be held accountable in texas but this is happening as you said , be charged from the other a side used to be there's no evidence of voter fraud and now there's evidence of widespread voter fraud and we always ask the question how much fraud is acceptable? we know the answer, how hamuch fraud is acceptable? none. how much depression is acceptable? none . we have to make it easier to vote and hard to cheat. i'm learning from everyone on the panel, thank you for having me >> and west you say voter fraud is a myth, you say it's rare. we really have no idea how rare or often it happens . are you with us? >> in the 10 years i worked on this office and now as secretary of state i've never seen a public more focused on election integrity as it is now. personally i relish the opportunity to educate the public on louisiana's top-notch collection processe

texas, where texas goes, america goes in many respects and that's never been more true than today and texas has always sort of led the way for america in so many respects and we've had three presidents here in the last 60 years and ghw bush and outsize the presence in american life and texans wouldn't have it any other way. working for that in the capacity and and more in austin. lbj president and more in 2017 and now the president of the lbj foundation and written several books about lbj including one that we'll talk about today indom mittable will of the presidency and one reason i wanted to be the director of the lbj library now 13 years ago was the fact that lbj is a -- is one of the most consequential presidents in so many respects and i think he is known for vietnam predominantly but there's so much more to his legacy and while vietnam is part of the legacies and if it's not important andgr more so. very importantly striving on civil rights throughout the course and the presidency and meeting ther most important idel that all men are created equal and egalitarianism for american

he's in his second term in the texas senate where he represents 16 counties in east texas and obtained undergraduate from university of texas where he's honored as outstanding alumnus and law degree from baylor university honor as a young lawyer of the year. while in the state senate crimea he's received numerous accolades including taxpayer champion award, defender of the americann dream award and horizon award in the texas right to life. ... secretary of state and it's the president-elect of the national association of the secretaries of state. he served in that role since 2018 after serving for nearly a decade as the first assistant secretary of state. since his election kyle has championed legislation to strengthen louisiana's election laws and its cybersecurity including laws that ban ballard harvesting ballot trafficking and require managerial or managed service p require managed service providers to report too the secretary of state. because of these efforts has received national recognition by the elected assistance and various other organizations. last but certainly not least

in texas and to fund grants for libraries in texas. so thank you. your authors today. starting with my immediate right nick seabrook is professor in the department. political silent silence. if only and public administration. the university of north florida the author of drawing the lines constraints on gerrymander in us politics and one person one vote a surprising history gerrymandering in america. he in jacksonville, florida. and then to my father right. jeremy siri holds, the mac brown, distinguished chair for leadership and global affairs at the university of texas at austin. he, a professor in the university's department of history and the lbj school of public affairs professor series, the author and editor of 11 books on policy, politics and foreign policy and hosts a weekly podcast. this is democracy, so i'm going to start with jeremy. the cover line, which i guess you may be able to see on the screens i'm sorry, the cover line, which you may be able to see on the screen, is about americas long and unfinished. that's kind of the key word here. fight for democra

brian is in his second term in the texas senate where he represents 16 counties in east texas. he obtained his undergraduate degree from university of texas where he's been honored as an outstanding alumnus and has a lot of review from s baylor where he was honored as a young lawyer of the year while in the state senate brian received numerous accolades including the taxpayer champion award, the fender of the american dream award and horizon award from the texas right to life.we will then be joined virtually honorable kyle are doing. kyle ardoin. he is president-elect of the national association of secretaries of state . he served in that role since 2018 after serving for nearly a decade as the first assistant secretary of state. since his election, kyle has championed legislation to strengthen louisiana's election laws and cyber security including laws that banned ballot harvesting, ballot trafficking and managerial or managed service providers to register and report to thesecretary of state . because of these efforts the agency they oversee has received recognition by the ele

>> the senator f from texas. >> mr. president, considering the way democratic friends talk about the state of voting rights in america, it is easy to see why some people have expressed concerns. because if you took them at face value you might be very worried about the state of voting rights in our country. but there's more to the story than that, which i will hope to explain here in the next few minutes. for example, when it comes to the alarmism about voting rights, look no further than the democratic majority whip, senator durbin from illinois, who said there is an insidious effort to suppress the rights of voters of color. senator schumer the majority leader, senator from new york has had the right to vote is under attack in ways which have not seen in generations. president biden himself has said there is a 21st century jim crow assault on the right to vote. if you were to take these at face value and accept them, obviously you would be very concerned about the state of voting rights. but there's more to the story,

the pundits like to say iowa and texas are states we can't win in. i disagree. i believe we make our own destiny. i believe in people. i believe in the power of ordinary folks doing extraordinary things. i believe in you iowa democrats. now the cynics are saying this may be a tough year for us. but we've overcome longer odds than this before.we can't lose hope. we have so many more tools at our disposal. then the african-americans that came before me, let the civil rightsmovement . there was no congressional black caucus then. now i'm a member of the congressional black caucus more than 55 members strong. we can't lose hope . we have to carry that hope with us everywhere we go. it's the hope of a 25-year-old don lewis crossing the edmund pettis bridge for the right to vote for african-americans. it's the hope of a young woman sitting in one of your public schools right now who spoke her first word of english in kindergarten. but who believes there's a place for her in this state. and in this country. the hope of a young man and a small town indiana whose last na

georgia-pacifictc pioneer texas two-step. as a result, they consigned to bankrupt company stuck in bankruptcye more than four years now without being paid a dime while all other creditors have been paid in full. since then the dominoes continue to fall. one extremely wealthy corporate family after another, all of them worth billions of dollars step, train technologies and now johnson & johnson. johnson & johnson is worthth moe than $450 billion credit rating is higher than the u.s. government. bankruptcy is intended to assist, honest but unfortunate way seeking to reorganize. the richest corpse powerful corporations my country are using the federal bankruptcy to avoid think the most vulnerable people in the country something was wrong. to be fixed. texas merger flaw was never to way and hes explicitly intended to preserve all rights and creditors underer the sink laws and out-of-state companies misused them off to perfect the federal system and this is just the beginning. product two-step so far has been used to this, the sam

texas center for climate studies. professor dressler also served in the clintone administration during the last year he servedr as a senior policy analyst in the white house office of science and technology policy. his latest book introduction to modern climate change on the 2014 american meteorological society's louis j batten authors award. we are also pleased to have alex epstein president founder for the center for industrial progress, author of the moyle trend moral fuels he is a philosopher who argues human flourishing should be the guiding principle of industrial and environmentalst progress. he is the author of the "new york times" bestseller the moral case for fossil fuel but alex is known for his willingness to debate anyone, anytime. has publicly debated leading environmental organizations such as greenpeace, the serra club and the 350.org over the morality of fossil fuel use. and finally, our moderator for this morning's debate is dan is the editorial page editor of the denver gazette. dan is a longtime jo

i'm going to go to texas because i heard the senator from texas accuse this body of creating rhetoric that was divisive. you want to know what's divisive to a country that's -- that says e. pluribus unum above where the presiding person is? you want to know what is divisive? is telling people in the congresswoman's state that if you live in a predominantly minority area, we're going to remove polling places and change laws so that black folks disproportionately are waiting five, ten, 15 times longer. facts. the burden of long lines in polling places, closures in texas and the post-shelby county area often falls disproportionately on black and latino voters. congresswoman, approximately 750 sites texas has closed since shelby v. holder. 542 were in the 50 counties with the fastest growing black and latino populations. don't lecture me about jim crow. i know this is not 1965. that's what makes me so outraged. it's 2022. and they're blatantly removing more polling places from the counties where black and latinos are overrepresented. i'm not making that up. that is a fact. i'm not going t

that exploits a texas law of a divisive merger. company one is startled with the claims and company to takes the corporate assets. the company saddled with the claims then files for bankruptcy. so in north carolina with the fourth circuit makes it nearly impossible for victims to have the companies filing dismissed for bad faith and then condemn to receive a fraction of what they are owed meanwhile those with the corporate assets continue business as usual for their share of the claims and that is the texas two-step although to be fair the same thing can potentially be done under delaware law. the originator is the most prolific in history code brothers industries. using the to step to offset liabilities and victims are still tied up in the bankruptcy process as other claimants. and johnson & johnson facing over 30000 lawsuits and that it claimed as best as in the baby powder causing a very cancer mesothelial me a - - mesothelial me a and then it hashed a shell company then it filed for bankruptcy johnson & johnson now seeks a stay

you have the permian basin in west texas eaglefred shell in south texas to them. this is about their livelihood and getting rid of their livelihood and so that's why people are very like these are folks that are trying to impact me when you talk about defunding the police or defunding law enforcement the number of people that are in south and west texas that are that were have a family member working for border patrol or the sheriff's office or local pd. that's a large. that's a large group of people. so it is this a salt on their ability to to provide for themselves. now here's what's going to happen. it's it's almost accepted. it is accepted that republicans are taking house back in 22. if we had a vote today, some would say likely to send it as well. this is not a mandate from the american people being like hey gop. we love you. yeah for those that are watching on tv everybody laughed here and and and republicans come in and don't have a vision of how we're going to solve some of these problems if we don't if we only talk with the things that we're against all

of four new fabs in sherman, texas, about an hour north of dallas. this is part of a $30 billion investment expected to create some 3,000 more jobs. the mayor of sherman, where this is located, in northeast texas, described it as a watershed day, noting that it's hard to have a frame of reference for a $30 billion investment in a town of 50,000 people. and sherman isn't the only town in texas preparing for a major chips boom. last fall i joined leaders from samsung, a south korean company with a large facility already in austin, texas, when they announced a $17 billion additional investment in a new chip fab in taylor, texas, just outside of austin. that facility is expected to create 2,000 high-tech jobs and other jobs once operational, because these fabs, or manufacturing facilities, are not standalone, they are part of what ultimately will become an ecosystem of suppliers and other affiliated industries that will be built up around them, creating thousands of more jobs. but we also learned from samsung that they're not likely to stop there, if we

we go here through here in texas provide their prime real runoff election. in the primary 3 million people voted. a 1.8 million republicans one point to million democrats. that is 3 million people out of 30 million. that's a terrible part regarding their runoff election excuse me a runoff with a primary right now. maybe on the republican side of center 50000 people though. which means 375,000 that is texas that's going to happen the general election. inspiring people to come out and vote. the music, tv, and movie i'm on a number panel of youtube stories. four of the other panelists combined with the milling youtube describe her's. i had 64. and i see seven of those people here in the crowd right now. and one of the people that was there is a digital director for the rock. dwayne johnson. this is when the movie no one was coming out. set if the want fails at the box office,on are we going to blame the consumer, the moviegoer? or are we going to blame the product, the movie. she said chris are c going to blame the product at the chromate movie. the success at

he was named director of texas a&m's, texas center for climate studies. professor destler also served in the clinton administration during the the last year he served as a senior policy analyst in the white house office of science and technology policy his latest book introduction to modern climate change won the 2014 american meteorological societies louis j. batten authors award. we are also pleased to have alex epstein he is the president and founder of the center for industrial progress author of the moral case for fossil fuels. alex is a philosopher who argues that human flourishing should be the guiding principle of industrial and environmental progress. he is the author of the new york times bestseller the moral case for fossil fuels and alex is known for his willingness to debate anyone anytime. is publicly debated leading environmentalist organizations such as greenpeace the sierra club and 350.org over the morality of fossil fuel use and finally our moderator for this morning's debate is dan nigamir. he's the editorial page editor of the denver

attorney's office the northern district of texas. an atf dallas field division. as i said, this case is just one example of the efforts the justice department is taking to protect our communities from violent crime from the illegal gun trafficking that often drives it. just last month in the southern district of new york we charge a couple who allege purchases 68 guns as part of an interstate gun trafficking conspiracy heard earlier this year in the central district of california we charge an individual with illegally selling 89 firearms including 53 ghost guns as well as nearly 16 pounds of methamphetamine. earlier this year the district of connecticut we charge an individual who purchase at least 18 firearms in georgia and who had others purchased even more on his behalf. he then illegally provided them to individuals in connecticut. some of those firearms ended up in the hands of gang members. also this year end the district of maryland we charge for individuals after they allegedly sold an undercover officer 24 handguns including 20 ghost guns as well as conf

you have the permian basin in west texas and south texas. to them this is about their livelihood. and getting rid of their livelihood. so that's why people , these are folks that are trying to impact things. when you talk aboutthe fund the police or defunding law enforcement the number of people in south and west texas that are, that have a family member working for border patrol or the sheriff's office , that's a a large group of people so it pp is this assault on their ability to provide for s themselves. here's what's going to happen. it's almost accepted, it is expected that republicans have taken the house. if we had to vote today someone say likely senate as well. this is not a mandate. from the american people being like hey gop, we love you. but for those that are watching on tv everybody laughed. and it is saying hey, we don't like what you other folks are trying to do so if republicans come in and don't have a vision about how we're e going to solve some of these problems, if we only talk about the things we are against, all of the problems we're dealing with right now i