now the big question is why. the storm of course. texas, cold snap, not a good mix. why weren t they ready? why didn t they know when this power grid will be fixed? why didn t they fix it before? they knew before. i ll show you. the most vexing question though is why did their governor decide to blame it on democrats? some of the coldest weather in decades knocked off the power grid prompting rolling blackouts. most of the state will have below freezing temperatures until at least saturday. you see, icicles on ceiling fans, no heat, no running water, no flushing toilets. pipes of course are freezing. families have been sleeping in cars, running cars in their garages. carbon monoxide, big risk. okay? others like our first guest are burning what they own in their homes because they ve run out of firewood. food stores closed or extremely low. people can t get prescriptions. people can t get covid vaccines. with all this trouble again why is governor greg abbott creating more? li
abbott. they failed. that s what she said. and she gets so frustrated when she hears from conservatives saying, well, it s the wind turbines and green energy. and it s not that at all. we know what it is. coal, natural gas. that stuff froze. and it froze because they didn t take care of it. they didn t winterize it. it was up to the states. and so him trying to cast the blame on the green new deal and the squad and all that stuff, it s just absolutely ridiculous and embarrassing. even in a crisis. can you believe it? today yesterday was fat tuesday. today s ash wednesday. you know, hence this. the reason it s so good, i did it. the priest wanted to put it on our head because they don t want to touch anybody right now or you could get your own little packet and do it yourself. i m not catholic but i went to catholic school. my fiance s catholic. but i usually get it and i come away with the big smudge. i was at the church right around from your house. you know what
to vet yet vote yes. you may think joe manchin shoulding up the party but he s never said anything in fact he didn t get a lot of push back from the president list zen. the president thinks he can get 51% for this bill, we re going to trust him, we re tired of waiting for one or two people, we trust the president will get 51 votes for this and we ll pass both bills through the house soon as we have these final negotiations wrapped up. i urge everybody to keep tempers down, sometimes this happens in final negotiate. not really. not within the same party. this is somewhat unique to the democrats. now, to be fair, once again, the media loves the lineup of deadlines, will it be now? will it be then? the democrats don t have to play into and they keep doing it. i see all this brinkmanship as hype, but the infrastructure and spending bills will pass. it s just about when and how it looks for the democrats. all this deadline drama is definitely bad for them. and it puts the pres
understand some of the concerns. looking back at being out of the country and sort of having an overview of looking at america from the other side, what did you think? yeah, and talking to italians about how they see us but also seeing a lot of the echoes of what s going on there. they good a got case of rage against the machine in that society, also. and they are hungry for renegades. they don t trust the government. they re not sure about the vaccine. you know, they are something and this is always the trick for us, okay? at the end of the day, they don t just look alike, they have the same blood and they have culture and they have language and they have feel. and that never goes away. they re all italian. so they may have their disagreements and may not like each other and have government turnover and bureaucracy but they re all italian. are you seeing we don t have that cohesion as we re all americans? what does that mean? for us it means a common sense of purpose
real cost of legislation is. doesn t sound like he s ready to vote yes. i say the president had to know because to be fair, joe manchin, you may not like his position, you may think he is holding up the party, but he s never said anything else in this process. ? fact, manchin didn t get a lot of pushback this time from the progressives. listen. the president says he thinks he can get 51 votes for this bill. we re going to trust him. we re tired of just being continuing to wait for one or two people. we trust the president that he will get 51 votes for this. and we will pass both bills through the house as soon as we have the final negotiations wrapped up. encourage everybody to keep tempers down. sometimes this happens in final negotiations. not really. not within the same party. this is unique to the democrats. now, to be fair, once again, the media loves the hype of deadlines and will it be now and will it be then? the democrats don t have to play int it. and they k