that was before andy beshear was born. >> the core of the program runs on an ancient system, i believee it actually ran on tape, a giant room with reels of tape. the core of our program still runs on that. the mainframe that we were using was one of the two oldest unemployment systems in the country. >> did anyone ever raise any warning flags about hey, i don't think our 1970s antiquated computer system can handle this? >> no. i never raised concerns about the computer system. the head of the i.t. department said that's going to be tricky. the federal government, sewed the states, we would like you to implement some reforms in your program, expand benefits to some new classes of people, and if you do that as an incentive, we will provide this ui modernization money to you that you can use to modernize your programs. and most states took that. about 75% of state took money, used that to help modernize their systems. but there were a handful of states who didn't. kentucky was one of them. we just didn't take it. >> the american recovery and reinvestment act -- >> true. >> in 2009 was sup

kentucky democratic governor andy beshear joins us now.od morning to you. >> governor: good morning. thanks for having me. >> brennan: you set march 1st at the recommended deadline for schools to reopen. you have pushed them to the front of the line, ahead of other essential workers, so they could get those shots. how politically difficult was it to do that? >> governor: well, in kentucky we determined that we needed to prioritize both our present, those that were suffering the most and most likely to die from covid, as well as our future, getting our children back in school. i'm not just a governor, i'm also a dad of a middle schooler and an elementary school student. so i've seen the impacts that this has had. we pushed or teachers to the front of the line, and we're about to be the first state to fully vaccinate all of our educators. we have all but about seven school districts already back in some form of in-person. and those districts are going to expand. and now we have a commitment from all of our remaining districts to get that don

normally, the governor -- in this case democratic governor andy beshear -- would appoint a replacement, but republicans are pushing legislation in the kentucky general assembly that would strip him of that power. at the top of mcconnell's list is state attorney general daniel cameron, who is facing calls for impeachment over his mishandling of breonna taylor's case. the young emt who was killed by police in a no knock raid of her home last march. texas' power grid operator ercot overcharged customers by $16 billion during last month's historic winter storm that caused power outages across the state according to a wchdog filing. the electric reliability council of texas, which sets the price of electricity, kept the emergency surge pricing in place for 33 hours longer than needed. in related news, president and ceo of ercot, bill magness, was fired wednesday amid the ongoing fallout. and in honduras, vice reports leaked documents have revealed the government of president juan orlando hernÁndez paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to over 70 journalists as part of hernÁndez's