that as part of our long term plan to meet reserve policy targets in claim paris for fund balance laura bush deputy cfo thank you. thank you commissioner leave aroney thank you. budgets are budgets we all try to start off and try to make them all match and make it work. >> do you see any trends coming on and going forward with lower retail sales and the lower energy that or wastewater that we see here? is that something that you might or do we think that's going to be corrected quarter two, 3 or 4? >> sure. so compared to budget there are a few assumptions that are made in budget planning. one is sales volume based on population growth and so our assumptions in the past few years and going forward is pretty conservative assumption in terms of population growth and the number of people buying our water and then it's just usage based on a bunch of different factors including the weather which is very hard to predict. we have a very smart financial planning team that does their best but that's going to vary to budget throughout the year. >> we can probably give you a more sophisticated answer t

. >> let's bring in anita mcbride, the former chief of staff for first lady laura bush. she's the author of remember the first ladies and the director of the first ladies initiative at american university. anita, thank you so much for joining us. what do you make of this as the first lady's choice of her first speech in trump's second term? >> well, thank you for having me on, i think this. i can't think of an issue that is more relevant for a first lady to be engaged and clearly connected to an initiative that she tried to elevate the first time that she served in the role of first lady and could not get people to join her at a round table or join her in partnership. so to go to capitol hill to talk about a bill that's already passed the senate and now needs house approval is a great use of her time. >> and how much does a push like that help? because so many times we know about these bills that pass one chamber and don't pass the other. >> right, exactly. and certainly this, you know, every bill has that is at risk for that to happen. but it's hard to imagine. an issue

i know when george w bush who was a texas governor had his advisors, one of them was laura bush, his wife so you have the right to have advisers. >> let's say 2028 comes along, we see a big swing in the electorate, we get president aoc's decides to hire mark mark cuban to go through the government and say look for anything that first they declare a climate emergency htand they say look for anything that might tie the us to stranded fossil fuels which environmentalists can agree, do you think doge gives the pathway to do that? >> there's an old saying, to the victor goesthe spoils. if the democrats are given power that's whatthey choose to do . >> i talked to an oil lobbyist during the first trumpet ministration who mentions , he had a drink. but he said the trumpet ministration, he liked the trumpet ministration. >> they didn't all agree just so you know. >> we going to order? no, they were in favor of president trumps energy policy but he said trumps trade policy is a dagger in the heart of this energy policy, what would you say to that? >> i don't think so because we watch presiden

. >> laura bush came back, along. >> with president obama and mrs. obama. >> and so. >> it is scary that the gains that were made have really been under assault. it goes to show you that progress. >> is elusive. >> and every generation has to fight to hold on to the progress that we've made, lest we lose it. but i believe that selma is still now. it's still relevant. the people who came and walked in selma and marched in selma, they were strategists and tacticians. they didn't just happen upon selma, alabama. and so i think in this time of challenge, we can find inspiration from the roadmap, the playbook, if you will, of those foot soldiers. >> and those foot soldiers caused your family's been involved. congressman of figures for all of your life, and you are now holding that banner, you the baton in your hand as a representative in alabama, a red state that has always been an uphill battle. you're continuing to fight. now for some of the things that we thought was resolved voting rights, civil rights, the respect of people's diversity, inclusion and