hurricanes that has ever been recorded earlier this year, so i went asking how is that the department of energy is responding to this increasing threat of climate change and extreme weather events? >> of the department of energy is looking at all hazards including extreme weather as we look at investment opportunities or research opportunities advancing the grid. a lot of the research focused on advanced technologies for energy storage capabilities, advanced grid capabilities that they can build and invest in for improving the infrastructure. >> the article goes on to detail the resilience and also modernizing through the advanced technology, so in your testimony you explain the recommendation for the rebuild is being formed in consultation with the national labs and a presentation earlier explained importance of distributed generation calling it a large factor in developing resiliency with clean energy technologies and solutions so my question is is it the department and makindepartmentand making ro those that are helping rebuild the grade in puerto rico which will essentially be a brand-new s

so i want to ask you how's the department of energy responding to this increasing threat of climate change and extreme weather events? >> so the department of energy is looking at all hazards including extreme weather as we look at investment opportunities, but research opportunities for advancing our electric grid and so a lot of our research focus on advanced technologies, energy storage capabilities, advanced mini grilds or mike crow grids as they're called we're looking at advanced the utility industry can build and invest in for hardening and improving infrastructure. >> i mean, exactly. in fact, that article goes on to detail the smart grid r & d program which is designed to improve grid resilience and modernizing the grid. so and your temperature you explain your recommendation for the rebuild is being formed in consultation with the national labs and a presentation earlier this year explained importance of distributed generation calling it a large factor with clean energy technologies and solution. so my question is, is the department in making recommendation to those that are help

departments of the government are faring posttrump transition. lewis reveals there was no transition. in september wrote about the department of energy. e latest issue, he delves into the department of agriculture for a piece called "made in the usda." timing couldn't be better. the usda chief scientist sam clovis withdrew his nomination amidst news during the campaign he was aware campaign adviser -- uh-oh -- papadopoulos -- i got it right -- was talking to russians. i recently spoke to michael lewis. michael, sam clovis was always an odd choice for not the at least of which reason he wasn't a scientist. >> well, you know, as i've wandered around the trump administration, there are like two categories of appointees. they're the people like rick perry, at the department of energy, and sam clovis, who when they were offered the job should have said, no, because i'm not qualified for it. and the idea that you're putting in charge of a $3 billion a year science budget that is trying to figure out, you know, how to direct money so we can grow things in a changing climate, 50 years from now, a guy who has absolutely no science background at

they're the people like rick perry at the department of energy and sam clovis, who when they were offered, should have said no. because i'm not qualified for it. and the idea that you're putting in charge of a $3 billion a year science budget, that is trying to figure out you know, how to direct money so we can grow things in a changing climate, 50 years from now, a guy who has absolutely no science background at all. his chief, his chief job qualification was he was a right-wing radio talk show host in iowa who helped trump. you put that guy in charge of that office, is insane. and you just look at, the thing i've written, profiles the person he replaced. who, a woman named kathy wotecki, who 50 years devoted herself to agricultural science and knows everything about it. so it's quixotic and it makes you wonder, you have to give your political friends jobs in the administration. put them somewhere with you you don't need to know something. and this is place where you needed to know something. ? not an outlier, here's what you write in "vanity fair," into usda jobs, the trump team inserte

navy and the federal department of energy are funding the testing. kail macias is the technical director at the naval facilities engineering and expeditionary warfare center. he says the department of defense hopes wave energy might one day provide power to ships at sea or bases on remote islands. >> it's all about energy security. really critical for us. when you look at the logistical constraints of what it takes to provide energy as far forward as possible for our naval and d.o.d. forces, it does create quite a challenge. so when we buy, store, distribute fuel, it is a logistical constraint. so the nice thing about wave energy as it develops, diversifies our portfolio, and gives us another opportunity to provide another energy source. >> reporter: researchers plan to test at least six more wave power devices in the coming years. the next one up is called an" oscillating water column" and works a bit differently than the others. waves push and pull air through a chamber and then through a turbine, which spins and generates power. researchers are als

the people working there when he came to work at the department of energy away, absolutely blown away. first rate scientists wandering the halls. people who worked really hard. of course, in every place, there are people who are, yes. charlie: private sector too, by the way. michael: but it is, in a way, shocking for people who come from the outside the caliber of the people inside. on the other hand, if you think this it, it is almost at point, and if you act of bravery -- an act of bravery to go to work for the federal government. we have been dumping on it for 40 years in this country. we don't pay them that well. if you are there for a real purpose, it takes courage to be there. charlie: if you talk to people like bill gates, who has a healthy respect for government and believes some of the money is to show government direction. because only governments can do things like conquer disease and other things. michael: there are things that only governments can do. charlie: and if you can in some way, be part of the direction and the smartest possible , of t

the people working there when he came to work at the department of energyn away for a first rate scientists wandering the halls, people who worked really hard. of course in every place there are people -- charlie: private sector too, by the way. forael: it is shocking people who come from the outside the caliber of the people inside. if you think about it, it is almost at this point an act of rape free to work for the federal government. we have been dumping on it for 40 years in this country. we don't pay them that well. if you are therefore a real purpose, it takes courage to be there. people: if you talk to like bill gates, who has a healthy respect for government and believes some of the money is to show government direction. can do things i conquer diseases. michael: there are things that only governments can do right. charlie: if you can be part of the direction in the smartest thatble application of power or those resources, then that is a very good thing. michael: i totally agree. we have this dysfunctional relationship with our own government and t

the department of energy, i didn't know what it did. i thought what the hell, start with that, and i found out what it did. a lot of people were tre vd then i thought i wonder how robust this is, if i pick just almost because it seems like the most boring, neglected department, if i just picked that department and went in, would it be interesting. and i was rivetted by the department of agriculture. in particular the caliber of the person i was dealing with, you know, ktee woteki, kevin kincanon who basically dispensed a trillion dollars worth of hunger-- . >> rose: annually. >> no, over the course of eight years but nobody knows his name, nobody knows his name, exactly why he was good at that job. why he cared so much about it. and but he did. and an he, the bigger point for me was you know t sounds simple, but the motives of a person in a job really matter. why you were doing what you are doing. why you are president of the united staights, or why you want to be the deputy secretary for the science program in the department of agricult

supercomputer space and a two hundred fifty eight million dollars funding injection into the department of energy's excess scale computing project is supposed to ready a system capable performing one queen tilia in operations per second ten times the capacity of ta who like by two thousand and twenty one or china reckons it will achieve the same feat as soon as twenty twenty right now then china has america's super computing industry beat this gets back to my theory of the holy dial tone. the linear concept of time traveling forward is going to be shattered and we'll be living in a permanent ether except the currency will not be the theory i'm. because it'll be discredited by the founders toward remarks recently and we will end purely on the point when trump was in china of course you had those three aircraft carriers the nuclear powered aircraft carrier battle groups were brought to the pacific this is the first time it's been there they're all there and they're showing their military might. well there's also now calculations coming out about how much all these wars in the middle east and asia hav

the department of energy has taken a hard look at that. what they have on the island now produces 5200 megawatts of power. they really only use about half that. there is room for addressing less power plants, more efficient, that produce the right amount of power with the right type of fuel to service the requirement that exists on the island today. the department of energy has been thinking about and looking at that. they had been working closely with prepa to understand. make recommendations to the administration and congress on things like how much load do , they need, how much redundancy do they need in a system? did they build additional capabilities to balance that load across demands in the system? how do they modernize the system to include the hardening of the system to improve resilience? these are things the department of energy has ideas on that they shared with me that i know they are working up as part of a fema report that we have recommendations on the long-term solution might be for power and other things. doe is looking at

[laughter] and with the department of energy. but guess what? if you are the guy on top with doesn't even know that. is kind of incredible. hollywood comedy after hollywood comedy so what i am doing right now so i am doing the of briefings and i did not know but i pretended. to figure out what the hell this place does. [applause] >> i have a question with this economics issues so much of wall street to make rational decisions what your thoughts about the impact on wholele business to realize those idiosyncracies and we're not as rational as people think we are?. >> if we lived in a sane world much of what wall streetwa does we would not be doing. so to explain him $20 could tell me that wall street floats on bullshit it is amazing this day and age people will give and will claim to know the prices of things to direct people's money. and with their investment and to demonstrate not only did they not predict them but they are unpredictable. so thosed patterns are defined by a priest and that is crazy but the truth is people don't like taking respon

we are working closely with fema, the department of energy and other agencies to make sure we can use a variety of public assistance grants to actually build resiliency into the system when we build it better. so it is clear that's going to be a mix of federal and private funding at some point. we are working on a transformation plan to do exactly that right now. we have a meeting with our team this week and we hope to have the initial transformation plan by middle of december. ms. bordallo: and this is not just for san juan but for other outlying districts? mr. zamot: yes, ma'am. it's actually a wholesale reimagining, if you will, of the grid. number of best practices we have from industry tied in with the puerto rico energy strategy which has already been developed. at least as of two weeks ago with the government -- with the governor sent as his priorities for rebuilding. ms. bordallo: thank you. i'm glad to hear that. can you give me an estimate how many people have left puerto rico and are now living in new york or some other states me mainland? ms. jaresko: yes. up to 100,000 at

to head the department of energy, the trump administration nominated someone who calls for the abolishment. to head the ex-bank which that person will take charge of the agency is confirmed. weber is nominated must have demonstrated record standing up on behalf of consumers. former director cordray, leander english fit that mold. mick mulvaney does not. to the interim, the law established under dodd-frank dictates that ms. english is the acting director of the cfpb. the white house should abandon any efforts to circumvent that succession process. i yield the floor, madam president.

our first hour, this is if it is. >> host: back to our first hour, michael has studied the department of energyto know about nuclear energy? >> guest: the way i went into the department of energy, these enterprises are so fast, getting them across in 10 or 15,000 words is a huge challenge. i went into a particular angle, what is the risk? what is the risk of a white house disengaged from managing the government, didn't bother to get the memo and understands what the department is, what can go wrong, the department of energy starts with a fellow named john mcwilliams who was the first chief risk officer inside the department and came from a successful investment career, made his fortune in private equity investment, brought in the first place to help assess the risk running in the investment portfolio if they make their loans, subsidized loans to technology that may pay off or long-term scientific research and investment in technology, the whole department, what is the risk here, nuclear energy was not on the list, the future of nuclear energy was a footnote in what concerned him. much more conc

department of energy whoa what do the recollection of is news for node about nuclear energy? went into the department of agriculture. these enterprises are so vast to get them across in 100,000 or 15,000 words is a huge challenge, so i went in with a particular angle and the angle was, what is the risk? what is the risk of a white house that is disengaged from actual managing the government day-to-day and didn't bother to get the memo and understand what the department does that hasn't staffed up the government. what could go wrong? so in the department of energy, on that -- i met -- the story starts with a several named john mcwilliams, the first ever chief risk officer inside the department, and he comes from a very successful investment career. made his fortune in private equity in visiting in things like nuclear power, and he was brought in in the first place to help the department assess the risks it was running in the investment portfolio. they do make their loans and sub diedded loans and grands to technology that may pave off hundred years from now. they do long-term k

to head the department of energy, the trump administration nominated someone who called for its abolishment. to head the ex-im bank which helps exports throughout this country, new jobs, the trump administration nominated someone who called for it to be disbanded. mr. mulvaney is only the latest in a long line of trojan horse candidates selected by the white house to undermine federal agencies from within. the cfpb should be led by someone who believes in its mission, who is committed to work round the clock, not by a part time director who clearly disdains the agency. president trump must nominate a permanent director and eventually that person will take charge of the agency if confirmed. whoever is nominated must have demonstrated record of standing up on behalf of consumers. former director cordy, leanda english fit that mold. nick mulvaney certainly does not. for the interim the law established under dodd-frank dictates that miss english is the acting director of the cfpb. the white house should abandon any efforts to circumvent that succession process. i yield the floor, madam presiden

department heads. the secretary of the treasury is the chairperson. the rest are the heads of the departments of justice, homeland security, commerce, defense, state and energy, plus the office of the u.s. trade representative and the office of science and technology. that's cfius. all department heads approved the sale, not hillary clinton. we don't know definitively if secretary clinton participated. the then secretary of state -- a assistant secretary of state represented hillary clinton on cfius. she said the secretary teary never intervened. secretary clinton or the committee could stop a deal of this kind. the committee members evaluate a sale of anything related to national security. by law, if one member objects, the president and only the president can veto such a transaction. no committee member of the nine objected. federal approvals were also needed. the nuclear regulatory commission approved the sale on november 24 of 2010 and in doing so stipulated that no uranium produced may be exported. so where does the uranium go? well, the energy information administration or eia reports that unless special permission is granted by the department of energ

question have explained that to the department of energy, that is going to be part of the fast act authority, that the secretary of energy can use, but the idea would be not to figure out these things in the midst of an incident, but to have a menu of options that the secretary of energy could pull from that already have been tested from an engineering standpoint and that can't be handled whether this extraordinary authority is leveled for the first time, the solutions are not being tested for the first time. that goes to one of the points kirsten was making, which is not look left of boom, while we are also preparing to be responsive, which is something i agree with have a century's worth of experience of and do particularly well. >> kirsten, one of the key issues articulated in the cyber commission report last year was the incentive, trying to get the incentive structure right to enable public-private cooperation. and when we have thought about incentives for the past tfew years, is punishing the target when something goes wrong. but are there different ways to think about incentives, not

the department of energy's national laboratory system has a long history of providing solutions to the nation's hardest problems. our structure and operations encourage partnerships with industry and others for challenges. cybersecurity of our critical energy energinfrastructure is a national challenge. today i want to talk about the electrical grid and technology break through to harden the defenses as you're well aware our electrical grid is a vital national asset and system becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber intrusions due in large part to connectivity with the public internet. operational risks have increased. energy sector devices and systems are experiencing an increased exposure to savvy and nefarious cyber actors. as a result, we're in a highly dynamic cycle of developing cybersecurity measures and capabilities to address these rapidly emerging threats. our challenge is to produce solutions to better protect energy sector communications and controls while continuing to make the grid smarter and better able to recover when problems do arise including the devastating effec

whoever won, it was assumed that people would roll in from the new administration, take over the department of energye department of agriculture, the treasury department, and they would be there with a nonaudiological briefing about what goes on inside this place. so the trump people just didn't show for much of this. it was like this exquisite course on how the federal government, it's interesting because there are briefings that didn't happen that i can go get. and that's what i've been doing. i've been going out and getting the briefings that the trump administration either didn't get it all -- >> so you walk into the department of agriculture and say, "hi, my name is michael lewis. i'm here to get the briefing. of the. >> i go, "find out who is supposed to deliver these briefings or prepare these meetings." and i call them up, and they're in the woods in maine. >> rose: waiting for somebody. >> they're not. i call them and say can you give me the briefing? and they say, "oh, my god. i spent six months on this thing. i'd love to give it to somebody." the department of agriculture has, i think, 13

the department of energy that trump administration nominateds someone who called for the abolishment. that which helps exports throughout this country and the trump administration nominated someone. mr. mulally is only the latest in a long line of trojan horse candidates selected by the white house to undermine the federal agencies from within. . . . . >> the white house should abandon any efforts to circumvent that succession process. i yield the floor. >> meta- president. >> senator from texas. >> my friend, the senator from new york is my friend and we work together on a number of occasions. i must disagree with a number of things said today. the consumer financial protection bureau was a partisan creation by democrats during the obama administration that have virtually no republican support. they created a modern-day emperor. somewhat immune from congressional oversight and appropriations process. now that mr. cordray is leaving following the election of republican president there taken exception that this president has authority under the law to appoint a successor. instead insis

department of agriculture? i had no idea what they do. i was curious. i started with the department of energy. ou go into a place like the department of agriculture, you're shocked by how important it is. you think of it as paying farmers not to grow stuff. that is a trivial part of the budget. a big part of the budget is feeding poor people. that's most of the money. >> dickerson: food stamps. >> if you want the look at the social safety net and where it is maybe vulnerable, where holes may be ripped in it, the dependent of agriculture is a very good place to look. >> dickerson: the president in talking about state department staffing this week said, we don't need all those people at the state department, and there is that view, like, well, they didn't staff it right away, but what do we need all these people for. >> what do you need people running the government for. >> dickerson: ? what goes wrong in the system if there is not the attention... >> let's take an example. their approach to it, this is right. i think his basic attitude is the government doesn't do anything that's that important

thing i think that 3.3% includes department of energy which handles nuclear , as well asre baseline and overseas contingency operation spending. forre still in that 3.3%, -- 3.4% gdp, well below the 5% to 6% average using the same accounts you mentioned over the last 45 years. accounting for all those expenditures over half a century, are almost half of what we're spending in the past. wood of- host: dakota the heritage foundation, you can find more at heritage.org and on twitter >> since october, the white house has not released a weekly address. sarah huckabee sanders was asked about it and said the white house is working on revamping the address. this week, democrat michael bennet talks about the tax bill. >> i hope you had a happy thanksgiving. we extend a special thanks to the incredible men and women serving every day to protect us from harm and extend the freedoms we cherish. in many ways, this has been a difficult year, and our politics can seem irredeemably broken. thanksgiving is a time to step back and remember that we have so much more in common than the pickering that fills

that nugget comes straight from the department of energy. a spokesperson says their most recent report says the energy savings overall for the country is tiny, about 0.03% impaired to the rest of the year. how about just bailing on the thing altogether? in massachusetts they're actually talking about joining the atlantic time zone being one hour ahead of us all the time that. would do the trick, but can they just do that? our verify team went to the department of transportation to inquire. congress can pass a law or the secretary of transportation can approve it to change the tombstone, altogether congress has not -- time zone, although congress has not changed a time zone in they can change from daylight savings time if they don't feel like it's saving them squat, but right now our friends in arizona and hawaii are the only states that don't apartment. that was fun. our verify team is -- participate. that was fun. our verify team is available to verify anything you need all day every day. >> have one of those moscow muellers between the show

perry speaking eve people with fossil fuel connection secretary of energy now, he i don't know if anyone reads about this. the department of energy put out a proposed rule that would change sort of fundamentally the power markets in this country so the electric power markets. you know where you buy your electricity from. the rule and this is the reason this -- is tough because it's superboringing. the rule would allow cost recovery for power plants that keep at least 90 days worth of fuel on site. so again that sounds superbore but coal plants piles of coal outside enough to last for 90 days. in nuclear plants by the way and very larmingsest hydroelectric plants would qualify. but coal is is the point here. [laughter] they would be guaranteed not only their money back for their cost like their cost of running the plant but also a guaranteed rate of return. so this completely upends whatever degree there's a free market in the power sector this completely changes that because it just allows coal plants to get money. they -- so this was done, i mean, it was really done because they're trying to force all coal plant retire

to head the department of energy, the trump administration nominated someone who calls for the abolishment. to head the ex-bank which that person will take charge of the agency is confirmed. weber is nominated must have demonstrated record standing up on behalf of consumers. former director cordray, leander english fit that mold. mick mulvaney does not. to the interim, the law established under dodd-frank dictates that ms. english is the acting director of the cfpb. the white house should abandon any efforts to circumvent that succession process. i yield the floor, madam president. >> madam president? >> senator from texas. >> madam president, my friend the senator from new york is my friend and we work together on a number of occasions but i must disagree with a number of things he said today here first of all, the consumer financial protection bureau was a partisan creation i democrats during the obama administration that had virtually no republican support. what they did is they created a modern day emperor, someone aiming from congressional oversight and appropriations process. and now

situation where we are rebuilding to code, 100% reimbursables and working closely with fema, department of energy and other regions these to make sure we have a variety of public assistance scraps to build resiliency into the system when we build it better. it is clear that will be a mix of federal and private funding, we are working on the transformation plan to do that right now. we have a meeting with our team this week and hope to have the initial transformation plan by the middle of december. >> not just for san juan but all outlying districts, taking that into -- >> it is a wholesale reimagining with a number of best practices from industry tied in with the puerto rico energy strategy which has been developed as of two weeks ago, what the governor send as parties for rebuilding. >> can any of you give me an estimate how many people left puerto rico and are living in new york or some other state, the mainland? >> up to 100,000 at this point. >> i want to close up by saying i support efforts to secure additional federal resources, puerto rico and the virgin islands as they rebuild from recent

even within that, when we at the department of energy went forward with energy policy recommendationsplace many of those recommendations. so i think this administration is missing a bet by not basing their policy on that and statements of the type that you made about carbon and climate are a good example of an anti—fact—driven statement. the key is society will keep moving in the direction of low carbon. we will see. we will. but ernest moniz, for now, thank you very much for being on hardtalk. pleasure. thank you very much indeed. well, bonfire night was a cold and mainly dry one up and down the uk. overnight those temperatures continue to fall away under clear skies and with light winds, leading to the coldest night of the season so far. during the early hours of monday morning, we're looking at values in towns and cities close to freezing. you can see the blue hue there on the map. and in rural places, significantly colder, down to “4, —5, maybe even —6 in one or two places along with some mist and fog. so we start monday morning off on a cold and a brighter note. some mist and fog