mike lynch, a pleasure to have you on the show.et's start with this, why are renewables not more of the conversation, or the solution in this current energy crisis? the big problem is that renewables are very expensive and they are not dispatchable. you cannot call up a wind turbine and say, give us more power, that power is either there or it isn't. so, when you want to have a surge capacity it is not going to be renewables because generally they operate all the time when they can. and if they are not operating it is because they can't. let me just clarify, what we are talking about it is an issue of capacity and the cost of storing renewable energy? yes, the cost of storing energy is phenomenal, people don't understand that. a battery, a a0 kilowatts battery costs about $5,000 and has about as much energy in it as $100 barrel of oil. this is why you do not have wide spread adoption of battery storage in utilities around the world. i am wondering is the problem of capacity likely to linger? i'm wondering won't investment in time a

to mike lynch who has been with me all of these years and is so strong and steadfast and steady.ty chief and my deputy chief, another person who has been here a very long time and is just amazing. we pricer for her eq among other talents. she told me that. [laughter] to merchant brandon another like mike lynch and mark brennan have been with me just about since i started being senator. and they are just such rocks in our office. incredible, probably the team of husband and wife who have done more to save the earth this year than just about anybody else. that is gerry and megan, they met, got married on my staff. they have a beautiful little boy george. and when you have two people so important, policy director and legislator. sue point of course you hearing senator schumer given the thank you spray let's bring chad back. "build back better" it was torpedoed at $2 trillion. this is about $430 billion. senator schumer just alluded to climate change and those types of incentives. what else is in this? and for those folks watching what does this mean to our wallets? >> this is resusc

to martin brennan, like mike lynch. has been with me since i started being senator. and they have just such rocks in our office. incredible. the probability the team of husband and wife who have done more to save the earth this year than just about anybody else, and that is jerry petrella, and megan. they met, got married on my staff. they have a beautiful little boy george. and when you two people so important, policy director and legislative director, and a little child at home, it is tough. but they manage to be great parents at the same time as being great and amazing staffers. and they're brilliant. they're just brilliant. my executive team is world class, emily sweet and kelly carney, rabbi and abbey shaw, who just left a few weeks ago. an amazing press team, justin goodman. >> listening to senate majority leader chuck schumer giving thanks to a lot of people who helped make this happen with now legislation being passed, the inflation reduction act there getting full passage there with the vice president's tie-breaking vote in the u.s. senate. thanks for julian

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the modern-day lynching i and then the realities to see how those are replicated today is very jarring. and with those killings over the years and then rice was soon after that and then mike andti baltimore 2015 i remember that the most. and then bland and castillo and garner and all the cases in that short time span. and it was so frustrating and heartbreaking. i saw that with the pandemic but the cause that shapes our generation of the black lives matter movement but what shapes us the most is interesting but also especially seeing the impact of the civil rights movement that was on people's minds. host: definitely am appreciative of those cases in the way they shape people because social media is very much a part of this story. especially summer 2016 with castillo and the videos going viral and people seeing them and then the response by so many people empowering in politics to saydi the problem is social media. no. the problem is v police violence if they say kaepernick is polarizing are taking a knee is polarizing. what is polarizing is police violence and racism. that is polarizing. so talk about polarization keep in mind if you drill in to those who are taking a kn

to martin brennan, another, like mike lynch. mike lynch and martin brennan have with me just about since i started being senator, and they are just such rocks in our office. incredible, probably the team of husband and wife who have done more to save the earth this year than just about anybody else, and that is jerry patrella and megan tyra. they met, got married on my staff, they have a beautiful little boy, george. when you have two people so important, policy director and legislative director, and a little child at home, it is tough, but they managed to be great parents at the same time as being great and amazing staffers. and they're brilliant. they're just brilliant. my executive team is world class, emily sweeter, kelly carney. an amazing please team -- justin goodman, alex wynn, monica lee, alice nam, jazz minimum harris, and everyone on the digital team, the senate media who worked day and night to record, edit, finalize photos, graphics, videos of every sort. they are a blessing. and i want to recognize my press staff u