On today's show, we have a special guest, Mike Davis, who breaks down the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action. We also have the latest on the devastating heat in the United States and the potential impact on the grid. And we have an update on the Catholic Church and the FBI.
00:02:13.900I saw a young guy from a young boy from Florida, 14, with his dad.
00:02:19.720Both of them died down there in a big bend national park going up one of those trails with no, you know, no shade, no rock outcrops, no water.
00:02:43.900The grid is very, very close to running out of electricity.
00:02:48.720We got final data in from the 23rd last year.
00:02:53.840The all time peak for June was reached last year, 76,600 megawatts.
00:02:58.920This this Tuesday, capacity or utilization reached 80,600 megawatts.
00:03:05.160That's the most ever in Texas for for the month of June, any day in a month of June in electrical capacity used.
00:03:11.960But here, remember, from 18 months ago, 20 months ago, we've got four point six million more people living in Texas, four million immigrants who've just come across the border and another six hundred thousand who have come from California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota and the like.
00:03:28.340Legitimate transit from within the U.S.
00:03:31.780So we're ballpark is four point six, four point seven million more people living there than two years ago.
00:03:37.500So this utilization of electricity pretty much tracks.
00:03:41.520But the enhanced population by nearly 16 percent, 17 percent is at the core of bumping up against what are inadequate reserve margins because their system is based on 32 percent variable energy.
00:05:18.360I mean, we're still we're still right at the we're at the point eight percent from being out of electricity at the present level.
00:05:25.540We are at the bitter end of the electricity supply being totally used as of Tuesday, 80,600 megawatts out of 81,100.
00:05:34.520So the doubling of solar hasn't it hasn't been meaningful.
00:05:37.700It's not meaningful because it only operates about 27 percent of the time.
00:05:42.840And when we get to winter, which, again, is the next peak, solar in the morning from 5 to 10 in the morning, 9 in the morning, provides nothing, provides nothing then.
00:05:52.860And by the way, in the peak now, after 530 p.m., it provides nothing.
00:06:01.180And in Dallas, the last few nights, up until midnight, it's been 94, 95, one in the morning, about 90, 89.
00:06:08.920I mean, you need a lot of electricity way, way after the solar becomes zero value, which is about 530 p.m.
00:06:16.160Two thirds of the peak occurs after that.
00:06:18.300So, no, it's got little to do with saving in Texas.
00:06:23.020What lessons are reasonable people going to take away from this?
00:06:26.900Because Texas is bringing jobs now down that are high tech.
00:06:30.160It's becoming a major industrial power, not just the agriculture, not just, you know, energy resources, not entertainment, everything like that, travel, tourism.
00:06:42.080It's becoming a major industrial power in this country.
00:06:46.780What lesson are rational people going to take here?
00:06:49.760Well, let's say rational people with industrial factories, factories, server centers, heavy electricity utilization capacity, whether it's steel, steelmaking, aluminum, smoke, car assembly, whatever, who bring an operation to Texas are like in the third world.
00:07:05.500And we got accustomed to seeing this in my long career supplying power generation systems in the third world.
00:07:13.680They'll need to bring generation facilities on site to their factory or their huge warehouse to assure that they have continuous duty power.
00:07:21.400Because if you're running CNC, programmable machine tools, sensitive electrical systems, computers, server centers, you can't afford a five-second outage.
00:07:31.480You've got to have a continuous supply of electricity.
00:07:34.140So you're going to see more industrials who locate there have to think through investing in their own generation facility for their site.
00:07:41.280Because in the third world, that's what you do.
00:07:44.040Given the state of affairs there with short power, that's going to become a reality.
00:07:50.440Florida is completely heading in the same direction with a plan to build 1,200 square miles of solar that operates 5.4 hours a day, reducing its on-demand energy from 88% now to 48% by 2045, which the Public Service Commission is supporting every step of the way.
00:08:09.460Florida Power and Light's plan to do this.
00:08:10.980We're going to see the same thing here in spades.
00:08:14.720These are Republican policies being enacted in a lot of states.
00:08:26.620I don't agree with it, but up in New England power.
00:08:29.300Walk me through Florida and South Carolina.
00:08:32.880Well, I just did a pretty extensive survey of about 14 IRPs, integrated resource plans for the major utilities in states that cover 35% of the U.S. population.
00:08:43.540What I came up with in a 15-year plan, these plans run from 10 to 20 years, the average being 15.
00:08:49.960The average utility is reducing its on-demand power over a 15-year period by 31% on a planned basis, including Dominion in Virginia, South Carolina, the system there, Florida.
00:09:03.420Florida Power and Light, Pacific Corp, APS, Nevada Energy down 29%, Georgia Power down 13%, New Jersey down 62% on a planned basis in what is known as dispatchable power over their planning period.
00:09:17.040The next 10 to 20-year period, reducing dispatchable energy by that high percentage averaging across the country, 31% reduction in dispatchable energy because of the egregious addition of solar, wind, and battery storage, which all operate very part-time, displacing baseload, continuous-duty coal plants, displacing nuclear plants, and no further meaningful investment in large combined cycle gas plants.
00:09:43.320So you're seeing across the country a trend to move in this direction.
00:09:48.800So we've got MISO, the PGM system, along with CAISO and NERCOT, all talking about aggressively the heads of FERC in those regions, those electricity regions, talking about increasing brownouts and shortages.
00:10:03.720This has been very openly discussing it in most of these regions because of this phenomenon of shutting down coal plants and nuclear plants for this time.
00:10:12.280These are Republican legislatures, Republican governors, and Nikki Haley and DeSantis ought to be out there.
00:10:24.020And Tim Scott talking about what their energy plans are because here's why.
00:10:28.880People are saying, well, how can that possibly happen?
00:10:31.460Correct me if I'm wrong here, brother, but to continue on the full-spectrum energy dominance and build up the Canadian base doesn't require the massive capital expenditure as doing it all different with solar and wind.
00:10:45.260And it's a way for the establishment to make tons of money, correct?
00:10:53.580I mean, the cost of this transition, grossly, this so-called transition to reduced energy value resources, costs five to ten times simply maintaining the system, making it better, applying modernizations and improvements.
00:11:13.300Florida Power and Light's announced plan.
00:11:14.780Nextera is the holding company that owns them, involves spending $420 billion of CapEx between now and 2045 on this stuff, displacing that which they have.
00:11:26.520Their annual capital plan on generation right now is about $1,600,000,000, $1,600,000, $1,700,000 a year in a normal year.
00:11:33.240It's going to go to $16 billion a year based on their plan, installing 1,200 square miles of solar, installing 50,000 megawatts.
00:11:43.080The half a trillion, $420 billion, roughly, let's round up, a half a trillion dollars.
00:11:50.180I take it the rate payers are going to pay that?
00:11:52.680The good citizens of Florida are going to be bearing that burden?
00:11:57.520Florida Power and Light enacted 23% worth of cumulative increases in the base rate, not about natural gas cost, which is just a one-for-one adder, in the base rate in the last 24 months to begin paying for, beginning to do this already.
00:12:12.400They've already built 7,000 megawatts of solar in the rates already.
00:12:19.720I just want to make sure the audience is savvy on this.
00:12:22.380This is all about the investment bankers.
00:12:25.000The financiers are going to make a ton of money.
00:12:26.800The consultants are going to redo these plants where, as Dave has told you, not as efficient or effective, not there with base load.
00:12:33.240Well, if you had the plans to upgrade them, to make them modern, to do the capex, to do the maintenance, you've got a cost, but you can plan that cost out.
00:12:40.800Here, we're going to redo the whole thing because of the climate.
00:12:44.220It's because they make money off of it.
00:12:47.380That is why it's happening, Brother Walsh.
00:12:50.040Yeah, I mean, in the state of Florida, on capital spending, Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy, and TECO get a guaranteed 10.8% annual return on capital spending.
00:13:00.700And on capital spending, they get that money back sooner than on OPEX.
00:13:05.100So they get a guaranteed 10.8% return on it.
00:13:40.320But has the DeSantis team gotten back to you with their energy plan yet?
00:13:44.780No, I've got specific questions into Cuccinelli, into the no-name SC, initials SC, Fortes, several emails, in which he acknowledges, by the way, I don't know the answer.
00:30:07.380We'll say there are people that have come forward to share information with our committee over the last couple of years.
00:30:12.940I would imagine some of them are potentially some of the same people that perhaps he's referring to.
00:30:17.520I want to be very protective of these people.
00:30:19.200A lot of these people came to us even before these protections were in the law for whistleblowers to come forward.
00:30:24.660Sorry, people who have had firsthand knowledge, who claim to have firsthand knowledge of seeing this type of thing?
00:30:30.040Or have firsthand knowledge or firsthand claims of certain things.
00:30:34.020Some are public figures, you know, and you've heard from them in the past.
00:30:37.240Others, you know, have not shared publicly.
00:30:40.960And so we're trying to gather as much of that information as we can.
00:30:43.200And the reason why I'm being cautious, I'm not trying to be evasive, but I am trying to be protective of these people.
00:30:47.540Some of these people still work in the government.
00:30:49.700And frankly, a lot of them are very fearful, fearful of their jobs, fearful of their clearances, fearful of their career.
00:30:55.380And some, frankly, are fearful of harm coming to them.
00:30:58.840So that category of people who have firsthand knowledge, who say they have actually seen these kinds of things, do you find many of them credible?
00:31:05.600Well, I don't find them either not credible or credible, because we have no basis.
00:31:10.640But we understand some of these claims are things that are beyond sort of the realm of what any of us has ever dealt with.
00:31:15.820What I think we owe them is just a mature, you know, understanding, listening, and trying to put all these pieces together and just sort of intake the information without any prejudgment or jumping to any conclusions in one direction or another.
00:31:27.580I will say I find most of these people at some point, or maybe even currently, have held very high clearances and high positions within our government.
00:31:36.640So you do ask yourself, like, what incentive would so many people with that kind of qualification, these are serious people, have to come forward and make something up?
00:31:47.400Okay, Senator Rubio is, you know, a very serious guy.
00:31:52.020He's got a new book out, Decades of Decadence, which I've gone through.
00:31:55.740He's a converted populist nationalist America first now, no longer a neoliberal neocon.
00:32:03.980Look, it goes against all his beliefs, but he's a serious guy, and he's anti-CCP, all that.
00:32:08.780So Congressman Burchard, you're a serious guy, too, and you've brought this up many times.
00:32:12.380I think the question people have, it's almost so unbelievable what's being talked about, and that's what we want you to explain.
00:32:19.420We've got to go to Tennessee to get just something basic, simple, and truthful, particularly with everything going on.
00:32:25.960People say, is this just a misdirection play from the intelligence agencies and from the military that want more money, et cetera?
00:32:31.760So can you explain to our audience, are there actual senior people, credible people inside our government that said that we basically have UFOs or extraterrestrial aerial devices that we have, sir?
00:32:46.600And we're trying to reverse engineer them?
00:32:51.440But, you know, the military and the industrial war complex or whatever you want to call it, they're always looking for a dollar.
00:32:57.340So if they smell a dollar, they're going to go after it, or Pentagon loses over a billion dollars a year in their audit, nobody has the guts to call them out.
00:33:05.380So, you know, that doesn't surprise me.
00:33:07.540They're smelling dollars in our research institutes.
00:33:11.500But the reality is, is that this is just arrogance of our intelligentsia or whatever you want to call it, of our leadership that will not release this information.
00:33:25.260These people face a great deal of, you know, of scrutiny when they do this, even though, you know, they'll tell you, we've got, you know, we have whistleblower protection.
00:33:37.840Well, that's your military intelligence talking, and that's like congressional ethics.
00:33:43.380I've talked to many pilots that have stated.
00:33:46.160I've talked to one in particular who actually said, you know, he destroyed information because he knew when he got back that, when he landed, that he would be interrogated for, you know, eight hours.
00:33:59.840And he would have this blemish on his record.
00:34:03.240So he didn't, even though he was, he had visually seen something and something had been recorded on his recorder, he had destroyed it.
00:34:10.220And it made some people very uncomfortable in the room.
00:34:13.280But that's the reality you live with today.
00:34:16.580And it doesn't take any more money, Mr. Bannon.
00:34:18.740They just need to release the records.
00:34:20.780They just need to release the files and then let the American public decide.
00:34:25.400Hang on, because you've been on this intensely.
00:34:29.980People, you know, you have a ton of credibility.
00:34:33.320I just want to make sure we're talking about two things now, because there's one in the records.
00:34:36.980Look, when I first saw him taking, you know, the gun site information of Navy pilots, because my kid brother's a Navy pilot, and the Pentagon was putting it out.
00:34:46.020I said, man, they're trying to normalize something, because there's nothing more straight than a Navy pilot, and particularly what's in that gun camera.
00:35:08.160It looks like a Tic-Tac or a Tic-Tac box or whatever.
00:35:12.400Isn't it another thing to say we've actually got some of these, and we're trying to reverse engineer, or they're, you know, we're actually – the government actually has real equipment, planes, jets, whatever, a spacecraft.
00:35:25.580And we actually have it in there kept somewhere, and we're trying to reverse engineer it.
00:35:30.060Isn't that the fork in the road that now we're talking about something quite different than actually just seeing UFOs or seeing whatever the new term of art is, sir?
00:35:39.740Yeah, to put this completely to rest, somebody is going to have to walk out of one of those facilities with undeniable proof, and it can't be some AI-generated video that's bogus, as we all know,
00:35:50.060but some unidentified material or proof and bring it to the public domain.
00:35:55.520That's really the only way this is ever going to be resolved.
00:35:57.860I hear congresspeople, friends of mine say, oh, Birchett, let's get a Codell to Area 51 and get to the bottom of it.
00:36:05.480I'm like, you know, you'd roll in there about 10 deep, and there'd just be empty warehouses, which there are now.
00:36:11.620Everything that was at Area 51 in the 40s and 50s was taken to Wright-Patterson and wherever it is now, who knows?
00:36:19.600It's in some corporate warehouse somewhere.
00:36:22.200So I believe that we've recovered craft.
00:36:25.280I believe that someone is reverse engineering.
00:36:32.440And to be disinformation is, I think at some point there is, but I think you've got a government that is really—
00:36:39.620Okay, but hang on, but hang on, but this is a deeply serious—you believe, and remember, the audience, you've got a tremendous amount of credibility with MAGA.
00:36:50.280You believe that this may actually be true and that people are keeping that from the appropriate people with the right security clearances in the House of Representatives?
00:36:59.900They're not putting forward that information.
00:37:01.640You actually think this may have happened, and there are credible people inside that know it, but there's a cover-up, and they won't let them come forward?
00:37:11.480That's why when I'm with my security clearances and I see things that are—that I get something that's just a redacted file, looks like a piece of Swiss cheese, that's the only conclusion that you have, that they're hiding something from me, a congressman, who votes on their funding but doesn't have the guts to call them out on it.
00:37:30.120And I feel like congressmembers are compromised.
00:37:34.020You know, I have them come and put a—you know, they'll come to me and say, hey, Birchit, I'm for you on this thing, but, man, I can't say nothing about it.
00:37:40.660Or I get someone who has very high credentials in the party or whatever says, Birchit, don't you think we've got something more important to discuss than this?
00:37:50.400And I was like, look, we've had over—we've had 13 documented near misses with our military aircraft, the best in the world, and they're trying to say that there's nothing to see.
00:38:00.960So, yeah, if there's a craft, there had to be somebody who flew it, and if they flew it, there has to be a body somewhere.
00:38:07.520Whether that's in a warehouse at Wright-Patterson, I doubt it.
00:38:11.160I would say it's so compartmentalized that the people who can connect the dots in the 40s and 50s are long gone, Mr. Bannon.
00:38:18.320And so I think it's going to take complete—like I said, a complete capitulation of one of these departments to finally come forth with something.
00:38:27.160And, you know, you'll ask a president, and they show Obama, they roll him out, and he laughs about it, and they ask Clinton, and he rolls, you know, wherever he is, he laughs about it.
00:38:43.560I believe—I just believe it, because I've talked to too many people.
00:38:48.340I've had too many people come to me in confidence and others that I've talked to that risked their careers over this.
00:38:55.120And they have absolutely nothing to gain from it.
00:38:58.340All they have to gain from it is abuse.
00:39:03.260This gets to the crisis of our institutions where people, you know, average citizens, the people that support the government and pay taxes and send their kids to the military to fight on foreign battlefields, start to lose faith.
00:39:15.440I mean, it's the other side of the coin of this investigation where Comer's got to sit there, and they've had these files, these suspicious activity reports for almost, you know, eight, nine, ten years.
00:39:26.280And now you guys, it's like pulling teeth to get anything.
00:39:29.360What are folks in your district supposed to think about the institutions in this government if these basic things about our security, basic things about potential foreign invasion, all this is not brought forward to their representatives?
00:39:46.320They think that—in Tennessee, at least—they think what now the rest of the country is starting to think, that we are corrupted to the highest level.
00:39:57.060You know, you have—I mean, let's go back to it, Mr. Bannon.
00:39:59.580If you go back, you know, and as I've stated, you know, the Biden crime family, when they were doing money laundering school, they were all asleep.
00:40:08.060Because even I could pick out 20 or 21 different bank accounts and LLCs where they funneled money into it.
00:40:14.720And you have a Justice Department that either refuses to do—to look into it or claims they're in the middle of an investigation and can't release anything to protect the Bidens.
00:40:26.240It's almost just like—it's just part of, you know, so—like in the Soviet Union, I've talked to people from Russia who just like, corruption is just part of the way of life, you know.
00:41:14.080You know, why in the heck do we even have a department of education?
00:41:16.960Send that money to the states, those billions.
00:41:19.000There's not one single bureaucrat in Washington, D.C.
00:41:21.800that's got a ton of kids in East Tennessee have to be.
00:41:24.100Your constituents are a good test because this is, you know, patriots, hardworking folks that stick to their business but want the country running an appropriate way.
00:41:34.180What are they telling you about these impeachment?
00:41:36.120You know, we had Sebon talk about Newt and Newt Wood and Ford about moving down on inquiries into impeachment for Garland and for Biden.
00:41:43.040And they say go with it, I think, and the more and more people say it, and they're—you know, I understand the committee system and that we need to—we've got a committee system.
00:41:53.500But this stuff on Biden is just too much.
00:41:55.940You know, if we get caught up in a committee system, it'll be like—in Trump's impeachment, it took months and months and just a big waste of money.
00:42:04.000And we knew what the outcome was going to be.
00:42:05.700They had bogus information from bogus people, and we knew it, and nobody would believe it.
00:42:10.300Well, we've got federal employees in their own files saying this money went to this—went from China, went from Burisma, went to the Biden family.
00:42:38.480Is this what you're telling leadership, is what the constituents in your district in Tennessee are telling you?
00:42:44.040Yeah, I'm telling them I'm a product of the committee system, and I get that.
00:42:48.180But I'm also telling them we're getting bogged down with this.
00:42:50.740We've got so many investigations going on, and I'm worried that what we'll end up doing is we have three or four different committees studying the same thing or studying—
00:43:00.740and nobody's staying in their lane, and it's just—it's too easy to grab a mic and get TV time.
00:43:06.200And then we're all just going off in a hundred different directions, and we're not staying focused.
00:43:11.380I think priority should be on the president and this corruption that he's done,
00:43:16.280because I believe it shows we are completely compromised by the communist Chinese, who we will be at war with sooner, if not later,
00:43:23.500and that we need to be ready for that.
00:43:25.700And I think that should be the starting point.
00:43:30.720Congressman Birchard, just hang over and go to a short commercial break.
00:43:33.180I'm going to make an announcement on the other side that I'm—I don't know if I'm going to be in war room.
00:43:37.220I think I may become Congressman Birchard's agent.
00:43:41.640It'll all become clear when we come back from the break in the war room.
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