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essence fast. i wish i was there, but i just would be there in spirit, all in with chris hayes starts right now. , al >> tonight on all in. >> come on. the hypocrisy is stunning. >> new supreme court rulings that make millions of people poorer, and open the door for discrimination. >> there are some people in this country now who believe that it was open season again on lgbtq people. >> tonight, two stunning two examples of the supreme court imperial overreach, and what happens next. >> today's decision has closed one path, now we're going to pursue another. >> then, an important new...

Said that the 45,000 total megawatts of power that were off line statewide during the cold snap about 30, 000, two thirds consisted of thermal sources. gas coal, and nuclear plants. in other words it was traditional mostly fossil fuel energy sources that were failing when texas was in that deep freeze. now, as texas is experiencing record heat, there is a fascinating scenario unfolding in reverse. the state is suffering from micro heat, which in is fueling record demand -- as reuters reports, quote, power use in texas hit a preliminary all-time high on tuesday. and the thing keeping those air ...

To do a lot more things. energy is the key. i think that -- the president -- if he were smart, use this as a pivot point. >> it is okay. >> am i being -- exaggerating the importance of this? you are an oil guy. you know how this works. >> i spent the better part of 25 years in the oil business. since the beginning of that time, always been against oil. oil, gas coal. gas being natural gas. not gasoline, natural gas. those are green fuels. now we are seeing how many jobs, how much money, how much tax receive knew is coming in from fracking and bringing natural gas out of the ground. you know, m...

>> i actually have been in favor of fracking ever since my man told me about it and showed me how it worked. it has done pretty well and clean. what i still don't understand, why don't we take natural gas and get rid of oil and gas and use natural gas, trucks and cars. >> we can. it cost as lot of money to retrofit all the vehicles. also, you have to have -- delivering mechanism. natural gas, you have to be linked to -- directly linked to a distribution. >> what would it cost to change a car over? >> less than 2 grand maybe. >> also, you want diversity of supply in your energy, for all your en...

Exporting clean, cheap, natural gas. while we import dirty, expensive crude from the middle east. why do we have these military carriers before we send more out. guarding the oil in the middle east. helping them make millions of dollars. i will go back to this point. what do we get for it in return? nothing. saudis have been floating about $130 billion around the middle east to prevent the arab string from rolling into their country. not our friends. >> dana, what do you make of all of this? >> i think if you want to help -- people say, well, why would we bother helping anybody overseas when w...