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on WNYC and WNYC. Good morning, everyone. So if you took a news holiday this weekend and missed these couple of days of President Elect Trump's nomination Paloosa, you may have missed this. His choice for energy secretary is a guy named Chris Wright, CEO of one of the country's biggest fracking companies. Drill, drill, drill. It was one of the items

in Trump's famous dictator on day one quote. Remember that? And Chris Wright is known for saying

things like this. There is no climate crisis. And we're not in the midst of an energy transition

either. So get ready for that debate. If they actually deign to hold confirmation hearings in the

Senate, then there's Texas Congressman Troy Nell's who's putting his stake in the ground to protect Congress's

right to have checks and balances on the executive branch. Well, not really. I made that up. In fact, the opposite. As explicitly, as you've ever

heard anyone say the quiet part out loud, there's no question he's a leader of our party.

So now he's got a mission statement, his mission, and his goals and objectives, whatever that is,

we need to embrace it. All of it. Every single word.

If Donald Trump says jump three feet high and scratch your head, we all jump three feet high

and scratch your heads.

That's it.

So let's hope Trump doesn't ask the congressman to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge because I guess

he'd have to do it.

Congressman Troy Nell's of Texas.

We'll get a reaction to that Texas Congressman from our guest later this hour. The Brooklyn Congressman and House Minority

Leader Hakeem Jeffries will see how he plans to lead the Democrats in the new era and

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