Governor Shapiro Discusses Leadership and New Book
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1:00Donald Trump just got the news he feared most regarding his cover -up of the
1:04Epstein files. His cover -up, as well as the horrific performing American economy right now,
1:11is crushing his poll numbers.
1:13They are at new lows.
1:15And this is at the same time that it has now been uncovered that Donald
1:19Trump is likely hiding still 98 % of the Epstein files, even with the production
1:26of the 3 million or so documents that were previously produced a week or two
1:32ago. And even with the unredacted copies that are still redacted that Congress got to
1:38see, there likely exists 98 % more documents, perhaps 50, 100 million documents that are
1:46still being covered up. And that makes sense when you think about how widespread this
1:53Epstein class pedo sex trafficking ring is that Donald Trump is covering up.
1:59Here's what we're learning from Channel 4 News.
2:02A new investigation examining emails sent between federal investigators and prosecutors has raised fresh doubts
2:08over the Department of Justice's claim that it released a full cache of Epstein files,
2:14suggesting the material made public amounts to just 2 % of the data gathered by
2:19agents. Channel 4 News. Channel 4 News from the UK goes on to say that
2:24federal investigators expected to process between 20 and 40 terabytes of data seized from Epstein's
2:31properties, including his Florida mansion, New York townhouse, and private island.
2:35Note that the feds did not even go to the area where some of the
2:39most despicable conduct was taking place, which was the New Mexico ranch, the Zorro ranch.
2:45The broadcaster added that the emails between investigators discussing the data totaled up to 50
2:52terabytes from the earliest stages of the investigation as of June 2020.
2:57To me, that means we're talking about 100 million documents, folks.
3:01So let's talk about Donald Trump's crashing approvals right now.
3:05Here's how it was just described moments ago by Harry Enten.
3:09Here, play this clip. Through and through.
3:10Let's take a look at another president, though, President Donald John Trump.
3:13Look at this. I got four numbers across for you on this screen here.
3:17They are all second term lows for the given pollster.
3:21What are we talking about?
3:22APNORC, 26 points below order.
3:24NBC, 22 points below order.
3:26Yahoo, YouGov, 20 points. below water.
3:28Quinnipiac, 19 points below water.
3:32So we're ranging from negative 19 points all the way to negative 26 points.
3:36You know, Kate, there's this question that folks keep asking, you know, where is the
3:41floor for Donald Trump? And I'm not sure there is a floor because if there
3:44is one, Donald Trump, at least in term number two, has just fallen through it
3:48to another low level. How does this compare with his first term and how does
3:51this compare with Joe Biden?
3:52Okay. So we look at these numbers right here.
3:55And one of the things that Donald Trump had been arguing, his proponents have been
3:58arguing, oh, you know what?
4:00He's doing better than he was doing in term number one.
4:03No longer is that the case.
4:04What are we talking about here?
4:06Okay. Net approval rating at this point in the term.
4:08Look at this. 22 points below water on average when you average all the pollsters
4:12from the last night. That is actually lower.
4:14That is lower than he was at this point in term number one when it
4:18was 17 points below water.
4:19So he's doing five points worse, five points worse.
4:22And he's doing way worse than Joe Biden was doing at this point in his
4:25term number one when he was 13 points below water.
4:28So the bottom line is this.
4:29Donald Trump is setting new records for himself in term number two, setting new records
4:34for himself compared to where he was at this point in term number one.
4:37And he's doing worse than Joe Biden, which is, of course, the comparison that Donald
4:41Trump does not want to be because we all know what happened to Joe Biden.
4:44His party lost the House in term number one, that midterm elections.
4:48And of course, Joe Biden was not reelected to another term.
4:51At this point, the numbers are no bueno for the president of the United States.
4:55What's driving this that you're seeing right now?
4:57OK, Kate, you know what?
4:58This is the segment. We have done it over and over and over again because
5:02he keeps setting new lows for himself.
5:05What are we talking about?
5:06Well, we're talking about independence.
5:08We're talking about independence. When you lose the center of the electorate, you lose the
5:12American people. Trump's not approving among independents.
5:15You know, at this point, you go back term number one.
5:18He was 17 points below water.
5:20Now, according to Quinnipiac, he is 27 points below water.
5:25I don't understand how this works out well for the president of the United States.
5:28When you are 27 points below water, underwater, with the center of the electorate, with
5:33independence, you lose, your party loses.
5:36You know, I've made the comparisons before.
5:38You know, oh, he's more underwater than Greg Louganis.
5:41I've made the comparisons with all those different divers.
5:44And the bottom line is this.
5:45You can continue to make those.
5:47But over time, when you keep making those same comparisons, they run a little bit
5:50old. But at this point, I don't really know who to even compare Donald Trump
5:53to because he's just so low and he's so low with the center of the
5:56electorate. Can only be compared to himself.
5:58That's correct. Harry, thank you so much.
6:00Thank you. Now, what is Donald Trump doing today on President's Day as he's freaking
6:05out? Well, he's sending emails like this to try to grift and raise money.
6:10This is Dr. Donald J.
6:12Trump. I've come to save the day.
6:13Read the memo. You might have noticed your Trump sustaining membership is on life support.
6:19Please renew ASAP before it's too late.
6:22Even CPR won't bring it back.
6:24And I think this is important for you to know, in addition to the fact
6:27that he's faking pretending to be a doctor.
6:29A lot of the people who he tries to trick are elderly people.
6:33I've called his email schemes elder abuse before.
6:36So when he's saying you're on life support and I'm Dr.
6:39Donald J. Trump is saying you need to give me money.
6:41That's also the targeted audience as part of his scam as well.
6:46Also, just in this morning, as Josh Gerstein reports, Judge Cynthia Rufi, George W.
6:53Bush appointee, cites Orwell's 1984 as she orders Trump administration to restore slavery focused panels
7:02at the site of Washington's Philly House.
7:05The Fed are wiping away the history of the greatest founding father's management.
7:10So here's what Judge Roof says.
7:13Again, George W. Bush appointee.
7:15She starts with a George Orwell quote.
7:17All history was a palimpset, scraped clean and rescribed exactly as often as was necessary.
7:24In no case would it have been possible once the deed was done to prove
7:29that any falsification had taken place?
7:31George Orwell 1984. As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed
7:39with its motto, ignorance is strength, this court is now asked to determine whether the
7:44federal government under Donald Trump has the power it claims to dissemble and disassemble historical
7:52truths when it has some domain over historical facts.
7:56It does not. And the court ruled against the Trump regime.
8:00Donald Trump this morning is also ranting and raving as we've now uncovered that 100
8:05million documents perhaps in the Epstein files are still not produced.
8:10Here's what Donald Trump is posting.
8:12I'm opposed to the future boondoggle known as Gateway in New York, New Jersey, because
8:18it will cost many billions of dollars, more than projected or anticipated, much like Gavin
8:23Newsom's railroad to nowhere, which is many times over budget.
8:27It's a disaster. Gateway will likewise be financially catastrophic for the region unless hard work
8:33and proper planning is done now to avoid insurmountable future cost overrun.
8:38Please let this statement represent the fact that under no circumstance will the federal government
8:43be responsible for any cost overruns, not one dollar.
8:46The federal government is willing to meet, however, to make sure that this does not
8:50happen. Also, the naming of Penn Station.
8:52I love Pennsylvania, but it is a direct competitor to New York.
8:56And eating New York's lunch to Trump Station was brought up by certain politicians and
9:02construction union heads. Not me.
9:04It's just more fake news.
9:06Remember, Donald Trump has been withholding funding for the Gateway Project, which New Yorkers, New
9:11Jersey, and people from Connecticut are saying, we need this project.
9:16What the hell are you doing?
9:17And Trump's like, but you got to name it after me.
9:19You got to name it after me.
9:20You know, it's interesting with Donald Trump freaking out this morning and the big case
9:24out of Philadelphia where a George W.
9:26Bush judge just ruled against Donald Trump.
9:28And you see Donald Trump whining about Pennsylvania.
9:32Why don't on President's Day, we bring in the governor of the great Commonwealth of
9:36Pennsylvania, Governor Josh Shapiro. This was the interview I recently did with Governor Shapiro exclusively
9:43here on the Midas Touch Network.
9:45Let's bring in Governor Shapiro.
9:47Now I want to bring in Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
9:51Gov, great to see you out with a new book, Where We Keep the Light,
9:55Stories from a Life of Service.
9:58Governor, author, author, former Attorney General, which is what I want to talk about because
10:03I was showing some clips right there of Attorney General Pam Bondi's testimony.
10:08And I just think objectively, setting aside political, whatever, as a matter of leadership, what
10:17the role of an Attorney General is, which you talk about in the book, service,
10:22leadership. To me, I don't care what political party you're from, that was despicable and
10:27an utter failure of leadership.
10:29You know, I write in the book about my time as Attorney General of Pennsylvania
10:34and standing up for victims and ensuring that we enforce the rule of law without
10:40fear or favor. I write extensively about the work I did.
10:44holding predator priests and other pedophiles accountable, from local coaches and pediatricians and teachers to,
10:51of course, hundreds of predator priests that abused thousands of children.
10:56And in that experience, I got to know these victims, victims who, you know, for
11:01years, and there's a similar overlay with the Epstein case, for years went to the
11:06authorities and tried to get the authorities to believe them and listen to them, were
11:09turned away and thwarted by powerful people.
11:13And then it's up to the attorney general, it's up to the chief prosecutor to
11:17listen to their stories, to stand for victims and to fight for them.
11:21And what I continue to see out of the Trump administration, our group of people
11:25that are there trying to protect the president, whose name thousands, although I think Congressman
11:31Raskin recently said up to a million times in these documents, and a whole bunch
11:36of other powerful people who were abusing young women and abusing the power that they
11:42had in life. And I think it is important that we have prosecutors that stand
11:47with victims that hold the perpetrators accountable.
11:50And I'm not seeing that coming out of DC right now.
11:53Right. Can you just imagine, though, you're sitting there, you're in Congress, survivors are behind
12:02you. And by the way, you had a similar situation as AG, you're waiting for
12:08a grand jury report. You know, you want to make sure it's public.
12:12The survivor community is leaning on you.
12:15You've got a very powerful, if not the most powerful interest, the church in the
12:21Commonwealth, and you're being called upon in this moment.
12:26What do you what do you do?
12:28She starts saying, well, the Dow is 50 ,000, even though it was not that
12:34when you said that, you know, and do and she had a burn book.
12:37Like it, it was, if your book is a testament to leadership service, empathy, her
12:46performance was the exact opposite.
12:48I think if you're in these roles, you've got to stand with victims, you've got
12:52to stand up for the rule of law, you've got to stand against the powerful
12:55who so oftentimes take advantage of the people.
12:58And there was a clear opportunity to do that yesterday.
13:01And that did not happen.
13:03It was a failure in leadership.
13:05But to me, it's in many ways, not with saying the importance of those hearings.
13:10In many ways, that was performative.
13:12It's the hard work that prosecutors do behind the scenes to stand up for victims.
13:17It's the hard work prosecutors do behind the scenes to hold the powerful accountable.
13:22And that is what I am not seeing coming out of the Trump administration.
13:26Right. And in the book, you talk about other prosecutions.
13:33Lots of people knew you standing up to Trump during the elections.
13:38Right. 20. And Trump tries to overthrow the results, which we could even talk a
13:42little bit about. Knowing what you know, what you saw in Fulton County, where he
13:46recycled the same types of bogus declarations that he tried to push past.
13:53Let's let's do that. Then I'll go out of water.
13:55You know, so you saw what he did.
13:57But in the system where he had to go to court, there was adversarial in
14:04nature. So you as the AG were able to say this declaration is bullshit.
14:09This affidavit. Exactly. And then the judge goes, tell me about it, counsel.
14:13And you go, I could easily show you.
14:15And then not only do these affidavits get rejected, but the lawyers on the other
14:21side get sanctioned and lose their license.
14:23now Trump's reached this whole other point where they're submitting the affidavits just with the
14:29same stuff. They're giving them to magistrates as though this stuff is fact in situations
14:35where there's not an adversarial process.
14:37You sound like Professor Ben right now.
14:40I try. I try. No, but let me give you a real life example of
14:45how this played out in Pennsylvania and juxtapose that with what we're seeing in Fulton
14:51County. Back in 2020, I'll just remind you.
14:53You and I talked about it a lot at the time.
14:56Donald Trump and his enablers sued me in Pennsylvania 43 different times to try and
15:01throw out the votes of legal eligible voters here in Pennsylvania.
15:05He went 0 -43, I went 43 -0, and we had a free and fair,
15:10safe and secure election. In one of those cases, there were these bogus affidavits, these
15:17bogus statements that the Trump folks were relying on that were introduced in court when
15:24they were asking the judge to try and throw out these votes.
15:27Guess who the lawyer was at that time?
15:29It was Rudy Giuliani. And Giuliani went into court and lied.
15:33He lied with his own mouth.
15:36He lied with the introduction of these affidavits and other statements.
15:42And in the end, not only did they lose the case and I won and
15:46we protected the voters here in Pennsylvania, but then we pursued Giuliani's law degree and
15:52we stripped him of his law license.
15:55I say his law degree, I mean his law license, which he no longer has
15:59because he lied in court.
16:01You can't do that. Now, fast forward to where we are today, the same conspiracy
16:07theorists that were sort of on the outside looking in, well, now they're on the
16:12inside. And folks are relying on, folks in power are relying on those statements as
16:18the pretext for the search that we just saw play out in Fulton County, Georgia.
16:24That is dangerous. And it's going to take the courts some time to sort this
16:28through. I hope that when they do and they realize these are more bogus conspiracy
16:32theories, that someone loses their damn law license over this.
16:36The same way we were able to get Rudy Giuliani out of practicing the law
16:41because he lied in our court proceedings.
16:44That is not only wrong and unacceptable, it is not something we tolerate in practice
16:49of law. You also talk about in the book, real negotiations, not this Trump fake
16:58favor nations that Trump talks about, where he says he's reducing prescription drug prices by
17:0318 ,000 percent or 18 trillion percent.
17:06And then no one knows what the hell he's talking about.
17:08Or he launches Trump Rx, which is basically just utilizing, you know, which is still
17:15more expensive than the generic brands.
17:17And he's using the prices that were already being used by the pharmaceutical company.
17:21And when you do a study of what he's talking about, it's all it's all
17:24BS. But people who obviously who know the Commonwealth know this, but you take a
17:29trip through some of your cities like Pittsburgh and elsewhere, and you see the medical
17:33community there and the great research centers and facilities and and and pharma is all
17:39there. You talk about in the book having to roll your sleeves up, you know,
17:43in both in both the litigation posture and a negotiation to bring down prices.
17:49And it was hard work, you know, but but you but you brought it through
17:52the finish line. We did look your brother Geordi is in Pittsburgh knows this in
17:57Pittsburgh. We've got these two big competing health care.
18:01systems, right? And they're what we call vertically integrated.
18:04I won't nerd out on you and bore you to death with this, but think
18:07hospital system that owns the doctors, owns the insurance company.
18:11And basically what the one healthcare system said was, if you've got an insurance card
18:17from the other healthcare provider, you can't come see our doctors.
18:22You can't come get world -class care from us.
18:26Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians were on the verge of losing, literally days away from
18:31losing access to healthcare. And I write in the book about a woman who was
18:36working behind the counter, the checkout counter at Sheetz, which is this unbelievable place where
18:42you go to not only fuel up, but where you go and you get a
18:45great sandwich, get food, whatever it is that you need.
18:47And she literally grabbed me and she said, you know, General, if you don't figure
18:53this out, my husband, who's getting his cancer treatments at this other healthcare facility, won't
18:59be able to get them anymore.
19:00Please, I'm begging you, please do something about it.
19:03And I went to work for her and thousands of others who are about to
19:07lose healthcare. I brought those two healthcare giants together and did real negotiations, not the
19:13BS that Donald Trump does every single day.
19:15And we preserved healthcare access for hundreds of thousands of people in Western Pennsylvania.
19:21And so that woman working behind the counter at Sheetz, her husband and others like
19:26it that were depending on that life -saving care, continue to get it.
19:30That's what I try and do every day.
19:32Stand up for people, get shit done for people, fight for people, and use government
19:36as a force for good in people's lives.
19:39Instead of using government the way Donald Trump does for inflicting chaos and cruelty and
19:45a level of corruption unseen before on others, we try and use government as a
19:50force for good in people's lives.
19:52You know, and also fighting for your family.
19:54And this is an area of people aren't interested in politics, but maybe just want
20:00to know how people who have a job like governor are able to do a
20:05work life balance. And you talk about in the book, the struggles and for those
20:10who don't know your background, I won't name drop all of your four kids, although
20:12they're all lovely and incredible, but you met Laurie in ninth grade, like a middle
20:17school sweetheart or early first year freshman sweetheart.
20:22And so you've all been in this together and, you know, everything from late nights
20:27and being attacked by Trump and fighting back and having to deal with that.
20:32And also, I don't think people realize, and I'm just going to be blunt about
20:37it, how close you were to being assassinated and killed.
20:40And I know it's a difficult, you talk about it in the beginning, but it
20:43was a closer call than people even, I think, appreciate how close it was.
20:48And, you know, and you have your family around as well.
20:52And so the job itself being a target for things like that, and then having
20:59to fight, how do you, and talking about balancing it all, but that was a
21:02major part of his book.
21:03Yeah. I read a lot in this book about how I struggle to be the
21:09best dad I can be and the best husband I can be.
21:11And look, I don't think you have to be in politics to know that, you
21:15know, when you've got all these competing challenges every day, a career and other challenges
21:20that, that you, you need to find that balance every single day to both be
21:26there for your kids, meet your obligations and your career, be there for yourself and
21:31your spouse. And, you know, for me, it's just a constant work in progress.
21:36Every day, I feel like I don't strike the right balance, but I feel like
21:39each. day I do a little bit better than maybe the day before.
21:43And so I talk a lot about the struggles throughout my career of picking the
21:46right path in my career that would still allow me to be a good dad
21:50and a good husband, to sort of build on this foundation that Lori, my wife
21:54Lori, and I established literally back in the ninth grade, you know, and just wanting
22:00to go through life, you know, meeting my obligation of service to others, which is
22:05what my mom and dad, my faith have taught me, while also being able to
22:09be a good dad and be a good husband at the same time.
22:12And it's a constant struggle I write about in this book.
22:14And I think probably the thing I've struggled most about, you know, and you raise
22:19this in your question is, you know, when when that person broke in the governor's
22:25residence and tried to kill me and tried to burn my family and I to
22:28death while we slept, I've really had to, and thank God we're okay.
22:33Thank God for the first responders and police officers who kept us safe.
22:37But I've had to struggle in the months since with this idea that doing this
22:42thing, I love this service that I love to do that.
22:45I feel called to do that, that put my children's lives at risk.
22:49And that's a hard thing to, you know, sort of grapple with, particularly when you
22:54struggle your whole life to find that balance.
22:56Look, I don't know that I'm sharing anything that any other, you know, professional, any
23:01other adult, any other parent doesn't go with or grapple with.
23:06I tried to be honest, you know, with the reader about how I work through
23:09it. And I hope it offers people some comfort as they go through the same
23:13struggles in their lives. And also, you know, some opportunity to reflect on their own
23:18lives. You know, and finally, a word that probably appears multiple times in every chapter
23:23is empathy. And if people know you, they know that that's very important to you,
23:30which is interesting is when you think about what Trump and MAGA and Elon Musk
23:37and the Peter Thiel's always say about empathy, is they say empathy is weakness, and
23:43empathy is what's harmed the country.
23:46And, you know, I just note every reference, I could probably highlight it, and it's
23:50at least once, once or twice every, you know, few pages.
23:55I actually think that the present leadership excluded, the American people are good and decent
24:02and honorable people. And we are an empathetic people.
24:07We are a sympathetic people.
24:08We are a people that look out for their neighbors.
24:12I think unfortunately, the leadership that we're seeing in this country right now does not
24:16reflect the goodness of the people that I've come to know throughout my years of
24:21service. That's really what motivated me to write the book.
24:24This sort of juxtaposition between the news that you so ably cover every day about
24:29the chaos and the cruelty and the corruption coming out of DC.
24:33And quite frankly, I don't see that matching up with the goodness I see here
24:36in Pennsylvania every day, the goodness I've been privileged to witness across America.
24:41And I wanted to write a book about those people who've inspired me, those people
24:45who do good every day, and those people who have real empathy.
24:48They've taught me a lot.
24:50They've taught me how to listen.
24:51They've taught me a deeper sense of empathy.
24:54And I'm going to carry those lessons with me as I go forward.
24:57Everybody, the book is called Where We Keep the Light, Stories from a Life of
25:02Service. Josh Shapiro, I'm going to write in there, Governor Josh Shapiro.
25:07Thanks, Gov. Appreciate you. Great to be with you.
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