Name: "Such A Sycophant. He Embarrasses Himself Daily." - Gov. Shapiro On Vice President JD Vance
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We're here with Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro.

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Initially, the vice president said, after the death of Renee Goode in the hands of an ICE agent, said that these ICE agents enjoy absolute immunity for prosecution by Minnesota officials.

You were Attorney General of Pennsylvania.

Can the state prosecute an ICE agent or a CBP agent who does this sort of thing?

And what the vice President, who, by the way, I mean, such a sycophant, such a suck up, he, he embarrasses himself daily as he seeks the affirmation of Donald Trump.

He is wrong when he says they have immunity, whether in Mr.

by the way, I will just tell you as, as a former Attorney general, based only on the available evidence that I've seen, that you've seen, I'm not privy to anything else, I think you could make a very strong case for voluntary manslaughter charges to be brought in the Preddy case.

And I would also argue you could at the very least bring obstruction of justice charges in both cases.

These federal agents are obstructing a state investigation.

They have made clear that they would be withholding evidence.

No one is above the law in this country and no one has absolute immunity.

I don't care what kind of BS JD Vance feels.

We're clearly at a time of momentous change in this country and in the world.

I have lately been thinking about what might be on the other side of this and in what way are we prepared as a country.

It seems clear the Republicans aren't going to stand up to Donald Trump.

There are some sort of rumblings, a lot of anonymous behind closed doors, not exactly profiles and courage.

And the Democrats aren't winning an enormous amount of points from the American people, even from their own followers.

There's a lot of excitement for people like Bernie Sanders or Zoran Mamdani or aoc.

And I don't necessarily think it's over their policies, though.

I don't have a problem with their policies.

Yeah, they have the courage to not speak politically and say, this is what's happening.

And I'm curious as a notable Democrat who may or may not have her other offices in mind in the future, and

we'll get to that in a moment and you'll have an opportunity to say, I have no idea what you're talking about.

All right, so what do you think the proper response is politically here?

Every single day in Pennsylvania, I talk about gsd, get stuff done.

I think what the American people are so desperate for are concrete actions, things that will make their lives better.

So let's talk about three concrete actions this week to deal with Minnesota.

Number one, today in a court of law, Minnesota officials are arguing their 10th Amendment rights should be.

Stop the federal overreach and get them out of their city.

Number two, the Congress of the United States on Friday has the ability to stand up and stop funding ICE and terminate this mission in Minnesota.

Third, it's not just for people with titles next to their name to do this work.

We have begun to see not just people in Minnesota, not just people who hold elected office, but

outraged common sense Americans speaking up.

Look at what Steve Kerr, the coach of the Golden State warriors, said yesterday and others.

The one thing about this president is he is susceptible to public opinion.

As much as they may want to foment violence, an excuse to cite the Insurrection act, as much as there's.

Which is a real danger, it's a real danger.

There's a weird sort of hankering for a civil war by the people who are in support of the actions of ICE and CBP here.

This is Americans being abused by their government.

We're not actually at arms with each other yet.

But Abraham Lincoln did say at the end of his second inaugural address, he talk about essentially what's going to be on the other side of all of this.

How do we then heal as a nation and appeal to the better angels of our nature?

I'm just curious, as a governor who's given some of some thought to this, what do you think is on the other side of our present crisis?

You mean there you go where we keep the light.

I wrote about this, this grand experiment in American democracy that started in Philadelphia.

And the brilliance of the founders was while they put a lot of words on paper, important words on paper, their brilliance was that they left it incomplete.

They left it to succeeding generations to do the hard work to perfect our union.

They left it to succeeding generations to do the hard work, to include more people in our union.

And over time in the American story, we have taken steps forward and then we've gotten knocked back a step, and

We're getting knocked back a step right now.

But the story of America is ordinary Americans rising up, demanding more, seeking justice, pushing back on excesses and trying to leave this world a little bit better for their kids and their grandchildren and the next generation.

This is a moment, yes, where the Congress of the United States needs to be a check on the president, where governors need to be called upon to protect their citizens, but

most importantly, where ordinary Americans need to rise up and do the hard work.

And I know that there are people out there, Stephen, that want to pull up the covers, turn off the news.

We got to do this work, and it's on us right now.

We have to take another break here, but stick around more.