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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Daily Show. My name is John Stewart.
Speaker 4: So let's get this show tonight.
Speaker 1: And we talked about this with the audience earlier.
Speaker 5: This is my last show before the election, but not
Speaker 5: my last show.
Speaker 1: I'm coming back, baby.
Speaker 5: But that doesn't mean I'm not stretched out. It's very stressful.
Speaker 5: The elections in a week. I only have one week
Speaker 5: left to decide who I'm going to vote for.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 5: Normally I just vote for whoever the Washington Post endorses,
Speaker 5: but I'm not an Amazon Prime member. But anyway, because
Speaker 5: it's the last week, both candidates have been out there
Speaker 5: on the trail making their closing arguments. First, Kamala Harris
Speaker 5: had a rally with Beyonce. I cannot wait to hear
Speaker 5: come on straight, She'll do that better than me.
Speaker 6: Your vote is one of the most valuable tools, and
Speaker 6: we need you.
Speaker 5: No no singing, just a heartfelt statement of the importance
Speaker 5: of the election. Good.
Speaker 1: I'm voting for Trump. That's just.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, as luck would have it, Donald Trump
Speaker 5: was holding a rally of his own right here in
Speaker 5: my backyard Madison Square Garden, world's most famous arena. Oh
Speaker 5: they're not doing They're saying, Bruce. I bet Trump's rally
Speaker 5: and Madison Square Garden is going to be incredibly entertaining
Speaker 5: and uplifting. As the Trump campaign enters its optimistic Morning
Speaker 5: in America phase with its lineup of stars.
Speaker 2: The legos.
Speaker 7: They got whatever they want.
Speaker 5: Don't they They're on the side of the terrorists.
Speaker 2: She is the devil whoever screamed.
Speaker 5: That her and her handlers will destroy our country.
Speaker 8: She is the Antichrist, the first Samoan Malaysian.
Speaker 1: Low iq, I love you Donald.
Speaker 5: I will never not be charmed by his girlish laugh. Now,
Speaker 5: generally that's a lineup that you see outside Madison Square
Speaker 5: Garden yelling it's strangers as they try to get inside
Speaker 5: Madison Square Garden. And let me just say, how dare
Speaker 5: they desecrate the stage that the piano man has consecrated?
Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare you listen amazing?
Speaker 5: You know how many scenes from an Italian restaurant He's
Speaker 5: going to have to play to exercise the demons that
Speaker 5: were on that exit. There is not enough down Easter
Speaker 5: Alexas in the wall to clear out that xenophob extentch
Speaker 5: you pieces. But of course, for the media, there was
Speaker 5: one moment in particular that raised the alarms. The opening
Speaker 5: app grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons. A comedian
Speaker 5: who offered unfunny, racist, cringe.
Speaker 9: Worthy jokes basically calling Puerto Rican's trash.
Speaker 10: The most repulsive racial jokes about Latinos, disgusting and hateful.
Speaker 11: So incredibly crude, frankly just too x rated to play here.
Speaker 1: Extremely vild so called jokes.
Speaker 5: Extremely vile so called jokes. She name checked my comedy
Speaker 5: album from the nineties.
Speaker 1: Did I really.
Speaker 5: I don't know who's ai me or that guy? Now,
Speaker 5: obviously in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a
Speaker 5: political rally a week before election day and roasting a
Speaker 5: key voting demographic probably not the best decision by the
Speaker 5: campaign politically, But to.
Speaker 1: Be fair, the guy's really just doing what he does.
Speaker 5: I mean here he is at the Tom Brady roast
Speaker 5: a few months ago.
Speaker 12: The Great Jeff Ross, Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff is so
Speaker 12: Jewish he only watches football for the coin toss, Gronk,
Speaker 12: you look like the Nazi that kept burning himself on
Speaker 12: the ovens. Kevin is so small that when his ancestors
Speaker 12: picked cotton they called it deadlifting.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, of course, terrible blue. Yes, there's something wrong
Speaker 5: with me. I find that guy Verry funny.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry, I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 5: I mean, bringing them to a rally and have them
Speaker 5: not do roast jokes. I'd be like bringing Beyonce to
Speaker 5: a rally and.
Speaker 13: Oh, but you know what those people, those are just
Speaker 13: the underlings, and they brought a real dark, apocalyptic version
Speaker 13: of America to the stage.
Speaker 5: I'm sure former President Trump will temper those passions.
Speaker 8: On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program.
Speaker 1: In American history. Can you get the criminals out?
Speaker 5: Day one? Have a snack, meet the staff. Day one
Speaker 5: is typically we just read this Olympus. There's no generally
Speaker 5: no homework.
Speaker 1: But okay, day one, mass deportation. How exactly is that
Speaker 1: gonna happen?
Speaker 8: I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight.
Speaker 1: Who the told Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: About the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight, Because
Speaker 5: I'm gonna bet you something. He did not come to
Speaker 5: the meeting and go, hey, why don't we use the
Speaker 5: seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies Act? Would that apply? He's
Speaker 5: not a history buff, as we remember from his dissertation
Speaker 5: on Roberty Lee's role in the critical Civil War Battle
Speaker 5: of Getty's Part.
Speaker 9: And the statement of Roberty Lee never fight uphill.
Speaker 1: Me boys never fight uphill. They were fighting uphill.
Speaker 9: He said, Wow, that was a big mistake.
Speaker 5: He should he use the Alien Enemies Acts seventeen ninety
Speaker 5: eight to clear his enemies.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: From the man himself, that is his priority.
Speaker 1: Day one.
Speaker 5: I'm going to round up all the so called illegal immigrants.
Speaker 5: It's a tough policy, but I guess it's it's got
Speaker 5: to be done.
Speaker 1: And it's not like anyone else, i e.
Speaker 5: Legal immigrants or American citizens are going to be caught
Speaker 5: up in that dragnet. I'm sure that Trump's got a
Speaker 5: very detailed and precise plan.
Speaker 1: How many people are we talking about illegals?
Speaker 9: They think US two million is probably five times that
Speaker 9: amount year fifteen sixteen.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you hear seventeen we have twenty one million. At
Speaker 1: least twenty one million.
Speaker 10: I think it's much more than twenty one.
Speaker 5: So we are going to be rounding up and deporting
Speaker 5: between two and twenty one or more million people. But listen,
Speaker 5: they're all bad, and they've all committed terrible crimes, and
Speaker 5: we have cataloged without due process, the terrible things they
Speaker 5: have done.
Speaker 9: Yes, in Springfield, they're eating the dogs the people that
Speaker 9: came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating they're eating
Speaker 9: the pets of the.
Speaker 1: People that live there.
Speaker 5: So between two and twenty one million people, and while
Speaker 5: they weren't actually doing that, still chase them with guns
Speaker 5: because at the very least.
Speaker 1: They are here illegally. Yes, they are illegal.
Speaker 10: Donald Trump threatening to deport thousands of migrants in the
Speaker 10: country legally, so.
Speaker 1: That one's tricky.
Speaker 5: But I'm confident that on day one, when Trump does
Speaker 5: his mass deportation of anywhere from two to one hundred
Speaker 5: million people, it won't be you, It'll be them because
Speaker 5: of how precise Trump is, especially when it comes to
Speaker 5: people of color.
Speaker 1: I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went
Speaker 1: down in a helicopter with him, the African American politician,
Speaker 1: and question was not Willie Brown, but rather this man
Speaker 1: they've Holden.
Speaker 11: Holden saying quote, Willy is the short black guy living
Speaker 11: in San Francisco.
Speaker 6: I'm a tall black guy living in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I guess we all look alike.
Speaker 5: I guess there's some confusion. But he's not deporting California
Speaker 5: politicians day one. And you know that story made him
Speaker 5: look racist. It's not the point. He really can't tell
Speaker 5: white people apart either.
Speaker 1: I said, marlel's on the foot up, that's Marla. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's my wife, which.
Speaker 5: Here you just.
Speaker 1: Call and the person the woman on the right is
Speaker 1: your then wife. Know this was the picture.
Speaker 5: You know what, I just realized Donald Trump doesn't have affairs,
Speaker 5: just thinks everyone is his wife. So clearly, clearly, an
Speaker 5: attempt to deport between thirty and five hundred million people
Speaker 5: is going to be complicated. So it's going to be
Speaker 5: important to know how carefully the former president would execute
Speaker 5: this plan.
Speaker 1: A lot of the millions of people have had children
Speaker 1: here who are American citizens. So yes to mass deportation,
Speaker 1: even of women. And so we're going to look at
Speaker 1: it very closely.
Speaker 10: The way you phrase it is exactly right. You put
Speaker 10: one wrong person onto a bus or onto an airplane,
Speaker 10: then your radical left lunatics will try and make it
Speaker 10: sound like the worst thing that's ever happened.
Speaker 5: Because it's the worst thing that ever happened to them,
Speaker 5: the American citizens you mistakenly deport. Yeah, Trump is like
Speaker 5: and then makes me the bad guy. And why is
Speaker 5: my wife interviewing me? You are my wife, right, Marna,
Speaker 5: Evanna Evanka.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: This sounds all, but as everyone knows, you can never
Speaker 5: listen to what Trump's saying and hear it. I think
Speaker 5: you're taking everything a little bit too literally.
Speaker 3: Look, Trump speaks in hyperbole.
Speaker 1: This is nothing new. He's telling you what was in
Speaker 1: his heart.
Speaker 4: You always want to go by what's come out of
Speaker 4: his mouth rather than look.
Speaker 6: At what.
Speaker 5: You're right, Why hold former presidents to what they say
Speaker 5: they're going to do from their mouth holes. Perhaps if
Speaker 5: we only look inside Trump's heart, then we could see what, Oh,
Speaker 5: that's not French fries, and that's a lot of that's
Speaker 5: not good. Let's see if there's anything else behind that
Speaker 5: that we could Oh God.
Speaker 1: And bear spray e.
Speaker 5: I wonder which one of those is good cholesterol. Look,
Speaker 5: you know what, sure, maybe Trump's just talk. But on
Speaker 5: day one, when the deportation of between two and eleventy
Speaker 5: billion people begins, what will be the guiding principle? Perhaps
Speaker 5: we should ask the dead eyed architect of these plans,
Speaker 5: Stephen Miller.
Speaker 3: America for Americans and Americans only.
Speaker 1: Oh, that makes sense.
Speaker 5: We're only deporting people who've come here illegally, or people
Speaker 5: who have come here illegally but sneaky illegally, or people
Speaker 5: who have children who are actually citizens, or some people
Speaker 5: who look like they may have come here illegally, or
Speaker 5: people that have protested the war in Gaza, or a
Speaker 5: special prosecutor Trump doesn't like, like Jack Smith, which, by
Speaker 5: the way, name the more American name than Jack Smith.
Speaker 5: Where are you going to deport him to Fanuel Hall
Speaker 5: in Boston. Or maybe we're just going to be deporting
Speaker 5: the people that always bring wretchedness and want Oh I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: that's how we describe the Irish in eighteen thirty two.
Speaker 5: Or maybe we're just going to deport people whose race
Speaker 5: inherently it has a certain kind of criminality. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: That was the Italians in nineteen eleven. The point is
Speaker 5: every one of these groups was at a place and
Speaker 5: time on the wrong side of not being American enough
Speaker 5: and right now, you think you're safe because the group
Speaker 5: Trump's talking about it's not you, as if are you
Speaker 5: sure this isn't my wife?
Speaker 1: Donald Trump can tell the fucking.
Speaker 5: Difference or even cares that the day one implementation of
Speaker 5: the seventeen ninety eight law that was last used to
Speaker 5: intern Japanese and German citizens in World War Two will
Speaker 5: be a fine toothed comb.
Speaker 1: It just makes me very sad, the whole thing, John, John,
Speaker 1: what the head tries, Jessica? Is it really you?
Speaker 11: Yeah, of course it's me. You think I'm a hologram.
Speaker 11: You think Comedy Central is hologram money. I'm just here
Speaker 11: in real life to tell you something. Okay, don't be sad, John,
Speaker 11: Everything's gonna be okay for you. A white guy, a
Speaker 11: rich old white guy.
Speaker 5: You think my rich old white guy privilege will save me.
Speaker 11: Maybe, But honestly, how much longer do you really have?
Speaker 1: Living? Wise?
Speaker 11: You have a terminal d right?
Speaker 3: What a termity disease?
Speaker 1: Are you dying? No? I'm fine. Why would you think that?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 11: No, just your general vibe and the whole the space thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, but I get why you've aged so much.
Speaker 11: It's been a whole last year of you grinding out
Speaker 11: every single day on the show.
Speaker 1: I only host on Mondays.
Speaker 11: Oh really, damn? Okay, double wolf. Look, it doesn't matter, Okay, no,
Speaker 11: come on, come on, it doesn't matter because for non
Speaker 11: old white people, for people of color and women and
Speaker 11: queer people, it's gonna be a completely different story. All right, now,
Speaker 11: let me give you some advice.
Speaker 3: Yeah mind, Oh yes, look, John, I know you're exhausted.
Speaker 3: Hell I'm exhausted. Everybody's exhausted.
Speaker 11: Anger and disappointment in our political discourse is exhausting. But
Speaker 11: it's easy to throw up our hands and be like, fine,
Speaker 11: I'm tired, go ahead and take people's rights. I'm just
Speaker 11: gonna plow through a case of Truly's in binge fifty
Speaker 11: two episodes of Love Island. Oh oh, you want to
Speaker 11: know what those are? Truly's a heart Seltzer. Love Island
Speaker 11: is like gilling his island.
Speaker 1: With Oh what channel is that on? Hey?
Speaker 11: No, focus, Okay, I just want to be clear, all right,
Speaker 11: Do not let them exhaust you. Don't let the constant
Speaker 11: draining bullshit wear you out. Do not turn away, look
Speaker 11: at right down that barrel and say not today, apathy.
Speaker 11: I'm only having half a case of truly's and no
Speaker 11: matter what happens, we have to throw our arms around
Speaker 11: the people who need.
Speaker 1: Us the most and hang the fuck on.
Speaker 11: All right, except for you, John, I'm here now. You
Speaker 11: can let go, sweetheart, Let go, John. I'll tell them
Speaker 11: your story.
Speaker 1: But I I just signed on for another year.
Speaker 3: So what with your doctors.
Speaker 1: Or with the with the network?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: You think you're gonna lived for another year?
Speaker 3: That's optimistic?
Speaker 8: Does to go?
Speaker 6: Will I?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 13: Come back?
Speaker 2: Governor?
Speaker 5: Doctor Bill is going to go.
Speaker 1: You son't go away?
Speaker 7: Come there? What about the daily.
Speaker 5: Shown that showed up when you spoked about earlier? My
Speaker 5: guest tonight, Pennsylvania's chief executive. Please welcome to the program,
Speaker 5: Governor Josh Shapiro.
Speaker 1: So I have to see good to be seen.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you something. It's been so long since
Speaker 5: I have had a guest my size.
Speaker 1: They come in here with their height. Yeah, I did
Speaker 1: this for you. Thank You're having a good day. That's
Speaker 1: exactly right. I was re elected for another year.
Speaker 8: There you go.
Speaker 1: It was easy. It was that easy. Put a couple
Speaker 1: of signs the question.
Speaker 5: I think. Look, it's very clear to me people are
Speaker 5: on edge. In a way I haven't seen in a
Speaker 5: very long time. In your mind, you're on the ground there.
Speaker 5: Who will be the president of Pennsylvania?
Speaker 1: My wife, Floria will be the president. Really, it won't
Speaker 1: be me.
Speaker 5: Are they tired yet of the swing state status of
Speaker 5: the constant barnstorming your your lovely state of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, yes and no, it's close, right, but
Speaker 1: but let me just for those of you out there
Speaker 1: kind of worrying about this, the last two presidential races
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania came down to a less than a point,
Speaker 1: so of course the polls are going to be close. Now.
Speaker 1: Are folks tired of maybe some of the commercials and
Speaker 1: things on TV? Yeah, But I think folks also understand
Speaker 1: that they have an extraordinary power here, and with that
Speaker 1: power comes your real responsibility. I think maybe the dude,
Speaker 1: you can't just sit here and quote Spider.
Speaker 5: Man, no, just throw no buy power comes responsive.
Speaker 1: I'll let I go. Let me take a lead here.
Speaker 1: I want to take a lead from Spider Man. Yes
Speaker 1: to Ben Franklin. Okay, follow me on this, Follow me
Speaker 1: on this. Ben Franklin, famously one of the signatories to
Speaker 1: the Constitution, signs the Constitution walks out of Independence, Hall
Speaker 1: is greeted by a woman on those cobblestone streets of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: She looks him in the eye and says, mister Franklin,
Speaker 1: what do we have here, a monarchy or a republic.
Speaker 1: Franklin looks her in the eye and says, a republic.
Speaker 1: If you can keep it those five words, if you
Speaker 1: can keep it. That's been our calling card, that's been
Speaker 1: our charge. So yes, we enjoy this sort of temporary
Speaker 1: status as a swing state. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: We've been fighting for democracy for two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: eight years, and I'll be damned if we're going to
Speaker 1: stand down on this task. We're gonna stand up and
Speaker 1: we're going to get the job done. And I believe
Speaker 1: we're gonna let Kamala Harris next president. By the way,
Speaker 1: by the way, I am answer your question. By the way,
Speaker 1: fun fact here, Yes, Ben Franklin my predecessor.
Speaker 7: It's true.
Speaker 1: He's like the what is the Craig Kilbourne of Pennsylvania?
Speaker 1: He was the O of there? What's been Franklin the
Speaker 1: governor of Pennsylvania. He was.
Speaker 5: That is not something that I knew was a part
Speaker 5: of his story. I knew that he would walk out
Speaker 5: on the street and women were just accost him about.
Speaker 1: The form of that. We would be not a similarity,
Speaker 1: I said much. I will say this.
Speaker 5: You know, we talk a lot about democracy and fighting
Speaker 5: for freedom and all those kinds of things, and I'm
Speaker 5: of a mindset and it gets to something that you
Speaker 5: had done in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, to me, is a symptom of.
Speaker 5: A government that is at times not particularly agile and
Speaker 5: responsive to the needs of the people.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: It's what breeds space sometimes for demagogues. You did something
Speaker 5: in Pennsylvania that I thought was really interesting that I
Speaker 5: hadn't seen in a long time. Ninety five burned down.
Speaker 5: There was there's for those of you who drive in
Speaker 5: that area. Ninety five is the aorda that takes.
Speaker 1: Seventy six thousand cars and trucks every day.
Speaker 5: Right, it burns down, And I'm immediately thinking, because you know,
Speaker 5: I'm aware of construction projects. I live in New York City,
Speaker 5: I immediately think, well, oh, Pennsylvania is now closed, and
Speaker 5: it'll be nice. I have family there and hopefully they'll
Speaker 5: be alive fifteen or twenty years from now. You fixed
Speaker 5: it in what.
Speaker 1: Twelve days was what was done well. First off, we
Speaker 1: brought the attitude that I talk about every day in governing,
Speaker 1: our GSD attitude, and I think I could say it here,
Speaker 1: our get shit done attitude. I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: stop you right there. Don't you ever for I assume
Speaker 1: I got bleep, But I'm serious. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of times folks don't have that attitude in government and
Speaker 1: they sort of let things happen. We have a get
Speaker 1: shipped done attitude. We have the best workers in the
Speaker 1: world in those Philadelphia, but.
Speaker 5: There are barriers, there are regulatory barriers.
Speaker 1: And we summoned everybody together. And when folks told me
Speaker 1: it was going to take a month to figure that out,
Speaker 1: I'd say, you have an hour. When they said we
Speaker 1: need three days, I said, you've got a day. And
Speaker 1: what we constantly did was push the envelope. You know
Speaker 1: what we found when we push people, they felt empowered
Speaker 1: and they were able to stand up and they made
Speaker 1: decisions when they were standing on that roadway, and they
Speaker 1: were innovative and they were creative. Right, And we have
Speaker 1: the best workers in the world, and we showed that
Speaker 1: when the eyes of the world were on us in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: We know how to get shit done, and we got
Speaker 1: it done, and we got it done in just twelve days.
Speaker 1: But it's an amazing story.
Speaker 5: But you understand my point, which is, oh, why aren't
Speaker 5: we doing that for housing what we want?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: So, for those who are critical of government, yeah, you
Speaker 5: look at that situation and go, wait a minute, this
Speaker 5: can be done.
Speaker 1: And it's just a question of so have.
Speaker 5: Those of us on the left who believe government still
Speaker 5: has a big role to play in people's lives, have
Speaker 5: we in some ways undercut our own argument by overregulation
Speaker 5: or the types of things that keep us from getting
Speaker 5: shit Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so. Look, I believe government can be a
Speaker 1: force for good in people's lives. Otherwise I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: doing this work. Otherwise I wouldn't have dedicated my life
Speaker 1: to public service. But I think sometimes you're right over
Speaker 1: regulation too much overthinking and taking power away from the
Speaker 1: people who work in government who have dedicated their lives
Speaker 1: to serving others, and instead you set up a process
Speaker 1: on top of the process on top of the process,
Speaker 1: you never actually get things done. It's one of my
Speaker 1: biggest frustrations, and by the way, I think it's one
Speaker 1: of the things to your point earlier. That has maybe
Speaker 1: led to people feeling frustrated and looking for others who
Speaker 1: might be dangerous, destructive forces like Donald Trump to kind
Speaker 1: of shake things up.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 1: We've heard that before. I want to shake things up
Speaker 1: in a good way with people who get to give
Speaker 1: a damn about other people's lives and who want to
Speaker 1: lift people up, not tear them down. I think we're
Speaker 1: proving how to do that in Counsylvania.
Speaker 5: So what happened with ninety five in twelve days? You
Speaker 5: take a disaster and read open it? Have you thought
Speaker 5: about doing it with the Pennsylvania Turnpit. I think we're
Speaker 5: doing all right on the Urn play you're not doing
Speaker 5: all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you're by the Jersey No no, no, no no.
Speaker 5: Whenever I get on the tour, you get a certain
Speaker 5: point passed like Bucks County, wherever the nice people, and
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, the whole ride is this. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden, somewhere around Happy Valley,
Speaker 5: it just goes down.
Speaker 1: One lane and you're like, what the hell's going on
Speaker 1: around here? It's infrastructure night here at the daily Thank
Speaker 1: you great, but listen, I mean there's a serious point
Speaker 1: when people see their roads being fixed, when they see
Speaker 1: their internet being connected, when they see the lead being
Speaker 1: taken out of their water lines so their kids can
Speaker 1: drink water and the parents don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 1: That's real stuff that matters to people. That's putting points
Speaker 1: on the board for folks. That's what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do every day in Pennsylvania. And by the way, that's
Speaker 1: what Kamala Harris is going to do for this country.
Speaker 1: That by the way, it's beautiful, sing beautiful.
Speaker 5: What are so when you have that experience with ninety five,
Speaker 5: did you go back into the kind of infrastructure agenda
Speaker 5: or the other things in Pennsylvania And was it an epiphany?
Speaker 5: Did you think, think to yourself, I've got to go
Speaker 5: in there with a more forceful, innovative attitude to do that.
Speaker 5: And have there been other things that have occurred that
Speaker 5: you thought, hey, man, I think we've got something here
Speaker 5: in terms of a methodology we did.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's stay with roads and bridges. Last year
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, as a result of that GSD attitude, we
Speaker 1: repaired more poor conditioned bridges than any other state in
Speaker 1: the entire country. We did that because We were aggressive.
Speaker 1: We put the funding together, and we empowered people to
Speaker 1: say that bridge is a problem, let's get to work,
Speaker 1: let's get it done. People want to see their tax
Speaker 1: dollars go to things that benefit them. Shorten their commune times,
Speaker 1: get their kids to school on time, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and we're getting that done in the Commonwealth. Connect it
Speaker 1: to their to their lives. Was it hard for you?
Speaker 5: Know, you were very much talked about as a vice
Speaker 5: presidential candidate and you were vetted.
Speaker 1: Were you vetted?
Speaker 10: I was?
Speaker 1: And when they vetted you, did they go.
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 1: They like after they vetted you, like, does you have
Speaker 1: any gummies that dude has? I wish I'm pretty boring, Honestly.
Speaker 1: The hardest part of that vetting part was finding all
Speaker 1: my old taxes. That was very hard. How far back
Speaker 1: do they make you go? It goes back pretty far.
Speaker 1: One night, I'm sitting there on the floor on all
Speaker 1: fours trying to go through all the paperwork. Y, I
Speaker 1: don't need to know that.
Speaker 14: No, no, no, no no no, And my wife walks
Speaker 14: in and she goes, right, I walked into that, didn't
Speaker 14: I a little bit?
Speaker 1: I did it? You walked into my wife? She looks
Speaker 1: at me, it goes if only the American people could
Speaker 1: see you right now, I'm literally just trying to find
Speaker 1: our attacks well right now they're imagining it. But it
Speaker 1: does surprise me. Doesn't the federal government have your tax records?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't. Look.
Speaker 15: They asked me that there wasn't much to see. John,
Speaker 15: all right, can we be done down? Because I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 15: so you're on offul So so's where I thought were
Speaker 15: you were you?
Speaker 16: Was it?
Speaker 1: Was it disappointing?
Speaker 5: Was there a feeling that you had like you know,
Speaker 5: people said like, oh, it's because he's Jewish or too ambious,
Speaker 5: Like was there something inside you that thought?
Speaker 1: What was it that? Okay, not at all. Listen. First off,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris made an outstanding pick in Tim. He's done.
Speaker 1: He's a great guy. His wife Gwen is great friends
Speaker 1: with my wife Lori. These are great public servants. And
Speaker 1: Tim Walls is going to be a great vice president
Speaker 1: of the United States. And I'm all in for Kamala Harrison.
Speaker 5: Tim Walls, Right, And you're and you've been by the way,
Speaker 5: really bonstorming Pennsylvania. I mean, you're you're really to you
Speaker 5: what's the key in Pennsylvania that you believe like he's
Speaker 5: got a tremendous amount of strength.
Speaker 1: You think in the rural areas.
Speaker 5: Does it come down once again to sort of the
Speaker 5: suburbs of Bucks County? Is it about turnout in Philadelphia?
Speaker 5: What are the parameters of what makes Pennsylvania's a complicated place?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, I guess the answer is all of the above.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Bucks County, pretty swingy county in a swing state. Sure,
Speaker 1: turnout in Philly is critically important, but don't write off
Speaker 1: those rural areas. I spent a lot of time out there,
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time listening to folks, delivering for them.
Speaker 1: They'll vote for a Democrat. The good news is Kamala Harrison.
Speaker 1: They did. I mean they years ago.
Speaker 5: Those were really blue areas, the blue collar areas, yep.
Speaker 1: And look, some of that's changed over time, but part
Speaker 1: of it is I think they've been sort of thirsting
Speaker 1: for someone who's going to speak to their challenge. I'll
Speaker 1: give you one example of that. When I was running
Speaker 1: for governor, I spent a lot of time in those communities.
Speaker 1: I remember being in a hunt club in Butler County
Speaker 1: and one of the folks was talking to me about
Speaker 1: the fact that they feel like they can never get ahead,
Speaker 1: and of a college degree, I feel like they can
Speaker 1: never get ahead. And then folks and government are never
Speaker 1: actually talking to them, never actually trying to lift them up.
Speaker 1: First thing I did when I got elected governor, literally
Speaker 1: a first executive WD I signed, was doing away with
Speaker 1: the college degree requirement for ninety two per cent of
Speaker 1: state government jobs. It's sixty six thousand jobs. That's your requirement.
Speaker 5: You can't work in state government without a college look forward,
Speaker 5: now you can for most states.
Speaker 1: That way is that I can't speak to the other state.
Speaker 1: But a whole lot of surprise values a lot of
Speaker 1: the private sector of things, we set these artificial barriers
Speaker 1: to entry where folks aren't given a shot. Listen, I
Speaker 1: think people have the freedom to chart their own course
Speaker 1: and the opportunity to succeed. And when you say to someone, hey,
Speaker 1: we don't value your military service, we don't value your
Speaker 1: service in a union just because you didn't go to college,
Speaker 1: that says to a whole swath of the public, we're
Speaker 1: not into you, We're not there for you. Well, Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: she's showing up in those communities that I spend a
Speaker 1: whole lot of time in and she announced that the
Speaker 1: federal government would be doing a way with that college
Speaker 1: degree requirement, opening up the doors of opportunity. It's small
Speaker 1: to more people, as it should be. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know that much a requirement, quite black poys. I think
Speaker 1: Democrats should never write off these rural communities. We've got
Speaker 1: to show up, we got to sign to people, and
Speaker 1: we've got to make sure we show them that we
Speaker 1: can deliver for them.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm surprised sometimes because I do hear that
Speaker 5: a lot about oh, people don't talk to those communities.
Speaker 5: But you know, in general, I think there's a great
Speaker 5: deal of respect for heartland communities. If anything, I've always
Speaker 5: felt kind of the opposite, that there's this feeling that
Speaker 5: that's real America and that in areas you know, in
Speaker 5: the cities and things.
Speaker 1: Like that, that that is.
Speaker 5: That that's looked down upon or that's ridiculed. So I
Speaker 5: think all of those communities maybe it's less of a
Speaker 5: blue red state divide and more of an urban rural
Speaker 5: kind of divide.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I think you get in trouble if you
Speaker 1: ever say one part of America is more real than
Speaker 1: any other part of America that doesn't do that all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 5: I mean there's a lot of like all your remembers, Oh,
Speaker 5: the Democrats are communists who don't live in real America.
Speaker 1: And I think the Republicans do that. I think what
Speaker 1: Democrats are doing a far better job of, and I
Speaker 1: think you're seeing it more and more in this campaign
Speaker 1: is treating all people with respect, no matter what you
Speaker 1: look like, where you come from, who you love, or
Speaker 1: who you pray to look That's one of the biggest
Speaker 1: beefs I have with Donald Trump. I mean, he is
Speaker 1: always trying to create others in our society, separating people out.
Speaker 1: You talked about this in your opening. When you start
Speaker 1: separating it out one person because they live in this community,
Speaker 1: they worship a certain way, you make everyone less safe.
Speaker 1: You limit the possibility of not just them, but of
Speaker 1: all Americans. Well, it's also easy.
Speaker 5: I mean it's you know what, They're not just separating people,
Speaker 5: They're separating the people who are most vulnerable. I mean,
Speaker 5: I live in New York City. Every commercial is either
Speaker 5: we're being overrun by hordes of gang members that are
Speaker 5: illegal or trans people are taking over all of women's sports,
Speaker 5: and you really do think sometimes like oh shit, they
Speaker 5: are like it actually like it gets to you and
Speaker 5: you realize like, oh, that's a strategy to find the
Speaker 5: most vulnerable people that people don't really protect and blow
Speaker 5: it out to be as though it's the most crucial
Speaker 5: issue that anybody could see.
Speaker 1: I mean, dividing us. So Donald Trump plays a game
Speaker 1: every day of subtraction, right, I think we're trying to
Speaker 1: play a game of addition, bringing more people into the conversation,
Speaker 1: engaging more people. I think when you divide people the
Speaker 1: way Trump is, you may get some short term political win,
Speaker 1: like the presidency. Let's hope you let's hope now. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, but I think it's dangerous and destructive
Speaker 1: for America. Dangerous and destructive for America.
Speaker 5: Here's another one, and they're saying that this may be
Speaker 5: one of the crucial issues of the entire election, which
Speaker 5: is Israel Gaza Pala sign. You and I are both
Speaker 5: I'd say five foot seven issues. I go with five
Speaker 5: to nine on my you know my card, I'm sure
Speaker 5: you do. If you need me to scribble on that
Speaker 5: card for you, I'd be happy to Where are we
Speaker 5: going with this? John so I find that because I'm
Speaker 5: doing people turn to me and immediately go, like, Israel
Speaker 5: will do something, and they'll turn to me.
Speaker 1: And go, you're gonna let that happen? An expert, You
Speaker 1: must be an expert or something like that.
Speaker 5: But in truth, I want to know your level of
Speaker 5: discomfort with the way things are progressing and what impact
Speaker 5: it may have on the election here because you and
Speaker 5: I are both raised, probably in a very similar way,
Speaker 5: to always be on the side of Israel and never
Speaker 5: again all those other things, and it's been really uncomfortable
Speaker 5: to have big cracks in that facade for me, and
Speaker 5: I wonder if you face the same thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, obviously, folks ask me about it
Speaker 1: all the time, as I'm sure they ask you. I
Speaker 1: haven't found it. My job description is governor of Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: but I'm happy to oblige and write. You don't get
Speaker 1: to make treaties and things like that. No, No, we
Speaker 1: don't do that.
Speaker 5: You never thought about attacking Delaware.
Speaker 1: I do think we could take them, But I do
Speaker 1: love Dell. No problem, Listen. I have enough capacity in
Speaker 1: my heart to mourn for the Israelis for what happened
Speaker 1: on October seventh, it is horrible. Hamas is a terrorist group,
Speaker 1: and Hamas murdered twelve hundred people. They took two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty people hostage, including Americans John and they brutally
Speaker 1: raped and sexually assaulted women. Was awful, and I have
Speaker 1: a lot of capacity in my heart to mourn for
Speaker 1: those and to feel horrible for what happened there. I
Speaker 1: also have the capacity in my heart to see what's
Speaker 1: happening in Gaza to these innocent folks, these women and children,
Speaker 1: and I warned for them as well. I want these
Speaker 1: hostages home. I want this war to end, and I
Speaker 1: want us to figure out a way.
Speaker 5: Why, because it seems like the logical human answer, which is, Oh,
Speaker 5: I'm mourn for the hostages and I'm worn for those
Speaker 5: lives loves, And I also think what's happening in Gaza
Speaker 5: is untenable and tragic and a catastrophe. So why do
Speaker 5: we feel so helpless? It just how how are we
Speaker 5: not able to impact and bring that to a close?
Speaker 5: Do you have you do you think about how that
Speaker 5: will come to a close? How do we get a
Speaker 5: free and safe Israel and a free and safe and
Speaker 5: independent Palaestine.
Speaker 1: Look, my hope is that you know, with the hostages
Speaker 1: immediately returned home with an end to this war, that
Speaker 1: we can create an environment not just in Israel and
Speaker 1: in Gaza, but throughout the Middle East where folks want peace,
Speaker 1: where we actually have leaders who are willing to make peace.
Speaker 1: I would think the folks do it. Seems like the
Speaker 1: leaders are the ones. Yeah, I'm trying to be real here.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, Hamas is a terrorist group. They're not
Speaker 1: interested in making peace. Now, I would argue Benjamin Natania,
Speaker 1: who is not interested in making peace. And so you've
Speaker 1: got people who are in theory supposed to be sitting
Speaker 1: at the table and discussing ways to try and help
Speaker 1: their people exist, who don't actually want that.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not putting Natanna who on the same scale as
Speaker 1: a terrorist group. I want to be really clear and
Speaker 1: really precise in my words, but we have got to
Speaker 1: involve a broader Middle East coalition. We've got to involve
Speaker 1: other nations of the world who will hopefully be able
Speaker 1: to come in and create the opportunity for a secure Israel,
Speaker 1: for a peaceful place for Palestinians to be able to
Speaker 1: live independent, free state economic opportunities. I do believe. No,
Speaker 1: I do believe in a two state solution, and I
Speaker 1: have for some that adult What is this is?
Speaker 5: By the way, what is happening right now is every
Speaker 5: passover dinner throughout generally my entire lifetime.
Speaker 1: Is this what it is? Yeah?
Speaker 10: I have.
Speaker 5: So most of my relatives are not politically aligned with
Speaker 5: where I am. Okay, and so a lot of times
Speaker 5: at dinner it gets.
Speaker 1: Feisty, doesn't it. Do you win those arguments? I do not.
Speaker 5: It generally ends with them just going then leave in
Speaker 5: your own home or usually well, listen, man, I know
Speaker 5: these are all difficult conversation, those kind of things.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you being here.
Speaker 5: Any advice for those who are just trying to survive
Speaker 5: that final week and getting the election, and any advice
Speaker 5: to people that have friends in Pennsylvania that can urge
Speaker 5: them to do anything to get involved, Well.
Speaker 1: I would say, anybody here from New York, hop on
Speaker 1: a train, hop on a bus, hop in your car, bike, whatever,
Speaker 1: come to Pennsylvania, knock on some doors and take this
Speaker 1: sort of energy that you have and channel it into action.
Speaker 1: We could use a whole lot more help there. We've
Speaker 1: got a hell of a ground game in Pennsylvania. We
Speaker 1: welcome people to support us and.
Speaker 5: The people of Pennsylvania. If let's say we were all
Speaker 5: to show up on bicycles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I would not show up in a
Speaker 1: Mets hat. I would not show up in a Giants jersey.
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 5: I have a bet so Jalen Brunson of the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I remember him, the point guard Villanova.
Speaker 5: So he bet me that if the Giants lose to
Speaker 5: the Eagles, I have to come to Madison Square Garden
Speaker 5: in a Saquon Barkley Eagles jersey.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if you remember the Eagles beat
Speaker 5: the Giants. Yeah, I remember, And so I have to
Speaker 5: go through that humiliation.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I look forward to that. Yeah, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: Governor Josh Shapirol, where don't.
Speaker 14: Take you ideas?
Speaker 1: Go chuk for tonight.
Speaker 5: Before we go, we check in with a very own
Speaker 5: Jordan Kupper and Ronnie Chang.
Speaker 1: Guys, what's trying.
Speaker 10: Me? Go?
Speaker 7: Well, John, I'm hosting the Daily Show all this week.
Speaker 16: Yes, and I have an election special airing tonight right
Speaker 16: after the Daily Show where I go to Trump Rallies
Speaker 16: with some very special guests.
Speaker 1: Do not miss it. But that both sounds great. That
Speaker 1: sounds great, yes.
Speaker 16: Yes, but which one sounds better to you?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: John?
Speaker 6: Who do you endu us?
Speaker 16: And you know before you add to remember that Ronnie
Speaker 16: Chang wants to eat your cats and dogs?
Speaker 7: Okay, Well, Jordan told me he thinks Hitler had good ideas.
Speaker 10: All right.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but it's not
Speaker 1: like the election. I can just watch both. I got
Speaker 1: it true. That is very true.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yep, that that is fair. But Jordan still likes Hitler.
Speaker 1: Okay, Ryan, Ronnie Chang? Oh week this week, everybody Chilling.
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