>>> SO FAR, ARIZONA HAS BEEN
GROUND ZERO IN THE REPUBLICAN
EFFORT TO TRY TO UNCOUNT THE
2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS
REPORTEDLY OBSESSED WITH TRYING
TO UNDO THE 2020 ELECTION IN
STATES THAT HE LOST.
HE HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT DESPERATELY
MAKING THE CASE THAT ALL THE
OTHER STATES HE LOST IN MUST
ALSO DO WHAT ARIZONA IS DOING TO
CAST DOUBT ON HIS LOSS IN THOSE
STATES.
TO THAT END, THIS WEEK THREE
REPUBLICAN STATE LAWMAKERS FROM
PENNSYLVANIA TOOK A GUIDED TOUR
OF THE CYBER NINJAS ARIZONA
RECOUNT SITE COMPLETE WITH,
APPARENTLY, STEP BY STEP
INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW THEY COULD
DO THIS AT HOME.
SINCE BIDEN WON IN PENNSYLVANIA
TOO, SO THAT MUST BE CLOUDED
SOMEHOW OR HAVE SUSPICIONS CAST
ON IT SOMEHOW, THE WAY THEYRE
TRYING IN ARIZONA.
THOSE REPUBLICAN STATE
LEGISLATORS IN PENNSYLVANIA CAME
BACK HOME EXCITED TO TRY TO
MOUNT THE SAME SORT OF THING IN
THEIR HOME STATE.
YOULL OBVIOUSLY BE ABLE TO GET
WHO ELSE LOVED THE IDEA, THE
FORMER PRESIDENT TODAY PUT OUT A
STATEMENT PRAISING THOSE
PENNSYLVANIA LAWMAKERS BY NAME,
CALLING THEM GREAT PATRIOTS,
CALLING OUT OTHER REPUBLICAN
LEADERS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA
STATE GOVERNMENT BY NAME,
DEMANDING THAT THEY TOO GAY TO
START ONE OF THESE FAKE AUDITS
OR FAKE RECOUNTS IN
PENNSYLVANIA, ACTUALLY
THREATENING THEIR REELECTION
PROSPECTS AS REPUBLICAN STATE
LEGISLATORS IF THEY DONT GO
ALONG WITH THIS PLAN.
PENNSYLVANIAS ATTORNEY GENERAL
IS A DEMOCRAT NAMED JOSH
SHAPIRO.
HE RESPONDED TO THIS TODAY BY
SOMETHING THAT HAS THE TECHNICAL
POLITICAL TERM OF CALLING BULL
PUCKY ON IT.
HE SAID TODAY, QUOTE, DONALD
TRUMP LOST THE 2020 ELECTION NOT
ONLY AT THE BALLOT BOX BUT
DOZENS OF TIMES IN COURT AND HIS
LIES WONT CHANGE THAT.
IF HE AND HIS CREW OF DANGEROUS
HARRISBURG REPUBLICANS TRY TO
PULL THIS BS IN PENNSYLVANIA
AGAIN, THEY WILL HAVE TO GO
THROUGH ME.
AND THEY WILL LOSE.
AGAIN.
JOINING US NOW IS PENNSYLVANIA
ATTORNEY GENERAL JOSH SHAPIRO.
MR. ATTORNEY GENERAL, THANK YOU
FOR TAKING THE TIME TONIGHT, I
APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE ON A
FRIDAY NIGHT.
>> GOOD TO BE WITH YOU.
I DIDNT KNOW YOU COULD SAY BULL
PUCKY ON CABLE NEWS, BUT IM
GLAD TO KNOW YOU CAN.
>> IM WILLING TO ENDURE THE
FINES.
IM WILLING TO DO IT IN ORDER TO
GIVE THE TECHNICAL TERM FOR WHAT
YOU HAVE DONE TODAY.
LET ME ASK ABOUT WHAT YOU MEANT
BY TWO THINGS YOU SAID.
NUMBER ONE, YOU CALLED THIS A
CREW OF DANGEROUS HARRISBURG
REPUBLICANS.
WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY DANGEROUS
AND WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY THEYRE
GOING TO HAVING TOE ING TOTO GO
>> LOOK, I DONT THINK WE CAN
SIMPLY DISMISS THESE FOLKS AS
FRINGE.
THIS IS WHO THE MODERN GOP IS.
CERTAINLY WHO THE MODERN GOP IS
HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
HECK, ONE OF THOSE THREE PEOPLE
WHO WENT DOWN THERE IS THE
LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR.
THESE ARE FOLKS WHO ARE
DANGEROUS.
THESE ARE FOLKS WHO ARE TRYING
TO UNDERMINE OUR DEMOCRACY.
THESE ARE FOLKS WHO HAVE NO
RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW.
AND THESE ARE FOLKS WHO ARE IN
CHARGE RIGHT NOW IN THE
LEGISLATURE.
>> IN TERMS OF THE PROSPECTS FOR
WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO DO, AS
YOU SAY, THIS IS A FRINGE IDEA,
AND A RADICAL THING THEY ARE
TRYING TO DO.
BUT THEYRE NOT NECESSARILY
FRINGE FIGURES WITHIN REPUBLICAN
POLITICS.
WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS FOR THE
STATE LEGISLATURE ACTUALLY
TRYING TO DO THIS?
>> LOOK, LETS GO THROUGH THE
LAW AND THEN LETS GO THROUGH
REALITY, OKAY?
THE LAW AFFORDS SOME STATE
LAWMAKERS AND SOME COMMITTEES
THE OPPORTUNITY TO ISSUE
SUBPOENAS.
BUT SUBPOENAS ARENT FISHING
EXPEDITIONS.
SUBPOENAS NEED TO BE TIED TO A
SPECIFIC AND LEGITIMATE
LEGISLATIVE PURPOSE.
AND SIMPLY FOLLOWING AN ORDER OR BEING THE ERRAND BOY FOR DONALD
BEING THE ERRAND BOY FOR DONALD
TRUMP IS NOT A LEGITIMATE
LEGISLATIVE PURPOSE.
IF THEY WERE TO DO WHAT THEYRE
DOING IN ARIZONA, THEY WOULD
HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME.
AND MY TRACK RECORD OF DEFENDING
THE VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND
STANDING UP TO THIS BULL PUCKY
AS YOU CALLED IT, IS PRETTY
GOOD.
EVERY TIME WEVE GONE TO COURT
WEVE WON AND PROTECTED THE
VOTERS IN PENNSYLVANIA AND ILL
DO IT AGAIN IF I HAVE TO.
>> LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THE
STRENGTH OF COMMITMENT AND THE
STRENGTH OF FEELING ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THIS AMONG REPUBLICANS
WHO WANT TO DO IT.
AMERICAN OVERSIGHT, AN ETHICS
WATCHDOG GROUP, TODAY THEY
PUBLISHED HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF
EMAILS THEY GOT FROM A PUBLIC
RECORDS REQUEST FROM THE ARIZONA
CYBER NINJAS RECOUNT THING
THEYRE DOING THERE AND THE
DOCUMENTS THEY GOT INCLUDED
EMAILS FROM THE REPUBLICAN
SENATE PRESIDENT THERE WHO HAS
ORCHESTRATED THIS WHOLE THING,
BRAGGING TO A CONSTITUENT ABOUT
HER PERSONAL CONTACT WITH FORMER
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WHO HAS
BEEN PERSONALLY CALLING HER AND
THANKING HER FOR DOING WHAT
THEYRE DOING IN ARIZONA.
SHES NOT ONLY RECEIVED THAT
DIRECT PRESSURE FROM DONALD
TRUMP, SHE IS TALKING ABOUT HER
DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE FORMER
PRESIDENT, BRAGGING ABOUT IT TO
HER CONSTITUENTS.
I MEAN, HOW MUCH SORT OF HEFT
CAN BE BROUGHT TO BEAR, HOW MUCH
PRESSURE CAN BE BROUGHT TO BEAR
SIMPLY BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT
SINGLING OUT THESE REPUBLICANS
BY NAME, MAKING A PUBLIC SHOW OF
THIS, AND PUSHING THEM TO DO IT?
>> WELL, CLEARLY DONALD TRUMP
HOLDS THE STRINGS OF THE MODERN
DAY REPUBLICAN PARTY.
AND CERTAINLY THE LEADERSHIP OF
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HERE IN
PENNSYLVANIA, AT LEAST THOSE WHO
ASPIRE TO STATEWIDE OFFICE, AND
THOSE WHO STILL HAVE THE POWER
WITHIN THE LEGISLATURE.
I WILL TELL YOU THAT DONALD
TRUMPS CONDUCT HERE IS HIGHLY
UNETHICAL BUT THATSING IN ING I
FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT.
IT WOULD BE UNBELIEVABLY
UNETHICAL FOR A LAWMAKER WHO
TAKES AN OATH OF OFFICE NOT JUST
TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES BUT ALSO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH
OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO USE THEIR
AUTHORITY AS A LAWMAKER TO CARRY
OUT DONALD TRUMPS WISHES, TO
TRY AND PERPETUATE THE BIG LIE
AND TO DO SO NOT JUST ON THE
TAXPAYERS DIME BUT ON THE
TAXPAYERS TIME.
THIS ELECTION WAS WON BY JOE
BIDEN.
IT WAS LOST BY DONALD TRUMP HERE
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
AND RACHEL, WEVE ALREADY HAD
TWO LEGITIMATE AUDITS.
AUDITS THAT COMPORTED WITH THE
LAWS HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA AND
AUDITS THAT SHOWED THE RESULTS
THAT I SAID BEFORE.
IF THEY WERE TO GO FORWARD WITH
THIS SHAM AUDIT, THEY WOULD HAVE
TO GO THROUGH ME.
THEY WILL NOT SUCCEED.
AND THEY WILL BE VIOLATING THEIR
OATH OF OFFICE AND I BELIEVE
ALSO COMMITTING SOME VERY
SERIOUS UNETHICAL CONDUCT.
>> PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL
JOSH SHAPIRO, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH FOR JOINING US.
IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE
HOW THE SORT OF CHURN ON THIS
CONTINUES TO DEVELOP.
I EXPECT OVER THE COURSE OF THIS
WEEKEND ITS PROBABLY GOING TO