Bill Maher Teases Josh Shapiro About Him Already Running for President: ‘It’s Only March of 2025, You’re Going to Get Exhausted’

Okay here we are back he’s the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania Josh Ziro he’s an MSNBC contributor and the blow Parks manag get Sam star and she is a journalist and author of the book second class V Angar Sargon okay here are the questions directly from the people it’s like the People Choice Awards but with questions first one is for you Governor uh do Democrats have a problem with courting male voters how can they win them back well I did see Nancy Pelosi’s comment today after the vote with and the brewha with Schumer was that they should have listened to the women are we going to break down on men women thing now in the Democratic Party I I don’t think we should I think it’s about giving everybody the freedom to chart their own course the opportunity to succeed lifting everybody up not trying to create others not trying to slice and dice the electorate I’ll tell you the first thing I did Bill when that goes rally too I think it’s for everybody absolutely first thing I did when I was governor literally after taking the oath of office I signed my first executive order doing away with the college degree requirement 92% I had done on that myself CU I want people to have a shot and then we follow that up by increasing our vote budget in high schools by 50% and get this 81 new apprenticeship programs everything from dairy herd management to welding and we’ve got 12,400 new pennsylvanians going through apprenticeships we don’t care if you’re male female female black white doesn’t matter we want you to have opportunity in Pennsylvania we want to lift everybody up but the the question was do Democrats have a problem with male voters but that’s going to be the answer no matter what all right all right uh was it inappropriate for the audience is for you budget to to boo Jance at the Kennedy Center last night no with free speech okay come on she didn’t even get T you’re right I’m so sorry you’re right I tell you what you were comfortable watching that I didn’t see it what happened they boot booted him they called him like a series of expedites he was with his wife yeah I thought it was kind of gross I don’t know what you guys thought I mean I mean it would be lovely if we didn’t live in that country but that ship has sailed and and you know it it happens the other side too people have been at dinner and people will surround them and force them to including from the left I mean we saw that during the Black Lives Matter riots people would be having dinner and people you know come on get out there I’m like I’m having dinner can you wait I mean well these were definitely leftists booing the vice president I understand oh no no they’re terrible at it did you see the uh Love is Blind story yeah oh yeah that was bad okay so this that’s I’ve never seen this show have you ever seen the show you never SE no good yeah good if if if you had said yes you would have lost my vote immediately but it’s some anyway so she’s at the altar and she she jilts her her fian at the altar because didn’t seem like he did a hell of a lot he apparently um didn’t do enough thinking about Black Lives Matter he asked him what do you think about that not at the altar that would be inappropriate but I guess sometime during the courtship and he said I don’t know haven’t thought about it that much I mean I don’t want to like get into like the premise of Love is Blind but they also just met each other like four weeks ago and proposed you know there might have been some extenuating circumstances beyond the politics but that’s what that was what you said I know I’m saying it might be a fig Leaf oh I see yeah they again they just met each other four weeks ago I’m saying that you don’t care enough about black Liv really I don’t even know you you have a small dick you need you need to put that uh you need to put that ring on or whatever it was what does the panel think of the Trump Administration gutting and potentially eliminating the Department of Education I’m still thinking about it honestly you take this one here’s here’s what I care about I I got kids with special needs I’ve got kids who are coming from poor families who rely on this funding from the federal government to have a shot in life I said before I want every child of God to have the freedom to chart their own course the opportunity to succeed the federal government made a compact with those kids I hope they don’t break that compact with those kids I guess what the question though really is is the Department of Education doing that is it now they probably are doing some good work I’m sure they are what is their budget like $200 billion dollar or something but it also looks like some of these places are just funneling money to people who are not solving the problem I mean I saw that story about the 20 billion that went out the door after Biden lost theepa it wasn’t the EPA or was it the EPA but so there was0 billion do that they shoveled to groups because Trump was coming in and they were going to reverse all this stuff and the the supposedly environmental groups and they were not really environmental groups and they had no experience in doing it like I said before I care about the Plastics do they think do I think this money was going to get rid of the Plastics in my brain I do not so I am I am skeptical of the Department of Education and I think every Democrat who runs really needs to take on this issue because that’s your portfolio education you’ve owned it and the results aren’t good kids isn’t the education standards kids isn’t learning kids are not [Laughter] learning I think thank you I think through all this I’m sorry Sam I I will say uh it’s clear that our education achievements are not where they need to be right like we look at any comparison to any other country we’re just not keeping up the question is absent that funding would it be worse right we don’t know this money uh if it can get funneled back into the states I’m assuming there are some Democrats who say good keep the top lines at where they are and we can use it to our benefits but this money was also used to set education standards to study how to do a better curriculums to uh figure out how to recruit teachers in a in a in a comprehensive thorough way and so I don’t know every program that they are cutting right now but the idea that there won’t be any adverse consequences seems not logical of course not because that’s what they do they blow everything up first that’s what I don’t get about exactly I think they’re going about it wrong first off I think it’s important that we support the American people not the American institutions you are right that there is waste there is fraud there is abuse in these institutions it should be rooted out it’s one of the reasons why when I was a county executive of Pennsylvania’s third largest county we did zero based budgeting we didn’t go in with a hatchet we literally went in and said your budget’s zero build it up to where it needs to be and you know what happened some agencies were reduced some agencies got a lot more because it was Missi driven I think we’ve got to focus on meeting the mission meeting the goals and then driving the funding out to to meet those is the Democratic Party too much in the pocket of the teachers union no I think the Democratic Party cares deeply about making sure these children get a shot in life I certainly care about that and I’m not suggesting that everything the Department of Education does is about unions now the teachers because I think like during Co didn’t the teachers union yeah keep the schools closed way too long look we partnered with our teachers unions in Pennsylvania to increase the number of teachers we have in the classrooms to reduce class sizes and to improve outcomes for kids I think there’s ways to work with the teachers union to make progress for our children okay what does the panel think of Trump speaking at the DoJ that’s the Department of Justice a rare move for a president where he reiterated his call for Retribution against his political enemies I don’t like it I I you know I mean jail talk it was crazy not a big fan not a big fan of locker up and everything that came after it and anybody I don’t like and 60 Minutes has got to go to jail and you know it’s it’s a it’s it’s this one was really wild and and I say that having watched hundreds of these speeches but to go to the Department of Justice which is fairly unprecedented not totally unprecedent I mean people go there but to give a political speech like that at the DoJ and to say I’m the chief law enforcement officer of this country I’m going to prosecute my enemies CN CNN and MSNBC should be illegal and then tell two random stories about Bobby Knights like it was just I mean did he was like just went on these sides about Bobby n here sitting there like what is going on um and then he realized this is the president um but but I I was troubled by it because obviously he looks at the Department of Justice as his personal law enforcement agency and that’s not what it is and and you know what they would say is that’s what they were doing to me that they the Biden just Department I don’t know did you watch mer did you watch you think that’s true you think you think that’s not you think that’s true I don’t think I no I think there is such a thing as a Trump Justice Department and he thinks there should be I don’t think there was a Biden Justice Department so much because they went after their own people they indicted Hunter Biden an accident that they indicted him on 91 counts and then as soon as he became president they all just evaporated it turns out there was no there there for any of the 9 and that was not politically Mo I I don’t think they should have gone after everything I think they had every right to look into the Russia connection he did some of these things publicly in the open Russia if you’re listening help me out with the election his campaign manager was meeting with G gr he was indicted on 91 counts that disappeared the minute he became president because he ordered them to disappear what what do what are we talking about 91 PBS there was 91 anyone the judges elves simply stopped when he became president yes you don’t see a connection well that’s what do you mean you think he was Judge Canon was taking orders for they they disapp do I think judges are taking orders I think disappeared because there’s a statute that says a sitting president cannot be prosecuted it no not true at all the Supreme Court well you were an attorney general of a state you probably had I mean look I I didn’t see the president’s comments today and I think this is obviously um I I hear the different opinions here’s what I’ll tell you I’m a twice elected Attorney General of Pennsylvania you have the power when you’re a prosecutor to take away someone’s Liberty take away someone’s Freedom ruin their reputation and their careers there can be no room for politics in that there can’t even be a room for the appearance of politics in that that’s what worries me when anyone Democrat or Republican injects politics into prosecution that’s a danger thing for so Governor does that mean you think that did happen under the last Administration I’m making a a general Point here that I think we’ve got to make sure that whoever is the executive right a governor a president that they do not interfere with the implementation and the prosecution and the work that goes on in a Justice Department be at a state level or at the federal level I think that’s really important to give people the confidence in knowing that the system is fair and the system is just and the law will be applied without fear or [Applause] fa it’s only March of 2025 you’re going to get exhaused