have faith in the system that when someone breaks the law, no matter how powerful they are, they re going to be held accountable. i do think that s important. there has been electoral accountability, as you corrected pointed out. not only did trump lose, but the guy i beat here in pennsylvania got crushed. now it s important to make sure there s legal accountability and that politically these individuals don t get any kind of terra firma beneath them that allows them to successfully pursue elected office and be in a position of power to do the kind of work they were trying to do before to undermine our democracy. we all have to stay vigilant in our courtrooms and in the court of public opinion and at the election booths. we all have a responsibility to do that work. governor josh shapiro, it is very nice to get some time on your schedule. i know you bristled at our description of you having more time for us. it s also the pandemic. we were were all home and had
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republicans also been intimidated and harassed. i d like to hear more about that. at this point, there s only one major political party that is pro democracy that is trying to have safe and secure elections. the impact of this is not a theoretical and esoteric debate, that s where you hear about democracy in peril as a overarching theme but we re talking about election offices that are now having bulletproof glass, they are having, you know, active shooter training, people leaving insane look, this is not worth it. the idea of thinking about, it s not worth it to man these election booths or election workers for those reasons. you even have chief ramsey, who is invited to the conference of mayors saying, look, i suggest you pride prioritize or 9-1-1 calls to the election booth on these days. knowing what crime is like right now. this is what we re after. this is not the same country it was six years ago, seven
intimidate in particular democratic leaning voters against casting exercising their constitutional right. but there are examples of republicans also being intimidated and harassed. i would like to hear more about that. at this point i think there s only one major political party that s pro democracy and trying to have safe and secure elections. the impact of this is not a theoretical and esoteric debate. you hear about democracy in peril as an over arching theme. we re talking about election offices now having bulletproof glass. they are having active shooter training, recognition of this, people leaving saying look, this is not worth it. the idea of thinking about it s not worth it to man these election booths or election workers for those reasons. you even have chief ramsay who was adviser to the conference of mayors saying look, i suggest you prioritize your 911 calls to the election booths on these days knowing what crime is like right now. this is what we re after.
said donald trump hasn t directly told us that. my question to you, ken, is it hard for the intel community, the states, the lawmakers, the people working in the election booths, the volunteers, the voters, et cetera, hard for everybody to collectively take a threat like this seriously if it s not something the president himself has said is a big priority or the priority? absolutely. it s a question of leadership. even under the best of conditions, this would be a hard problem because states by their nature resist federal intervention. you re never going to get everybody rogue on the same page to do the hard things that are necessary including appropriations bills, requiring the states to make changes. you need a bully pulpit of presidential leadership. not every official is on board that there is a huge problem. it s the voters as well,