WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.880 Well, give me your perspective on the Supreme Court's ruling on the Postal Service Rules 00:04.880 --> 00:08.580 and also the fact that when we talked to Eric Tony, he really wouldn't commit to whether 00:08.580 --> 00:09.580 he would have... 00:09.580 --> 00:10.580 Sorry. 00:10.580 --> 00:11.580 I don't know. 00:11.580 --> 00:12.580 What is wrong with this? 00:12.580 --> 00:13.580 Sorry. 00:13.580 --> 00:14.580 I'd switch a new battery. 00:14.580 --> 00:15.580 Okay. 00:15.580 --> 00:16.580 Hopefully it's fine with light. 00:16.580 --> 00:17.580 Yeah. 00:17.580 --> 00:18.580 It must be the light. 00:18.580 --> 00:19.580 Should we just do it without it? 00:19.580 --> 00:20.580 Yeah. 00:20.580 --> 00:21.580 All right. 00:21.580 --> 00:22.580 Let me just give you one second. 00:22.580 --> 00:23.580 Let's adjust the light a little bit here. 00:23.580 --> 00:24.580 There you go. 00:24.580 --> 00:25.580 Good? 00:25.580 --> 00:26.580 All right. 00:26.580 --> 00:29.260 So you heard the question, but give me your reaction to all of that. 00:29.260 --> 00:30.260 Yeah. 00:30.260 --> 00:32.420 Well, first, it was great to see the Supreme Court's ruling. 00:32.420 --> 00:36.220 It was clear that this would have thrown the midterm election into chaos. 00:36.220 --> 00:39.900 And so this was a reckless effort by the Trump administration that would have undermined 00:39.900 --> 00:41.900 our fundamental right to vote. 00:41.900 --> 00:46.300 So this is a big win for voting rights, and I'm proud of my administration's record of 00:46.300 --> 00:48.580 fighting for the voting rights of Wisconsinites. 00:48.580 --> 00:52.460 I think it's totally unacceptable for somebody who wants to be the Attorney General of the 00:52.460 --> 00:57.740 state, not to be willing to weigh in on this critical issue before Wisconsin voters. 00:57.740 --> 01:02.060 And to me, this is just another example of Eric Tony's unwillingness to stand up to 01:02.060 --> 01:03.500 Donald Trump. 01:03.500 --> 01:08.180 For me, it's about putting the rights of Wisconsinites at the forefront. 01:08.180 --> 01:12.660 And apparently for Eric Tony, he's unwilling to stand up to Donald Trump, even when voting 01:12.660 --> 01:13.940 rights are at stake. 01:13.940 --> 01:16.740 I think we need an attorney general who's going to fight for us. 01:16.740 --> 01:22.020 Is that a perspective on the larger Republican Attorney General's Association or just the 01:22.020 --> 01:27.260 Republican Party, or why would you think that he wouldn't be willing on this one to 01:27.260 --> 01:28.260 at least make that stand? 01:28.260 --> 01:31.620 Well, I'm not aware of any case that we have brought against the Trump administration, 01:31.620 --> 01:35.460 where Eric Tony has been willing to say that he would have joined that case, and that 01:35.460 --> 01:39.980 impacts significant amounts of funding for the state, it impacts important programs. 01:39.980 --> 01:43.740 And unfortunately, what we've seen from a Republican age use around the country is an 01:43.740 --> 01:45.460 unwillingness to stand up to Donald Trump. 01:45.460 --> 01:51.020 And in this case, in fact, some of them supported this effort, but notably some Republican 01:51.020 --> 01:54.700 secretaries of state made clear that this would have caused chaos. 01:54.700 --> 01:59.420 And so unfortunately, a lot of folks in politics just have not been willing to stand 01:59.420 --> 02:03.540 up to the president, and we can't have a yes man for Donald Trump in the AG's office. 02:03.540 --> 02:06.540 We need somebody who's going to stand up for the rights of Wisconsinites. 02:06.540 --> 02:11.980 We have seen since our interview with you some states start to sue the federal government 02:11.980 --> 02:15.740 talking about whether DHS would be at polls or ICE would be at polls. 02:15.740 --> 02:20.740 Is there a lawsuit that could be coming from either clerks in Wisconsin or the state about 02:20.740 --> 02:21.740 those issues? 02:21.740 --> 02:24.340 Well, we're going to remain vigilant about protecting our elections. 02:24.340 --> 02:30.260 It's critical that every eligible Wisconsinite is able to freely and fairly cast about in 02:30.260 --> 02:31.580 a way that's safe. 02:31.580 --> 02:35.780 And if there is an effort to inhibit people's ability to cast about at the polls, we're 02:35.780 --> 02:38.100 going to be prepared to fight back against that. 02:38.100 --> 02:42.100 I am confident that we will, again, have safe and secure elections. 02:42.100 --> 02:45.860 And one of the concerns, I think, with some of the attacks on our elections we've seen 02:45.860 --> 02:49.380 is that people are trying to create fear and confusion. 02:49.380 --> 02:52.900 What's important for Wisconsinites to know is to get out there and vote, and we're going 02:52.900 --> 02:55.580 to fight to make sure that people's rights are protected. 02:55.580 --> 03:01.220 And what other issue has popped up in just recent weeks become a big issue is block cameras. 03:01.220 --> 03:06.060 It seems like it's only recently been that law enforcement has realized who all can access 03:06.060 --> 03:07.060 these. 03:07.060 --> 03:10.620 So how rapidly have things been changing in terms of what these cameras do and who all 03:10.620 --> 03:11.860 can get access to them? 03:11.860 --> 03:12.860 Yeah. 03:12.860 --> 03:15.860 Well, there's clearly been a lot of public discourse on this just recently. 03:15.860 --> 03:18.740 What I think is important is that we have public discussion about this. 03:18.740 --> 03:23.700 I think it's important to have strong guardrails in place that ensure that people's privacy 03:23.700 --> 03:24.700 is protected. 03:24.700 --> 03:28.660 I don't want to live in a society where we have dragnet surveillance. 03:28.660 --> 03:32.980 But at the same time, I want there to be appropriate law enforcement uses protected. 03:32.980 --> 03:37.140 And so if you have a case where you've got a missing child or a senior who's missing 03:37.140 --> 03:41.740 and a silver alert is issued or a homicide suspect who you can find out where they went 03:41.740 --> 03:46.660 after a murder was committed, we want to make sure we're protecting those uses and making 03:46.660 --> 03:50.460 sure that we're protecting safety while also doing it in a way that's not going to lead 03:50.460 --> 03:52.940 to infringement on people's basic privacy expectations. 03:52.940 --> 03:57.660 Do you think this is a legislative fix or can it be a rule or a legal arrangement with 03:57.660 --> 03:59.180 the company itself? 03:59.180 --> 04:00.180 What needs to happen? 04:00.180 --> 04:01.660 I think we should have a legislative fix. 04:01.660 --> 04:04.500 I think there should be consistent rules in Wisconsin. 04:04.500 --> 04:09.540 So if you drive from one city to another, you don't have radically different rules in 04:09.540 --> 04:10.540 place. 04:10.540 --> 04:13.780 In the meantime, I think it's important for agencies to have good safeguards. 04:14.140 --> 04:19.020 At the Department of Justice, if we access this data, first, there's a limited number 04:19.020 --> 04:20.820 of people who can access it. 04:20.820 --> 04:24.460 They're within a particular part of our division of criminal investigation. 04:24.460 --> 04:27.180 It needs to be associated with a particular case. 04:27.180 --> 04:29.740 And we have regular auditing of the process. 04:29.740 --> 04:33.500 Those kinds of guardrails can help ensure that the system is used appropriately, and 04:33.500 --> 04:35.780 it's not misused to infringe on people's privacy. 04:35.780 --> 04:41.100 The fact that the opposition and the concerns over this seems to be bipartisan, maybe not 04:41.100 --> 04:43.220 always for the same reason, but widespread. 04:43.220 --> 04:47.420 Does that make it easier to help solve a problem that may not get mired down in the partisan 04:47.420 --> 04:48.420 issues? 04:48.420 --> 04:52.540 I'm hopeful we'll see the legislature take action in the next session on this issue. 04:52.540 --> 04:56.340 There are a lot of nuances to this, and I think having a public discussion with involvement 04:56.340 --> 05:00.860 from the public so people can weigh in and make sure their voices are heard is important 05:00.860 --> 05:04.660 for this technology that's become widespread fairly quickly. 05:04.660 --> 05:09.660 And so my hope is that we will see a constructive dialogue around this, and that we'll be able 05:09.660 --> 05:18.860 to put sensible guardrails in place moving forward.