WAS THE DAY CLERKS WERE TO HAVE
APPEARED BEFORE THE SPECIAL
COUNCIL.
BUT AFTER ISSUING SUBPOENAS,
FORMER STATE SUPREME COURT
JUSTICE MICHAEL GABLEMAN BACKED
OFF THE REQUEST FOR NOW.
THERE HAS BEEN CONFUSION OVER
THE PROCESS AND STILL THE FORMER
JUSTICE IS PRESSING AHEAD AND
LATE THIS WEEK ISSUED HIS LATEST
YOUTUBE STATEMENT.
"HERE AND NOW" REPORTER WILL
KENNEALLY HAS BEEN COVERING THE
TWISTS AND RETURNS OF THIS
REPUBLICAN RESPONSI SPONSORED P.
HE JOINS US NOW.
SO MICHAEL GABLEMAN SAYS HE WILL
DEPOSE PEOPLE NEXT FRIDAY.
IT'S HARD TO KEEP UP.
WHAT DID HE SAY?
>> WE'RE NOT EXPECTING ANY
TESTIMONY NEXT FRIDAY, BUT HE
SAID HE WAS GOING TO TAKE SOME
DEPOSITIONS.
SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS THERE.
>> WHAT WAS HIS PRIMARY MESSAGE
IN HIS LATEST YOUTUBE STATEMENT?
>> HIS YOUTUBE STATEMENT CAME
OUT A FEW DAYS AGO AND THAT LAYS
OUT THE STEPS HE HAS BEEN TAKING
IN THE SUBPOENA PROCESS.
LARGELY THAT HE'S BEEN USING TO
SOLICIT DOCUMENTS AND TESTIMONY
FROM THE MAYORS AND ELECTION
OFFICIALS.
HE'S RECEIVED CRITICISM FROM
ATTORNEY JOURNAL JOSH KAUL WHO'S
REPRESENTING THE WISCONSIN
ELECTION COMMISSION IN THE
SUBPOENA PROCESS AND HE TOOK
GABLEMAN TO TASK OVER WHAT HE
CALLED A FLAWED SUBPOENA
PROCESS.
>> THE ONE THAT WAS ISSUED,
HOWEVER, IS DRASTICALLY OVER
OVERBROAD AND IT'S REQUESTING
HER TESTIMONY AT A SECRET
HEARING AND THAT IS IMPROPER.
IT'S OUR HOPE THAT WE WILL BE
ABLE TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH
THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S OFFICE AND
REACH AN AGREEMENT.
>> SO AS TO REACH AN AGREEMENT,
IT APPEARS THEY HAVE.
TO WHAT EXTENT?
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
SO LAWYERS WORKING WITH THE
MAYORS AND THE ELECTIONS
OFFICIALS HAVE REACHED AN
AGREEMENT WITH THE INVESTIGATORS
TO PROVIDE DOCUMENTS RIGHT NOW,
BUT TO DELAY TESTIMONY TO A
FUTURE DATE.
SO TESTIMONY WILL COME.
DOCUMENTS ARE IN HAND THIS WEEK.
>> YEAH.
WE'LL SEE WHAT COMES NEXT.
BUT THE FORMER JUSTICE WANTED TO
HEAR FROM THOSE MAYORS BECAUSE
HE'S PARTICULARLY CONCERNED
ABOUT THE FACEBOOK NONPROFIT
WHICH GAVE MONEY TO WISCONSIN'S
FIVE LARGEST CITIES.
>> WHILE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN
PRIVATE FUNDS MAY HAVE BEEN USED
IN THE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT OF
ELECTIONS TO ACHIEVE A PREFERRED
OUTCOME AT THE EXPENSE OF
ELECTION INTEGRITY IF INDEED
THIS OCCURRED WOULD BE THE
DEFINITION OF A BOONDOGGLE AND
MARK THE BEGINNING OF TYRANNY
AND THE END OF THE AMERICAN
EXPERIMENT IN DEMOCRACY.
>> THAT'S SOME PRETTY SOARING
RHETORIC.
HE'S SAYING THE MONEY MAY HAVE
BEEN USED FOR, QUOTE, A
PREFERRED OUTCOME.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
SO IT STEMS FROM A CONSERVATIVE
CONCERN THAT YOU'RE GOING TO
DRUM UP DEMOCRATIC TURNOUT.
THIS WAS TAKEN TO COURT LAST
OCTOBER AND A FEDERAL JUDGE
RULED THAT BECAUSE THE FUNDS ARE
GOING TO ALL VOTERS, NOT
TARGETING DEMOCRATS
SPECIFICALLY, THAT IT WAS OKAY
TO GO FORWARD.
IT'S ANOTHER LEVEL OF A CONCERN
ABOUT OUTSIDE INFLUENCE BEING
IMBUED INTO ELECTIONS THAT ARE
SUPPOSED TO BE LOCALLY RUN.
THE IMPORTANT THING TO KNOW HERE
IS WHILE THESE FIVE CITIES
RECEIVED AN INITIAL ROUND OF
FUNDING, A SECOND ROUND OF
FUNDING WENT TO MORE THAN 200
WISCONSIN CITIES, TOWNS AND
VILLAGES, INCLUDING CONSERVATIVE
BASTIONS LIKE WAUKESHA.
>> PITCHES PARTISAN, BUT THERE
IS A NONPARTISAN AUDIT UNDERWAY.
WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THAT?
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
THAT'S BEING DONE BY THE STATE'S
LEGISLATIVE AUDIT BUREAU, A
NONPARTISAN AGENCY THAT'S BEEN
WORKING FOR THE BETTER PART OF
THIS YEAR ON THE AUDIT.
THAT'S EXPECTED SOMETIME THIS
FALL, IN A MATTER OF WEEKS.
>> WILL KENNEALLY, THANKS FOR
FOLLOWING THIS.
>> T