as attorney general of the state of california, mark pulliam who is a contributing editor for law andiberty, mark, tell us about some of her actions or non-actions as attorney general of california. mark pulliam: in 2016, i wrote a long article for city journal which was a profile of kamala harris while she was running for the senate but before she got elected and i looked at a number of her things that she did and didn't do when she was attorney general, some of the most controversy of things that she did and the things that i think that are most indicative of her true character are for instance; she refused to defend proposition eight on appeal, proposition eight was a california initiative that had declared marriage to be one man and one woman, following the lead of her predecessors attorney general jerry brown, she refused to defend the state law contrary to her oath on appeal and lo and behold this initiative was forced to be defended by its proponent and they defended it, when it got to the u.s. supreme court, the u.s. supreme court said the opponents did not have legal standing