mr. a.g., thank you. >> good to be with you. >> so the context of the concern is not that it was just a handful of ballots, nine ballots, seven of them for trump, so not that widespread. i don't want to exaggerate the context. i want to exaggerate the concern if anything, which is your primary, you had 37,000 rejected mail-in ballots. the trump margin of victory in 2016 was about 44,000 votes. so every vote in your state counts. you had so many kicked out in 2020 why should it make the voters there and the people watching all over the country concerned that your process is too easy to screw up? >> yeah. well, chris, first off i think it is important that people take a deep breath and examine the facts here. you kind of conflate two different situations. let's talk about both for a second. in the primary, which was really the first time pennsylvania was doing vote by mail, many other states had done it earlier, there were certainly some issues with counties having to learn the process and figu

a.g.'s office says that's not the case. "outfront" mr. light foot.rn the details of the case until the video was released. why do you think it took so long for you and the public to find out about this? who dropped the ball? >> first of all, thank you for having me on your show. i just want to say that my condolences and my heart felt prayers goes to the prude family first and foremost. this was a devastating blow that was dealt to our city, a traumatic blow, that has been dealt to our city. and we're trying to unpack it as we speak. we found out about this on wednesday -- counsel found out about this on wednesday, and i immediately called for a briefing from the mayor and the administration to brief counsel on what transpired. as we were told, that information was given to the mayor by the police chief and corporate counsel, city's corporate counsel, advised her not to speak to the matter to counsel. so, that was what we were told in our briefing. of course a lot of our counselors, including myself, were highly upset, very upset about this going on

mr. schmidt, could you also answer that? thanks. a.g. schmidt: we follow with interest many of your discussions and debates in washington on broader privacy issues. from a state standpoint, we always have generalized concerns about preemption, the tension between state authority on the one hand and on the other hand the benefits of a national standard. setting that bigger issue aside that i assume would also be a challenge for you at this point if you were trying to do something quickly on this federally, kansas did -- our legislature was in special session in june, and we had at that point enact, at the suggestion of our office, what we call the contact tracing privacy act at the state level. it is characterized as stopgap legislation. it sunsets next may. it is designed to fill the need while we have a more thoughtful review of what the law can look like with respect to contact tracing. it has multiple parts, some of which are not relevant to your question. but essentially it requires that -- contact tracing was largely unregulated, ev

mr. schmidt, could you also answer that? thanks. a.g. schmidt: we follow with interest many of your discussions and debates in washington on broader privacy issues. from a state standpoint, we always have generalized concerns about preemption, the tension between state authority on the one hand and on the other hand the benefits of a national standard. setting that bigger issue aside that i assume would also be a challenge for you at this point if you were trying to do something quickly on this federally, kansas did -- our legislature was in special session in june, and we had at that point enact, at the suggestion of our office, what we call the contact tracing privacy act at the state level. it is characterized as stopgap legislation. it sunsets next may. it is designed to fill the need while we have a more thoughtful review of what the law can look like with respect to contact tracing. it has multiple parts, some of which are not relevant to your question. but essentially it requires that -- contact tracing was largely unregulated, ev

mr felice's family lawyer challenge that his family demanded the officers be sacked on investigation rule no charge had been committed by police but expressed concern over their handling of the instant the a.g.'s office recommended either pollie stop routine traffic enforcement altogether or drop the policy of arresting people for minor offenses revealed during the traffic stops we put the issue for debate it's not the police officers that started the violence the reason that mr flees was shot was because he broke the law and he ultimately tried to run over it's not police who decide what level of force are going to be used the suspect is size and we are forced to respond we do not need police officers to respond to nonviolent activity let's be clear on a few things attorney general james is not calling for the end of traffic stops she is calling for the end of traffic stops with people who have guns arbitrarily unfortunately we are seeing that people of color specifically black and latino and indigenous people or arbitrarily pulled over for things that white people are not pulled over for overwhelmingly police primarily shoot white people and for example last year we shot about $300.00 bla