You probably get a roll of the eyes, a perjury conviction, secret grand jury information leaked to the press and now a former ag who now stands a convicted criminal. But today we meet John Rafferty, the republican nominee who wants to become next attorney general. Attorney general serving burks county, once worked in the ags office as a deputy. Last month Kathleen Cain resigned after a jury convicted her of conspiracy and perjury. Its really stolen the thunder of the current election. Raffertys challenger, shapiro. Hell be our guest next sunday. State senator John Rafferty is joining me now. You were with us during pril area season. Congratulations on your victory there. You were very confident you would be the victor. Are you equally as confident this time around . I am. I think people will look at this race and say who has the experience and who has the ability to be attorney general. How are you going to boost confidence in that office. Certainly as senator and elected official before that, people know im no nonsense, straightforward. We have on the website ethics policy for proper use of Government Property all employees will adhere to. Traveling to the commonwealth and all regional offices to talk to the staff and them knowing someone familiar with the office and heading the office will be a real boost for them and the people of pennsylvania. Someone who understands it, someone who has been there. Would you acknowledge the huge chal toning boost moral in the office given what they have been through . Yes and no. Yes in that theres some moral issues. Since bruce took over as attorney general hes cleaned out some of the people at issue in the office and thats done a lot to boost moral. Youve talked about priorities, opioid, fighting that, fighting the scourge of addiction in our state and so many other states in our area. How will you as attorney general fight that problem . Thats the number one criminal issue before the commonwealth of pennsylvania and every state in this union. What i envision Heroin Strike task force i talked about at length across commonwealth, office of attorney general with its many resources, that is with agents, grand jury wiretap, well work very closely with d. A. S which hasnt been done for years, work with the d. A. As to attack this problem head on. With local Law Enforcement, sheriffs, well have the state police and agents in ags office, former strike forces, the d. A. , street dealers, mid level and high level dealers pushing out for return of mandatory sentences for highlevel drug dealers in pennsylvania so they know they are facing five to ten year mandatory if they start dealing drugs in pennsylvania. Additionally were going to be very effective in that were going to disrupt and dismantle operation. Hit in one area, another go, back at a later time disrupting their operation. Weve seen where if one person gets arrested, the next day somebody is ready to step into their shoes. If you keep it moving around and hitting them it really will onslow down their business with them. As a state senator we know youve supported legislation to protect pensions of Law Enforcement officers, but theres a bill in harrisburg that could cut those. How will enforce the very laws you opposed as state senator . Put you in a tough position. Number one, i do not believe the bill will pass. Thats off the table. That scenario could crop up. One of my bills was being chal he could. Yo challenged. Your duty, spelled out clearly is you defend the statutes of the commonwealth. Dully enacted. If i felt it was a conflict, my bill, talk to general counsel and Governors Office and they would weigh in and defend it. Otherwise you make the determination that its your job to do that. You dont make the call whether its constitutional or unconstitutional. We have a third branch. Ladies and gentlemen in black robes make that call. Your job is to defend the laws of the commonwealth, and i would do so. How difficult has it been to raise money for this local race because weve seen so much money pouring into the national and other election. Fortunately more interest in the race now, starting to see more political contributions which are right. With the president ial race with the u. S. Senate race, they have taken up a lot of the air time and taken up a lot of the attention. But after labor day now people are starting to focus on the importance of the office of attorney general, especially making sure the right person is in there. We cant have someone with less experience than kathleen kane, we have to have the right person. Enough money for people to see you on airwaves in tv ads . Yes, were making sure of that. Weve cut a number of ads that will be on the air very shortly, jim. You have endorsed donald trump for president when others in your party have been reluctant to do so. You still stand behind that decision obviously. I support donald trump. I said im a republican, and he won overwhelmingly in pennsylvania. He won the nation. The party has endorsed him. I am on the ticket with donald trump. We havent campaigned together, anywhere together, but i support the particular, that includes donald trump and all the way through to the state senator. Is there anything at all about his campaign or anything he said that has caused you concern . Donald ive been frank, donald wasnt my choice. I had another choice in mind. He certainly is now the president ial candidate. I may not always agree with some of his messages or how he did the messaging but he seems to have gotten better with that now. Ill tell you what, there is a lot of support for donald trump especially in western pennsylvania, republicans and democrats. I think youre going to see him do very well come november. Should a president ial candidate be required to release his tax returns which trump has not yet done . I think you have to be transparent for whatever office. If thats the request, you should be able to do those. I dont know what his reason is for not doing it. He says its because hes under audit. It might be, i dont know. Are all the Health Records from other candidates being released . Im not sure they are. They have their own agendas there. But i think we try to be as transparent as you can with the public so they know exactly who they are especially are you comfortable voting for a candidate for president of the United States who has not shared with the public one iota of information what he paid in taxes, what he has given to charity, those kinds of questions. Im working and focused on John Rafferty for attorney general. Thats the essence of my campaign, my focus has been. Youre going to have im asking if youre comfortable voting for him . I dont believe either side has baseball clear in all the information distributed. I still have questions about someone who runs a foundation where shes secretary of state and getting foreign money into that foundation. Its already been stated lets arrange meetings for foreign diplomats because of money to the foundation. She doesnt run the foundation. We should make that clear. Im sure she had a hand in it. I think transparency object both sides may be lacking. Do i have a problem voting for the Republican Party new york city. You maintain your pledge that you will not run for Higher Office if elected attorney general . Jim, to me, ag stands for attorney general. It doesnt stand for aspiring governor. I have pledged i served four years. If reelected i will serve four years. Its important for people of commonwealth to know youre making the right decisions for the right reasons, not political spotlight, the next venture. Pennsylvania deserves that and office of attorney general deserves that. Are you concerned about turnout on election day and as people go down that ticket if they arent supporting trump, youre on that ticket. Here in the philadelphia area thats a clear concern if you ar republican. Suburban counties have shown over and over they will ticket split. So i think that that bodes well for us. Ive done a lot in the way of gaining momentum and endorsement on nontraditional republican organizations. Building trade, philadelphia firefighters, certainly 40,000 strong the state fraternal order of police are still with me. I think thats going to bode well for whatever the Party Affiliation is to have them make sure they push my lever. State senator, thanks for being here on at issue. Sure, my pleasure. We wish you the best on election day. Onmaybe well talk between now and then. Thank you. Nbc 10 next on at issue. If you think your inbox safe prying eyes, think kben. Find out who is reading your email and what you did to let them in. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Donald trump says he alone can fix the problems we face. Well i dont believe thats how you get things done in our country. It takes democrats and republicans working together. Thats how we got health care for 8 million kids. Rebuilt new york city after 9 11. And got the treaty cutting russias nuclear arms. Weve got to bring people together. Thats how you solve problems and thats what ill do as president. Former secretary of state colin powell just the latest high profile person or organization to suffer an email hack. But people who arent in the headlines, they are also at risk. Your email is probably getting looked at a lot more than you realize, and its because youve actually granted permission. Joining me now, a lawyer in center city specializing in privacy, data and Cyber Security. Thanks for being here. So weve given our permission for them to look at everything. First of all i like to think any time youre operating theres no expectation of privacy. Any web searches, emails, its always out there and someone can always get it. A lot of email products you look at, such as gmail through google and other ones, a lot of times you look, check that terms and conditions, youre actually granting them access to the emails. Yeah. We dont Pay Attention very much to terms. Its there, boilerplate, run together. But we are granting them permission to actually look at contents we are sending and receiving. Yes. How that usually works, what google does, for example, in gmail accounts, they have an Automated Program that screens engoing and outgoing emails. Part of that is good. Part is to help stop spam, viruses like malware. They also use content for advertising purposes. They take that content and try to match it with some of your recent web searches or looking on google maps. Thats when all of a sudden that advertising pops up that looks like its tailor made for you. Were talking about Something Different than hacking released to the public you dont want out there. In the instance of colin powell personal emails in which he discussed Hillary Clinton, in which he discussed donald trump and how he felt about both of those individuals. Here were talking about your personal information that is being used for marketing purposes, right . Other reasons. Whats done with that information . We often dont know. A lot is done for marketing purposes. Screen for viruses and so forth. One of the things i would say i said before, no expectation of privacy. Any time you write an email at work, also at work and using your works email, your employer has access to that email as well. Any time you write an email, if youre at work you think this is something my boss would want to see. If youre writing an email to your spouse complaining about your boss, that might come back to you. Same thing with personal email, anything you write. That happened with colin powell. Think about it. It happened to him. This could end up on New York Times or washington post, is that something i should write. Theres really no expectation of privacy, whether its through hackers or gmail accounts and so forth. Same thing like drop box where we might store information or store documents or pictures. Right. In drop box in particular a couple months ago revealed they had a massive hack with their system. Thats why, for example, as lawyers we have to keep our information confidential. We were at our firm forbidden from using drop box for those very reasons. Sometimes youre working on a case and client and want to put information in there, we wouldnt do that because of security. They had a massive hack to all the data in there which is frightening. What about texting . Texting is a little more risky. They both have protecteds and encryption. The problem with texting its on a phone. Your phone is receiver. You dont know whats going to happen with the other person. If i send a text, i dont know if its encrypted, password protected. People lose their phones all the time. 73,000 cell phones turned frin taxicabs. Those are the ones turned in. If you text someone you dont know what happens with a phone. If you lose a phone not password protected, its vulnerable. Thats more risky than an email going to a server in someones computer. Were asked to give out our email all over the place when we sign up for on websites whatever the reason. Youre saying be very careful about giving out your email. I think, again, email address. Email address essentially gateway to your web activity. Everything we do is on email. We all have an account. That gives folks looking to hack or do nefarious things, gives them their first entrance. They may get information about you on the web, such as your address, telephone number. Now they have your email account. They can use that to send you emails called phishing expedition. They send and email thats very enticing, youve won a prize. You click on it and it lets a virus into your computer where they get all your sensitive data. Whats the best way we can stay as safe as possible with this information. Just to be cautious. We talk about Cyber Security being more of a people problem than technology problem. Like i said, dont just give your email out to anybody. If you get an email that looks suspicious, you dont know where its coming from, they are asking you for password, Social Security number, thats a red flag. Dont get on that right away. Be very cautious opening up emails from entities, companies youre not aware of. If you dont have any relationship with them, they are asking you for information right off the bat, thats a red flag, some sort of phishing expedition. Are you surprised at all people like colin powell had their emails hacked, other highprofile cases . No. Im not as much on the technical side. Certainly people try to do it all the time. John brennan, cia director had his personal emails hacked into last year. I think its a growing trend. I think its a scary trend whats going on now seems to be used for political purposes. What i read in the news reports, seems to be done by other states, other countries, thats a frightening prospect but unfortunately times we live in Cyber Security. Thanks so much. Giving us something to think about when we send and receive those emails out there, to be careful. Thanks so much. Next on nbc 10 issue, medical marijuana, its legal in our area. What do doctors know about proven benefits of property. Very little, if anything. How local doctors plan to fix that when we come right back. Pat toomey started his career as an investment banker. Then, a wall street wheelerdealer, overseeing stock trades in new york, london and tokyo. Next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. In the senate, its no surprise toomeys been siding with wall street. Voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. Pat toomey. Hes for wall street. Not Us Senate Majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Theres too much hype when it comes to medical marijuana. Thats according to dr. Charles pollock of Thomas Jefferson university. He stresses there is very little Scientific Research on the benefits of medical pot. That could change with the creation of Jefferson Center for medical cannabis, education and research. Aid chance recently to talk about this controversial area of health care with dr. Pollock who will lead that new center. Medical schools and Health Science universities in the country have been a little bit discouraged, a little bit tentative about stepping into this space because were still talking about a federally banned substance, despite pennsylvania being the 24th state to approve medical cannabis, were still talking about a substance thats not considered a drug by fda, its a banned substance. Explain to us what research will be done. In pennsylvania there are 17 what are called serious medical conditions that can potentially qualify a patient to be eligible to get a recommendation from a pennsylvania physician. We cant prescribe, only a recommendation. Such as . Such as intractable nausea and vomiting associated chemotherapy, wait loss, loss of appetite with other hiv and other chronic diseases. Epilepsy that doesnt respond to other medications. If we look at that list, for example, of these 17 different diagnoses, some of them have very i shouldnt say very, have reasonably strong medical evidence behind their use. In others, its really just limited reports, anecdote, advocacy. A lot of people think, wow, this may help, we shouldnt prevent patients from getting it and shouldnt be studied in a systematic way. What we propose from the center toys look at each one of those medical conditions and others adopted by other states, summarize the data that have been published on each of those conditions, and then sort of project or propose a Research Agenda to fill in the gaps on the other conditions. Because many of these, again, have very little substantial evidence behind them. Weve recruited a Steering Committee of 15 of the leading experts in medical marijuana from around the world. This group will work as a committee to develop this prioritized Research Agenda, which the field of medical cannabis has never had before. These are the questions to answer if youre going to use medical cannabis safely to treat x, y, or z. So the question is why did they pass legislation in some of these states, for instance, pennsylvania, without having these questions answered first . There are a lot of people asking that question. There are policymakers, there are physicians, there are patients, advocacy groups who are very impatient for change. The push has happened in pennsylvania. They pushed to go ahead and legalize this within specific standards. Have you to have trained physicians. Have you to have trained pharmacists working dispensaries and patients have to have one of these specific conditions. The thinking is within those parameters this is safe enough while were waiting for more information to accrue and the law to change. What about those that might be worried, i need this for my condition and research shows, perhaps, its not effective in this particular case and that is taken away as a right for them. That may well happen. Just as conventionally studied drugs proposed for specific disease states or specific indications and when when you actually do whats called a phase 3 trial, big trial that might qualify a drug for an fda level, turns out it doesnt work or works in a different way. Theres a real dearth of objective data. That means there are significant questions to be answered. We dont know how they are answered. Its better to know than be operating in the dark. Youll be looking for patients, obviously, taking part in these research studies. In the past when smaller studies proposed to look at the effects of medical cannabis, there usually hasnt been a lot of difficulty recruiting patients. One of the challenges we have, making sure patients are taking it only as directed as part of the study. Dr. Pollock, thanks for being here. We appreciate it. Thank you. The new center will offer online courses for doctors and pharmacists. There will also be sciencebased Information Available to the public. Well be right back. Narrator terrorism here at home. Fourteen americans killed in a San Bernardino mass shooting. But after this tragedy when pat toomey had the chance to ban suspected terrorists from buying guns he voted against closing this loophole for terrorists and with the gun lobby. Katie we have to do everything in our power to keep guns away from terrorists who threaten our way of life. Im Katie Mcginty and i approve this message because we cant risk our families safety on a loophole. Thats it for this weeks nbc 10 issue. If theres a topic youd like to see us cover, just let us know on twitter nbc issue. Next week candidate josh shapiro. I hope youll join me toll on nbc 10 news starting at 10 00. Thanks for watching. Have a great sunday. Someones finally ready to start her day. Time to work some magic. Tada. Get gooeyflakyhappy. Toaster strudel. My name is robert, and these are my friends, alice and joseph. 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