Why the delay in getting to those 4,000 untested kits when your office had the funding to start the testing in 2016? Nobody else before me would take it on as attorney general or governor. Nobody wanted to deal with this problem. I came in and I knew there was value from my 25 years as a frontline prosecutor, I knew there was value in getting these kits tested to bring justice for survivors and to hold offenders accountable and take dangerous offenders off the street. (06:24–06:32)
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