M-S-S-W media.

Citizens in Wisconsin were

Citizens in Wisconsin were forced to choose between their health and exercising their right to vote.

How can we make sure everyone is able to vote safely in November.

Let's get on topic.

Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news.

My name's Renato Mariati.

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer,

and a CNN legal analyst.

And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez, the host of the Patty Vasquez show who joins us regularly on this podcast.

But before I speak with Patty, I want to recognize our patrons who brought us this episode.

With special thanks to Michelle Dew,

Eric DeWurst, Eedy, James Frohmeyer,

Jay Gellhausen,

Jamie Gordon, Steve Hungsberg,

Shana Wachinsky, and an anonymous patron.

You too can become a patron on our website on topic podcast.com. All one word.

Just click the support link at the top of the page. So Patty, before we get to our guests, who is going to tell us a lot and inform us in this topic, I have to say the reason that this to me is such an important issue is, I really felt heartbroken for a lot of these people in

Wisconsin who had to face a very tough choice. They had to basically put their lives

and their health at risk to go and vote otherwise they couldn't exercise their right to vote.

I mean it's a crazy choice and something that shouldn't be acceptable in our country.

And you know this is a big conflict I think we touch on this a little bit, you know, in regards of the race that I ran in the 19th District of Illinois for the house seat.

...