The speaker says that in retrospect he believed the public and employees supported him and that he was clearly in the right, but during the process he feared violating the law and being sued.

“I think like in retrospect,”

“it was like, oh, yeah,”

“like the public's on your side,”

“the employees are on your side, like you're just like obviously in the right here,”

“you know, but at the time I was like, oh,”

“no,”

“like I don't want to accidentally like violate the law and get sued,”

“like I don't want to go too far, like I know I was just like so afraid of various things in particular, I was afraid of breaking the law.”