>> Hello and thanks for joining us on Chicago tonight.

I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

2 key committees.

Advanced Mayor Johnson's budget proposal, our spotlight politics team on what's in it and what comes next.

And a new book explores the transformative reign of Chicago's longest serving mayor.

>> And now to some of today's top stories.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's budget proposal is set for a final vote.

That's after 2 Key City Council committees narrowly approved Johnson's 7, 17.3 billion dollar spending plan.

The proposal heights property taxes by 68 million dollars while increasing a host of other taxes and fees by an additional 165 Million.

The full city council will now be able to vote on the plan.

That to step process is set to start Wednesday with a final vote scheduled for Friday.

Our Spotlight Politics team will have more on today's high drama votes coming up.

Senator Durbin is calling on President Joe Biden to take steps to protect immigrant families before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

>> No president like Trump has pledged that on that the first day of his new administration, he will declare a national emergency and use our military as part of a mass deportation plan.

I made a living out of politics as have my colleagues at the table or during the course of the campaign, you can make promises.

Sometimes they come true and sometimes they don't.

>> Thank you.

Chair Durbin spoke at a Senate Judiciary Judiciary Committee hearing which he chairs on the issue today about concerns that mass deportations would separate families and harm the economy.

It comes a day after Trump's border chief Tom Homan visited Chicago saying the city will be ground 0 for mass deportations.

Durbin and other senators have sent a letter to President Biden asking him to speed up processing Dhaka applications for Dreamers as well as processing asylum claims and to designate and extend temporary protected status for all eligible countries.

But during today's hearing, Senator Lindsey Graham argues the only way to control the border is to prioritize deportations.

A federal judge is blocking what would have been the largest supermarket merger in history.

The nearly 25 billion-dollar proposal would have merged grocery Giants Albertsons, which owns Jewel Osco and Kroger with which owns Mariano's.

But the judge ruled the merger would have limited competition and harmed consumers and workers.

The companies had argued a merger would help them better compete with Walmart, Costco and Amazon.

Baseball.

Great Ryne.

Sandberg says his cancer has returned and has spread the Cubs Hall of Fame.

Second baseman made the announcement on social media today sharing the cancer has relapsed and spread to other organs.

Sandberg says he's resuming intensive treatment and he thanks fans for their thoughts and prayers.

Sandberg first shared his prostate cancer diagnosis in January.

But then said he was cancer free in August after chemo and radiation treatments.

He was the National League MVP in 1984, and a 10 time All-Star during 15 seasons with the Cubs.

Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts called him an inspiration to cancer survivors everywhere.

Pressure over the city budget.

The state Supreme Court ruling on cannabis and claims of police racial profiling.

What's not to talk about with our spotlight politics team.

That's right.

After this.

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>> Pressure is mounting on Mayor Brandon Johnson as the city faces an end of year budget deadline.

And as the mayor's handpick school board prepares for its last meeting before a partially elected board takes over a growing chorus of principles and older people.

>> Urging it not to dismiss schools, CEO Pedro Martinez, plus President elect Donald Trump's border chief promises mass deportations at a northwest side Republican holiday party here with all that and more is our spotlight politics team Amanda Heather, Sharon and Nick Blumberg.

Welcome back game.

So deadline to pass a city budget keeps getting closer cause time marches on Heather.

But it looks like the 3rd time might be a charm.

What happened today at City Well, the City Council's finance committee advanced the part of the budget that taxes Chicagoans to pay for the budget on a vote of 14 to 12 and the City Council's budget committee agreed to spend that money on a vote of 17 to 16.

So we are talking.

>> In incredibly small margins and a lot of controversy over exactly what this budget would do, which is you said would tax Chicagoans to the tune of 234 million dollars more if this is approved on Friday, it will mean that it will be more expensive, signed up for Netflix or any other streaming surface.

Your property tax will go up if you own a property worth $250,000 you'll pay about $50 more a year and it's going to be just a whole bunch of other taxes that filled the city's budget gap, which started at 982 million dollars.

But will there be 26 votes to pass this package?

Today's margins tell us if there is it's going to be incredibly incredibly close call to that point had or what does that narrow margin mean with what can we expect on Friday?

Well, I would imagine that the mayor's staff are frantically making calls to make sure that they have the votes that they think they have the votes.

And if they suggest that they do the U.S. you want to with kuz on to what if we all want to be done with this on Friday rather than the stretching into the week before Christmas and then potentially to New Year's.

You know, there may be some trading going on behind the scenes.

We saw some allegations of that today at its city council.

Couple committees, other budgets suddenly increase and then decrease putting the spotlight shone on them.

That is a time honored way of sort making sure that your friends and Alice stay with you.

But, you know, it's not clear sort of what else the city has to give because if there was more money left to sort of make easier vote, it would have been spent weeks ago.

The mayors handpick school board.

They are also scheduled to have their last meeting before the hybrid board takes over.

Of course.

>> Half of that board was recently elected.

Nic, what is the latest in the power struggle between the mayor and the schools chief Peter Martinez?

Well, the latest thing we were looking for is the agenda of that board meeting, as you mentioned, just 2 days away.

They had to put out their agenda by today at 5 o'clock.

>> There does not appear to be any specific item on the board's agenda relating to the tenure of CEO Pedro Martinez.

Nothing on.

They're talking about potentially dismissing him, as you mentioned, you know, just yesterday we saw 21 Alder people send a letter to the current board, urging them not to make any big changes like a lot firing the CEO before this hybrid board takes over next month.

We've seen, you know, Villegas, you come out and, you know, praise Martinez's support during a really his tenure, during a really tumultuous time.

But there's always the possibility of say emergency meeting that the board calls.

It is not necessarily, you know, that Martinez is out of the woods yet.

But as of this last meeting that we have scheduled doesn't appear to be anything that puts his leadership at risk.

>> Okay.

So let's turn rule by the Illinois Supreme Court that some might refer to as Madness.

has to do with cannabis in car searches, Phyllis yes, think this might perhaps a little confusing for folks.

So just to spell it out, you had an decision issued back in September.

>> That said that the smell of burnt cannabis was not reason for police to be able to search your car without a warrant.

Now, this new decision just out says that Rois best Mel police can.

And the justices say that there's a difference said basically if you smelled pot that is burnt, then it means that it was >> already done or currently being smoked, which they would fairly obvious to an officer, right?

Like if you see somebody worse as they say that wrong cannabis, because the law says it has to be in over proof container.

>> You're automatically breaking the law.

If you can smell raw cannabis.

Now there was a dissent.

One of the justices wrote that this is absurd and defies logic and said that that's, in fact, not the case that you might smell raw, cannabis, not just because it is clearly a violation of the law and not in a car in a note approved container.

But maybe it's just the snow that's on somebody because say they work in a dispensary or they helped to grow marijuana.

But it is the latest ruling and that is the case.

So if you are going to have marijuana with you in your car, keep it in the container.

If you do want to get in trouble coming to locked up And of course, you did explain this for our viewers.

Folks can find that on Yes, thank you you can read the whole kit and caboodle, so getting pulled over, though.

This is something that Anthony driver, he is, of course, the head of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability in Chicago.

That is the civilian police oversight agency.

>> Heather, he's familiar with getting pulled over.

What do you tell you?

So in the last 11 months he's been pulled over 5 times by Chicago police officers.

And this is I think, especially.

>> Startling because he not only is the head of that police oversight board.

He is in the process of crafting new rules that limit the police department's ability need to make these kind of stops.

Now we did, of course, reach out to the police department.

They declined to comment on specific traffic stops on specific people.

But Superintendent Aaron Spelling has said that he has worked to reduce the number of traffic stops that department is making by nearly 60%.

by the start of the year.

Now, we've seen pretty significant drop in murders at that same time, which I think will raise more questions about weather traffic stops are in effect of law enforcement technique.

And at the same time, there's a big debate over going on whether the city's consent decree, you should expand to include a traffic stop.

So that would give a federal judge authority over what that final policy would look like.

Although Anthony Driver and the is likely to have some role in sort of figuring that all out.

But this is another indication that traffic stops remain a very hot button issue.

And Anthony Driver says that he believes he was pulled over because he's a large black man who wears his hat, his hair in dreadlocks, which raises real questions about CPD is ability police constitutionally on Chicago.

Streets course.

and there are also calls for how police respond to hate crimes where the details.

also this is a measure that passed the Senate and you're going to have a new year.

The legislature returning the last sort of bite at the Apple before New General Assembly is seated and they have to start overall legislation.

So >> a really diverse coalitions, something that you don't necessarily always, you know, see, this is literally like leaders of major civil rights organizations, human rights organizations, the Chicago Urban League Representan UN Organization for >> sick individuals for I let he knows all coming together to say that they believe something has to be done because there's been such a surge in hate crimes nationally, but is well as in Chicago and Illinois.

And that police really need to better understanding of what constitutes a hate crime.

If you don't have that, they say that you might be handling inappropriately that interaction with potential victim traumatizing them or maybe you're not going to have something prosecuted as a hate crime which carries a higher threshold of penalties because it is motivated by bias.

By definition.

And so they want there to be required training.

Interestingly, this is something that the police standards board that governs what police need to be taught characteristically there like, right.

We've got enough.

They're not opposed to this effort.

So really all eyes looking to January to see whether legislators get this over the finish line.

All right.

So holiday parties, they happen, right?

President Trump's border chief was the keynote speaker at a holiday gathering for the northwest side.

Republicans.

>> Nick, want to say as you mentioned, you know, this is Tom Homan, who's the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

>> Now being tapped to be Trump's border czar, which is not necessarily an official position, but it certainly doesn't require Senate confirmation, for example, which we've all been hearing a lot about.

sounds waiting for this sounds very And, you know, this is huge policy role, though, and clearly something that, you know, the Trump fans campaign put a lot of effort in.

He says Chicago should expect to be ground 0 for deportations.

Now was walking a line a little bit where he said we're going to be focusing on, you know, criminals are alleged criminals to to pick those folks have.

But, hey, if you're alongside those folks, you should expect to get picked up 2.

He also said that, you know, that the immigration issue here in Chicago is a problem because the mayor and the governor the actual word he used.

But he also, you know, sort of implored them to come to the table and negotiate with him.

You know, we mentioned the Senator Durbin mentioned the planned use of the military for some of these deportations home and says you shouldn't be expecting, you know, tank sweeping down the street, but not really backing off of the hardline him.

you know, image that they're projecting here says there's not necessarily a plan in place for family separations which we saw in the first Trump administration.

But there are no guarantees that something like that could well happen.

So he had to, you know, pretty tough message very much in line with what we heard during the election cycle.

Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker's reactions.

It's sort of what we've heard all along.

We didn't get much of a reaction from either of Pritzker spokesperson said, you know, Illinois is going to be under attack for a lot of things and essentially not going to dignify everything with the response, but certainly from an Illinois politician there, Senator Durbin on the Judiciary Committee trying to paint a pretty stark picture at that hearing earlier today.

Not just about that, the human impact of this, but also heard a lot of folks, you know, talk about what the economic impact might be, the problems with the labor market that might happen if undocumented immigrants are suddenly gone from the United States.

So clearly this is something that people are going to be keeping their eye very closely.

Heather, 30 seconds left, Mayor Johnson, senior adviser Jason Lee coming under scrutiny for having voted in Texas.

Don't you have to live in Chicago?

You sure do lived Chicago to be a city or Chicago employee.

And if you do not live in the city of Chicago, you are subject to termination.

And I think there are a lot of questions about that right now.

>> We asked Mayor Johnson about that yesterday.

He sort of decline to get Jason Lee a full-throated.

I have full confidence in him endorsement but their close allies.

And it's not really clear if Jason Lee's problem is here in Chicago with his employment or if it's in Texas for voting in an election, he said he wanted to because his sister's replacing his late mother in Congress.

So I think that we aren't really sure how that is all going to work out.

Inspector General Denver, what's Berg told me that couldn't comment on whether she's investigating his residency.

Her agency would be in charge for probe like that, OK, I guess we'll learn more that spotlight Mifflinburg I know your name I do get paid to talk.

There's your own Amanda Thanksgiving.

Up next, a new book explores the transformative reign of Chicago's longest serving mayor.

Stay with us.

Richard in daily was first elected mayor of Chicago in 1989.

It was a time of fractious racially polarized politics at City Hall and violence that had one newspaper dubbing the city Beirut on the lake.

But despite the challenges, the younger Mayor, Daley would go on to eclipse the record of his father, the original Mayor Richard J Daily winning 6 consecutive terms as Mayor Forrest Claypool served twice as his chief of staff and had a unique perspective on his leadership.

He's out now with a new book painting a behind the scenes portrait of Chicago's longest serving mayor.

The book is called The Daily Show Inside the transformative reign of Chicago's Richard in daily.

Joining us now is Forrest Claypool, former chief of staff to both Mayor Richard in daily and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Claypool also served as the CEO of the Chicago Park District.

The Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago Public Schools just to name a few for us.

Welcome back, Chicago tonight.

Thanks, branch for having Of as we mentioned, you know, you've had some decades of public service.

I know you, of course, from your time at but even quiet the last 7 years or so.

Why did you want to write this book?

>> Mostly because I was upset at what was happening in the city and in the intervening years I just thought that people have forgotten the lessons of good municipal governance and people forgotten what 1989 was like as you just previewed, we have a violent endemic crime schools were bankrupt and the worst dropout rate in the nation of considered the worst schools in the country.

According the U.S. Department of Education, businesses leaving in droves you people leaving in droves, jobs, declining low quality of life, homelessness and graffiti.

And I begin to yeah, for 22 years, despite setbacks, despite calamities, despite scandals, Mayor reform, the city turned around so that by 2010 Foreign Policy magazine said that Chicago was the 6 most important city in the world and the search see this decline since then where the schools are in chaos again, businesses and people are leaving and rose again.

Crime is endemic again.

It was it was upsetting.

So I thought the book was turned the cathartic way say history is important.

We should learn from history and there's lessons there.

>> So, of course, this your book at looks at Richard in Daley's renew, of course, had a ringside seat to that and participating in that.

How would you assess the younger Mayor, Mayor Daley's leadership skills?

>> Well, he had an extraordinary combination of political act come in and municipal management insights urban planning vision.

And but he also hadn't had weaknesses.

And, you know, he he but he attracted great people.

and that was important when you have a vision and people believe that you're you can accomplish Attract high caliber people who have accomplished great things that are several stories in the book area where a single individuals were responsible for changing history.

One person was responsible for land being acquired one park which are by thought for 30, 40, 50 years was owned by the on a Central railroad.

One person walked the Republicans from taking over O'Hare Airport, which would have been a shadow of itself today and out of the economic impact on the city.

But those people were working for him because they were attracted to that vision.

They could.

They were good a minute making tons of money elsewhere.

So he had great ability attract good people.

He let them run with the football.

He didn't try to micromanage done and had a vision to guide them.

I take it.

You're probably among those folks who are attracted to vision.

>> Absolutely.

you know, you really wanted to go and work every day because you knew what he was trying to do to improve the city.

>> Didn't always get it right.

And time went by, he actually, you know, detracted lesson list, how the people that hurt him.

And that was because of his own hubris.

I mean, the book details, some big scandals that came on later in his tenure that not only threaten his mayoralty but threatens freedom.

You know that the former prosecutor had to hire white collar criminal defense attorney to represent him as the FBI questioned him about this corruption.

The news from every part of his administration.

And that's just start underscores the old adage that, you know, power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts.

Absolutely.

And it's not a surprise that those scandals emerged when he was at the very height his popularity and power.

>> You mentioned, you know, sort of his his weaknesses shortcomings, detail in the book how he ignored and sought to bury evidence of police torture both as Cook County State's attorney.

And then later is mayor you write, quote, Chicago's racial conflicts are seemingly indelible stain on the city and specter that haunted Richard in daily throughout his public career.

How would you assess his record on race?

>> Well, that was certainly perhaps the biggest staying of all of but by same token, as you pointed out in your intro when he took office, it was a time of great racial conflict.

Counsel wars were literally were divided between black and white.

action of white aldermen trying to block the first African-American mayor from succeeding.

he turned that He came into office running on a platform of racial reconciliation and he was true to his word and this time taught us we can work together and unify the city when he left office.

President Obama said, you know, that he united the city in the way that probably no one else could have.

>> He also facing financial challenges.

Here is a clip of former Chicago Mayor Daley talking in 2010 about those.

>> You have to bite the bullet.

These are difficult decisions and you have to make and sometimes you have to cut things out.

Sometimes you have to hold back and that spending you have to do these things.

If you want to balance a budget, you keep borrowing money just like foreclosure.

You keep borrowing money.

Someone has to pay it back.

Eventually who's going to pay it back is going to my child, my grandchild, a great grandchild.

And that's the big question.

Everybody has to ask.

>> So critics say the root of some of Chicago's many financial problems today can be traced back to Mayor Daley from the much maligned or is the parking meter deal overly generous public sector pay and pension awards that have settled the city with some massive pension debt.

Do you think that's fair criticism?

I think that's half true.

I think there's I think it's half reasonable.

He's in the last 7 years of his administration alone teacher salaries.

That CPS rose 50%.

For example, he was obsessed.

>> With labor peace.

And of course, that's one reason the pensions of continued going, although I would point out as they do in the book that the pension benefits are set by General Assembly Springfield, not by the mayor and over a period of about 20 years.

increased pension benefits 1000% and strict in Chicago, even as incomes of families went up 100%.

So, you know, more blame goes to Springfield into the mayor and that front.

But, you know, I so I do think, though, that also that in the parking meters and those other things, bad deal clearly, but it was at the very bottom of the Great Recession when the when the economy was at its nadir, people are losing their homes because joblessness was.

And he was looking with the council to try weather that storm without having to shut down department or lay off police officers.

>> So you've of course, he won many hats, as we mentioned as a public servant, including being CEO Chicago, Public Schools, which you referenced briefly in your book, your departure from CPS as unfair CPS inspector general at the time accused of lying to cover up an ethics investigation and he recommended your termination.

How do you look back on that time and your legacy as a public servant?

Sure things that I think is a good reflection.

And I do address in the up along Unser the Times we live in where >> there's kind of a Tennessee sometimes for special interests or politically ambitious people to cut operate in concert with reporter says sometimes exaggerate or create fake news that then takes on a life of its own.

And that certainly was the case with me.

But what I was accused of was allowing my general counsel to oversee is a law firm, even though that law firm whispers providing the services for free so technically violated.

An ethics said that he shouldn't be able to oversee is a law firm says he was going retirement benefits.

But I think most people would understand that if a law firm Israeli representing kids and giving up a million dollars, which is what Jenner and what they give up a million dollars in legal fees to help kids.

But that's hardly an ethics violation or just say is next for for ally.

Well, nothing really.

You know, this book was I think I hope is an important contribution.

I hope people read it and >> and take lessons from You know, I continue to case in dropping off that as he did Chicago Tribune recently about like I care very deeply that was happening.

The city obviously have opinions based on experience.

But I'm I look to hopefully new generation of leadership that comes along to fix some of these problems that we're experiencing today.

So we'll have to leave it for us label.

Thanks for joining us.

Thank you.

Again, the book is called The Daily Show Inside the transformative reign of Chicago's Richard in daily.

You can read an excerpt on our website.

>> And that is our show for this Tuesday night.

Join us tomorrow night at 5, 30 10, the rise and fall of former Congressman Jesse Jackson junior.

He joins us for an extensive one-on-one conversation.

And the CTA Red Line Extension Project set to begin next year.

Residents share their hopes and concerns.

>> Now for all of us here Chicago Brandis Friedman, thank you for watching.

Stay healthy and safe.

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