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

I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

>> I will negotiate the details around this budget.

But I would not negotiate my values.

as Mayor Johnson lost control over the city budget debate.

A look at how President elect Donald Trump's tariff plans could impact your pocketbook.

>> And what head coach Matt Eberflus getting shown the door.

What's next for the Chicago Bears?

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

man accused of shooting a Jewish man back in October is found dead by an apparent suicide in Cook County Jail.

The sheriff's office says Sidi Mohammed Abdullahi was found unresponsive during a routine security check on Saturday.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

In a statement the sheriff's office says there was no evidence of foul play in the Cook County Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy.

Abdullahi was facing hate crime charges after being accused of firing several shots at a 39 year-old Jewish man who was walking to synagogue.

Cook County's new state's attorney began her first day on the job, sounding the alarm on gun violence and detailing her office's plan to respond.

>> Our number of shootings has risen exponentially.

We have war zone numbers of people being wounded by gun violence right now.

We are having a mass shooting on a regular basis.

We are becoming numb to the numbers.

I don't want to become I want to do something about it.

>> Shortly after taking the oath of office, O'Neill Burke announced a new detention policy where prosecutors will seek pretrial detention in all of the most serious offenses, including murder, kidnapping and offenses.

She says her office will also filed to detain suspects, charged with crimes involving firearms with an extended magazine or switch or ghost guns.

Those taking place on public transit and those that are domestic violence related.

Among the other officials in attendance for O'Neill, Berks swearing in Illinois, Comptroller Susana Mendoza and former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Richard in also sworn in today, the new clerk of the Circuit court, Marion Maryana Speropoulos.

Her office is in charge of hundreds of thousands of court records.

Today's bra plus promised her office would be transparent and accessible as well as within the law, promising to appoint an independent inspector general to root out corruption.

Members of Congress are expanding the fight against vaping products targeted to young people all the way to China.

Congressman from Illinois, Russia Krishnamurthy says his House select Committee is opening an investigation into the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China.

Unfortunately.

>> The vast majority of new vapes that have entered the market are being illegally.

Imported from China.

And these vapes.

We have no idea what they contain.

Because they are being manufactured facilities that are not being, you know, in any way inspected by the FDA.

They are sourced from companies with shadowy principles and owners.

>> Krishnamurthy says the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has sent letters to both Chinese manufacturers as well as American importers of Chinese dates to get information on how they can be imported against U.S. law.

Up next, we dig into how the city's budget negotiations got so messy this year had a Sharon joins us right after this to explain.

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>> Members of Chicago's City Council return to city Hall today after a weeklong Thanksgiving break without a clear path to a deal on the 2025 budget time is running short for officials to come up with a plan that can win the support of the majority of older people as well as Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Earlier today, Johnson told reporters he was confident a deal can be reached.

>> I get the noise around my administration.

I'm doing it differently.

And I know it feels a certain way, but I'm doing it better.

We'll have a balanced budget that invests in people.

>> Our Heather Sharon joins us now for a look at how Johnson lost control of negotiations over the city's budget.

Heather?

So for weeks, Johnson has said that he will not accept a budget that cut services or lays off city workers.

Today, though, he said nothing has changed.

Let's listen.

>> I'm going to hold the line remain firm that I made a commitment to invest in people.

And that's exactly what I purpose to do.

And that's what I will continue to do to invest in people, particularly in neighborhoods that have historically been neglected, marginalized quite frankly, just >> And Heather State law says that the city has until the end of the year to pass a budget.

29 days to go.

How did we get here?

Well, it started with a massive budget deficit 982 million dollars in the centerpiece of Johnson's plan to fill that gap with a 300 million dollar property tax hike, which would have been the second largest in Chicago history and the largest since 2016 that was dismissed immediately, not just by Johnson's critics on the city council, but also his allies who are worried that an increase of that side with fuel gentrification and push longtime residents out of their home.

So with a fractured progressive caucus that meant that Johnson could not marshaled the support over the conservative members of the City council and push his proposal over the finish line.

That meant he had to go back to square one even after delaying his budget address for 2 weeks over the objection of some of his closest allies on the city council a long road fish to get Johnson has several times referred to himself as, quote, collaborator in chief and that he was approaching these negotiations in a different way than any other Chicago mayor.

>> Breakdown his tactics, chorus.

Well, under mayors, Richard M Daily and Rahm Emanuel, all of these budget negotiations took place behind closed doors away from the prying eyes of reporter.

So once the mayor proposed budget, it was a done deal and there was typically a 49 to one vote approving it with very little public chaos.

All of those negotiations, as I said, took place away from the public.

Johnson says that it will serve Chicago and is not in the spirit of democracy.

He's saying we're going to do this in public.

It might feel a little bit messy, but we're going to get to a better place once we get there.

And I'm preside over at all as the collaborator in chief, right?

So he he's appeared to take a new approach today, declining to detail specific proposals as budget he made to older people just 2 weeks, as you said, after reducing his property tax hike proposal from 300 down to 150 Million.

Is this an admission that what he had been doing isn't working?

I think so.

Because it was the second time the city council had basically looked at a proposal for a property tax hike.

And this time quietly said no, unlike the very public, 50 to 0 rejection of the 300 million Dollar property tax hike.

It's clear that the next time he says here is what the budget is going to be.

He wants that to be able to stick.

And as you said, he's got a very limited time to do it.

They're hoping to pass the budget on December 13th.

We'll see if that happened quickly.

You know what happens if the city council fails to pass a budget by December 31st as required by law?

Well, we would be in unprecedented uncharted territory.

It appears as if the city government would have to shut down vendors would stop being paid.

It's not clear whether city employees would be paid after January.

1st.

That is a possibility.

Nobody wants to confront and is why there is so much pressure on City Hall to figure this out.

they're all hoping we can stay in.

The president did territory.

Whether Sharon, thank you so much.

Thanks, Brandis.

And you can his full story on our website.

It is all at W T Tw Dot com slash news.

One of president elect Donald Trump's campaign promises was a divisive economic plan, impose high percentage taxes on imported goods.

>> Known as terrace.

His plan calls for a 25% tax on all goods entering from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on Chinese products.

Trump says the shift will help create more factory jobs shrink the federal deficit, lower food prices and deter illegal immigration.

But many critics warn they'll have a harmful effect on the American economy and especially consumers.

Joining us on Zoom is Jonathan Coppet associate professor of agriculture policy at the University of Illinois.

Urbana Champaign.

Jonathan, thank you for joining us.

First, if you would explain how tariffs work.

>> Yeah.

I mean, tariffs are a tax, their tax on imports into this country.

And so, you know, rough example is like a sales tax.

And so everything brought in this country.

So it's going it's going to be hit with whatever that tariffs is at the border.

>> So how might a tariff impact in average American consumer or Chicago, Illinois consumer?

>> difficult to know because the details whatever.

President Trump will do it and administration are still kind of hard to sort out these bees made some specific more specific threats, if you will, against Canada in Mexico, as you as you mentioned, lead-in.

But we still don't know that the exact details are right.

I mean, at the tariff can be designed very narrow, a very, very specifically to address certain issues or challenges, particularly around national security measures or can be really blunt instrument.

And so this idea slapping 25 per cent on every good coming in from another country.

It's going to be really expensive.

It's going it all kinds of things that we don't produce taking the food sector.

It that you think about some of the things we import from places like Mexico and we do not produce in this country that's going to increase costs for consumers of grocery store because there's simply no one is saying can have that be passed onto the consumer.

>> So Illinois are major exports here are agricultural like soybeans, for example.

That's a that would be an export.

But how might tariffs affect the agricultural industry?

>> Yeah, I think one of the big unknowns with what President-elect Trump keeps saying is sort of how the other countries around the world respond.

So what is next due in response to they retaliate?

Do they?

It's hit tariffs or embargoes on exports like soybeans, which are an important export, as you mentioned, out of Illinois.

And we have some examples of this back in 2018 when he first initiated tariffs in his first term.

China, for example, began retaliating against Libyans as one of their one of the targets of their response.

Then the question or real concern begins.

Do things escalate from there into a much broader and much deeper conflict.

Something we might consider is like a trade war in which we begin to see all sorts tariffs encounter tariffs and embargoes and things like that that could really disrupt trade and kind of ripple through the economy.

>> Trump used tariffs in his last term as well.

How did that go?

Then?

>> Well, they use a somewhat narrowly on things like like washing machines and solar panels against China and China immediately retaliate if they retaliate.

Second soybeans.

As one of we noticed, there's also some interesting sort of retaliation against things like Harley Davidson motorcycle.

So at the time, Paul Ryan from Wisconsin is the speaker of the House and against bourbon from Kentucky because Mitch McConnell, it was majority leader.

So you can see them.

very, very narrowly in specifically to to implement a countermeasure retaliatory measure.

But a broader measure against all exports United States.

Of course, would ripple through various sectors the economy, certainly for farmers, I could disrupt trade around the world and we really don't know how that how that plays out.

Yeah, China's that sounds like China.

China's response was clearly a political.

>> The biden-harris administration has retained some of Trump's tariffs, including on Chinese goods and electrical vehicles.

In your opinion, when is the right time to utilize tariffs?

>> And that's a difficult question.

I think a lot of it really depends what what the policy is trying to achieve something like electric vehicles, for example, as we are starting up a nascent industry, we're really trying to get that production and the consumer interest off the ground.

And so if a country like China is able to undercut American, you know, entrepreneur is road and starting those sort of things, then you might see that as as a way to kind of help the industry get started.

And then you with phases out over time.

Another thing that Trump is used as been question previous administration, is this national security interest situation.

So we want use tariffs to prevent things that that challenger can spark concern for national security.

So we might protect industries like, you know, a lot of talk computer chips or weaponry and those sort of things that we wouldn't want to get under tighter have challenges with some.

There's a lot of the sort of targeted areas.

And then of course, the other one would be countries improperly using tariffs against American exports than we might also want to consider retaliation in that situation as well.

But it's, you know, there's there's not I you know, perfect mechanism for.

And I think one of the challenges is United States has been a leader role wise for many years now and trying you know, manage trade, relationships and agreements.

you know, some strong critics.

They are free trade policy.

This certainly to have the USB the instigator tariff conflict does present challenges both economic and geopolitically just in terms of managing a whole bunch of relationships.

>> Now Trump is claims he's promised actually that, you know, tariffs will create jobs, reduce the deficit, lower food prices.

Can you draw the line to that?

Actually happening?

>> sure how that is possible.

Given the state of are traded imports and particularly around groceries because they're just a lot of products that we do not grow produce in this country that would be hit with tear Broad-based tariffs that would impact the consumers pocket book the grocery store.

You know, a simple thing we we talk about sometimes classes, things like bananas or coffee.

We don't produce in this country.

So if you slap tariffs on that automatically price, the cost of those goods go out and there is no replacement, there's no substitute that we we have and in the U.S.

So we think about and that there's just a lot of those scenarios, many, many things that we import, you know, things are going automobiles, steel and aluminum and different items that go into multiple products.

You're increasing.

The cost of that was then we get past on and increase the overall cost the final good.

So even if it's not something that we directly import than that.

The items that go into other products but also increase.

And there's just not a simple way to replace it as far as saving jobs, maybe over time.

we're able you know, build manufacturing capacity, replace that.

But that's a very long-term outcome to re to try to work with, threw tear structure.

And I would imagine companies wouldn't necessarily be willing to immediately invest in building a factory if they know that the president >> is going to be someone else in that office in another 4 years on just about 20 seconds left, professor, you know, Congress typically sets tech park tax policies and forces tariffs.

What executive power can Trump exercise immediately to put a tariff like this in place?

>> Well, and that's one of the big questions we have and how they try to implement.

This is what authorities the president operates under again.

It the Trump administration, they use a national security exemption to existing tariff policies that Congress enacted and so I presume they follow something like that as well.

That, of course, raises a lot of concerns about how much it how broad an authority can be used and what's the most appropriate, a proper way to do it.

But to sort that out, you end up having to go to court and fight that their litigation.

And so again, the answers on that would be a long way away from the actual.

right, Tara.

>> All right.

We'll have to leave it there.

Professor Jonathan Compas, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

>> Up next, the Monsters of the Midway are looking for a new leader.

Stay with us.

Bad news Bears fans or is it good news?

Last week the team fired their head coach Matt Eberflus marking the first time in franchise history.

A head coach has been sacked during the season.

The move came after Chicago's 6th straight loss on Thanksgiving Day offensive coordinator Thomas Brown will serve as interim coach while the organization looks for a replacement who Bears president CEO Kevin Warren said will be exhaustive organized and diligent.

Joining us now with more is Kevin Fish being Chicago Bears beat writer for The Athletic.

Welcome back.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you, member.

So this is not the Bears first losing season said the Sabres but it is the first in-season firing that the team has ever made.

What do you think prompted this?

>> Well, there are a lot of high hopes for this team.

There's a lot of intrigue, excitement that Caleb Williams that a lot of returning starters coming back I had never seen this month miss much inside of her team.

Probably 5 to 10 years and for them to lose 6 in a row, 4 of which came in the final play of the game.

A lot of times you look to the coaching, you look to the head coach.

I think what happened on Thanksgiving was was another loss that came at the end.

The Cayman head scratching decision or lack thereof for Eberflus and players are very upset very for a single in the locker room afterwards and then bears ownership Bears.

General manager of the front office realized they had to move on because they need to get a runway to next season.

They need to improve in these final 5 games and use this good nucleus to have something positive happen.

So is the right call.

right call.

I think the only question was when not if could probably argue that maybe should have done 3 weeks ago.

You could argue it should have been done a year ago that they should not have left many.

But first get to your 3 knowing they had this opportunity to get the number one pick drafted Williams.

They can finally lineup.

Gm head coach and quarterback for the long term.

The decide to stick with Eberflus and now they're going down a cycle.

The Chicago Bears have gone down over and over again for 2 decades.

Now.

>> Well, to that point, issues in the organization be on the head coach, several money.

It's you know, I think a lot of this goes starts at the top.

And if you look at >> what the Bears have since George McCaskey took over as chairman.

So many hires just haven't gone wrong.

They've had 3 general managers and his time they're going outlook for another head coaching his time.

And the quarterback obviously has been a quarterback carousel that 1, 0, playoff games since 2010.

So a lot has gone wrong.

So many areas ability.

Some things have improved.

Certainly.

And as I said with Caleb Williams, you have some hope.

You have some excitement.

There's a lot of great good young players.

2018 was a lot of fun.

You know, 20 time they had the playoff win.

But haven't been a whole lot excitement.

>> What can we expect to see from the interim coach Thomas Brown, whose I he's been on the come-up, right, like he's gotten too pretty decent size promotions.

Recently, less than a month ago, he was the passing game coordinator who talked to us once every 2 weeks now is the head coach is going to talk to us 4 times a week is gonna be the voice of the team.

And I think you talk to players and coach is he has an energy that they really like and he has kind of a galvanizing presence in that room in that building that really attracts players and coach is that they really feel that energy.

He's very direct.

I think they like that.

He seems to be very confident.

He talks about that a lot.

He's going to be himself.

And I think players respect that.

I think certainly the way Caleb Williams has played the last 2 weeks, certainly help Thomas Brown get into this role because they've seen the offense is playing well.

They want to keep that going.

He's got a lot of other things he has to do as head coach of the poster just calling the plays.

That's he was doing the last few weeks.

But this is a bit of a job interview for him, not just for the Bears but for the teams around the league.

He is somebody that's probably going to be an NFL head coach one day.

>> Is it going to the Bears?

Next season is going to be another team next season will see of its a great opportunity certainly an opportunity for for him to audition.

President Kevin Warren announcing today that general manager Ryan Poles will be leading the search for the new head coach.

What does he need to be looking for to get it right in?

>> How safe is polls?

>> Yeah, well, the view rarely do see a general manager at the higher 3 head coaches.

So this will be the second head coach Ryan Poles.

We'll hire to go in the first time.

He doesn't cover warrant says we very important because if you want to say that, you know, it's a results-driven league.

The Bears results haven't been there.

The head coach he hired was wrong.

The corners that they've hired have been wrong.

So a lot of and this is the roster he has built.

That is now for an 8 for a lot of reasons.

So I think for him he has to get this right.

The organization has to get this right.

I think that they're looking for somebody.

interesting you mention Thomas Brown because I think there are a lot of traits that he has.

The bears should be looking for someone that is very strong, very secure, very comfortable in their own skin, very confident and maybe have some head coaching experience to maybe that's what this building needs.

Because, again, this is not a rebuilding situation.

They have the players that can compete.

They someone to figure out how to reach them in and a better way than many first.

>> How do you assess Ryan Poles decision-making in general?

The roster is in a good spot.

The salary cap space is in a good spot to have extra draft pick next year.

They have what they have good draft capital so they continue to build.

But if you are going to be frustrated with Matt Eberflus is time as head coach, you have to look at the person who put him in a position in the first place and the person of the site to keep him after year to which Ryan posted.

And then if you look at some of the issues that have happened on the field with some of the players, the defense to playing as well, taken care of a long time to get part of the offense ago.

Point to Shane Waldron, the officer Porter, who was fired a month ago, we talked about first head coach fired in-season.

Shane Long was the first officer corner.

The Bears have fired his season ever.

So a lot of precedent things.

So I think a lot of those things fall into Ryan Poles, umbrella.

He is in charge of football operations.

He now has an opportunity to take this roster.

What you it is not roster that can compete.

That should be 75 right now instead of 4, 8 and now it's on him to find the right head coach for this group, 5, 6 weeks left.

What should their goals be for the rest of the season?

Number one goal is Caleb Williams.

Get him on the right path.

You want him to be arrow up again this season.

You want to feel really good that he is your guy.

Everything you do has to be about supporting him and getting him to play well, getting him confident getting wins.

He's got to learn how to win.

He hasn't won very much, obviously since he's been here.

So I think that's goal number one.

And you do want to win games.

have some good players.

You want these players to feel good and you got a fear of who's staying and who's going from coaches to players.

So a lot of valuation the next 5 weeks.

But for Bears, fans when it comes to January 8th in the season's over, you want to feel really, really good about your quarterback will be excited about next season.

hope nobody gets hurt.

Kevin Fisher, judge got to be as the writer for The Athletic.

Thank you so much for joining Thank you.

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