sanctuary city in the first place.

>> First off tonight, Michael Madigan made headlines last week when he took the stand in his corruption trial.

Madigan is facing bribery, racketeering and wire fraud charges.

He and longtime right-hand man Michael McLean, who is also charged, have pleaded not guilty.

Today, prosecutors got their chance to cross examine the famously tight-lipped, former Illinois House speaker at Masterson joins us now from the Dirksen Courthouse with more today, the prosecution played a wiretapped phone call of the former Illinois House speaker.

What are they here?

>> Yeah.

So bring us that call involved a conversation from 2018 between Madigan and his longtime confidant and current co-defendant Michael McLean and which state commented about a comment consultants who were working without what they were being paid without it essentially doing any work for the company.

This tape.

It previously been excluded from court, but we Madigan took the witness stand last week to testify that he was very angry when learning that these consultants were not doing the work that they're supposed to be doing.

The judge reconsider and allow this tape to be let Now on the tape, Madigan can be heard saying that these men made out like bandits while doing very little work.

And while testified that he was very angry with he was laughing with McClain while they talked about this on the secretly recorded call.

So it's definitely a major piece of the prosecution's case that it was only admitted because Madigan decided to take the witness stand.

>> map.

There was also some back and forth between the attorneys in the case this morning.

Tell us what happened.

>> Yeah, that attorneys on both sides spent the entire morning going over a host of legal issues before the jury was brought in the discussed, the admissibility of this very bandits tape.

If it was going to be allowed in court, they also a push from the defense to tax return information from disgraced former 25th Ward Alderman Danny Solis, who one of the government's star.

Witnesses recorded several artists, secret recordings for the government and the defense will be allowed to show these documents will show that lied on his tax returns in previous years as way to try to discredit him and his testimony against Madigan.

>> what are we here for Madigan in his testimony today?

>> Yeah, some of the most contentious testimony came right at the end of the day where he was actually discussing Sully's.

So I wanted that mean issues that Manning is facing is that he was trying to trade public action for private gain from his law firm.

So Solis had the possibility of a quid pro quo doing tax work format is legal firm exchange for Danny Solis approving a zoning change for a union west development in his ward Madigan to last.

We testified that he was surprised concerned when he heard that.

So used this term quid pro quo.

But prosecutors to date confront him with a saying that he had discussed this multiple times with weeks that he hadn't push back on it for 4 separate conversations.

They had each other until they finally met in person and magic and told him that shouldn't be using that language.

But even so Madigan later, the following year was still willing to recommend Suisse First State Board but he ultimately did not do so because Suisse's work as an undercover more eventually became public and Madigan backed off of that recommendation.

>> And that before we let you go, what can we expect next?

>> Madigan is gonna be back on the witness.

Stand in the morning.

His cross-examination is still going on.

attorneys hope that they're going be able to get through all the testimony this week and that closing arguments will begin next week in month's long trial.

We're entering month 3 here.

But the expected the jury could get the case as soon as the week after next.

>> Alright, lot of time in the courthouse for you there.

Matt Masterson, thanks so much.