>>> MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON -- AND UNCEREMONIOUSLY OUST DR. ALLISON ARWADY, THE FORMER HEAD OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

OUR SPOTLIGHT POLITICS TEAM AS THE MAYOR HEARS HIS 100th DAY IN OFFICE.

WELCOME BACK, SO SHE WAS ALREADY FIRED FRIDAY, BY AMIR JOHNSON.

CHIEF OF STAFF IMMEDIATELY.

HAS THERE BEEN ANY POLITICAL FALLOUT?

>> WELL YOU SEEN SOME -- THE UNCEREMONIOUS WAY THAT THIS HAPPENED.

FRIDAY EVENING.

APPARENTLY AMIR JOHNSON DIDN'T DO HIMSELF, HIS CHIEF OF STAFF WHEN INDENTED AND THEN FOLKS ARE SAYING SHE SERVED VERY ADAMANTLY DURING COVID, COMMUNICATING EVERY DAY.

SHE WAS THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING THE CITY SAFE AND HELPING IMPLEMENT SOME OF THE CLOSURES AND REOPENINGS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING.

BUT OTHER FOLKS SAY, WELL, AMIR JOHNSON SAID IN THE CAMPAIGN THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO KEEP HER.

I HEARD FROM SOME FOLKS, THAT THEY WERE IRKED BY THE FACT THAT SHE STILL TRIED TO PUBLIC -- KINO WAGE A PUBLIC CAMPAIGN TO KEEP HIS JOB.

YOU CAN BLAME HER FOR WANT TO KEEPING THIS JOB.

THIS IS WHAT SHE LOVES SO CLEARLY, NO LOVE LOST THERE.

CARLY BRITTNEY JOHNSON MOVING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION.

I THINK THERE'S SOME CONFUSION AS TO WHO EXACTLY IS GOING TO TAKE OVER.

>> HEATHER, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT THE AGENDA?

>> MAYOR LIGHTFOOT AND ALLISON ARWADY WERE NOT BEHIND.

SPECIFICALLY, TREATMENT OF TRAUMA, WHICH WILL EXPAND A NONPOLICE RESPONSE TO 911 CALLS FROM PEOPLE EXPERIENCE IN MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IS AND THE REOPENING OF THE PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC.

THIS IS REALLY A RETURN TO THE STATUS QUO POLITICS BEFORE COVID UPENDED EVERYTHING ABOUT OUR LIVES.

ALLISON ARWADY BARELY WAS CONFIRMED IN 2019 BECAUSE SHE BACK TO MAYOR LIGHTFOOT'S DECISION TO BREAK CAME PRE-AND PROMISE TO REOPEN THIS PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH CLINICS.

JOHNSON HAS PROMISED TO GET THAT DONE, AND NOW, SHE'S GOING TO HAVE TO FIND SOMEONE TO HELP THEM DO IT WHILE PRESIDING OVER THE ONGOING PANDEMIC.

IT'S NOT OVER YET.

>> NO LOVE LOST BETWEEN THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE, WE LIKE TO SEE -- YOU WANT TO REOPEN SCHOOLS .

THEY WERE AGAINST IT AT THE TIME AND IN THEIR OTHER EMPLOYEE UNIONS BEHIND THIS PUSH TO REOPEN SOME OF THESE MENTAL HEALTH CLINICS BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES UNIONIZING .

>> HEATHER, YOU MENTIONED THE TREATMENT, NOT TRAUMA AND JOHNSON APPARENTLY GETTING READY TO MOVE THAT BACK IN.

IS STILL NOT CERTAIN YET WHETHER HIS NEW APPOINTEE FOR TOP COP SUPPORT THAT AS WELL.

WILL COME BACK TO HIM SHORTLY.

>> INDEED.

>> HOW IS HE DOING WITH THEIR GOVERNMENT PARK?

>> WELL, I THINK IT'S A LITTLE SLOWER TO ROLL OUT SOME OF THE BIG INITIATIVES THAT SOME OF HIS PREDECESSORS HAD, BUT ONE CAN ARGUE HE'S JUST TRYING TO BE PATIENT TO GET IT RIGHT.

THIS PUBLIC HEALTH MOVE, I THINK IT CAME LATER THAN MANY PEOPLE EXPECTED.

THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER POSITIONS I HAVE YET TO BE FILLED, BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE THAT WERE GOING TO GET TO, POLICE SUPERINTENDENT, THAT'S FILLED NOW.

THIS A CONSENSUS PICK, WHICH IS VERY RARE.

>> IT SEEMS LIKE HE WAITED TO THE LAST MINUTE TO NAME THE NEXT SUPERINTENDENT.

HEATHER, ONE OF THE NEXT STEPS FOR LARRY SNELLING AND THEY ARE --?

>> I DID IT WAS NOT BY MISTAKE THAT MAYOR JOHNSON STOOD BESIDE ALDERMAN, -- WHO ARE CERTAINLY CHARTER MEMBERS OF THE MORE CONSERVATIVE PRO-POLICE CAUCUS ON THE CITY COUNCIL AND THAT INDICATES THAT ANY OPPOSITION TO HIS NOMINATION IS NOT GOING TO COME FROM THAT SORT OF SIDE OF THE LITTLE WHILE.

SO THAT MEANS THAT HE IS NEARLY ASSURED CONFIRMATION BECAUSE THE MAYOR'S ALLIES ARE NOT GOING TO HURT THE MIRROR BY SORT OF REJECTING SUCH A PROMINENT PICK.

SO, BUT FIRST, LARRY SNELLING IS GOING TO HAVE TO SORT OF GO THROUGH A PUBLIC HEARING IN FRONT OF THE NEWLY FORMED COMMUNITY COMMISSION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE IT THROUGH THIS CONFIRMATION HERE IS, WHICH, AS PARENTS AND I BOTH KNOW, CAN TURN DICEY UNDER THE BEST TERMS.

>> A LOT MORE WE ARE GOING TO HEAR -- I MEAN PARIS, DO YOU THINK HE CAN REFORM THE DEPARTMENT?

>> REFORM IS VERY IMPORTANT, BUT THE MORE IMPORTANT FACTOR HERE WAS THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SEEMED TO BE A CONSENSUS ACROSS THE WHOLE SPECTRUM, THAT IT WAS A BAD CASE LEFT IN EVERYONE'S MOUTH FROM DAVID BROWN WHO CAME FROM DALLAS AND SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE NEED SOMEONE FROM WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

BUT YOU ALSO NEED SOMEONE THAT'S GOING TO SPEED UP COMPLIANCE WITH THE -- AND REFORM GROUPS LIKE THE ACLU ARE HOPEFUL THAT THIS IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.

WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT CHIEF SNELLING OR SOON-TO-BE CHIEF SNELLING IS GOING TO DO ON THIS.

HE CERTAINLY HAS SAID THE RIGHT THINGS ABOUT IT, BUT YOU KNOW, THE F.O.P.

PRAISED THIS ELECTION.

IT'S VERY RARE THAT YOU HAVE A CONSENSUS FROM F.O.P.

AND REFORM GROUPS SAYING THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEST PERSON.

THE FACT THAT IT WAS SOMEONE FROM THE INSIDE, THAT WAS THE MAIN THING THAT THEY WANTED TO ACHIEVE.

>> AND THEY GOT.

>> SO TODAY WAS GOVERNOR STAY AT THE STATE FAIR.

HEATHER, TELL US WHAT THE MESSAGE WAS TO HIS FELLOW MEN?

>> THAT THEY HAVE TO TAKE IT THE REPUBLICANS AND THAT YOU SOME SALTY LANGUAGE I CANNOT REPEAT ON AIR HERE.

THIS IS TO SAY THAT THIS REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS BECOME THE PARTY OF LIES AND UNTRUTHS AND ANTI-DEMOCRACY.

IT WAS A PREVIEW OF GOVERNOR SERVING AS AN ATTACK DOG FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AS THE CAMPAIGN PIECE INTO THE -- AND I THINK IT'S AN INDICATION THAT PRITZKER IS GOING TO BE A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE PRESIDENT'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN, NOT ONLY AS THE CONVENTION COMING HERE TO CHICAGO, BUT PRITZKER IS NOT JUST GOING TO RAISE MONEY AND HE'S SHOWN THAT HE CAN COMMAND MEDIA ATTENTION BY USING THAT LANGUAGE.

>> MEANWHILE, THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF, HE'S BEEN NOTICEABLY MOM ON THE WHOLE INDICTMENT WITH HIS PREDECESSOR, PRESIDENT TRUMP.

WHY DO YOU THINK HE'S BEEN QUITE ABOUT THAT?

>> I THINK THERE'S NOTHING THE PRESIDENT HAS TO GAIN FROM WEIGHING IN WHATSOEVER BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS WOULD LOVE TO SAY THAT THIS IS BIDEN TRYING TO PUNISH HIS MAIN POLITICAL OPPONENT AND BIDEN HAS GOT TO STAY OUT OF THE FRAY AND MAKE SURE THE PERCEPTION OF THIS IS STILL INDEPENDENT, WITH AN INDEPENDENT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PURSUING ALL AVENUES THAT THEY CAN WITHIN THE LAW.

SO I THINK ALSO, I MEAN, TRUMP, AS ALWAYS, SUCKS UP ALL THE SORT OF MEDIA OXYGEN HERE.

ALL THESE CASES.

THESE ARE EXTRAORDINARY.

FORMER PRESIDENT FACING MORE THAN 90 CRIMINAL INDICTMENT.

EXTREMELY EXTRAORDINARY AND BIDEN AS, YOU KNOW THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREEN JOBS BILL.

>> THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT.

>> SORRY.

EVEN I CAN REMEMBER.

HE'S TRYING TO SELL AND IT'S GETTING DROWNED OUT HERE BY ALL THIS IS AROUND TRUMP.

>> MEANWHILE, CANDIDATES MET -- REMIND US WHAT THIS IS AND WHAT IT DOES.

>> THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF THE -- PARTY GETTING TOGETHER AND PICKING THEIR CHOICES FOR THE OFFICES ON THE BALLOT AND REALLY, THE MARQUEE RACE IS GOING TO BE THE PUSH TO REPLACE STATES ATTORNEY KIM FOX IS NOT RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION.

THE COUNTY BOARD GOT HER PICK.

CLAYTON HARRIS THE THIRD OVER THE FINISH LINE.

HE NOW HAS THE PARTY, YOU KNOW, PICK, WHICH MEANS THAT HE IS GOING TO STILL FACE A VERY CLEAR CHALLENGE FROM EILEEN O'NEILL BURKE WHO ASKED THAT THE PARTY REMAIN NEUTRAL IN THIS RACE.

SHE WAS REBUFFED AND SHE IS GOING TO FACE A LOT OF CRITICISM ABOUT HER TIES TO REPUBLICANS UP AND DOWN THE BATTLE.

>> THE SAME THING HAPPENED LAST TIME WITH THAT WAY AND ONE OF