BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY IN THE FEDERAL CORRUPTION TRIAL OF ED BURKE AS HIS FORMER COUNCIL COLLEAGUE TURNED MOLE DANNY SOLIS TAKES THE STAND.

PLUS SOME BIG AGENDA ITEMS ON TAP FOR CITY COUNCIL TOMORROW.

HERE WITH ALL THAT AND MORE AS A SPY POLITICS TEAM AND OF AN ICKY.

AND HEATHER SHARON, MY VERY GOOD FRIEND SAID ARE ON THE DEFENSE CALLS.

DANNY SOLIS AND THEN THEY REST THEIR CASE.

THAT'S IT.

THAT'S THE ENTIRE DEFENSE FOR ALDERMAN ED BURKE AND MOST OF THE TIME THAT SOLIS WAS ON THE STAND, HE WAS PRESSED ABOUT, WELL, EXACTLY.

WHAT DID YOU AT THE GOVERNMENT'S REQUEST ASK BURKE TO DO AND DIDN'T EVEN MATTER BECAUSE MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL.

>> ONE OF THE RENOVATION OF THE OLD POST EVEN IF BURKE THREW UP EVERY RIPPER, CENTRAL ROADBLOCK, HE KNEW HOW ULTIMATELY THE MAYOR WAS GOING TO OVERRIDE HIM.

THAT WAS ARGUMENT PUT FORWARD BY CHRIS CARE AT BERKS LEAD DEFENSE ATTORNEY AND OF COURSE, HE TRIED TO DIRTY UP DANNY SOLIS A LITTLE BIT SAYING, YOU KNOW, WHY DID YOU AGREE WEAR A WIRE?

AND HE AND HE ACKNOWLEDGED I WAS TRYING TO SAVE MYSELF BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT FEDERAL OFFICIALS CONFRONTED DANNY SOLIS EARLY ONE MORNING AND PRESENTED EVIDENCE OF A SERIES OF WRONGDOINGS THAT HE HAD COMMITTED AND HE AGREED TO BECOME GOVERNMENT INFORMANT.

AND FOR THAT WORK, WHICH WE'RE TOLD IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IN ILLINOIS POLITICAL CORRUPTION HISTORY, WHICH IS NO SMALL FEAT.

I MEAN, HE SPEND NOT A DAY IN JAIL AND HE WILL KEEP HIS AND NOT JUST BURKE, BY THE WAY MEAN, HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE MADIGAN.

THERE'S A LOT OF RECORDINGS AND I THINK THAT WAS A BUT SO BASICALLY ADMITTING THAT DOING THIS BECAUSE HE'S A GREAT GUY AND HE WANTS TO FIX LIKE HE'S DOING IT BECAUSE YES, TO SAVE HIS HIDE FROM HIS OWN VERY PERILOUS LEGAL TROUBLES, WHICH HE HAS CLEARED OF NOW, IS THAT.

>> IS THAT DESIGN TO POKE HOLES IN THE CASE THAT THAT THIS GOVERNMENT MALL IS WAS JUST DOING THIS FOR HIS OWN INTERESTS.

AND THE FBI WAS JUST >> PUTTING HIM UP TO YEAH, IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS DESIGNED TO SAY, HEY, THIS IS WAS A SET UP SORT OF AN ENTANGLEMENT AND THEY'VE NOT ENTRAPMENT, BUT THEY'RE KIND OF LIKE HINTING THERE.

YOU'RE RIGHT.

AND THEY'RE SEEING LAKE LAKE.

THEY TOLD HIM TO LIVE IN A BUBBLE RIGHT AND HE WASN'T THAT IT WASN'T WHO IS ALL POWERFUL IS HEATHER NOTED THERE.

I THINK THEY'RE TRYING TO IT BECAUSE WE HAD, OF COURSE, EARLY ON EARLIER ON THE TRIAL, PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW HE'S THE MOST POWERFUL LONGEST-SERVING ALDERMAN REALLY TRYING TO CUT THOSE CREDENTIALS TO SAY, HEY, WAIT, THIS IS JUST POLITICS.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

AND THEN I THINK THERE WAS AN EXCHANGE AS WELL.

HEATHER WAS IN THE COURTROOM.

IT WAS NOT ADMIT, BUT WHERE, YOU KNOW THEIR TIME.

SO WHAT THAT WAS PUBLIC SERVICE OUT OF THE GOOD OF YOUR KNOW YOU WOULD KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT REALLY TRYING STRICKEN BY THE JUDGE.

BUT YOU STILL HERE?

YES, YES, SO BUT THE IDEA IS TO GET THE JURY THINKING ABOUT, WELL, WHY DID DANNY SOLIS MAKE ALL OF THESE TAPES?

AND CAN WE REALLY TRUST SORT OF WHAT CAYMAN THAT?

WHAT'S INTERESTING IN MY MIND, AT LEAST THAT THEY DIDN'T ADDRESS AT ALL THE 3 OTHER SCHEMES, THAT EDBERG RIGHT JUST DOING NOTHING ABOUT THE BURGER KING, NOTHING ABOUT THE FIELD MUSEUM, EXTORTION AND NOTHING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, REALLY SORT OF HIS EFFORTS TO GET BUSINESS FOR HIS PROPERTY TAX FROM.

>> WHICH HIS LAWYERS KEEPS, YOU KNOW, REMINDING WITNESSES IT WAS WAS TOTALLY LEGAL, THAT HAVE THAT WITNESS THAT WORK FOR CLATTERING MARCOUX SAID NO.

WE MADE SURE THAT.

>> THAT HAD WHOLE FILE ON THAT.

ALTHOUGH THEY DID CROSS EXAMINE THAT THE GOVERNMENT LET WITNESSES.

SO WHAT'S NEXT?

HEATHER?

CLOSING ARGUMENTS TOMORROW.

JURY INSTRUCTIONS AND SO THEY'RE GOING TO FINISH HASHING OUT THE 300 PAGES OF JURY INSTRUCTIONS TOMORROW MORNING, WHICH MEANS THAT CLOSING ARGUMENTS COULD START AS SOON AS 01:00PM.

TOMORROW, WHICH MEANS YOU KNOW, THAT THE THE JURY COULD BE DELIBERATING BY THE END OF THE WEEK, WHICH I THINK A LITTLE BIT OF WHIPLASH FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE COURTROOM.

>> MOST OF THE TIME BECAUSE THIS WAS A TRIAL THAT SORT OF STARTED AND THEN STOPPED AND THEN STARTED AND THEN STOPPED WITH 2 OUTBREAKS OF COVID OURS.

WE WAITED YEARS AND AND SORT OF HOURS OF CERTAIN MINUTE TESTIMONY ABOUT WHO NEEDED A DRIVEWAY PERMANENT, WHO DIDN'T NEED A DRIVEWAY IT AND WHETHER ANYBODY DID ANYTHING HINKIE WITH A DRIVEWAY PERMIT.

SO IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE SORT OF THE DEFENDANTS CLOSING ARGUMENTS.

REMINDER, HE'S BURKE IS STANDING TRIAL ALONGSIDE LONGTIME AIDE PETE ANDREWS AND QUAY.

>> ALL RIGHT.

LET'S MOVE ON TO SOME STATE NEW ABORTION FRONT SEEMS A NEW LAW AIMED AT STOPPING ALLEGED DECEPTIVE PRACTICES BY ANTI-ABORTION PREGNANCY CENTERS WILL NOT BE ENFORCED AFTER AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL AND SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT CHALLENGE THIS LAW.

HERE'S GOVERNOR PRITZKER TODAY DEFENDING ALONG TALKING ABOUT THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

>> PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE LIED TO WHEN THEY'RE SEEKING HEALTHCARE.

THIS WAS NOT A DECISION, BY THE WAY, AGAINST THE STATE.

THIS WAS A DECISION MADE BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SIMPLY FALL BACK ON THE EXISTING LAW BECAUSE IT DOES WHAT?

WHAT'S NEXT?

>> SO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL KIND OF WALKING BACK TO SNOW TO THERE'S GOING TO PROSECUTE THESE CENTERS FOR ALLEGED DECEPTIVE PRACTICES.

IT'S IT'S REALLY A STRANGE ONE, PARIS, BECAUSE THIS WAS SORT OF A HALLMARK AGENDA ITEM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL GETTING THIS LAW PASSED.

THAT WOULD GO AFTER WHAT ARE WIDELY KNOWN AS PREGNANCY CRISIS ENTERS.

BUT WHICH ATTORNEY GENERAL HAD ARGUED USE DECEPTIVE PRACTICES TO TRY YOU TALK WOMEN OUT OF HAVING AN ABORTION AND >> SO YOU TALK TO FOLKS THAT SAY THAT REALLY THE SOME OF THESE DECEPTIVE PRACTICES TOTALLY CROSS THE LINE WITH PEOPLE PRETENDING TO SAY WORK A CLINIC LIKE PLANNED PARENTHOOD WHEN IN FACT THEY WERE AN ANTI-ABORTION CRISIS, RENT, A PORTION CENTER.

SO IT'S VERY STRANGE OVER WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN TERMS OF THIS.

CHANGE OF TUNE.

WHY THIS AGREEMENT, WHY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DIDN'T CONTINUE TO FIGHT THE LIE.

THINK YOU HEARD THE GOVERNOR SAY THAT THIS WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT HE WAS IN ON NIGHT DID IN FACT, SPEAK WITH THE SPONSOR TODAY WHO SAYS THAT SHE HAD.

NO CLUE THAT THERE WAS THIS AGREEMENT IS GOING TO SHE'S FRANKLY HORRIFIED AND REALLY UPSET BY IT.

SHE SAYS THAT THIS IS A LAW THAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SHOULD HAVE FOUGHT FOR AND THAT THIS IS SHE NEVER WOULD HAVE SPONSORED ANYTHING THAT SHE BELIEVED TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, THAT THIS IS GOING TO HURT WOMEN AND LEAVE THEM UNPROTECTED.

I THOUGHT THERE ARE SOME FREE SPEECH ISSUES.

I WANT COME BACK TO.

>> CITY COUNCIL.

I HAD THEIR LAST NIGHT.

WE THE POLICE UNION PRESIDENT JOHN CATANZARA AND THEN THE HEAD OF THE COMMUNITY COMMISSION POLICE OVERSIGHT AND KIND BILLY ANTHONY DRY THAT MIGHT COMPROMISE ON THIS CONTROVERSIAL ARBITRATION CLAUSE IN THE CONTRACT.

HERE THAT EXCHANGE FROM LAST NIGHT.

>> WE HAVE THE HIGH GROUND HERE.

WE HAVE THE STATUE ON OUR SIDE.

WE NEVER HAD TO GIVE AN INCH, BUT WE OFFERED IT ANYWAY.

AND THE CITY BASICALLY REJECTED IT BECAUSE IT WAS THEIR PROPOSAL OR NOTHING AT ALL AT THAT POINT.

BASED ON WHAT JOHN IS SAYING, THERE'S THERE'S SOME DAYLIGHT HERE.

SO I'M ACTUALLY HOPING TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM ABOUT HOW WE CAN FIX THIS.

I WAS AS A BACKGROUND FOR VIEWERS.

THIS CLAUSE WHERE AN ARBITRATOR RULED THAT U.S.

MOST SERIOUS MISCONDUCT CASES CAN GO.

>> CLOSED DOORS AT TO AN ARBITRATOR HAS OPPOSED POLICE BOARD IN THE PUBLIC CITY COUNCIL HAS TO VOTE ON THIS CLAUSE TO MORE THAN 83 FENCE MAJORITY TO REJECT WHERE THE VOTES.

SO IT'S GOOD QUESTION.

SO I I I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THERE ARE 30 VOTES TO SORT OF PROJECT THIS MEASURE.

>> HOWEVER, THERE ARE MANY MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL WHO BELIEVE IT MUCH TOO DIFFICULT TO FIRE FIRE OFFICERS WHO ARE FOUND TO BE GUILTY OF SERIOUS MISCONDUCT.

AND JUST TOO HARD TO SUSPEND THEM FOR SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF TIME.

SO THAT IS SORT OF THE CROSS CURRENTS OF THIS.

SO ON THE AGENDA TOMORROW IS 11 MILLION DOLLARS IN SETTLEMENTS OF POLICE MISCONDUCT.

>> INCLUDING 2 FATAL POLICE SHOOTING THAT CLAIMED THE LIVES OF PEOPLE.

SO THERE IS GOING TO BE A LOT OF DEBATE, A LOT OF EMOTION OVER THIS ISSUE.

BUT IF THIS IS RATIFIED, MEANS THAT THE CHICAGO POLICE BOARD, WHICH HAS BEEN FUNCTIONING FOR 60 YEARS, WILL ESSENTIALLY NO