>> Closing arguments begin tomorrow in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump's January 6th pardons will help more than 50 Illinois defendants and the mayor and Governor Breeze for the president's threats of mass deportations beginning in Chicago.

You're with all that and more is our spotlight politics team Amanda Vicki, Heather, Sharon and Nick Blumberg him be Okay.

So let's start with the president's warnings of an imminent immigration crackdown.

>> Invoking the alien enemies act of 17.

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I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of rules are in gangs and criminals that works bring in devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities and inner cities.

>> So Heather, there were rumors of a large scrapes scale immigration raid a that supposed to allegedly happened in Chicago this morning.

Have we seen anything so far?

No, there were no widespread raids anywhere in the country.

Best we can tell.

And this is something that President Trump wants people to see.

He has made this sort of a big part of his, you know, approach to this early days of his >> administration.

And it's not clear why they didn't happen today.

As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, there was further reporting by The Washington Post that said that maybe this was leaked and that made I sort of rethink its plans.

But for undocumented immigrants who number in the thousands of Chicago that the threat has not passed.

And I think this was just sort of an additional 24 hour period perhaps to give people a little bit more chance to prepare, although there was additional news today from the president on immigration.

He has revoked the policy that prohibited ice from detaining or arresting immigrants at said, quote, quote, unquote, sense of locations, which includes churches and schools.

Now we in Chicago are very familiar with sort of the use of churches, a sanctuary from people sort declining to comply with deportation efforts.

That will not be sort of something that ICE recognizes going forward according to the sword.

And meanwhile, of course, about entire communities of immigrants and their families who are in a state of fear right now.

Heather, how did Mayor Johnson respond to these mass deportation threats?

What we heard from him briefly on Martin Luther King Day saying that the city would continue to live its values and that the city was being tested.

>> However, he did not have a public schedule today, which was it's very different from the governor who spent a little bit of time yesterday in Little village, talking to businesses who have seen their sort customers sort of decline precipitously as people sort of stay away from public areas.

We didn't hear from him today.

And in fact, his press office, as far as I can tell, didn't send out his schedule as they normally do.

And the days interesting.

All right.

Feels like that's something to talk about next week.

of today, Governor Pritzker, do he did.

As you mentioned, you talked about the president's comments and how they've impacted the immigrant community.

>> We should have comprehensive immigration reform in this country and not simply have a president who is scaring people.

Forcing them out of their jobs because they're afraid to go to work.

You go 26 Godo to little village, go to pills.

I was there yesterday.

I was in businesses yesterday that relatively empty because people are afraid to show up.

>> Amanda, what else to the governor had to say about this looming immigration crackdown?

He said that Illinois has received no communication from the Trump administration about what may or may not calm.

And he says he believes that's intentional.

Part of this theme of sowing chaos and fear.

He also made a point is he he's sort of done more and more often lately of saying that he believes violent criminals who are here and are undocumented should not be protected by Illinois by ICE.

He says that that is something that is already illegal.

And he believes that they doesn't want in Illinois.

He doesn't want him in the country.

I think that the governor is making a point of this.

Each time he speaks on immigration truly on is there political reasons or really to connect with people who are concerned about this threat that you hear voiced by the president.

Now, the United States continuously that there are criminals amongst our midst who are are scary and could hurt them.

So he makes a point really to say that in his remarks while noting that the vast majority of undocumented immigrants are not criminals do not have a criminal record and are sort of not engaged in any illicit activity.

And is Pritzker saying anything about whether the state can protect any undocumented immigrants from deportation?

He continues to say that Illinois will stand up for its values and keep the keep people safe.

Illinois has the trust act that provides really sanctuary status and says that and law enforcement cannot be working with ICE on deportation orders.

So he could be on that that we don't have a lot of details.

But but but Illinois is joined with 3 other states to file suit now against the Trump administration seeking to block it from implementing executive order that would end the right place citizenship.

So that's certainly a big action on the part of the state.

So another one of President Trump's many executive orders.

orders signed yesterday, though, Nick, he pardoned those who are involved in the January 6th attack of ways.

As we've mentioned, how many Illinoisans are impacted here?

That's right.

This is a sweeping order.

More than 1500 people from all 50 states who have been caught up in this probe of the January 6th riot.

More than 50 Illinois were a part of this mass pardoning.

>> Of which all but a handful of them had already been convicted for, you know, for the crimes that some of them had already served, you know, prison time or probation.

Some of them were still behind bars.

But yet prosecutors began formal dismissal proceedings today to to do away with with the outstanding cases in these include people from far right extremist groups like the Oath Keepers, like the Proud Boys.

In fact, Trump commuted sentences from leaders of those 2 groups.

There was, you know, high-profile case of a former Chicago police officer who was sentenced to probation after January 6, them lost his job and his attorney has even given quotes to to the sometimes to the Tribune.

Us are reporting today saying that he was scapegoated.

He's trying perhaps try to get his job back on the force, although that is probably a very unlikely outcome during that something that will be keeping an eye for just to see whether or not that actually happens.

>> Imagine trial.

Closing arguments expected to start tomorrow.

This the last chance, of course, for attorneys to make their pitch to the jury.

Amanda, Nick, that have come to you first.

Amanda, what are some of your your thoughts on that?

The main point that they're going to try and get home?

Well, as we've been talking about, you had magic and take the stand and the this was a jury that selected because they didn't know a lot about Illinois politics.

So well, anybody who has been following our program certainly knows about his.

You don't really vaunted status in Illinois.

these are people who might not know that he got on the stand and presented himself as somebody who was not confrontational and >> therefore, that's why he didn't maybe speak harshly when former Alderman Danny Solis brought up a quid pro quo.

So I think you're going to hear that sort defense.

He is.

>> A grandpa.

He worked tremendously hard as he had witnesses there.

And I think what I'm really going to be watching for is how hard his team and McClain's team go against one another.

This is something that his co-defendant and former good friend Mike McClain, a lobbyist had both we want to separate their it court case because they were afraid that it would be pointing fingers at the other.

How much that's going to happen.

quick.

Yeah.

There was a motion, you know, saying these they may at the Madigan Act.

A second prosecutors.

I think prosecutors in particular are going to have to really do their best to simplify what an incredibly complex case into Amanda's point.

>> Make clear just how significant of a figure Mike Madigan was.

They have had, you know, countless hours of testimony and secret recordings, they're going to have to, as they've been trying to do all along, boil this down as simple as terms as possible.

Although, you know, we expect prosecutor is closing to go Wednesday and Thursday.

There will be no defense.

There will be a rebuttal.

There will be long jury instructions.

So this is not over yet.

I think I think jury I think it's pose to go to the jury next week.

That's the plan.

Obviously that can