ON FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ELIGIBILITY TO BE ON THE PRIMARY BALLOT IN ILLINOIS, A LOOMING SHOWDOWN OVER HOW CHICAGO POLICE OFFICERS ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT SHOULD BE TREATED AND SOME CPS STUDENTS WALK OUT OF CLASSES TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR A GAZA CEASE-FIRE.

HERE.

WITH ALL THAT MORE IS OUR SPOTLIGHT POLITICS AND EVEN IF HE HAD A SHARON AND PARIS SCHUTZ, WELCOME BACK.

EVERYBODY.

AND AS WE MENTIONED IN HER TO THE TOP OF THE SHOW, THE ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS TODAY RULING THAT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE ALLOWED ON THE GOP PRIMARY DESPITE A FORMER REPUBLICAN JUDGE EARLIER AGREEING THAT TRUMP HAD HAD, IN FACT ENGAGED IN AN INSURRECTION HEAD OF THE BOARD ARRIVE AT THIS DECISION TODAY WILL SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND THAT WHILE DEMOCRATS CONTROL REALLY MOST OF THE COMMITTEES IN ILLINOIS GOVERNMENT AND THIS IS BODY IS CURTIS TACHIRA >> HE'S CREATED BY STATUTE OF THE STATE.

THAT IS NOT THE CASE WITH THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS IS EVEN SPLIT REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS.

SO WE CAN REALLY MAKE SOMETHING OF THIS UNANIMOUS DECISION.

AND YOU HAD ONE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS ARE REPUBLICANS SPEAK UP AND SAY SHE TOO, BELIEVED FULLY THAT TRUMP KNEW THERE WAS AN INSTRUCTION AIDED AND ABETTED IT.

HOWEVER, THE BOARD DECIDED THAT THIS WAS OUTSIDE THE SCOPE FOR THEM TO DEAL WITH THAT.

THIS WAS OUTSIDE THE BOUNDS OF THEIR AUTHORITY.

THEY WANT RELIED ON SOME PREVIOUS ILLINOIS'S SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND FRANKLY AGREED WITH TRUMP'S ATTORNEYS WHO AMONG THE ARGUMENTS.

THAT WAS ONE OF THEM, THAT THIS WAS JUST TO RUSH THE PROCESS FOR A STATE BOARD TO GET INVOLVED WITH THAT.

SOMETHING, BY THE WAY, HOWEVER, THAT GROUP OF OBJECTORS TO TRUMP'S CANDIDACY IN ILLINOIS, THEY SAY NOT ONLY WAS THAT THE WRONG DECISION TO COME TO, BUT BY AGREEING TO BE A MEMBER OF THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS YOU TOOK ON THIS RESPONSIBILITY.

IT IS A MANDATE THAT THIS WAS THE WRONG DECISION.

SO THEN WHAT'S NEXT?

IS THIS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE COURTS?

THAT IS THE EXPECTATION THERE IS A FIVE-DAY WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THIS IS A QUICK TIMELINE, RIGHT?

MARCH IS NOT ALL THAT FAR AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO GET THE ELECTION.

AUTHORITIES ALL THROUGHOUT THE STATE HAD TO GET BALLOTS PRINTED.

SO THIS HAS TO BE DECIDED SOONER THAN LATER OBJECTORS TO THIS DECISION AND THAT WOULD THIS CASE BE THE OBJECTORS TO TRUMP'S CANDIDACY HAVE 5 DAYS TO FILE IN COURT?

AND THE EXPECTATION IS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO SO LIKELY HERE IN COOK COUNTY, PARIS.

THERE ARE ALSO CHALLENGES TO PRESIDENT BIDEN BEING ON THE BALLOT.

WHAT HAPPENED WITH THOSE DIFFERENT GROUPS CHALLENGING PRESIDENT BIDEN'S GOT TOSSED PRETTY QUICKLY TO BASICALLY CONTENTION WAS THAT.

>> HE DIDN'T NOTARIZED SIGNATURES, RIGHT?

AND GET THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF SAYING IT JUST KIND SAME OLD CHICAGO GAME.

BUT RIGHT NOW PEOPLE FELT ALSO THAT THE BORDER SITUATION CONSTITUTED SOME KIND OF 14TH AMENDMENT VIOLATION.

THAT WAS SHOT DOWN A PRETTY QUICKLY.

SO HE WILL BE ON THE BALLOT.

DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THAT.

THIS WILL GO TO COURT, 14TH LIKE THE CIVIL EXACTLY HOW YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE ISSUE OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE FIGHT OVER WHO GETS THE FINAL SAY ON MATTERS CONCERNING POLICE OFFICERS.

>> ACCUSED OF SERIOUS MISCONDUCT.

ONE OF THOSE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

WELL, TODAY, A KEY CITY PANEL REAFFIRMED ITS VOTE THAT TO REJECT AN ARBITRATOR'S DECISION THAT WOULD BASICALLY GOT THE CHICAGO POLICE BOARD AND ALLOW OFFICERS TO CHOOSE.

>> IT TO HAVE AN ARBITRATOR DECIDE WHETHER THEY SHOULD BE TERMINATED OR FACE SUSPENSION OF THE YEAR.

THAT SINCE THE ISSUE BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL WHICH VOTED 17 TO 33 TO JACKED THAT DECISION.

SO IT WILL BE A BIG FIGHT AGAIN TOMORROW, ASSUMING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL REAFFIRMS THAT DECISION.

THEY NEED 30 VOTES TO DO SO.

AND IF THEY DO, IT WILL END UP IN COURT WHERE THE ARBITRATOR SAYS THE CITY IS LIKELY TO LOSE AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHICAGO POLICE UNION, THE LARGEST CHICAGO POLICE UNION SAYS, QUOTE, TODAY I AM PLANNING TO SUE EVERYBODY LITERALLY FOR EVERYTHING.

SO IT'S GOING TO BE A BIG FIGHT.

BUT IT IS A LOT OF PRESSURE ON THE CITY COUNCIL TO PRESERVE THE SYSTEM, A POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY THAT HAS BEEN IN PLACE FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS.

SOUNDS LIKE A LOT.

OKAY.

IT.

EXPLAIN HOW TO GET A LOT OF MONEY, IT SEEMS LIKE BOTH IF IF WE'RE PLANNING TO SUE EVERYBODY FOR EVERYTHING, HAVE EXPLAIN HOW THIS ISSUE AND THE CITY COUNCIL VOTE TOMORROW, THOUGH, COULD DIRECTLY IMPACT THE CASE OF CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER ERIC STILLMAN.

>> HE'S THE ONE WHO SHOT AND KILLED 13 YEAR-OLD ADAM ALMOST 3 YEARS AGO.

SO THAT WAS RIGHT.

SO MORE 1000 DAYS AGO THAT HAPPENED IN ERIC STILLMAN HAS NOT FACED ANY PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE ACTIONS.

HE IS SET TO GO IN FRONT OF THE CHICAGO POLICE BOARD FOR 5 DAYS OF HEARINGS THAT WILL DETERMINE WHETHER HE WILL BE TERMINATED.

>> AS AS THE POLICE MISCONDUCT, INVESTIGATORY AGENCY SAYS HE SHOULD.

NOW FORMER POLICE SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN SAID NO, HE SHOULD ONLY BE SUSPENDED FOR FAILING TO TURN ON HIS BODY-WORN CAMERA AND SHOULD FACE SUSPENSION OF JUST A FEW DAYS.

THE POLICE BOARD WILL MAKE THAT DECISION.

HOWEVER, IF THE CITY COUNCIL DOES NOT RETRACT THE POLICE ARBITRATORS RULED THOSE HEARINGS WILL WILL NOT HAPPEN BECAUSE OFFICER STILLMAN'S COUNSEL HAS INDICATED HE WANTS THIS TO BE DECIDED BY AN ARBITRATOR BEHIND CLOSED SO PARENTS, IF THE CITY COUNCIL AFFIRMS ITS REJECTION TO CLOSED OR ARBITRATION, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

WELL, AS OTHER SAID, IT'S GOING TO BE A COURT BATTLE.

I MEAN, THE FOP PRESIDENT, KEN SARAH, SAID IT LOUD AND CLEAR.

WE'LL SEE YOU IN COURT OR SOME GET YOUR OUT AND CALL YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S ONE OF THOSE CASES THAT THE CITY >> DOESN'T HAVE A GREAT ARGUMENT ON AT THIS POINT BECAUSE OF THE DECISION OF THE ARBITRATOR.

NOW THEY'RE ONLY ARE A HANDFUL OF THESE ARBITRATORS OUT THERE THAT DO THIS.

>> THERE ARE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO THESE ARBITRATORS ARE AND WHETHER THIS IS THE RIGHT ROUTE TO GO.

>> I IT'S ANYBODY'S GUESS WHERE THE LAW IS GOING TO FALL HERE.

BUT IT DOES SEEM THAT THE FOP IS PRETTY CONFIDENT IT'S ON THEIR SIDE.

WHETHER CITY COUNCIL REJECTS THIS OR NOT.

SO MAYOR GOVERNOR PRITZKER, THEY CONTINUE TO SPAR OVER THE ISSUE OF CARING FOR MIGRANTS TRANSPORTED HERE FROM THE SOUTHERN BORDER.

>> HERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT BOTH OF THEM HAD TO SAY YESTERDAY.

>> OUR PLAN FOR TEMPORARY EMERGENCY SHELTER WAS NEVER MEANT AS A LONG-TERM HOUSING SOLUTION.

THIS IS DIFFICULT FOR EVERYONE.

THERE.

THERE ARE SOME LIMITATIONS TO WHAT WE CAN DO.

>> THE MAJOR IN MAJORITY PART OF WHAT'S NECESSARY NEEDS TO BE IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.

AND WE HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING THE CITY OF CHICAGO WITH LITERALLY TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS DIRECTLY AS WELL AS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INDIRECTLY.

>> AMANDA GOVERNOR PRITZKER DISMISSIVE OF THE IDEA THAT THE PERHAPS THE STATE COULD EASE THE BURDEN ON CHICAGO BY MOVING SOME OF THE MIGRANTS TO OTHER MUNICIPALITIES AROUND THE STATE.

WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT I THINK THAT THERE'S ACTUALLY SEVERAL REASONS FOR THAT.

ONE.

MANY COMMUNITIES DON'T WANT THEM.

2.

>> THAT HE IS SAYING THAT CHICAGO HAS ALREADY RECEIVED A LOT OF HELP FROM THE STATE, MILLIONS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO DO WHAT IT IS DOING IN THERE FOR SHOULD BE USING THAT MONEY IN CHICAGO CONTINUES TO ASK FOR THAT.

BE PROPPED UP BY THE STATE AND THEN FURTHER.

AND THE GOVERNOR IS SAYING THAT MIGRANTS DON'T NECESSARILY TO BE ANYWHERE BESIDES CHICAGO AND CHICAGO IS BEST SUITED FOR THIS PURPOSE BECAUSE AFTER ALL, THE STATE DID BUILD THE IN TAKE SHELTER THERE.

THERE HAS BEEN MONEY TO PROVIDE THE SHELTERS IN FURTHER.

YOU HAVE A TRANSPORTATION NETWORK, YOU HAVE MORE JOBS.

IT IS A MAJOR METROPOLIS WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY FOR PRESUMABLY A MIGRANT WITHOUT TRANSPORTATION TO IT SO EASILY GET AROUND SOME OF THE SMALLER SUBURBS OR OTHER OUTLYING AREAS.

AND THEN ADDING TO THAT, HE'S SAYING THAT YOU NEED IN THIS SORT OF CASE THAT FIRST POINT COMMUNITIES NEED TO BE HAVE SOME SORT BUY AND THAT THE STATE JUST CAN'T UNILATERALLY GOING PLOP DOWN A SHELTER AND TALK EACH OF THEM TO HEAR EVERYBODY GO HERE.

>> I'M HEATHER YESTERDAY.

MAYOR JOHNSON ONCE AGAIN SUSPENDED THE POLICY THAT WOULD HAVE MIGRANTS EVICTED FROM CITY SHELTERS AFTER 60 DAYS.

THIS IS THE 3RD EXTENSION OF THAT DEADLINE.

WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE VIABILITY VIABILITY OF THAT PLAN IN THE FIRST PLACE IN A CHICAGO WINTER?

SO IT CERTAINLY RAISES THE QUESTION WHETHER MAYOR JOHNSON IS WILLING TO EVICT THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS ONTO THE CITY STREETS WITH REALLY NOWHERE ELSE TO GO NOT SMALL AMOUNT OF THOSE PEOPLE, PERHAPS AS MANY AS 1700 ARE CHILDREN WHO COULD FACE DISRUPTIONS TO THEIR SCHOOLING OR IT TO THEIR CARE NETWORKS.

>> SO THIS EXTENSION WILL LAST UNTIL MID-MARCH AND HOPEFULLY THAT THROUGH THE WORST OF THE WINTER WEATHER.

BUT JOHNSON IS ALSO GAMBLING THAT THE CRISIS WILL BE DIFFERENT IN A MONTH AND A HALF THAN IT IS RIGHT NOW THAT PERHAPS THE BUSES WILL STOP COMING.

PERHAPS THE STATE WILL OPEN A 2000 BED SHELTER IN AN IMAGINARY PLACE FILLED WITH UNICORNS AND PUPPIES.

BUT IT IS UNCLEAR WHETHER ANYTHING WILL DIFFERENT THAN IT WAS THIS WEEK.

AND I THINK THAT THE MAYOR'S BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, HIS PROGRESSIVE ALLIES ON ONE HAND SAYING WE DON'T EVICT PEOPLE IN CHICAGO.

THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE ABOUT.

AND PEOPLE SAYING THE CITY CAN NO LONGER A 4 TO CARE FOR THESE PEOPLE.

IT'S A TERRIBLE DILEMMA.

I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY CAN'T FIND A PLACE WITH THE