[♪♪♪] >> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "THE WEEK IN REVIEW".

I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

WE WILL BE JOINED BY OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" GUESTS IN JUST A MOMENT BUT FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES... >> INDIANA HOUSE MEMBERS APPROVED A NEAR TOTAL BAN ON ABORTION IN THAT STATE.

THE STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES VOTED 62-38 TO BAN ABORTION EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF RAPE, INCEST OR TO PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THE MOTHER.

THE BILL HEADS TO THE THAT AND IT GOES TO GOVERNOR WHO HAS NOT INDICATED WHETHER HE WOULD SIGN IT OR NOT.

YESTERDAY PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO WOMEN WHO HAVE TO TRAVEL OUT OF STATE TO RECEIVE AN ABORTION.

>> AND IT'S OFFICIAL.

THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NOMINATING CONVENTION WILL TAKE PLACE 90 MILES NORTH OF US IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT AS THE PARTY LOOKS TO FLIP A SWING STATE THAT WENT NARROWLY FOR JOE BIDEN IN 2020.

MILWAUKEE HOSTED A SCALED DOWN DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN 2020 AS WELL, DUE TO COVID.

CHICAGO'S WAITING FOR THE DNC TO ANNOUNCE WHETHER IT WILL GET THE 2024 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

>> A FED OF FEDERAL APPEALS COURT LIVES A BAN THAT PUT A LIFTED THE FEDERAL SHAKMAN DECREE WHICH LONG PREVENTED THE GOVERNOR AND GOVERNMENTS FROM MAKING CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT DECISIONS BASED ON POLITICS OR PATRONAGE.

THE OFFICE DEMONSTRATED COMPLIANCE OVER THE YEARS AND THAT IT IS TIME TO RETURN TO THE POWER TO HIRE AND FIRE WORKERS TO STATE POSTS BACK TO THE GOVERNOR DULY ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE.

>> AND NOW TO OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" PANEL.

JOINING US ARE TAHMAN BRADLEY OF WGN-TV NEWS.

DAN BERNSTEIN OF SCR THE SCORE.

AND LYNN SWEET OF THE "CHICAGO SUN-TIMES" AND JASON MEISNER OF THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE".

WELCOME ALL OF US.

NEWS TODAY, TAHMAN BRADLEY, ALDERMAN TOM TUNNEY MAKES COMMENTS IN THE "SUN-TIMES" CRITICAL OF MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT SAYING HE WILL NOT ENFORCE HER AGAIN THAT HE MIGHT RUN FOR MAYOR.

DO YOU BELIEVE HE MIGHT PUT HIS HAT IN THE RING?

>> .

>> I THINK HE IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HE WANTS TO DO FOR SURE.

A LOT OF THESE ALDERPEOPLE ARE TIRED OF THE JOB AND THE FIGHTING AT CITY COUNCIL.

IT'S ALSO STRESSFUL WITH EVERYTHING GOING ON.

THEY ARE TIRED OF ALL THE VIOLENCE THAT ALTHOUGH THE NUMBERS SHOW IMPROVEMENT ON THAT FRONT THAT IS VERY MUCH ON THEIR CONSTITUENTS' MINDS.

HE HAS BEEN AROUND A LONGTIME AND MAKING LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE TO DO.

MIGHT HE RUN?

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

BUT I THINK THE RACE FOR NEXT YEAR'S MAYOR CONTENT WILL TAKE SHAPE.

YOU HAVE RAY MOPPED LOPEZ AND RODERICK SAWYER.

AT SOME POINT THEY MAY TRY TO RALLY AROUND ONE CANDIDATE.

MAYBE THAT COULD BE TUNNEY.

WE'LL SEE.

>> THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY LOOKING FOR A COMMUNITY TO RALLY FOR AND TUNNEY IS ON THE BUSINESS END.

AND GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER WAS ASKED IF HE WOULD FOLLOW TAMMY DUCKWORTH'S LEAD IN ENDORSING MAYOR LIGHTFOOT AND HERE IS WHAT HE HAD TO SAY?

>> I'M FOCUSED ON MY OWN ELECTION.

WE'LL ALL MAKE DECISIONS AFTER THAT.

LET'S GET PAST NOVEMBER.

THERE IS A FEBRUARY ELECTION YOU'RE TRYING TO PRONG TOWARD AND I'M FOCUSED ON MY OWN.

BECAUSE I HAVE NOT TALKED ABOUT ENDORSEMENTS IN FUTURE ELECTIONS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE IS NOT THE POSSIBILITY OF IT.

>> AND THE QUESTION ALTOGETHER LYNN SWEET, WHEN YOU SEE THAT, YOU SEE TUNNEY DROP-OFF AND MATT O'SHEA DROP-OFF.

DOES THIS SMELL DOOM FOR LIGHTFOOT?

>> NOT EVEN CLOSE.

I WANT TO BE COUNTER AND PUSHBACK AGAINST THE QUESTION.

EVERY EXTRA PERSON WHO RUNS IS GOOD.

I REMIND OUR VIEWERS [INAUDIBLE] IN THE FIRST PHASE OF THE ELECTION AND A ONE TO ONE IN A RUNOFF.

THE FIELD IS GOOD WITH.

LIGHTFOOT HAS SHE HAS MILLIONS IN HER WAR CHEST AND SHE IS THE ON WOMAN RUNNING.

TOM TUNNEY WANTS TO GET IN, PAT QUINN IS TALKING ABOUT IT.

NOTHING IS DOOMED IN TERMS OF A MAYORAL RACE WHO CARES WHAT ALDERMEN RUN OR NOT.

>> LIGHTFOOT HAS THE POWER OF INCUMBENCY THERE.

>> AND THE GOVERNOR'S RACE, DARREN BAILEY IS SAYING THE MEDIA IS TAKING HIS COMPARISON OF BORINGS TO THE HOLOCAUST OUT OF CONTEXT.

>> I BELIEVE THAT ABORTION IS ONE OF THE GREATEST ATROCITIES OF OUR DAY.

I BELIEVE IT'S ONE OF THE GREATEST ATROCITIES FOREVER.

YOU KNOW, THE ATTEMPTED EXTERNAL NATION OF THE JEWS OF WORLD WAR II DOES NOT COMPARE ON THE SHADOW OF LIFE THAT HAS BEEN LOST WITH ABORTIONS SINCE ITS LEGAL GATION.

>> DAN BERNSTEIN, DARREN BAILEY WAS FACING AN UPHILL BATTLE.

DO THESE COMMENTS KNOCK HIM DOWN FURTHER WITH POTENTIAL VOTERS?

>> THEY BETTER OR WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM WITH THOSE POTENTIAL VOTERS.

THERE'S SO MUCH WRONG REGARDLESS OF CONTEXT.

IT'S ENGAGING HEAR HIM MAKE A CONTEXTUAL ARGUMENT FIRST OF ALL COMPARING ANYTHING TO THE HOLOCAUST, SECOND OF ALL, ATTEMPTED?

ASEPTEMBERED EXTERNAL NATION THAT IS SO INSULTING AND INFURIATING.

ON THE WHOLE ON ITS OWN TO TRY TO HIDE IN A MEALY MOUTH WAY BEHIND ANY CONTEXT, IS AN ABSOLUTE NONSTARTER JUST LIKE HIM, JUST LIKE HIS CANDIDACY AND THE SOONER THAT GOOBER GETS SENT BACK TO THE FARM THE BETTER.

>> STRANGE USE OF WORDS.

GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER AGREES SAYING THEY ARE DISQUALIFYING.

AND YET, JASON MEISNER GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER SPENT TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN CAMPAIGN ADS THAT WERE QUIETLY DESIGNED TO BOOST DARREN BAILEY'S BONA-FIDES WITH CONSERVATIVES SO HE WOULD BE IN THIS POSITION TO TAKE HIM ON BECAUSE HE WAS SEEN AS A WEAKER CANDIDATE IS THAT CYNICAL?

>> IT'S CYNICAL BUT IT'S ILLINOIS POLITICS.

YOU SAW IT THAT YOU WOULD FARE AGAINST A CANDIDATE LIKE BAILEY GIVEN THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF ILLINOIS AND GIVEN THE MONEY THE OTHER CANDIDATE IN THE REPUBLICAN RACE RICHARD IRVIN HAD.

IT IS NOT SURPRISING TO SEE GOVERNOR PRITZKER GO THAT ROUTE.

I THINK NOW DARREN BAILEY WITH THE THINGS THAT KEEP COMING BACK, IT'S PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING IT SEEMS TO BE WORKING AT LEAST FOR NOW.

BECAUSE THIS IS PROBABLY NOT A LAST THING IN THINGS THAT WILL BE DRAGGED OUT TO THE LIGHT THAT HE HAS SAID.

I WOULD LIKE TO SAY CAN WE HAVE A MORATORIUM ON PEOPLE REFERENCING THE HOLOCAUST AND COMPARING IT IT SEEMS EVERY OTHER DAY SOME LEGISLATOR OR SOMEBODY IS BRINGING IT UP AND TRYING TO COMPARE IT TO SOMETHING ELSE.

AND IT REALLY IS SILLY AND INSULTING.

>> YOU HAD CONGRESSWOMAN REFERENCE HITLER SAY HE HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT A COUPLE THINGS YEARS AGO.

THIS STRATEGY OF DEMOCRATS SUPPORTING MAGA REPUBLICANS AND THEIR PRIMARIES THINKING THEY WILL BE EASIER TO BEAT IN THE GENERAL IS THIS STRATEGY ON A POLITICAL LEVEL GOING TO WORKOUT FOR THEM IN NOVEMBER?

>> WELL, IT'S NOT ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL.

THIS IS BEING DONE IN OTHER STATES, TOO.

I THINK IN ILLINOIS, WHAT PRITZKER HAS ALREADY DONE EVEN IF HE DOES WIN, HE MADE A MAGA REPUBLICAN THE SYMBOLIC HEAD IF NOT THE HEAD AT SOME POINT OF THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY.

AND THE SERIOUSNESS OF WHAT DARREN BAILEY SAID THE HOLOCAUST IS A SINGULAR EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY NOT TO BE COMPARED TO ANYTHING.

AND THE WAY HE ADDRESSED THIS, NOTHING HE SAID IN THE AFTERMATH SHOWED A SIGNIFICANT UNDERSTANDING OF THIS, I THINK IS SOMETHING AS WE HAVE SAID IS CONCERN AND ALSO SHOWS THAT HE HAS A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF SOMETHING THAT IS OF INCREDIBLE SIGNIFICANCE.

AND THAT ALONE IS -- I MEAN IT IS JUST SOMETHING I JUST THINK PEOPLE SHOULD CONSIDER AS THEY TRY TO EVALUATE HIS CANDIDACY, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR VIEWS ARE.

I THINK THIS HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY DAMAGING, NO MATTER HOW A MAGA REPUBLICANS GET TO BE NOMINATED, THE DEMOCRATIC DANGER IS YOU ALSO HAVE LEGITIMIZE THEM TO A DEGREE EVEN IF THEY ARE DEFEATED IN THEIR ELECTIONS.

>> AND IT IS NOT JUST THE DEMOCRATS CALLING OUT DARREN BAILEY BUT OTHER REPUBLICANS HOUSE MINORITY LEADER JIM DURKIN CRITICIZED HIM.

YOU SEE BIG ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS SITTING ON THE SIDELINES HERE FOR DARREN BAILEY'S CAMPAIGN.

ARE THEY GOING TO SUPPORT HIM?

OR ARE THEY GOING TO LET HIS CAMPAIGN PLAY OUT AND PERHAPS LET PRITZKER WALTZ IN?

>> THERE WAS A REASON THE ESTABLISHMENT WAS RALLYING AROUND RICHARD IRVIN.

THEY KNOW ABOUT DARREN BAILEY.

THEY KNOW HE IS A SOLID MAGA REPUBLICAN.

OBVIOUSLY IT'S STUPID TO COMPARE ANYTHING TO THE HOLOCAUST.

BUT ON A LIGHTER NOTE, I WOULD COMPARE BAILEY TO THE WHITE SOX.

HE STUCK IN NEUTRAL.

YOU WOULD EXPECT AT SOME POINT NOW THAT YOU ARE THE NOMINEE YOU HAVE MOMENTUM, BUT HE IS PLAYING .500 BALL.

HE STRUGGLED TO RAISE MONEY.

HE HAS STRUGGLED TO UNITE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

AND FUNDRAISER WITH JIM DURKIN AND JIM DURKIN HAD TO CONDEMN HIS CONCERNS.

AND THERE ARE CONCERNS AT THE TOP OF HIS CAMPAIGN THEY ARE YOUNG, AND THERE IS A SENSE HE NEEDS TO GET PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE MUCH MORE EXPERIENCED ON HIS SIDE.

>> I WILL STICK WITH YOU, BACK TO GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER AFTER A ROUGH INTERNAL WAR IN THE ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC PARTY HE GOT HIS PERSON TO LEAD THE PARTY AFTER ROBIN KELLY DROPPED OUT.

IS THERE PEACE AND HARMONY IN THE PARTY NOW?

>> THIS WAS UGLY.

IT IS INSIDE BASEBALL I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE CARE ABOUT IT.

ROBIN KELLY STEPPED FORWARD AFTER MICHAEL MADIGAN SHE IS WELL LIKED AMONG DEMOCRATS.

SHE HAS A HISTORY OF FUNDRAISING.

SHE WAS CLOSE TO BARACK OBAMA.

AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS GOVERNOR PRITZKER WAS NOT GOING TO LOSE TWO CONSECUTIVE ELECTIONS TO ROBIN KELLY.

HE RAN PEOPLE SO HE COULD HAVE THE PERSON HE WANTED IN THERE.

THEY SAY THIS WAS ABOUT FUND RAISING WITH HER AS A FEDERAL OFFICE HOLDER THERE WERE LIMITATIONS WHAT SHE COULD DO FOR STATE CANDIDATES.

THERE ARE OTHER STATES HAVE A SITUATION LIKE THAT.

SHE COULD DELEGATE AND BE A COMMITTEE PERSON.

ON THE OTHER HAND HIS MILLIONS FUND THE PARTY.

AND HE IS FUNDING HIS OWN CAMPAIGN.

SO HE IS THE LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATS IN THE STATE HE HAS THE RIGHT TO HAVE THE PERSON HE WANTS.

BUT TO PUSH HER OUT LIKE THAT, WELL RESPECTED, WELL LIKED, AND NOBODY HAD A PROBLEM WITH, IS SURPRISING.

>> AND SOME PEOPLE VOCALLY WERE SUPPORTIVE LIKE MAYOR LIGHTFOOT.

DAN BERNSTEIN WE HEARD THE NEWS THAT MILWAUKEE WILL GET THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

CHICAGO'S ANGLING TO GET THE DNC IF YOU ARE THE HEAD OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY DO YOU WANT TO BRING YOUR 2024-PR TO CHICAGO, RATHER THAN A SWING STATE WHERE THESE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

>> THAT WOULD BE MORE A QUESTION FOR THE OTHER GUESTS.

CHICAGO HAS BECOME THE BOOGIE MAN IN LARGE PART FOR THE GUN VIOLENCE DISCUSSION.

SAYING WELL, THAT WHAT ABOUT CHICAGO?

WELL THAT SOUNDS GREAT.

BUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CHICAGO.

MY CONCERN FOR THEM AND OPTICS PERSPECTIVE IS HOW THEY PRESUME THAT, HOW THEY INOCULATE AGAINST IT, AND HOW THEY HANDLE PEOPLE SAYING THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS HOLDING THEIR SHOWCASE EVENT IN A CITY THAT ITSELF HAS BEEN RIDDEN BY VIOLENCE WHEN LED BY DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.

WE KNOW THE REASONS FOR IT AND THE GUNS ARE COMING FROM RED STATES.

BUT TO BE ABLE TO TELL THAT STORY AND PREPARED FOR THE LINES OF ATTACK WOULD BE IMPORTANT.

>> LYNN SWEET IS THE HEAD OF THE DNC SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING CHICAGO?

DID HE COME HERE OUT OF COURTESY?

>> NEW YORK, CHICAGO, HOUSTON AND ATLANTA ARE ALL IN THE RUNNING.

TEXAS IS TWO RED AND TOO MANY ISSUES THERE.

AND THERE'S LITTLE TO GAIN FOR DEMOCRATS GOING THERE.

ATLANTA IS A STORY TO TELL.

BECAUSE IF SENATOR WORE KNOCK IS NOT WARNOCK IS NOT ELECTED IT'S HARD TO SEE IF THE DEMOCRATS CAN GET TO 50 IN THE SENATE.

NEW YORK WHEN THE DNC WENT THERE, MAYOR ADAMS AND GOVERNOR HOCHUL WERE ASKED A LOT ABOUT CRIME IN NEW YORK.

AND THE REASON THAT CHICAGO LEADERS ESCAPED THAT AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE WHEN REPORTERS WERE ASKING ABOUT PRITZKER WANTING TO KNOCK KELLY OUT.

PRITZKER PICKED A FIGHT THAT HAS A RIPPLE EFFECT.

THERE IS ILL WILL, I REPORT ON THIS AND I KNOW THE PEOPLE INVOLVED.

FOR THE SAKE OF HIS CONTROL OF THE PARTY WHERE IF HE WAS REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT MONEY HE PROBABLY COULD HAVE MADE UP THE DEFICIT.

I KNOW HE DOESN'T LIKE TO BE SEEN AS AN ATM MACHINE.

HE HAS CALLED SIGNIFICANT ILL WILL, AND THE TIME AND EFFORT HE WILL TAKE TO REPAIR THAT, AGGRAVATION HE DID NOT NEED FOR A GAIN THAT MAY NOT BE THAT SIGNIFICANT IN THE SHORT-TERM.

AND A LONG-TERM PLAN DEALING WITH THE PARTY COULD HAVE BEEN WORKED OUT LATER AND NOT IN A WAY THAT FORCED OUT KELLY IN THE VERY BOLD, POWERFUL WAY THAT PRITZKER ABOUT DID IT FUELED BY HIS MONEY TO HELP GET PEOPLE ELECTED WHO THROUGH THE STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE WHO WOULD BE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT HE AND HIS ALLIES PICKED.

>> SEE IF HE WILL BE ABLE TO PATCH UP SOME OF THAT ILL WILL.

AND MICHAEL MADIGAN CAUSED A LOT OF ILL WILL.

JASON MEISNER HE HAD A KEY HAND IN WRITING THE PENSION CODES FOR THE STATE OF ILLINOIS AND HIS BOOSTED BY $63,000 A YEAR.

REMIND US WHY.

>> AMAZING ILLINOIS STORY.

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE FOR 50 YEARS OR IN THE HOUSE FOR 50 PLUS YEARS, HE WAS GOING TO GET $80,000 SOMETHING JUST AS THE REGULAR PENSION FROM HIS LEGISLATIVE WHICH IS ABOUT 100,000.

AND ILLINOIS SUDDENLY BECAUSE OF LAWS THAT HE HELPED PUT THROUGH, LEGISLATORS WITH 20 PLUS YEARS OF SERVICE THERE IS A FORMULA WHERE YOU GET ANOTHER BONUS.

AND HIS WHICH HE JUST STARTED COLLECTING IS GOING TO BE $63,000 WHICH BOOSTS HIM TO $149,000 IN PENSION WITH, OF COURSE, THE REQUISITE 3% PER YEAR INCREASE.

>> COMPOUNDED COST OF LIVING INCREASE I BELIEVE THAT PENSIONS ARE HIGHER THAN HIS LEGISLATIVE SALARY WAS.

A JUDGE SAID THE DEADLINE FOR PRETRIAL MOTIONS IN THE CASE WILL BE FEBRUARY.

WE SEED ED BURKE'S CASE GOING ON THREE YEARS.

STILL NO TRIAL.

IS THAT WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT WITH THE MADIGAN TRIAL?

>> I DON'T THINK SO.

ED BURKE'S WAS A LITTLE BIT UNIQUE BECAUSE OF COVID WHICH THE COURTHOUSE SHUTDOWN FOR A WHILE.

AND HUGE DELAYS IN GETTING COURTROOMS AND SO, HIS TRIAL IS FINALLY ON TRACK.

BUT NOT UNTIL LATE NEXT YEAR.

MADIGAN'S CASE IS GOING TO TAKE A WHILE.

FIRST, THE QUOTE-UNQUOTE COMMENT FOR WHICH IS HIS LONG TIME CONFIDANTE MICHAEL McCLAIN AND OTHERS WILL GO ON TRIAL IN MARCH.

AND THAT HAS A LOT OF CONNECTIONS TO THE RACKETEERING INDICTMENT AGAINST MADIGAN AND McCLAIN.

ONCE THEY GET THESE PRETRIAL MOTIONS FILED AND IT GETS SET FOR A HEARING AND IT GETS CLEARED, WE COULD SEE A TRIAL SOMETIME IN EARLY 2024 FOR MADIGAN.

>> THAT IS A MUCH MORE EXPEDITED BASIS THAN THE BURKE TRIAL.

STATE'S ATTORNEY KIM FOXX, HIGH LEVEL STATE'S ATTORNEY QUIT THE OFFICE AND MADE A PUBLIC LETTER ABOUT HIS DISSATISFACTION WITH HER LEADERSHIP, THIS IS A REFRAIN WE SEEM TO BE HEARING MORE AND MORE OF.

IS THIS BECOMING A BIGGER AND BIGGER PROBLEM FOR FOXX'S OFFICE?

>> I THINK IT'S BEEN A PROBLEM, RIGHT?

I THINK HE SORT OF JUST PUT IT ALTOGETHER.

HER CRITICS HAVE LONG SAID THE THINGS HE SAID.

BUT IN TERMS OF TALKING ABOUT OPEN POSITIONS, THE FACT THAT THEY ARE UNDERMANNED, UNDERSTAFFED THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT A GOOD LOOK AT ALL FOR THE STATE'S ATTORNEY.

THERE WERE MORE RESIGNATIONS THIS WEEK.

THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW IN THE RECENT MONTHS AS WELL FOR HER.

IT'S GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE FOR HER GOING FORWARD.

BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT SIMPLE SOLUTIONS.

THEY WANT TO SIMPLIFY THE VIOLENCE ISSUE.

SHE HAS BEEN AN EASY TARGET AND WHEN AS MURPHY TALKED ABOUT THAT HE FELT LIKE THE OFFICE WAS BEING POLITICIZED THERE WAS MORE OF AN EMPHASIS ON THAT THAN THE VICTIMS THAT IS SOMETHING THAT CONNECTS WITH PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU HAVE DAVID BROWN TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY ARE COMMITTING CRIMES BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT.

AND MAYOR LIGHTFOOT WHO FROM TIME TO TIME JABS FOXX.

IT COMES FROM EVERY DIRECTION.

AND SHE TRIED TO PUSHBACK AND RELEASE DATA AND GONE THROUGH PEOPLE MANAGING HER COMMUNICATIONS.

BUT IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE A PROBLEM FOR HER.

ALTHOUGH I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE WERE NEW REVELATIONS.

THIS IS THE SAME CRITICISM WE HAVE BEEN HEARING FOR A WHILE NOW.

>> RIGHT.

WE HAVE HEARD THIS CRITICISM THIS CRITICALLIZED IN A PUBLIC WAY BY HIS ASA.

LET'S MOVE ON TO HIGHLAND PARK, LYNN SWEET, YOU WERE AT THE FOURTH OF JULY PARADE AND FOLLOWING THE CASE.

THE ALLEGED SHOOTER PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO 100 PLUS CHARGES FOR THIS MASSACRE.

HE DID CONFESS ALLEGEDLY AT THE RIGHT AFTER BEING DETAINED.

WHAT DID YOU OBSERVE ABOUT THE WAY THIS PROCEEDING TOOK PLACE?

>> WELL, I WAS LOOKING AT HIM SITTING WITH OTHER REPORTERS IN A JURY BOX.

I WANTED TO SEE IF HE SHOWED EMOTION AND HIS PARENTEDS WERE BEHIND HIM.

HE WORE COVID MASKS BUT HE DID NOT LOOK AROUND.

HE DID NOT LOOK TO SEE WHO WAS THERE.

IMMEDIATELY TO HIS LEFT IF HE HAD LOOKED HE WOULD HAVE SEEN ABOUT 17 PEOPLE WHO WERE AMONG THE WOUNDED OR PEOPLE AT THE PARADE OR THEY HAD FAMILY MEMBERS THERE.

HE EITHER WAS TOO FRIGHTENED TO LOOK OR DIDN'T WANT TO.

I DON'T WANT TO READ HIS MIND.

ONE THING THAT WAS QUITE CLEAR TO ME AND ONE OF THE THINGS I LOOKED AT, WAS THAT TATTOO OVER HIS LEFT HIGH BROW THAT SAID AWAKE.

AND THAT OF COURSE I DID ANOTHER STORY THAT RAN THIS WEEK WHERE A MAN AWAKE 47 HAD POSTED AS RECENTLY AS TWO DAYS BEFORE THE JULY 4TH SLAUGHTER POSTS ON A WEBSITE NOW TAKEN DOWN THAT WERE ANTISEMITIC, ANTIBLACK AND ANTI-ASIAN-AMERICAN.

YOU CANNOT DRAW A CONCLUSION FROM IT BECAUSE HE HAS OTHER TOXIC POSTING ON DIFFERENT SOCIAL MEDIA.

A LOT IS TAKEN DOWN NOW.

I WANTED JUST TO SEE HIM AND THAT IS PART OF WHAT I WROTE ABOUT.

AND I WANTED TO SEE HOW THE PARENTS RETACK ACTED AND -- REACTED AND THEY WERE EXPRESSIONLESS AND KEPT THEIR EYES FRONT AND CENTER, TOO.

SOMETIMES IT'S TELLING WHEN SOMEONE DOESN'T WANT TO LOOK.

>> AND CLEARLY THAT SEEMED TO BE THE CASE.

LET'S MOVE ON TO SPORTS.

DAN BERNSTEIN, THERE ARE ALL THE STANDING OVATIONS AND THE TEARS AND HUGS, EVERYONE TREATED IT LIKE A DONE DEAL BUT EVAN HAPP AND WILSON CONTRERAS NOT MOVED.

WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED IN THE FRONT OFFICE?

>> IT ENDED UP BEING STRANGE AND THE CASE OF HAPP IS ONE THAT IS NOT AS SIGNIFICANT.

BECAUSE HE REMAINS WITH A YEAR OF ARBITRATION ELIGIBILITY AND TEAM CONTROL.

THEY COULD MOVE HIM IN THE OFF SEASON OR NEXT YEAR'S DEADLINE OR ASSOCIATE AN EXTENSION AND KEEP HIM.

THE WILSON CONTRERAS SITUATION WOULD BE THEY MISJUDGED AND OR MISS TIMED THE MARKET.

AND GOT CAUGHT HOLDING THE BAG.

THEY TRIED TO TAKE IT UP TO THE DEADLINE PERHAPS IF THEY DID WITH THE OTHER BIG TRADES AND WORLD SERIES PLAYERS IN BIAZ AND BRYANT AND RIZZO.

THE MARKET IS DIFFERENT.

NO TEAM HAS TRADED FOR A CATCHER MID-SEASON AND WON THE WORLD SERIES.

IT'S MORE DELICATE BECAUSE OF HOW A CATCHER HAMS A PITCHING STAFF.

CONTRERAS IS VIEWED AS A BAT AND A THROWING ARM THAN A COMPLETE CATCHER AND HANDLER OF PITCHERS.

THE QUESTION IS HOW ARE THEY CLOSER TO WINNING A WORLD SERIES BY RECEIVING THE COMPENSATORY PICK THEY WILL GET WHEN THEY LOSE HIM THAN THEY WOULD BE TAKING THE EQUIVALENT OF CENTS ON THE DOLLAR IN A PROSPECT.

YOU GET 70 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR MAYBE IT IS NOT THE PACKAGE THAT YOU THOUGHT.

IT IS A CURIOUS OUTCOME.

>> HE IS A FREE AGENT LIKELY HE IS GONE NEXT YEAR AND THE CUBS GET NOTHING BUT THE COMPENSATORY PICK OTHER THAN POSSIBLE PROSPECTS THEY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN.

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN TALK ABOUT THE CAMERAS CATCHING TONY LARUSSA APPEARING TO NOD OFF IN THE FIRST INNING IN THE DUGOUT IS THIS A TEMPEST IN THE TEAPOT OR AN INDICATION THE MANAGER WHO HAS A WORLD SERIES ROSTER IS BARELY MANAGING TO KEEP THEM ABOVE .

FIVE00.

>> HE IS BARELY MANAGING AT ALL.

ARE THE GUARDRAILS IN.

PLACE.

CAMERAS CAUGHT THE PITCHING COACH PHYSICALLY GUIDING HIM TOWARD THE BULLPEN PHONE URGING HIM TO MAKE A PITCHING CHANGE.

THE WHITE SOX ARE A TOP TO BOTTOM MESS OF PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE AGENDAS AND QUESTIONABLE MOTIVATIONS ON EVERY LEVEL OF THE ORGANIZATION THAT KEPT ITS WAY INTO THE DUGOUT INTO THE CLUBHOUSE.

AND UP TO THE DEADLINE AS WELL WHEN NOTHING COULD BE DONE BECAUSE THEIR FARM SYSTEM DID NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO MAKE ANY SIGNIFICANT MOVE.

THEY ARE LEFT WITH A TEAM OF HALF HURT DESIGNATED HITTERS INTERSPERSED THROUGHOUT THE DEFENSIVE LINEUP AND HOPING AGAINST HOPE THAT NOW THAT EXPECTATIONS HAVE BEEN DOWNGRADED FROM WORLD SERIES CONTENTION TO JUST REMAINING AT THE TOP OF A MISERABLE DIVISION THAT PEOPLE AREN'T GOING TO ASK THE HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THIS WENT WRONG SO QUICKLY AND SO COMPLETELY.

>> IT REMINDS ME OF THE TOM HANKS CHARACTER.

WE HAVE A FEW SECONDS DAN BERNSTEIN THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR IN FOOTBALL WHEN EVERYONE READS TOO MUCH IN BEARS TRAINING CAMP PRACTICES.

THERE ARE PROBLEMS ON THE OFFENSIVE LINE, KEVIN JENKINS, IS HE EVER GOING TO PLAY?

>> DON'T KNOW.

THEY ARE LIE BEING SOMETHING.

THEY ARE LYING ABOUT THE DESIRE TO HAVE HIM ON THE TEAM OR HIS LEVEL OF INJURY OR BOTH.

WE DON'T KNOW.

IT APPEARS THAT IF HE WERE TO FIGURE STRONGLY IN THEIR FUTURE PLANS WE WOULD KNOW IT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

ON AN OFFENSIVE LINE THAT IS CURRENTLY CONSTRUCTED BE THE VERY WORST UNIT IN THE ENTIRE NFL TO NOT WANT A SECOND ROUND PICK FOR WHOM THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION TRADED UP IN THE DRAFT TO GET IS EXTREMELY TELLING.

>> AND THAT IS FOREBODING WHEN YOU CONSIDER THIS IS A CRUCIAL YEAR FOR JUSTIN FIELDS AND YOU NEED TO FIELD A PASSABLE OFFENSE AROUND HIM.

WE ARE OUT OF TIME.

THE SHOW DEVELOPED BEAUTIFULLY.

THANKS TO TAHMAN BRADLEY, DAN BERNSTEIN, LYNN SWEET AND JASON MEISNER WE APPRECIATE IT.

AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND ENJOY THIS WONDERFUL WEEKEND!

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