[♪♪♪] >> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

WE WILL BE JOINEDDED BY OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" GUESTS IN JUST A MOMENT.

FIRST SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES.

10% OF ALL ILLINOISANS RECEIVED AT LEAST THE FIRST DOSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE.

ACCORDING TO STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS WHO REPORT MORE THAN 95,000 VACCINATIONS IN THE LAST 24 HOURS.

THAT IS A RECORD.

THIS COMES AS C.P.S.

ANNOUNCES IT WILL OPEN FOUR SCHOOL-BASED COVID VACCINATION SITES TO BEGIN DISTRIBUTING 1500 FIRST DOSE VACCINATIONS TO TEACHERS.

AND GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER SAYS THE STATE WILL BE READY TO MEET THE STATE DEMAND BY FEBRUARY 26 WHEN ANYONE WITH A PREEXISTING MEDICAL CONDITION WILL BE AVAILABLE.

>> JOHNSON & JOHNSON IS GOING TO COME BEFORE THE FDA AND THERE IS OPTIMISM THEY WILL GET THE EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION AND WE WILL BEGIN TO GET THOSE VACCINES ON TOP OF PFIZER AND MODERNA.

>> AND STATE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS REPORT NEARLY 2600 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES TODAY INCLUDING 32 ADDITIONAL DEATHS THAT MAKES FOR A TOTAL OF 1.15 MILLION CASES.

AND 19,873 DEATHS.

>> ONCE AGAIN BE PREPARED FOR LOW WIND-CHILLS THIS WEEKEND.

THE CITY'S ANNOUNCED A PAIR OF WARMING CENTERS WILL BE OPEN FROM 9-5 AS WIND-CHILL VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO READ WELL BELOW 0 TOMORROW.

AND YOU CAN VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THOSE WARMING CENTERS.

>> AND JOINING US NOW ARE OUR OWN HEATHER CHERONE, OF WTTW NEWS.

RACHEL HINTON OF "CHICAGO-SUN TIMES".

BEN BRADLEY OF WGN-TV AND GREGORY PRATT OF THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE".

FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S IMPEACHMENT TRIAL TRUMP'S LAWYERS RESTED HERE IS WHAT BOTH SIDES ARGUED AND SOME OF THE POWERFUL RIOT VIDEO USED BY HOUSE MANAGERS.

>> DON'T HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT THAT THE INSURRECTIONISTS ACTED AT DONALD TRUMP'S DIRECTION THEY SAID SO.

>> WE WERE INVITED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

>> EXERCISE YOUR COMMON SENSE.

NOT JUST WHAT TOOK PLACE.

>> WHEN YOU ARE I MAKE A MISTAKE AND SOMETHING VERY BAD HAPPENS, WE WOULD SHOW REMORSE.

WE WOULD ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY.

PRESIDENT TRUMP DIDN'T DO ANY OF THAT.

>> THE ONLY LOGICAL CONCLUSION IS THAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS GATHERING IS TO EMBARRASS THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND IN SOME WAY TRY TO CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SENATORS TO SUGGEST THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE PERMITTED TO HOLD OFFICE IN THE FUTURE.

>> THE CONSTITUTIONAL CANCEL CULTURE.

>> BEN BRADLEY AS FAR AS WE KNOW THERE ARE NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH G.O.P.

SENATORS ONBOARD FOR A CONVICTION.

DO YOU ANTICIPATE ANY LAST-MINUTE SURPRISES AND CHANGES OF HEART?

>> YOU MAY GET ONE OR TWO CHANGES OF HEART.

I MEAN WE SAW ONE SURPRISE THE REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM LOUISIANA COMING OVER TO SAY AND THOUGHT THAT IT WAS CONSTITUTIONAL AS AN ISSUE TO PROCEED WITH THIS.

BUT I DON'T THINK YOU ARE CHANGING A LOT OF HEARTS AND MINDS IN THE CHAMBER.

IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT MITCH McCONNELL DOES.

HE IS NOT TELEGRAPHING THAT AT THIS POINT.

BUT IT STRUCK ME AS I ANCHORED THE COVERAGE FOR WGN THE ATTORNEYS FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTED TO FOCUS AS IF EVERYTHING ONLY HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6TH.

ONE SPEECH IN FRONT OF ONE CROWD.

AND THAT HE USED THE WORDS PEACEFULLY AND PATRIOTICLY DEMONSTRATE AS OPPOSED TO LOOKING AT THE FACT FOR MONTHS HE HAD TOLD THE SUPPORTERS THAT THE ELECTION HAD BEEN STOLEN ANDY THAYER NEEDED TO STOP THE STEAL AND THEY NEEDED TO SHOW UP IN WASHINGTON ON JANUARY 6TH TO TAKE MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS.

YOU HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THERE AND ALSO STRIKING WAS WHEN THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S ATTORNEYS WERE ASKED FOR A WHAT DONALD TRUMP DID IN THOSE HOURS AFTER THE CAPITOL WAS BREACHED.

THEY DIDN'T PROVIDE ONE.

>> AND CERTAINLY THERE'S BEEN MORE NEWS ABOUT A PHONE CALL WITH KEVIN McCARTHY FROM THE HOUSE WHERE TRUMP SEEMED INDIFFERENT TO WHAT WAS HAPPENING AT THE CAPITOL.

RACHEL HINTON PROSECUTORS PRESENTED NEW VIDEO FOOTAGE INCLUDING MITT ROMNEY BEING JUST SECONDS AWAY FROM GETTING HIT WITH PROTESTORS.

AND THEN VICE-PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE AND HIS FAMILY BEING RUSHED OUT.

WHAT WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND WHEN YOU SAW THIS?

>> IT PUT INTO CONTEXT THAT DAY.

I'M SURE WITH OTHER PEOPLE I WAS FOLLOWING THE NEWS I WAS ON TWITTER, REFRESHING AND REFRESHING AND REFRESHING.

BUT TO SEE THE VIDEOS AND TO HEAR THEM AND HEAR AND SEE REALLY WHAT WENT ON THAT DAY FOR MANY PEOPLE FIRSTHAND IT WAS JARRING.

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE CHAIN OF EVENTS LIKE BEN SAID THAT GOT US HERE.

AND YOU KNOW HAVING A PRESIDENT A FORMER PRESIDENT TELLING SUPPORTERS TO FIGHT LIKE HELL AND THEN [INAUDIBLE] SUPPORT THIS IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.

YEAH, IT WAS JARRING.

IT WAS SCARY.

IT WAS YEAH, SHOCKING.

>> AND HEATHER CHERONE, BEN BRADLEY ELUDED TO SOME OF THE CASES THE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS MADE TODAY.

THEY ARE SHOWING CLIPS OF RIOTING THAT HAPPENED OVER THE SUMMER IN MINNEAPOLIS AND CITIES INTERSPERSED WITH COMMENTS FROM DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS ABOUT PEACEFUL PROTESTS.

WAS THAT AN EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT?

>> WELL, I THINK THAT IF YOU WANT TO EQUATE SOCIAL JUSTICE PROTESTS THAT WE SAW OVER THE SUMMER WITH VIOLENT ATTEMPT TO PREVENT CONGRESS FROM CERTIFYING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YOU CAN CERTAINLY MAKE THAT MENTAL LEAP.

I DON'T KNOW THAT THE FACTS ARE ON THEIR SIDE BUT IT CERTAINLY CAN GIVE COVER TO THOSE REPUBLICAN SENATORS WANTING TO ACQUIT THE PRESIDENT AND LOOKING FOR A REASON TO DO SO.

AND THAT WAS CLEARLY WHAT THE PRESIDENT'S ATTORNEYS WERE TRYING TO DO.

THEY HAD SORT OF A CLIP REEL THAT THEY SHOWED SEVERAL TIMES WHERE THEY INTERSPERSED NANCY PELOSI AND EVERYBODY SAYING FIGHT AS IF IT WAS JUST THE MAGICAL WORD THAT COULD SOMEHOW ABSOLVE THE PRESIDENT.

THEY SAID THE EXACT SAME WORD AND THE CONTEXT WAS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

BUT LIKE BEN SAID, THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY A TRIAL WHERE YOU ARE TRYING TO CONVINCE OBJECTIVE JURY MEMBERS COMING MEMBERS AT THIS FRESH.

THIS IS A POLITICAL EXERCISE AND IT HAS TO BE UNDERSTOOD AS SUCH.

AND I THINK YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT AS A WAY OF THE DEMOCRATS WANTING TO TELL THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6TH AND LEADING UP TO IT.

AND WHAT SORT OF PERIL OUR DEMOCRACY WAS IN AT THAT MOMENT.

>> INTERESTING TO WATCH, THOUGH, THE REPUBLICANS THERE'S PROBABLY A BUNCH WHO ARE SCARED END UP WHAT LINDSEY GRAHAM FACED AT THE AIRPORT WHERE HE WAS GETTING HARASSED BY MOBS.

AND A LOT OF THE GUYS ARE SCARED OF TRUMP AND SCARED OF THE MOB THEY ARE SCARED THAT TRUMP IS GOING TO RALLY A PRIMARY AGAINST THEM.

AND SAYS SOMETHING REMARKABLE ABOUT OUR OUR DEMOCRACY IS THAT YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT A GUY WHO SENT THE MOB AT THEM, SAID THEY WOULD BE WILD AND WHO SAID FIGHT LIKE HELL OVER THE COURSE OF WEEKS AND THEY ARE LIKE I'M SCARED HE WILL SEND A MOB AT ME DURING A PRIMARY OR PERHAPS WORSE LIKE WHAT YOU SAW WITH LINDSEY GRAHAM GETTING CHASED THROUGH AN AIRPORT.

>> BEN BRADLEY IS THAT WHAT IT'S GOING TO COME DOWN TO, SENATORS THINK BEING REELECTION IN 2022, VERSUS SENATORS MORE THAT DON'T FACE REELECTION FOR ANOTHER SIX YEARS?

>> LET'S FACE IT MOST OF THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS ARE FACING AN IMMEDIATE REELECTION.

THERE'S ONLY A HANDFUL THAT ARE AND STILL THEY HAVE CONTINUED TO EITHER SILENTLY OR VERY VOCALLY STAND BY INEXCUSABLE ACT.

AND IN A DAY OR TWO AFTERWARDS LINDSEY GRAHAM ACKNOWLEDGED THE ROLE THAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP PLAYED IN IT BUT HE HAS FORGOTTEN THAT.

I THINK THERE ARE NO PROFILES IN COURAGE HERE AND I DON'T MEAN THAT TO JUDGE WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN.

BUT I DO MEAN IT TO SAY EVERYONE ALREADY WENT IN WITH THEIR MIND MADE UP.

THE ONLY MINDS THAT ARE BEING INFLUENCED HERE ARE THOSE WHO FOR THE FIRST TIME ARE REALLY SEEING AN EXTENDED LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE WHO ARE SEEING THAT SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE.

AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY WATCHING THIS TRIAL.

EVEN THOUGH IT'S ON ALL OF THE STATIONS EVERYDAY.

I SEE THE RATINGS EVERYDAY AND THIS IS NOT THE BACHELOR.

THIS IS NOT MUST SEE TV.

>> CERTAINLY MIGHT HAVE SOME SWAY IN PUBLIC OPINION MAYBE IF THERE IS IMPEACHMENT FATIGUE OR TRUMP FATIGUE.

HEATHER CHERONE ALSO THIS WEEK BIDEN FOLLOWING A PRECEDENT WITH OTHER PRESIDENTS IS CALLING FOR THE RESIGNATION OF ALL U.S.

ATTORNEYS INCLUDING JOHN LAUSCH HERE IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.

GOT PUSHBACK FROM DEMOCRATIC SENATORS DURBIN AND DUCKWORTH DO YOU THINK THAT MIGHT -- I SHOULD CLARIFY THIS IS CONFUSING.

AS FAR AS WE KNOW, LAUSCH HAS NOT SUBMITTED HIS RESIGNATION YET HE HAS UNTIL THE END OF THE MONTH.

DO YOU THINK THIS PUSHBACK MIGHT SAVE HIS JOB?

>> IT COULD.

YOU SAW SENATORS DURBIN AND DUCKWORTH FLOAT A COMPROMISE WHERE THEY SAID LET HIM STAY UNLESS A REPLACEMENT IS CONFIRMED AND THAT IS GOING TO TAKE WHO KNOWS HOW LONG.

WE KNOW THE SENATE MOVES SLOWLY.

THEIR ARGUMENT WAS TO THE PRESIDENT LET HIM CONTINUE HIS WORK AND HE IS OVERSEEING THE PROSECUTION THAT INVOLVES COMMONWEALTH EDISON AND A NUMBER OF AIDES TO FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER MICHAEL MADIGAN NOT BEEN CHARGED AND DENIES WRONGDOING AND THE PENDING TRIAL OF FORMER -- FORMER FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN BOIRNLG AN ALDERMAN.

HE HAS A FULL DOCKET.

WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT-AND-SEE IF THAT SORT OF AGREEMENT CAN BE BROKERED.

BUT IT IS UNUSUAL TO SEE A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT IN PUBLIC IN A DISPUTE WITH THE SECOND RANKING DEMOCRAT FROM HIS OWN PARTY AND LET'S NOT FORGET THAT TAMMY DUCKWORTH WAS VETTED TO SOME EXTENT FOR THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL SLOT.

THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN IN ILLINOIS POLITICS UNDER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION'S FIRST MONTH OR SO IN OFFICE.

>> AND LET'S NOT FORGET EVERYBODY IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF JOHN LAUSCH INDICTED OR NOT ARE DEMOCRATS HERE IN ILLINOIS.

>> DEMOCRAT SENATOR SAYING KEEP HIM.

>> IS THERE A PER EXCEPT SHOP PROBLEM AND LAUSCH CAME IN AS MOST OF THE INVESTIGATIONS HAD STARTED.

CERTAINLY THEY ESCALATED.

BUT IS THERE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM SWITCHING HORSES IN MIDSTREAM WHEN YOU HAVE THE HIGH PROFILE CASES INVOLVING DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS?

>> CHICAGO MAY BE ONE OF THE FEW CITIES WHERE REPORTERS ARE FIGHTING TO KEEP THE U.S. ATTORNEY BECAUSE THERE IS A BELIEF THAT ONLY THIS ONE GUY CAN CONTINUE TO CRACK THE MULTIPLE CASES OF CORRUPTION.

BUT I REMIND YOU FOUR YEARS AGO, THERE WAS AN UPROAR WHEN THIS PART OF THE SAME QUOTE-UNQUOTE TRADITION DONALD TRUMP ASKED FOR THE RESIGNATIONS OF THESE FOLKS.

THERE ARE CAREER PROSECUTORS IN THESE OFFICES AND THE CASES ARE VERY FAR ALONG AS EFFECTIVE AS LAUSCH HAS BEEN THE CASES GO ON WHOEVER IS SITTING IN THE CHAIR.

>> AND YOU REFERRED TO ZACH FARDON WAS THE U.S. ATTORNEY WHEN TRUMP BROUGHT IN LAUSCH.

GREGORY PRATT OR RACHEL HINTON, ANY NOTION WHO LAUSCH'S REPLACEMENT WOULD BE?

ARE THERE ANY NAMES BEING CIRCULATED AROUND?

>> I HEARD SOMEBODY JOKE THAT LORI LIGHTFOOT SHOULD GET IT.

>> SHE WAS CONSIDERED YEARS AGO.

>> I'M NOT SURE WHO WOULD BE UP FOR IT.

BUT IT WILL BE A CHALLENGE, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THE CASES THAT ARE IN PROGRESS THAT HAVE BEEN CHARGED WILL CONTINUE.

BUT YOU DO WONDER WHETHER OR NOT THE NEXT GUY THE NEXT MAN OR WOMAN IN CHARGE OF THAT OFFICE WILL CARE ENOUGH ABOUT PUBLIC CORRUPTION TO BRING ON SOME OF THE CASES OR WHETHER OR NOT THAFD OF THEY HAVE THE SAME INVESTMENT AND IT'S REALLY INTERESTING TO WATCH AND KIND OF UNFORTUNATE TO SEE THE POTENTIALLY GET CUT SHORT AND YOU WONDER HOW MANY POLITICIANS ARE PRIVATELY VERY HAPPY ABOUT THIS AND HOPING THIS MEANS THEY WILL NOT GET IN TROUBLE.

>> A LOT OF POLITICIANS THAT YOU ALL HAVE INTERVIEWED AT SOME POINT IN THE PAST CAUGHT UP HERE.

LET'S SWITCH GEARS TO STATE POLITICS.

RACHEL HINTON THIS WEEK GOVERNOR PRITZKER LEARNED AND TAUGHT US THAT THE BUDGET DEFICIT WENT FROM 5.5 BILLION TO 3 BILLION AND THE STATE WILL NOT NEED A TAX HIKE.

HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

>> THE ECONOMY OF THE STATE PERFORMED BETTER THAN EXPECTED.

THERE WAS AN INFLUX OF CASH THAT THE GOVERNOR'S ADMINISTRATION WERE NOT EXPECTING AND THEY DID NOT PLAN FOR AND IT HELPED THE STATE AND HELPED OTHERS AVOID MAKING DRASTIC CUTS OR HAVING TO RELY ON RAISING THE STATE'S INCOME TAX.

ALTHOUGH WHAT CUTS HE DOES DECIDE TO MAKE REMAIN TO BE SEEN.

HE WILL GIVE THIS BUDGET ADDRESS WEDNESDAY.

SO THE FINER DETAILS, THE FINE PRINT OF THIS REMAINS TO BE SEEN OR MIGHT BE WORKED OUT.

BUT FOR RIGHT NOW, IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE WE'RE ALL GOING TO FACE AN INCOME TAX INCREASE.

>> AND ACCORDING TO CONGRESSMAN KRISHNAMOORTHI THE STATE OF ILLINOIS IF THE STIMULUS PASSES WOULD GET $7 BILLION FOR ITS BUDGET.

HOW WOULD THAT BE ALLOCATED?

>> I WOULD ASSUME FOR THE BUDGET FIRST.

GIVEN THE CHANGES HERE AND THE BUDGET, THE MONEY THAT WAS THAT COMES FROM THE CIGARETTE TAX EARMARKED FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS WAS MOVED TOTALLY TOWARD DEALING WITH THE DEFICIT.

I WOULD ASSUME MOST OF THAT MONEY WOULD GO TOWARDS THIS AS WELL FIRST.

AND GOVERNOR PRITZKER AND OTHERS CAN FIGURE OUT WE CAN ALLOCATE THIS MUCH TO EDUCATION AND PUBLIC SAFETY.

>> AND THIS WEEK THE NEW SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE CHRIS WELCH TERM LIMITS ON SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE AND LAWMAKERS SLIGHT CHANGE AND A CHANGE IN HOW BILLS GET INTRODUCED TO COUNTERACT HOW IT'S WORKED FOR YEARS WHERE MADIGAN HAD ALMOST UNIVERSAL CONTROL OVER WHAT BILL GOT HEARD AND WHAT BILL DIED.

ARE THE CHANGES LIKELY TO HAVE AN IMPACT HOW BUSINESS GETS DONE?

>> THAT IS THE $64,000 QUESTION.

YOU HEARD REPUBLICANS SAY LOOK THIS IS WINDOW DRESSING IT DOESN'T MATTER IF OUR BILLS GET MOVED FROM RULES COMMITTEE IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY ARE GOING TO GET A VOTE OR A HEARING.

SO THIS MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY MEAN ANYTHING.

BUT IF IT'S JUST A SYMBOLIC CHANGE I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT, TOO.

BECAUSE AT LEAST SPEAKER WELCH IS SIGNALING IT IS A NEW ERA AND HE WILL DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY THAN FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER MADIGAN.

AND IT WAS NOT A MISTAKE THAT THE FIRST THING HE DID TO TERM LIMIT HIMSELF AS SPEAKER TO SAY I WILL NOT SERVE MORE THAN 10 YEARS AFTER MADIGAN SERVED MORE THAN 40 YEARS IN THE SAME SEAT.

I THINK THAT IT IS THE FIRST INDICATION THAT SPEAKER WELCH IS GOING TO TRY TO CHART HIS OWN COURSE.

AND HARD DECISIONS ARE YET TO COME ESPECIALLY NOW THAT IT LOOKS MAYBE THE BUDGET WILL BE A LITTLE BIT EASIER TO DEAL WITH.

YOU WON'T HAVE TO APPROVE A TAX HIKE PERHAPS.

BUT THE DEVIL IS GOING TO BE IN THE DETAILS THAT RACHEL WAS TALKING ABOUT.

IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO PUT ENOUGH VOTES TOGETHER FROM THE DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE SUPER MAJORITIES IN BOTH HOUSES TO VOTE FOR PAINFUL CUTS TO SOCIAL SERVICES WHICH MAKES UP THE BULK OF WHAT THE STATE COVERS WITH THE BUDGET.

MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A HONEYMOON BUT NOT THAT MUCH MORE.

>> A MAYBE SAY THERE ARE NO VEGETARIANS IN THE STEAKHOUSE AND SPEAKER WELCH WAS ONE OF MADIGAN'S GUYS AND HE SHOULD BE APPLAUDED FOR INSTITUTING TERM LIMITS.

BUT HE CAME TO POWER UNDER MADIGAN'S TOOT LING AND LETICIA RODARTE'S NOT LOSE -- MADIGAN BEHIND THE SCENES CAN STILL IN HIS WAY CONTROL THE ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC PARTY HE HAS NOT GIVEN UP THAT POST OR GIVEN UP OTHER POSTS FROM WHICH HE DRAWS POWER.

>> HE HAS BEEN PUTTING HIS FINGERS TOGETHER JUST LIKE THAT.

LET'S MOVE ON TO OTHER NEWS IN THE CITY WITH COVID.

CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY WILL NOT FOLLOW THE STATE'S PLAN TO OPEN VACCINES TO PEOPLE WITH PREEXISTING CONDITIONS.

FEDERAL DISASTER TEAMS ARE COMING TO HELP WITH THE VACCINATION EFFORT.

TEACHERS END THE STANDOFF OVER IN-CLASS LEARNING AND REMEMBERING KAREN LEWIS AND HER IMPACT ON CHICAGO'S LABOR MOVEMENT.

GREGORY PRATT, STATE ANNOUNCED THAT 10% OF RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN VACCINATED.

100,000 TODAY.

STARTING FEBRUARY 26, ALL FOLKS OVER 16 YEARS OLD WITH PREEXISTING CONDITIONS ARE ELIGIBLE.

WILL THERE BE ENOUGH VACCINE?

>> SHORT ANSWER, NO.

LONG ANSWER, YOU KNOW THEY ARE WORKING ON IT AND IF FAIRNESS WE BEAT THEM UP SOMETIMES BECAUSE WE BEAT UP THE STATE AND THE CITY BECAUSE WE WANT MORE WE WANT FASTER WE WANT TO GET BACK TO NORMAL IT IS REMARKABLE WHAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH.

THAT SAID THE THING IS A MESS IN A LOT OF WAYS THE REFRESHING THE BROWSER TO FIND APPOINTMENTS.

EVERYBODY DOING THE HUNGER GAMES.

IS PRETTY BAD.

BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF PROBLEMS.

THERE ARE CLINICS CANCELING APPOINTMENTS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T GET SHIPMENTS THAT THE THEY EXPECTED.

THAT IS AN ISSUE AND THERE'S REAL PROBLEMS.

SO BUT WILL THE GOVERNOR BE ABLE TO FULFILL THE DEMAND?

OF COURSE NOT.

WILL THEY BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE SOME OF IT?

OF COURSE AND THAT WILL CONTINUE AND HOPEFULLY AS MORE VACCINE GET AS PROVED AND COMES ON THE MARKET IT WILL GET BETTER.

>> IN CHICAGO MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT IS ADMITTING THEY DON'T BE ABLE TO FULFILL THE DEMAND FOR NEXT PHASE NOT ENOUGH VACCINE IS COMING AND THEY HAVE PROMISED CERTAIN AMOUNT OF VACCINES FOR TEACHERS AS PART OF THE AGREEMENT.

RACHEL HINTON, WHAT ABOUT IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND HISPANIC LATINO COMMUNITIES IT SEEMS THAT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE VACCINE ROLLOUT THEY HAVE LAGGED BEHIND AND ARE STILL LAGGING BEHIND?

>> YEAH.

I WOULD SAY THAT THAT'S STILL ACCURATE.

NOW THE I BELIEVE THE STATE AND THE CITY AND THE COUNTY THEY ARE ROLLING OUT EFFORTS TO PUSH PEOPLE IN THE BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES IN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY AND THE STATE TO GET THE VACCINE.

THEY ARE DOING VACCINE AWARENESS.

THERE ARE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS TO REACH OUT TO PEOPLE TO REALLY HELP THEM UNDERSTAND THE VACCINE WHY IT'S IMPORTANT AND WHY THEY SHOULD GET IT.

BUT JUST AS THERE IS A HUGE LAG IN TERMS OF OR RATHER A REAL DISCREPANCY BETWEEN SUPPLY AND DEMAND AND A REAL DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE COMMUNITIES THAT SHOULD BE GETTING IT VERSUS WHO IS GETTING IT.

BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN HIT AMAZINGLY HARD BY THE PANDEMIC.

AND YET, THEY ARE THE ONES WHO AREN'T RECEIVING THE VACCINE MAYBE SOME BY CHOICE AND MAYBE SOME NOT BY CHOICE BUT THAT IS A REAL ISSUE WE WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH.

>> AND AT THE SAME TIME FOR VALENTINE'S DAY WEEKEND MAYOR LIGHTFOOT ANNOUNCED LOOSENING OF THE RESTRICTIONS OF INDOOR DINING ALTHOUGH NOT ALL THE WAY TO 50% EVEN THOUGH CHICAGO BY STATE STANDARDS IS ELIGIBLE FOR THAT.

BEN BRADLEY WHY KEEP AN EXTRA ROUND OF RESTRICTIONS ON CHICAGO RESTAURANTS?

>> WELL, I THINK EVERYBODY FROM THE MAYOR TO THE GOVERNOR IS CONCERNED THAT WITH THE NEW VARIANTS THAT DESPITE POSITIVE NUMBERS FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW THAT WE COULD SEE A SPIKE.

LET'S NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THAT OUR DAILY NUMBER OF NEW COVID CASES OUR NUMBER OF HOSPITALIZATIONS, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE AT THE LOWEST NUMBER IN FOUR MONTHS.

THINK BACK TO MID-OCTOBER.

THAT'S WHEN OUR NUMBERS LAST LOOKED THIS GOOD.

BUT THE CONCERN IS CAN WE GET ENOUGH VACCINE OUT BEFORE THESE VARIANTS KICK IN?

AND I KNOW PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF HEARING THAT AND PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF HEARING WHAT ABOUT THE THANKSGIVING SYRACUSE AND THE CHRISTMAS SURGE?

OTHER PLACES DID SEE A SURGE.

WE DIDN'T.

PAT YOURSELVES ON THE BACK ILLINOIS RESIDENTS FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING.

BUT THIS IS THE ULTIMATE RACE AGAINST TIME, ISN'T IT?

AND WHILE SOME PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD BE IN PHASE FIVE WITH EVERYTHING OPEN BECAUSE WE HAVE TREATMENTS WE HAVE HOSPITAL SPACE THERE IS A VACCINE GOING OUT THERE.

I THINK ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE REALLY HESITANT AND CONCERNED TO JUST SAY ALREADY ILLINOIS LET'S PARTY LIKE IT'S 19 -- 2019.

>> LET'S PARTY LIKE IT'S 2020 BEFORE THE VIRUS HIT.

AND IT'S -20 AND THAT MIGHT HELP KEEPING PEOPLE INDOORS IF THE STATE DOES GO TO PHASE FIVE.

HEATHER CHERONE LET'S MOVE TO EDUCATION WHAT CLINCHED THE DEAL THIS WEEK BETWEEN C.T.U.

AND C.P.S.?

>> WELL, VACCINATIONS WAS ONE OF THE LAST STICKING POINTS.

THE CITY AGREED TO ACCELERATE THE PACE OF VACCINATIONS AND THEY CHANGED THE RULES THAT WOULD NOT REQUIRE TEACHERS TO EITHER FACE LOSING THEIR JOBS OR GOING BACK TO SCHOOL BEFORE BEING VACCINATED AND THAT WAS A CRUCIAL PART FOR THE UNION, TOO, AND THE CITY AGREED TO THE UNION'S REQUEST TO SET A METRIC CITYWIDE TO CLOSE SCHOOLS AGAIN.

BEFORE THAT THE CITY WANTED TO CLOSE INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS BASED ON INDIVIDUAL CASES AT EACH SCHOOL AND THERE WILL BE SOME.

THAT IS UNAVOIDABLE.

THE QUESTION IS: WHAT WILL BE USED TO CLOSE SCHOOLS IF THEY SEE SORT OF AN OUTBREAK?

THOSE TWO WERE VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES.

I THINK THERE WAS ALSO A SENSE FROM THE UNION SIDE THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN EVERYTHING THEY COULD FROM THE CITY SHORT OF A STRIKE WHICH WOULD HAVE OPENED UP A HOST OF OTHER PROBLEMS.

THIS THE UNION AGREED THAT THIS WAS THE BEST THEY COULD DO BUT IT WAS NOT A DEAL THAT THEY WERE OVERJOYED BY OR WERE THRILLED ABOUT.

AND IT'S REALLY LACKING AT THE END OF THE DISCUSSION AS OPPOSED AS THE START OF THE NEXT DISCUSSION REOPENING HIGH SCHOOL TO A HYBRID PROGRAM THE HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CLOSED FOR ALMOST A YEAR AND THAT IS WHAT IS COMING NEXT.

>> GREGORY PRATT DO YOU THINK HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WILL BE BACK?

BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT PART OF THIS PLAN.

WILL THEY BE BACK THIS YEAR?

>> THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION, I HAVE A STORY AND I TALK TO THE MAYOR AND C.T.U.

AND C.P.S.

PRESIDENT AND AT TIMES I FELT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO REACH A DEAL AND AT TIMES I FELT THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THESE PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO REACH A DEAL WITHOUT A BUNCH OF CONFLICT.

READ IT TO SEE THEIR COMMENTS.

IT'S HARD TO SAY.

BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF STRONG FEELINGS AND STRONG PERSONALITIES HERE.

AND THERE'S REALLY COMPLICATED ISSUES.

YOU WOULD HOPE THAT EVERYONE WOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH WHAT WE WENT THROUGH WHICH WAS A BRUTAL EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYBODY.

AND BE ABLE TO AVOID IT AND COMMUNICATE BETTER AND MORE OPENLY AND HONESTLY WITH EACH OTHER WITHOUT ALL OF THE DRAMA.

SO -- >> THAT'S TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR WITH THESE PARTIES.

BEN BRADLEY WE HAVE A FEW SECONDS LEFT, KAREN LEWIS' LEGACY?

WHAT IS HER LEGACY?

>> YOU KNOW I THINK SHE WAS SUCH A FIERCE VOCAL, POWERFUL ADVOCATE NOT ONLY FOR THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION BUT IN MANY REGARDS FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

YOU CAN QUARREL WITH ISSUES THAT YOU MAY NOT AGREE WITH HER ON.

BUT BOY, COULD SEE GIVE AN INTERVIEW.

BOY COULD SHE MAKE HER CASE AND THAT IS WHAT JOURNALISTS WILL MISS SO MUCH.

I MEAN, HERE IS A WOMAN WHO STOOD TOE-TO-TOE WITH RAHM EMANUEL AND THE FIFTH FLOOR AT CITY HALL WITH HIM IN FULL EXPLETIVE MODE AND SHE SAID NOPE.

NOT GOING TO BE BULLIED.

>> AND THERE WERE A FEW EXPLETIVES THROWN IN THERE, TOO.

AS A REPORTER IT WAS ALWAYS A FASCINATING STORY WHEN IT INVOLVED KAREN LEWIS AND RAHM EMANUEL AND THE TWO TOGETHER.

WE ARE OUT OF TIME.

THANKS TO HEATHER CHERONE, RACHEL HINTON, BEN BRADLEY AND GREGORY PRATT.

>> AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

JOIN US TOMORROW NIGHT AT 6:00 P.M. FOR "CHICAGO TONIGHT: LATINO VOICES" AND WE'RE BACK AT 7:00 P.M. NEXT WEEK AND NOW FOR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY, SAFE AND WARM.

AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.

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