[♪♪♪] >> 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... >> A LAST-MINUTE CHANGE OF COURSE.

THE MASK MANDATE FOR ILLINOIS SCHOOLS WILL END ON MONDAY WHEN THE MANDATE IS LIFTED FOR THE REST OF THE STATE.

GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER ANNOUNCED THE MOVE KEEPING IN STEP WITH CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION GUIDANCE AS THE ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT DECLINED TO HEAR PRITZKER'S CHALLENGE TO A LOWER COURT RULING AGAINST THE MANDATE WHILE LIFTING A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER SET BY THE LOWER COURT DECISION.

GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER INTERPRETS THIS TO MEAN HE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ISSUE A SIMILAR MASK ORDER IF NEEDED DOWN THE ROAD.

MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE GONE MASK OPTIONAL.

A MASK MANDATE IS IN PLACE FOR CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS PER A LABOR AGREEMENT C.P.S.

STRUCK WITH THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION.

>> ILLINOIS U.S.

SENATOR DICK DURBIN PROMISES A SWIFT SUPREME COURT CONFIRMATION PROCESS FOR KETANJI BROWN JACKSON.

JACKSON IS PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S PICK TO REPLACE STEPHEN BREYER ON THE HIGH COURT.

DURBIN IS CHAIR OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AND WILL LEAD THE CONFIRMATION PROCESS.

HE REACHED OUT TO HIS REPUBLICAN COUNTERPARTS ON THE COMMITTEE.

JACKSON WOULD BECOME THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN ON THE HIGH COURT.

>> SHE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY PERSON IN TERMS OF HER LIFE STORY AND HER PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE ON THE COURT.

SHE PUBLISHED 500 OPINIONS AS A JUDGE.

SO HER RECORD IS WELL-KNOWN AND WELL ESTABLISHED AND SHE HAS APPEARED BEFORE THE COMMITTEE FOR DIRECT QUESTIONING LAST YEAR AND SHE WAS APPROVED WITH A BIPARTISAN ROLL CALL.

WE ARE GOING TO START THE FORMAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE NOMINEE TODAY.

WE ARE HOPING TO MOVE HER TO A HEARING SOON WITHIN THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS AND THEN REPORT THAT TO THE SENATE FLOOR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

>> AND DURBIN MADE THE COMMENTS WHILE SPEAKING AT THE UKRAINIAN CULTURAL CENTER IN CHICAGO.

HE MET WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND PLEDGED TEMPORARY STATUS FOR UKRAINIAN ASYLUM SEEK HERS AND PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCED DIRECT SANCTIONS ON PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN WHICH DURBIN WAS IN FAVOR OF.

FORMER BEARS HEAD COACH MATT NAGY HAS NEW EMPLOYMENT.

HE WILL JOIN THE CHIEFS HIS OLD TEAM AS QUARTERBACK'S COACH AND SENIOR ASSISTANT.

IT REUNITES NAGY WITH ANDY REID.

HE WAS FIRED AFTER A 6-11 SEASON AND FOUR YEARS LEADING THE BEARS INCLUDING TWO PLAYOFF APPEARANCES BUT NO VICTORIES.

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

JOINING US ARE TAYLOR AVERY OF THE "CHICAGO SUN-TIMES".

GREG PRATT OF THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE".

MIKE LOWE OF WGN-TV NEWS AND CLARENCE PACE OF THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE".

WE THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

AND LET'S GET TO IT WITH THE NEWS IN UKRAINE, MIKE LOWE PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCES DIRECT SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN TODAY FOLLOWING COURSE WITH WHAT THE EU IS DOING DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHETHER THIS WILL HAVE A DETERRENCE AT ALL?

>> EVENTUALLY THIS WILL HIT HIM WHERE IT HURTS IN THE POCKETBOOK.

THESE ARE INTENDED TO GO DIRECTLY AT HIM PERSONALLY AND A FEW MEMBERS OF THE SENIOR LEADERSHIP IN RUSSIA.

THERE'S THOUGHT THAT WELL, WHAT GOOD DO SANCTIONS DO WHEN YOU HEAR CHECK BACK WITH ME IN A MONTH?

BUT WHEN THERE IS A WAR YOU KNOW, BEING WAGED RIGHT NOW AND BOMBS ARE FALLING, BUT THIS IS PART WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID THAT THE UNITED STATES WILL NOT BE ENGAGED IN A CONFLICT WITH RUSSIA IN UKRAINE.

THAT WILL CHANGE, OF COURSE, IF FOR BY DESIGN OR BY MISSTEP THE WAR SPILLS INTO NATO TERRITORY.

BUT RIGHT NOW, THE ONLY THING THE UNITED STATES CAN DO IS PROVIDE ASSISTANCE THROUGH DEFENSE AID TO THE UKRAINIAN FORCES AND TO IMPOSE THE SANCTIONS.

AND THEY STILL HAVE A COUPLE CARDS LEFT TO PLAY IN TERMS OF SANCTIONS BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST STRICT MOVES THAT THE UNITED STATES COULD MAKE.

>> AND CLARENCE PACE THIS HAPPENS AS THE LATEST REPORTING OUT OF UKRAINE IS THAT THE CAPITAL CITY OF KYIV COULD FALL ANY HOUR ANY DAY.

IN WASHINGTON IS IT A TRAGIC FAIT ACCOMPLI THE SACKING OF THE CAPITAL BY THE RUSSIANS IS GOING TO HAPPEN?

>> WELL, THAT IS NOT QUITE A FAIT ACCOMPLI BUT UNDERSTAND BELIEVE CONSIDERING HOW OUT GUNNED THE UKRAINIANS ARE.

THE ONE THING IN THEIR FAVOR IS THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE.

THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH INVASION BEFORE.

THEY ARE A RESILIENT COUNTRY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPECTED TO POSSIBLY RENDER SURPRISES TO PRESIDENT PUTIN.

I DON'T WANT TO SOUND TOO OPTIMISTIC OR GENERATE MORE UNFOUNDED RUMORS.

BUT EARLY INTELLIGENCE SAID THAT THE RUSSIANS WOULD HAVE DONE INTO KYIV BY NOW.

THERE'S INDICATIONS THAT THE RESISTANCE IS SOME DEGREE HOLDING THEM BACK.

AND I ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT THE UKRAINIANS HAVE HAD DEMOCRACY FOR 20 YEARS AND THE RUSSIANS HAVE NOT HAD MUCH AT ALL.

THE UKRAINIANS APPRECIATE VALUE OF SELF GOVERNANCE AND RESISTANCE TO THE RUSSIANS OF A LONG, LONG HISTORY.

SO I DON'T WANT TO SAY IT IS A FAIT ACCOMPLI.

>> AND THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE ZELENSKYY IN KYIV VOWING TO KEEP FIGHTING.

MIKE LOWE YOU SPOKE WITH UKRAINIAN AMERICANS IN CHICAGO WHAT WERE THEY TELL YOU?

>> EVERYONE IS CONCERNED.

THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ARE IN UKRAINE.

IN FACT LAST NIGHT WE GOT VIDEO INTO WGN-TV NEWSROOM FROM A WOMAN WHO HAS A COUSIN IN CHICAGO AND SHE WAS TRYING TO GET TO A BOMB SHELTER.

THE PICTURES WE'RE SEEING ARE HEARTBREAKING OF FATHERS TELLING THEIR FAMILIES, YOU KNOW, GOOD-BYE AND THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE UP ARMS TODAY.

WE HAD THIS HARROWING BULLETIN COME ACROSS SAYING THE UKRAINE GOVERNMENT PASSED OUT 18,000 MACHINE GUNS TO CITIZENS IN ORDER TO DEFEND THE CAPITOL AND THEY ARE PEOPLE TO MAKE MOLOTOV COCKTAILS IF THEY HAVE TO DEFEND THE CAPITAL AGAINST RUSSIAN FORCES.

SO AS YOU SAID, THIS REVERBERATES AROUND THE WORLD AND CERTAINLY HERE IN CHICAGO WHERE THERE IS A LARGE UKRAINIAN AMERICAN POPULATION.

A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THIS.

>> REVERBERATES POLITICALLY.

GREG PRATT ALL MEMBERS OF THE ILLINOIS CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION CONDEMNED PUTIN EXCEPT FOR REPUBLICAN MARY MILLER WHO HAD MORE TEPID STATEMENTS AND OFFERED MORE BLAME TO U.S. PRESIDENT BIDEN.

IS THE G.O.P.

FRACTURED ON THEIR OPPOSITION HERE?

>> YES, PROBABLY.

THEY ARE BEHOLDEN TO TRUMP IN A LOT OF WAYS AND PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS ALL SORTS OF WEIRD THINGS ABOUT PUTIN THAT GOES AGAINST THE FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT.

THERE IS AN ELEMENT OF THAT.

>> AND GREG PRATT, I'M TOLD YOU HAVE TIES TO THE SITUATION AS WELL, EXPLAIN THAT FOR US?

>> WELL, YOU KNOW, MY GIRLFRIEND WITH UKRAINIAN TIES IT IS UNFORTUNATE.

IT IS UNFORTUNATE TO SEE BECAUSE YOU HAVE THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY RESILIENT AND TOUGH AND THEY ARE LIVING THEIR LIVES AND UP UNTIL RECENTLY THEY WERE TRYING TO MAINTAIN CALM AND ORDER.

AND NOW THEY ARE IN A POSITION WHERE THEY ARE BEING INVADED AND TRYING TO REPELL THE INVADERS AND WHAT RUSSIA SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT I WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT IF I WAS RUSSIA IS AN INSURGENCY.

AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO QUASH PEOPLE ARE THEY GOING TO SAY OK THESE PEOPLE ARE HERE SO WE'RE GOING TO LIVE WITH THAT?

IN IRAQ AND AS COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN FINDING OUT THROUGHOUT HISTORY, IT'S NOT THAT EASY.

>> CERTAINLY THE OPEN QUESTION.

WHAT HAPPENS INDEED IF THAT DOES HAPPEN?

CLARENCE PACE WHAT DO YOU THINK THE REVERBERATIONS WILL BE BACK HERE IN THE UNITED STATES WHATEVER HAPPENS ECONOMICALLY, POLITICALLY, ANYTHING?

>> WELL, THEY ARE ALREADY HAPPENING.

I WILL ADD THE UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN CHICAGO ABOUT 50,000 PEOPLE AT THE LAST COUNT I SAW THOSE WHO IDENTIFY AS UKRAINIAN AND SO MANY IN COMMON POSITIONS.

I HAD JUST GOOGLE UP UKRAINIAN AMERICANS YOU WILL BE QUITE SURPRISED [INAUDIBLE] MIKE DITKA THE CHICAGO BEARS HERO UKRAINIAN.

MILLION LA KUNIS, ACTOR.

Mr. SPOCK HALF UKRAINIAN AND THEY HAVE A LITTLE PLACE IN THE AMERICAN CRAZY QUILT.

AND THEY ARE VERY MUCH PROUD OF THEIR BACKGROUND BUT THEY ALSO VERY MUCH WELL ASSIMILATED AMERICANS WHO ARE MAKING THEMSELVES HEARD.

DICK DURBIN CALLED FOR TOUGHER SANCTIONS AGAINST UKRAINE YOU WILL SEE THAT CALL COMING FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE.

>> AND ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN KINZINGER TODAY CALLING FOR SOME NATO ACTION.

SOMEONE WANTED TO JUMP IN.

>> TAYLOR.

>> WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BACK AT HOME HOW THIS MAY AFFECT THE U.S., RUSSIA HACKING IN UKRAINE PUSHED THE PRICE OF OIL TO OVER $100 A BARREL WHICH IS THE FIRST TIME THAT HAPPENED SINCE 2014.

ALSO RUSSIA PRODUCES 12% OF THE WORLD'S OIL AND 17% OF ITS NATURAL GAS WHICH MAKES IT THE SECOND OR THIRD HIGHEST PRODUCERS.

THERE IS A LOT OF QUESTIONS IN THE U.S. HOW THIS IS GOING TO AFFECT ALREADY HIGH GAS PRICES WITH THE INFLATION IS AT THIS POINT.

>> AND PRESIDENT BIDEN IS ADDRESSED THAT SAYING HE WANTED TO LOOK FOR WAYS TO MITIGATE THE PAIN AT THE PUMP.

TAYLOR AVERY LET'S COME BACK LOCAL, THE MASK MANDATE IN ILLINOIS AND IN CHICAGO IS GOING TO LIFT ON MONDAY.

IS THE STATE READY FOR THIS IS THIS.

>> I THINK THERE IS A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER THE STATE IS READY FOR THIS.

PRITZKER HAS SAID THAT AND ACCORDING TO THE C.D.C.

'S NEWEST GUIDANCE MUCH OF THE STATE FALLS WITHIN THESE NEW LEVELS THAT SHOW THAT THE STATE IS READY TO NOT HAVE MASKS WORN WITH, I THINK HOSPITAL LEVEL AND CURRENT TRANSMISSION RATES.

>> AND YOU SAW THE STATE SUPREME COURT RULING JUST LATE THIS EVENING TAYLOR DOES THAT MEAN THAT IS IT OFFICIALLY FOR ANY SCHOOL MASK MANDATES AND ALL DISTRICTS CAN GO OPTIONAL IF THEY WANT?

>> CURRENTLY I THINK THERE'S NO LEGAL STANDING TO HAVE MASK MANDATES EXCEPT FOR LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

BUT I THINK PRITZKER HAS SAID THAT HE IS INTENDING TO STILL PUSH TO HAVE THE MASK MANDATE OR THE ABILITY TO HAVE A MASK MANDATE THROUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER WE'LL SEE HOW THAT PLAYS OUT IN THE LOWER COURT.

>> AND HE IS SAYING SHOULD CASES RISE AGAIN HE BELIEVES HE STILL HAS THAT EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY TO REINSTITUTE A MASK MANDATE.

>> BACK IN CHICAGO GREG PRATT AN ARBITRATOR HANDED LORI LIGHTFOOT A VICTORY WITH THE FOP.

SAYING THAT THE FOP DOES NEED TO COMPLY WITH THE CITY'S VAX MANDATE OR UPLOADING THEIR VAX STATUS TO THE PORTAL.

EXPLAIN THE ARBITRATOR'S DECISION.

>> THE MAYOR SAID WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A RULE THAT YOU NEED TO GET VACCINATED AND IF YOU DON'T YOU CAN'T WORK HERE AND THE UNION SAID NO THEY DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE THAT RULE AND THE ARBITRATOR SAID YEAH THEY DO.

AND NOW THEY HAVE TO GET VACCINATED AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE HAPPIEST WALKS THE MAYOR HAS DONE INTO A CITY COUNCIL PRESSROOM IN QUITE A WHILE.

SHE WAS PLEASED WITH THE DECISION AND VERY EXCITED BECAUSE THE POLITICAL MOMENT RIGHT NOW IS PRO VACCINE, ANTIMASK WHY YOU SEE GOVERNORS STARTING WITH THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY, DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS TAKING THIS WAVE AGAINST MASKS.

AND NOW YOU HAVE TO HOPE THAT IT DOESN'T LEAD TO A SPIKE.

BUT PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF COVID RIGHT NOW.

AND WHAT THAT SAYS ABOUT US I DON'T KNOW.

BUT PEOPLE ARE TIRED AND READY TO GET BACK TO SOME SORT OF NORMALCY.

>> MIKE LOWE AS I UNDERSTAND RIGHT NOW THERE'S A QUARTER OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT IS NOT COMPLYING THE FOP PRESIDENT JOHN CATANZARA SAYING HOLD THE LINE IT LOOKS LIKE HE IS OUT OF LEGAL OPTIONS.

WHAT HAPPENS?

IS THE CITY GOING TO STOP PAYING THOUSANDS OF POLICE OFFICERS?

OR ARE THEY GOING TO START TO COMPLY?

>> IT WAS ABOUT 2800 OFFICERS OUT OF MORE THAN 11,000 OR 12,000 THAT STILL HAVE YET TO ENTER THEIR INFORMATION INTO THE CITY PORTAL.

AND THE MAYOR WAS ASKED AT THAT NEWS CONFERENCE WHAT THE FOP SHOULD DO?

AND WAS ASKED SHOULD THEY LAY DOWN THEIR SWORDS AND ACCEPT THIS IS A LOSS FOR THEIR CAUSE?

AND THE MAYOR SAID I HAVE NO IDEA AND I WOULD NEVER TRY TO PREDICT WHAT THE FOP WOULD DO.

LATER JOHN CATANZARA SAID WHAT THE COURT RULING AFFIRMED IN HIS MIND THAT CHICAGO IS BEING RULED BY A DICTATOR.

HE IS GOING TO HOLD THE LINE.

I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE KIND OF A STARING CONTEST TO SEE WHO BLINKS.

THESE ARE OFFICERS WHO HAVE FAMILIES THAT DON'T WANT TO SEE THEIR LIVELIHOODS GO DOWN THE DRAIN.

THEY FOUGHT THE FIGHT AND LOST.

I BELIEVE MOST WILL CONCEDE THAT AND TRY TO JEFFREY GETTLEMAN THE VACCINE AND GET THEIR INFORMATION.

THERE MAY BE HOLDOUTS.

BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S LIKELY WE'LL SEE 3,000, 2800 OFFICERS OR WHATEVER THE NUMBER IS RIGHT NOW, WALK AWAY FROM THEIR JOBS OVER THIS.

EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY NOT LIKE IT.

THEY FOUGHT AND THEY LOST.

>> AND CLARENCE PACE THIS COMES AS THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION REVISED THEIR INDOOR MASKING GUIDANCE.

GREG PRATT BROUGHT UP THE SCENARIO THAT DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS LIKE GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER ARE DOING AWAY WITH THE MASK MANDATE IS THERE POLITICAL PRESSURE ON THIS DECISION AS MIDTERM AS APPROACH AND DEMOCRATS SEE THEIR POLLING NOT DOING SO WELL?

>> POLITICAL PRESSURE IN CHICAGO I'M SHOCKED JUST CHOCKED.

YES THERE IS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING FROM COVID FATIGUE, MASK FATIGUE, TIRED OF THE RULES AND ALL THIS.

MOSTLY THE STRONGEST ELEMENT ARE PARENTS WHO ALONG WITH THEIR KIDS HAVE GONE THROUGH A LOT AND THEY FEEL LIKE WHEN IS IT GOING TO END.

AND YOU CAN SEE EVIDENCE THAT IT IS NOT AS SERIOUS AS IT USED TO BE AND EVERYBODY IS IMPATIENT.

THE POLITICIANS RESPOND TO THAT AND THE MEDICAL PERSONNEL BLESS THEIR HEARTS THEY ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE SCHOLARS THEY WANT TO BE EXTRA, EXTRA CAREFUL.

WE HAVE TO HIT A HAPPY BALANCE AND THAT IS WHERE DEMOCRACY HAS TO WORK.

>> PROBABLY A TUG OF WAR THERE.

LET'S MOVE TO CITY COUNCIL NEWS.

COUNCIL DID NOT VOTE ON THE MAYOR'S CONTROVERSIAL GANG ASSET FORFEITURE ORDINANCE.

LOOK WHAT THE MAYOR SAID ABOUT OPPOSITION TO HER PROPOSAL.

>> SYMPATHY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE LITERALLY SPILLING BLOOD ON OUR STREETS EVERY SINGLE DAY IS HARD FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND OR FATHOM.

AND THE NOTION THAT SOMEHOW THIS ORDINANCE WON'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE OR I'VE HEARD THAT IT WILL MAKE MATTERS WORSE TELL THAT TO THE PEOPLE LIVING IN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT THEY ARE TERRIFIED, TERRIFIED TO COME OUT OF THEIR HOMES, LIVE A NORMAL LIFE, BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF GANG VIOLENCE.

>> GREG PRATT IT'S UNUSUAL FOR AN ORDINANCE TO PASS A CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE AND THEN NOT GARNER THE VOTES TO PASS CITY COUNCIL.

THIS DELAY HERE, MEANS THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE VOTED ON.

DOES IT MEAN SHE DOES NOT HAVE THE VOTES AND IT'S DOA FOR GOOD?

>> I DON'T THINK IT'S DOA FOR GOOD BUT THEY DIDN'T FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THEY HAD THE VOTES THAT DAY.

THEY WILL PROBABLY GET THE VOTES TOGETHER NARROWLY, THE POLITICAL MOMENT IS ABOUT CRIME AND PERSON ARE CONCERNED ABOUT CRIME AND IT'S SKEPTICAL THIS WILL HAVE A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON CRIME, IT'S GOING TO BE HARD FOR A LOT OF THE ALDERMEN TO JUSTIFY WHEN EVERYTHING IS GOING ON AND PEOPLE SAY WHY DIDN'T YOU VOTE FOR THIS AND THAT?

IT WILL BE CLOSE.

BUT I WOULD NOT COUNT THE MAYOR OUT ON THIS ONE.

>> AND THERE'S OPPOSITION FROM CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS AND THE FOP AND JOHN CATANZARA FOR DIFFERENT REASONS.

A TENSE PERSONAL EXCHANGE THAT HAPPENED IN SPRINGFIELD BETWEEN TWO LAWMAKERS OVER MASKERRING UP IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

TAYLOR AVERY TELL US WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT WENT ON.

>> LAST WEEK, REPRESENTATIVE LAKESIA COLLINS MOVED -- INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION TO REMOVE NINE REPUBLICAN HOUSE MEMBERS WHO WERE REFUSING TO WEAR A MASK.

AND SHE NAMED REPRESENTATIVE STEVEN REICK WHO WAS LATER REMOVED FROM THE RESOLUTION THAT GOT VOTED ON AND HAD THOSE NINE MEMBERS REMOVED.

BUT HE WAS OFFENDED BY BEING NAMED IN THAT AND SO AFTER THE SESSION WAS OVER HE WENT UP TO REPRESENTATIVE COLLINS AND REPORTEDLY STUCK HIS FINGER IN HER FACE AND SAID YOU KNOW, KEEP MY NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH.

AND SO HE TRIED TO APOLOGIZE TO HER 10 MINUTES AFTER IT HAPPENED BUT SHE WAS NOT READY TO RECEIVE THAT APOLOGY.

AND AFTER ANOTHER REPRESENTATIVE SEPTEMBER A LETTER TO REPRESENTATIVE STEVEN REICK HE APOLOGIZED PUBLICLY ON THE FLOOR ON TUESDAY AFTER REPRESENTATIVE COLLINS HAD THIS VERY DIFFICULT SPEECH ABOUT HOW HIS ACTIONS TOWARDS HER TRIGGERED HER TO A DIFFICULT PAST THAT SHE HAS EXPERIENCED.

AND THEN RIGHT AFTER THAT, THEY VOTED TO REMOVE THREE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS TWO OF WHICH HAD BEEN REMOVED THE WEEK BEFORE FOR STILL WANTING THE MASK REQUIREMENT IN THE HOUSE.

>> A LOT OF BITTERNESS AND THERE WAS AN EXPLETIVE IN THE EXCHANGE.

WE APPRECIATE YOU WITHHOLDING THAT FROM THIS PROGRAM.

WHEN THE STATE MASK MANDATE LIFTS DOES THAT MEAN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY A MANDATE WILL LIFT?

>> THERE HASN'T BEEN NEWS ON THAT SO FAR AND I THINK A LOT OF THE REPRESENTATIVES ARE YOU KNOW, NOT REPRESENTATIVES BUT REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS EVERYONE IS WAITING TO HEAR.

SO NO WORD YET BUT I'M SURE THAT THERE WILL BE A LOT OF PRESSURE TO REMOVE THAT ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE'S BEEN THE WHOLE STATE WON'T BE WEARING -- MOST OF THE STATE WON'T BE WEARING MASKS INDOORS ON MONDAY.

>> SAVE FOR CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS AND C.P.S.

MIKE LOWE LET'S MOVE TO ANOTHER FEDERAL CASE TALKING ABOUT A FEDERAL CASE INVOLVING A POLITICIAN EVERY WEEK AND THIS IS SENATOR TOM CULLERTON BLEEDING GUILTY TO EMBAEZ -- PLEADING GUILTY TO EMBEZZLEMENT.

>> HE IS A MEMBER OF THE ONE OF THE FOREMOST POLITICAL DYNASTIES IN ILLINOIS.

A STATE SENATOR WHO WAS CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING.

HE DECIDED TO PLEAD GUILTY TO THOSE CHARGES.

AND BECAUSE OF THAT HAD TO RESIGN HIS SEAT IMMEDIATELY.

THIS IS AN INTERESTING CASE ALSO BECAUSE IT COMES ON THE HEELS OF ANOTHER POLITICAL DYNASTY THAT HAS FALLEN IN THIS CORRUPTION RENEWED SENSE OF GOING AFTER CORRUPTION IN POLITICS IN ILLINOIS.

PATRICK DALEY THOMPSON WAS CONVICTED OF CHEATING ON HIS TAX AND LYING ABOUT IT TO FEDERAL AGENTS.

SO WE'RE SEEING A REAL KIND OF CLAMPING DOWN ON THIS KIND OF CORRUPT ACTIVITY AND CULLERTON PLEADED GUILTY.

>> YOU MENTIONED TWO DYNASTIES IN TWO WEEKS WITH CERTAIN MEMBERS.

LET'S NATIONAL PRESIDENT BIDEN NOMINATED KETANJI BROWN JACKSON TO THE SUPREME COURT TODAY.

HERE IS WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT HER HISTORIC NOMINATION.

>> IF I'M FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE CONFIRMED AS THE NEXT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, I CAN ONLY HOPE THAT MY LIFE AND CAREER, MY LOVE OF THIS COUNTRY AND THE CONSTITUTION, AND MY COMMITMENT TO UPHOLDING THE RULE OF LAW AND THE SACRED PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH THIS GREAT NATION WAS FOUNDED, WILL INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS.

>> AND CLARENCE PACE AS WE MENTIONED, IT IS ILLINOIS SENATOR DICK DURBIN'S JOB TO SHUTTLE HER THROUGH THE CONFIRMATION PROCESS.

DO YOU EXPECT A BUMPY ROAD AHEAD OR SWIFT CONFIRMATION?

>> I EXPECT OPPOSITION FROM THE USUAL SUSPECTS, REALLY CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS.

EVERY SINCE BIDEN SAID HE WAS LOOKING FOR A BLACK WOMAN AS IF THERE IS A CRIME.

KETANJI BROWN JACKSON IS A VERY IMPRESSIVE WOMAN.

I'VE KNOWN HER BEFORE SHE WAS NOMINATED.

EVERYTHING I HEAR ABOUT HER TELLS ME THE REPUBLICANS BETTER BE CAREFUL THEY MAY OVERDO IT THE WAY DEMOCRATS DID GOING AFTER KAVANAUGH AND IT COST THEM IN THE NEXT MIDTERM.

>> THERE HAVE BEEN STATEMENTS FROM REPUBLICANNING SIGNALING THAT PERHAPS IT WON'T BE AS CONTENTIOUS AS KAVANAUGH HEARINGS BUT THEY INTEND TO DO DUE DILIGENCE.

GREG PRATT IN THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S RACE, ALEXA JAMES HAS BEEN SWEEP -- ALEXI GIANNOULIAS HAS BEEN SWEEPING UP THE ENDORSEMENTS UNTIL JESSE WHITEN DORSED ANNA VALENCIA AND PRITZKER FOLLOWED SUIT.

DOES THIS MAKE HER THE FRONTRUNNER IN YOUR EYES?

>> SHE IS NOT THE FRONTRUNNER BUT SHE IS NOT DEAD IN THE WATER ANYMORE.

SHE SURVIVED THE ONSLAUGHT OF ALEXI GIANNOULIAS TRYING TO BULLY HER OUT BY ANNOUNCING EVERY ENDORSEMENT THAT HE CAN.

AND SHE STUCK AROUND.

THE THING ABOUT POLITICS YOU SEE ENDORSEMENTS GET BANDIED AROUND AND MOST OF THE TIME THEY DON'T MEAN A THING.

JESSTY WHITE IS A SIGNIFICANT ENDORSER FOR HIS OWN POSITION.

SHE HAS NEW LIFE AND NEW ENERGY AND WHETHER SHE IS ABLE TO CAPITALIZE ON IT IS UNCLEAR.

ALEXI GIANNOULIAS HAS MORE MONEY WHICH IS IMPORTANT.

THAT'S THE MORE IMPRESSIVE PART HIS ENDORSEMENTS WHICH WHATEVER, BUT HE HAS FOUR TIMES AS MUCH MONEY AS SHE DOES.

IF SHE CAN CLOSE THAT GAP AND JESSE WHITE HELPS HER WITH THE CONSTITUENCY AND SUPPORTERS AND POPULARITY, IT IS A REAL RACE.

>> AND MAYBE THOSE ENDORSEMENTS BRING MORE MONEY.

WE HAVE A FEW SECONDS LEFT.

TAYLOR AVERY TOM DEVORE DOWN STATE LAWYER NOW RUNNING FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.

MORE ABOUT HIM?

>> HE ACTUALLY WAS ORIGINALLY PREVIOUSLY RUNNING FOREVER JUDGE IN THE STATE'S FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT COURT BEFORE SWITCHING RACES WHICH HE DID WHILE ANNOUNCED IT ON FACEBOOK MONDAY NIGHT.

HE WILL BE UP AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ATTORNEY FOR THE G.O.P.

NOMINATION.

AND KIM IS A PART OF THIS SLATE OF STATE-WIDE CANDIDATES AND HE IS THE ONE WHO IS BEHIND THE LAWSUIT THAT WE JUST SAW IN THE SUPREME COURT.

>> THE LAWSUIT THAT PRITZKER TOOK TO THE SUPREME COURT.

WE ARE OUT OF TIME.

SO OUR THANKS TO TAYLOR AVERY, GREG PRATT, MIKE LOWE AND CLARENCE PACE.

AND THAT IS OUR SHOW.

JOIN US NEXT WEEK FOR "CHICAGO TONIGHT" ALL WEEK.

AND NOW FOR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.