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

PARIS SCHUTZ HAS THE EVENING OFF.

WE WILL BE JOINED BY OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" GUESTS IN JUST A MOMENT BUT FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES... >> AN IMMUNITY BOOST FOR BABIES AND TODDLERS.

THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION HAS GIVEN THE ALL CLEAR FOR THE YOUNGEST AMONG US TO RECEIVE A CORONAVIRUS VACCINE.

THE F.D.A.

'S VOTE AUTHORIZED PFIZER AND MODERNA VACCINES FOR CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS SIX MONTHS THROUGH AGE FOUR.

OLDER KIDS HAD BEEN ELIGIBLE AS THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT HEALTH CAUTIONS ANYONE WITH COVID LIKE SYMPTOMS TO REFRAIN FROM FAMILY GATHERINGS FOR THE FATHER'S DAY AND JUNETEENTH HOLIDAYS.

THERE WAS A 10% UPTICK OF CASES AFTER MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND.

CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY JUST FELL FROM HIGH TO MEDIUM RISK OF COVID TRANSITION.

>> FORMER CONGRESSMAN LUIS GUTIERREZ IS BACK IN CHICAGO HE HAS COME OUT OF RETIREMENT IN PUERTO RICO TO LEAD A NEW NATIONAL ORGANIZATION.

OUR NATION'S FUTURE.

HE SAYS ITS MISSION TO AMODERNIZE THE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM.

>> OUR ECONOMIC SUCCESS DEPENDS ON IMMIGRATION SYSTEM THAT IS AS DEPENDABLE AS THE IMMIGRANTS ARE.

TODAY, 9.2 MILLION GREEN CARDHOLDERS ARE ELIGIBLE TO BECOME U.S. CITIZENS.

THINK ABOUT THAT A MOMENT.

9.2 MILLION.

>> GUTIERREZ SAYS THE GOAL IS TO HELP ONE MILLION OF THESE PERMANENT RESIDENTS TO BECOME NATURALIZED CITIZENS AND THEREFORE VOTERS.

THIS MONTH MARKS THE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS PROGRAM.

A FEDERAL JUDGE BLKED DACA FROM EXPANDING.

>> CHICAGO'S PUBLIC POOLS WILL NOT OPEN UNTIL JULY 5TH BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH LIFEGUARDS TO STAFF THEM.

THE BEACHES ARE OPEN.

THE PARK DISTRICT IS OFFERING A BONUS TO FILL THE VACANCIES.

YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK CPD BEACHES.COM.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WARNS THROUGH TOMORROW AFTERNOON HIGH WAVES COULD MAKE SWIMMING AT AREA LAKE MICHIGAN BEACHES LIFE-THREATENING.

AND MONDAY IS A FEDERAL HOLIDAY IN HONOR THE JUNETEENTH MARKING THE END OF SLAVERY THAT U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICES INCLUDING STATE DRIVERS, VEHICLE FACILITIES WILL BE CLOSED.

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

JOINING US ARE JOE CAHILL, COLUMNIST AND ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR AT CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS.

JEREMY GORNER STATE HOUSE REPORTER NOT "CHICAGO TRIBUNE".

JACOBY COCHRAN WRITER, EDUCATOR AND HOST OF A POTTED PODCAST.

AND HANNAH MEISEL NPR ILLINOIS I WILL.

>> WE HAVE 11 DAYS UNTIL THE PRIMARY.

START AT THE TOP OF THE BALLOT WHERE THERE IS A HOT CONTEST FOR THE G.O.P.

NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR.

HANNAH, I WILL GO TO GO.

YOU HAVE HAD SEVERAL POLLS COME OUT IS THIS RACE ALL BUT DECIDED?

>> WE IN THE LAST WEEK STARTING WITH A "CHICAGO SUN-TIMES" POLL THAT CAME OUT, WE HAVE SEEN SEVERAL INDICATING THAT DOWN STATE DARREN BAILEY HAS PULLED FAR AHEAD OF AURORA MAYOR RICHARD IRVIN.

HE IS THE CANDIDATE THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SO MANY TIMES ON SHOWS LIKE THIS BEING FUNDED BY ONE OF THE ILLINOIS' RICHEST MEN, KEN GRIFFIN OWNER OF CITADEL SECURITIES.

KIND OF WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE STANDARD BEARER OF REPUBLICAN PARTY HE AND THE REST OF THE REPUBLICAN SLATE THAT HE IS RUNNING WITH AND SHARING RESOURCES WITH, BUT DARREN BAILEY HE IS A CONSERVATIVE AND HE DID HAVE TWO YEARS TO AN ADVANTAGE OF GETTING HIS NAME OUT THERE WHEN HE WAS PUBLIC ABOUT OPPOSING GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER'S COVID RESTRICTIONS.

AND THIS IS A PERSON WHO HAS ALIGNED HIMSELF WITH KIND OF THE TRUMP WING OF THE PARTY.

AND HE HAS BEEN HINTING FOR WEEKS NOW THAT HE MIGHT GET ENDORSED THE BY DONALD TRUMP AND YESTERDAY MARY MILLER WHO IS DOWN STATE CONGRESSWOMAN VERY, VERY CONSERVATIVE, SHE AND RODNEY DAVIS ARE LOCKED IN A PRIMARY BATTLE TO FOR THE 15TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

MARY MILLER'S CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCED SHE WOULD HAVE A RALLY A TRUMP RALLY BASICALLY IN SUPPORT OF HER BUT CERTAINLY DARREN BAILEY IS GOING TO BE THERE AND WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

>> DOES IT HAVE THE ENDORSEMENT, YET, THOUGH HE WANTS IT.

MAY NOT NEED IT IF YOU BELIEVE THE POLLS THAT PUT HIM SO FAR AHEAD.

>> IS THIS A TWO-WAY RACE BETWEEN RICHARD IRVIN AND STATE SENATOR DARREN BAILEY AT THIS POINT?

WHAT ABOUT PAUL SHIP.

SULLIVAN'S CAMPAIGN SAYS HE IS SURGING?

>> IF YOU LOOK AT PAUL SHIP, PROSECUTING SADDAM HUSSEIN ARE GOOD CREDENTIALS.

BASED ON THE POLLS HE IS DOING POORLY COMPARED TO RICHARD IRVIN, DARREN BAILEY, JESSE SULLIVAN.

AND KIND OF TO HANNAH'S POINT, TOO, WHAT WE'RE SEEING WITH DARREN BAILEY PERHAPS WITH THESE RECENT POLL NUMBERS IT REALLY SPEAKS A LOT TO THE DIRECTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOT JUST IN ILLINOIS BUT NATIONALLY.

WE'VE SEEN RACES ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN OTHER PRIMARY ELECTIONS WHERE TRUMP-BACKED CANDIDATES SO FAR HAVE DONE PRETTY WELL EVEN IN 2022.

AND YOU KNOW PERHAPS THE SAME COULD BE SAID YOU KNOW FOR DARREN BAILEY.

PERHAPS THAT COULD BE THE MOTIVATION BEHIND THIS.

NOW, HANNAH WAS TALKING ABOUT THE CONGRESSIONAL RACE DOWN STATE BETWEEN MARY MILLER AND RODNEY DAVIS.

AND OBVIOUSLY MARY MILLER HAS TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENT SHE HAS BEEN TRAVELING AROUND THE STATE A LOT LATELY WITH DARREN BAILEY.

AND SO IF YOU USE THAT RACE MILLER AND DAVIS AS A BAROMETER IT'S GOING TO COME DOWN WHO CAN OUT TRUMP THE OTHER.

BOTH ARE SUPPORTERS OF DONALD TRUMP.

MARY MILLER CRITICIZED RODNEY DAVIS BASICALLY BRANDING HIM AS A FAKE REPUBLICAN.

AND DAVIS BASICALLY SAYING SHE IS RUNNING A BASEMENT CAMPAIGN AND IS DEPENDING TOO MUCH ON TRUMP ENDORSEMENT.

BUT IN THE END, DOES DARREN BAILEY REALLY NEED AN ENDORSEMENT FROM DONALD TRUMP?

THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN.

THE POLL NUMBERS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS SHOW OTHERWISE.

>> AND SO CERTAINLY I THINK DEEP DIVE TO BE HAD IN TERMS OF THE CHANGING DYNAMICS IN ILLINOIS WHERE THE CONSERVATIVES HAD BEEN A MINORITY WITHIN THE G.O.P.

OVER THE MODERATES AND IT SEEMS WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF THAT CHANGING.

A LOT OF MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT IN THE RACE.

JACOBY, WANT TO GO TO YOU, WHEN YOU TALK TO VOTERS WHO DO THEY CARE ABOUT?

PARTICULARLY REPUBLICAN ONES BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE THERE IS A CONTEST?

>> I'VE HAD A FEW CONVERSATIONS I REMEMBER YOU COMING ON THE SHOW TO HELP ME BREAKDOWN G.O.P.

CANDIDATES.

A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO SEE SOMEBODY TO DEFEAT J.B. PRITZKER.

A LOT IS GETTING J.B. PRITZKER OUT.

PUBLIC SAFETY IS AT THE TOP OF EVERYBODY'S LIST.

HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH OUR BILLS MOVING FORWARD?

ARE WE SUPPORTING POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT?

IN THE PRIMARY RICHARD IRVIN TURNED HIS FACE TOWARDS THE GENERAL AND HAS NOT WON THE WHO IS MORE CONSERVATIVE BATTLE.

AND J.B. PRITZKER HAVE PUT ABOUT $34 MILLION BEHIND BAILEY IN HOPING OF RUNNING AS HE QUOTES AN EASIER CANDIDATE.

WITH THE G.O.P.

WING MOVING, WE'LL SEE ON THAT BENT ON SCHOOL PAYS OFF FOR THEM.

>> PRITZKER HITTING THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL BUT NOT SO MUCH IN ILLINOIS WHERE HE THINKS HE HAS A LOCK ON THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.

INSTEAD HE IS GOING TO BE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE THIS WEEKEND.

BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE BIG SPOT ON THE CALENDAR FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST.

SO HE IS, HANNAH, AIMING TO WRAP UP THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN THE FUTURE?

>> WELL, YOU KNOW, THIS QUESTION HAS COME UP BEFORE IN THE LAST THREE YEARS THAT HE HAS BEEN GOVERNOR.

CERTAINLY HE HAS THE PLATFORM AND THE MONEY AND HE HAS HAD A LOT OF SITTINGS ON HIS AGENDA THAT HE COULD TOUT AT A NATIONAL LEVEL TO ATTRACT DEMOCRATIC VOTERS.

HE IS NOT SAYING.

THE OFFICIAL REASONS OF THIS TRIP IS TO MEET WITH CHICAGO MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT, TO TRY TO GET BOTH THE CONVENTION DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION TO CHICAGO IN 2024 AND MAKE ILLINOIS THAT FIRST IN THE NATION STATE BECAUSE ILLINOIS IS THE MOST REFLECTIVE POPULATION WISE OF ANY STATE IN THE NATION.

HE IS STILL GOING TO MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MASSACHUSETTS TO KIND OF CAMPAIGN WITH DEMOCRATIC AND IN ONE STATE SENATE CANDIDATE DEMOCRAT.

>> JACOBY DO WE THINK THAT PRITZKER HAS PRESIDENTIAL WRITTEN ALL OVER HIM OR WHAT?

>> I MEAN I THINK HE IS TESTING THE WATERS, RIGHT?

I SAID IT TO YOU THIS MORNING ON WBEZ.

PRITZKER KNOWS THE GAME THAT HE IS PLAYING.

HE IS GOING TO BE EASY LAY UPS.

HE IS NOT TRYING TO MAKE ENEMIES.

TRYING TO GET THE MOST TAX CREDIT ON HIS RECORD AND TALKING ABOUT FIXING ILLINOIS' ECONOMIC SITUATION WHICH EVERYONE KNOWS IS STILL ONE OF THE WORST IN THE NATION.

HE'S POSITIONED HIMSELF AS A LEADER ON COVID.

AND THEN HE HAS DONE WELL TO KEEP CERTAIN FRIENDS CLOSE AND TO KEEP OTHERS AT ARM'S LENGTH.

I'M INTERESTING TO SEE.

HE TALKS ABOUT WANTING TO BE ILLINOIS' GOVERNOR FOR A WHILE.

BUT WITH THAT WAR CHEST BEHIND YOU HAVING BIG ASPIRATIONS IT DON'T COST TOO MUCH.

>> HAVING MILLIONS DOES NOT HURT.

JOE, ONE POTENTIAL SORE SPOT FOR GOVERNOR PRITZKER COULD BE PERHAPS WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE STATE'S UNEMPLOYMENT FUND.

WE GOT NUMBERS AT LONG-LAST IN TERMS OF THE FRAUD THAT TOOK PLACE EARLY IN THE DAYS OF COVID.

AND SOME $2 BILLION OF 3.6 WAS EVIDENTLY SENT FROM THE STATE TO PEOPLE MAKING ILLEGAL CLAIMS.

TELL ME A LITTLE BIT, IS THAT JUST THE PRICE OF TRYING TO RUSH OUT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS DURING A PANDEMIC WHEN PEOPLE NEEDED THEM?

OR IS THIS FAILURE?

>> WELL, IT WAS CLEARLY FAILURE.

THE STATE AUDITOR'S REPORT IS PRETTY DAMNING.

THE STATE DIDN'T HAVE CONTROLS IN PLACE.

THEY BLAME THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR NOT PROVIDING THEM WITH THE APPROPRIATE TOOLS TO DETECT IDENTITY FRAUD.

AND YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

THE FRAUDSTERS DESCENDED ON THIS IT WAS A BIG POT OF MONEY YOU COULD GET BY TELLING THEM YOU ARE AN OUT OF WORK GIG WORKER.

AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE SYSTEMS IN PLACE TO PREVENT THAT.

AND $2 BILLION, THAT WAS A PRETTY BIG CHUNK OF POT OF MONEY.

>> MORE THAN HALF, INTO FACT.

WANT TO MOVE TO YOU, JEREMY, ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT TO ADD, YOU COVER STATE GOVERNMENT WE HAVE BEEN HEARING REPUBLICANS HARP ON THIS FOR A LONGTIME.

>> FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS BEEN LOOKING INTO A LOT OF THESE CASES INVOLVING UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FRAUD NOT JUST IN ILLINOIS BUT NATIONALLY.

ILLINOIS ASIDE FROM THIS REPORT THAT WAS RELEASED, SEEMED TO BE BEHIND THE CURVE IN SOME COMPARED TO SOME STATES.

LIKE CALIFORNIA STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR A WHILE A WHILE BACK, PROBABLY BEFORE THERE WAS -- A WHILE BACK MONTHS AGO, ACTUALLY, HAD BASICALLY MADE A CLAIM THAT THERE WAS $20 BILLION THAT WAS LOST FROM ITS UNEMPLOYMENT WHEN THEY WENT OUT AND SAID IT THEY WERE PRETTY OPEN ABOUT IT.

BUT, YEAH, ILLINOIS HAS BEEN AMONG THE LAST AND DURING THE WANING DAYS OF THE SPRING SESSION IN SPRINGFIELD, THAT WAS ONE OF THE OPEN QUESTIONS WHAT IS THE LEGISLATURE GOING TO DO TO CLOSE THAT $1.8 BILLION GAP?

AND IT WASN'T SOMETHING THAT WAS ANSWERED VERY EASILY.

SO AS YOU CAN IMAGINE -- >> UNANSWERED.

>> YOU CAN IMAGINE A DETAIL LIKE THAT BURIED IN THE REPORT THIS IS THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT YOU KNOW, 1.9 BILLION, THAT ALMOST ADDS UP TO WHAT IS MISSING FROM THE UI TRUST FUND.

OBVIOUSLY SAYS A LOT OF WHAT THE STATE HAS BEEN THROUGH IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.

>> BEFORE WE MOVE ON, I WANT TO STICK WITH ELECTIONS WITH THEM COMING UP.

WE TALKED ABOUT THE CONTEST FOR GOVERNOR NOT THE ONLY ONE ON THE BALLOT BY FAR.

WE HAVE CONGRESSIONAL RACES, MWRD, JACOBY WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING?

>> I'M WATCHING THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT RACE.

I'VE LIVED IN THIS DISTRICT MOST OF MY LIFE.

I LIVE IN THE DISTRICT NOW AND BOBBY RUSH HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT AND THIS IS THE DISTRICT FOR 90 YEARS HAD A BLACK MAN LEADING IT.

IT'S SEEN AS THE CENTER OF BLACK POLITICAL POWER, HAROLD WASHINGTON WAS IN THIS POSITION.

SO NOW THAT THERE ARE 21 CANDIDATES RUNNING TO REPLACE BOBBY RUSH AND SUCH AN IMPORTANT DISTRICT THAT COVERS MOST OF THE SOUTH SIDE FROM 18TH STREET DOWN TO BOURBON A, AND IT IS AN IMPORTANT DISTRICT WITH THE WAY POPULATION MOVED IT'S NOW THE SECOND IN TERMS OF MAJORITY BLACK POPULATION THAT IS NOW IN THE SECOND DISTRICT, ROBIN KELLY: BUT IT'S IMPORTANT IN CHICAGO IN THE SOUTH SUBURBS AND WHOEVER IS SLATED TO LEAD IT, HAS A VERY LOYAL BASE BEHIND THEM.

BUT I AM AHE NOT SURE IF ANY PARTICULAR CANDIDATE HAS STOOD OUT.

ALBEIT, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MONDAY TO TALK TO A FEW OF THEM.

SO I'M INTERESTED TO SEE HOW PEOPLE ARE GOING TO VOTE BECAUSE THAT PRIMARY IS LIKELY GOING TO FILL UP WHO IS LEADING THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

>> SOME OF THE CONTESTS WILL BE DECIDED IN THE PRIMARY AND OTHERS THE PRIMARY WINNER WILL HAVE A BIG FACTOR IN THE GENERAL MATCHUP.

LET'S GO TO JEREMY YOU HAVE BEEN COVERING THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S RACE.

WE HAD A FORUM LAST EVENING WITH THE TWO REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.

AND THEN WE GOT A FIERCE CONTEST ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE LESS ABOUT ISSUES AND MORE MUD SLINGING AND ALLEGATIONS ABOUT ETHICAL MISHAPS ON THE PART OF ALEXI GIANNOULIAS AND VALENCIA.

WHAT DO VOTERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SECRETARY OF STATE CONTEST.

>> IF YOU LOOK AT ALEXI GIANNOULIAS HE HAS BEEN OUT OF THE POLITICAL GAME FOR 12 YEARS.

IF YOU RECALL HE WAS AN UP AND COMER.

THE YOUNGEST STATE TREASURER ELECTED IN THE UNITED STATES.

HE HAD THE BACKING OF BARACK OBAMA WHEN OBAMA WAS A U.S.

SENATOR TO BECOME TREASURER.

HE RAN FOR U.S. SENATE LOST TO MARK KIRK.

>> HE LOST THE OBAMA SEAT.

>> RIGHT.

AND SINCE THEN HE HAS BEEN ON A COUPLE OF BOARDS LIKE THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGES.

BUT LARGELY HE HAS BEEN A PRIVATE CITIZEN HE WORKED FOR BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FOR SEVEN YEARS.

HE HAS BEEN A PRIVATE CITIZEN AND HE IS DOING THIS REALLY WITHOUT ANY OBVIOUS SUPPORT FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT.

AND YOU HAVE ANNA VALENCIA AN UP AND COMEER IN HER OWN RIGHT SHE IS A PROTEGE OF RAHM EMANUEL AND BECAME CITY COLLECT BUT DOGGED BY ALLEGATIONS THAT HER HUSBAND'S LOBBYING PRACTICE HAS BEEN MEDDLING WITH HER ROLE AS CITY CLERK.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE ALEXI GIANNOULIAS CAMPAIGN HAS REALLY CRITICIZED HER FOR AND IT'S INTERESTING MANY WHEN YOU HAVE FORUMS THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE JUST THAT THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DEBATES WHEN IT COMES UP IT TURNS INTO A DEBATE.

AND.

>> WHOEVER WINS THAT THE CONTEST WE WILL BE HEARING ABOUT IT GOING INTO THE GENERAL FOR SURE.

WHATEVER REPUBLICAN WINS WILL BE MAKING PLENTY ABOUT IT.

>> AND VALENCIA HAS BEEN CRITICIZING ALEXI GIANNOULIAS ON OLD ALLEGATIONS THAT DOGGED HIM IN HIS TIME OF TREASURER THE FAILURE OF THE FAMILY'S BANK, THE TIME AS A SENIOR LOAN OFFICER WAS SHADELY LOANS WERE GIVEN OUT TO ALLEGED CRIME FIGURES AND AS TIME AS TREASURER WHEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE LOST [INAUDIBLE] >> LOTS OF BAGGAGE.

>> LOTS OF MUD SLINGING.

>> CITY POLITICS IT, SEEMS LIKE EVERY WEEK WE GET ANOTHER CHALLENGER AGAINST MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT.

THIS WEEK WE GOT JAMAL GREEN.

JACOBY HE IS AMONG SEVEN CHALLENGERS.

WHO DO YOU SEE AS HER BIGGEST COMPETITION?

>> THE CHALLENGERS INCLUDE WILLIE WILSON, RODERICK SAWYER, KAM BUCKNER, PAUL VALLAS, RAY LOPEZ.

LIKE YOU SAID LA SHAWN FORD COULD COME IN THERE.

SOPHIA KING AND JAY MARCH COLE IS ABOUT TO 7 YEARS OLD HE HAD AN UNSUCCESSFUL RUN FOR MAYOR IN TWO 019 AFTER WILLIE WILSON ALLEGED THAT HIS PAPERWORK WAS NOT GOOD.

AND IT DEPENDS WHO YOU ASK ON WHAT HE IS BRINGING.

A LOT OF HIS POINTS RESONATE WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

MOVING AWAY FROM THINK BEING POLICE AND INCARCERATION.

HOLDING BIG BANKS ACCOUNTABLE.

CREATING MORE HOMEOWNERS.

AND ADDRESSING POPULATION DECLINE.

RESTORING ABANDONED PROPERTIES.

I'M CONCERNED WITH ALL OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE THE BACKING TO BUILD A COALITION.

YOU HEAR THAT A LOT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT POLITICS IN CHICAGO.

AND ONE THING THE MAYOR HAS GOING FOR HER SHE HAS DONE THE JOB.

SHE.

>> ME IS THE MAYOR.

>> AND SUCCESS, DEPENDS WHO YOU ASK, BUT WITH EACH OF THE CANDIDATES I SEE THAT WORKING AGAINST THEM ARE THEY GOING TO BE ABLE TO MOVE PAST THEIR FEW SUPPORT SENATORS.

>> ANOTHER BIG FACTOR THAT PLAYS A ROLE WHO WINS CONTESTS IS THE ECONOMY AND WE'VE HAD BIG NEWS ON THAT THIS WEEK INCLUDING AN ICONIC ILLINOIS COMPANY THAT IS CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT MAKER CATERPILLAR IS GOING TO BE LEAVING ILLINOIS FOR TEXAS.

HERE IS HOW GOVERNOR PRITZKER REACTED ON WEDNESDAY WHEN ASKED IF HE HAD DONE ENOUGH TO KEEP CATERPILLAR'S HEADQUARTERS IN THE STATE.

>> IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT NET JOBS IN THE STATE ACTUALLY CATERPILLAR HAS ADDED JOBS IN OUR STATE.

IT IS TRUE THAT THEY ARE MOVING 240 OF THEIR PERSONNEL, THOSE ARE NOT MANUFACTURING PERSONNEL THEY ARE OFFICE PERSONNEL TO ANOTHER LOCATION.

BUT THEY'VE ADDED HUNDREDS OF OTHER JOBS TO THE STATE.

WE HAVE MORE THAN 17400 CATERPILLAR EMPLOYEES THAT ARE WORKING IN FACTORIES AND ASSEMBLY PLANTS IN OUR STATE.

WE'VE ADDED MANY MORE JOBS.

>> SO, JOE, IS PRITZKER RIGHT THIS IS NO BIGGIE?

>> HE IS WRONG.

BUT, OF COURSE HE HAS EVERY REASON TO DOWN-PLAY IT BECAUSE IT'S HAPPENING ON HIS WATCH.

WE LOST ONE OF THE COMPANIES THAT HAS BEEN MOST ASSOCIATED WITH ILLINOIS IN THE PUBLIC MIND FOR NEARLY A CENTURY.

THEY WERE BASED IN PEORIA UNTIL 2017 WHEN THEY MOVED THE HEADQUARTERS UP TO DEERFIELD.

AND THEY JUST TURNED AROUND AND SAID WE'RE LEAVING.

AND THAT IS A BLOW TO THE CITY'S CORPORATE BASE.

IT IS A BLOW TO OUR REPUTATION AS A BUSINESS CENTER.

WHEN COMPANIES LIKE CATERPILLAR MOVE, IT'S NOTICED.

IT'S NOTICED IN CHICAGO AND IT'S NOTICED AROUND THE WORLD.

YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE C.E.O.S OF COMPANIES BASED HERE THINKING MMMM MAYBE WE SHOULD DO THIS TOO, MAYBE WE SHOULD LEAVE CHICAGO.

AND YOU WILL HAVE C.E.O.S FROM COMPANIES ELSEWHERE SAYING I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANT TO MOVE TO CHICAGO.

CATERPILLAR MOVED.

AND CATERPILLAR'S MOVE COMES A MONTH AFTER BOEING DID THE SAME THING.

ANOTHER GIANT MULTINATIONAL COMPANY KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD WHEN IT ANNOUNCES THE HEADQUARTER MOVE EVERYBODY NOTICES.

>> AND, JOE, THIS AS THERE'S A LOT OF ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY OTHERWISE WITH THE FEDERAL RESERVE THIS WEEK MAKING THE BIGGEST HIKE IN INTEREST RATES SINCE THE MID-90s.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

ARE CONSUMERS GOING TO BE QUEASY ABOUT COSTS AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE ECONOMY?

>> I MEAN ANYTHING THAT MAKES IT MORE EXPENSIVE TO BUY THINGS IS GOING TO HAVE A DAMPENING EFFECT ON THE ECONOMY.

YOU WILL SEE IT QUICKEST IN HOME MORTGAGES WHICH HAVE ALREADY ALMOST THE RATE ALMOST DOUBLED ALREADY.

BUT THE FED FELT LIKE IT HAD NO CHOICE.

INFLATION IS RUNNING AT LEVELS NOT SEEN SINCE THE EARLY 1980s.

AND IT'S GETTING WORSE NOT BETTER.

SO THEY FELT THEY HAD TO MAKE A BIG MOVE 3-QUARTERS PERCENTAGE POINT INCREASE WHICH THEY HAVE NOT DONE SINCE THE EARLY 90s.

TO TRY TO GET BACK AHEAD OF THIS RUN AWAY INFLATION AND THEY ARE JUST CROSSING THEIR FINGERS AND HOPING IT'S NOT GOING TO SEND THE ECONOMY INTO A RECESSION.

>> IN WASHINGTON WE HAD MORE BOMBSHELLS FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE WITH HEARINGS ON THE JANUARY 6TH CAPITOL LET'S HEAR FROM THE FORMER WHITE HOUSE LAWYER FOR VICE-PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE EXPLAINING WHY TRUMP'S CLAIM THAT PENCE COULD HAVE OVERTURNED THE ELECTION RESULTS WAS NOT PLAUSIBLE.

>> THERE IS JUST NO WAY THAT THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION WHO DIVIDED POWER AND AUTHORITY WHO SEPARATED IT OUT, WHO HAD BROKEN AWAY FROM GEORGE III AND DECLARED HIM TO BE A TYRANT THERE IS NO WAY THEY WOULD HAVE PUT IN THE HANDS OF ONE PERSON THE AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE WHO IS GOING TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

>> HANNAH WE HAVE A MINUTE LEFT, IS THE COMMITTEE MAKING A COMPELLING CASE?

>> I MEAN, I THINK THEY ARE DOING ALL THEY CAN.

THEY'VE SPENT A YEAR GATHERING THIS TESTIMONY AND, I THINK, YOU'RE HEARING MOSTLY FROM THOSE WHO WERE INSIDE THE TRUMP-PENCE WHITE HOUSE THE FOLKS WHO CARRIED OUT THE TRUMP AGENDA.

THESE ARE DIED IN THE WORK-TO-RULE REPUBLICANS AND THEY ARE SAYING WE TOLD THE FORMER PRESIDENT THAT BASICALLY, WHAT HE TRIED TO DO WHAT HE TRIED -- THE ARCHITECT THAT -- OF THE PLAN THAT HE TRIED TO MAKE MIKE PENCE BASICALLY THROW OUT THE ELECT TORE VOTES AND SEND IT BACK TO THE STATES TO RECERTIFY WAS BUNK.

WHETHER IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE RISES TO THE ATTENTION OF THE MOST EXTREME LOYAL TRUMP VOTERS, I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THAT.

BUT MAYBE MORE -- WE SEE LESS AND LESS MODERATE VOTERS QUOTE-UNQUOTE BUT I THINK IT COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE ESPECIALLY BECAUSE AFTER AIRING THE PRIMETIME HEARING LAST WEEK DECIDED TO AIR THE OTHER HEARINGS.

>> AND WE HAVE 30 SECONDS LEFT.

TALK ABOUT VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO THIS GUN MEASURE IN WASHINGTON D.C. APPEARS TO BE STALLED.

WHAT IS THE ISSUE WITH THAT?

>> I MEAN IT LOOKED LIKE AT ONE POINT THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE TO PUSH SOMETHING THROUGH.

THE TRUTH IS IT'S NOT ENOUGH EITHER WAY.

INCREASING RED FLAG LAWS, TRYING TO INCREASE BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR YOUNGER INDIVIDUALS, I THINK THE LOOPHOLES THAT WILL STILL EXIST IN OUR GUN LAWS ARE GOING TO ALLOW FOR CONSUMERS TO GET THEIR HANDS ON THEM EASIER AND EASIER.

>> WE HAVE TO LEAVE IT THERE, I'M SORRY WE'RE OUT OF TIME.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

THAT WAS JACOBY COCHRAN JOINED BY JOE CAHILL, JEREMY GORNER AND HANNAH MEISEL.

WE APPRECIATE EACH OF YOU FOR BEING HERE.

THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

AND BE SURE TO JOIN US TOMORROW NIGHT AT 6:00 P.M. FOR "CHICAGO TONIGHT: LATINO VOICES" AND "CHICAGO TONIGHT: BLACK VOICES" A JUNETEENTH SPECIAL AT 6:30.

AND BACK AT 7:00 P.M. MONDAY NIGHT.

FOR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW", I'M AMANDA VINICKY.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND ENJOY THAT GORGEOUS WEATHER THIS WEEKEND!

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