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

I'M AMANDA VINICKY.

PARIS SCHUTZ HAS THE EVENING OFF.

THE BIG STORY OF THE DAY...

THE UNITED STATES NO LONGER PROTECTS THE FEDERAL RIGHT TO HAVE AN ABORTION.

THE SUPREME COURT HAS OVERTURNED ROE VS. WADE.

>> TODAY IS A MOMENTOUS DAY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN AMERICA.

TODAY THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE PROTECTED FROM THE VIOLENCE OF ABORTION.

TODAY THE SUPREME COURT TOOK A HUGE STEP IN MOVING THE NATION BACK TOWARD OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES INCLUDING LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

>> THE ULTRA CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES IGNORED HALF A CERTAIN INDUSTRY OF SETTLED LAW AND AMERICANS WHO BELIEVE ABORTIONS SHOULD REMAIN LEGAL.

I WANT TO BE CLEAR...

ABORTION IS SAFE AND LEGAL IN ILLINOIS AND IT WILL REMAIN LEGAL IN ILLINOIS.

>> TODAY WE COMMEND THE SUPREME COURT FOR TAKING THE VERY, VERY BOLD STEP TO ALLOW STATES TO RESTORE PROTECTION TO PREBORN BABIES.

JUST LIKE IN 1954 WITH BROWN VERSUS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

WE ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.

>> WE'LL DIVE INTO WHAT THIS DECISION MEANS.

FIRST, AN INTRODUCTION TO OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" PANEL.

JOINING US ARE HEATHER CHERONE WHO COVERS POLITICS FOR WTTW NEWS.

CRAIG WALL POLITICAL REPORTER AT ABC7 NEWS.

LYNN SWEET WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF FOR THE "CHICAGO SUN-TIMES" AND CLARENCE PAGE PULITZER COLUMNIST FOR THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE".

>> HEATHER, JUST YESTERDAY I SPOKE WITH A SERIES OF WOMEN WHO WERE TALKING ABOUT TITLE IX'S IMPACT ON ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY.

NOW THIS DECISION.

HOW MONUMENTAL IS IT?

>> IT'S TRULY MASSIVE.

NEVER BEFORE IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAS THE SUPREME COURT VOTED TO TAKE AWAY A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT THAT IT HAD PREVIOUSLY GRANTED.

AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ROE VS. WADE WAS THE LAW OF THE LAND SINCE 1973, NEARLY 50 YEARS.

TODAY, THAT ALL CHANGED.

>> CRAIG, TO PUT EXPLAIN THE RATIONALE OF THE MAJORITY OF JUSTICES?

>> WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IS THERE WAS NEVER A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT.

JUSTICE ALITO IN HIS OPINION FOR THE COURT SAYING IT WAS WRONGLY DECIDED BACK IN 1972 AND THE BASIS FOR IT WAS WRONG.

AND THIS RETURNS IT BACK TO THE STATES AND THAT IS GOING TO SET OFF A FIRESTORM OF ACTIVITY ON MANY LEVELS.

SOME STATES HAVING TRIGGER LAWS OUTLAWING ABORTION GOING INTO EFFECT.

MISSOURI ALREADY THERE.

>> YOU KNOW, LYNN, ILLINOIS' GOVERNOR TODAY CALLED THE CONCURRING JUSTICES EXTREMISTS, ILLINOIS' ATTORNEY GENERAL DESCRIBED THE COURT AS STOLEN.

HAVE THE POLITICAL MACHINATIONS THAT LED UP TO MAKEUP OF THIS COURT DID IT UNDERMINE ITS INTEGRITY OR ARE THOSE ACCUSATIONS PARTISAN?

>> NINE MEMBERS ON THE COURT.

AND OK, ONE SEAT YOU CAN ARGUE WAS STOLEN FROM THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE REPUBLICANS REFUSED TO TAKE BARACK OBAMA'S NOMINATION OF MERRICK GARLAND.

THAT KNOCKS OUT ONE.

AND THEN, FAIR AND SQUARE PRESIDENT TRUMP WHO WILL BE IN ILLINOIS ON SATURDAY, HAD THREE APPOINTMENTS TO THE COURT.

ONE WAS THE STOLEN OBAMA SEAT AND THEN RUTH BADER GINSBURG PASSED AWAY.

SO ONE COULD ARGUE THAT THE PROCESS IS A RESULT OF AN ELECTION.

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

NOT -- WE'VE COVERED FAR MORE COMPLICATED SCHEMES BUT THAT IS HOW YOU GOT TO THE COUNT WHERE WE'RE AT.

>> HEATHER, LET'S TAKE THIS A STEP FURTHER WITH THIS AND EARLIER THIS WEEK A GUN CONTROL DECISION BOTH OF THESE GOING AGAINST THE MAJORITY OF WHAT AMERICANS WANT ACCORDING TO CURRENT POLLING.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR BELIEF IN ONE OF THE PRIME INSTITUTIONS OF DEMOCRACY, THE SUPREME COURT?

>> IT IS A VERY FRAUGHT MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

YOU ARE ALREADY SEEING RENEWED CALLS FOR THE LAW TO BE CHANGED TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF JUSTICES OR TO PUT AN AGE LIMIT ON THE JUSTICES SO YOU DON'T HAVE A SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE RUTH BADER GINSBURG DYING WHILE STILL ON THE COURT.

ALL OF THOSE WOULD REQUIRE JUST MASSIVE CHANGES IN THE HOUSE AND IN THE SENATE IN PARTICULAR TO BREAK A FILIBUSTER OR TO END A FILIBUSTER.

THOSE CHANGES ARE NOT ENDING ANYTIME SOON.

WHAT WILL BE SO CHALLENGING ABOUT THIS STORY TO COVER IT FROM THIS POINT FORWARD, IT'S LITERALLY GOING TO BE 50 DIFFERENT STORIES IN 50 STATES WHAT.

IS HAPPENING IN MISSOURI TONIGHT IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT IS HAPPENING IN ILLINOIS AND SO ON.

AND THAT MEANS IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO TELL ONE STORY ABOUT THE SORT OF OUTCOME OF TODAY'S DECISION INSTEAD IT WILL BE MANY DIFFERENT DECISIONS WITH HUGE IMPACTS ON INDIVIDUAL WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILY'S LIVES.

>> AND WAITING, CLARENCE FOR FUTURE COURT DECISIONS PERHAPS COMING DOWN THE PIKE, LET'S REFER TO ANOTHER CLARENCE, THAT IS JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS URGING THE COURT TO RECONSIDER ALL SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS PRECEDENTS SUCH AS THOSE GUARANTEEING THE RIGHTS TO CONTRACEPTIVE, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ARE THESE NEXT?

>> YES, I HAD TO SMILE BY THE WAY BECAUSE I WISH I HAD A DOLLAR FOR EVERYBODY WHO HAS CALLED ME CLARENCE THOMAS BY MISTAKE.

THE OTHER CLARENCE HE WAS KEY IN THE DECISION, HE HAD -- SUBMITTED A CONCURRING OPINION NOT A DISSENT BUT CONCURRING OPINION.

AND I WAS READING THE OPINION TRYING THE BEST TO GET THROUGH THE LEGALESE AND IT'S CONTRADICTORY.

ON THE ONE HAND HE POINTS OUT THE DECISION SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN TO APPLY TO ANY OTHER DECISION THAT MAYBE FORTHCOMING LIKE CONTRACEPTION OR GAY MARRIAGE ET CETERA.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME FARTHER DOWN HE POINTS OUT THAT THIS IS THE SAME PRINCIPLE ON WHICH THOSE ARE BASED.

AND THUS SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO REVIEW.

SO WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE NOW?

CALLING FOR IT TO BE REEXAMINED NOW?

OR SUBJECT TO REVIEW DOWN THE ROAD.

IT'S CLEAR WHERE CLARENCE THOMAS IS RIGHT THERE NEXT TO ALITO AS WAS JUSTICE SCALIA.

SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE A MORE OF THE SAME FROM THAT END OF THE COURT.

AND WITH THE 6-3 MAJORITY, THE CONSERVATIVES ARE FEELING THEIR OATS RIGHT NOW AND JUDGE ROBERTS IS THE ONE WHO HE ONCE TOLD BOYD THE LOSS OF CREDIBILITY ON THE COURT, AND THE COURT IS TOO PARTISAN.

THERE WERE LOTS OF RUMORS FLOATING AROUND WITH THAT LEAK THAT THIS GAVE ROBERTS A CHANCE TO COMFORT WITH A MODERATE ALTERNATIVE THAT WOULD NOT KILL NATIONWIDE.

BUT THERE'S REALLY NO REAL SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LEAKED VERSION OF THE DECISION AND WHAT WAS ANNOUNCED.

>> HE WAS THE SOLE JUSTICE TO WRITE A CONCURRING OPINION THAT TRIED TO SCALE BACK KEEPING IN PLACE ROE VS. WADE.

BUT STRIKING DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI LAW AT HEART.

NOW, LET'S MOVE TO LYNN, YOU TODAY, COVERED VICE-PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS WHO CALLED IT A HEALTHCARE CRISIS.

LET'S HEAR WHAT ELSE SHE HAD TO SAY.

>> YOU HAVE THE POWER TO ELECT LEADERS WHO WILL DEFEND AND PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.

AND AS THE PRESIDENT SAID EARLIER TODAY, WITH YOUR VOTE, YOU CAN ACT AND YOU HAVE THE FINAL WORD.

SO THIS IS NOT OVER.

>> LYNN, AGAIN, WERE YOU THERE, SHE MADE THOSE COMMENTS DURING A VISIT TO CHICAGO ECHOING PRESIDENT BIDEN WHO ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO VOTE SAYING THAT THIS IS NOT THE FINAL WORD.

IF IT ISN'T, THE FINAL WORD IS IT, HOWEVER, WHERE THINGS ARE GOING TO STAND NATIONALLY FOR A WHILE?

>> LET ME SORT THIS OUT.

SHE WAS IN PLAINFIELD, ILLINOIS AND CHICAGO.

AND YOU JUST MIGHT FIND THIS INTERESTING SHE WAS ON AIR FORCE TWO WITH SENATOR DURBIN WHO IS THE CHAIR OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WHEN THEY GOT WORD OF THE DECISION AND STARTED READING IT ON THE PLANE.

HER SPEECH WAS DELAYED FOR HOURS BECAUSE OF IT.

IT WAS GOING TO BE AN EVENT TO TALK ABOUT MATERNAL HEALTH WHICH IS A PART OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE RIGHT TO ABORTION.

SO HERE'S WHAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT AND HERE'S WHAT IS TOUGH HERE.

WE ALL HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE COURT COULD DO, TAKE AWAY, GIVE, WHATEVER.

IF CONGRESS CODIFIED THE ABORTION PROVISIONS THAT GUARANTEE WOMEN NOW THE ABILITY TO HAVE ABORTIONS YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE COURTS.

THAT'S WHAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT.

JUST TO JUMP WHAT YOU MAY ASK ME CAN THAT HAPPEN?

NO THERE IS NOT ENOUGH DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE TO GET ANYTHING LIKE THAT PASSED.

THAT IS WHAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT.

IT DOES SHOW HOW THE MIDTERMS ARE SEQUENTIAL AND SHOWS HOW A LAUREN UNDERSTAND WOOD AT THE EVENT IN A DISTRICT THAT MAY BE A TIGHT RACE THAT IS WHAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT.

AND THEREFORE YOU HAVE TO FIGURE WHY IS HEATHER SAID THERE'S 50 STORIES GOING ON IN THE STATES THERE IS ONE CONGRESS AND THERE WILL BE MAYBE A GROWING RECOGNITION THAT THERE IS A WAY TO DEAL WITH THIS OTHER THAN THE COURT.

LONG SHOT.

DOUBT IF IT WILL HAPPEN ANYTIME SOON.

>> CLARENCE, YOU AS WELL, DO YOU DOUBT THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN?

THERE ARE ELECTIONS COMING UP, BIDEN AND HARRIS SAYING VOTE, VOTE, VOTE?

>> QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

LET ME SAY I WAS IN COLLEGE WHEN ROE VS. WADE CAME OUT AND I REMEMBER IT VIVIDLY.

AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT DECISION CAME OUT YOU SAW A RISE ON THE POLITICAL RIGHT AND THE A NEW RELIGIOUS RIGHT THAT EMBRACED THE ABORTION ISSUE AND HAS BEEN THE MAIN FORCES DRIVING IT EVER SINCE.

AND IT'S ALSO BEEN THE MAIN FORCE PUSHING THE REPUBLICANS TO THE RIGHT POLITICALLY.

AND IN SHORT, DEMOCRATS GOT A LONG WAY TO GO TO CATCH UP.

THEY HAVE TO WORK THE GRASSROOTS THE WAY THE REPUBLICANS DID.

GO TO THE SCHOOL BOARDS, COUNCIL, STATE HOUSES AND NOW YOU SEE REPUBLICANS CONTROL MOST OF THE STATE HOUSES AND THAT AND THE GOVERNORSHIPS AND THEY GOT IN THAT POSITION THROUGH A LOT OF HARD WORK.

DEMOCRATS PUT THEIR EGGS IN THE BASKET OF A WHITE HOUSE AND NOW THEY HAVE TO SHIFT GEARS IF THEY WANT TO DEAL WITH THIS ISSUE AND OTHERS LIKE THE MAKEUP OF THE SUPREME COURT.

>> HEATHER, YOU REFERENCED HOW THIS IS GOING TO BE A STATE BY STATE ISSUE.

ILLINOIS IS CALLED AN OASIS, A HAVEN BECAUSE THE STATE DOES HAVE LAWS PROTECTING ACCESS TO ABORTIONS.

GOVERNOR PRITZKER CALLING A SPECIAL SESSION FOR SOME TIME NEXT MONTH.

WHAT IS HE HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH THERE?

>> WELL, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ISSUES THAT WE HEARD THE GOVERNOR SAY HE WAS INTERESTED IN DISCUSSING WITH THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

INCLUDING A BILL THAT COULD PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE COMING TO ILLINOIS FROM OTHER STATES WHERE ABORTION IS BANNED.

THAT COULD INCLUDE IOWA AND MISSOURI AND INDIANA.

THE OTHER ISSUE, I THINK, IS TO EXPAND THE NUMBER OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS WHO COULD PERFORM ABORTIONS INCLUDING NURSES AND DOCTORS AND CODIFY INTO LAW PROTECTIONS THAT THEY COULD NOT BE CRIMINALLY CHARGED IN OTHER STATES.

THERE ARE ANY NUMBER OF ISSUES THEY COULD TACKLE DURING THIS SPECIAL SESSION AND I THINK THAT WE SAW THIS IMMEDIATE RESPONSE FROM THE GOVERNOR BECAUSE THERE WAS SUCH A HOWELL OF ANGER ON THE LEFT AND THIS ALLOWED HIM HE IS RUNNING FOR REELECTION TO SORT OF RESPOND TO THAT MOMENT AND STEP INTO THAT BREACH AND SAY I'M TAKING ACTION EVEN THOUGH HE HAS LARGELY MADE GOOD ON THE 2018 CAMPAIGN PROMISE TO MAKE ILLINOIS THE MOST ABORTION FRIENDLY STATE IN THE MIDWEST.

>> IF I COULD JUMP IN.

THINK OF WHAT THE DYNAMIC GOING IN.

PRESUMING THAT THE NOTHING CHANGES, THE DEMOCRATIC SUPER MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE WITH THE GOVERNOR WILL HAVE A ENORMOUS STAGE IN SPRINGFIELD BEFORE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION TO PUT SPOTLIGHTS TO MAKE ABORTION THE CENTERPIECE OF THE REELECTION CAMPAIGN OF OPPONENTS.

AND ALL THE REPUBLICANS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR SAY THAT THEY ARE AGAINST ABORTION RIGHTS, WHAT A CONTRAST FOR A GOVERNOR WHO ALREADY IS MAKING THAT A CENTERPIECE OF HIS RACE.

WHEN YOU ASKED HEATHER WHAT DOES THE GOVERNOR WANT TO ACCOMPLISH MY ANSWER IS GET REELECTED.

>> AND ALSO, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY RUNNING FOR REELECTION ARE ON THE BALLOT AS WELL.

WITH THAT LET'S BRING IN ANOTHER VOICE TO PUT THIS IN CONTEXT, STATE SENATOR CRISTINA PACIONE-ZAYAS.

>> TO WOMEN AND PREGNANT PEOPLE AND INDIVIDUALS ASSIGNED FEMALE AT BIRTH ACROSS THIS COUNTRY SEEKING AN ABORTION, WE ARE SAYING YOU ARE WELCOME IN ILLINOIS.

WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOU.

WE WILL SUPPORT YOU.

WE WILL UPLIFT YOU.

AND WE WILL KEEP YOU SAFE.

FOR THIS PRIMARY ON TUESDAY, AND NOVEMBER'S GENERAL ELECTION, GAME ON.

THIS IS ON THE BALLOT.

>> ON THE BALLOT IN ILLINOIS WITH THE PRIMARY ON TUESDAY, CRAIG, ANYTHING TO ADD IN TERMS OF WHAT IMPACT YOU BELIEVE THIS IS GOING TO HAVE ON WHAT HAPPENS THE 28TH?

>> WELL, OBVIOUSLY I THINK ONE THING IS HOW IT'S GOING TO IMPACT THE GOVERNOR'S RACE ON THE G.O.P.

SIDE.

THE CONSERVATIVES HAVE LOVED TRUMP AND THIS IS HIM DELIVERING ON ONE OF HIS PROMISES COMING IN.

THIS IS GOING TO JUST FURTHER ENERGIZE THE MORE CONSERVATIVE PART OF THE BASE.

SO WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT IS GOING TO HELP BAILEY, GOING TO HELP SULLIVAN AND HURT IRVIN BECAUSE HE IS WAFFLED SO MUCH ON THIS ISSUE.

TODAY IF YOU SAW THE STATEMENT, HE PROMISED THAT HE WOULD COMMENT ON THIS ONCE THE RULING CAME DOWN AND HE KEPT DECLINING TO TALK ABOUT THE ISSUE WITH THE LEAKED MEMO.

NOW HIS STATEMENT CAME OUT AND HE DID NOT ADDRESS THE ISSUE.

IF ANY REPUBLICANS ON THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE ARE THINKING ABOUT HIM AS A CONSERVATIVE THEY ARE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM IF THEY WERE BEFORE.

I THINK IT'S GOING TO ENERGIZE THE MORE CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF THE PARTY.

BUT THAT MAY NOT BE GOOD FOR THE PARTY IN GENERAL WHEN IT COMES TO THE NOVEMBER ELECTION TALKING ABOUT JIM EDGAR AND HE THOUGHT IF BAILEY WINS IT WILL BE BAD FOR REPUBLICANS DOWN BALLOT IF HE IS THE G.O.P.

NOMINEE.

BECAUSE HIS STAUNCH CONSERVATISM.

>> AND HIS SEEN DEMOCRATS PUSHING FOR THAT WITH CAMPAIGN LITERATURE.

CRAIG, TOMORROW RIGHT NOW, I BELIEVE, YOU ARE IN QUINCY, TO COVER A VISIT BY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP.

WHAT IS HE DOING IN ILLINOIS?

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING FOR?

>> WELL, IT'S TWO-PART.

HE IS TAKING CREDIT FOR IT TODAY IN HIS STATEMENTS AND HE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IT TOMORROW I'M SURE.

HE IS HERE BECAUSE OF THE 15TH CONGRESSIONAL RACE, FRESHMAN MARY MILLER IS IN THE TIGHT BATTLE WITH RODNEY DAVIS IN THE REDISTRICTED 50TH DISTRICT DOWN HERE.

AND SHE HAS BEEN A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF DONALD TRUMP SINCE SHE HAS BEEN IN OFFICE.

HE IS HERE TO RALLY WITH HER AND GIVE HIS SUPPORT TO HER.

AND THAT'S THE MAIN REASON.

BUT THERE'S THE POSSIBILITY COULD THERE BE A DARREN BAILEY ENDORSEMENT IN THE RACE?

HE WAS BEEN COURTING IT, PRESIDENT TRUMP WENT ON THE RADIO YESTERDAY WITH THE SQUARE IN SPRINGFIELD AND GAVE THIS TASS ITS ENDORSEMENT OF BAILEY WITHOUT REALLY ENDORSING HIM.

WE'RE EXPECTING A LOT OF PEOPLE DOWN HERE TOMORROW FOR THE RALLY AND IT WILL BE A CLASSIC TRUMP RALLY SCENE.

LIKE YOU'VE SEEN SO MANY OTHER TIMES BEFORE.

>> SPEAKING OF CONGRESS, REPRESENTATIVE ADAM KINZINGER NOT RUNNING FOR REELECTION FOLLOWING THE 6TH TERM BUT HE IS NOT EXITING QUIETLY.

THURSDAY LEADING THE HEARING WHERE THE JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE PRESENTED EVIDENCE OF THEN PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EFFORTS TO PRESSURE STATE OFFICIALS, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION.

>> WE'RE HERE TODAY BECAUSE THE FACTS WERE IRRELEVANT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP.

IT WAS ABOUT PROTECTING HIS VERY REAL POWER AND VERY FRAGILE EGO EVEN IF IT REQUIRED RECKLESSLY UNDERMINING OUR ENTIRE ELECTORAL SYSTEM BY WILDLY CASTING BASELESS DOUBT UPON IT.

IN SHORT HE WAS WILLING TO SACRIFICE OUR REPUBLIC TO PROLONG HIS PRESIDENCY.

I CAN IMAGINE NO MORE DISHONORABLE ACT BY A PRESIDENT.

>> LYNN, DOES THE EVIDENCE SHOW THE FORMER PRESIDENT ATTEMPTING TO ORCHESTRATE A COUP?

>> WELL, FROM WHAT WE'VE SEEN SO FAR THAT IS A REASONABLE CONCLUSION TO COME TO.

WE HAVE NOT SEEN EVERYTHING.

THE LOOK, THE COMMITTEE HAS UNEARTHED AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TEXTS, DOCUMENTS, VIVID TESTIMONY THAT IS LEADING TO THE CONCLUSION.

AND INDEED, IN A SENSE YOU DON'T NEED ME TO SAY IT THE MEMBERS SAID THE EVIDENCE IS THERE TO SHOW IT IS A COUP.

HERE IS WHAT I HOPE UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS COMMITTEE.

THE MEMBERS HAVE I'M TELLING YOU THEY HAVE THE CONCLUSION.

THEY'VE LOOKED AT EVERYTHING.

THEY HAVE PLANNED IT OUT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO IS TELL THE STORY OF IT.

I DON'T WANT TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK WHEN I SAID, I WANT TO AMEND IT THAT IS THE CONCLUSION OF THE COMMITTEE.

THE HEARINGS ARE DESIGNED TO TAKE YOU WITH THEM INTO WHAT THEY KNOW SO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THEY CAME TO THE CONCLUSION.

WHEN ADAM KINZINGER WAS DOING IN HIS QUESTIONING WHICH ALL OF THE MEMBERS HAVE DONE, SPEECH AT TIMES THAT WHAT MAKES THE COMMITTEE DIFFERENT.

>> CAREFULLY COORDINATED >> YES.

>> AND WELL PRODUCED.

SO I WOULD THINK OF IT THAT WAY.

WE KNOW THE ANSWER.

IT'S NOT A MYSTERY.

IT'S JUST BRINGING PEOPLE ALONG ALMOST EPISODE BY EPISODE SO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THIS CONCLUSION OF AN ATTEMPTED COUP CAME TO BE.

>> CLARENCE WHAT IS THE VIEW FROM WASHINGTON BOTH DO YOU THINK THIS IS SUCCEEDING WITH THE PUBLIC?

OR TO MEMBERS OF THE G.O.P.

THAT HAVE THUS FAR BEEN FIGHTING THE HEARINGS?

>> THAT IS THE BIG QUESTION, ISN'T IT.

LYNN IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT IN HER ASSESSMENT.

AND WHAT I'M HEARING FROM FOLKS WHO ARE CLOSE TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS THAT WHAT MERRICK GARLAND IS CONCERNED ABOUT IS BEING ABLE TO MAKE A CREDIBLE CASE THAT WON'T BE VIEWED AS POLITICAL.

IF YOU'VE SEEN THE MOVIE Z AND KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE THE PROSECUTOR GOES AFTER THE TOP PEOPLE IN THE GOVERNMENT FOR CORRUPTION.

ONE THING TO HAVE THE EVIDENCE.

IT IS ANOTHER THING TO WIN OVER THE PUBLIC IN A DEMOCRATICALLY RUN GOVERNMENT.

AND SO GARLAND MAKES TO BE SURE THE CASE IS SOLID AND ALSO A REASON WHY THE HOUSE COMMITTEE IS NOT TRYING TO PUSH FOR A REQUEST FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR ACTION.

THEY WILL LEAVE IT UP TO HIM SO HE CAN BE AS INDEPENDENT AS POSSIBLE.

LYNN IS RIGHT.

THE CASE IS THERE.

AND THEY'VE DONE AN EXCELLENT, I MUST SAY.

MAYBE IT HELPS HAVING REPUBLICANS ON THE COMMITTEE BECAUSE DEMOCRATS ARE NOT GETTING TANGLED UP IN THEIR OWN MESSAGE FOR A CHANGE.

AND THERE'S ONLY TWO REPUBLICANS WHO JOINED THIS COMMITTEE ACTUALLY PREVENTS A LOT OF THE THEE ATTIC -- THEATRICS WE NORMALLY HAVE.

IMAGINE WHAT JIM JORDAN WOULD DO LEADING US DOWN THE PATH OF SIDE ISSUES.

>> HE WAS APPOINTED AND THEN SPEAKER PELOSI SAID NO WE WON'T BE SEATING YOU.

AMIDST THIS BACKDROP THERE'S BEEN BIPARTISANSHIP ON THE WAY TO PRESIDENT BIDEN IS A GUN PACKAGE AS FAR AS THE PRESIDENT SAID HE WANTED BUT MAKES CHANGES INCLUDING JUVENILE RECORDS HAVE TO BE CHECKED OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE AN IMPORTANT MIDTERM ELECTION AND THAT COULD BE DRIVING SOME OF THE REPUBLICAN SUPPORT FOR THIS KIND OF THING.

I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT IT AND SAYING FINALLY WE'RE DOING SOMETHING.

MAYBE IT MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH FOR A LOT OF FOLKS BUT A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION I THINK IS THE SENSE I GET THAT PEOPLE FEEL WHEN THEY LOOK AT THIS.

WE'RE DOING SOMETHING.

>> MEANWHILE KEN GRIFFIN WILL NO LONGER BE ILLINOIS' RICHEST MAN BECAUSE HE IS NO LONGER GOING TO BE AN ILLINOIS RESIDENT.

HE AND CITADEL ARE TAKING OFF TO FLORIDA.

HEATHER WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE TIMING OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ILLINOIS?

THE TIME SOMETHING QUITE UNUSUAL BECAUSE TUESDAY THE ELECTION HIS CANDIDATE RICHARD IRVIN IS ON THE BALLOT IN THE G.O.P.

FIGHT FOR GOVERNOR.

HE HAS SPENT NEARLY $50 MILLION HELPING RICHARD IRVIN RUN THIS CAMPAIGN.

AND I HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE SAY TO ME THIS IS OBVIOUSLY AN ATTEMPT BY KEN GRIFFIN TO GET OUT OF TOWN BEFORE IRVIN LOSES SO HE CAN WASH HIS HANDS OF THE MATTER.

IT WAS QUITE A CHOICE TO MAKE THE ANNOUNCEMENT WHEN HE MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT.

HE HAS BEEN AT LOGGERHEADS FOR J.B. PRITZKER FOR YEARS AT THIS POINT OVER ANY NUMBER OF ISSUES PARTICULARLY CRIME.

AND I THINK MOST PEOPLE EXPECTED HIM TO LEAVE ILLINOIS, ESPECIALLY IF IRVIN LOST.

I THINK THE BIG SUR PRIZE WAS THAT HE DID IT BEFORE THE PRIMARY.

>> AND -- >> TO YOUR POINT, A MOVE LIKE THIS WAS SET IN THE WORKS FOR MONTHS.

THIS IS -- THE TIMING IS CURIOUS.

WHETHER IT HAS ANYTHING OR NOT TO DO WITH IT TO ARGUE THAT POINT BUT THE TIMING CERTAINLY -- >> POKE PRITZKER ON THE HEELS OF CATERPILLAR AND BOEING AND CITADELLE OTHERS ARE TRYING TO REMOVE.

>> LYNN, WHAT RACES ARE YOU WATCHING FOR ON TUESDAY BESIDES THE TOP OF THE BALLOT?

>> I'M LOOKING AT ILLINOIS ONE, THE RACE TO REPLACE BOBBY RUSH.

AND ILLINOIS 3, THAT IS AN OPEN SEAT NEWLY CREATED TO ELECT A HISPANIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS.

WE HAVE GILL VILLEGAS AGAINST RAMIREZ, THE LEADING CONTENDERS.

AND IN THE DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT VERSUS INCUMBENT RACE IN THE NORTHERN SUBURBS MARIA NEWMAN AGAINST SEAN CASTEN.

>> THANK YOU AND JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME BECAUSE WE ARE RIGHT NOW OUT OF TIME.

OUR THANKS TO LYNN SWEET, HEALTH HEALTH, CRAIG WALL AND CLARENCE PAGE.

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