[♪♪♪] >> 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.

>> CHICAGO HELD VACCINATION EVENTS FOR CHILDREN ACROSS THE CITY TODAY.

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS C.E.O.

PEDOR MARTINEZ, MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT AND AMY APPEARED AT EVENTS THIS AS C.P.S.

SCHOOLS WERE CLOSED SO KIDS 5-11 COULD GET THEIR COVID VACCINATION AND THE TEACHERS' UNION HELD AN EVENT AT UNION HEADQUARTERS ON THE NEAR WEST SIDE.

A NORTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO RESIDENT AND FORMER TECH C.E.O.

GETS PRISON TIME FOR HIS ROLE IN THE JANUARY 6TH RIOTS.

BRADLEY RUCKSTALES WAS SENTENCED TO A MONTH IN PRISON AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO CHARGES OF VIOLENT ENTRY AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT IN THE U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING ON JANUARY 6.

RUCKSTALES SOUGHT PROBATION AND EXPRESSED REMORSE FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE INSURRECTION AS FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER STEVE BANNON IS FEDERALLY INDICTED ON TWO COUNTS OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR FAILING TO APPEAR BEFORE THE JANUARY 6 SELECT COMMITTEE.

>> JURORS IN THE MURDER TRIAL OF KYLE RITTENHOUSE COULD CONSIDER LESSER CHARGES WHEN THEY GO TO DELIBERATE AS THE TRIAL HEADS TO CLOSING ARGUMENTS WITH DELIBERATIONS THAT COULD START AS SOON AS MONDAY.

WISCONSIN GOVERNOR CALLED FOR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO BE DEPLOYED TO KENOSHA IN ANTICIPATION OF A VERDICT AND WE WILL HAVE MUCH MORE ON THE WEEK OF TESTIMONY IN JUST A BIT.

TO OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" PANEL, JOINING US ARE GREG PRATT OF THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE".

LAURA WASHINGTON, AND KIM KILL OF THE "WASHINGTON POST" AND RAVI BAICHWAL OF ABC7 NEWS.

STARTING WITH COVID, RAVI, THERE WERE THESE VACCINE EVENTS TODAY AS THE CITY IS SEEING COVID NUMBERS TICK UP A BIT.

ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT A WINTER SURGE HERE.

>> I THINK FRANKLY, PARIS THAT WE SHOULD ALL BE WORRIED ABOUT THAT THE TEMPERATURES ARE GETTING COLDER.

PEOPLE ARE GOING INSIDE.

WE KNOW THE VIRUS TRANSMITS INDOOR SPACES MUCH MORE READILY.

WE'RE NOT COMPLETELY OUT OF THE DELTA SURGE.

AND TO BE HONEST, I THOUGHT I WAS WAITING FOR THIS TO HAPPEN WHEN SCHOOL FIRST OPENED IN SEPTEMBER WHEN KIDS WERE GOING BACK TO SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITIES.

WE DODGED THAT BULLET.

THE DELTA VARIANT IS SEEMED TO BE EBBING A LITTLE BIT AND NOW PEOPLE WILL BE GOING BACK INSIDE.

WE HAVE HAD BEAUTIFUL WEATHER OVER THE LAST EIGHT WEEKS.

AND WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED A LITTLE BIT HOW THEY ARE APPROACHING USING MASKS INDOORS AND WHAT THEIR SENSIBILITIES NEED TO BE.

IT WON'T BE AS BAD AS LAST YEAR BUT WE'RE WATCHING FOR A SPIKE.

>> AND GREG PRATT THE VACCINATION CLININS IN C.P.S.

SCHOOLS C.T.U.

SAYS IT IS NOT ENOUGH.

TAKE US BEHIND THE EFFORT IT TAKES TO GET THE C.P.S.

KIDS VACCINATED.

>> IT WAS WEIRD, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS STRUGGLING TO GET SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS FOR THE DAY AFTER VETERAN'S DAY WHICH SOME PEOPLE CYNICAL PEOPLE MIND YOU WERE SAYING THAT THAT IS WHY THEY CANCELED THE DAY AFTER VETERAN'S DAY.

I THINK IT IS A GOOD THING.

I THINK EVERYONE CAN AGREE IT IS A GOOD THING TO HAVE MORE VACCINATION SITES AND DATES.

THERE WAS A LOT OF CRITICISM THAT WE DIDN'T DO WHAT NEW YORK DID WHICH WAS TO BRING THE SITES TO SCHOOLS AND DO IT THERE.

NEW YORK HAD 2,000 SCHOOLS GET TURNED INTO VACCINATION SITES AND WE WERE LIKE GOOD LUCK WALGREENS IS OFFERING.

IT IS AN INTERESTING SITUATION THAT WE HAD HERE.

BUT YOU KNOW, THEY WERE TRYING BUT YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.

>> C.T.U.

WAS CALLING FOR THE SCHOOLS TO BE TURNED INTO VACCINATION SITES.

MEANWHILE, LAURA WASHINGTON, MORE THAN THREE-FOURTHS OF CHICAGO POLICE OFFICERS COMPLIED WITH UPLOADING THE VAX STATUS TO THE PORT ALTHOUGH THE FOP LEADERSHIP IS CALLING ON MEMBERS TO DEFY.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT DO NOT COMPLY?

>> THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN NOW THE QUESTION IS IN ARBITRATION.

LORI LIGHTFOOT THE MAYOR CANNOT ENFORCE HER VACCINE MANDATE UNTIL THEY WORK THROUGH SOME OF THE DETAILS.

EVEN THOUGH MORE PEOPLE ARE COMPLYING BY REPORTING THEIR STATUS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN VACCINATED ARE GOING DOWN BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN VACCINATED AND THAT IS A CONCERN AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF ALL THE CITY DEPARTMENTS HAS THE LOWEST VACCINATION RATE.

THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME OFFICERS WHO ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DIG IN THEIR HEELS AND NOT DO THIS.

AND PART IS THEIR OWN PERSONAL VIEWS ABOUT WANTING TO BE FREE AND PART IS POLITICAL.

PART IS THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE A STATEMENT TO THE MAYOR AND TO THE CITY THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO PLAY BALL BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE HER STYLE SO THIS IS ONE WAY THEY CAN SPEAK OUT AGAINST HER.

THEY CAN GET BACK AT HER.

>> AND GREG PRATT YOU HAVE HAD OTHER PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS SUE THE CITY FOR VAX MANDATES SEEING SOME OF THE MODEST SUCCESS THAT THE FOP HAS HAD IN COURT WHAT ARE THE LAWSUITS ABOUT?

>> THE SAME THING BUT UNIONS GETTING TOGETHER AND SAYING YOU CAN'T FORCE US TO GET VACCINATED AND YOU CAN'T FORCE US TO REPORT OUR STATUS.

AND IT IS A REALLY INTERESTING THING TO WATCH IN SLOW MOTION BECAUSE THE CITY HAS SORT OF STOPPED DISCIPLINING PEOPLE FOR NOT FOLLOWING THE REPORTING MANDATE.

AND YOU KNOW THE CITY HAS A REAL PROBLEM ON ITS HANDS.

THEY WANT PEOPLE TO COMPLY BECAUSE OF PUBLIC HEALTH REASONS AND THEY WANT PEOPLE TO COMPLY BECAUSE OF THE POLITICS.

YOU CANNOT LET CATANZARA RUN THE DEPARTMENT BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO TAKE THE SERIOUS DISCIPLINE OF FIRING PEOPLE.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

THE UNIONS KIND OF CALLED THEIR BLUFF AND FOR A WHILE WE WERE STUCK AT 25 OFFICERS IN TROUBLE FOR IT WHEN THOUSANDS WERE DISOBEYING.

>> WHAT IS THAT NUMBER AT NOW?

>> LAST I HEARD IT WAS IN THE 30s.

>> THE DEFINITION OF SLOW WALKING THAT QUOTE-UNQUOTE PUNISHMENT THEY ARE NOT GOING FAST ON THAT.

>> NO.

AND IT REALLY SPEAKS TO THE DILEMMA THEY HAVE SAVING THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE CITY.

I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS IS GOING TO GET RESOLVED.

>> LET'S -- WE MIGHT HAVE A RESOLUTION IN THE KYLE RITTENHOUSE CASE NEXT WEEK.

LAWYERS PREPARE FOR CLOSING ARGUMENTS MONDAY AND THERE'S NATIONAL FOCUS ON THE JUDGE IN THE CASE.

TAKE A LOOK AT HIM GETTING TESTY WITH PROSECUTORS.

>> YOU ARE ALREADY -- I WAS ASTONISHED WHEN YOU BEGAN YOUR EXAMINATION BY COMMENTING ON THE DEFENDANT'S POST ARREST SILENCE.

THAT'S BASIC LAW.

IT'S BEEN BASIC LAW IN THIS COUNTRY FOR 40, 50 YEARS.

I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU WOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

AND IT GIVES -- I WILL LEAVE IT AT THAT.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE UP TO.

>> KIM BELLWARE YOU'VE FOLLOWED THIS TRIAL FOR THE "WASHINGTON POST".

WHAT IS JUDGE'S CONTENTION WITH THE PROSECUTION AND THIS IS THE CASE OF THE PROSECUTION STEPPING UP TO THE LINE ALMOST CROSSING THE LINE?

OR A JUDGE THAT IS ENGAGING IN UNUSUAL BEHAVIOR?

>> THIS IS EASILY THE MOST EXPLOSIVE DAY OF THE TRIAL THAT WE SAW.

AND YOU KNOW IT REALLY LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT A TOUGH TIME THE PROSECUTION HAS BEEN HAVING.

MOST OF THE DECISIONS HAVE NOT BEEN GOING IN THEIR FAVOR AND THIS BLOWUP THAT GOT SO MUCH ATTENTION IT STARTED FIRST WHEN THE PROSECUTOR WAS ASKING KYLE RITTENHOUSE WHO TOOK THE STAND WEDNESDAY HE WAS ASKING HIM ON CROSS-EXAMINATION ABOUT HIS SILENCE AFTER THE SHOOTING.

AND NOT SPEAKING NOW.

HE SAID HE WAS TRYING TO GO IN THE DIRECTION AND ESTABLISH THAT RITTENHOUSE HAD USED THE SILENCE TO HIS BENEFIT BECAUSE HE WAS ABLE TO LISTEN TO A WEEK-AND-A-HALF OF TESTIMONY AND TAILOR HIS TESTIMONY TO THE NARRATIVE OF THE CASE.

ONCE HE WADED INTO THAT THE JUDGE SLAPPED HIM DOWN THE PROSECUTOR WAS IMPUGNING RITTENHOUSE'S RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE JUDGE WHO HAVE APPEARED BEFORE HIM, SAY THAT HE IS VERY PROTECTIVE OF A DEFENDANT, ANY DEFENDANT'S PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND THERE WAS A BLOB THAT HAD TO DO WITH A DISPUTE OVER EVIDENCE THAT THERE WERE DIFFERING OPINIONS HOW MUCH IT HAD BEEN BARRED IN A PRETRIAL HEARING.

>> UNUSUAL MOMENTS.

RAVI BAICHWAL SOMEONE THAT HAS COVERED CASES BEFORE, HAVE YOU NOTICED JUDGES HAVING THESE KINDS OF MOMENTS OR STATEMENTS OR MAKING THE CRASS JOKES?

>> WE CAN YOU KNOW, IF YOU OF A CERTAIN AGE YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE OJ TRIAL AND YOU SEE WHAT THE MEDIA MADE OF LANCE ITO THE JUDGE BACK THEN.

THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY GOOD CIVICS LESSON FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IN TERMS UNDERSTANDING WHY CAMERAS ARE TYPICALLY NOT IN COURTROOMS.

BECAUSE THE CAMERA, THE UNBLINKING EYE ON TONIGHT CHANGES -- IT APPEARS TO CHANGE AT SOME LEVEL PEOPLE'S AWARENESS HOW THEY ARE BEING PERCEIVED.

AND MAY BE THAT HAS AN IMPACT ON THE BEHAVIOR.

I KNOW THAT NATIONAL NETWORKS HAVE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME ON THIS JUDGE'S BEHAVIOR TALKING ABOUT THAT AS A TALKING POINT AS ANOTHER SORT OF ISSUE HAVING TO DO WITH THIS CASE.

WHICH IS SO WROUGHT RIGHT NOW AND THAT WAS SO MANY WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THE OUTCOME IS GOING TO BE.

WE HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE AND JUDGES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IMPARTIAL NOT MOVED BY ANYTHING LET ALONE HOW THEY COME ACROSS ON CAMERA.

YET AGAIN, EVERYBODY ELSE CAN BE THE JUDGE HOW THIS JUDGE IS DEALING WITH THAT.

BUT IT STRIKES ME AND I SAW STUFF ON SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY THAT THIS JUDGE IS HIS COURTROOM IS BEING PORTRAYED FOR THE FIRST TIME THERE ARE PEOPLE JUDGING HOW HE JUDGES.

AND THIS IS A JUDGE WHO HASN'T HAD MANY PEOPLE SAY NO TO HIM OVER MANY, MANY YEARS.

HE IS OLDER AND HEARD EVERY ARGUMENT.

AND WE SEE HOW HE IS OPERATING.

YOU MENTIONED EARLIER JUDGES IN COOK COUNTY.

I THINK THIS IS A GREAT VISUAL ON HOW STATE JUDGES WORK AND HOW THEY OPERATE AND HOW SORT OF SMALL THEIR WORLD SOMETIMES IS.

AND YOU PUT THE WORLD'S EYES ON THEM MIGHT CHANGE BEHAVIOR.

>> YOU SPENT TIME IN COOK COUNTY COURTROOMS YOU'VE SEEN ALL KINDS OF THINGS HAPPEN.

>> KIM BELLWARE TO THE SUBSTANCE OF THE CASE, KYLE RITTENHOUSE TOOK THE STAND CLAIMING THE SHOOTINGS AND KILLINGS WERE SELF-DEFENSE.

HOW DID THESE ARGUMENTS TESTIMONY SIT, DO YOU THINK?

>> IT'S REALLY HARD TO TELL AT THIS POINT.

I WASN'T IN THE COURTROOM THAT DAY SO I DIDN'T GET TO SEE THE JURY'S REACTION.

THIS WILL COME DOWN TO IF HE IS BELIEVABLE THEY BELIEVE THE TEARS WERE GENUINE IF THEY DID THAT MIGHT HELP HUMANIZE HIM AND WIN HIM SYMPATHY.

BUT IF THEY THINK THESE WERE CROCODILE TEARS THAT COULD PUT THEM OFF.

DEFENSE EXPERTS KNOW IT CAN BE RISKY TO PUT YOUR DEFENDANT ON THE STAND ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE WINNING BECAUSE THE PROSECUTION DID SEEM TO BE STRUGGLING IT HAS A HIGHER BURDEN ESPECIALLY IN SELF-DEFENSE CASES IN WISCONSIN.

SO WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD IS THAT EITHER RITTENHOUSE WAS INSISTING ON IT AS THE CLIENT I'M TAKING THE STAND OR HIS LAWYERS WERE PRETTY WELL ASSURED THAT HE HAD SOMETHING GOOD TO SAY AND SOMETHING THAT WAS GOING TO BOLSTER HIS CASE.

AND IF YOU SAW THE REALLY TENSE BACK AND FORTH HE HAD WITH THE PROSECUTION ON CROSS-EXAMINATION HE CAME OFF AS WELL PREPARED AND DID NOT GIVE THE PROSECUTION A LOT OF ROOM TO MANEUVER.

>> LAURA WASHINGTON THIS CASE HAS BECOME A FLASHPOINT AND WHETHER ACQUITTED OR CONVICTED PEOPLE MADE UP THEIR MINDS ABOUT HIM.

ON THE FAR RIGHT PEOPLE SEE HIM AS A VIGILANT TAKING AN AR15 IN A COMBUSTIBLE SITUATION.

TWO LOST THEIR LIVES AND ONE INJURED.

ARE YOU WORRIED HOW A VERDICT MY REVERBERATE ACROSS THE COUNTRY?

>> I THINK EVERYONE IS WORRIED.

WE SAW A LOT OF CIVIL UNREST JACOB BLAKE CASE WHAT LED TO THIS PARTICULAR CASE.

AND THE MILITARY NATIONAL GUARD IS STANDING BY AWAITING THE VERDICT.

I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS INTERESTING ABOUT THE JUDGE'S CONDUCT, I THINK AS RAVI SAYS EVERYBODY IS WATCHING AND NOT JUST THE JURY BUT THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.

IF THERE IS A PERCEPTION THE JUDGE HAS BEEN UNFAIR TO THE PROSECUTION AND AND LEANING OVER BACKWARDS TO HELP THE DEFENSE THAT WOULD BE THE THING THAT WOULD INFLUENCE PEOPLE'S ANGER.

ONE MORE THING FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT RITTENHOUSE WAS GUILTY TO BE ANGRY ABOUT IT IF HE IS ACQUITTED.

IT'S HARD TO TELL.

I'M HOPING THAT IN KENOSHA AND IN CHICAGO AND OTHER PLACES WHERE THESE FLARE-UPS HAPPEN THAT WE'RE PAST THIS AND PEOPLE CAN WHATEVER THE VERDICT IS PEOPLE CAN ACCEPT IT AND MOVE ON.

BECAUSE THESE CITIES CANNOT AFFORD TO GO BACK INTO THE CHAOS WE HAD LAST YEAR.

>> AND SPEAKING OF VERDICT, KIM BELLWARE WHERE THE JUDGE AND LAWYERS AGREED THE JURY COULD DELIBERATE ON POSSIBLE LESSER CHARGES LIKE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE JASON VAN DYKE CASE IT WAS A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGE.

WHAT ARE THE CHARGES THEY MIGHT MULL HERE?

>> I WISH I HAD THOSE IN FRONT OF ME.

I THINK IT WAS MOST OF THE HOMICIDE CHARGES WHERE THE INTENTIONAL ONES COULD GET KNOCKED DOWN TO LESSER ONES.

I THINK IT WAS THE UNINTENTIONAL HOMICIDE THAT THE JUDGE WAS NOT GOING TO MOVE ON THERE IS A DISPUTE OVER CAN YOU INTENTIONALLY -- THERE WAS AN ISSUE ABOUT THE INTENTIONALITY CAN YOU BE INTENTIONALLY RECKLESS.

HE DID GIVE THE PROSECUTION A BOOST WHICH WAS THAT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO INCLUDE IN THE JURY INSTRUCTIONS SOMETHING THAT IS PART OF WISCONSIN'S SELF-DEFENSE LAW ABOUT PROVOCATION.

THEY ARE GOING TO SHOW EVIDENCE AND IF THE JURY AGREES THAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS WHAT THE PROSECUTION SAYS IT DOES THAT RITTENHOUSE IS POINTING A GUN AT THE FIRST MAN HE KILLED THEY CAN CONSIDER WHETHER OR NOT RITTENHOUSE WAS THE AGGRESSOR.

>> THIS IS GOING TO BE A LOT TO MULL NEXT WEEK WHEN THE JURORS GO INTO DELIBERATIONS AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE HOLDING THEIR BREATH AT THE OUTCOME OF THIS TRIAL.

>> LET'S MOVE ON TO LOCAL NEWS.

CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER AVIS LAVELLE QUITS.

LOOK AT WHAT SHE SAID.

>> LET ME BE CLEAR...

I AM NOT BEING FORCED OUT.

MAYOR LIGHTFOOT DID NOT ASK ME TO RESIGN.

SHE HAS BEEN RESOLUTE IN HER SUPPORT OF ME PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY.

AND FOR THAT I AM PROFOUNDLY GRATEFUL.

>> PRESSURE ON HER TO STEP DOWN IN THE FALLOUT OF THIS SCANDAL.

WHY DID SHE DECIDE TO DO THAT NOW?

>> THAT'S STATEMENT IS A REMARKABLE STATEMENT THAT THE MAYOR DID NOT ASK HER TO RESIGN CONSIDERING THE PRESSURE ON THEM AND CONSIDERING THE FACT THIS WAS A MAJOR DEBACLE LEADING TO THE ABUSE OF CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS IN THE PARK DISTRICT.

IT'S STUNNING THAT MAYOR LIGHTFOOT IF WHAT AVIS LAVELLE SAID IS TRUE THAT THE MAYOR PUT NO PRESSURE ON HER IS STUNNING.

I THINK AVIS' STATEMENT CATCHES MY EYE WHERE SHE SAYS THE MAYOR WAS STEADFAST IN HER SUPPORT PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY.

>> THAT IS NOT QUITE THE WAY I HEARD IT.

>> THE MAYOR DID NOT BACK THOSE CLAIMS UP.

>> I THINK IT IS A STRANGE CLAIM LIKE THE MAYOR'S STATEMENT ON THE RESIGNATION WAS THANK YOU TORE YOUR SERVICE.

WHICH IS VERY KIND IT'S KINDER THAN WHAT OTHER PEOPLE GET IN THESE TYPES OF SITUATIONS.

>> GREG AND PARIS, I SAY I WAS AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE WHEN THAT REPORT CAME OUT ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.

AND AVIS LAVELLE WAS UP FRONT AND I'M JUST A REPORTER JUST TAKING IN THE INFORMATION AND TRYING TO LOOK FOR SOME ACCOUNTABILITY AND LAURA WASHINGTON WILL UNDERSTAND THIS ESPECIALLY WHAT IT'S LIKE TO DEAL WITH THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN AROUND CITY HALL VARIOUS JOBS FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.

I WAS PERSONALLY THUNDER STRUCK BY HER BY AVIS LAVELLE'S ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY ABOUT WHAT WAS FOUND IN THE PARK DISTRICT REPORTS AND HOW IT WASN'T HER FAULT BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO REPORTED TO HER TOLD HER OTHER THINGS ABOUT HOW THESE PEOPLE WERE BEING TREATED.

IT WAS REMARKABLE TO ME HOW MUCH LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY SHE TOOK AND THAT SHE DIDN'T YOU HAD THAT HER ROLE WAS TO BE THE ONE WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE.

AT LEAST IT STRUCK ME THAT WAY.

AND WE GOT ALL THE REPORTERS GOT INTO IT WITH HER ASKING IF THE PEOPLE ARE NOT SAFE UNDER YOUR WATCH WHO ARE THEY SAFE UNDER?

I THOUGHT HER DAYS WERE NUMBERED AFTER THAT.

AND FOR THEIR TO THEN TURN BACK AND TALK ABOUT A PRIVATE CONVERSATION SUPPOSEDLY SHE HAD WITH THE MAYOR ABOUT THE MAYOR'S SUPPORT GOES TO THE MENTALITY SEEMS TO ME OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RUNNING THAT PLACE.

>> CERTAINLY IS HISTORY IN CHICAGO OF THE PUBLIC BOARDS EITHER NOT HAVING ANY CLUE WHAT IS GOING ON AS WAS THE CASE AT C.P.S.

>> SHE SAID SO.

SHE HAD NO CLUE.

WHICH IS AMAZING TO ME.

>> LAURA WASHINGTON IS THAT AN INDICTMENT OF THE BOARD OPERATING WITHOUT HAVING AN IDEA?

>> IT IS AN INDICTMENT OF HER AND THIS WOMAN HAS TREMENDOUS, DECADES OF EXPERIENCE IN GOVERNMENT STARTING BEING THE PRESS SECRETARY FOR MAYOR DALEY.

SHE KNOWS HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS FROM THE INSIDE OUT.

IF ANYBODY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HER.

PLUS, MY IMPRESSION IS SHE KEPT HER OWN BOARD IN THE DARK.

SHE KNEW THINGS SHE WAS PRIVY TO THINGS SHE DID NOT SHARE WITH THE BOARD DAMAGING TO THE PARK DISTRICT.

PART OF THE REASON SHE IS GONE IS BECAUSE HER BOARD TURNED ON HER YOU ARE NOT HERE FOR THE RIGHT REASONS TO COVER OUR BUTTS.

SO YOU NEED TO GO.

I THINK AGAIN, LIKE RAVI SAID IT'S REMARKABLE SHE FOUND HERSELF IN THE POSITION AND I DO NOT BELIEVE THE MAYOR WAS BACKING HER TO THE HILT.

I THINK THE MAYOR MADE HINTS ALONG THE WAY SHE WAS EXPECTING HER TO STEP DOWN AND SHE HAD TO DO.

>> I WANT PEOPLE WATCHING THE SHOW TO UNDERSTAND HONESTLY THAT CLUELESS SNS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR MISMANAGEMENT OF A PUBLIC TRUST.

AND I THOUGHT IT WAS SHARP AND IT WAS DEEPLY IN CONTRAST WITH WHAT PUBLIC SERVICE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT.

>> AND WITH C.P.S.

WE SAW THE BOARD GET REPLACED BECAUSE THEY WERE CLUELESS HOW THEY ABUSED THE PUBLIC TRUST.

>> THIS WHOLE PARK DISTRICT SAGA FROM THE TIME DAN REPORTED ON IT UNTIL NOW ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHING LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY FROM TOP TO BOTTOM IT IS REMARKABLE TO WATCH.

>> ESPECIALLY IN A TIME WHERE A LOT OF THINGS ARE COMING TO LIGHT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

#METOO AND YOU THINK THAT PUBLIC OFFICIALS WOULD BE VERY AWARE OF HOW TRANSPARENT THEY NEED TO BE.

GREG, I WANT TO TURN TO A COUPLE STORES YOU WROTE IN THE TRIBUNE ABOUT TOP POLICE BRASS BEING UPSET AT THE LACK OF REFORM AT C.P.D.

AND THE LACK OF COMPLYING WITH THE CONSENT DECREE.

ONE SERGEANT TOP LEADER THAT LEFT C.P.D.

SAID THEY ARE FAINING REFORM.

THEY ARE NOT DOING IT.

IS THAT TRUE ARE THEY FAINING THIS?

>> I THINK THE TRUTH IS PROBABLY THE TRUTH IS ALMOST ALWAYS IN THE MIDDLE IT'S NEVER AS BAD IT'S PROBABLY UNFAIR TO SAY SUPERINTENDENT BROWN DOESN'T CARE ABOUT REFORM BUT WHAT CHAD WILLIAMS RESIGNED BECAUSE HE SIDE THE TOP BRASS ISN'T GIVING IT SERIOUS ATTENTION, LIP SERVICE AND TRYING TO CHECK THE BOXES, IT SPEAKS TO THE FACT THAT THERE IS -- IT'S REALLY HARD TO CHANGE THE CULTURE OF A DEPARTMENT.

AND I BET IT'S TRUE WE REPORTED IT'S TRUE AND YOU CAN SEE IT EVERYDAY IN TERMS OF WHAT HAPPENS ON THE STREET AND THE CONSENT DECREE REPORTS.

THAT THEY ARE STRUGGLING TO IMPLEMENT REFORM.

IT'S PROBABLY UNFAIR TO SAY THEY DON'T CARE.

BUT THEY ARE STRUGGLING.

AND YOU HAD TWO HIGH RANKING CITY HALL OFFICIALS C.P.D.

OFFICIAL AND FORMER MAYOR'S TOP PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISER RESIGNING AND RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT THIS.

THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE SHOULD ABSOLUTELY BE THINKING ABOUT AND WORRYING.

BECAUSE IF THE CITY OF CHICAGO DOESN'T GET THE CONSENT DECREE RIGHT, IF WE CAN'T FIX THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE'RE IN FOR PEOPLE'S RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED AND FOR MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF TAXPAYER MONEY GOING TO CAUSES THAT NOBODY SHOULD GET BEAT AND MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

>> HALF A BILLION DOLLARS IN LEGAL SETTLEMENTS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.

>> IT'S LIKE A TAX THAT PEOPLE PAY THEY DON'T KNOW.

>> A PERCENTAGE OF THE TAX.

RAVI SPEAKING OF THE POLICE, PARTICULARLY VIOLENT WEEK ESPECIALLY IN HYDE PARK.

>> BOY.

>> A RASH OF SHOOTINGS FORMER U OF C STUDENT KILLED.

DO POLICE HAVE ANY ANSWERS?

>> NO, THEY DON'T.

I WAS ON THE STORY AND IT WAS SHOCKING.

A LOVELY NEIGHBORHOOD, RIGHT NORTH OF THE CAMPUS, RIGHT BY ONE OF THE LINES IN MY STORY WAS THAT THE VICTIM HAD TO BE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL OF THE CAMPUS WHICH HE JUST GRADUATED AND DIED THERE.

THIS WAS A YOUNG MAN 24 YEARS OLD GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FABULOUS SCHOOL CONFRONTED BY SOMEBODY DRIVING BY IN FRONT OF HIS HOME ON 54TH PLACE AND BEING HELD UP AND SHOT.

I KNOW THIS HAPPENS A LOT IN CHICAGO.

I'VE NEVER GOT EN USED TO IT.

YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN GETTING USED TO IT.

WHEN WE DO THOSE STORIES WE TRY TO TALK TO NEIGHBORS AND GET A SENSE HOW AFRAID DO YOU FEEL AND HOW MUCH IS THIS OUT OF THE ORDINARY?

AND THAT DAY THERE WAS ANOTHER SHOOTING WHICH YOU ARE GOING TO MENTION WITH JAHMAL COLE A FEW BLOCKS AWAY.

AND I DON'T KNOW LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE FELT LIKE EH, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS.

AND I THOUGHT THAT IS NOT RIGHT.

>> HYDE PARKERS ARE STUNNED IT BROKE OUT LIKE THAT.

SPEAKING OF VIOLENCE, KEN GRIFFIN THE STATE'S RICHEST MAN CITES THAT AS A REASON HE WANTS GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER OUT OF OFFICE HE IS GOING TO FUND WHOEVER HE THINKS CAN TAKE HIM ON.

LAURA WASHINGTON WHO IS THAT PERSON?

IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE ANYONE WHO IS A DECLARED CANDIDATE.

>> ALL THE DECLARED CANDIDATES ARE LITTLE KNOWN ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM DOWN STATE.

MOST OF THEM ARE VERY AVID SUPPORTERS OF DONALD TRUMP AND DONALD TRUMP'S WAYS OF POLITICS.

SO IT'S NOT LIKELY THOSE FOLKS ARE PEOPLE THAT KEN GRIFFIN WOULD WANT TO PUT HIS MONEY BEHIND.

THE RTA BOARD PRESIDENT KURT DILLARD SAID HE WAS THINKING ABOUT IT RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR TWICE ALREADY HE WOULD BE CONSIDERED A MODERATE SUBURBAN PERSON WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO BRING THAT VOTE TOGETHER.

IT WOULD BE TOUGH FOR HIM IN A CROWDED PRIMARY TO GET THROUGH IT.

HE WOULD NEED TO HAVE GRIFFIN'S MONEY.

IT SEEMS AS EVERYONE IS SITTING AROUND WAITING TO SEE WHO KEN GRIFFIN IS GOING TO ANOINT.

>> THAT IS A WAITING GAME.

WE'RE OUT OF TIME THANKS TO GREG PRATT, LAURA WASHINGTON, KIM BELLWARE AND RAVI BAICHWAL.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

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

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTH, SAFE AND WARM AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.

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