>> Hey, everyone, thanks for joining us on the weekend review.

I'm Brandis Friedman, Nick Bloomberg has the evening off the abrupt suspension of late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has Governor JB Pritzker warning of existential threat to our democracy.

>> What's at stake here is free speech.

It's our Constitution and our way of life.

We are fighting for democracy now.

And that is why people need to stand up and speak out.

>> President Donald Trump said Kimball was fired because of a lack of talent and low ratings.

But returning from a state visit to Britain, the president said TV networks that aired negative coverage of him could face consequences.

>> A license.

would think.

should be taken away.

>> In Chicago, a special budget task force recommends property tax hikes and higher fees to close a billion dollar budget deficit.

Mayor Johnson says spending isn't a problem.

The working group fully established that we do that have a spending problem in Chicago.

We have a revenue challenge in Chicago.

Water Patrol Chief Gregory announces a new federal crackdown on undocumented immigrants in Chicago.

Women incarcerated at Logan Correctional Center allege widespread abuse and retaliation.

Former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar lies in state at the Capitol ahead of his funeral tomorrow.

And in sports, the Chicago Cubs clinched their first playoff spot since 2020 cup sent out a way and air left field.

There's half.

>> He's got it.

And the I headed to the postseason.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us, our Chris Jones from the Chicago Tribune's editorial board.

They work hard WBEZ.

Melody Mercado from Block Club, Chicago and from W T Tw News.

Our very own Heather Sharon.

Welcome back.

Everybody.

So let's get right to it because ICE has been in Chicago for a couple of weeks after a lot of talk melody.

Earlier today, ICE agents deployed tear gas on protesters at the broad view ice 7 miles west of Chicago.

What do we know about what happened there?

We know that there have been continuous protests there that had gathered weekly, if not daily.

>> To protest ice coming in and out of the facility.

There was widespread videos this morning that show just absolute chaos at the scene where we have protesters lining up to prevent ICE officers from leaving and frankly vice officers don't care and kind through the crowd and and has deployed tear gas and other things too, to try to get protesters to move.

And I believe today they also took at least one protester into custody.

and I know that we had a crew down there along with other Chicago outlets as well.

And just something consistently that I've been hearing is just chaotic.

>> Yeah, we're looking at a little bit of video that now taken from social media from Evanston mayor and congressional candidate Daniel as well as congressional candidate Cat because ala, they're running for the same seat.

you noticed should be noted, DHS saying in press release this afternoon that they arrested 3 people by federal law enforcement.

I'm Sara, what are we hearing from local elected officials want know about how they're responding to this.

>> Most local elected officials are very much against what's going on with with the ice many instances this week where ICE have has.

Arrested.

People arrested earlier this week in Elgin.

They arrested 2 U.S.

citizens well.

They were, you know, conducting a raid and every day after these actions we are hearing from multiple elected officials that this is not what we want to be happening in our city.

And you know that the Sun-Times, all which is our sister publication.

Has reported that a lot of the people that are being arrested are not, you know, are not like these hardened criminals or not the worst of the Some of them aren't that they reported that they arrested in Chicago.

Are you in from Chicago?

I won't even arrested in Chicago.

So it's really we're really trying to get a handle on what is exactly happening here.

Heather, DHS is operation Midway Blitz.

It's been going on for a couple of weeks now.

we know that CPB Chief Gregory Bull be no.

He's announcing operation at large.

>> But what we know about like the tactics in some of the results have been coming out of these 2.

Today, the AP reported that ice told them that a total of 400 people had been detained as part of Operation Midway Blitz.

It's not clear sort what operation at large to has done or will do.

What's interesting is that most of those arrests, as we understand it worked what's known as collateral arrests, where they will go out and they will target somebody who is an order of removal or a criminal conviction and they will essentially detain everyone in the radius and sort seek to deport those people who are not here with legal status.

So that is where the bulk of those arrests are coming from.

>> And why very few of the people that weakens ascertain that has been detained by ICE have significant criminal criminal records.

And I think that is what is causing so much fear and concern because, you know, if you're a green card holder, if you're here on a visa and you're sort of swept up into one of these actions, it's unclear sort of whether you will be allowed to go about your business.

And to that point, Chris, you know, aside from undocumented immigrants, ICE has detained this week, one U.S.

citizen that we know of in some of these immigration sweeps.

>> And that was, including just this week, an ELF in Elgin.

Are there concerns that ice may be overreaching its authority here?

Well, I simply cannot arrest U.S.

Citizens know, can it arrest?

No, should arrest green card holders will a lawful permanent resident says that call.

>> And if they're in doubt on somebody's citizen status, then they have to move on and go find somebody else is not a citizen.

They cannot be doing that.

I mean, it's just job competence issue far as I'm concerned that no U.S.

citizens should have to deal with having to show ID to an immigration agent.

It's kind of preposterous that even talking about.

may now I suppose you could argue that, okay, they've people to show ID, but you don't really they should not be in the should not be interacting with U.S.

citizens period.

And what do you make of ISIS tactics altogether?

Well, I don't think any I can support these kinds of tactics.

People don't support military vehicles.

People asked to put masks 7 people in this region.

They don't support the kind of aggressive clothing.

Some of the wearing.

They don't support any of that.

What the weather is support for is the removal unlawful immigrants who have criminal records in this majority of Americans support governor of Illinois who said he supports that.

That's what people support the rest of it.

People don't support.

It's not that different from previous presidents in terms of immigration enforcement.

We had Larry Snelling into the editorial board on Friday.

He said that he said it's not numbers are not that different to us being gone on for many, many years.

But what's different is the tactics and it's sort of brutalize ation that is creating a climate of fear and it's counterproductive.

And I would say in case of U.S.

Citizens, green card holders, unacceptable.

>> And in Elgin, you know, they they they said at least from what people were telling us.

He said, like a hand grenade in, you to to scare people, their helicopters above.

I mean, there children who are waking up to this type of, you know, this type of siege and it, you know, it.

Yeah, it's it's it's sort of unbelievable that this is happening in.

Also they a student in the parking lot of Elgin Community College.

This night.

I don't know of any other situation where ICE has gone on to a college campus and arrested somebody they were looking to see if there's other instances.

But that's, you know, it's sort of unheard of.

>> And for its part, DHS sent out to releases this afternoon.

One criticizing Governor JB Pritzker on about some of the language that he has been using and defending the officer who shot and killed an immigrant that they were attempting to detain last week after after that, the person allegedly drove the car at officers ended up driving that for for Significant distances is the term they use.

They haven't given an actual term of measurement.

Meanwhile, the ability how would you say community members are responding?

Some are, you know, sort of responding with these rapid response teams to the thinking alert people in the community.

What are what are we seeing and hearing from community folks?

>> Yeah, I've seen rapid response members that consistently are riding around on bikes or scooters and their in their neighborhoods to go live or sent photos and videos to community members to alert them if ISIS in their neighborhood.

But club Chicago did a story about committee members also passing out whistles and various neighborhoods to at least sounds some sort of alarm.

We've seen videos of people physically blocking what they believed to be ice vehicles with their own cars standing in front of them.

And in some of and in some of these videos, we see that some of these tactics are successful.

We've seen ICE officers drive away or, you know, don't return back to the area.

But I would say that community groups have really stepped up in this, you know, in this moment and have really been shouldering, you know, sort of the alert system for their neighbors who can't necessarily might not have a smartphone that might not be watching the news and might be scared to, you know, leave their home.

Heather, what you know, what do you make of what the governor has been saying and what do you think we can expect from him and Mayor Johnson for that matter going forward?

Well, their ability to sort stop or limit whats been happening right now is >> really nonexistent because as Chris said, that these are federal agents executing federal law.

And I think the big issue is is that we started there was like a national sense that the president sort of had decided to not send military troops to Chicago and that somehow their resistance that like convinced the president to sort look to Memphis or other cities.

I think that, you know, we've talked a lot about what that non National Guard sort of, you know, state of affairs is in Chicago.

We heard from the president again today in the Oval Office that he intends to send National Guard troops Chicago.

I think violent chaotic confrontations like the ones we saw outside Broadview make that more likely raise the risk of that.

And I think it's just important to know that if the president does deploy National Guard troops, what we're seeing now the streets of Chicago is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of fear and potential chaos also, but that if that happens, the governor has said he will go to federal court.

He will ask a judge to stop the deployment.

But until then, there's not much more the governor can do then asking people to record asking people to give to mutual aid and asking people, as you numerous times to be loud for America.

Okay.

So let's move on a little bit because the other big piece of news that everybody is talking about this week, of course, is the Jimmy Kimmel suspension.

>> Chris, we just heard earlier in the show from Governor Pritzker warning of a fundamental threat to our way of life.

President Trump talking about taking broadcast licenses away from TV stations and networks that have never negative coverage of him.

What is your take on what Jimmy Kimmel said and what the reaction has been?

Well, I I'm fired up on this because I think everyone's lost minds on this whole story.

And I think that's an example of 2 things being was.

>> I think we can say unequivocally that there was no role for the federal government and anything.

Jimmy Kimmel said on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the FCC should not have got involved.

Didn't say anything.

>> That should have been of any kind of interest to them.

They should not question the networks.

>> did presha ABC, Disney, ABC, be she should have resisted that pressure.

Now, having said that.

>> I didn't like that, but that he did.

I thought it was a not particularly funny.

I think a lot of people have watched the whole bit.

If you include the video at the end, I thought it was somewhat cruel.

I think it people did.

And didn't reflect the fact that this was somebody who was shot and you have small children.

And I don't think in a year's time a lot of the people who are of manning the barricades, Jimmy Kimmel, look back on that bit.

And, know, that was a great piece of comedy.

That's just my view.

I just I watched you know, it's that's, you know, they were the the networks are entitled to say to him, his bosses, just like we all have bosses.

They can always say, you know, we don't like that.

Would you can not invite me back next week because of something I set tonight so there is the business side of it.

And that's the legitimate side.

I think also that, you know, free speech suddenly now the left is this COVID free speech and the right is sort of I've been the other way and I literally got an op-ed from somebody get exact opposite winning piece that they liked, but so unequivocally no role for the government should not be censored that should not be pressured.

But that wasn't Jimmy Kimmel's find this moment.

That said Governor Pritzker making calls for viewers to boycott in protest Nexstar and Sinclair, including some local stations here.

>> Ridiculous.

I was really interested to see how quickly Governor Pritzker responded to this whole conflagration.

He was out with a statement on social media within minutes of the announcement by ABC News or ABC.

Sorry, that was Jimmy Kimmel is going to be suspended and he was on MSNBC that night sort of giving those remarks that we saw a little bit of, you know, we all expect Governor Pritzker who is running for a 3rd term governor to also run for president in 2020.

And it's clear that in his political calculus he sees this as a winning issue or at least he feels an obligation to sort of sound the alarm about this as he has been sounding the alarm.

>> About the potential as military personnel in Chicago's streets.

But my job to sort of see everything through a political lens for better or for worse.

And when a politician moves act quickly on a developing story.

That's when my Spidey sense always goes up a little and that's why you have I know it's the people who work in Chicago WGN TV had nothing to do with that decision boycotting WGN of governor telling people to do that is an overreaction.

Ridiculous.

He shouldn't be doing reading Love's and say I think, you know, one of the biggest things to highlight here is that next star wants to merge with which if people are not familiar, Nexstar carries a bunch of local station's tech now has about 60 to 70 other stations.

They want to add to that.

>> Of course, they need the appeal of the president of the FCC.

They need the appeal of President Trump to move this forward.

And so I think there is a concern on, you know, those people in power influencing businesses to make decisions that benefit them which everybody should I think should be concerned about.

>> Okay.

So Chicago Budget Task Force this week recommended that the city hike property taxes annually to be able to keep pace with inflation to help close that little budget deficit of about a billion dollars the tax for task force warned that decisive budget action Heather is not taken that the consequences for city services would be profound.

Nobody likes a good tax hike, especially new politicians.

But sometimes you have to eat your vegetables.

Not that I'm suggesting eating vegetables and But how is the mayor responding to what the task force recommended?

Well, he is sort taking what he leaving when he doesn't like.

He has said he will not propose a property tax hike of any amount whether tied to inflation or not to close this budget gap.

>> But he's glad that the task force essentially agrees with his take of the larger issue that the issue is not that Chicago is overspending or that there's a lot of waste, fraud or abuse.

But that essentially Chicago's revenue has not kept pace with this expense sort of like, you know, you're somebody who has a job, but you, you know, your mortgage has gone up or your rent has gone up and your your income is just not keeping up with those costs.

Now the question is, will have you bridge that gap?

And Chicago's budget has been out of whack to some degree or another for decades.

So the question is, how how do you how do you fix The big issue is is that the property tax is really the only major love for the city can pull to sort of raise significant amounts of of revenue.

The other task force for recommendations were frankly Pne.

Let's put advertising online.

Polls lets you know, let's tax, you ambulance rides more significantly.

Let's increase the liquor tax.

That is not going to find a billion dollars within the next by the end of the year.

It just isn't.

So the big question is, what is the city going to do?

Well, if it wants to raise other taxes needs help from Springfield.

Just like you said, there are very few elected officials who are eager to vote for any kind of property tax dollars in the in the couch cushions Crist.

Well, if you have a panel and you say.

>> I want revenue ideas and and cutting ideas and you can come out and say we don't have a spending problem.

We have a revenue problem.

You're essentially saying to the final, I'm not going listen to half of your ideas, right?

I mean, that's what he said.

So that would suggest that those dead in the water anyway.

I think he call it does have a spending problem.

I think one of the problems is that the city government is much larger than it's been.

don't Chicagoans with say it Also says or does anything So the reality is that this the city government has to shrink.

It's just a very painful process and it doesn't.

I think that it said, you know, we cannot potentially going down the road to insolvency point when the city com pay its bills, then it gets really unpleasant.

And you have sort of disorderly situation where people really start to suffer.

The other part of this is heaven knows is, you know, JB Pritzker added this.

This pensions we from the police and firefighters that added according to the city, what was 11 billion dollars in unfunded liabilities?

So again, this had the says these things like light poles and garbage fees.

That was 11 billion dollars.

city has no ability as an unfunded liabilities.

So think a lot of smart some are saying, look, this is really situation.

not going to sell for the garbage fees.

The has to be a concentrated, possibly multi will definitely multi-year Rafah just to make government more efficient and 2 sketches out of this whole I was just wondering because didn't read the task force report.

I what are the expenses that they say that should be cut?

I'm just was a year.

Does not make a lot of the furlough days.

And you know, increase in the garbage fee, which is significantly subsidize right now by the city.

But the issue is this, the of about of the city's discretionary fund.

So that's money that the city council gets decide how to spend.

>> Fully half of that goes to the Chicago Police Department.

And if you ask most people who want to shrink the size of government and you say, wow, great half of that's got to come from the police department.

>> They will accuse you of wanting to put people's lives at risk, which makes it really hard to have sort of a fact-based discussion about how to shrink a city government because if you believe that you are arguing that the Chicago Police Department should shrink and that a nonstarter for many people in you did some reporting this week on the costs that CPD spends folks are going go to the website because we have to keep it moving because specifically about how, again, drastically over their overtime budgets for the 7th straight year.

But I want to get their back in on education because you've done some reporting on special and cuts at CPS this week.

Pretty illuminating.

What did you find?

Well, essentially, what I found is that in the spring, when they hand out budgets to principles for the coming school year.

>> They cut about 1000 special education positions, you know, a good chunk of special education classroom aides and and also teachers.

Then school started.

They looked the kids and look at the minutes that they need to have services and decided they needed.

Add back 600 positions.

Now they say this was their plan all along.

And this is because they're trying to right size the system and they wanted to make sure the kids were in the schools so that they could, you know, send the teachers aides to where the kids are.

And and and it goes back to this whole.

There's it's very hard in a school district that so big like Chicago, public schools.

Kids are mobile, you know, and and and trying to get make sure that the resources or the kids are is is a difficult, very delicate task.

But there are a lot of people saying.

Adding back 600 once the school year has started is is a very difficult thing because it's hard to feel that it's hard to fill those positions.

I mean, there's not like a bunch of teachers just sitting around sitting around waiting to be called at the beginning of the school year.

They're usually hoping to get that phone over the summer before the previous co-write it right.

You get you get a debit.

The other thing, though, that's very interesting, as did all of in Roman data that hasn't officially come out.

But that's all the sort of roughly public shows that the number of kids who are getting special education services has grown exponentially.

I mean, we're talking about 54,500 kids are getting special.

Education services has another 20,000 get some sort of extra support.

I think this speaks to the fact that there's a lot of need and this is a school system that does not have a lot of money.

And so there's a lot of hard decisions that people are trying to figure Really.

What do you imagine some of this means for the students and their families?

Well, it means as Sarah highlighted her story, their children coming home better.

>> You know, not.

>> achieving what they what they should be able to like.

Education was in the classroom because they're simply not getting what is legally, you know, obligated that the school district should be giving them, whether that's one on one time or, you know, some sort of assistance to better understand the curriculum and help them with their specified needs.

And I think that's very disappointing for a parent to hear your child come home from school and say I'm trying my best.

I just I just I'm not understanding it >> okay.

So before we run out of time, Chris, in addition to being among several recent governors who did not go to prison Governor Jim Edgar died this week at the age of 79.

How do you think he'll be remembered?

What his legacy as governor Illinois?

I think his legacy is one of cooperation of reaching across the aisle and of somebody with the ability to balance a budget, kind of a law scale in Illinois and somebody who really cared about the state.

>> I'm also somebody who, interestingly enough didn't run for additional save money could have been elected, which these days is kind of a wild thing.

And he sort of said no.

And non, by the way, not only did he not run for an additional 10, he didn't lot of people wanted him to run for higher office.

The governor to end it all down saying that he wanted to spend time with his family that he felt like he was done and then he put that attention back into creating this great fellows program and really giving back to state of Illinois.

And I think there was some sort of aging Republicans out that little pack on that.

Good and they go.

Wow, that was those were the days and now cost party barely exists in Illinois certainly the people like Jim McGovern, ag and not in power anymore.

And I think for a lot of people that was a wistful moment, the passing of really great Illinois.

And right with the Cubs fans to come for me.

So let's talk to Even if they got into for the first time since 2020, what are your expectations?

20 seconds.

So I live right by the bull Pa I didn't want to game.

So I want them to get home feel, you know, they they have the best record.

They get home feed on field of and I get to maybe go twice if I can get a ticket.

So but I think it's great to Chicago.

We're ready for something like this.

It's been a few yen is come on.

a lot of gun companies go, cubs.

Go.

All right.

Fingers crossed for the All right.

We're out of time.

Know my thanks to Chris Jones and Sarah Cart as well as noting Mercado and Heather Sharon.

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>> Okay.

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Went to the first time since May.

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And so would you want to be like in one of the later he's going to be like one little friends of the river.

We marched to battle.

I'm not want to say her name wrong right now, but we her on the show as well.

And I think talked about think you might want just be talking a lot how the river is actually much healthier than people think bad rap from the days when it was sure.

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