>> Good evening and thanks for joining us on the week in review.

I'm Nick Blumberg.

Community members cry foul after federal agents drag a teacher out of the day care.

>> crossed a line.

>> Our schools, our libraries are churches should be safe, places for our children.

>> Community members are calling for the teachers release saying she had a valid work permit.

>> And there've been uses of force that proper.

>> No all uses of force.

And then more than exemplary.

>> Not so says a federal judge who slaps tight restrictions on immigration agents use of force.

We're not going to continue to balance budgets off the backs of working people.

There's a better pathway forward.

Mayor Brandon Johnson defends his budget proposal as Alders forces special meeting over potential cost cutting measures.

Meanwhile, the city's watchdog hits Johnson again over the mayor's gift room.

Congressman chilly Garcia makes a surprise announcement that he won't run for reelection and there's a successor waiting in the Wings.

And travelers brace for mayhem as the FAA restricted air traffic amid the record long government shutdown.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are our own Matt Masterson of Wt Tw News, Melody Mercado of Block Club.

Chicago.

Hillary gallons of the Chicago Tribune and Patrick things ton of the Illinois political newsletter.

Let's get right to it.

Thank you all for being here.

You know, Sir, Hilary, we just heard that parent to the daycare where the teacher was detained this week say agents crossed a line to agree with her?

>> Well, you know, we've weighed in a lot of the Tribune editorial board on the immigration enforcement issue.

And most recently we we touched on this story, too.

And what we wrote is essentially that immigration enforcement and daycare are incompatible and you kind of have to wonder this point.

I mean, if you're the Trump administration, what is a win look like here?

If they're smart, they need to be thinking about and exit strategy even better would be if they started opening up a dialogue again about immigration reform that refocuses on making it easier to migrate here legally.

And, you know, still keeps a border secure.

But this this can't go on.

But the but the problem here is there not be smart about it.

They're playing to their base.

They're playing as far right as humanly possible.

They want to wages much chaos in the streets as they can.

>> That's the wind for these guys.

But Venus becoming a star in right-wing circles because of this.

This is exactly what they want.

They want chaos.

They want to embarrass Democrats.

They want to embarrass blue cities as bad as it makes them.

Look to us a look at this with any sort of critical ally.

The Wrights loving it.

Well, I mean, to that point, does it.

Does it feel like going inside a school is the sort of moment that might galvanize even people who support stricter enforcement to speak up here.

>> Well, I think the narrative from the Trump administration has been consistently that they're going after the worst of the worse.

And I think the video showing officers dragging ow teacher that works there and is not.

Fulfilling their narrative of the worst of the worse.

I would argue again, it's it's hurting the Trump administration.

But again, still playing to the to their to their base of the really extreme right?

>> Well, you at the among the many ongoing cases you've been following the mid Operation, Midway Blitz.

There's been judge Sarah Ellis says efforts to rein in immigration agent specifically when it comes to to use of force.

There was daylong hearing this week.

Tell us about some of the testimony we heard.

Well, you mentioned an exit strategy.

There's clearly no plans for that whatsoever.

These border patrol and ice agents don't feel that they're doing anything wrong.

They feel that they're abiding by these orders that are restricting their use of tear gas rubber bullets of >> pepper, that they're only using them in these extreme circumstances.

Even though videos clearly show that a priest standing on the street with his arms outstretched is apparently worthy of being shot with rubber.

Multiple times are parents trick-or-treating with their kids.

So Dallas, of course, issued this preliminary injunction extending her temporary restraining order.

Is that going to make any change here?

The restraining order and preliminary injunction are similar and merit.

The difference is the length of time that they're going to last.

But they already felt that they were abiding by this temporary restraining order.

So now that this is just in place longer, is that going to make any changes going forward in the streets where immigration enforcement efforts are happening?

It doesn't seem like it.

They are great.

But, you know, testified that he all the use of force that's going on under Operation Midway Blitz has been exemplary more than exemplary Judge Ellis obviously disagree.

But that hasn't changed anything that's been going on over the last month and with this water in place now going forward, is it going to change anything?

It's very unclear at this point.

You know, we just saw a bit of the video of commander, the, know, you know, tackling someone.

And he basically said in.

>> In court this week that no, that wasn't a use of force.

That was just arrest.

Just use of force or I'm sorry, it's not use of force that think that's what you got to do to make an arrest that's completely justified.

Even if the person wasn't >> resisting, they were following orders to back up whatever they need to do to bring people in.

They're going to do it.

They made that very clear.

>> Yeah, I mean, you know, we also got to hear some of nose recorded deposition.

>> You know, and he said sort of that.

This notion, among other things that the use of force has been exemplary.

You know, stood out to you from what we saw from vino this week?

>> Well, I think that what's turnout, I mean, it's it's more of the same.

And everyone hears touched on that.

Both sides are digging in.

I think that's to regular people's detriment.

I think in other cities you've seen people, even bitter political enemies try to come together and find some sort of resolution.

Whether you think that's realistic or not.

I mean, at some point, something's gotta give.

>> And the problem here is that what were seen from the leadership, whether it's it's bovino itself or from the misses were getting from DHS in Washington.

And Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson who armed habitual liar at this point.

It's not just fiction.

It's science fiction that we're getting from from the federal government today on what's happening in the streets.

That should scare all of us that we can't trust what's coming from the federal government.

Thank God for the journalists in the city.

The the people who are pulling out their cell phones that are able to capture what's happening so that we're not just getting one side of the story because most cases, right, we found generally police to be believable in our lives.

Not so much right now.

And I think one thing that particularly stood out is that we've been seeing statements from DHS and bovino trying to paint these narratives that we're finding out.

>> In this deposition that he did that for those narratives was actually not true where he said that he deployed tear gas after he was hit in the head with a rock by a protester.

He then admitted during the deposition that that is not actually what happened.

Yeah, here's a bit of that.

Still of him actually tossing the tear gas And so I think it's again, just points to the importance of documenting everything and having all the journalist right here in Chicago and the people that send us photos and videos that show and that the narrative that DHS and will be no hadn't painting of Chicago of protesters is just most of the time.

Not true.

Yeah.

With complete lack of video of an Iraq being thrown at him.

He repeated under oath during his deposition for days that this rock was thrown that pass.

The reason you do that.

>> took days and days and days of questioning before he finally did admit that wasn't the case.

Can I just 4 before move on to it?

>> The they had an opportunity to to really do something important here.

It when they came in and said we're going to go after the worst of the worst come in shows your stack of dictator shows you stack of warrants.

Tell me the bad people that you're going to go get and go get will be cheering for you on the street corners.

Don't go pick up at of Wayland Little Village just because she's brown this.

This is just by passing.

Not only their laws that govern them, that they're bypassing the Constitution at times.

just even as someone who who writes and leans to the right I go.

crazy watching this happen in real time.

Well, it's interesting to sort of to this point of the various narratives swirling around.

You know, we heard Judge Ellis say that the body camera is your friend because this will help prove out some of these claims.

you have to wonder, yeah, it is that really the point or is it sort of this, you know, kind of this sort of social media narrative that they're trying to create, that they want these videos that they want folks out there to, you know, on in the base to see these things.

>> I I I think the truth will set you free.

I don't know that other people would agree with That's all I would say on that.

I guess.

Biggest portions of the video that seems fairly clear.

And Judge Ellis talked about this yesterday when she was giving orders.

Well, but some of the body camera video.

>> Bill dispute what they said in the video.

They said I said get him a Border Patrol I said get them, get them, not hit them, hit them charge.

All said no.

You said hit them.

Very clear.

They said they were pulling shields off of people that had nails there wasn't much evidence of that.

The they destroyed the shield to have soon after they recover them.

But when there are these videos that seem to show something clear cut, they'll still dispute what's going on there.

>> Well, it meant there was also legal action this week over conditions at the broadview immigration facility where that the details there.

So the judge, Robert Gettleman issued a temporary restraining order in that case today after several detainees testified through a separate all-day hearing on Tuesday about these inhumane conditions that they're crammed into holding cells with over 100 other people.

Lights are on.

24 hours a day.

There's no bats.

People are sleeping in chairs or on the floor.

>> Showers.

It's a facility that's most to hold people for no more than 12 hours.

And people have said they've been held there for 12 days.

The temporary restraining order that's now in place, a spouse to remedy And today during a status hearing, government attorneys said that is taking steps to fix this.

They've ordered beds.

are guaranteeing that detainees have the access to their legal counsel, which was what spurred this lawsuit that they claim that they couldn't talk to anyone.

But again, took days or a full day of testimony from people who are in there for days and days and days to get to this point.

And the attorneys who are representing a group brought this lawsuit there still contesting that anything has changed.

It's only been 2 days while the government attorneys are saying, yes, we're making these fixes.

The attorneys representing these detainees have said we've seen nothing yet.

>> I think it's important to note that nobody's been allowed into that facility been clergy members as Congressman, there's an then Illinois senator's I have tried to get access to this facility to really try to look at the conditions.

And so I think one of the major arguments as well okay, you're saying you're making all of these changes, but how we know if nobody lettuces and to actually look around.

Yeah, one, it's interesting to me.

>> This isn't meant to be a long-term facility.

And you have to mention immigration officials knew this before Operation Midway Blitz.

You know, when try to stand up something more suitable.

Well, this is one of the downsides of the trust act, the ineffective.

>> In the state right now is they can't ship these these people who are in custody to a state jail.

Any county jail anywhere in the state, any state prison, any facility state essentially with their argument to be we don't have anywhere to put them and unless they're shipping them to another state, the the teacher, the daycare centers in somewhere in southern Indiana right now and, you know, it's a question of of where where do they go?

So so they did step one.

Let's go get him.

But to we have no idea where to where their where to put them when we get that, which is just more proof of the terrible planning and execution that they've they've been doing.

Yeah.

And of course, Illinois was targeted in part because of its status as a sanctuary state.

>> right.

Well, let's turn to some city news.

Lots to talk about with the ongoing budget negotiations.

But first melody, we have to talk about the gift room that keeps on city's inspector general says it was once again inaccessible visa.

So hard to get cleared up me the mayor's office would learn after the first time, but it seems like they have not.

Additionally, they were found to be storing items that are supposed to be and the gift room but were not located in the gift to room.

>> And so I don't know.

We'll see a 3rd time around, though.

They actually get it right and have everything located where it needs to be.

Will they?

>> Let people and you know, with I believe it's once every 3 months they allow visitors to common, expect inspect everything that's in there.

I think this is something that's really simple to get down with the administration but just seems like they haven't been able stick the landing here yet.

>> have to mention Hillary with everything that's going on with, you know, operation Midway Blitz with the city's budget negotiations.

This is the last thing the mayor's staff wants to be dealing with this sort of a headache.

Yeah, I mean, this is just unforced error and that's exactly what you don't want when you're in the middle of more than a billion dollar deficit budget crisis.

Well, speaking of that deficit, older people forced a special meeting.

They want to hear from.

>> Consultants hired by the city to find cost-cutting measures.

You know, Patrick is does pressing the mayor on you know, portend another budgeting season that goes right down to the wire.

I could ask my three-year-old to explain algebra.

He couldn't do it.

I don't know that the mayor can do this.

mean, this where were seen day after day that this is a mayor in an administration that is way out over their skis.

>> And they they are having an impossible time trying to the budget situation.

It's it's terrible.

They walked into a terrible situation.

But that's where the grown-ups show up.

And this is an administration that is entirely unprepared and has been entirely unprepared for 2 years now to to manage the city budget and have a plan that actually works.

One that can work with state law within state law.

northeast, the shiny new decor and ideas he's living in a different reality than what exists on the ground.

And that's why you're seeing a budget chaos.

One of the other problems is where the loyalties lie to him and he got elected on the backs of labor.

And, you know, we're not the only city in the country that faces major budget deficits.

Other cities have done this, too.

>> Places in California, for example, Los Angeles, San Francisco have faced serious deficits and have figured out ways to get public sector unions to the table.

Balancing budgets with some combination of furloughs, layoffs, which no one wants.

But in this situation, you have to have that stuff on the table.

Leadership needs to set the tone that everyone's going to be sharing the sacrifice.

All right.

Don't mince words you to your really holding back tonight.

We can >> All right, Matt, our colleague Heather Sharon reported this week that Chicago Police Department overspent its budget by 500 million dollars and 5 of the last 6 years.

seems like chronic problem for CPD and not necessarily alters looking to rein that spending.

It.

>> I mean, there's I don't know you're supposed to do about it.

It's over time over every single year.

It seems like it's the same problem just over and over and over again.

And yes, when they can get away with spending 500 million dollars beyond what they're supposed to do.

over and over again without penalty.

Why >> What Melody you you reported this week on a budget item that came as a surprise to the local alderman.

Tell us about the Greyhound station downtown KC as many people might know that at the Greyhound station has been on a month-to-month lease for about a year now.

And so the future of that facility has really been in limbo here.

Lots of people use that station.

People from low income status is people disabilities that can't drive and seniors to really get out and around Illinois and through other states.

Well, the city is planning to use TIF funds about 50 million dollars to buy that facility and rehab it so that the city can maintain a bus terminal of some kind.

But, you know, the thing here is that Alderman Bill Conway who represents the ward where the bus terminals located, said that this was a surprise.

He represents the ward.

He had never heard that the city was going to buy this actually asked him probably about 2 months ago.

He thought the city had an appetite to buy And he said no, absolutely considering we have a huge budget deficit but surprise surprise.

He was looking through the tips.

Waterfall documents provided by the city and he saw that line item that was snuck in there and was not very happy about it mean to suffer economic development.

They even do that.

I think they can use host latest thing, whatever, that whatever they want to really stoke out anymore, you can you can declare tips in surplus and do a whole heck of a lot with them.

But I mean, you would think this is something that >> hypothetically Conway would want to see, you know, knowing that folks do rely on this.

But certainly that the surprise element of it real issue.

It's a surprise element.

That's an issue he's not against.

Get it.

He's not against keeping the bus terminal are finding a way to keep it.

>> I think something that's important to know about Conway's that he has a strong financial background.

He leads a little bit more conservative conservatively when it comes to budgeting.

And so his question is, should we really be using this money for this at this moment?

Can it wait?

Can we find some other maybe private public partnership to get this deal done instead of just using 2 funds for Yeah, maybe not.

The best moment to be spending.

What seems like extra money to some folks.

>> Will some city at the Chicago School board has put together its list of finalists for the next permanent school CEO.

interim is reportedly not on the list here.

Yeah.

Mechling can.

King did not make the cut apparently for the final 2 is comes up a bit of a surprise.

She was working in the Johnson administration when she was appointed to replace Peter Martinez.

I interim basis.

>> You would think that she was would be more aligned with Johnson, that he would probably push more strongly for her to get the job full time.

But with major issue she's faced so far, the district budget.

>> She brought forth one that largely mirrored her predecessor, Pedro Martinez, which is a big reason why the board fired him.

It did not include this pension payment.

It's an issue that board, budget was approved as is without that payment.

And it was surprising decision that could or yes, exactly.

And that very well could be why she is not one of the finals.

This board obviously is partially elected.

It's not as beholden to the mayor is previous iterations of this board.

But at the same time, Johnson still has a lot of sway with that.

He has majority control with appointees and the board president.

So if he doesn't want somebody to get the job, he can still have a very large voice in that conversation and to know what the timeline is here for the permanent person.

To be a point, it sounds like there could be decision next week on who that person is going to be.

Finalists are going to be revealed soon enough.

And then the board is supposed to vote on that contract in December to finally officially make that decision to be very interesting to see who ends up with that job.

It's not easy one.

>> All right.

Speaking of someone who's leaving a job, Hillary Congressman Garcia made the very last minute announcement that he would be seeking another The tribute at Oriole Board had, shall we say, some quibbles with his tactics to Well, you to see a has been a very outspoken critic of people on the other side of the threats to democracy.

>> And with what he did, I mean, you could argue he's becoming a Now, his side of the stories that he recently became aware of some serious health issues.

And of course, your health needs to come.

First, I sympathize with him there.

And, you know, I don't blame him for waiting to make a choice.

It's right for him.

However, the timeline that he presented sort of raises some serious questions.

So what he said is that he found out about the situation very late October his wife asked him last Tuesday not to as health issues of her own right.

They've adopted grandchild, but that's still over a week before the filing deadline.

Now he did announce until hours before that deadline, somehow his chief of staff miraculously had all the signature she needed to be able to become successor of And I think that's a He didn't announce anything until after the deadline kill somebody.

Finally got him on the phone, pressed him on it.

>> This is the worst of our politics.

And Garcia is not the only one.

Marty Moylan in the suburbs doing this to in the state house that day.

You could Ascension a coronation of your replacement without a primary.

Think of all of the talented politicians, the the forward thinking politician, Democrat or or independent or whatever that the live in the 4th district live in Markham Woods district that that would really create a really interesting primary that could have got enough signatures to get on the ballot in that last weekend.

If he decided that Tuesday before the deadline, when his wife asked him not to run, that that he was out, he should have said so on Wednesday morning that I'm not running again and given every single one of those people opportunity to get on the ballot by the deadline this Monday, he didn't do it to engineer the seat for his chief of staff.

That is as bad as it gets in our politics.

of course, this is a tactic we've seen before.

Whether it's, you quietly gathering signatures to be ready to go like the chief of staff or, >> you know, getting, you know, winning the primary and then stepping down.

does it seem like there's any appetite or any mechanism necessarily to curb this kind of a move that us get?

Yes, Democrats in Springfield to do anything that looks like election reform and it's not going to happen.

So I I wouldn't get your hopes up.

But I mean, yeah, I would hope that folks know that.

>> The people who are representing them and how they got there, right.

I remember back in in 2012, Tim Johnson, a congressman downstate.

He just stepped away and said I'm not I'm not going back everybody.

Anybody go figure it out after after filed won the primary, think, you know, that's the better way to do it.

You open open forum, go figure it out.

Instead, give give somebody give voters a choice.

Instead, this is just there's no competition now for Petty Garcia who is no that will.

You know, Hillary, speaking of the General Assembly, the past a measure on this so-called right to die, Bill.

The governor has yet to say what he's going to do.

>> the trip is hoping that that he will decline to find out.

Why is that?

>> Well, obviously really serious issue.

We've heard very good arguments from both sides to make fair point either way.

So on the one side, you've got people saying it so many people suffer needlessly in their final days.

sure most of us, if not all of us have either witness someone go through that where we know someone who has on the other side, you have people who say, look, in places where this has been the law of the land for a little bit longer, there have been some turns taken should give everyone pause.

So, for example, big story earlier this year was a 29 year-old woman in the Netherlands who suffered from depression and other mental health issues.

And she decided to take advantage of the rules of Netherlands rules and she ended her own life.

You don't need to be terminally ill to do that in the Netherlands and Canada and 2021.

They also expanded who can take advantage of those rules.

So I think what you see start out as a policy board of compassion can sort of take a life of its own.

We urge them to veto that.

Well, another big.

>> He says Springfield news that the General Assembly, as we all know, came through with that 1.5 billion in funding for transit.

But now the riders won't have to pay higher fares next year, which we had previously seen, you know, budgeted for Melody.

Were you surprised to see the reversal there?

>> I feel like a lot of people made enough noise to the it they did the right thing here.

Eventually, though, will we see a transit fee increase?

It's possible.

We we.

>> Have to wait until I believe it's the new board that's going to be implemented.

And part of that decision was that the people that will be on that should be able to have say and weather or not the the different fees will be raised.

So all I'm more interested in what will happen a year from now.

>> Well, who knows what happens a year from now, but what happened this evening was great with all of you.

But unfortunately, we are out of time.

So our thanks to Matt Masterson, Melody Mercado.

Hillary gallons and Patrick things done.

And we're back to wrap things up right after this.

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>> And that's our show for this Friday night.

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I'm Nick Blumberg.

Thank you for watching.

Stay healthy, stay safe and stay informed.

Have a great weekend.

>> Okay.

Folks going to O'Hare or Midway.

Maybe not having a great weekend about 100 flights canceled today as the FAA restricts airspace front of you have any looming travel.

That's why got second member of the weakest.

It get the holidays looming.

Does this seem like this might break the stalemate?

>> Except to break the stalemate.

Right.

And this is the kind of thing, too, that there's not necessarily court case that folks can try and force administration can hear you in >> Closed captioning is made possible by Clifford and Clifford Law offices wishing all happy and healthy