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

I'm Nick Blumberg.

Chicagoans add their voices to nationwide protests after an ice agent fatally shoots a woman in Minneapolis.

A woman attacked them.

>> And those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle.

Dhs Secretary Kristi Noem blames the shooting victim Renee good labeling her a domestic terrorist.

But Minnesota officials and eyewitnesses dispute the claims as video footage appears to show goods vehicle turning away from the officer.

>> And the media pause in federal funding would have dire consequences for health.

And safety of millions of Americans.

Illinois joins 4 other Democratic lead states suing the Trump administration over 10 billion dollars in frozen funding for low-income families.

There were alders he chose to create projections.

>> That quite frankly just were not tethered to you know, reality Mayor Brandon Johnson says the budget passed over his objections could mean city worker layoffs.

Meantime, a city council committee advances the latest attempt to expand the city's curfew powers in an effort to curb large gatherings, teens.

Peoples gas once 200 million dollar rate hike next year.

And it's deja vu all over again as the Bears prepare to meet the Packers this time in a first-round playoff game.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are Jeff Buckles of WBBM NewsRadio such an Simons of WBEZ Elvia Malagon of the Chicago Sun-Times and freelance journalist Brandon Polk.

Thank you all for being here.

Let's get right to it.

About 700 things happened this right.

We'll starting Jeff, the White House earlier today.

They they shared another video clip of that shooting incident from a different angle They're still saying that the shooting victim was attempting to harm immigration agents.

But what if we've been hearing from from observers and seeing from other video, it's pretty much consistent with what we had seen right after the shooting of Renee good this week that >> appeared that she was not posing a threat to the ICE agents who were there.

And that indeed, as you point out in the opening piece, looked like she was turning away from the officers when they fired into the window of her SUV.

Governor Pritzker spoke about this yesterday during a bill signing event in Joliet.

He said he had seen a frame by frame breakdown of the video said it was horrifying and accused the Trump administration of lying about what had happened in Minneapolis urge people to watch the video so that they can see what we see what's happening.

Yeah.

Believe their own eyes for sure.

You know, Sasha, earlier today we heard the first public statement from Renee Goods wife back.

She was saying that her wife radiated kindness.

They barely stopped that day to try and support neighbors.

Very different portrait than what the White House and, you know, many of its allies are painting.

>> Do you think her speaking out could could bring down the temperature here at all, or is that sort of hoping for too much?

I think that is the hope.

But it might be hoping for too much.

There's just been so much rhetoric that's already swirled around this and and so much misinformation when they're as Jeff brought up is clear video evidence of this in.

I've seen it all.

But the rest of you have seen different angles.

I've seen it slowdown of seen it, you know, sort of on rewind the angles I've seen not show anything beyond a legal observer in that situation and someone that was trying to get away.

Yeah.

You know, Brandon, Renee Goods actions do not appear to meet the FBI's own definition of domestic terrorism.

But we keep hearing leaders in the administration use that term.

What do you think that is?

Yeah, I mean that your guess is as good as mine.

I think ultimately those the first time.

>> In my life and I've seen the federal government and the state be so at odds on exactly what they're seeing on in this particular case and the general public.

And so seen any federal agency or police agency jump directly to a conclusion right away off the jump.

think any of us really see that standard protocol the standard police talk right with the investigation play out.

Things are preliminary.

That's not happening here.

And fact, what's happening in this is something that struck me.

>> Is that Minnesota officials are saying that they're being blocked for that the feds are taking over even during Operation Midway Blitz are sort of in the depth of Operation Midway Blitz.

Police here always talked about, you know, we've always had these great partnerships with our federal law enforcement partners.

We've always worked together on this kind of thing.

And that's not happening here, which is very unusual.

This is also a demonstration that has never set a tone of collaboration, especially when it comes Democratic run.

Cities Minnesota right now seems to be number one of the president's ire list, you know, might be us next month, right?

But >> that Minnesota's the one right now with that with the fraud case that's going on for governor.

Walz.

And now this.

So it's it's it's par for the course for this administration disheartening as well in time where emotions are high.

Usually that the time for the federal to kind ease tensions ease com yet they inflame it seems that every time they did this when we saw the Franklin Park shooting here in our area, right, this is very reminiscent to >> how they treated that shooting, right?

It was another fatal shooting and immediately they spawn the narrative that it was self-defense.

And the only reason that there was any alternate narrative was because the Franklin Park officer was wearing a body camera and that was for you.

then we all got to look at what happened and where there is another issue where the body cameras on these federal immigration agents.

We're seeing cell phone video from agent.

Where's the body cam there where I saw a picture, I think from the AP of somebody wearing a body cam, but it was covered up by doing good.

count ability is lacking here.

Guidelines are lacking here.

Clea clear protocol is lacking here.

And so that this administration was everyone to trust their word and take their word.

They the credibility to do so.

And so we create these situations where anger in flames because there's mistrust here.

Well, and there's, you know, this conflict between, you know, Minnesota, local officials, state officials saying we're being iced out of this investigation were not being allowed to participate.

You know, detention.

We've seen all throughout the enhanced enforcement.

You know, immigration enforcement sweeps.

You know, I'll be sort of to that point this week, the Broad View City Council, they approved zoning measures aimed at blocking any additional DHS facilities in there, you know, village kind of trying to use local laws as best they can to push back on the feds, you know, is the sort of a symbolic gesture.

Do you think this might be something where we see other municipalities follow suit and try to his own DHS out?

I think definitely.

And we know that DHS is looking at locations.

>> Where they could expand immigration detention in the area.

So I think broadview this as kind of a precaution and also because as you might remember, at 1.0, one incident had spilled into.

A person's yard right?

And so there were some ripple effects went into the community.

So by limiting they're trying to prevent some of that.

And I think some of the residents there also just trying to kind of stay away from the fray because we know this is going continue the Trump administration has certainly set.

They're not backing down.

In fact, they want the Fed more agents to the city.

So we know at some point it's going to ramp up here.

And I think this is kind of a precautionary measure for that.

Yeah, sort of a local level just creating this been receiving massive disruption in the day-to-day lives of folks impact.

If you like can't get to their houses, can't get down.

The street can get down that street.

He have to think that local leaders are >> concerned about their constituents.

Just done a very basic level.

There.

You know, last night, Chicago's civilian police oversight body, it held a meeting looking into, you know, the the idea possible cooperation between Chicago police in immigration agents.

What they hear.

>> They heard a lot of complaints from people who say that in a number of instances, including most recently last month on the North side, I believe Chicago police appeared to be assisting ICE agents, which would if true be a violation of the spirit, if not the letter of the city's welcoming ordinances.

We've heard a lot about these kinds of claims dating back to the South Loop last June when people would show up for what they thought was a routine sort of status hearing.

And it turned out they were taken into custody by ICE agents.

The city Mayor Johnson and police superintendent Snelling have consistently said that officers are believed to be following the welcoming city ordinances, which prevents assistance with any federal immigration enforcement.

However, they have to walk kind of a line in.

The superintendent has talked about that, that they also can't interfere with the federal law enforcement or federal immigration action.

Indeed.

Do reporters were asking the mayor about this last month to the suggestion was made that maybe ICE agents are calling 9-1-1 and saying, hey, we're being attacked or whatever.

And then CPD rolls up and ICE agents recorded on video and say, hey, look, we're getting help from Chicago.

Police and the mayor's said he was kind of open to the idea that, well, maybe they're being duped into appearing to help out.

So, it's quite a quagmire because ultimately police, their job is to protect and serve.

Not just the citizens Chicago.

>> But anyone that comes and visits Chicago, that includes federal their job is to protect the protesters, demonstrators and also those people that on the other side of it.

No matter what your political leanings are, just cut and dry, what they have to So when the welcoming city ordinance where's the line between were assisting in aiding effort?

And actually here to like just make sure things will pop in the cops are really caught in the middle.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Something found interesting in that that meeting you brought up how upset folks were, you know the though this commission that that was, you at the >> helm here, the CCP SE, though they have the power to set the policy for the police department.

The meeting started off with strange caviar, right where they sort of don't expect any immediate to which the crowd chanted Jay Wright.

This is just an airing of the grievances.

We're not going to do it.

People are just taking notes tonight.

People are pretty upset and you even saw some strong comments from alter people that were in the audience that we're basically saying, hey, remember, like you didn't exist, kind really calling them to do some kind of action on this.

So people are very upset.

But I want to go to back to something that just brought up, which is an interesting point that, you know, maybe this idea that they're caught, you know, ICE agents, immigration agents, whoever it may be, they're calling 9-1-1, getting the CPD to come.

>> They want to have this footage of them assisting them because, you know, we've been talking about this.

So much of this is about the videos that they're producing the end of the content.

The governor and the mayor have talked about this, that this is that a lot of what's happening here.

You remember the helicopter raid on South shore.

>> That they somehow had lots of camera crews on the scene of this incredibly dangerous building shooting video that they could put on social media is really all about short of the optics and making sure that fans of this administration see that they're taking action Chicago.

There will be a film later this year.

Yeah, don't know.

and when it's coming up where you quite possibly.

>> All right.

Well, among the thousands and thousands of other stories, it feels like happened this You know, Sasha, the U.S.

>> Bringing to to courts, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

President Trump saying the U.S.

is going to be running that country indefinitely.

You are, you know, talking with some folks throughout the week to get their reaction.

What kind of concerns that you heard?

You know, we talked to Congressman Mike Quigley as well as Congresswoman Robin Kelly.

I mean, they were just outraged.

The big question here is is how is the U.S.

going to do that, right?

You talk about the U.S.

running Venezuela.

What does that actually look like?

How much of a planning process actually happened here behind the scenes and we got into conversation just how reminiscent this was to, you know, think back to 2003 Iraq and some of the differences terms of whether there were discussions where it seems that there was much more planning back in 2003.

And this is just kind the kind of winging it.

Also, the Trump is not on the same page.

It seems as as Secretary Rubio who says we're going to leave this sort of in the hands of of the folks who are taking over from like no, we're in charge.

And so let's get on the same page.

It's just confusing son.

Is this really about oil, right?

Where does the oil stand?

Well, and it's the is that we've swapped weapons of mass destruction for fentanyl, you theirs.

And there are a lot of interesting because just about Tater ship.

Yeah, we talked.

We talked today with Senator Durbin who on the northwest side of the city in Avondale.

>> And we asked about Venezuelan.

He said, look, I've been in a couple of classified security briefings about what's happening in Venezuela.

It's about time for the Trump administration to tell the American people what the plan who is going to be in charge is the U.S.

military going to be involved?

Is the U.S.

military prepared for a ground war if possible, in order to maintain?

Control over Venezuela?

And we're getting back to crisis of credibility to this administration.

Has their poll plan with this and everything it seems is that this a second term is Trustee he itself out over about And talking about Americans lives sending potentially sending troops overseas.

>> Many of us in our generation.

We have bad memories of what that time was like, that did a lot of damage to not just families but society.

We don't want to go through that again.

Many go, right.

This is a president that ran on America first and not being someone who's going into different countries and yet and we played in his first campaign that he was against the war in Iraq.

Yes, well, it was a grisly center.

you know, it was interesting to, you know, seeing, you know, some congressional Republicans actually rebuke the president on this, you know, saying that this is not what we'd like to see where surprised at all to see folks in his own party.

>> Stand up and say that this is what we want.

Not I mean, we have heard some of key points from some of the MAGA.

>> Folks are that they want focus on America.

They don't want more so it's not surprising that there's kind of a splinter of like what is going on.

What is the plan?

I was gonna at who I mean, folks at the Chicago Sun-Times ends up.

Upc have been speaking to Venezuela here.

I mean, there's a lot of folks that came to Chicago because they flat the regime, right?

They flat political persecution.

You know, there was a lot of economic problems and there hasn't really been an answer to what's going to happen to folks who have asylum claims who had TPS and what kind of country with the go back to cause.

They're still not a clear picture of that.

You've to bring it back to Congress woman.

Kelly.

I mean, >> again, the the the underlying thought here was that material was not a good guy, right?

He's not a guy who's not a saint, but there's a way to go about something like this.

And this was not the way.

Yeah, but this is again to the lack of apparent lack of planning for what happens next in the loop when she still looming because they just met with all these oil executives, the Exxon CEO investable.

All right.

Well, turning to some some local news, Jeff, you know, when all those past the most recent budget over the mayor's objections.

>> He said that we could be facing a deficit.

What did we hear from him this week about what exactly deficit could mean so?

the entirety so far Brandon Johnson's term as mayor, he has resisted any conversation about.

>> Cutting city jobs doesn't want to lay off city workers.

City workers, city jobs are good.

Middle-class jobs, right?

the city needs more of those this week is he continues to talk about the budget that was approved by Alders over his objection, the budget that he famously did not sign or veto over and allowed to take effect without his signature said working racing.

That was his word for the possibility of meat year.

Layoffs, which again is a word that we've not heard.

The mayor used before.

He and his budget team, which notably will not include CFO.

Joe Jaworski was going to the Navy Pier Foundation's.

You want to stealing they have continued to say that the.

>> What they what everyone is calling the alternate budget, which is sort of a silly because it's is out of balance by about 160 some odd million dollars.

I talked to a couple of the alders who were championing that budget and one of Samantha Nugent from Albany Park said this is not the first or the second time.

The mayor's office says brought up doomsday scenarios without any real basis.

And another alderman told me that he felt like the mayor and the administration should be held accountable for in.

This is his word undermining the budget that is in effect.

The mayor has said we're going continue to talk to city council.

We're going look at this every month and see what's going on and the alders who who were behind this effort to approve the budget said, you know, we sure hope that the mayor and administration work to help us realize the revenue goals that we had their unfazed plowed ahead.

he's beating the drum of maybe or layoffs and >> plowed ahead anyway.

They're not buying right.

So and you have to imagine that a prospective city worker, layoffs, mid-year, just months ahead of the municipal election is something.

>> Everybody with my to You think even just guessing putting my political analyst a while another the pieces city new Sasha City Council committee passed the latest in this series of attempts to expand police curfew powers trained curb large gatherings of teens.

They didn't move ahead on a measure aimed at getting social media sites to try to take down posts promoting those gatherings.

Doesn't that seem almost like the lower hanging fruit there?

Yeah, absolutely.

And so now we're focused on Alderman Brian Hopkins, most recent proposal, which is to have police do for our curfews and they they be able to give 12 hours advance notice.

And so, you know, this, of course, a departure from his snap curfew before that would give what 30 minutes notice at that point.

And I think the question remains to be seen whether Mayor Johnson would veto something like this because he's been so adamantly against him the way in which he if you ask him, he's not against a teen curfew is just, you know, again, sort of this top down approach things and the social media.

Part of that is the issue here is that.

>> The social media companies will be fined if they don't take these messages down and particular measure was held up in committee over concerns that it could leave the city open to a lawsuit.

One alderman Andrea Vasquez from Lincoln Square said after the committee hearing this week, you know, you don't find a building if somebody puts a All right.

Well, Illinois's latest lawsuits against the Trump administration.

It's a joint with 4 other states over 10 billion dollars in safety net funding.

>> For low-income families and children, the administration, we were mentioning this of Minnesota.

You know, the administration has claimed there's widespread fraud in these programs will be a heavy, really heard anything to back up those charges here.

We have not an especially when it comes to Illinois.

We haven't heard any evidence of fraud whatsoever.

>> Rather, it seems more politically motivated than anything.

5, really what's at stake is a lot of parents are.

This is adding another layer of uncertainty.

Am I going to be able drop off my child?

The child care.

A lot of these are working parents and a lot of these programs are meant to help with childcare with kids who are at risk specific programs and and but there is a lawsuit that was just filed late last night.

And and so there is potentially a challenge to and kind wait and see what happens.

we'll stand with you for a minute.

We're now more than a week into 2026.

Without Affordable care Act subsidies in effect.

>> You've been reporting on this issue.

How big of a strain if they're not restored, could that be, for example, in safety net hospitals?

Yeah.

That's one of the concerns that a lot of advocates have because >> there's estimate that anywhere from 2 to 4 million people across the country could become uninsured.

And so when folks become uninsured, they may not do with the preventative measures that, you know, you do going to get checkups things like that.

So when they do cicala health care, they're going to go to ER and there is the worry that that's going create a problem because it's gonna you know, how are you going to pay for that ER visit someone's going to have to pay for And also this is all happening as there's also going to be changes to medicate it in the long term.

So there's also some funding issues that are of concern that this is all gonna create a strain on the health care system.

Yeah, it sounds like there's been some confusion that folks have about his Medicaid changes that they're, you know, already in effect when in fact, they're not.

What what's what's going on there?

Yeah, and I mean, there's so much misinformation Cook County President.

>> Toni Preckwinkle had press event because her the Cook County Health System has been getting phone calls from people who think 30 they're not eligible for Medicaid or think that maybe the program has gone away entirely.

So they're trying to tell people on the program is still here.

There are new work requirements, but those won't kick in till next year and the state and other states are still trying to figure out how those work requirements will be implemented.

exactly.

A that mean?

Yeah.

The system that will be created to do that and people also have to verify that they're eligible for the program more frequently.

for now, also has Medicaid you know, going back to the ACA subsidies for a minute, Brandon, there's been some movement in Congress on trying to restore those.

>> You could imagine that there's bipartisan appeal there, at least for some members of the GOP to a degree.

Absolutely.

Because some of these members, the GOP are vulnerable districts, frankly, in the midterms where?

There's kind of purple.

And so if they don't like Susan Collins is a great example, you know, Susan Collins, kindest 10 toes down when it comes to it, how the Senate ends of moving on this.

And, you know, how they handle a Trump veto in all that we still got to see.

But there is more energy than here in a lot of it's coming down to.

Is Trump reaching a little bit of a lame duck status where the power he wielded over his GOP members not as powerful, enforce win 2028, you come out Yeah, although you know knows a all right, Everybody's favorite utility rate hikes.

People's gas looking 200 million dollars more next year.

What's the justification for that?

the justification is that peoples gas would like to replace more than 1000 miles of old cast iron pipes that deliver natural gas to people's homes and 2 businesses.

>> This sort of the new version of what had been there years long, years late, billions of dollars over budget plan to replace all the natural gas.

The older natural pipes in their system.

>> The Illinois Commerce Commission said no stop doing that.

Refocus on the stuff that needs immediate attention.

That's what people's gas wants money for.

They say it will cost an extra 10 to $11 on your average residential home heating bill.

Consumer advocates say Peoples Gas just got the biggest rate increase in Illinois history.

Also, they're trying to make money on this and they're going to fight this every step of the way.

All right.

Well, we're not fighting any of we are out of time.

>> So our thanks to Jeff Buckholts Sasha and Simons Elvia Malagon and Brandon Pope.

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

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>> And that's our show for this Friday night for the week in review.

I'm Nick Blumberg.

Thank you for watching.

Stay healthy, stay safe and stay informed.

Have a great weekend.

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