>> Good evening.

And thanks for joining us on the weekend Brandis Friedman, Nick Bloomberg has the evening off.

Tensions remain high in Minnesota has twin cities deal with being the epicenter of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement.

This individual who came with weapons and ammunition to stop a law enforcement operation of federal law enforcement officers.

>> Committed an act of domestic terrorism.

That's the facts calls for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be impeached in the wake of the fatal shooting.

>> Icu nurse Alex pretty in Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, congressional efforts to reform DHS threaten a partial government shutdown.

We must enforce our local laws so that we can maintain the trust.

>> That we have built between law enforcement and immigrant communities throughout Chicago to city council committees approved a measure to give the civilian Office of Police Accountability.

>> Authority to investigate Chicago police officers who violate the welcoming city ordinance.

You the serve a congressperson wilshere's.

You fight who shows up alongside you.

You know, the streets.

25th Ward Alderman Byron Lopez announces his bid for Congress vying for outgoing Congressman Garcia's seat.

>> stakes are too high.

high, a snappy hope able to ease the pain to get those that.

hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents could be impacted by changing work requirements coming to SNAP benefits.

Plus, the Cook County chief judge makes changes to the electronic monitoring system.

>> A former executive for Loretto Hospital is in custody after being charged in an embezzlement scheme and Indiana lawmakers move ahead with a bill to help the Chicago Bears secure a stadium in northwest Indiana.

And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are Simon Ali from city cash, Chicago Wva winds.

Rufus Williams.

>> Being Wei from the Illinois answers Project and Monica and with Axios.

Welcome back, everybody.

Thank you for joining us.

Let's get right to it.

So sad news for residents in the city of Harvey, South suburb of mayor.

They confirmed Christopher Clark has died.

Simon, what we know about this lot of questions yet, mostly questions, not a lot that we know just yet about what exactly You know, as I understand, there were some meetings that were canceled in January.

And, you know, so I think we're just sort of a waiting to get more details what exactly happened.

And I know there's going to be, you know, a meeting to select a pro tem.

>> A pro mayor for the for now.

Yeah.

And that's happening.

That meeting is happening on Monday.

So of course, we'll interested to know what their plans are.

And, of course, condolences to city of Harvey.

>> Okay.

So all week we know that the killing of the ICU nurse, Alex, pretty at the hands of federal immigration officers in Minneapolis been dominating the news cycle this week on his death is another example that Democrats are holding up and Senate budget negotiations to call for the reining in of immigration tactics, potentially leading to a partial government shutdown.

Rufus Trump signaled that he wants to, you know, ease the tensions in Minneapolis and sort of bring the temperature down.

Do you think that's going to happen?

I think it's hard for to be hotter.

>> There's been so much going on in Minneapolis with Missus, goods, killing with the killing of attic.

Alex Brady with Vino and sharing information that was inconsistent with what anyone saw.

And so you can't do anything but bring the temperature down.

Sitting in Tom Homan when Tom Homan is the answer, you've got a real big problem.

And so we hear him come on and say he's going to reduce the troops.

They are.

But also you hear Trump saying he's not.

So when how this temperature, how this thing works out is going to It's going to we can see it's just a real hotbed in Minneapolis right now.

>> Praised F it seemed unite people from both sides of the aisle.

Simon, what is it about this incident that we think has caused more of a stir with some of the elected officials in the previous test because we've mentioned, of course, Renee Nicole, good in even happening here in Franklin Park.

The deficit, Villegas Gonzalez, I think is a couple things want say.

It's the cumulative, right.

And this is not the first one rights.

Now there are several in this point.

And so I think I think that's obviously a big part of it.

You know, I think in Minneapolis what we saw 2 right.

I think we all remember Operation Midway Blitz here in Chicago and just how aggressive that was in in seeing the sort of operations in the top, you know, these these agents that were out in neighborhoods and the tear gas.

We all remember that.

>> And then you see what's happening in Minneapolis.

And it's just that much more aggressive.

they, you know, reports of agents going door-to-door you know, schools that are going to remote learning are canceling classes, right?

Like it.

the fact that it could get even more aggressive, I think, proving to you >> kind of a it's pretty you know, point.

Yeah, exactly.

To some degree.

idea that we had a few 100 here in a city size of Chicago, but they have 3.

>> Thousands troops there in small Minneapolis is just just astounding.

I think it speaks to maybe the punitive nature of yet police department doesn't even have can't match that.

think they've got what, 3, 600 member, something far smaller than 3,000 federal agent.

Let's be clear, the people police in Minnesota in Minneapolis aren't saying, too, that we think about George Floyd think about Amir Locke.

>> We think about all the things in the protests have been happening there.

This little place that we saw as the land of lakes has really been a hotbed for a whole lot else.

And and how it's torn down anyway.

I mean, it's just the center of so much.

Yes, And many reporters pointed out that run a nickel.

Good was killed near blocks from George Floyd's, right?

Yeah.

I just want add also that video component, you can see what's happening and there are multiple angles people can sort of put themselves.

They're I think, adds to.

>> way that people almost got there with their, you know, yes, and I think it's worth saying, you know You know, it's worth saying that the people who were killed in Minneapolis were white protesters who are citizens.

And I mean, that's not to say that the that somehow their deaths tragic or something like that.

>> But I do think from pure politician and you see that like there is something that raises this well beyond sort of reasonable doubt or a shadow of a doubt that that this goes beyond the course of normal law enforcement.

You know what I mean?

Like it is people who are out protesting.

It is not during the course of an arrest, not during the course of the work.

And, you know, it is something that moves people.

I think we've got a white man, white woman killed on the streets America.

>> By federal true business is an abomination on every single level.

>> everybody doesn't get involved, then we don't know what we go as a country.

>> One of the things that Simon mentioned reports show an internal ICE memo suggesting a change to the agency's home entry policy.

Monica, what's the update there?

The update is that since this internal memo that AP got a hold up.

>> Seems to suggest that ICE is directing his agents against its normal policy that they can enter home forcibly enter a home without a judge's warrant that they simply needed administrative warrant that they can sign themselves to carry blank ones with them.

And in order for Movil to go into someone's home, this seems to violate 4th Amendment protections.

So he talks to a constitutional law scholar Northwestern and he said he believes the Christie Noem is conflating the ability to arrest someone with an administrative warrant with the ability to actually into their home.

Unfortunately, he said that the Supreme Court has not ruled definitively on this very question.

So he says it's still murky, but it's very scary that, you know, hey, we can pull this enter any one time.

We want to, right?

Yeah.

>> City Council in Chicago.

They're looking to get the civilian Office of Police Accountability or Copa the authority to investigate police officers who are believed to be in violation of the city's welcoming city ordinance.

How would that work?

>> people would make a complaint say here's where we believe violated that welcoming ordinance, you know, like.

But the big question going talk to a knowing about the superintendent, what are they love to do?

He says he's that there is officers are there to keep the peace in Chicago to make protesters and people in side are not heard.

So is that aiding and abetting details?

Officers?

I mean, it's very very murky line, right?

Because they jobs to go.

can.

Can we do crowd control?

Can they divert traffic?

Is that aiding abetting DHS?

These questions I think are going to have to be solved by One.

It's I think the other trick is is like from which perspective, right?

Because if you're a protester on the ground.

>> You know, it's one if ice is check, check that throwing tear gas that you?

Yeah.

Okay.

That that's what if CBD, someone threw a tear gas that you to clear the area is that aiding ISIS, that eating DHS.

If you're that protester, it certainly seems that way.

>> And now they'll have recourse to turn it over to someone because, you know, I was at this hearing the summer.

Everybody was pointing, know, Colton or, you know, the inspector general's office and nobody knew who was in charge is possible for investigating this?

way you've done some reporting on ice in rural communities in downstate.

What can you tell My coworker has cover South Illinois.

>> And you know, she now we're talking today and there's been so much attention because a lot of news coming out of big cities.

But, you know, she had followed person was arrested outside of Spanish speaking traffic court and southern Illinois.

And, you know, she talking about how you know, it's the smaller communities are not many people with cameras out.

There might not be as many reporters that too.

Facing some of the same realities of people in Chicago head face so face of people knowing Minneapolis are going through and getting the same heat, which is I mean, in a city like ours, Minneapolis probably not thinking that it's happening in the smaller communities.

communities quite the same way on.

And the governor has also created the Illinois Accountability Commission.

>> To create records of public input from wherever they might be from residents during these immigration enforcement What's the latest with this commission?

Yeah.

So the governor asked this commission to consider.

>> A probe into top Trump administration associated with immigration so that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem great with the nose on that list.

The Border Patrol Commander Tom Homan on that and several more basically saying come up with a method of documenting and and then holding accountable.

>> What they have done here in Illinois and how they harmed Illinois >> How would they hold them accountable?

Nobody knows somebody Brandon Johnson.

Just this week said I'm gonna come out with an executive order that's going to hold card.

you know, accountable.

And I just listen podcast where his chief of staff was asked she's like, well, have something to do with Eileen O'Neill, Berks states attorney's office.

But nobody's really saying exactly how this use.

Yeah, it's floating around like, oh, are we going prosecute?

But what would we prosecute them for?

And who's going to take that on?

Will the feds take those whose cases from the commuter right who knows?

And so, yeah, I think the last time I was here, we were talking with the creation of this commission and we're still asking the same question months later met today.

I think they're supposed to present their findings and recommendations to the governor by January 31st.

>> No word on that yet versus the other lawyers and the judge is going to be very busy.

>> Because none of this is clear.

We in unchartered territory and trying to figure out who's responsible for what, who's accountable for what and how actually gets Translated from what the law actually is.

And then, of course, we have to talk about this because amid all of this, just this morning, we know that 2 independent journalists were arrested.

They are facing federal charges.

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon and Minnesota-based journalist George of Fort.

>> What happened?

>> You know, Don Lemon was here just last week at the moderating the push breakfast and he talked about the fact that he's now part of the news because covered the protests at this church in Minneapolis.

And what we found this morning was that yesterday they went and they arrested on them and they arrested another photo journalist having covered they time and in the full time whistle covering what was happening inside the church and they put on this face act says that no one supposed to be able to block you from worshiping.

And that's the charge put before down the men this crop this process.

It chilling to anyone who does any journalism because there was a point now where the question really is, can you do the work that you're supposed and also as if making an arrest in a church isn't blocking people from worship at all.

It's good.

this someone who films I saw a lot because I cover ice.

>> Am I going to cover ice?

Yes.

like any of us could be covering it.

We all gonna go to jail and I think the instance in this church was they were covering anti immigration enforcement officers because one of those officers, the pastor at that church.

And so there are other protesters who were there and they were protesting protesting, not the journalists who were there journalism thing and which is a technical term, we things differently than some other see.

And what we saw was not on the menu doing interviews.

>> And the other journalists taking pictures.

And so how that into field with anything that requires him to be arrested.

It's just chilling to anyone who does media at this point.

you know, we also we also asked the question of whether or not this was a distraction because today a lot of the Epstein files came out and there has a lot of talk about that.

While the top has been about the journalists that they arrested and they have control over the timing both the state.

And it's also just part and parcel of the authoritarian playbook.

right.

You attack the media, attacked the journalists like.

>> know, we're talking educate Kentucky schools indication you're talking and media journalism First Amendment like it's sort >> you know, step by step >> Okay.

So getting it moving because report from the Congressional Budget Office shows just how much the Trump administration's efforts to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and other cities actually cost taxpayers spent 21 million dollars to send 375 members of both the Texas and the Illinois National Guard Chicago.

Of course, that was derailed by 2 courts.

The grand total, the grand total now for sending troops to Chicago LA DC Memphis, Portland and New Orleans so far has cost taxpayers approximately 496 million to knock on 500 Million.

Monica, how do you think this is going to play at the UN administration wants to revisit deploying National Guard?

Well, you know, it's amazing.

I was looking at the figures and with while she covers the cheapest wise of the case, well, because they were never deployed.

They just sat here.

>> Doing nothing I don't maybe that had something, but they certainly weren't out on the streets.

Whatever doing, what the president wanted And currently the Texas Guard remains activated, Illinois, not on January.

First, they were deactivated and that's costing millions of dollars a month and week, I think once people, you know, put my Facebook a good a little just millions concentrate and billions it.

Yeah, it seems like apologists have no have to know shortage of apologies for these things.

But I do think that people will say, you know, what about our schools?

What about, you cuts you making to snap?

Wouldn't might be better?

Use their, you know, half a billion here.

Half a billion there.

Sullivan talking about real money.

>> This is money.

That is just gone.

And while there's been this conversation about why Trump was elected, I don't know that one can point to any of these things and say this was it.

And I don't think that how we've seen that appointment of ICE and Border Patrol in our cities measures up to the almost a half a billion dollars.

What was the point?

What was the point?

Why would we get out of this?

And then you start to look at how many people actually arrest.

And when he started talking about criminals and murderers and rapists, how many of them did you find and what is the cost per arrest that to?

And how many charges were just dismissed because they never stuck.

>> OK, so 2 more Democrats hopping in the congressional race to replace Congressman Jesus Chuy Garcia.

>> Rufus, well, for the running as independents today?

interesting.

Interesting.

You bring that just in rate and bring it up in that way, because this is kind of the way the machine used to work.

But chilly Garcia congressman stepped out.

wasn't time anyone else to file other than as it seems to be petty Garcia, who was chief of staff.

And so my remorse has decided that she would run because she was she had been a supporter of chewy's, but she decided, you know, this is not the way things should go.

She's put her head into the ring today.

We learned that alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez also >> entering the race.

So the thought that it would happen in the winds which happened before that can just be ended down is people are seeing it that way.

And so now you do have an active race between the story, the going tough road, whoa, finding 11,000 signatures between Feb 26 and May.

26, that becomes a challenge and you've got to find within that within that yes.

Within that district.

Yes.

so you've got to be organized in time for that window open.

Obviously.

>> Okay.

Been way you publish a story this week examining public and private investment in developing Chicago's quantum industry.

Lot of folks still don't know a quantum means, but we're getting there B to local journalist.

So many PR people.

Can you just explain me?

And baby is what to attempt at?

All right.

So >> As someone with no science background, what I understand, it's like they're trying push the edge of what we know about physics at very, very small subatomic levels.

Comey, computers like the super computers that can like make drugs faster you know.

But that just sticks basically make a bunch of money for different industries because, you know, this is the next generation's computer and it can do all these powerful things which is good because local governments pouring money into this, right.

But state government is largely funding this venture.

Yes, outdoor yet 700 Million.

Yes, a lot of money.

And also they're funding a lot of organizations that are funding the site as well.

So there's money, a lot of money going.

A lot of different directions on the site.

And, you know, it's important because this a lot of is taxpayers money and there's some tension with the community there over whether they will benefit and, you know, they want to be a part of the conversation to about what kind of amenities they want in that region.

So, you know, just highlighting both massive public funding, but also some of the hesitation about from private investors to get into something.

That's not a sure thing I think was important for our viewers to know as well.

all so Loretto Hospital.

15 million dollar fraud saga.

It continues.

One of the former hospital executive says picked up in Serbia with us as one does you know that's where you go.

What remind us of this case, right?

So think back to early COVID-19 days, think back to the vaccine coming and person and my dad.

>> It was an executive at Loretto Hospital and initially the way the story's kind of came out, it was actually about sort of unfairly giving out COVID shots right to, you know, people who go are jumping the line.

People are trumped our friends at a steak houses and things like about and then bragging about it, right.

And do some dog and reporting a particularly our friends of Auckland, Chicago, found out that there was actually even more going on here, including dollar investment scheme from a safety net hospital on the West side.

And so, you know, the charges had come down, I think in 2024 officially.

But now finally, they actually found the sky.

Looks like it's going to extradited to the U.S.

heartbreaking a safety net hospital in the West Side.

>> We are people on the West side.

My mom, for instance, went all the way out to rose to get a shot get it there because of winds will do is going.

>> You start looking at the money that that talking about this 15 million dollars skiing when he fled to the Bible.

There's a bigger scheme all around Remember I was something like 900 million dollars, that is also part of what they've done.

So they took this little safety net hospital and took as much as they possibly could from and including the records of the people, which is what it was sending records back and want to continue this investment.

So now.

>> And around a life-saving vaccine in the middle of a pandemic.

Yes, a once-in-a-generation pandemic, OK?

So changes are coming to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program starting this Sunday.

Recipients need to start meeting work requirements hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents could be at risk of losing his benefits been way.

What kind of impact could this have?

Yeah, at our publication to this massive project called making a Chicago and the gist of it is people are not making in Chicago.

We looked at housing, health care, child care, education costs and a lot of subsidy programs are just so limited compared to the massive need because the jobs are just not supporting the cost of living.

You can work a lot.

You could, you know, find good work on top of your job and still be sort of hamster wheel.

So this is the context in which it's getting even harder to get food, which in recent years I feel like has become another item.

That's basic thing that people can't afford anymore.

You know, expensive.

Yeah.

This could affect 340,000 Illinoisans.

They've got to prove that either work volunteered 80 hours a week.

And you know, this could cost the state millions more Justin compliance for to check that these people are doing what new rules say.

If they don't, you lose your benefits.

And we're like few years, several years months have been to get women in 3 years.

And probably reason if you're not working or volunteering, will be a reason for that.

Not because I don't want some people just can't fault the paperwork or they forget to fill out the paperwork.

>> Ok, couple minutes left of it.

It's time of the year.

Get right to is the season of Dams.

Monica, your reporting from the neighbors on the West and Southwest sides.

>> They filed more removal requests.

Yeah, I think that 14 Port Archer Heights, Englewood, Westlawn, Beaumont, Craigan.

>> Ballpark.

Austin, they think fell the most talked to Ray Lopez, who's a 15th Ward was number 2, that boy, which we were number one.

He said I love calling in and getting rid of those chairs.

Those those being cribs, those those strollers and nativity scenes or Houston, we have a parking problem and in our neighborhood and we can't have people acting like they own these lots.

And I thought that my neighborhood might have had one.

But actually bakery was one of the lowest for Dems reading out people.

>> If you have ever dogs, we've got progress time.

Digging You don't want to come back and have just say is a little bit on the lot.

And it's not me.

But I've been real quick want to revisit the Bears playing in Indiana and the Senate approved a bill that would help the team play in northwest Indiana.

This is become really something now, you know, it was first Chicago and then the growing and now it's a whole different state Kevin Warren in Ryan Poles really making some moves there and really getting people's attention.

We'll see how this plays out.

>> But Indiana and you would expect they would make a strong move because there's been nothing in Gary.

very long time and they're making the moves that you would expect them to make it right Neutrally playing the field >> Genia, sorry, we're out of time.

Thanks to our guests.

Simon and Rufus Williams as well as being Wei and Monica Eng.

We are back to wrap things up right after this.

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Yes or no.

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So.

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