>> HELLO, EVERYONE.

AND THANKS FOR JOINING US ON THE WEEK IN REVIEW.

I'M AMANDA KEEP HER SHOTS HAS THE EVENING OFF.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S OPENING SALVO IN HIS RACE FOR RE-ELECTION SEEKS TO LAY BARE WHAT'S AT STAKE.

>> TOPIC OF MY SPEECH TODAY THE SERIES.

AND I THINK NEEDS TO BE MADE.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT THIS CAMPAIGN.

>> WE'RE GOING TO WALK DOWN TO THE CAPITOL.

>> DONALD TRUMP'S ROLE IN THE JANUARY 6TH RIOTS LEADS VOTERS TO CHALLENGE WHETHER HE CAN BE ON THE ILLINOIS BALLOT.

>> WE'RE SUPPORTING OUR OWN HOUSE.

WE ARE WORKING TO RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THE PAST.

>> ANOTHER NEW LEGAL CHALLENGE SEEKS TO REMOVE THE BALLOT QUESTION THAT WOULD RAISE THE TAX ON HIGH-END REAL ESTATE SALES.

MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON SOLUTION FOR HELPING THE HOMELESS.

MEANWHILE, ILLINOIS'S ONCE MOST POWERFUL POLITICIAN WINDS A TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FROM GOING ON THE STAND FOR ALLEGED CORRUPTION AND GROVES OF MIGRANTS.

INCREASED PRESSURE NOT JUST ON CHICAGO, BUT ALSO ON THE SUBURBS.

>> AND NOW TO OUR WEEK IN REVIEW PANEL.

JOINING US, OUR MITCHELL ARM AND TROUT OF THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES.

A WELCOME FOR YOUR FIRST APPEARANCE HERE.

ALSO, LAURA RODRIGUEZ, FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

FROM CHALK BEAT CHICAGO AND FROM BLOCK CLUB, CHICAGO QUINN MYERS.

NOW, LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT.

AND ACTUALLY BEGIN WERE JUST TALKING HOURS AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN'S BIG SPEECH.

AND THAT IS A IT WAS POINTEDLY GIVEN IN VALLEY FORGE WHERE GEORGE WASHINGTON COMMANDED RIVER LET RIVER LUCIAN ARIE TROOPS.

AND THIS WAS A SPEECH PURPOSELY GIVEN THE DAY BEFORE THE INTO THIS AND HISTORIC ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL 3 YEARS AGO ON JANUARY 6.

>> A DAY FOREVER SHARE IN OUR MEMORY BECAUSE IT WAS ON THAT DAY.

SO REALLY LOST AMERICA.

LOST IT ALL.

TODAY.

WE'RE HERE, NASH OF THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.

DEMOCRACY STILL AMERICA'S SACRED >> I'M GOING POSE THAT QUESTION TO Q HEAT POSES.

A HUGE QUESTION.

IS DEMOCRACY STILL SACRED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?

IS THIS JUST A CANDIDATE TRYING TO MAKE A CASE FOR RE-ELECTION OR IS THERE SOMETHING DEEPER INTO MORE EXISTENTIAL PROBABLY BOTH.

I THINK JOE BIDEN PROBABLY FIRMLY BELIEVES THAT DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE IN THIS ELECTION.

>> BUT IT'S ALSO HIS PITCH TO VOTERS AND IT'S AN ANTI-TRUMP RIGHT.

HE SAYING, HEY, VOTE FOR ME TO A SAVE THE UNION AND ITS, OF COURSE, WHAT JANUARY 5TH, AS YOU MENTIONED, 3 YEAR, ALMOST 3 YEARS TO THE DAY OF THE INSURRECTION.

SO I THINK IT IS CAMPAIGN TACTIC AND ONE THAT CERTAINLY WORKED FOR JOE BIDEN IN 2020.

WE'LL SEE IF IT WORKS IN 2024.

>> ALL RIGHT, LAURA, DOES THIS SPEECH MATTER?

FIRST OF ALL, NOT IN PRIME DON'T KNOW HOW MANY FOLKS WATCHED IT AND THEN EVEN IF LOT OF PEOPLE DID GIVEN THE POLARIZATION THAT WE SEE IN THE COUNTRY, DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO CHANGE FOLKS MINDS?

I AS OF NOW WE'VE SEEN THE POLLS AND TRUMP HAS BEEN MEETING SO THE POLLS.

SO I DON'T KNOW THAT IT WILL MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE.

>> BUT I DO THINK GUESTS CAN MENTION IT'S A CAMPAIGN MOVE, RIGHT?

IT'S SOMETHING THAT HE NEEDED TO DO TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT THIS HAPPEN AS A WAY YOU KNOW, STILL LET THEM KNOW THAT TRUMP IS MOST LIKELY GOING TO BE THE BALLOT.

SO HOW ARE YOU COVERING THIS RACE?

TRUMP IS.

>> UNLIKE ANY OTHER IN SO MANY WAYS, THAT LEAST OF ALL THE INVOLVEMENT.

AND GET A LITTLE MORE TO THE ILLINOIS SITUATION WHEN IT COMES TO THE INSURRECTION.

BUT FURTHER FACING NUMEROUS OF COURT CASES.

HOW ARE YOU COVERING THIS AS A POLITICAL JOURNALIST MISSION?

>> YOU KNOW, IN CHICAGO, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE IN A DEEPLY BLUE STATE AND YOU KNOW, SO IT CAN BE EASY FOR US TO FORGET IN CHICAGO THAT, YOU KNOW, BOTH JOE BIDEN AND DONALD TRUMP, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE TAKING JANUARY 6, 1, IS TRYING TO USE THAT ILLUSTRATES THE ABSOLUTE WORST THAT WE CAN SEE FOR DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.

THE OTHER IS TRYING TO USE THAT YOU KNOW, AN EXAMPLE OF FOLKS SEASON DEMOCRACY THEMSELVES.

YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST A LOT OF THE FOLKS WHO WERE THERE THAT DAY, SOT AS AN INSURRECTION.

AND I THINK A LOT THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF VOTERS IN CHICAGO, LEAST IN THE METRO AREA, CERTAINLY SEEM TO GET BEHIND THAT.

WE'VE SEEN IN YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS COVERING IT HERE, I THINK IT'S JUST A MATTER OF KEEPING ON CONTEXT.

>> KEEPING IT ALL IN CONTEXT.

WE WILL TRY TO DO THAT HERE, INCLUDING WITH BRINGING IT HOME TO WHAT THIS MEANS HERE IN ILLINOIS BECAUSE THAT ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL COULD REALLY IMPACT THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE AND A REALLY DIRECT FASHION PERHAPS KEEPING TRUMP OFF OF THE BALLOT COMPLETELY IN 18 STATES.

NOW, INCLUDING ILLINOIS, WHERE A GROUP VOTERS THAT HAVE FILED SUIT SAYING THAT 8.14 OR THE NOT FILED SUIT SEEKING ACTION FROM THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS TOO.

THEY SAY THAT BECAUSE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT, ANYBODY THAT WAS INVOLVED IN INSTRUCTION, INCLUDING PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD BE BARRED FROM SERVING.

WHERE DOES THIS WELL, IT SOUNDS LIKE THE SUPREME COURT HAS AGREED TO TAKE UP THE ISSUE IN COLORADO'S CASE.

>> AND SO I THINK WHAT THAT ENDS UP WHATEVER THEY'D END UP DECIDING WITH CERTAINLY PRECEDENT ACROSS.

I WOULD THINK ALL THE OTHER STATES THAT ARE NOW CONSIDERING THIS QUESTION, INCLUDING ILLINOIS, AS WE SAW THIS WEEK, PEOPLE CHALLENGING WHETHER OR NOT HIS NAME SHOULD APPEAR ON THE BALLOT HERE.

BUT I THINK LOT TO KIND OF WATCH AND SEE WHAT THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IN THAT COLORADO CASE.

COULD WHAT POSITION DOES THIS PUT SUPREME COURT?

AND WHEN WE ALREADY HAVE HISTORIC APPROVAL IN U.S. ARE HISTORICALLY LOW APPROVAL RATINGS FOR JUSTICES.

WELL, I TOUGH LUCK.

THIS IS THEIR JOB YOU ADMINISTER AND ROLL ON THE TOUGHEST QUESTIONS.

AND THAT IS WHAT THEY'RE SET UP TO DO >> SO I THINK IT YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S KIND OF A CONSENSUS.

PEOPLE ALREADY FEEL LIKE IT'S A DONE DEAL THAT THEY'RE GOING TO TRUMP.

>> ON THE BALLOT AND THEY'RE GOING TO OVERTURN WHAT HAPPENED IN COLORADO AND THE CHALLENGES ARE POPPING OTHER I THINK THAT'S A FAIR ASSESSMENT BASED ON THE MAKEUP OF THE COURT AND HOW THEY'VE RULED IN THE PAST TERM.

BUT, >> YOU KNOW, WILL SAY MAYBE MAYBE NOT.

IS THIS AN EXERCISE?

IT AGAIN, WE ARE WAITING FOR A DECISION, BUT IS THIS AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY OR IS THIS SOMETHING COULD MAYBE CHANGE VOTERS MINDS AS WE'RE TRYING TO DO CHANGE VOTERS MINDS?

I THE BIGGER THINGS AT PLAY OR THE INDICTMENTS TRUMP IS >> AND YOU KNOW, IF HE IS CONVICTED IN ANY OF THOSE, THEN WE'RE GOING TO SEE A WHOLE SLEW OF ADDITIONAL COURT CHALLENGES, WHETHER HE IS FIT YOU KNOW, RUN FOR PRESIDENT.

REALLY TIGHT TIMELINE.

THERE.

>> ALREADY VERY BUSY IS A CANDIDATE CAN IMAGINE HAVING TO KEEP UP WITH ALL THOSE COURT DATES, SOMEBODY ELSE THAT IS GOING TO BE IN COURT, ALTHOUGH NOT QUICKLY AS HE HAD EXPECTED.

ONCE POWERFUL MAN WAS LEGAL PROBLEMS.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A JUDGE RULING IN FORMER ILLINOIS HOUSE SPEAKER MICHAEL MADIGAN'S BRIBERY TRIAL POSTPONING IT BY ABOUT 6 MONTHS WAS SUPPOSED TO START IN APRIL AND INSTEAD GOING TO BE IN OCTOBER.

SO MITCH, THIS IS DUE TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT.

WHAT JUSTICE IS GOING TO BE WEIGHING IN THIS CASE?

A VERY BUSY DOCKET THE SUPREME COURT LIKE YOU >> SO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ARE ALSO WEIGHING A PORTAGE, INDIANA INVOLVING A FORMER MAYOR WHO WAS CONVICTED OF BRIBERY AND ESPECIALLY THE JUSTICES ARE NOW LOOKING YOU KNOW, WHAT ACTUALLY CONSTITUTES BRIBERY HOW MUCH OF A CONCRETE QUID PRO QUO DOES THERE HAVE TO BE TO SECURE A CONVICTION YOU KNOW, AT THIS DOESN'T HAVE TO BE.

YOU GIVE ME THIS AND I'LL GIVE YOU YOU KNOW, THERE THERE'S A LOT MORE WITHIN THE LAW THAT FEDERAL PROSECUTORS HAVE REALLY TO IT.

TAKE DOWN A LOT OF FIGURES IN ILLINOIS THE PAST COUPLE YEARS.

A AND THEY'RE HOPING TO DO THE SAME WITH MICHAEL MADIGAN.

SO THAT THAT DECISION CAN REALLY HAVE A HUGE NOT ONLY ON A BERKS CONVICTION CONDITIONS OF OTHER FOLKS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO COULD DUE WEATHER, MADIGAN, EVEN END UP GOING TO TRIAL.

THINK WE WILL YOU KNOW I YOU KNOW, I'M NO LAWYER, WHAT WE'LL SEE JOURNALIST'S >> YEAH, I'M SORRY INTERRUPT A DEAL THAT YOU SAID YOU'RE NOT A LAWYER, BUT IT.

>> BUT, KNOW, IT SEEMS PRETTY CUT AND DRY YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO BRIBERY, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO TIP FOR THERE IS SOME LEEWAY THERE, BUT IN THE MEAT.

IN THE MEANTIME, THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR MICHAEL MADIGAN, EXTRA 6 MONTHS OF HE DOESN'T HAVE TO FACE TRIAL, AT AND BEING AT HOME FAMILY.

YOUR LEGAL TEAM BEING ABLE TO SHORE UP THAT ANY DEFENSES?

YEAH, MANY, MANY WIN FOR MADIGAN HERE.

>> HE'S HAD.

HE'S HAD A LOT OF THOSE IN HIS BEFORE BIG FALL AND WHAT WE'LL SEE.

HE'S ALSO 81 YEARS OLD RIGHT NOW.

SO WONDERING WHAT THAT DOES FOR THINGS.

>> YOU MENTIONED AT BURKE.

SO LET'S GO WITH THAT.

AND GO ACTUALLY BACK TOO MUCH BECAUSE YOU HAD A STORY TODAY ABOUT HOW THE CONVICTED FORMER ALDERMAN.

>> HE'S DUE FOR SOME PAYOUTS WITH THE CITY PENSION.

THIS EVEN KNOW WHAT HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF HAS TO DO WITH HIS HOLDING OFFICE.

SO HOW DOES THAT WORK?

>> SO IN POLITICIANS OR PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHO ARE CONVICTED OF A CRIME RELATED TO THEIR UNDER STATE LAW.

THEY CAN'T THEIR PENSION BENEFITS, BUT THEY ARE, OF COURSE, ENTITLED TO BE REFUNDED DOLLARS THAT THEY'VE CONTRIBUTED TO THAT ACCOUNT DURING THEIR CAREERS.

BURKE WAS OBVIOUSLY A HE WAS THE ALDERMEN 54 YEARS IN THE THE 14TH WARD.

I'M ACTUALLY GOING THROUGH SOME PUZZLE TO PENSION RECORDS ACTUALLY STARTED.

AS 17 YEAR-OLD WORKING IN SO HIS PETITION STARTED PAYING BASICALLY INTO THE PENSION FUNDS SINCE HE WAS A TEENAGER.

EXACTLY SINCE 1961.

>> SO THAT COMES OUT TO INCLUDING INTEREST HE'S LOOKING AT ONE TIME PAYMENT OF MORE THAN HALF A MILLION DOLLARS, BUT PERHAPS MORE EGREGIOUS THE MATTER I SHOULD CALL DEGREE JUST LITTLE JAW DROPPING, I WOULD SAY A LOOPHOLE IN STATE CAMPAIGN FINANCING.

LAW ALLOWS POLITICIANS OF A CERTAIN AGE 2 PAY THEMSELVES OUT OF THEIR OWN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN FUNDS >> SINCE DO WHATEVER THEY WANT WITH THE MONEY, THERE'S REGULATIONS NOW AND HOW IT CAN BE USED.

BUT IF HE HAS A CAMPAIGN FUND, HE CAN DO.

WHAT WAS IT?

>> EXACTLY.

SO THEY REFORM BACK IN 1998, TO SORT OF BRIDGE THAT, YOU KNOW.

PRETTY GLARING HOLE AND THE LAW BUT OF LAWMAKERS BACKED AND GIVE NOW TO A PAY THEMSELVES OUT AS MUCH AS THEY HAVE THEIR COUNTS.

AS THE MIDDLE OF 1998, FRED BIRTH.

THAT'S ABOUT 2 MILLION DOLLARS THAT WILL BE ABLE TO PAY HIMSELF HIMSELF BY CAR PAY, PERHAPS LEGAL FEES, DO WHATEVER HE WANTS THINK AGREE JUST MIGHT BE TO YOU KNOW, BURKE IS SET TO LEARN AT HIS SENTENCING IN JUNE HOW LONG HE'S GOING TO BE GOING TO PRISON FOR.

>> ONE STORY NOT GOING AWAY.

HOWEVER, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO YOU, LAURA.

AND THAT IS THE INFLUX OF MIGRANTS, TEXAS.

YOU HAVE BUS COMPANIES AS WELL.

EVEN.

PRIVATE PLANE, CHARTER COMPANY, ESSENTIALLY REALLY SKIRTING CHICAGO'S ATTEMPTS TO BLOCKED BUSES, AT LEAST AT CERTAIN TIMES.

AND INSTEAD TAKING MIGRANTS AND DROPPING THEM OFF IN OTHER COMMUNITIES.

THEY ARE NOW IMPLEMENTING DROP-OFF RESTRICTIONS THEIR OWN.

SO HOW WIDESPREAD IS THIS EFFECT?

YEAH, WELL, WE'VE SEEN JUST ALL OF THE CITIES AROUND US.

THAT'S KANKAKEE.

WE AND IF YOU GUYS CAN IN MIAMI, WHICH OTHER ONES.

BUT, YOU KNOW, PRETTY MUCH ANY SURROUNDING CITY IN CHICAGO HAS NOW IMPLEMENTED.

>> THOSE LIMITS INTO HOW BUSES ARRIVE AT PRETTY MUCH SIMILAR TO WHAT CHICAGO DID.

AND SO THE BUS DRIVERS ARE DROPPING THEM OFF IN RANDOM STATIONS OR RANDOM, EVEN GAS STATIONS.

I BELIEVE PLEA PLAYING TRACK TAKING FOLKS TO ROCKFORD, AND SO THE CITIES ADOPTING POLICIES TO PRETTY MUCH DISCOURAGE MIGRANTS FROM ARRIVING THERE.

WHETHER IT BE NOT ONLY LIMITING.

>> AND IMPOSING FEES TO BUS DRIVERS, BUT ALSO ADOPTING AN ON-STAGE CITY MOST 2 SEPARATE THINGS.

IS IT BECAUSE THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY THAT THIS IS THAT RESTRICTIONS ARE MEANT TO FORCE BETTER COMMUNICATION.

>> IN COURT, A NATION IS THAT THE SAME?

HOWEVER, I THINK THAT WILL, FIRST OF ALL, I THINK THAT THIS ALL OF THE EFFORTS BY CITY ITS BY CITIES, I SHOULD SAY.

>> WEIGHING >> 2 TEXAN OFFICIALS AND PEOPLE THAT ARE LEADING THE EFFORTS TO SEND MIGRANTS HERE.

MIGRANTS HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY'RE GOING.

WHO'S MEAN THEM OR NOT WELCOMING THEM OR WHERE THEY'RE LANDING.

ALL THEY KNOW IS THAT THEY'RE BEING TAKEN SOMEWHERE.

SO I DON'T KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY ON SANCTUARY CITY.

THAT'S THE CASE.

AND IT'S IT'S PRETTY MUCH JUST DISCOURAGING PEOPLE FROM GOING THERE WHEN THAT MEANS WE'RE NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU HELP ESSENTIALLY RIGHT?

BUT HOW ARE THEY SENDING THAT MESSAGE TO THE MIGRANTS?

I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S VERY CLEAR.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT THE MIGRANTS UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS, I DON'T THINK THAT.

POLITICS ARE NOT A PRIORITY FOR THEM AND DEFINITELY DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN IN OUR CITIES AROUND SO THAT HE IS THERE ANY SIGN THAT THIS HELPING TO IMPROVE COORDINATION OR IS THIS JUST CAUSING MORE PROBLEMS?

NOW?

I WOULD SAY THAT IT.

>> IT APPEARS TO ME THAT IT'S SORT OF LIKE A BIT OF ALLOW DRESS POINT LIKE.

>> THE OFFICIALS TALKING PAST ONE ANOTHER AND THEN THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND TRYING TO BE HUMANE TO ONE ANOTHER.

I MEAN, I THINK YOU WHAT YOU SEE IS MIGRANTS LANDING SOMEWHERE AND A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS AND VOLUNTEERS AND PEOPLE WITH GOOD HEARTS IN GROUPS TRYING TO PIECE TOGETHER SOLUTIONS FOR THEM.

BUT THERE'S A WHOLE SEPARATE CONVERSATION HAPPENING ABOVE THE FOLKS ON THE GROUND THAT I WOULD SAY IS IMPROVING ITS VERY MUCH THIS TALKING PAST ONE ANOTHER WITH ITS EXPOSING IS JUST THE LACK OF A CENTRALIZED OR OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT I DON'T KNOW FOR MOST OR BOTH.

YOU KNOW, I THINK FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HERE NEEDS TO STEP UP BECAUSE IT'S IT'S NOW IT'S BEYOND JUST.

>> YOU KNOW, THE PRITZKER JOHNSON, IT'S NOW WE HAVE ALL THE CITY'S KIND OF LIKE AGAINST EACH OTHER.

WHEN YOU SAW THE MAYOR IS IN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO AND WAS IT YES, THAT YOU KNOW, PUT OUT A JOINT STATEMENT ESSENTIALLY SAYING, HEY, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL NEED WE NEED YOU TO ACTUALLY COME IN AND HELP BE THE COORDINATOR, THE CONVENER HERE TO HELP THIS AND ALSO PROVIDE RESOURCES FINDING KUZ AGAIN TO ELECTIONS COMING UP WITH ESSENTIALLY REPUBLICAN STATE AGAINST DEMOCRATIC STATE.

AND THIS IS USING THE PEOPLE RIGHT NOW.

AGAIN, I THINK THAT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO MENTION THAT MIGRANTS HAVE A WHOLE DIFFERENT MINDSET OF WHY THEY'RE COMING HERE AND WHERE THEY'RE GOING.

SO I THINK THE REPUBLICAN STATE IS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF WHAT THAT MEANS AND USING IT AGAINST YOU KNOW, DEMOCRATS AND DEMOCRATS I CAN NO LONGER ABLE TO RESPOND.

AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY PROPERLY, BUT IN IN A WAY TO TO HANDLE ALL OF THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THERE THAT WERE THAT THAT ARE COMING HERE.

IT'S OVER 30,000 PEOPLE NOW IN IN CHICAGO.

BUT WE DON'T KNOW ANY MORE RIGHT AT LIKE TO TO THAT POINT, I DO THINK THERE'S POINT AT WHICH OUR DEMOCRATIC MAYOR, OUR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR AND OUR DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT IN AN ELECTION YEAR WITH A DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN OUR CITY 8 NEXT SUMMER.

>> YOU KNOW, THERE IS SOME INCENTIVE I WOULD HOPE EARTH.

THINK THAT THEY WOULD WANT TO GET ON THE SAME PAGE AS IT MANAGED TO ONES.

YEAH, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY FIRST AND FOREMOST FOR HUMANITARIAN REASONS.

BUT THEY ARE INCENTIVIZED FURTHER DUE TO THAT.

I THINK HANGING OVER WE'VE I IT'S ONLY JANUARY 5TH, BUT I MEAN, WE'LL I 6 MONTHS FUNDS BY LAW TO TELL FROM PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW THERE.

BUT IT COULDN'T MEET.

THE MAYOR WAS SUPPOSED TO MET WITH MEMBERS OF ILLINOIS'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE SHUN.

WE ALSO CONTINUED POLARIZATION IN WASHINGTON.

>> AS A FEDERAL SHUTDOWN COULD BE BUDGET IMPASSE.

AND PART OF THAT, OF COURSE, THE IMMIGRATION SITUATION.

SO >> IT'S A PERFECT STORM WE ARE IN ELECTION YEAR AND I IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE.

YOU KNOW, REPUBLICANS IN DC WANTING TO TOSS A BONE TO CHICAGO HERE.

I DO THINK I DO THINK THE MAYOR HAS HAS BEEN MAKING THE CASE.

I MEAN, HE'S MAKING THE CASE FOR SINCE HE WAS ELECTED THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO STEP UP AND HE'S KIND YOU KNOW, BEEN ON.

HE'S BEEN ON NATIONAL MEDIA IN THE PAST WEEK OR 2 MAKING THAT SO I I THINK THE MESSAGE HAS BEEN RECEIVED.

IT'S A MATTER OF POLITICAL WILL AT LEVELS THAT GO FAR BEYOND OUR CITY AND STATE IN A CAREER-HIGH IN A PRIORITY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

IN THE FOR MANY, BEEN THROUGH SEVERAL PRESIDENTS AND IT HASN'T BEEN A PRIORITY.

AND IT CERTAINLY HAS BEEN AN ISSUE, ONGOING ISSUE.

AND I THINK THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE CHANCE OFFICIALS TO STEP IT UP AND PUT IT BACK ON INDIA ON THE AGENDA.

IF THERE IS ANY IYER TO TO COME TOGETHER, WHICH I'M NOT SURE WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF THAT.

>> CAN EITHER OF YOU GIVE US AN UPDATE ON WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE GROUND HERE IN CHICAGO WHERE THIS STATE IS MOVING FORWARD WITH AN INTAKE CENTER WE HEARD ABOUT MONTHS AGO AS WELL AS LITTLE VILLAGE AND ITS SHELTER SET TO OPEN THEIR.

THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO WHETHER THEY'RE SET TO OPEN A SHELTER LATER THIS MONTH THAT A FORMER CBS IN LITTLE VILLAGE, THAT'S WHERE SOME OF THE MIGRANTS ARE CURRENTLY STAYING AT HOTELS WILL TRANSFERRED OVER GARDAWORLD, WHICH WAS ACTUALLY THE COMPANY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO MANAGE THE TEMP.

THE WHEN TRICE TENDON BRYAN PARK THAT WAS SHUT DOWN WILL BE STAFFING THAT THAT SHELTER BECAUSE THEY CAN HELP.

DO I MEAN IF YOU'RE YOU'RE MOVING MIGRANTS FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER ARE COMING IN IS GOING TO MAKE IT I THINK THAT THEY JUST NEED MORE SHELTERS.

YOU I MEAN, WE RIGHT NOW THERE IS ABOUT I MORE THAN 300 PEOPLE WAITING AT O'HARE.

WE HAVE A FEW AT A AT 12TH DISTRICT POLICE STATION AND THEY'RE SET CERTAINLY MORE COMING INTO THE CITY.

SO I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S GOING HELP.

I DO KNOW THOUGH, THAT THE STATE HAS OPENED UP HOTELS AGAIN, WHICH IS ANOTHER THING THAT DIFFERENT CITIES HAVE ALSO TACKLED, WHICH IS ATTACKS INTO LONG-TERM STAYS AND HOTELS TO AVOID LONG-TERM STAYS.

YOU KNOW, AT THE SAME TIME, WHAT IS THE CITY GOING KEEP STANDING A SHELTER?

SO THEY'VE SET UP 27.

THE STATE IS PUTTING THIS LITTLE VILLAGE.

28.

>> IS THE CITY JUST GOING TO KEEP BUILDING MORE AND MORE SHELTERS?

I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO START CUTTING IT OFF AT SOME POINT.

I THINK SO.

AND THEY HAVE THE LIMIT TO.

WE HAVE TO REMIND YOU WHAT WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THAT.

AND IF YOU KNOW ME AT TO I WRITE A STORY BEFORE I LEFT ON VACATION TALKING ABOUT WHAT THIS COULD MEAN FOR THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WITHOUT HOMES, WHICH IS >> PRETTY MUCH FALLING INTO HOMELESSNESS IN CREATING THEIR OWN THEIR OWN HOMES IN IN IN VACANT LAND AS THEY DO IN LATIN AMERICA, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY'RE NOT AFRAID TO DO HERE IN THE FIRST 60 LAPSES IN ABOUT 12.

YEAH.

IN EVEN AS WE HAVE, OF COURSE, NOW THAT THIS NEW LAWSUIT SO MUCH TO YOU, THERE'S A LAWSUIT REGARDING THE BRING CHICAGO HOME ORDINANCE SUPPOSED RAISE MONEY.

>> TO CURE ISSUES REGARDING HOMELESSNESS.

DOES THIS HAVE ANY SORT OF LEGS?

YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING JUST HOW THESE ISSUES SORT ALMOST GO HAND IN HAND IN SOME >> YOU KNOW, HOMELESSNESS IS OBVIOUSLY IT'S BEEN ENTRENCHED ISSUE IN CHICAGO AND SOME OTHER MAJOR CITIES FOR FOR AND YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS LAWSUIT COULD SORT ANOTHER ROADBLOCK TO BRANDON JOHNSON'S PROGRESSIVE AGENDA.

SO FAR WHEN IT CAME TO AN EXPANDING PAID LEAVE, A GUARANTEED PAID FOR ALL WORKERS THAT CAPACITY COUNCIL JUST THIS, THIS BALLOT REFERENDUM ITEM.

YOU KNOW, NOW GONE BACK AND THAT ACTUALLY THAT PLAN THE PAID LEAVE PLAN IS GOING TO BE DELAYED BY AT LEAST A FEW MONTHS.

WE'LL SEE HOW SUCCESSFUL LANDLORDS ARE WITH THIS LAWSUIT.

YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S IT'S JUST KIND OF A ANOTHER IMPEDIMENT THAT JOHNSON'S RUNNING INTO AT THIS POINT.

>> YET ANOTHER IMPEDIMENT FOR JOHNSON, LET'S SAY TOUCH BRIEFLY GOT ABOUT 4 MINUTES LEFT ON THE CHICAGO POLICE IT ISSUE WITH THOSE WHO HAVE REALLY IN SERIOUS TROUBLE WITH AN ARBITER SAYING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL MADE A REAL BIG MISTAKE AND A MESS REALLY TOOK ALL THE PERSONS TO TASK BY TRYING TO GO AROUND THE ARBITRATOR'S RULING THAT OFFICERS DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH ARBITRATOR CAN GO THROUGH AN ARBITRATOR THAT WITH THE CITY COUNCIL SAYING NO, WE WANT YOU TO HAVE TO GO BEFORE THE POLICE BOARD AND HAVE THIS BE OPEN.

SO GIVEN THE MAYOR'S PROGRESSIVE PROMISES, IS THERE ANY WAY AROUND WELL, IT'S JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT BECAUSE IT IS A LOT OF INSIDE BASEBALL.

>> YOU KNOW, I THE MOST SERIOUS POLICE DISCIPLINARY CASES.

I BELIEVE TERMINATION OR CENTRAL LOWER THAN A YEAR AGO IN FRONT OF THE PUBLIC POLICE BOARD OFFICERS CAN CONTEST THAT RULING THROUGH THE LATEST CITY CONTRACT WITH THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE INDEPENDENT ARBITRATOR HAS RULED THAT A POLICE OFFICER SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHTS TO CHOOSE CLOSED OR ARBITRATION SIMILAR TO OTHER PUBLIC UNIONS AND THE CITY AND MANY PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING THAT RULING.

THEY EVEN SPLITS THE POLICE CONTRACT VOTE IN A PRETTY DRAMATIC WAY LAST MONTH.

BUT, YOU KNOW, THE ARBITRATOR CAME BACK TODAY AND IT IS STATE THE SENSATIONAL AMENDMENT COUNCIL VIOLATED STATE LAW AND NOW THEY'VE MADE THEIR POINT AND HE'S >> URGING THEM TO ONCE SO ARE GOING TO DO, THOUGH, BECAUSE IRAN ON THIS PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM.

GOOD QUESTION.

BUT I THINK THE MAYOR AND HIS ALLIES WILL CONTINUE TO VOTE IT DOWN.

I THINK IT YOU KNOW, THEY THAT IT IS A VITAL PART OF POLICE OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE POLICE BOARD TO HAVE HEARINGS PUBLIC.

AND YES, IT MAY SET UP A VERY PROLONGED LEGAL BATTLE, BUT I DO THINK ALSO WANT TO DO PROGRESS IS WHAT WILL GO TO AFTER THIS ONE.

WE'VE GOT ABOUT 2 MINUTES LEFT.

THANK WANT TO MAKE SURE TO GET TO YOU BECAUSE AT THE BORDER, DAD IS REALLY WEIGHING IN HARD TRYING TO PERHAPS ON MOVE AWAY FROM A SYSTEM.

SCHOOL CHOICE ALSO MOVE AWAY FROM HAVING POLICE OFFICERS IN SCHOOLS.

BUT THEY SAY THEY WANT PUBLIC INPUT.

IS TRULY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT ARE MERELY AND >> EXERCISE IN P WELL, THEY DO SAY THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE HAVING SOME MEETINGS ABOUT THE DISTRICT'S NEXT STRATEGIC PLAN.

THOSE MEETINGS HAVEN'T BEEN EXACTLY ANNOUNCED YET, BUT THEY WILL BE IN FEBRUARY >> AND I WILL SAY THIS BOARD, THE SEVEN-MEMBER APPOINT A BOARD APPOINTED BY MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON, WHO HAS STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND HAD TEACHER YOU KNOW, THIS IS THEIR YEAR FINAL YEAR REALLY BEFORE THEY'RE REPLACED BY A 21 MEMBER HYBRID BOARD AND EVENTUALLY A FULLY ELECTED BOARD TO ESSENTIALLY MAKE SOME NEW POLICIES.

AND SO THEY ARE SIGNALING, THOUGH THEY HAVEN'T ACTUALLY CHANGE THE POLICIES YET.

THEY ARE SIGNALING SOME OF THEIR INCLUDING THAT THEY AND THE CONTRACT WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

4 OFFICERS ACPD OFFICERS IN SCHOOLS.

THERE STILL MIGHT BE SECURITY OFFICERS AND THEY'VE ALSO SIGNALED THAT THEY WANT FOCUS MORE ON NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS AND LESS ON CHARTERS AND SELECTIVE IN MAGNET SCHOOLS.

BUT WE DON'T KNOW YET WHAT SHAPE THAT WOULD TAKE.

BUT I WILL SAY IT'S GOING TO BE AN EVENTFUL 2024 FOR I THINK THE SCHOOL BOARD IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AS IT SHIFTS GOVERNANCE FROM BEING UNDER MAYORAL CONTROL TO BEING ELECTED OR HYBRID ELECTED BOARD.

AND WE'VE GOT ABOUT 30 SECONDS SO I'M GOING TO AND HERE COVID BECAUSE IT IS BACK.

IT IS BAD.

IT IS.

IS THE FLU RSV.

>> DOCTORS ENCOURAGING FOLKS TO MASK UP.

SO I'M CURIOUS, SOME HOSPITALS ARE RE-IMPLEMENTING MASK REQUIREMENTS.

ANYBODY HAVE INFORMATION ON WHY NOT ALL HOSPITALS AT THIS POINT?

I THINK THERE'S JUST NO APPETITE FOR IT.

I THINK YOU TALK TO THE EXPERTS WERE DEALING WITH ON A DAILY BASIS AND >> NOW THERE'S JUST FATIGUE WHEN IT COMES EVEN HEARING ABOUT THE SO, YOU KNOW, REGARDLESS IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TRYING TO GET MORE FOLKS TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.

AND AND SO THAT'S THE CHALLENGE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS HAVE BEEN FACING SURE FOR YEARS NOW.

>> 13% RATE OF VACCINATION.

I BELIEVE IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO ON THAT COVID SHOT.

SO WITH THAT, WE ARE OUT OF TIME.

OUR THANKS VERY MUCH TO OUR PANEL.

AND THAT INCLUDES WHICH ALARMING TROUT, JIGGETTS AND KRAHN MYERS.

WE'RE BACK TO WRAP THINGS UP RIGHT AFTER THIS.

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SO KEEP SKOKIE, SWIFT OR I I'VE BEEN GOING AT THIS SKOKIE SOLID FINALLY HE BEING A LITTLE FINANCIAL 7 WEEKS.

WHEN DO YOU THINK THAT THIS CREATES ANY SORT OF LASTING DISTRUST IN THE CTA?

I MEAN, YOU MENTIONED IT.

THIS IS THE BLUE LINE.

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A COUPLE DAYS.

I I THINK, RIGHT?

I DON'T THINK I THIS IS KIND OF LIKE A LOW RIDERSHIP WAY UP ON THE FAR NORTH SIDE.

SO I DON'T KNOW LINE INCLINED WOULD BE DOWN FOR 7 I THINK PEOPLE.

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