>> Hello and thanks for joining us on the weekend I'm Amanda Just 17 days until the election, though, former President Donald Trump's not done pretending he won the last presidential race 4 years ago.

We had a term.

>> Peacefully and patriotically.

These were people if you think an election is crooked.

And I do 100%.

>> Comments he made on a visit to Chicago, Kamala Harris also stepping out of her with an interview conservatives, cable channel.

>> He's been vice president for 3 and a half years.

So what are you turning the page from?

Well, first of all, turning the page from the last decade.

>> In which we have been burdened with that kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and implemented to divide our country.

>> Over to city Hall, Mayor Brandon Johnson's, outgoing and incoming members of the Chicago Board of Education have something in common.

They all skipped a city council hearing.

It's incredibly frustrating when.

>> We're asking for money and, you know, Trump to take questions.

>> Leaving Chicago Public schools and battled CEO on the hot seat for hours.

You mentioned that they cut.

>> If we cannot figure out how you know, and this gap, could you explain in details what exactly the cuts that will happen.

>> Pedro Martinez had no simple answers.

It's complicated.

I've always said is the issues that we have are about resources.

>> That's the enemy not having sufficient resources knowing that our children need those investments.

>> Meanwhile, there's fans are saying cheers after win London, but a report says the White Sox could be saying sayonara.

>> And now to our week in review panel joining us, our Melody Mercado from Block Club Chicago, our own Nic Blumberg W T Tw News Democrat, the former sports editor for the Chicago Tribune.

Now rates about the business of sports for Crain's Chicago Business and joining us via zoom from Washington, D.C., contributing columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Clarence Page.

And we'll get right to it.

Clarence, I'm going to go to you because we are yes, in the thick of this presidential contest and it is rare this close to a general election, 4 presidential candidate, too, be going to a state that isn't a swing such as Illinois.

So why did Donald Trump come to Chicago and what did he have to say about our city?

>> Well, as nicer things that you look, the most part and the passage Chicago's one of those cities like such a holdup has a big mess.

He's obviously playing to 2 of stereotypes appeal to whirl and our suburban based constituency.

it time for him to All, Willie, that's what some questions, not necessarily completely booked.

It say that well, questions about how will he's handling his campaign what kind future he Will he step aside voluntarily heat up the election?

What a noble suggestion questions like that.

matter.

>> not.

it was that kind of Is that really?

>> So I talk really 2 members of the business elites and melody.

You were there.

What was the response like?

Because, again, Chicago's really thought of is this solid blue Democratic town Yeah, he did.

You want to be able to tell we were solid blue from being in the room.

I will say that the former president received a astounding claps and applause and cheers.

>> the beginning throughout the whole interview and a standing ovation at the end.

at times he was mocking the interviewer editor-in-chief of Bloomberg and received support from the crowd.

He also received loud cheers when he was talking about his economic plan, which includes and implementing 10% tariffs across the board for all imports us.

But specifically 60% for everything coming in from China.

And when really pushed on that.

He told the moderator, you just don't know what you're talking about.

I'm right.

You're wrong.

Very classic Trump.

>> Very classic Trump.

You we issues that he talked a lot about tariffs defending his economic policies.

But let's hear about a little bit more of what we did at the top of this and that is his comments about what happened on January 6.

>> When you commit now to respecting and encouraging a peaceful transfer of power.

Well, you had a peaceful transfer of power, peaceful transfer of power.

You had to people.

On PRI has dumped.

You have always had peaceful transfer of power competitive in this way.

La.

But it was by far the most the transfer of power for a long time.

>> So as Melody indicated there, you could hear boos from the audience.

Didn't like that line of questioning.

>> But, Nic, what about the former president's answer?

What does that say to you about what could happen say November 6th?

Well, I think he's been teeing this up all along during this campaign.

You know, he's been sowing the seeds.

>> That if he doesn't win this round and you know, his 3rd run for the presidency, that there may be something untoward, that there may be some sort of irregularities in voting into this is messages that we've heard from President Trump and from his supporters for years and years.

You know, he had a line saying, well, there was there was nobody there with a gun at, you know, on January 6th, which was, you know, apartment.

Yeah, there were I think 120, I believe, you know, documented cases there.

So he is using the same sorts of rhetorical tactics where he saying, well, because, you know, Joe Biden was sworn in as the president's, you know, later that month.

Therefore, it was a peaceful transfer of power.

But I think anybody who witnessed, you know, the violence of January 6, the particularly the people who are there would really take issue with that characterization he called it a day of love.

I mean, think that's how delusional he I mean, 6 people died.

>> 140 police officers were injured.

Members of Congress were running for their lives.

They were barricading doors and hiding under furniture.

>> It doesn't sound like a day of love.

>> And yet again, we heard cheers from the audience.

So where's the disparate?

I think it was don't want to say handpicked audience, but it was certainly a friendly audience.

It was a home game for him.

All these business leaders and >> the wealthy that he has looked out for with the tax cuts and not offering 2 these regulations.

If you give me a billion dollars and you know, he's preaching to the choir when he's in front of these people.

you have to imagine it's something similar from what we've seen from Republican politicians who, you know.

>> Mitch McConnell came out and decried, you know, Trump's actions and riling up the crowd on January 6, all sorts of Republican politicians.

>> At the time saying this is not the way the United States should operate.

This is not who we are, who have since changed their tune and are back to supporting the president.

>> Not a clearance of any other on the Democratic side of the aisle we talked about from the audience that Trump may have had when speaking to the economic Club of Chicago.

Vice President Kamala Harris going on FOX News.

That's not perceived to be friendly territory.

Typically for Democrats.

So why would she Clarence make this choice so close to an election?

>> Well, I think was a very good choice for her to because right she's been talking to the base a lot, just been talking to people who are not part the probe.

A swing over her subside shield her numbers.

Show and now it's time to go after people who are part of the other party, people who make it.

The only supporters who are disappointed that she didn't make all the She does very well with crowd and that's kind kind feel that she was making this past think that's what important to note.

My colleagues there who talking about the question of whether or not there was peaceful transfer or Let's face it full term.

were all saying people I was out there.

I was with those people running from that white also look like there was no question there was a lie.

But if you ask the good little Republican notice chances on moon was no crime was peaceful.

It shows you just how the Trumpism is the state is and how how Trump's base And how for that is that he wants this election because he doesn't what happens because identity.

>> Clarence, it.

Do you believe that this is because Trump supporters really, believe him or is it because members of Congress elected officials who are in the GOP, it need to stay with that line if they want to win, they want to gain power.

>> They want to believe him.

That's right.

And that's some of Great easy to do.

Well, I watched throughout entire political career.

I've seen him win one constituency after another, but they're all on the edges.

And the result 3 years?

But in the public we see him.

I Kamala locked in a dead heat race.

That is what state that to 50 for so long now.

How long will it stay that way?

But it's amazing how whole of techniques of campaigning of these days polar are precise that we have got to target markets in both going after each other.

would a little bit.

>> Can't wait either.

Can all of America, including this panel know, Melody?

I wanted to get back to the that Harris interview and just sort what were your takeaways from that?

Because she received some really is hard questions in terms difference is that she will have from President Biden.

She has after all, that is vice president for 3 years and also immigration really at the forefront.

>> I think she did a really good job.

And I feel like this a turning point in a lot of the interviews that she's had that have been on more friendlier newscast or publications where she really defined herself and saying I am going to be different from the Biden administration.

A vote for Kamala Harris is not a vote for Joe Biden explain how.

>> I mean, I don't think she she she tried to.

But I do think it was it.

The answer is different from what we've heard in the past where she I feel like she's incorporated Biden and a lot of her answers and in of course, thanking him for his service and in saying she.

>> She and him did a lot together.

But this was a moment where she was like, I feel like she rightfully put them aside him and said, hey, vote for me is a vote for me.

It's not a vote for Joe Biden because again going on FOX News, she's trying to appeal to the Republicans that are currently Feel like we heard from some of those particularly Latino voters that was on the ubc own town hall where they said they were undecided on Trump.

They said earn my vote back and I'm unsure if Trump actually did that and maybe, you know, Harris going on FOX News and sort of setting the ground and pushing back pretty well on on the interview maybe she gained those votes, getting up the vote coming in strong.

A lot of Illinois politicians going to those swing states across the border.

Wisconsin, Michigan, leaving tomorrow morning and Sunday.

>> Now let's move to some more breaking news that cranes uncovered actually this morning.

I was there 7 years ago, went great fanfare, that university in Illinois said it was going to build and bring its Discovery Partners Institute to this new neighborhood.

The 78 in the South Loop area 10.

25 million dollars later.

The university is changing its mines 78.

His run into a lot of problems, said lost its anchor tenant.

I don't see a ball park being built down there, which is what >> Jerry Reinsdorf is trying to do.

But this news today when with 25 million dollars already spent.

That's I don't think the U of I is in a position to be squandering 25 million dollars.

But there's obviously something about the project in the South works that they like better, Nick.

Well, they've got that.

Yeah, they're they're jumping in on this new quantum technology campus on the the former South works site on the far South side.

>> They've also said they can, you know, sort of split off some of the functions that we're going to be at the 78 and rent, you know, vacant commercial space downtown, because those are really some bargain basement prices in some buildings right now.

Still not the tendency has not recovered post COVID-19 that the shift to working from home.

So I think they thought, you know, we're already getting in on this South works site.

We've got this opportunity, even if we've already put 25 million into this, it just doesn't make financial sense for the university anymore.

But, yeah, I mean, think back Bruce Rauner and Rahm Emanuel coming together and saying come by on a project yeah, way back in the day, 70 plus years ago.

And now, you know, related is left holding the bag yet again.

>> So you referenced the White Sox.

And by the way, there's also talk that Germans may consider the Chicago fire to take a stadium to the 78 1 of 3 possible locations.

But let's go back to the White Sox because that's really the big news of this week.

At least you're to believe reporting from unnamed sources in the Athletic that owner Jerry Reinsdorf.

He's changed his tune.

is in fact, interested in selling the team.

>> He's a hard guy to pin down.

He does very little media.

So I don't know that anybody really knows.

There's writer for the USA Today named Bob Nightingale and he's kind of Jerry's mouthpiece.

He's the one guy that he talks to.

this is sort of his playbook.

He plays one city off against another.

I think that he may have been trying to get Governor Pritzker's attention because Governor Pritzker said.

Public funding for a new ballpark is a nonstarter.

Well, I don't think Jerry's of a mind to build a ballpark with his own money.

Watch public funding as to the Bears.

So he had heard from Governor Pritzker.

The silence has been rather deafening.

And I think it could be a ploy to why attract Governor Pritzker's attention or he could be serious.

I mean, the team has come off the worst year in its history, literally.

They had the 3rd worst, the worst the whole operation.

>> They were 3rd from the bottom in attendance.

It was just dead in the water.

And there's not a lot of good young players in the system.

>> They're going to be bad for a while.

And I think that might have affected guy why he hired Chris Ketz to head baseball operations cause.

I don't know that he could get anybody else.

This is going to take a massive rebuild.

I don't think they're worth 2 Billion.

But according to Forbes, that's the valuation.

throughout sports franchise values crazy.

All because of the sky.

Steve Balmer, who was the CEO of Microsoft.

He bought the LA Clippers about 6 years ago.

They were distressed franchise as well.

But the owner, Donald Sterling had been kicked out of the NBA leaving Affordable conduct or just to say that I've got to have an NBA team.

So he made like a poison pill offer that he knew nobody was going to match.

So if the LA Clippers are worth 2 billion franchises have just taken off in value and it's kind of silly cause.

I don't see the light being worth 2 Billion.

So do you think, Dan, that this is leverage or is this serious?

It can be both.

I don't mean to lawful, but seriously.

I do think he wants to get Governor Rauner heard Governor Pritzker's attention.

>> But also Major League Baseball would like to go to Nashville.

They would like Dave Stewart, the former Oakland A's pitcher is said to be heading up the Nashville group.

I think they would like to have black ownership.

They've never had a black owner and given their abysmal history of race relations, it would be a positive step forward for them to have a black owner.

They would not be abandoning Chicago because the Cubs would be here.

Nashville is an intriguing market.

The hockey team does extraordinarily well.

The football team does very well, even though they're not very good.

I think it's a more viable baseball market than Las Vegas where the Oakland A's are headed.

So in a lot of I hate to say this because I'm a South Sider myself, but a lot of ways.

I think Nashville make sense and he may be tired of all that.

He really had a rough go this year.

People were holding up banners in the stands.

He really had a rough go and eat it.

He's 88 years old.

He might just be tired of the whole.

It tied to open bands essentially college.

I yeah, right.

But the fact that he even did anything that for him with the man behind the curtain reveals itself a little bit.

So really serious swing.

Perhaps we will all be watching the story going into dock.

I don't know if that's a >> baseball Let's move now to Chicago.

Public schools have been in the headlines so much.

We have now Chicago's mayor, the school's city council members are all looking to the state for funding while also a nice boost to becoming for with public subsidies for stadiums.

And that was it.

The state funding was a big focus of a hearing this week.

It was supposed to be members of the Board of Education.

Nguyen also realty.

Why didn't any of these nominees or current members attend simple?

They don't have to.

>> So members of City Council argue that they have subpoena power, corporate counsel for the city.

The mayor's office say actually, we don't we don't have the power to to subpoena members from other bodies of of of government in Chicago Public schools, a separate from Chicago City Council.

So they didn't have to go.

So why face?

A slew of alderman that are really upset and might have tough questions.

If you don't have to.

>> Did you learn anything from the hearing?

No, I mean, it was mostly what we've been hearing, the same pitch from CEO Pedro Martinez over these past few weeks as he's made this pretty extraordinary public campaign to get folks on his side in terms of the way he's pitching fiscal management.

And oh, by the way, to try and keep his job, you know, he he really took it on the chin from a lot of older people.

But, you know, there are also plenty of questions, you know, to to your point about why aren't any of these, you know, members of the Board of Education here, if they're going to be coming to us and asking for money and it's like, well, it's not necessarily quite the relationship.

They're approving the budget.

They're not the ones crafting it.

Its an oversight position.

But it seems like a lot of this frustration with, you know, this battle between Co Martinez and Mayor Johnson and all the people feeling like they're completely left out of it is not necessarily going anywhere anytime soon.

But all the people do not have any formal role in the mayor choosing his appointments.

>> And so this gets to again, the city is hard up in terms of CPS.

But in General Clarence, you don't have to pay property taxes here in the city.

But the Civic Federation out this week really recommending that Chicago do anything but raise that.

>> A thoughts on whether Chicago has a path beyond that.

>> But this really tells us that Chicago we partially it for the property tax increases fence.

So many recent years.

And it just creates more division over the state of the schools, them their future.

So I I think open because scheme so for a charging, well, you know, raise the plastic bag tax that would like other marginal taxes like that talk about schools, need money.

And always in second biggest.

But sometimes the biggest budget they aren't making much progress.

Here now with the mayor is the forward former official visits to tradition.

>> So we'll be seeing that may are going to be laying out his budget just before Halloween and we will see if he >> takes any of those ideas from now.

Let's go to the meta country because we're talking about this.

Lot of these decisions in the past would have been run by one man.

And that, of course, is the former speaker of the Illinois House.

>> Now why did it take so long to choose a jury now that he's at trial for corruption?

Well, it's it's very common for a very high-profile cases to take their time with the jury.

>> Mostly because they want to make sure that they're choosing a jury that will be.

That that will be, you know, not favorable towards either side.

So it takes a lot of questioning and they're going to ask questions, where do you get your news?

Do you know who Mike Madigan is?

What do you know about the trial, if anything, and so that takes some time.

They know that they get their news from W T Tw Block Club greats and the tribute Nick, I'm curious, though, because in choosing these the questions were often, do you know anything about Mike Madigan and a lot of times the answer was in fact, know I know the name but not who he is.

>> What make that he was the most powerful man in state government and politics may be in Illinois outside of government and politics for decades.

I think, you know, it sort of points to the fact partially that people know.

>> The mayor, they know the governor.

They know the president, maybe the senators, maybe their local representative fit somebody like that unless you lived in the district that Madigan represented or you paid attention to news to the degree you know, all of us do, he might be someone that you hear it in passing.

But what's the House speaker and what does he do?

You know, you wouldn't necessarily know at first blush that he was the most powerful guy in Illinois politics for decades.

And I also think it goes to the fact that so much politics has become nationalized so people pay intense attention to the Donald Trump, Kamala Harris race.

But like, do you know who you're older person is?

Do you know who your state representative is this give you civic qualms, Dan?

>> The unknown is how he preferred.

He like to be the man behind the scenes pulling the levers.

He was not out there.

Boisterous like and barker any of the fellow miscreants.

But you know, he he really was he was a behind the scenes operative it.

But everybody knew where you had to go to get things done.

But he was even you.

that going counseling.

know, he's he's a very mysterious man and it's funny that I can't imagine how many U.S. attorneys made a run at time.

hear it and about court.

At least the minute we have left.

Let's talk about a different league.

It's not a court more of a field.

And there's that we to take the American version of football over to London caps, 3 wins in a row.

>> Are there more winds in store with easy pick Sarah Chance they could be a playoff team, but they're in the division in football.

Every team in the division is really.

>> That outstanding.

Plus, 3 of the 4 wins were against Tennessee, Jacksonville and Carolina.

3 of the worst teams in league.

>> So let's not get carried away.

But on the other hand, they're playing well.

The defense is very good.

They added some receivers.

And I have to say, I think Caleb Williams looks like the real deal.

Finally, they've been so many years without a quarterback, but he looks like he knows what he's doing.

plays with a lot of verve and a lot of confidence and them I could see him.

They could probably win 9 or 10 games.

could get him in the playoffs.

The rookie that that there's have been looking for, if savior, we are out of time.

You are our Savior's.

Thank you very much to Melody Mercado.

Nick Bloomberg, Dan McGrath and in Washington, D.C., to Clarence Page.

We will be back to wrap things up right after this.

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>> For the Week in review on them into Vicky's.

Thank you for watching.

Stay healthy and safe.

A good night the election but let's go to actual sports instead of the political support that I spend most of my time this week, we got the long-awaited return of vote.

>> But for he out more than 2 years series of knee injuries and I dug ice, NBA contracts are guaranteed.

A lot of guys would have just taken their money nice knowing and not right.

know he rehabbed.

did everything he was supposed to do.

We went through all the surgeries and eye because he really wanted to continue to play and to be out that long and the comeback good for him that I come back.

Well, yeah, Well, he's a good player.

There's never any doubt about that.

Was he good enough?

The question was would he be healthy enough?

And when he is healthy, he's a very good player.

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