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

I'm Brandis Friedman Nick Bloomberg has the evening off.

Following a mass shooting over Father's Day weekend.

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs an executive order to create a new office of Gun Violence reduction.

>> Be able to deliver resources and services quickly and strategically and effectively to the communities that need them the most.

>> Another candidate jumps in the race to be the next to Congo.

Mayor, former Housing Authority chair Matt Brewer.

I've had a front row seat to see the dysfunction coming out of city hall.

fact, I'm running for mayor.

>> Because for too long visit with the false choice about Chicago's future.

>> Meanwhile, Governor JB Pritzker prevents Illinois patients, medical records from being shared with other states citing law on the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision that struck down the federal constitutional right to abortion, health care records exist to treat patients, not surveil and punish them.

>> Bear stadium in Illinois may still be on the table as lawmakers devise new plans.

The president, I believe, is going to send that bill.

He delayed it, keep the faith.

We're going to get all done.

President Donald Trump withholds his approval of a bipartisan bill meant to lower housing costs for Americans.

Plus, the Cook County sheriff takes on crime on public transit.

And Supreme Court ruling hands more power to the president on immigration.

And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are lender of the Chicago Tribune.

>> Simon, Alicia of City Cash, Chicago, Garcia Hernandez, a block club.

Chicago and violent Miller of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Welcome back, everybody.

Thanks for joining us.

So as we heard Mayor Johnson signed this executive order just yesterday to create a new office of Gun Violence reduction.

This comes a violent after this mass shooting that happened last weekend.

But at the same time, we know that is Chicago's experiences experiencing this historic club declined in gun violence as of last year.

Tell us what this office would and how is it different from the already existing office of Community Safety?

Yeah.

On just to set up the contacts you kind of mentioned there.

You know, last year, Chicago saw the fewest homicides since 1965.

So pretty landmark year.

>> In terms of public safety.

But in terms of this office, you know, we don't have a ton of specifics in terms of the actual bill because right now this is being created through executive order.

The full push is to get this created through the city Council.

It so because it created through executive order.

The next mayor could repeal it could pull this back.

So, you know, there's a number of issues, obviously in terms of durability there, they're looking for 100 million dollars for the budget, which is about 3% of what Chicago expects to spend on public safety this year.

For context, CPD gets 2.1 billion or 67% of the 3.1 billion for this year's budget.

So really kind of minuscule fraction of that.

But it's supposed to take up the existing public safety funds, which is interesting.

I think the other notable point about it is that the procurement power or they're aiming to have procurement power rather, which would allow them to contract people like violence, Interrupters other groups.

The city has worked with to reduce gun violence because that's what you know, the Johnson administration others in the public safety sphere are crediting with this decline in crime.

In addition to, you know, some changes in policing tactics like relying on detectives more than, you know, because things like that nationally, though he's got some critics in the city council.

What are they saying?

>> Yeah, I mean, a lot of folks are you take issue with the procurement class specifically because they worry that it could be ripe for abuse, right?

You know, there's, you know, potentially office that could then go out on its own.

You know, do these procurements create these contracts with potential a little less oversight than they might have if they were just in the state.

They are now.

And so, you know, a lot of folks just worried about either spending or, you know, again, the potential for abuse here, right?

Because I think some older folks are concerned that or they would rather increase the police budget which might not exactly square with those anti violence activists in the community intervention us that we hear about.

>> Yeah, Again, it's been a mixture of things.

You know, there's no silver bullet in the situation.

I think anybody claiming to have a silver bullet for public safety is just I frankly, I know that we know that's not true.

>> So it's a combination of things.

And, you know, the idea for Johnson's administration is too follow New York Baltimore, some of these other cities that have similar offices that Courtney, these different programs, you know, it's supposed to pull in housing for housing, help for survivors.

Re entry for those who have served their time, all these different services to cry and try and create a unified front on public safety.

But again, you know, a lot of the details remain yet to be seen.

>> Olivia also this week, CTA riders noticing some more law enforcement on the commute.

What's happening there?

Yeah, I'm pretty interesting.

So at the big transit bill that we're talking about a few months ago that aims to sort of remake how transit is organized in the Chicago area a big part of was increasing funding for law enforcement about funding went to law enforcement and to safety on the trains.

And this was.

>> I took to you some eyebrows with some advocates just want know more service.

>> More service on by this was a development that little bit of this week with on the sheriff, Tom Dart saying that he favored designated agency for those right now.

It's combination of agencies.

So pretty lot of reporters on a ride along star was not one of them.

But my colleague Toya saw one dead and I believe saw them handcuffs, someone and then released them who had been vaping on a platform.

So pretty interesting that I got to say when I start saw those stories and like the things that officers handcuffing for.

>> I was a little surprised, you know, vaping fare evasion, right?

A big thing.

Just getting on the train without having paid, you know, and I think any of us who has written the CTA can agree that like smoking, even like loud noise can you know, a big nuisance.

But like the idea of copping someone in leading them off the train for that kind of thing did feel a bit extreme to me just as a as if you're but then I guess like what what's the other option they have also you and for saying the rule, will it?

I mean, so, you know, the sheriff, the sheriff's office, they've been out there doing the whole circuit with all of our colleagues across the city.

And I actually did get one of those ride Alongs.

>> Earlier this week, that story is forthcoming under But I think the explanation that the sheriff's office has is that, you know what, we're going to start with these, you know, these smaller items.

First, the vaping, fare evasion, first of all, can sets up financial loss for the transit system.

But I think they think that that also leads to other things, right, like, you know.

So first, it was a fare evasion or smoking or vaping on the train.

And maybe we, you take his license and run in.

Turns out he's got a warrant or it turns out like they they found him for something else.

Right?

So I think they're thinking is, you know, we start with sort of these quality of life quality of right things.

And that will also lead to this is what they're telling us right And you have to imagine, though, it also, Ryan, it's also about the theater of it, though, right about if >> you have a bunch of video of sheriff's deputies out there saying you can't smoke on the train.

Does it make the people watching potential riders of the CTA to get ridership up on the CTA and to get fares up on the CTA.

More likely to be like, oh, actually, I think the trains safer than I thought it was.

Maybe I'll go go read that rain, Even seen in some cases where, you know, we've had these really public shows of force.

I mean, you look no further than DC look no further than our own city with the, you know, the federal, you know, occupation that's been going on in multiple cities across the country.

mean, a lot of these thing, too, especially when you're bringing in law enforcement agents that aren't of the local area, they don't know the folks.

They don't know the people that are, you know, they're consistently who might just need help or be having an episode.

You know, we can see that because other issues balloon out in a further problems.

So, you know, I guess I'm curious to see what the actual impact will be right and your interest to see what they into coming up with right at the end of 4, whenever a decision has to be made on a stand-alone law enforcement's unified police force for transit war.

Something else, whatever that might be.

So Governor Pritzker, he has also said, Olivia, that his office is still an ongoing negotiations with the the Bears.

>> Team has been considering 2 bills that each passed one chamber of the General Assembly this spring.

Neither pass also the other or we wouldn't be having this conversation up.

So what is in it for the Bears for bill?

>> While with one bill, bill that passed House.

This the so-called mega projects.

Legislation opens the door for a payment in lieu of taxes program filing program for a potential stadium.

The not the sort Arlington Heights building a stadium there.

Another bill that passed the late hours of Illinois Senate on toward the end of session would have opened the door essentially to lab potential old stadium in Chicago.

Kind of a question mark.

But it didn't quite matter.

That didn't pass or both chambers anyway.

>> We heard this week from the governor is bears are looking at.

Well, bills.

he also said that his office, it's contact with them.

He made a point to say about this week, but he's really the only update.

I think we're still waiting to see what lawmakers the bears come up right?

Yeah.

We heard from a Republican, Dan, you gotta see this week saying that he's got an idea.

He's got a bill, but he hasn't really talked to the Bears about it yet.

And so.

>> And it sounds like there would have to be some agreement between the state and the Bears before the governor is going to call everybody back to Springfield to deciding vote on something.

Do you think the General Assembly would head into actually Simon come to you on this one?

think the General Assembly is going to head into special session over this?

What do you think if those, you know, behind the scenes negotiations go?

Well, certainly I think they will write it right.

And I think here's the thing.

No one wants to be the governor or the lawmaker who lost the Bears to India.

Right?

No one wants to wants to be that.

I think Springfield is highly motivated.

>> To keep the bears at the very least in Illinois.

That said there is really little.

There's like very 0 little appetite among the public on big tax for sports teams.

No one wants to do anymore.

We're still paying off soldier Field.

And so, you know, the bears again, it's again, I'm using theater again because it's all about who's playing who and what who's telling what story?

What story sounds better.

The bears are like or board.

We're done.

We're going to go to Hammond.

Here's the site.

It's going to be great.

>> Sorry, Illinois.

Didn't get there fast enough.

You didn't hit our deadline was like, no, no, but we can come back but it will be special session.

A special session just for you.

And, you know, I.

>> I this point, I think Chicago is more or less out of the running unless there is some secret 3rd plan that Brandon Johnson team is working on with Pritzker and everybody and the Bears owned the property in Arlington Heights.

own right.

Okay.

to get you in here because they own that property in Arlington Heights.

With a light note going Hammond.

>> Well, you tore down a whole race track.

I think, you know, that's more of my my own view.

It's like it's a power play because they don't want to go to Indiana or they would have gone like Indiana offer them a sweet deal.

It was like package.

>> It had a bow on it and they're still like.

Well, you know, we've they say they're going, but they're not making any moves.

They still have the property in Arlington Heights and they're still talking to state officials at the end of the fans are in Chicago and the state.

I think they know that obviously they know there's no appetite for tax incentives.

So they're trying to put some pressure and saying, you know, we're going to go to Indiana, but they've years ones are at and how long it's been.

If you like in years ago, it plenty of time on their lease its land.

cell like they could have gone.

They haven't gone.

You're just saying it's kind of like but the Yeah.

You know, Lake the boyfriend that threatens to leave.

But okay.

So we know the press He also signed a bill this week that bolstered or further bolstered.

Illinois is a haven for on.

>> Abortion care.

Olivia, what with this new law to This has been emerging story over the last 4 years since Roe was overturned with the Dobbs decision anniversary about, as I think eventually few minutes ago, just Paso.

>> The governor sort of crime right about by signing this bill by basically doesn't allow sharing of records related to abortion across state lines.

It effects companies like the ones that make my chart says you have to segregate find information and then not shared across state lines.

That's the idea you know to >> lead to some of these situations that I think lawmakers are concerned about about, you know, women being somehow punisher retaliated against.

If they to come to Illinois to get an abortion, go back to their home state.

>> The governor also signed a handful of consumer protection bills yesterday.

One of them tackles junk fees.

One will protect ticket buyers.

So hopefully that helps Taylor's with fans and Beyonce it sort of the line, though, with a message that Pritzker and other Democrats are hitting on for November.

Of course, that is affordability.

>> How else are they driving this message?

Olivia, does it seem like they're gonna have an impact on voters?

Yeah, I mean, laws don't go into place until I think next year.

voters might not see it right way.

But >> the idea here is you can't put a mandatory fee on something at very last stop at checkout.

But you have to pay in order to buy the item because that should people into the price item love the lawmakers say so this is something folks might notice like and the coming months on their bills.

And I think, you know, the governor's office, I think, is trying to and lawmakers are trying to show that they are looking at areas of affordability that, you know, people really notice concert tickets was another thing that they signed a bill on this week.

ban on FOX buying concert tickets you jacking up those prices was the concern South.

other unit they're trying to reach voters on on the affordability issue.

We'll see what they Voters frontier this week, 2 independent candidates might get knocked off the ballot in the race to replace U.S.

representative cases to a Garcia.

>> What's happening where they having to fight for their their spots on the ballot.

All comes after a very controversial maneuver by representative Garcia who at the very last minute withdrew.

He's petitions meet a clear way for his chief of staff, Patty Garcia to be on the ballot.

She was the only candidate in the primary.

So they're like voters saying there was no primary there.

I'm there like an independent and a Republican candidate on the ballot.

But this is a safe Democratic district.

So it doesn't really matter.

>> actually for independent candidates launched their bids after the New River 3 of them are still on the race as of now.

But 2 of them, the 2 Latino candidates could be knocked off.

And you know, when I explain this, we have to get into the specifics of how independents can get on the ballots to begin with.

And this is very complicated for boaters and really not uniform, but essentially independent candidates have to gather a number of signatures to get on the ballot, even get a chance in the case of the 4th district.

That's more 10,000.

But yeah, at least 10,000 no more than 17,000 just to get on the ballot.

And then there's objection process.

So 3 people, the same 3 people objected to thousands of signatures for my CNN's Anne Bryant openness, the State Board of Elections, review them and said, okay, these many are valid and this many are not.

So Byron have to prove that over 1000 are still valid.

I have to prove that about 486 are still valid.

They have a very short timeline to site 3 days for Miami.

See, Byron had a little bit more time because he got an extension and the process is not easy.

You have to go to each voter who signed that petition.

Get a notary and get evidence that that Israel cell, they were both working really hard until the last minute to get that evidence.

But as of Wednesday, 05:00PM, when they had that that line, they were still short.

Mina was about 100 Biden to 2 of his west toward about 225 or something came.

>> Also another election battle.

Simon, the Chicago Housing Authority's, Matthew Brewer entering the mayor's race.

What we know about why he's jumping in.

>> Well, he says he's jumping in because, you know, he put he produces the prison is very slick video, Yes, yes, we we need something new.

But he also came out swinging against incumbent Mayor Brandon and who we assume is going to be running for reelection.

He hasn't said yet hasn't technically announced yet.

So who knows?

But he has accused Johnson of I believe the quote was alienating and demonizing Chicago's business community.

But he and Johnson also had a pretty personal beef over who is supposed to lead the Chicago Housing Authority.

Right?

Johnson wanted to install former Alderman Walter Burnett as CEO of the board.

That Brewer lead.

>> And what didn't want to do that.

And there was an issue with the housing and urban development as well.

They ended up appointing Keith Pettigrew and Johnson was so upset that he tried to remove Brewer from his position as board chair and also as operating chair.

And that actually never happened, said that this beef kind of goes back to something very specific just beyond some of the other candidates have jumped in to say, hey, I don't think Johnson's doing a good job.

seems to be a bit more.

Ironically, he says it's not personal, but it does more personal.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

And then there's also U.S.

Representative Mike Quigley.

We're expected to hear from him tomorrow that he is going to happen.

The race as well, making a run for it.

What are you looking for in this upcoming mayoral race?

Simon, you What am I looking You know, again, I'm looking for someone who who can frame a platform outside of I'm not Brandon Johnson.

I think it's the thing that I am the most interested quickly.

You know, to your point, if this is his official announcement, but he has stated publicly several times he intends to.

He has a website.

You that has a platform mostly budget and he's looking for efficiencies and trying to get stuffed technical term we use.

Yeah, you know, I mean, Congress should spend less money.

Because I want no part of that But, you know, I think like if that for me is I think so many of these candidates who have come out and I mean, like, yes, there they have their their unique, I mean, says and owes a lanai comptroller, right and her her social media has is almost legendary at this point right way, which she's she's been doing.

But I wouldn't say that any of them is outlined policy wise, a platform that feels unique, other than to say that I think Johnson's doing a bad job.

I will say in early gaffe from the Mendoza campaign unintended, not that they could have predicted this, but they filmed their, you know, campaign announcement video and now the Park grocery store.

>> Which the day prior and Adam and Tased and detained by ICE outside of it after they crashed into a civilian vehicle.

Cpd then closed the investigation of the crash.

But she has previously called for migrants to be to deported, to see caught, which is a place that folks have been tortured, really, really horrible things happening there.

And so I'm and this will come back to haunt or she makes an announcement a little village for that, right?

Like yeah, it's a bit a bit confusing after some of that >> violent.

The Federal Trade Commission is suing a Chicago area transgender health group.

What's the update on that?

Yeah.

So this is the latest Trump administration attack on gender.

Affirming care is specifically for use.

But they've been attacking, you know, this care for adults as well in many of their actions.

>> But the FTC was initially investigating W Path as the group is known.

East Dundee based saying that they were giving fraudulent guidance for health care and profiting off of it.

This is very similar to the investigation that they were running against W path that was just blocked by a federal court judge.

They've also been investigating multiple major, you know, health court, that health care organizations all related to this gender affirming care.

You know, W came out swinging, you know, very much refuting what the government is saying here saying that, you know, this is pure and simple retaliation you know, they were going to they're kind of go to states attorneys to carry this lawsuit forward.

And, you know, it just seems again in the latest line of trumping Trump administration attacks.

They've tried executive orders.

They've tried DOJ subpoenas for on youth healthcare information.

They've tried lawsuits.

They've tried, you know, any number of things.

Even the FBI getting involved in some of the situations.

And so this just seems to be the last kind of attempt to make something stick right, OK?

And so another way that the Trump administration has repeatedly attacked the people of Chicago courses.

>> with immigration efforts because the Illinois Accountability Commission, which is the state's effort to investigate federal immigration enforcement alleged misconduct on.

They say that they noticed an uptick in ICE arrests.

Franzia u, of course, cover Little Village and Pilsen.

we know that those neighborhoods as communities face tightened enforcement during the midway blitz.

What are you hearing from neighbors You know.

>> continue in.

The neighborhoods with mostly in courthouse is in violation of a state law in a court order that was passed here in Illinois to ban civil immigration arrests from happening up courthouse advocates and lawmakers say, you know, when people show up to court, whether that's for a traffic ticket or domestic violence case, they should be able to do it safely not worry about immigration agents taking them.

So those have been like target areas of over arrests.

People going to ice check INS or with pending asylum applications or some sort of pending immigration case who appear before authorities are also being detained often and taken into custody.

Move to the tension centers.

In some cases, the poor to very quickly.

So that obviously leaves a lot of people frustrated, scared and anxious.

This also comes at a time when, you know, policy at the federal level is changing and the Supreme Court has ruled on immigration on several issues that will make many immigrants at risk of potential deportation and that could continue to change asked.

You know, president now seems to have the ability to terminate temporary protected status and and protections for people who came here.

Lilly and hats at right yet.

Update us on on that.

Because like you just mentioned, was a decision that came down yesterday.

>> That allowed the administration to end the temporary protected status of particularly Haitians and Syrians.

could this be is there more to come, right?

Could more folks lose their protected status?

That is concern among applicants on immigration lawyers experts who know they worry that because the president ruled or the department Homeland Security rule that these status was meant to be temporary and that people can return to their countries of origin, that they could do the same for a number of other countries.

Tps is typically given to country schools are facing a crisis, whether that's a monumental or humanitarian.

>> war, civil war or other.

So people might not be able to safely return.

I know there are reports of people from Haiti 3 women from Haiti who were deported in previous months and were found beheaded in a river in Haiti.

So clearly conditions were not safe for them to return.

Nevertheless, the administration saying we think it is and you should go back and that ends all of their protections, their work permits, anything that they have no matter how long these people have been in the United States, OK?

And of course, you know, we're still waiting on the Supreme Court to make its ruling on that birthright citizenship case.

>> All eyes on the Supreme Court this time of That's where we'll have to leave it.

Thanks to my panel for joining us.

Alivio and their Simon Atlee >> and Francois Garcia, Hernandez and violent Miller.

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Stay healthy, stay safe and have a great night and a great weekend.

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I am going to taken on.

So I've been working on for months.

Rent I've been working.

I tell you, I've been working on this meeting of the back of the Museum of Science and Industry.

>> And then I read this week that they're going to be remodeling it.

They're redoing going to turn it into which it hasn't been basically since world's fair So I have to finish it before.

What's going to happen?

So they're basically they're and they're adding a terrace are adding a cafe.

And again, it's going to become like the excess abul entrance that people can actually use on the backside where the will tune is right.

Yeah.

Like if you happened to be, I don't know.

Strolling over from the Obama presidential center era you can just walk on up to the door back during the world's fair.

They they had gone Dulles today Paddleboat up to the Hawaii.

Talked to to bring that you know, want bothered to walk over head of like when the cherry blossoms season out will be nice.

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