on the weekend review.

I'm Brandis Friedman.

No need to adjust your screen because Amanda has the evening off a fiery clash in Philadelphia as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face off in their first and now perhaps only presidential debate.

>> Kamala Harris, the thank >> Here is showing from the jump.

She's not going to be intimidated.

Hitting Trump where it hurts on crown sizes.

And what she said was the fading appeal of his rallies.

You will see during the course of his rallies, he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter.

We will talk about windmills.

Cause cancer and what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.

People that leave my rallies with the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics.

That's because people want to take their country Donald Trump also doubling down on a false claim promoted by right-wing media.

>> In Springfield, they're eating the dogs to the people that came in.

They're eating the cats.

They're eating.

>> We're eating the pets of the people that live there.

And after watching the debate, one high-profile childless cat lady says >> she's voting for Harris.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration enacts a hiring freeze and limits over time as the city faces a looming budget deficit.

We don't want to have to cut any services.

I mean, the very clear, you know, I've been an organizer been elected official and I know the damage that has been done over the course of bad decisions.

>> But as a city, we have to be prudent and fiscally responsible in this moment.

The city also announcing plans to close 3 migrant shelters as fears of a fresh influx of migrants from the southern border fate and black firefighters from New York joining colleagues in Chicago to honor first responders killed on 9.11 >> And our week in review panel.

Joining us now are Michael Lippe trot from South Side Weekly.

Our own Heather Sharon of Wt Tw news.

Loud Rodriguez, Presa from Chicago Tribune and robbed heart of WBBM Newsradio.

Thanks everybody for joining Getting into it.

67 million viewers watched the presidential debate.

What we're all of your takeaways.

What were your impressions, Michael?

It right.

Let's start with you.

>> Someone definitely did their homework coming into the bay and from the opening moment walking to Donald Trump's podium to make sure that you got a handshake.

It was clear Kamala Harris came with the mission to prove to America that though she was not elected in the primary, that she is the right pick and Trump, his rhetoric wasn't too different from what we've seen in the past.

A lot of conspiracy theories.

A lot of jabs to try to change Camas armor and asserting his own his own thoughts on what he did best during presidency.

But ultimately think it proved a lot.

And I heard a quote from expert that debates don't want elections governing does.

And with both of them having White House experience no for Kamala Harris, not the presidency.

showed a lot.

But at this debate is really convey the temperaments and what you can expect with either choice becoming president room.

>> So I think that you can't talk about this debate without talking former President Donald Trump's false claims about immigrants eating dogs in Ohio.

And I think we saw after the debate, numerous bomb threats called into schools in Springfield, Ohio.

The DMV had to be closed.

City Hall had to be closed.

And I think, you know, we all chuckled as we were sort you know, watching those remarks.

But those remarks have had severe and profound consequences for the Haitian community in Springfield and elsewhere in America.

And I think that we have a tendency just as humans to serve laugh when somebody says something like that because it farcical on its face, right?

These human beings and but I think it's important to remember that he has put the target on the back of a marginalized community and we know they are suffering and that think is the state of politics in America today.

And just because it's false doesn't mean that it does not have impact on people.

I mean, he's going back to the essence of Trump, right?

That's that's the base is why or how he ran and how he won in the first He's doing what he's always done, which is have this new anti immigrant rhetoric talking about immigrants the things that creating this false narratives about them.

And so then people follow through because that's what they like to hear from him.

And he's appealing to.

>> To the Trump supporters that we've known it that he's created over the last few years.

>> And I watched the Springfield, Ohio saga just develop online and this task to size on September 9th and it was very clear from the word go.

This was incorrect.

This was a flat out lie.

Public officials said this was not true.

There were a journalist who discovered the Facebook group in which this rumor originated.

And basically it was a person saying, well, I heard from a friend who heard from a friend and so on and so forth and even bell everybody up and down the line said either this was a rumor or it couldn't be confirmed or it didn't happen.

And you went online and discovered the real source of some of these pictures.

They're being cited as proof.

The people who are sharing it were gleefully sharing it knowing it was wrong knowing it was incorrect.

The fact that it was a flat out lie didn't bother them.

And the question that a lot of people had leading up debate was will this be mentioned in the debate and sure enough it was.

And yes, it was the source of a lot of very funny Simpson's memes that people were sharing.

But as Heather pointed out correctly, this had a profound impact.

Bomb threats have been phoned.

And in fact, our radio station, we talked to the Haitian community in Chicago, representatives and they're keeping an eye on things because they want to see how it develops here in the Chicago area where we have a large Haitian community.

>> Michael, there are a lot of pundits on the left and the right saying that, you know, Kamala Harris got the best of of Donald Trump.

He says he won and that as a result, he's on top of all of that.

That 90 something percent that he said a poster of people who are polled said that he won it.

What impacts it?

And you mentioned this earlier, you know, like debates don't win elections it is governing.

That does.

But what impact do you think the debate will have on voters?

I think it.

>> Is the first time for a lot of people who are on the fence, seeing what the realities of a Trump versus Harris election will look like and when thinking about the Trumps, the stance he took after election that he won, that Kamala needs him to do with their debate immediately after debate.

And then later on, you see a true social.

He says there will be no debate and throughout the debate throughout Trump's presence in politics, the back and forth on his stance and it really doesn't show someone who is secure in their judgment and that it doesn't it doesn't set doesn't poll well.

And when thinking about that in comparison to Harris, you do have someone who is very much in the legacy of Joe Biden working to set herself apart from that legacy.

And I appreciate the fact that at ABC they push on that they pushed or on her stance when it comes to fracking when it comes to other policies.

Ishan changes, right, that she's changed on and having a chance for people who have never viewed her as a presidential candidate to hear her speak candidly on that.

So at this point, it's not even clear if there will be a 3rd debate just given Trump's track record when it comes to these type of statements.

But at this point, if there was not a 3rd debate, I think most Americans have seen what they need to see when it comes to this election.

>> Well, I was gonna say so one of the sharpest exchanges of the evening.

It was over the issue of women's reproductive rights and access to abortion after the Supreme Court.

Of course, overturned new protections of Roe versus Wade.

Here's what some or both candidates had to say on that subject.

>> Her vice presidential picks as abortion in the 9th month is absolutely fine.

He also says execution after birth, execution no longer Bush and because the baby is born is OK, and that's not OK with me.

It's the vote of the people.

Now it's not tied up in the federal government.

I did a great service and doing took courage to do And the Supreme Court had great courage in doing it.

And I give tremendous credit to those 6 justices.

There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after its born one does not have to abandon their face.

>> Our deeply held beliefs to agree the government and Donald Trump certainly should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.

You want to talk about this is what people wanted.

Pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term suffering from a miscarriage being denied care in an emergency room because they health care providers are afraid they might go to jail and she's bleeding out in a car in the parking lot.

She didn't want that.

Her husband didn't want that.

12 or 13 year-old survivor of incest being forced to carry a pregnancy to term.

They don't want that.

>> Heather, that seemed to one of Harris's strongest and most impassioned moments of the evening.

Heavy think it played well.

It was the clearest contrast between her and President Joe Biden.

So if you remember all the way back 75 days ago in another era American political he had a hard time sort of prosecuting the case against Donald Trump for overturning Roe versus Wade.

And you heard the vice president clearly make that case in a way that the president just did not or could And I think that you heard a lot of relief and excitement from abortion rights advocates.

You heard Governor JB Pritzker has been out there saying this is what we need to talk about.

When we talk about abortion, the impact on women on the impact on families.

And I think that that is really the club.

One of the clearest contrast between the 2 candidates.

And I think it's one where it could potentially be, you know, determinative in November because we believe this election is going to be very close.

So it will come down.

I think in large part the number of women who go out and vote because we know that women overwhelmingly support abortion rights.

I think whether Kamala Harris was able to make the case to those who are perhaps a little bit more on the fence that this is, you know, sort of not some extreme sort of, you know, infanticide fantasy, as we heard from the former president.

But a question about women's health.

I think that is one of the major issues.

This election will decide.

So also in that exchange that we just saw, we just saw Co-moderate or Lindsey Davis.

He's also fact checking Trump.

We know that David Muir and a little bit of that during during the debate as well.

Rob, what do you make of how the moderators?

We're fact checking Trump because Trump, the campaign has they've complained about that.

They've said that the moderators were unfair and it was 3 against one instead of just Trump against Kamala Harris.

But that has been his method of operation ever since he went down the escalator at Trump Tower.

>> 9 years ago that has defined our discourse that has defined our rhetoric.

That is to find the way people talk to each other and how they sort themselves now ideologically is that, you know, Donald Trump has just has like a fire hose of things to say and you gets you have a hard time keeping up with what's true and what's false and what's bravado, one, what's the old razzle dazzle?

Because he is after all a salesman and for the first time in the history of Donald Trump debate going all the way back to the Republican primaries in 2015.

There were somebody there a moderator to say, hey, wait a minute, you're arguing from the false premise.

and in PR, PBS news Marist Poll released hours before the candidates faced off show that Trump was ahead of Harris among Latino voters.

>> 51% to 47%.

Now this marks in 19 point shift from August when Harris led the former president by 15 points in the same voting group loud at what about Trump might appeal to Latino voters?

Well, I think there's a big misconception about the Latino vote.

Great.

There's this idea that everything is based on immigration policies and how things are shaping up with that.

And that definitely not true, right?

Well, a lot >> people very much in It can now Space is there's people that come from very small towns where we people very conservative.

So they do believe right abortion is a topic for a lot of older Latinos who may believe that that that he has the, you know, the the the right policy in place and definitely not Kamala Harris.

So so there's that that idea most much Well, right.

And so it's I think it's a lot of issues we don't really talk about.

But there are inherently routed.

But we see a lot of the most people, most people most left.

He knows that support Trump are men, which then again shows right where that's coming from.

And with now a woman running against and Mexico has its first woman president well.

So I think that there's now that a little bit more of an open mind and seeing how things shape up.

Now now that, you know, we have line bit of a shift and we we discussed this on black voices as well about black men in particular being attracted to Donald Trump.

And they're being a little bit of discourse over supporting a black woman, Black and South Asian woman in the race and money.

Just really at quickly to I think that, you know, the largest immigrant community in the state Mexican been here for a long time.

>> All of them are now educated business professionals.

So they are making more money.

So they are more want to fall under that idea that if they do pick him, economy's going to be better right.

And obviously now with the migrant crisis ironically, a lot of immigrants want you know, a stronger security at the border.

Where I thing is again, Harris has that stands of having a little bit more security at the borders.

So maybe that's where it kind of things are shaping up not.

There's now harder to tell, you know, where where they go.

So it can be kind of tough to tell whether or not endorsements are very useful and within a half hour, the end of the Kamala Harris got an endorsement from you.

See if I can get this name right.

Taylor Swift how much you know, Mike, that indoor Sunday worth given Swift's more than 280 million followers on social media dropping that out there go.

So you're not going to have a lot of people who are like, well, I was going to vote for Donald Trump, but the with cells switching.

But what it does potentially is expands universe of potential voters.

And we saw just >> literally hundreds of thousands of people use the link in that Instagram post that you're seeing right now to go to Boca vote, DOT Gov to either register to vote or to check their voter registration.

And when you have an election that we all expect to be sort of a very tight in these sort of swing states, expanding the number of people who are registered to vote for considering voting could make the difference.

And that's who we're talking about here.

And if you are a fan of Taylor Swift, I am hard pressed to see how you have watched Donald Trump that that debate and said, oh, he's talking about the issues that I care about.

And when you have somebody like Taylor Swift saying, hey, I'm going to vote for the vice president, it sets up a permission structure so that you feel like you're may be part of something and that can be very powerful for people unlike me don't lives and breathes the sort of thing I know shocking to mentioned that right.

I think that for most people, they only and just understand the very surface so that they don't really understand everything else behind it.

And so when you have someone like Taylor Swift say, hey, this is the best candidate.

And they're already a fan.

The name.

I just believe that right.

And I think that's kind of the power of >> celebrity, especially think about young people and >> among Gen Z and younger people who are just getting of age to vote that at the current state of politics already at a level of cynicism and thinking that their vote doesn't matter and that the politics itself is going to play.

It out seeing some like Taylor Swift can definitely be momentous and getting young people out to vote.

And we seen in Chicago with how many young people can make an impact when economy.

And so with half of those people that may not been registered vote, get out, register to vote and actually go out to vote inspired by someone Bay feel a connection with someone that they've been listening to since they were 10 years old at be a mix.

But the to move on tell celebrity endorsements since there's been politics.

And I think a lot of people in grumbling maybe are grumbling right now.

Taylor store Florida us.

Let me talk my But this is this has been like after Sammy Davis Junior put Richard Nixon in a bear hug.

52 years ago.

>> I mean that that this has been going on for a very long time.

And this Heather points it's not.

Am I gonna make a difference?

Is this is going is going to pull me away from Donald Trump.

It's going to is this.

Am I gonna vote for Harris or just stay home and maybe on the margins that will make a case.

Let's talk about the city budget because Heather, there's been briefly, if you would, a little bit mayoral staff drama.

Yeah.

City hall this So Kennedy partly is the the director of external affairs in the mayor's office and our former colleague Paris Schutz over at FOX 2.

Yeah.

>> He found a podcast back in 2021 where she used a slur against police and called for police abolition.

Number of all the people that called for her to resign.

She apologized for those remarks in an interview with me today.

Go to our website.

You'll can read the whole thing, but she denied heckling alderman dot Debra Silverstein during a debate about a resolution condemning the Hamas, Israel, a war back in October.

The older person said that she had been told by other older people that committee partly had done that.

Kennedy said she did not do that and that she would not have done that.

However, she said that she knew what she was doing when she tweeted from the river to the Sea.

Palestine will be free in the days after the October 7th attack.

She said that that was meant to express solidarity with the pro Palestinian people into sort urge a creation of a Palestinian state.

She said, however, no, she's more mindful that that phrase has been weaponized by Hamas to call for the eradication of Israel.

Of OK, now we've got to talk about the city announcing that it's an acting hiring freeze and limiting overtime to help address this.

223 million dollar budget shortfall for this year and projected shortfall of nearly a billion dollars billion with a B next year.

>> Of course, the city has also added on to that saying that police and fire will be exempt from that hiring freeze.

Heather, how much of a difference will these measures may cause?

They're not going to find it in count because they are not.

So maybe about 100 million dollars by the end of the year based on some projections that have been shared by the budget office.

But there are big structural problems that the city has to fate.

>> Its pension debt is enormous.

The city is going to spend 2.8 billion dollars in 2025.

To sort of make up for the years that they did not contribute to employees, pensions.

So there are big questions facing Mayor Johnson and there are no easy it's louder.

You've written a couple of stories this week about Little Village.

is about the restoration of the Little Village Arch, another about fears of the new Starbucks heralding displacement potentially.

>> I'm one of those who story say about where the little village community is right now.

And how great are those gentrification Well, I don't know if it's because it's September and Hispanic Heritage No, Sir, Mick's, independent of Independence Day coming up.

But there's certainly a focus and the Mexican community right now.

>> And the we started with a Starbucks story that something that has been actually on the works for about 2 years.

So it's nothing new.

But it just so happened that the community finally realize when they put the Starbucks name on top and it actually was a part of the new construction plan do that when they bought the process in 2020.

>> When community really, really tried to fight to stay in the neighborhood to keep local businesses in the neighborhood.

So what they're really worried about now, it's the potential gentrification, obviously, with that higher property taxes, higher property values in the area and then therefore displacing some of the people there.

So so it's kind of an interesting a fight there because there are some people that are completely against it.

But there are many more people that believe that this is actually good for the neighborhood, its economic opportunity.

It's it shows that they're growing their expanding, that there is a lot more economic power happening.

you know, just a few years ago, a few months ago, I wrote a story about posted in the gentrification there.

And it showed that the neighborhood is still predominantly Latino, but the income is higher.

So then that, you that changes the conversations gentrification just about displacing immigrants bringing in, you know why folks or is it because of an economic that displacement, you know, and then deliver the charge that goes again right next to Starbucks.

So was it a plan that was in the ready or not?

But it's right next week take that right next to it.

And it was, I believe, is the 1.25 million renovation that happened to the art and you know it it people celebrate it that it's just ahead of the again.

The mix independents OK, also the anniversary of 9.11 this week, of course, a 23 years.

>> You know, one thing I saw on social media is that some people to mark the day might read the same article that they have read every year just to sort of like commemorate the day for themselves.

I know someone who reads the story of the falling man, which I think is an Esquire just every day, every year on the same day on 9.11 to honor those who died to any of you do anything to sort of marked the day, obviously, other than the work that we do, of course, which and I just I remember the day very well.

I was working in Milwaukee.

I was a senior at Marquette University.

I can tell you like the thoughts I had in my head.

>> That morning and I got called into work at WTMJ radio and just sitting there all day taking in closures because everybody was shutting down.

Schools were closing.

The malls are closing.

People were going home that day seared into my memory the most the strangest thing, most surreal thing that happened me this week was my daughter was in 5th grade.

But Stern, 11.

This is history class for her.

And that's something you learn about and social studies.

And this is something that a day I'll never forget.

And she's just now learning.

now learning about it.

Yeah, yeah, it is.

Does anybody else do anything to mark the day or >> so?

I was a reporter in Los Angeles, interviewing panicked tourists outside Hollywood, sort of theme parks and attractions.

>> And, you know, it was really I my kids are about the same ages as yours around sort of explaining what it was like to relive or to live through that day and sort of reliving it through their experience of it.

It makes you feel very old.

But it also started gives an understanding of just what cataclysmic event that really was, what we all lived through.

And of course, we'll never forget and are, you thoughts?

Memories are with thoughts and in legitimate prayers are with the people who lost family members that day.

That is where we're gonna have to leave it there for a week in review where out of time.

Thank you to Michael Lippe drops Pender.

Sharon loud at Rodriguez, Presa and Rob Hart.

Thank you, everybody.

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