>> Good evening.

And thanks for joining us on the week in review.

I'm Nick Blumberg.

Lawmakers warn of a homeland security shutdown after reform negotiations appear to fall apart.

What we're asking for is based.

>> We want to make sure that federal law enforcement agencies and the guys play by the same rules as every professional law enforcement agency in America.

>> Congress ends a brief partial government shutdown, but a massive fight over homeland security spending means DHS funding could run out in one week.

We need to send a clear message.

>> If the federal government will not hold these role actors accountable Chicago will do everything in our power to bring these agents to Justice.

Mayor Brandon Johnson orders Chicago police to identify and document federal immigration agents with the goal of prosecuting alleged misconduct.

>> But Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Perk slams the mayor for saying she backed the measure without running a pastor.

When you look at the governor, you look at the House, you look at the Senate doesn't matter if you're our guy, there's so much excitement about this in Indiana.

Hoosier State's General Assembly advances.

A bill aimed at luring the Bears to northwest Indiana.

Meantime, Illinois joins a key global health network after the Trump administration stops participating and a state lawmaker pitches a bill allowing self-driving cars in Illinois.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are Rob heart of WBBM Newsradio truth saying the Bloomberg News.

Tell you saw one of the Chicago Tribune and Alex be Hernandez of Block Club.

Chicago, thank you all for being here.

Let's get right to it, Rob.

As we mentioned, Congress barreling toward a DHS shutdown.

Do we know where things stand with negotiations?

Is there any light at the end of the tunnel?

Well, we're different looking at a deadline of February 14th, Valentine's Day and partial government shutdown ended this week.

And the major sticking points here in the negotiations regarding Department of Homeland Security funding.

>> Is that Democrats having their say when it comes to ice reforms, immigration reforms, unmasking agency, greater coordination with local agencies to kind do away with a lot of the confusion that we have seen in the streets only if Chicago, but also in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

And you have Republicans in the House and Senate to really don't want to seem like they're backing off on immigration by any stretch of the imagination.

The Democrats do hold some cards, especially in the Senate and the House as well.

Just because the the Republicans majority is now razor thin with some with some defections and retirements and special elections to be scheduled.

So I something could come together in 7 days.

I don't think anybody in Washington wants to see DHS funding lapse entirely.

So stay tuned on that front yet, especially because it will affect things like TSA, not just that the immigration agents we see on the streets.

I was also in some immigration news.

We got word that a federal judge has granted the release of >> body cam footage text messages from the agents.

Federal agent who are my Martinez among other evidence in this case.

What are you going to be looking for a win that ranch gets released?

Well, it's interesting.

The judge is ruling in the interest of reputation management.

Martinez is part of that.

DHS Homeland Security and with at the time of the incident in October said this was she was part of a group that was harassing immigration agents trying to hit their car.

And at one point, federal officials calling her a terrorist.

And the judge says that body cam footage and also text messages from the agent.

We'll give the public a better idea of what was what actually happened to go with the body camera footage, but also of what was going to the agents mind before during and after the shooting.

And right now, lawyers are going through this information, making the proper redactions.

But that's what looking for when it's released.

Yeah, interesting to see sort of a another loss or at least in this case, a capitulation from from federal attorneys.

Alex, also in federal court this week, a judge blocked the deportation of the man who was very quickly acquitted in a murder-for-hire scheme against Border Patrol Chief Greg Vino.

sense of of what happens next in this case?

I think it's like an overall thing when it comes to credibility with his administration because >> during multiple instances, the administration files paperwork.

The agents filed paperwork.

They make a public comments and press conferences seconds or minutes after something terrible happens.

And in this case, it's another example of basically a judge deciding that there's a huge credibility problem with the Trump administration and their federal agents on the ground where, you know, they say one thing and then a couple days later, a couple weeks there, even a couple hours later, you then see footage from eyewitnesses.

You see reporters on their publishing what they can verify that contradicts complete things.

I mean, remember, Gregory Vino was chastised by a federal judge for lying under oath.

This is systematic problem across the entire across the Trump administration, which I think this is an example of.

>> Yeah, it was interesting to it almost seems as though you know, that the judge and other critics were concerned that this retaliatory effort versus something that was, you know, actually, you know, in the name of enforcing immigration and want to be the first time either because you've got remember, Trump threatened arrest of the mayor and the governor here in the state and the city because he didn't like them expressing their First opinions of how he was acting.

speaking of the First Amendment, Chicago students making their voices heard walking out of the classroom to protest the administration's immigration crackdown.

There is one not far from our own studios here today.

You've been covering that this week.

you heard the students are understandably angry, understandably scared of going to school in a community like open department on Northwest has the most.

>> Culturally diverse.

It's because they're like a port of entry neighborhood.

We have people from, you know, across the world coming as first generation immigrants, asylum seekers, undocumented people.

And so for different schools across northwest side, I started at Roosevelt High School Mark made their way over the river park for this thing.

Like 400 students from 4 different school showed up and the student-led protest basically demanding the Trump administration back off and way more colorful language right now because I school students like I understand sentiment there.

hard to imagine.

High school students being salty hadn't going to cut you know, tell you we got word this week interrupt.

Just mentioned the situation in the Twin Cities.

>> Some 700 immigration agents leaving Minnesota, but they're still in about 2000 on the ground is a limited draw down like this a way to perhaps ease tensions?

>> Well, I mean, one of the things that we should keep in mind is that even when they pull back from these kind large-scale made for TV whats is like we saw Chicago doesn't mean that immigration enforcement stops.

And we've seen that here as well.

But you know, yeah, there's still gonna be like you said about 2000 agents on the ground.

That's a lot of agents.

And that's when the differences that we've seen between actually what was happening here, just the sheer number of agents in Minneapolis compared to the population differences.

They had so many more agents there.

And, you know, we'll still have so many are as well.

We'll in especially in a much smaller square-foot.

That's much different Chicago land.

>> Sure.

The the Cook County State's pushing back on the mayor's executive order calling for police to track federal agents document, you know, potential misconduct.

I mean, even beyond just the substance of that executive order, are you surprised to see this apparent lack of coordination between a couple very key players and local government.

>> Well, I think we've seen examples of that across the board, whether it's related to immigration policy, whether it's related executive orders, budgets, there's clear evidence of that from whether it's at the county level, whether it's the city level or the state level.

clearly there's questions about funding from Springfield.

Those questions about whether there's been talks between the different levels of government for the bears and a variety of different issues.

So this seems to be right on brand par for the course of stays.

Unfortunately what you know Rob, do we have any idea whether this executive order enforceable, whether the sort of local prosecutions are are likely or legal.

>> That's a very good question because once again, >> can you have local police?

prosecuting and arresting federal law enforcement and it this whole thing.

This is an executive order.

You talk about coordination between the mayor's office and the Cook County State's attorney.

Eventually this is going wind up in front of a and the judge will make the final determination, but it it it made for a good conversation.

Starter.

And it's if you're if you're Mayor Johnson, you want to show that you're pushing back in some way, shape or form.

But once again, it's an executive order and sometimes those aren't even worth the paper they're printed on.

>> But this is also a case where there's no playbook right for these elected officials are sort of making it up as you go along because the instances and situations are so new and just like during COVID, this is unprecedented in certain certain instances and you've got other cities, mayors and other cities signing executive orders in similar vein because they're trying just figure it out as they go along.

Yeah, it's almost as though what's the harm in trying to do whatever they can, particularly if they represent constituents who are opposed to end of this immigration.

And there's no precedent some instances stray, there's no there's no previous experience and how to deal with the things that is everything being done the right way.

You know, that's a debatable.

But I think part of the thing is that there is no precedent in some instances.

>> Well, Alex, the fallout continues from that military-style raid on a South Shore apartment building last year.

Some new reporting this week.

What did we hear?

So I on broken record, but credibility issues right?

They said international game was based out of that building.

When actuality of court documents and the records have been made public.

>> Show that it was more of what we know that some people that are migrants, some people that immigrants here, possibly undocumented, possibly asylum seekers are in building to its target.

That because that's an easy made for TV rate they can do to like die hard when they show it on because again, situation is a huge credibility issue when it comes to.

Do we need these actions and then have to show the receipts of why they made those decisions or their justification for those decisions.

That doesn't hold up in court.

Let alone like, you know, public scrutiny of that mine.

To your point, though, to the misconduct.

I mean, it's federal law enforcement, but Chicago is no stranger police misconduct.

And like you think about it, when I was hearing about like, you know, Johnson, all this kind of like, you it was dark.

ironic because Chicago has 2 huge history of police misconduct.

And if you look at, you misconduct lawsuits, right, and see what descriptions are there a lot of black and Brown can use the city.

Chicago have dealt with what's going on a much larger federal scale for decades.

Upon decades in the city of Chicago.

It's just not happening in communities that would inexperience otherwise, right, especially the victims are white.

The one experienced otherwise.

So again, like it's cool that he said that.

But when it comes to enforcement, to your point, unprecedented, who knows how that works a circle times on the flip side of it like just look at Chicago police misconduct.

We can barely handle that.

And then to expand that like the federal level, it's it's I'm very curious see how plays out.

Yeah, it's been interesting hear a lot of folks point out the the attention on Renee Good and Alex, pretty rightly so when there was a case of, you know, severity is Gonzalez here in Franklin Park.

You know, that did not necessarily garner as much national attention.

>> All right.

Well, switching gears, shruti lawmakers in Indiana getting very serious about trying to land a bear stadium.

What's in the works in the legislature?

There?

>> Well, right the House has taken up legislation that the Indiana Senate passed recently to establish a stadium funding facility.

It's something that Illinois has had since the late 1980's.

And so not completely unfamiliar around here, right?

But it's new in Indiana.

The Senate passed it.

The House Ways and Means Committee has taken it up and there could be a hearing as well as floor white vote by the whole house by the end of this month.

We don't know for sure, but it could be headed that way.

And they adjourned in Mid-March.

They've got to get moving quickly.

I want to do something.

Yeah.

>> tell you one piece of the legislation that's likely to raise some hackles here in Chicago.

There's anti union provision victim.

Yeah, there's some language in there that it would essentially my understanding is prohibited union contracts.

you know, if you zoom out you're going from Chicago where which is some of the strongest labor protections and labor requirements for capital projects.

you know, it would be interesting then to move to Indiana, which is right work state where things like this might end up in your legislation.

Although it seems like this has even drawn concern from some Indiana Republicans.

So it seems like maybe they'll still have some time to work that out.

I do want to point out apart from the union issue, the stories about.

>> Teams crossing state borders are not unique just to Illinois and Indiana overseeing the Chiefs moved from Missouri to Kansas up because of a bill there.

And so this is something that we're seeing around the country and it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

But >> some of various factors could come into play.

But certainly not unique that a team is crossing the border.

You know, there's a lot of that going The clock also is running on both sides of the Illinois, Indiana state line.

And one thing that is working >> against Illinois lawmakers as they try to counter the Indiana effort here is that there's a primary election coming up in March and usually nothing happens until after the election.

So and and the Bears are trying to get out through various outlets that they need an answer from somebody by the end of the month that they're going announce they're leaving.

And even, you it sounds like there's there's an effort in Springfield.

It went from no to maybe 2.

You never know.

So there must be negotiations behind the scenes.

The Illinois effort once again is that the state would pay for infrastructure around the Arlington Heights project, a bigger, better Metra Station, a better highway interchange that water and sewer upgrades to the Arlington Park property.

But the Bears would still pay for the stadium itself.

>> So the other interesting in terms of timing is that while there is this, like you said some sort of maybe fuzzy deadline going on here.

I'm not exactly sure what what that deadline There seems to be some some sort of clock but there's also a situation here in Illinois where the governor is preparing his budget address.

That's going to be delivered later this month.

And Illinois is in a fiscally tight situation right now in terms of the budget.

And so he really has to reconcile where money within the state is going to go.

And he has talked about repeatedly that, you know, it's the state pays for contributes into infrastructure projects for a variety of different projects.

But he's got potentially a 2 billion dollar deficit to fill, according to preliminary estimate.

So there are questions about where to put that money.

>> And you have to imagine a lot of constituents would not be particularly plea.

I mean, there's historically low levels of support for public funding for these sorts of stadium project.

So controversial opinion.

I was born and raised Chicago on the northwest side.

One of the last time the Bears won anything fracking about left them convert soldier field into like a venue for local news and right past brother to that.

Sign me up.

I'm that is a riveting season, though.

Yeah, for a the ball.

There is a difference.

I mean that the Kansas City Chiefs are moving to the Kansas side of the Kansas City Metro.

They're still going Ole is still considered part.

The Kansas City Metro and New Jersey is still a part of the New York Metropolitan area.

But take it from a White Sox fan.

state of Indiana is just saying here will give you whatever they want, right?

And then from a business perspective, it would make a lot of sense to move the northwest, Indiana.

But and I know this from the Kominsky Park debate nearly 40 years ago.

>> You will pay a eventually because we're going to show up for the playoff season.

But what happens if you're 3.14 that you go to Gary to see a 3.14 team?

That's the question the Bears have to answer.

Although, you know, if you listen to the car dealership at Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana, so we are all one big, happy metro region.

But the Bears do also own 326 acres in Arlington Heights.

And so, you know, let's see what happens with that as well.

Yeah, but I mean, to your point about the, you new Kaminsky back in states, authorities souls.

But 48 50 million dollars on that.

So this could be something for Indiana taxpayers to be dealing with for a long time to come.

>> All right.

Well, speaking of Governor Pritzker, Rob, he's re-upping his push to get state pensions fully funded by 2048.

What are what are the details that what's the thinking behind?

And there is some meaningful progress taking place when many of the state's credit upgrades were tied to actually taking some action on the state's pension system and white.

When you think about that, all issues that the city of Chicago is facing with its pension funding in just the budgetary sinkhole.

That creates a municipal level.

I it's it's addressing a problem that had been in place for 20 years and and and more and you can actually address it before 2050.

That would be pretty impressive.

Given the size of the just a couple years ago.

And do we know what sort of support he has from legislative leaders, how this might play out its mixed right The governor had actually introduced this proposal 2 years ago and it didn't get much traction in either chamber and to basically what he's saying is he wants to move up the bar from going to 90% funded in 2045 to 100% funded by 2048.

>> Let's keep in mind that the pensions collectively are only funded at about 47 or 48% right now.

So that's a long way to go.

2 years ago, like I said, he introduced it now he's re-upping it again.

Let's see what happens.

But there's comments so far because like I mentioned, just the fiscal situation that's at play right now.

Well, and, you know, you've been doing some reporting on this just how much of the Trump administration's hostility toward Illinois is putting pressure is on the state.

I mean, what are what are we going to be looking for in the coming budget season?

>> So the governor's budget office just put out a report earlier today talking about that very outlining some of the challenges.

>> In October, they had put our initial report part part of their annual fiscal policy report that they put out and they had outlined the problems and the governor even before that last year about this time has been saying all along that the state cannot back bill, anything that the federal government takes away just too big.

billions of dollars that come are just too big.

Today.

What they outlined are is that there are funding streams that are in court right now.

As you mentioned, you know, there's so many court cases going on.

This is one of them, one of them related to child care and needy families.

So if some of that goes away, it could be hundreds of millions potentially loss of a billion dollars.

>> Well, absinthe, the budget negotiations tell you reporting on another potential down in Springfield, self-driving cars.

We could be looking at a pilot program.

Tell us about that.

Yeah.

So I mean, Waymo has not made it a secret that they want to come here.

They're expanding like crazy in.

>> Probably all seen the ads where they say call your lawmakers time to let us come.

so, you know, state officials agree that the law would probably need to change to make that happen.

And this is a bill that was filed by Representative Kam Buckner, which is interesting because he is one of the leaders of, you know, funding negotiations back in the fall prior to that because it took a long time.

But he, you know, filed this bill that would essentially create pilot programs, allow them to happen.

Companies could say IDOT, hey, we want to operate here.

They would get permission in Cook County County where Springfield is a few counties near St.

Louis.

And then after 3 years, if I got told that everything went well, they could legalize self-driving car statewide and they're on the road and plenty of other U.S.

cities.

But it with the >> very interesting to see them here.

I mean, Alex, have to imagine this proposal might not go over so well with with rideshare drivers.

taxi drivers who are already squeezes overwhelmed 40 cycles in alright bicycles throughout the city.

And already drivers are distracted by their phones with a very large dash panels.

>> Regardless of the rideshare, cabbies or personal drivers, the idea of a computer controlled a car just driving around what I'm like, you know, on my bike in the loop.

>> I don't like that.

>> Here hasn't been here in state called a lack of pilot program.

It's show.

I mean, I the crews vehicles in San Francisco visit the city a couple of years ago.

And it's a strange sight to see when you're looking into a car and there's just a happy passenger in the back and no one else and there.

But the Waymo cars and the self-driving taxis.

A lot of the research says that the accidents involving self-driving vehicles.

The other driver is at fault that the self-driving vehicle and as the light, our technology, those cameras it and it actually goes the speed limit and stops when it's supposed I would wonder, though, who is funding 60 study also feel like I like the idea of having a driver.

I can you that buy crossing an intersection of just avoid.

Yeah, not to lose my journalistic objectivity.

I've written one before.

The kind of freaked So.

>> We'll we'll see.

All right.

We'll to transit tell you had a an in-depth interview with the acting CTA chief facing a lot of challenges at the moment.

What were the priorities that you heard from her?

>> Yeah, well, I mean the seat.

He is really an interesting spot right now because up until last fall, they were planning to spend this year cutting service dramatically and then basically overnight they got to switch that up.

And so they're starting to look at how they can increase service instead of cut it.

So some of the things I heard were at this, you know, previously announced plan to expand service to Midway Airport.

24 hours and idea that maybe now with this new money we could cut head weighs between trains to 8 minutes.

I think that's something that would really dramatically changed the CTA experience for riders who are tired of waiting and slow zones when your train slows down really slow.

And number 1, 8, minutes head ways where the So it's interesting.

You mention the funding package that CTA in the winter and how that change some of their plans in terms of whether they're making cuts now may be expanding some.

>> And today, the seat he actually yesterday, the seat he was actually in the bond market.

investors seem to have a much more positive view of it because of the revenue package.

And so that was an interesting perspective to get this revenue that's coming in is filtering into how people are now perceiving them as you know, a borrower.

I think people always like to see are legacy of our that as a bunch estate and money behind them.

That definitely helped You know, rob, of course, northerly or some the acting CTA chief also acting heads of and Chicago Public Schools, any movement on some permanent leaders here well, really what it comes to the CTA, this is She is the acting head of the agency.

But it does the city is making any >> meaningful moves to actually filling that position on a full-time basis.

And she's already talk of the city club about what the game plan is for the CTA.

So even though there acting in the title, she's she is acting like the boss.

it's been more than a year that she's been in that position.

>> All right.

Well, you part of the Boston, my eyes.

But unfortunately, we are out of time.

So our thanks to Rob Heart truth.

He saying.

Talia Soglin and Alex Fernandez.

We're back to wrap things up right after this.

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