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

I'm Nick Blumberg.

Illinois.

Democrats joined a chorus of calls to remove President Donald Trump from office after he warns Iranians that a, quote, whole civilization will die.

Tonight.

Its be honest, there is something genuinely wrong with this man.

>> And the 25th amendment must be invoked before it's too late.

Trump's critics call for removing the president from office as the U.S.

reaches a tenuous truce with the Let's be clear.

>> When there is no accountability, there is no justice activist Anjanette Young efforts to get state lawmakers to ban no-knock warrants years after the wrongful raid on her home.

>> We must have a country that serves workers, not billionaires and to demand ice out of our communities.

Activist and labor groups plan an economic blackout and demonstrations on May day with the Chicago teachers Union calling for classes to be canceled.

Meantime, Mayor Brandon Johnson announces a replacement for the controversially fired deputy mayor for community safety and big moves in Chicago.

Basketball as the Bulls clean house in the front office and the Sky Trade star Angel rings.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are Justin Coppin of Axios, Chicago, where Washington at the Chicago Tribune and ABC, 7 News, Hillary gallons of the Chicago Tribune editorial board and Michael of WBEZ.

Thank you all for being here.

Let's get right to to lower the odds of the cabinet or Congress actually invoking the 25th amendment.

They relatively slim.

Yeah.

All right.

Next question.

Yeah.

I mean, do you think that, you know, some of growing calls even from, you know, Republicans to, you know, to remove Trump, least tamp down some of the violent rhetoric.

I think people going to start taking a closer look.

And I think that when you're in a time of war, like we are that I mean, he's been he said that kind of rhetoric throughout his whole political career.

But now you're talking about life and death situations.

And when and religious leaders gotten involved as well.

I think perhaps this might be a time for his Republican colleagues people.

He listens to whatever that is to start to pull pull him back a little bit.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, Hillary is we mention it's not just Dems calling for the president's removal.

Are you at all surprised to see someone like Governor Pritzker ending up on the same side as folks like Marjorie Taylor, Greene or Candace Owens or Alex Jones?

Well, I think you're going to see more of that because he starting to go after his allies now.

So.

>> You know, he's going after people like Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly.

And it's because they oppose the war which most people do.

And it's because we don't know what we're doing there.

We don't know what we're getting out.

We don't know when looks like.

>> And >> this is not good place to be.

He campaigned on no more forever wars.

And so people who thought that's what he was going to live or are not happy.

And he's not happy with them.

So is this going to continue?

>> I mean, this is this has been his shtick since he was president in 2016.

Remember, he went after Megyn Kelly in 2016.

He he's fought with his own people.

He wants to be the pundit, the president, everything in between.

He wants to be all of it.

And you're seeing right now when he's fighting back against like it.

The big tweet, he had a long tweet.

He had a true social against those so-called a allies.

I think it's more that he thinks that he's the one and they're going to fall in line for some reason.

He's constantly trying to get our attention over and over and that's trumpet.

Those allies are not elected officials, their allies and the elected official.

So far.

I think been relatively quiet.

They're still afraid of him members of Congress, members of the Senate who really do have the power to to to vote on that amendment or not.

I'm not gonna got admit, though, as I was looking at the clock on to the the deadline, I could think no one word central time.

>> I think 8 o'clock Eastern time I was visible.

I was shaking.

I was scared.

I was like what?

What could And and, you know, I've are at war and now, you know, there people say when you come out against the might be anti-American, we're seeing even and then pushing back against the Catholic Church.

so but that we vote for this.

Do we do?

We approve of of annihilating and entire about what he said.

You must transition nation's yeah, right.

So I've never seen that.

I've never heard that from a president and it was quite jarring little bit.

A hopeful thing, though, is that Israel and here United States will have the same place in Israel does want to see this.

We're continue.

Nate.

They do want to see the slaughter and the president, I think does want to get out of that.

So it's I think that that that does offer some hope that we can come up with a resolution that doesn't take us back into this violent period again.

Yeah, and you know, you both mentioned religious leaders.

Mike, you, you spoke with folks this week talking about.

>> Not just war, but also some of the, you know, the Pro America language.

What did you hear from folks about and how how faith in this administration may be or a misaligned.

>> Well, you know, when you see some national stories, they may get one or 2, Christian nationalists to say all what the president has said is acceptable.

There's nothing wrong with that.

But I could not find one person who agrees with.

put out there and I did a cross section, including interview.

are Cardinal Cupich but also evangelicals.

Other denominations Presbyterian.

They are saying what he said was wrong, especially his Easter Day message were he used an expletive and I truthsocial posting nobody is an agreement with how he is.

Pushing his message.

and there's no doubt done.

But, you know, people let's say the MAGA movement.

They hired this president because they wanted him to essentially do what he does negotiate the art of the deal.

>> And so they will say, well, the counter and tension is a cease-fire.

And that's the problem here is that I think there's a disconnect between what's the right way for America to do business, especially internationally.

talking about war or foreign diplomacy to to someone whose internally say what he got the job.

Yeah.

But they also hired him to not start wars.

He he was going to be war a verse that any increase.

It is pretty says he's for not to be in that way.

So.

>> Talk about a disconnect.

You can't have it both ways.

Yeah.

He spent so much time going after, you know, for example, Obama and Biden for a long and gate and, you know, even going back to the Iraq war.

>> And now we're seeing a very different message that perhaps now is the time to launch a foreign invasion.

But a lot of folks who went for him didn't seem to agree with Well, and 47% Illinois voted for it will not 40% of noise but voting Illinois and went for Trump.

And so you have to pull a lot of non Baga reasonable folks to get that number.

And again, he said no wars and he said sensible immigration reform.

I mean, this is just like 2 biggies where regular people don't like how this is gone.

But if you do see some of the way, they're still framing it on the right.

They'll say, well, President Trump, there was no other president before him who was had the guts to do what he did to take it on Iran.

>> Was a gusts are just worrisome is if you're going to go to war with Iran, this is what could happen.

Now we're looking at a situation with Iran.

Could be stronger following this than they were previously controlling the streets of the moose, you treat charging ships to go through there.

And now Trump say, well, maybe we want a little bit of that action really?

It's that's why maybe we didn't go to war.

If he if you wanted to do this, he should have built a coalition with just, you know, an understanding what is called?

And right now we've lost that.

We've got the vice president on his way to Pakistan for peace talks.

So I think a lot of people will be watching that very closely.

Some news closer to home Lord.

The mayor announced his new deputy mayor for community safety is going to be an annual Andrea Deputy County public defender.

>> This administration's had lots of folks, both within City Hall and its sister agencies on kind of an interim basis or hosts.

you surprised to see Andres pretty swift appointment?

Well, no, because he promised after he fired Carrie which is presently was going to do something quickly.

And and this is unusual for him to act so quickly and to be that organized.

>> I think, you know, he's and he's had a revolving door and he's not the first mayor to have a revolving door.

Richard in daily was infamous for the 5 Chiefs of staff and in 2 years.

But the difference is that people leave quietly and they don't they don't last summer.

They don't want to go out the door.

They don't criticize the mayor even if they're unhappy, he is create an environment where not only of people are unhappy and willing to talk.

But what people feel that they've released, they say they've been bullied.

They've been disrespected and they want shoot back.

And that's he's dealing with that now.

Yeah, that's a pattern.

And that's it.

That's the issue here is that you might have to unite as the mayor you that you want to get results maybe don't like the way that someone's running an agency can move Like you just said, I think Mayor Daley was a was really good at that.

>> But in this case, it's a pattern where people coming out talking about his administration, bullying them, making that making them do things they want to do necessarily.

And I think that that's a problem.

But the question I have for obvious, having Lori doesn't always that thing to do, voters care about these kind of things.

They care about personnel issues.

I think we like all you know what, I'm not gonna vote for this guy because he got rid of the Department of Does care about results.

And they care about game, job done and that's I'm a seething about the daring game with fire because he did crime is down.

>> People are feeling safer in the city.

Violence is down and you decide to shift, you know, less than a year before he's up for re-election.

His side to shift on one the most important accomplishments in his term.

And I think people are watching that.

someone who is very out front on a lot of these issues like would not necessarily someone who was, you know, maybe serving as more of a functionary, no one ever heard well.

And you know just in to to your point, there was a report this week from FOX.

32 about the former Human Relations Commission or, you know, sent e-mails on her way out the door saying >> they realized there was a toxic work environment.

They're interfering with the report, right where, you know, obviously these are e-mails obtained, you know, rather than her coming out making a statement.

But we you surprise yourself.

I the issue is here that it's not a drain the swamp situation.

It's not like the mayor just started.

he's he's inherited people and can't get on the same page.

These are all people that the mayor put in.

These are all his people.

He's 3 years into his administration still having problems with communication depies not on the same page with his deputies.

Everything that goes into that again, it shows this pattern that you might not be a leading effectively the way that that you need to do to make a on on mission government.

>> And the problem, the problem with that is that, yes, you're gonna have a lot of chaos around.

A lot of confusion.

You saw that the case, other places, but at the end of the day, you know, is that the kind of thing that in 6 months is opponents are going to bring up and as a voter be like, yeah, I didn't like what happened at case.

I don't know I don't know if it matters.

That's the thing.

Yeah.

I mean, how about that, Hillary, where we're looking at less than a year to the mayoral You know, do you imagine these are this sorts of things that Johnson's probably lengthy list of rivals will be using in an effort to unseat him.

Yeah, but it's kind of inside baseball.

I think you can underestimate the value of the grassroots backing What turnout was low in the primary turnout.

New on the mayoral.

>> If you can turn out votes, that's what matters.

Stacy Davis Gates did this interesting interview with Tahman Bradley where she said we're not trying to win the election.

We're trying to win the argument.

And I think if you measure how that movement is doing based on the argument rather than maybe the school board elections or you could make the case they are winning the argument on things like taxation and that that makes him a credible threat to win again.

I think he's positioned himself even on the battles he loses his position itself as being able say, I'm a fighter.

I'm fighting for you.

I'm going to stand up for you.

No matter what like to hit tax, for example, which is Dow being in.

There is consideration of Springfield, about limited, making sure that you can can pass it.

I think that's all about him creating this image that he's he's there for the progressive movement.

He's going to be there and no one else is going to be there so that that I think would be part of the messaging as well.

Yeah, it's an interesting way to to frame it that it sort of about introducing some of these.

>> More progressive ideas into city government, not necessarily about just one person.

All right.

We you mentioned Mike.

We heard testimony this week from Anjanette Young.

She's pushing for a state ban on no-knock warrants and on officers drawing guns on kids.

There was a bill last session in Springfield that didn't go anywhere.

Unclear whether it's going to make any moves this year.

But you know, if you're in Jeannette Young to imagine there's that just kind of sense of frustration that this hasn't moved forward so many years after that raid on her home absolutely was high-profile raid.

It was a just very troubling what they did.

>> But you got to wonder if what were the pushback coming from?

Is it from the police officers where they feel that this is still a valuable to they may have made a mistake in this one case, a high-profile mistake.

But overall, it's a tool that they may need in other circumstances.

It's been 6 years.

Is it going to get past?

It feels like the momentum is already been taken out of there.

Something drastic will have to come and she may need to get more component on I agree what happened to her was horrible.

They should not happen to anybody.

But if it's a tool that the police still want to use, it seems like it's still going to be there.

Yeah, they may have some arguments with some more of the moderate or conservative Democrats and Springfield.

The can win the day.

There.

>> All right.

We'll just in Chicago school board came out this week against the idea of Illinois.

Joining this, Trump federal school voucher program.

But it's interesting.

We still haven't gotten a decision from Pritzker.

And we've heard from other Democrats like Mendoza saying we should go for yeah.

this is always going to be a problem because this is really the school choice.

Ideas really like sort spurred by Republicans and Trump loves it and is pushing it.

>> And this and so you can never tell if it's actually shot down because of the merits are but shot down politically because it's not gonna look good.

If you're siding with with Trump and the MAGA movement, it's not a surprise to me.

It's not surprising.

The state of Illinois, the city of Chicago, that there would be the sort of we're not going to accept with the federal government is doing.

But the question just remains on school choice is how are we spending educational dollars when it comes to public schools and giving away vouchers to go to use that money to go to private.

But I think that's one of the fundamental misunderstandings about what something like this would do.

Remember, we had something very similar nature for years in Illinois.

>> The that went away left thousands of kids stranded and so in Illinois State education funding.

We've got this hold harmless policy.

So even if we did into this federal program, year-over-year district funding can't go down from the level.

It was the year before.

So that's one thing.

I think people misunderstand these are funded by private donations.

And I guess the question at the end of the day is do we want kids from low-income backgrounds to have the same opportunities as kids from families with money?

And I think I think we should.

There are others states.

27 states have adapted this, including Colorado, which also has a Democratic governor.

Does it hasn't?

The governor said, though, that he's concerned because, there's the regulations, the actual way this is going to work and not come out And there's questions about money will go.

Yeah.

And will it?

Will it go to the low income kids pick, particularly low-income kids were in public schools.

>> That didn't run.

It can stay the same and that go down.

But many people, including Brandon Johns, would argue that we need a lot more funding to go into public schools and that there's a question about whether this will help get get us there.

>> Well, I live in a state that has screwed northwest, Indiana, Indiana and I can tell you Northwest India is a traditionally blue Democratic area in a very red But people have come to accept school choice and value it that you would.

Like having, you know, their tax dollars going to help support a private school, especially of an area that if the public who is not as good city like having that choice on that, advocating for it.

But I do know that there are some Democratic areas that supported death and a lot of parents that love it as well for will sticking with education for a minute.

Hillary CTU is pushing hard to cancel classes on May Day.

>> Tripit Oriole board waiting basically saying that new CPS CEO Macklin King should should stay strong.

Why do you think it's it's the wrong move go in cancel classes that day because kids should be in school on a school day that's been scheduled for a long time.

I think it's totally fair.

Teachers who want to protest protests on their own time.

They disrupt class to do it.

And the the other thing that is concerning in this story is some of the curriculum recommendations that have come out.

That CTU is pushing for teachers to implement schools.

They want 3, 4, year-old preschoolers to get a history lesson May day.

That probably is more appropriate for a high schooler.

Probably.

But as part of that, they want the street and 4 year olds to have a group activity where they think of something that they think is unfair and then draw protests.

Timeline.

a little out I hope my clicking to hold strong.

I play devil's advocate on this because first of all, they negotiated in the contract to have a civic day of action.

>> The City Chicago Teachers Union.

It's time to CPS in a certain way where they knew this was coming.

So this has been a year that seat who says for years time now they've been saying to them, we would like that.

They have civic action to be a day off CPS because of all of its changes.

Pedro Martinez leaving Macklin king and term.

They just kind pushed it online.

So here we are at the end, which it didn't need to be like this.

They could have figured it out.

So now you've got politics.

Now you've got Brandon Johnson involved.

Now you've got to you've got CPS.

You got other.

You know, it's cool factors involved.

It didn't need to be involved in this.

It is a labor holiday made a right.

And it's not surprising that biggest labor you one of biggest labor unions in Chicago would want to celebrate that holiday.

So what they're determined of school boards already voted.

They voted to say, listen, you can take the professional development day from June and apply to May 1st and there will be no instructional time in its midst.

So the idea that kids need to be in the classroom, sure.

But I think that that's a little disingenuous from the Tribune to say that because they're not doing that at certain point.

They're saying, listen, we're just move our professional development day from June 5th to May first.

So it's the same amount of time that's in there.

Now, whether or not there's a labor lesson plan.

That's that's a great point.

I don't know enough about that, too comment on it.

But I do think that the concept that CPS is just going to go in and say, all right, we're gonna teach you about the history of labor.

Every and one size fits all I just don't know if it's a great idea for either set right now.

They should have done this 9 months ago.

And I feel like right now because up add the extra part, which is the parents, if I'm a parent of the CPS right now beyond number, we have think that's her point.

Oh, This keep the kids in school, right?

Yeah, I don't.

I would push back.

I don't think it's disingenuous to say it.

Lee said.

>> think there's a lot of confusion about what happens now.

I've seen that that day of action was planned for June.

And so some ways this will be bumping up.

But I think the bigger point is, but these kids and these families, they don't need more disruption.

I think that's the bigger point here to And the bottom line doesn't CPS to cite right?

It means yes, they see cases say anything he wants, but it's up to the CPS to make the decision.

Right.

And know what, the decision, right?

And that's problem where they just waited and waited and waited to get to the last minute.

Now you're like, yeah, parents and everybody else in between or start.

A lot of writing our place yet.

All right.

Well, some drama at another sister agency, Laura, the Chicago Housing Authority Board facing a possible lawsuit over.

>> Violating the Open Meetings Act in the way that they picked a new CEO.

But even if challenge actually materializes, it was a 72 vote.

So could they potentially just come back and do again again a bit.

But they're saying that they didn't.

They didn't publicize what they were going to do when they made the decision.

>> And if they had a candidate mind, so you that far as I can tell, they can do that.

And, you know, the law also hasn't been filed yet.

we're not really sure what their arguments are going to be.

Yeah, we see that might just be more of a an expression disappointment is political.

It's from actually the one takes a little more word.

Alright, Hillary.

The trip also weighed in this week Mayor Johnson's agenda in Springfield and some lawmakers down there trying negate a few of his signature policies.

Yeah, that's true.

We have this weird situation where you've got Democratic lawmakers down in Springfield.

>> Proposing bills to essentially protect Chicago from its mayor, which is strange.

you know, this is the head taxes.

What we brought up before.

There's a Democratic lawmaker who was also a former mayor who saying municipality should be able to implement Chicago used to have won $4 per employee per month.

Johnson wants $21 per employee per month.

So if business was hurting under $4 situation.

$21 would be devastating for a job market.

I think that that's the problem here.

And it's unfortunate.

Springfield have to pass too expend all this energy when they have other things to deal Goes back to what you talked about.

Lors about when the hard right.

that's that's the the thing here is where?

>> You know, certain point he may stopped moving towards a corporate head tax.

But voters remember, he tried.

I think I think part of this is that they're trying to send a message to the mayor as well tell him to back off because he has not build relationships in been in spring for instead in a way the should be.

So there saying, you know, we need to have a new day here all, right?

Well, a couple big sports this week before we run out of time.

Justin can.

Any air of the bulls over what finally did You know there've been a couple of things that I have the sumo was and who is a hometown kid from Morgan Park who went to University Illinois came to Chicago play.

They traded him to the Minnesota Timberwolves at the trade deadline for nothing and he is becoming a star and he's going to be seen in the playoff.

And you're like, why And so you that any of the issue with Jane, it, Jane, it was a kid who was picked up by the Detroit from the Detroit Pistons in a trade who went on social media and in some pretty disruptive live videos, including a really criticizing the NBA over their LGBTQ pride night and that embarrassed the ownership of the Chicago Bulls, UConn in the next day.

And so this was the last straw.

Yeah, some of the last straws not losing they've done over and over and over.

It was just another player personnel decisions have been terrible.

So it's a good.

It's not surprising it was going to happen at the end of the year.

And so to have it happen before the season.

And this is pretty interesting, especially because there's always complaints about the ryens door sun there.

A sense of loyalty that fans get sick of putting this time.

Yes, I'm mature something.

Michael Reinsdorf who's the owner?

It's Jerry Reinsdorf kid.

It's kittens the 70's.

but guitarist who is that he's taking, you know, who's the consultant, John Paxson Paxon, former GM, a lot of fans kind of ran out of town.

The lineup in this.

So they're so it's even though it's a new day and fans might be excited.

They're also like head scratching what the actual decisions going to All right.

And the sky shocked a lot bands, you know, trading away the hugely popular injuries to Atlanta.

They're getting first-round draft picks and 27 28 feels like it took a lot of people by surprise.

Yeah, injuries out.

And this is a problem that the Chicago sky have run into before.

They had a couple other stars who have said, you know what, facilities aren't up to and like management here like my coach.

I don't like the decisions being made out.

So injuries at the end of last year, she got suspended for half a game for telling a I think was a tribute Tribune like a hey, I wish it was better roster around And they said, all right, you got half a game she never came back.

She just had a back injury.

And so it's sad because I think she was a very fan favorite in Chicago.

We really liked having her here we didn't get a chance to see that.

Caitlin Clark Angel rewrite everybody I was going to be there while, but and happen.

We're going to miss Angel Reese.

We've got 4 fan favorites right here, though.

But unfortunately, we are out of time.

So our thanks to Justin Kaufmann, Laura Washington, Hillary gallons and Michael Point today, back to wrap things up right after this.

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>> That's our show for this Friday night for all of us here at the week in review, I'm Nick Lumber.

Thank you for watching.

Stay healthy, stay safe and stay informed.

Have a great weekend.

All right.

Mike cities much loved cherry blossoms back in bloom.

But people should get moving.

They're not gonna last forever.

Absolute leaders 230 cherry blossom trees at Jackson Park.

They're going to be moving now is going to get it going to warm up.

>> early last, another 5, maybe 5 to 10 days and better get down there.

Check them out to be beautiful p white.

You won't be disappointed.

And I don't that there's sort of a sensitive flower.

You know, that's something right.

All this up and down and the temperature, the crazy weather can kind of effect Absolutely.

But it rained a lot.

We don't like the rain but they love the rain, the trees, so get down there and enjoyed with all the craziness in the world.

I guess a weak.

brought comfort to do.

They love 30 degrees.

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