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Here's what we're looking at.

>> What we're seeing in L a is chaos caused by the administration.

>> Weigle questions emerge as President Trump deployed the National Guard to protest over immigration enforcement in California.

And local business owners are raising concerns about the impact of the Trump administration's tariffs on steel and aluminum.

>> And now to some of today's top stories as the president's latest travel ban takes effect today.

Local immigrant and labor advocates joined forces in protest of the Trump administration's anti immigration tactics in Los Angeles over the weekend.

>> All of this is being done under the fall of guys is that there is a national emergency.

There never was.

And if anyone is responsible for any of the provocative towards and their violent actions, it is the Trump administration, Stephen Miller and come home and will seek to portray an emergency that does not exist.

>> The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and refugee rights along with members of the Service Employees, International Union protested federal agents arresting SCI use California President David Huerta during a demonstration there last week.

Huerta was reportedly released from custody today and faces a federal charge of conspiring to impede an officer.

The groups are also protesting the administration's travel ban which excludes travelers from 12, mainly African and Middle Eastern nations.

As Trump steps up efforts to enforce immigration.

We'll have more on the clash between protesters and federal agents in no way in just a few.

Michael Madigan was back in the courtroom this afternoon.

Days ahead of the X House, speaker's sentencing for federal corruption.

federal judge today dismissed his attorneys motion for acquittal or a new trial.

Prosecutors are seeking a 12 and a half year prison term.

Defense attorneys called that draconian and are seeking probation for the 83 year-old convicted on 10 counts of bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud.

Attorneys are expected back tomorrow to argue a defense motion to strike mentions of mannequins net worth from public filings.

Sentencing is set for Friday.

Chicago is cracking down on illegal trash pickups.

It's the latest development in a story we've been reporting on for nearly 2 years.

Trash and recycling companies aren't allowed to make pickups in Chicago between 10:00PM and 07:00AM.

But many companies have been flouting the law in doing pickups earlier in the morning since our reporting, the city created a new 3, 1, 1, complaint category last October and private waste haulers have been slapped with nearly 200 tickets for the early morning pickups during the first 6 months of the new enforcement.

The companies hit with the most tickets are lakeshore waste followed by Flood Brothers, Republic Services and Waste Management.

For more on this story and responses from some of the companies.

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A Broadway production that first played on Chicago's Steppenwolf stage, took home 2 Tony Awards last night, including best play producer.

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And I dedicate this award to step was leadership staff our board, especially our ensemble.

>> They are without question some of the great artists in our country, risk-takers and innovators of lot.

Some of the boldest new plays an American throughout school can.

>> That was actor and Steppenwolf artistic director Glen Davis accepting the award for the plate purpose, which also won a Pulitzer this year.

The theater commission playwright Brandon Jacobs, Jenkins to create the production with theater ensemble actors and director Phylicia Rashad.

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Up next, a look at President Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard to stop protests over immigration enforcement in California.

And later in the program, how local businesses are being impacted by the Trump administration's tariffs on steel and aluminum.

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Don't >> An already tense standoff in California is getting tense the Pentagon says about 700 Marines are being activated to help protect federal property and personnel in the Los Angeles area amid ongoing protests over immigration enforcement.

It comes after President Donald Trump already deployed around 300 National Guard troops despite objections from California Governor Gavin Newsom.

But Newsom and others are pushing back calling the move unlawful.

Joining us now with more our Kevin Boyle, a professor of American history at Northwestern University and over zoom.

We have David Franklin, a professor of law at DePaul University.

Thanks to you both for joining us.

I'm Kevin.

Want to first get your reaction to this latest news about the Marines also being deployed to LA.

Yeah, this is really an extraordinary my mind, a really dangerous step.

>> For the president, the United States to use federal troops.

On American soil in this circumstance is really quite extraordinary A protest today.

Look, anything like what we've seen before when either National Guard work you know, U.S. military troops were deployed, know the scale of these protests, at least from what I can tell from watching on TV is much, much smaller, points in the past where either the National Guard were deployed or federal troops were deployed.

This is whole whole different scale.

David Franklin, get a similar question to you.

What was your reaction when you saw that the president or that the government was deploying Marines to LA?

>> It's a reaction is professor boil.

This is really alarming and dangerous step by the Trump administration.

You know, even for administration that has crossed many seemingly on cross double lines in terms of taking our country in the direction of frankly authoritarianism undermining the rule of law.

This is a really serious Khan to cross because we have a constitutional history and tradition in this country.

Of civilian control of the military rather than military control of civilians.

So as Professor Boyle was saying, the use of federal federalized troops to perform law enforcement function on civilian American streets is extremely rare.

It's Florida narrowly been done in the past either with the consider invitation of governor of the state where it's happening or it's happened because the government of the state was creating the problem as in the civil rights era in the south.

Neither of those things is true.

And as Professor Boyle mentioned, the scope and scale of these demonstrations don't seem to rise anywhere near the level of what President Trump is now with the kind of cruel irony calling an insurrection.

So I think it's to Trump development.

Yeah, because this move by the Trump administration, it's unprecedented but not necessarily illegal.

California is expected to sue.

What could their argument >> Well, I think that deployment of National Guard troops, if it is done solely to support us.

The ice officers that are already there.

That is saying if the National Guard is slowly being brought To provide protection for federal officials or federal law enforcement are not themselves interacting civilians directly.

That's probably legal calling up the Marines.

Really risks violating not just that constitutional tradition that I referenced a minute but also violating federal statute.

A very old federal statute called the posse comments on And so, you know that there's an exception to that act and want to get too technical here.

But there's an exception in the form of another federal law called the Insurrection Act.

But that a lot of really can only the trigger if there is insurrection.

And I just don't think the factual predicate for that is present here with court's second.

Guess.

The president's judgment that there is some sort of insurrection going That's a lot harder to say.

>> David mentioned, you know, the civil rights movement, other instances where this has happened, what was what was the case in those instances?

>> For the use of federalize National Guard.

President Eisenhower did 1957.

John Kennedy did in 1962, and Lyndon Johnson didn't 1963.

But in all 3 of those circumstances, the president was reacting either to the state itself violated law.

Little Rock where the state was defying a federal court order in a great integration of Little Rock Central High School or the state was refusing to provide the sort of protection the protesters needed 2 protest peacefully in the United States.

This is across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Well into March from Selma over to Montgomery, which is where they were trying to get to when they're crossing Edmund Pettus Bridge.

And this is a fundamentally different circumstance.

This is using those troops potentially or those federalized National Guardsman against protesters not protection of protesters, which is the circumstance in the 60's.

>> Okay.

And then there was a with a cold and also in 1991, 2 during the Rodney King riots.

Sure that was given a number of times federal troops were called in in Urban uprisings.

But they were called in at the request of the governor, not in defiance of the couple.

circumstances explicitly said he doesn't want.

>> This mobilization, Souther troops called out 1967.

In the Detroit uprising.

1992 in LA.

But in both those circumstances, 68 in Chicago actually after Martin Luther King's murder.

But all those circumstances, local officials asked for troops to be deployed.

It wasn't in defiance of the local officials >> And in this case, Governor Gavin Newsom has said the opposite insisting that La PD has the situation under control.

David, couldn't the Trump administration argued that the state is defying federal immigration policy and therefore it was necessary to send in federal troops or allies, troops.

>> argued that from everything that I can see that just doesn't appear to be the case.

There are protesters on the street.

If those protesters acting violently are unlawfully, they can be dealt with.

But there's no evidence that I've seen that the state itself is defy or violating federal law enforcement.

So, you know, as I say, the predicate for a escalating this to the point of involving federal troops on American streets of American cities just has not been late.

It's dangerous situation.

Well, I mean, and incredibly dangerous situation because this set a precedent that the National Guard could be sent to other cities if the president doesn't like the protests he sees there.

>> And in fact, the Trump issued a in in relation to the situation in Los Angeles.

>> But if you read the memorandum never mentions.

Los Angeles where California.

So he's clearly trying to lay the groundwork for a nationwide use of National Guard perhaps as you've federal troops like the Marines, you know, perhaps he's trying to, you know, just distract and deflect from his own falling poll numbers of difficulty in passing his signature piece of legislation with Elon Musk who knows what his reasons but it's a very dangerous line to cross.

Federal troops are not trained to do law enforcement on the street.

They they don't have.

row training.

creates a completely new and dangerous dynamic.

And that's really relation David.

That's where we'll have to leave it.

Obviously something that will be keeping close eyes on the next few days to see how this plays out.

David Franklin, Kevin Boyle, thanks to both for joining us.

Thanks so much.

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>> Businesses and manufacturing are starting to feel the impact of steel and aluminum tariffs that took effect last week.

The Trump administration is putting a 50% tax on these medals when they're imported from other countries.

Backers say it's an effort to protect national security and promote more domestic manufacturing.

But critics say it could drive up costs.

Here with more on the local impact, our Julie Workman, a real estate lawyer and partner at Saul Ewing LLP raced out executive director of the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild and Robert Ladee a political science professor at the University of Chicago.

Thanks to all for joining us.

Raced out.

Let's start with you first.

Please describe how important steel and aluminum are in producing and distributing still numb are using every input, right?

So from Kansas to vessels to bring equipment.

>> Everything that's in a brewhouse are everything you drink out of in the craft beer industry and here in Illinois and across the country is made in steel and served in aluminum.

>> Okay.

So pretty important to workman how important are steel and aluminum, of course, in home building still in the movement our critical you need steel be used to provide support to buildings, even for ductwork and >> going to be on precious metals or use and things he would necessarily think about door knobs.

Straw polls, light fixtures, plumbing fixtures, there on present throughout new homes.

Yeah, this is something the backbones, the whole do, the that you do.

>> Robert, the Trump administration imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum during his first term as well.

What's the impact then?

>> Well, one thing to be aware of in the first administration as they pulled out the tariffs that only a few months after putting them in on Canada and Mexico part of the U.S. NAFTA renegotiations.

But during the history United States in recent history, number times of these tariffs put it, fact, and the Bush administration, for example, there were similar tariffs in 2002, what we saw was a reduction in jobs and tariff consume that steel consuming industries by about 200,000 workers.

That was more workers than in the entire steel industry combined.

So general effect has been very negative keep these things have been tried.

And as a result, they have been tried very long.

>> If you would, can 8 sort of like a brief sort of like walk through of how higher tariff means fewer jobs here because the Trump administration, their whole point is that their expectation is that this will increase jobs in manufacturing here at home.

>> So a tariff, but attacks on the importation of steel in this case or aluminum about 25% of us steel's imported from other countries.

And that means when you're trying to put something together like a car that's going increase the costs associate with it.

If you can't push those costs on to consumers, the only other option is to shut down and furlough workers.

The consequences can be dramatic, especially in communities that rely on the consumption of steel for products, which in many small towns across the United States and one of the challenges here is that those those job losses don't come back immediately.

You lose access to a small business in a community that might destroy the community itself.

And that's what we saw in the in the Bush administration ended the first Trump administration.

>> Julie, how does this uncertainty?

How does this impact construction and development?

It makes it very hard to get deals done.

And in our world, developers will do a financial analysis before they will even start working on a project look at her, which is going to cost what their profit margin will be.

At the end of the day.

And if you don't know what pricing looks like from one day to the next, it makes almost impossible to on those pro formas and figure out what your deal is going whether you're going to have a profit at the end of the day.

Andrea, what could this mean for price is so across the brewing industry right here in Illinois, we manufacture and use over and over a billion cans every year.

Right?

So even a slight price increase.

>> Would be drastically detrimental to our industry.

And, you know, you're exactly right.

either the organization could could could whether those costs are they could pass it on to the consumer.

And what we're seeing is that organization that was those costs to, in fact, end up having to make staffing decisions to to backfill those losses.

What are you?

What are you feeling right now?

What are you noticing?

We're seeing?

We're seeing K companies actually starting to close in the United States of America.

We started receiving first notice first notice of that.

We're starting to see aluminum manufacturers and can manufacture starting to raise costs are seeing that affects the smiles perrys more than the larger ones.

Right?

So if you're if you're buying anywhere between $0.10 to $0.25 per can multiply that by a billion right.

And so to the economies of scale, those large manufacturers obviously get the best price break.

So it's going to hurt the small businesses.

First small margins.

That's exactly right.

Julie, what about you?

What are you on noticing?

>> At this point, the effects have been limited, but we're anticipating that costs up.

Homes are going to start going up a lot on the National Association of Home Builders has pulled its members and and members are anticipating home price increases of up to $11,000 per home.

10,900.

Right now, the increases have been fairly small, but with the tariffs being implemented those prices are going to start going up and probably Q 3 of this year.

>> Robert Trump administration, like I said, they're arguing that this is going to promote domestic manufacturing.

Is that likely?

And when could that happen?

Or we're going to see the same thing that happened that has happened in previous administrations.

There will be an increase in the production of small sum products that are made from steel and aluminum from smelters already exist.

The minute states that are operating at half or low half capacity.

>> But that's only going mean a marginal increase in the domestic supply relative to the consequences for down stream industry.

So there will be some people that will be able to sell more steel and aluminum bit higher prices.

But there's a lot more people to consume the field and there are that produce it and what I say a lot more.

I mean, a lot lot more as we see industries across transportation.

It was we saw packaging or, you know, that the canning industry, it's across the board that's going to be affecting people will begin to see those effects pretty soon as window down the warehouses that are currently storing.

You know, as you show showed at the for opening shot wheels of aluminum.

>> Ray, is there much that small craft breweries can do to adapt?

You know, there's not a lot, you know, the small that's going to hurt the smallest businesses in this in this state and this country.

>> You know, our our our Brewers are looking at other other options for glass bottling, for example.

But >> you know, these these small breweries have set up canning lines and made huge investments on that infrastructure and they're not able to go out kind of reject or they're they're there for operation just switch it up.

Can't just fix it.

Yeah.

>> Julie City, as you know, we've already facing challenges with housing shortages, especially with regards to affordable housing.

You mentioned, you know, likely a home in pre home price increases in the future.

What's the impact you can this could have on housing in the city.

It's going to have a huge impact.

We all know that there is a major, affordable housing shortage in this country.

>> here in in Illinois and you have builders who are willing to build homes and they want to build homes, whether it's apartments, condos, townhomes, single-family homes, but pricing is going to be a major headwind and it's going to it's going to impact their willingness to Portugal's on the ground at the end of the day.

And and it's going to stop projects.

Unfortunately.

>> Robert, what do you say to the idea that the U.S. shouldn't be so reliant on other countries for steel and aluminum?

>> That's fair.

I mean, it is true that were basically down to a few smelters for aluminum steel industry has suffered over course of the past few decades.

And you could think that a small share that will be important for national security purposes.

But the defense industry consumes about 3% of us aluminum.

It's only about 5% of U.S. steel.

It's not obvious that this is the way that you would want to achieve that.

And if we cared about having a regular supply of aluminum just by aluminum using the defense, the defense contracts.

If there's other ways to achieve this.

And we've seen other administrations take those tax in the past, for example, there's a new aluminum plant the first in 40 years that was going to be opened up under the Inflation Reduction Act.

But that's just maybe going to be killed under this funding measure.

All right.

So a tough time right now that.

And that goes into effect.

So right, it's.

>> this new tariff goes into effect It's in Okay.

That's what we'll have to leave the best of luck to raced out.

Julie Workman, Robin Kolodny, thanks to all 3 of you for joining us.

Thank And that's our show for this Monday night.

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