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

I'm Nick Plummer.

Mayor Brandon Johnson issues are rare veto after City Council approves a snap curfew.

>> We have to make sure that we are not providing politicize knee-jerk reactions that do nothing to solve the fundamental problems of our city.

The controversial measure passed on a 27 to 22 vote.

Meaning backers will need more support if they try to override Johnson's veto.

>> It was probably one of the toughest decisions ever made in my career where I either had a site either to play Ball Park to take a position and take the stand.

>> Outgoing CPS CEO Pedro Martinez says the teachers union wanted to deliberately put the school district in financial distress.

>> Unfortunately, this is part of the chaos that Donald Trump and ice have rained down on the Chicago region.

Democratic members of Congress are repeatedly denied entry to an ICE facility.

>> Meantime, City Council backs off a measure aimed at boosting pay for rideshare drivers.

A former Loretto Hospital executive stands accused of scamming 300 million dollars out of the federal government for phony COVID tests.

And the Chicago Fire released renderings of a proposed South Loop soccer stadium.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are Michael.

It rot from Block Club.

Chicago, Rima, mean, from choppy Chicago.

Hillary gallons from the Chicago Tribune and from Crain's Chicago Business.

Justin Lawrence, thank you all for being here.

Let's get right to it.

So there has not been a mayoral veto since 2006 when Richard ND Lee nixed an ordinance that would have said higher minimum wages at so-called big box store.

So there's a free piece of Chicago history for you.

Justin, why did the mayor vetoed this one?

>> Because he says that curfew doesn't work and it's it's been kind of boiling in the city Council about 2 months now.

And the mayor initially said, arm and Brian Hopkins introduce us and said, hey, I understand he's what he's trying to do.

We attack it from different angles and was somewhat not supportive of the ordinance itself.

But working with Hopkins going through the process.

But in the last week, especially believe Tuesday, a day before the vote.

He came out really strongly against that.

So lazy governance, this is not the way to go where making progress and kind of re having relationships between citizens and the This is the wrong way to go.

It was notable that even after those comments, you know, the city council still approved it with some of his island nominal islands.

Committee chairs, people part of his leadership team being a part of those 27 votes in now.

We'll see.

Alderman happen says I'm not giving up.

I'm gonna try to override that veto.

But you need 34 votes to do that.

He currently has 27.

So it's hard to see unless something major changes how that happened.

Yeah.

I mean, that was my next question.

The idea of an over right here seems like it could be, you know, a tough road for Hopkins to lock their as of now he can raid.

There's just not the votes there, but we'll see a a.

>> This has become a very political issue.

If there are one of these kind of team gatherings turns violent like it did in March when that prompted to do this and maybe that changes votes, persuades people >> Even if they don't like the ordinance say they feel political pressure to to support outside of something major to shift things here.

I don't think you can it's really interesting to see just the politics of fear coming up late with us.

And the question with these opposing sides of the snap curfews west, the bigger fear, the fear of a teen trend happening or the fear Chicago what is being restricted when it comes to.

>> Where they can go.

And when these curfews going to institute it.

And so it's interesting for me to see Johnson take a strong side of it because coming out of life administration to Johnson that came to some of these regulations Millennium Park and he had quite.

I put put his foot down on his stance on And so seeing this boil up and him get to the point of having 2 veto.

It's gonna be interesting going forward seeing how that shakes out in terms of the progressive caucus and these opposing sides this can't be the end of the conversation, right?

I think there are good arguments on both sides for sure.

>> And you mentioned a lot of the big issues at play.

you know, the Tribune editorial board, we actually opined earlier this week asked the mayor not to veto and we acknowledge some of the challenges with the concept.

Of course, the civil liberties question.

But, you know, I thought there was a lot of really compelling testimony on the floor ahead of the vote.

I thought Alderwoman Monique Sky was really compelling.

You know, she talked about her 17 year-old daughter, who, by all accounts is a really responsible, smart, young lady.

And although many Scots like I'm not going to send or downtown, I don't think it's safe.

And so I think there's this broad sense of this is a problem.

We don't have a lot of solutions that are out there on the table.

We need to get them.

Otherwise.

Parents are not going to feel safe, letting their kids have some freedom and responsibility.

Yeah.

It'll be interesting to see whether city leaders try to come up with some other way to address this issue.

You know, create a safe place for teens together going to speaking of city leaders that the most important person may be in this debate was Superintendent Larry snowing, right?

we had some mixed messages from superintendent now.

And maybe he would argue that he had straight messes the whole way through.

But there are mixed enough that both.

>> Both sides on this debate were were claiming that he was on their side right.

And that kind of came from during the It was a unrelated court The federal consent decree.

He said I would not use the snap curfew part of this lake.

I would not issue a curfew kind of well, know, your last-minute up to 30 minutes before, you know, the curfew goes into effect.

We would be more thoughtful about it.

But he didn't say I want to use an all around.

So it was it was confusing.

And that came up during the floor debate.

They there's a back and forth between And I think it was Andrea Vasquez and Stephanie Coleman basically both saying no, he's on our side.

He's He's your And I guess that's maybe another thing that can change before they re vote on this.

Is it.

He takes a firmer Well, one person we have not been hearing mixed messages from is outgoing schools, CEO Pedro Martinez.

He's been on a bit of a farewell tour.

>> I had some tough words, remit for the teachers union and the mayor.

What do we hear from Martinez this week?

Martinez's lasting was June 18.

Some actually today was the interim CEOs first day.

>> So yeah, Martinez's is and he's on his way to Massachusetts it was probably the most candid.

I think he's gotten about the union and the mayor.

He said that he accused the union of deliberately trying to kind of bankrupt the district.

And and he kind of, you know, he said, I have no, he told us and he's told other outlets as well he has no regrets with his tenure at CPS.

He's proud of his work and you know, as far as being fired, he thinks that that really happened because he took a stand that he's proud of.

And yet he did not.

He did not mince words at all.

But, you know, I think it was interesting, too, to hear him say whoever takes this job now and permanently you know, make sure your being fiscally responsible.

Make sure you're keeping schools at the center of what you're doing.

And that's also kind of the messaging here from the union and the mayor to so, yeah, well, and he's still got a lawsuit pending against the teachers union.

The union president, the school board president.

>> As you mentioned, he's off to Massachusetts to be their next education commissioner, do you think you still going to be pursuing that case as far as we know?

I think so.

Yeah.

The he filed defamation claims against Teachers Union president Stacy Davis, Gates and the school board president and that he just filed those last week.

And like I said, he's out the door.

So, yes, I think he fully intends to pursue those charges.

And, of Davis Gates, the Union and the board president have all denied those defamation claims.

And it's not the first time Martinez has sued and has has sued school district.

He was fired from a district in Nevada and actually one of $500,000 settlement there.

you know, he has experience in area.

So we'll see far it goes.

We mentioned several Democratic members of Congress from Illinois this week tried to visit ICE facilities.

Michael, what happened there?

>> So on 2 separate occasions in South loop as well as broad view, a group of you said Democratic leaders went there and both times were denied after showing their credentials after showing that they should have access really to have some sort oversight to see how detain Chicagoans are being treated and it raised lot of questions in terms of the transparency of both ice and the Greater Trump administration when it comes to the operation Chicago and you see not only coming off the backs of the I know Kings protests this weekend and Trump publicly calling on truth social for an increased focus to Chicago.

It raised so many more red flags.

The fact city leaders have no sort of oversight when it comes to how Chicagoans are being treated and the fact that this is escalating and happening within our city.

And when you think about beyond this, the fact of going for some of the tactics ISIS use when it comes to deceiving people into thinking they're coming to a regular, a check in for their immigration or monitoring appointment and then all of us and they're detained people who go to what they are is a regular immigration court case or a court hearing.

And now you're being detained and you have family members scrambling to see what's going And so these 2 denials are the tip of the iceberg for a much greater issue.

Well, you know, you mentioned the president vowing further immigration crackdowns Chicago, other cities that he says are sort of at the center of Democrats power.

Hillary, are there any concerns there to see You know, perhaps in the enforcement being driven by, you know, politics versus immigration policy?

Yeah.

I think President Trump would love to make life difficult for Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson.

And that's probably a large part of what's going on here.

>> If we don't know what's going to happen, I think everyone's just sort of waiting to see.

>> And, you know, I think Trump one of the biggest issues that got him re-elected was immigration reform.

>> And we've seen polling that shows there's broad consensus that people do think that it makes sense to remove undocumented residents who have committed crimes.

Even Governor Pritzker has said as much but what is happening now is not what people signed up for.

Yeah.

I mean, we saw, you know, there are all sorts of calls for mass deportations, even going back to the RNC.

But something like this.

>> You know, the prospect of perhaps the National Guard, you know, coming into Chicago, you have to imagine Governor Pritzker, other elected leaders are concerned about that.

>> I would imagine so especially since it's been allowed to move forward in Los Angeles.

but, you know, remit thinking of this in terms of, you know, people staying home from work and others also been some reporting about.

>> Immigration enforcement driving down school attendance.

Is that right?

>> Yeah, you know, the Tribune did a great story where they kind of analyze the state and found that there not not direct like not direct correlations are able to make.

But yeah, that there is lower attendance among schools very large Latino student populations.

And, you know, we've seen ICE detain at least one parent outside of a charter school in few months ago.

I think.

And so while there is a strict CPS policy for schools not to allow ICE agents inside without the proper documentation.

This serves really as it's it's just like any other immigration enforcement like Michael said, there's been some extraordinary measures taken by federal agents that like.

Crazy to believe that this will have a chilling effect on parents wanting to drop the kids off to school.

There absolutely on Nothing is off limits.

And that just yeah, seeing particularly this past month, really these past couple weeks.

>> What all ice is touched in terms Chicago.

I saw her at the LA Dodgers stadium trying to get parking lot all the way to Omaha, Nebraska, to Birmingham, Alabama.

You see all this happening and times of so chaotic.

And if you are someone who is working on getting legal status.

No matter what spirit you work.

And you have to be a couple right now.

And it's really it's really boating is not boding well for undocking Americans, Americans who are going through the proper legal channels to receive citizenship.

Well, I want to turn back to some city council news.

He's also looking at implementing a one percent grocery tax just in to to make up for revenue from a tax that the state did away with >> there's a bit of push back to how the tax was introduced to what one of the details so we want so essentially every piece of legislation has to be introduced into the city council, which is literally read into the record.

>> The way that was read by the city clerk Anna Valencia.

She just, you know, it's very technical.

It did not grocery tax, a tax or a tax on groceries.

Anything of that sort.

And alderman Brendan Reilly was actually standing 5 feet in front of while she was doing that.

He knew that this was coming.

He was waiting too kind of use a trick to stall it for a little when he never heard grocery tax, he was unable to do that.

He charged the man with trying to sneak it on through.

You are trying to prevent me from blocking this all.

That is very technical.

And I think that will get sorted.

But it does show that this is it's going to be a huge fight.

And city council may have to do this by October.

1st in order not to lose, lose 60 to 80 million dollars and 2026 revenue.

It's I think they're in a really difficult position, right?

And honestly, Governor JB Pritzker put them The state does not receive revenue from passes on to local municipalities.

So it was easy for him to get rid of it.

And now the city often hear the city council ought to take really tough.

Oh, yeah.

Well, we also said the the person backing an ordinance aimed raising pay among other things for rideshare drivers.

He backed off a vote this week.

What happened there?

>> And this was I would say they they came to a compromise because the advocates of eventually, I think they realize or thoughts that they did not have the votes to get it done.

they went into last week.

They're supposed to be a committee vote that can change to a hearing that was supposed to be a new vote on Monday that got scrapped and then fed to steal happened where Uber and agrees with some of the unions are pushing.

led by SEIU to what's called a labor peace agreement or we will stay neutral as you try to organize unionize.

Our drivers and we will at least not oppose, not adamantly spend billions of dollars the post.

So it's state legislation which allow for write your drivers to unionize and I think this was a you know what if you ask why would agree to a deal if they had the votes to kill this of the city?

We think it's you.

Those votes can change and the and the pressure of a very powerful union.

He was very influential and and electoral politics.

They might have been able to flip some votes.

And I think you're ever had reason to to cut a deal and walk away from this.

You kind of have to wonder what else is going on to.

You know, this doesn't exist in a tube or is also aggressively pursuing driverless vehicles, out west, like in California, are already widely adopted and very popular.

So, you know, the cynical side of you has to wonder, do they also see?

>> Other options on the table?

Could this end up being short-term gain for drivers and long-term pain?

Right?

If this is just going to and then being a moot point and they I mean, they this would require state legislation, supporter of that.

That's kind of deal told me they don't think that will happen by the end of this year.

So you're looking at May of next year.

>> Then they actually have to organize the drivers that takes time.

So it can all of this has a long time her make things.

There are a lot of hurdles to warning that this bill pose the threat of up to like 10,000 drivers.

said, you know, because of the kind of the way that the pay structure was written.

They said we will have no choice but to I guess you can say William off because they're not there for or cut 10,000 drivers off of apps in order to accommodate kind of a new supply and demand that would come after this ordinance.

think it's the advocates would say that was doom and gloom and we don't believe those numbers.

But and lift as well.

They were both very adamant that if this gets approved maybe drivers make more money, but there will be fewer of them.

be interesting to see whether that sky mean.

We still haven't seen the language for the state bill yet.

So lots to be done.

Okay.

Switching gears, pun intended.

>> After teasing the idea for what feels like a lifetime.

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel has finally made it explicit this week that he is considering a presidential run.

Hilary have serious a contender.

Do you think he could be for the Democratic How fun a 3.

So interesting if Rahm and JB run, I don't think going to happen.

But maybe I think that Rahm is really working hard to position himself as the moderate Democratic option as the common sense guide, the rational one.

>> You know, you see him doing interviews like he did with Bill Maher and I certainly think he's resonating with people.

I and I recently saw some polls recently that showed that Chicagoans actually view Ramos, the best mayor from the past several administration.

So, you know, we remember Rahm is sort of hard, hard nose bulldog, but in retrospect, it turns out that many Chicagoans thought he was effective and it could work for him.

Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to that raising I like how you put it.

The rational candidate because I think a lot of things >> that are viewed blemishes or unsightly on his legacy.

You can rationalize.

But when I think about a wrong presidency, I think about the headlines how politics is more.

So the appearance and the reality.

>> when national headlines come out about this presidential this presidential candidate close 50 schools, this presidential candidate withheld or create obstacles for police police cam to come out about the shooting of Laquan How that's going to affect the Democratic base when it comes to these very sensitive issues, especially post 2020 and Ron's track record.

So I'm very curious to see and then also just overall idea of Chicago politics and how many people?

The perception Chicago has international level.

Elevating from Chicago politics now national politics.

But for the presidency be interesting to Yeah, I mean, we've seen the sort of attack lines against many candidates for being a Chicago style politician.

>> mean, to Michael's point, Rima, about the all the school closures that's likely to be a headline.

You know, that's going to be potentially detrimental to his campaign.

But I mean, there's been some reporting from from choppy from public about, you know, there are still many CPS schools that are under enrolled even after closing, you know, 50 on schools.

Yeah.

In fact, they're more severely under enrolled school testify schools as defined by CPS than there were in 2013 when he did.

>> Over see those closures.

And I think, you know, a lot of that reporting was based on the fact that these schools not only are quite empty, but they actually affect the course offerings for kids.

There was a girl in their story.

Who's taking your book?

I think 2 or 3 times because there wasn't a better elected for her to take because of the, you know, the complications of having a small school.

But then there's also families and kids that say we love our small school.

And so these are really emotional 3rd rail.

>> discussions in Chicago.

And I think the criticism you'll probably see on the campaign trail a few gets there is.

>> He did this in a really brash way that really hurt communities.

In like emotionally in and didn't get them buy And there's probably a are you wants to have that discussion.

Yeah, but never fun for a mayor or school district superintendent to have to preside over a mass closures.

>> Michael, your colleagues at block club have been following the scandal plagued Loretto Hospital for many years.

Now, federal prosecutors say a former hospital executive who's since fled to Dubai.

Still some 300 million dollars in a COVID testing scam.

How was this alleged scam supposed to worked?

So essentially this was a scheme by the CEO of Florida Hospital in conjunction with O'Hare Kunkel.

That's where >> there was a mix fraudulent or fake tests that are being reported to the government for reimbursement and that those reimbursements total up to 300 million dollars.

And this is a part of a much greater investigations Loretto about how they handle both pandemic funding as well as access to vaccinations where they were giving out vaccines to people as quid pro quo or a scratch in people's back 5 people who were close with them.

And so with this specific, the specific charges of fraud and and so forth, it is very damning for the rental on top of already to scandal that has plagued them since the pandemic.

So it's a lot a lot to come from that and block local.

Definitely be reporting out for the investigations on it.

But as far the the I met, who fled to Dubai, that's gonna something to see as far as what comes for from that they can get him back big points.

That will be a tough one.

But we'll see.

>> Hiller who got about a minute left the Chicago fire's out with renderings for the 650 million dollars stadium in the South loop on the 78, which >> the team's owner plans to pay for.

But they are looking for to use an existing TIFF district to fund some infrastructure investments.

Is that sort of potentially a smart use of taxpayer money to go toward infrastructure since you know, Joe Ments widows putting most of the bill for the stadium, I it's pretty standard.

And I think for the most part, the Chicago Fire mean this is a 650 million dollar like Mega Stadium.

So it's exciting for soccer fans.

I think.

>> The the bigger deal here is that it's it's it's sign of hope.

It's a sign that there are still philanthropist and people here who believe that Chicago is a good investment.

And, you know, of course, Joe minutes sort of to a line in the sand, not a negative way, but he's saying I believe in this.

I'm gonna pay for this myself as opposed to what you're seeing from a lot of other teams.

And I think people really value that.

Yeah, I think people are really eager to see some ground break there at the 78.

>> But you all grow great ground with us tonight.

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>> Okay.

Just an older people this week they were busy city council week.

They also approved some funding aimed at helping Wrigley Field goal and an All-Star game.

What they signed off on the signed on bollards.

And these are not just an Ebola special about 32 million dollars dollars ago and around Wrigley Field over the next 2 years.

You know their terms and prevention.

Sure.

Mlb has previously said you guys need those a few.

Everyone All-Star game again.

Reading the tea leaves.

The team is very excited about this.

The city has been asking for All-Star game.

We think that could come later this summer, but nothing is official Okay.

I mean, that could be nice shot in the arm.

It's been since the 90's.

I think that, you those 1990, for at Wrigley at weve 2003 and and socks You it's to to.

nice to have some some positive news about our sports teams, even if it that's stadia.

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