[♪♪♪] >> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ MANY WE WILL BE JOINnd BY OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" GUESTS IN JUST A MOMENT BUT FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES... >> TWO CANDIDATES WATCH THEIR BIDS FOR CHICAGO MAYOR AND NOW ADD ANOTHER.

THE CURRENT MAYOR.

MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT IS FORMALLY LAUNCHING HER REELECTION NEXT WEEK POSSIBLY ON WEDNESDAY.

THE TIME AND DATE HAS NOT YET BEEN FINALIZED AND THE MAYOR IS EXPECTED TO APPEAR WITH ALDERPEOPLE.

AND YOU CAN CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

>> AREA HIGHWAYS ARE GETTING MORE SECURITY CAMERAS TO ASSIST LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH CARJACKINGS, SHOOTINGS AND OTHER CRIMES.

GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER SIGNED INTO LAW TWO BILLS THAT EXPAND THE USE OF EXPRESSWAY CAMERAS IN TWO DOZEN ILLINOIS COUNTS ON DID YOU STAB LAKE SHORE DRIVE AND CHICAGO'S INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS IN ADDITION TO THE AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READERS THAT POLICE HAVE INSTALLED ON EXPRESSWAYS.

>> AND NOW LET'S GET TO OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" PANEL.

JOINING US ARE MIKE FLANNERY OF FOX 32 CHICAGO.

GREG PRATT OF THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE".

JERMONT TERRY OF CBS2 CHICAGO AND GREG HINZ FROM CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS.

DARREN BAILEY DOUBLED DOWN LAST NIGHT SLAMMING THE CITY OF CHICAGO DURING THE G.O.P.

DEBATE ON ISBE 7.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK.

>> CHICAGO IS A GREAT CITY AND WE HAVE TO RESTORE IT.

BUT INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH YOU PROBABLY HEARD ME REFER TO IT AS A HELL HOLE AND DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED A HOMELESS MAN WAS BURNED ALIVE.

>> MIKE FLANNERY DARREN BAILEY CALLING CHICAGO A HELL HOLE DOES THAT RILE UP THE DOWN STATE BASE MORE THAN IT TURNS OFF THE MODERATE VOTERS IN AND AROUND CHICAGO?

>> WELL, I THINK IT'S RED MEAT PRONE TO THE REPUBLICAN BASED VOTERS PEOPLE WHO WILL TURNOUT IN THE PRIMARY.

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTERS IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO AND IN COOK COUNTY PROBABLY DON'T DISAGREE WITH THAT LANGUAGE OR WITH THE CONCEPT THAT HE IS EXPRESSING.

THEY MIGHT USE SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, PARIS.

>> ON A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT LIKE TONIGHT THERE ARE CERTAINLY OTHER WORDS I WOULD USE TO DESCRIBE CHICAGO.

JERMONT TERRY WATCHING THE CANDIDATES TALK ABOUT THE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS AND GUN VIOLENCE LAST NIGHT, NEARLY ALL OF THEM SAID THE ANSWER TO SHOOTINGS IN SCHOOL ARE MORE ARMED GUARDS, SUPPORTING LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND EVEN RELAXING RESTRICTIONS ON FOID CARDS IS THAT THE NARRATIVE THAT PLAYS IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY GIVEN THE LEVEL OF GUN VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO AND WHAT WE SAW IN UVALDE?

FIVMENT YOU LOOK AT IT COMING FROM THE COMPANY'S POINT OF VIEW THAT MAY PLAY TOWARDS THE AUDIENCE BUT PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITIES IN CHICAGO WHERE THEY ARE PLAGUED BY THE VIOLENCE THEY DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT LESS LAWS THAT WILL REGULATE THESE GUNS.

WHILE BAILEY IS OBVIOUSLY RILING UP PEOPLE DOWN STATE AND SPECIFICALLY THOSE REPUBLICANS, THE REALITY OF IT IS THAT HE IS DOING WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO TO GET ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT.

AND THAT IS IDEALLY WHAT HE HAS TO DO.

HE IS SPEAKING TO HIS BASE RIGHT NOW.

>> WE'LL SEE IF THE ARGUMENTS STAY THE SAME ONCE A CANDIDATE TAKES ON PRITZKER IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.

GREG PRATT THE TRIBUNE HAD HAD A STORY ABOUT RICHARD IRVIN STARTING A SIDE BUSINESS WHILE MAYOR WITH TWO PARTNERS AND GOT CONTRACTS FROM THE CITY OF AURORA THIS FOLLOWS OUR REPORTING ON SOME POLITICAL INSIDERS THAT HAVE GOTTEN TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BUSINESS THAT DONATED TO IRVIN'S CAMPAIGN.

AND YOU HAVE THE STORY TALKING ABOUT HIS GIRLFRIEND AND IRVIN TELLING HIS FIVE THAT POLICE CHARGES AGAINST HER WOULD BE QUOTE TAKEN CARE OF.

AT WHAT POINT DOES THE SLOW DRIP START TO IMPACT HIS STANDING IN THE RACE?

>> ONE OF HIS RIVALS WAS CALLING HIM A CORRUPT DEMOCRAT AT THE DEBATE YESTERDAY WHICH IS ABOUT THE MOST POWERFUL THING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT A GUY IN THAT PRIMARY ASIDING FROM SAYING HE IS A LIBERAL.

IT'S STARTING TO CATCH UP TO HIM AND IT'S INTERESTING HOW YOU GET THIS DRIP, DRIP, DRIP, A CANDIDATE WHO WAS VETTED BY THE STATE'S RICHEST MAN.

AND ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE COMING OUT.

AND YOU GOT TO WONDER AT WHAT POINT DO PEOPLE START TO PULL THE PLUG ON THAT ENTERPRISE.

>> RIGHT.

THE STATE'S WEALTHIEST RESIDENT KEN GRIFFIN WHO DONATED A FEW MILLION TO BRING THE TOTAL TO $50 MILLION TO IRVIN AND THE SLATE OF STATE-WIDE CANDIDATES THAT HE IS BACKING.

GREG HINZ DOES THAT DROWN OUT SOME OF THE REPORTING ON IRVIN'S BACKGROUND WITH ALL THE ADS?

>> QUITE POSSIBLY IT DOES.

BUT YOU KNOW THIS IS A STRANGE RACE AND Mr. IRVIN IN PARTICULAR IS A PARTICULARLY PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCE.

HE IS TRYING TO ACT AS CONSERVATIVE AS THE OTHERS BECAUSE HE HAS TO GET THROUGH THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BUT HE IS MORE TO THE POLITICAL CENTER THAN HIS RIVALS.

IF HE WINS THE PRIMARY, I PREDICT HE WILL PIVOT TOWARDS THE CENTER AND YOU WILL HEAR HIM TALKING ABOUT THINGS.

HE DROPPED HINTS LIKE AT THE DEBATE HE WAS THE ONLY CANDIDATE THAT TALKED ABOUT WE NEED TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR CRIMINALS TO HAVE GUNS.

HE DID NOT SPECIFY HOW AND I DID NOT HEAR THAT FROM ANYBODY ELSE.

HE HAS TO GET TO THE PRIMARY SO HE WILL BE TOUGHER THAN TOUGH AND TRIBUNE STORIES THIS WAS A GOOD ONE.

>> YOU KNOW WHAT I THOUGHT ONE OF THE BEST STORIES WAS BY RICK PIERSON HE NOTED HOW WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR MAYOR, MAYOR IRVIN WAS SENDING THE SAME MAILER BUT DESCRIBING HIMSELF AS A CONSERVATIVE IN ONE, AND A LIBERAL IN THE OTHER.

IT WASN'T THOSE WORDS BUT HE WAS SENDING THE SAME THING TO DIFFERENT AUDIENCES AND IT IS AN INTERESTING CHAMELEON ACT HE IS TRYING TO PULL OFF.

>> SAYING THAT CONSERVATIVE PUBLIC OFFICIALS SUPPORTED HIM AND IN ANOTHER PAMPHLET THAT MORE LIBERAL PUBLIC OFFICIALS SUPPORTED HIM.

MIKE FLANNERY YOU WERE GOING TO JUMP IN THERE?

>> I THINK IT'S WORTH NOTING THAT THE STORY THAT THE GREGS ARE CITING DID INCLUDE A QUOTE FROM A PROFESSOR WHO HAS STUDIED ETHICS AND THE IMPACT OF THESE SCANDALS AND HE SAID HE DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING EGREGIOUS IN THIS THESE STORIES.

AND YOU GUYS HAVE TALKED ABOUT SCIENTEL AT WTTW, AGAIN, THIS IS SORT OF PAR FOR THE COURSE FOR THE WAY CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FOLLOW CONTRACTS AND POSITIVE ACTIONS BY LOCAL OFFICIALS.

IT DOESN'T APPEAR TO VIOLATE ANY LAWS.

>> RIGHT.

BUT AS WE MENTIONED IN ILLINOIS THE STORY IN ILLINOIS IS OFTEN WHAT IS WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF THE LAW NOT WHAT IS WITHOUT THE BOUNDS OF THE LAW.

JERMONT TERRY -- >> IT FELL OFF A TRUCK AND THAT IS THE WAY IT IS.

>> JERMONT TERRY, COUPLE DEBATES THIS WEEK THERE ARE MORE DEBATES TO COME WE DON'T KNOW WHO IS GOING TO PARTICIPATE BUT DO YOU THINK THEY MOVEDDED NEEDLE GIVEN THE FACT THAT SO MANY VOTERS IN THE PRIMARY ARE UNDECIDED?

>> I BELIEVE OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE THE UNDECIDED VOTERS.

BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IRVIN LEADING THE RACE RIGHT NOW, REALITY IS IF YOU LOOK AT IT YOU HAVE BAILEY AND IRVIN AND THEY ARE TWO INDIVIDUALS RIGHT NOW TRYING TO PLAY TO THE CORE OF THE AND REPUBLICANS IN ILLINOIS.

BAILEY IS TRYING TO AT THE BEST TRYING TO PLAY AT THE CORE OF SAYING LOOK I AM A TRUE CONSERVATIVE I'M ABOUT FUNDING POLICE, AND IRVIN RIGHT NOW HAS TO TRY TO CONVINCE REPUBLICANS THAT HE IS IN FACT, A REPUBLICAN.

AND IF EITHER ONE PREVAILS THIS MONTH, THE REALITY IS THAT IS WHEN WE'RE GOING TO SEE POTENTIALLY A SECOND SOMEONE ELSE COMING OUT.

YOU ASK YOURSELF.

IF DARREN BAILEY IS SO CONVINCED THAT CHICAGO IS A HELL HOLE, WILL THAT GET HIM OVER THE HUMP IF HE BECOMES THE GETS TO THE PRIMARY?

YOU HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND, CHICAGO IS THE ECONOMIC ENGINE FOR THE STATE.

AND IF YOU ARE GOING TO TRY TO SAY YOU DON'T NEED CHICAGO IN ILLINOIS THEN THAT COULD POTENTIALLY HE MAY HAVE TO CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF WHAT HE IS SAYING NOW IF HE GETS TO THE PRIMARY ELECTION -- THE GENERAL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER.

SO I THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE CANDIDATES CHANGE WHOEVER GETS PAST THIS ELECTION.

>> ONE OF THE FOLKS IN ILLINOIS THAT WANT BAILEY TO BE THE PERSON IS SUPER CONSERVATIVE BILLIONAIRE DICK UIHLEIN DONATED LIKE $9 MILLION TO BAILEY'S CAMPAIGN.

IS MORE COMING?

>> IT'S GOING FOR ADS THAT SUGGEST THAT IRVIN IS NOT A REPUBLICAN HE IS REALLY A DEMOCRAT.

MY FAVORITE WITH A WHEEL NEXT TO LORI LIGHTFOOT, THERE IS ANOTHER ONE WITH Mr. PRITZKER.

HE IS VULNERABLE ON ALL THAT.

FOR INSTANCE HE TALKED ABOUT FOID CARDS ARE A DISASTER AND WE NEED TO CHANGE T LESS THAN A YEAR AGO HE HOSTED AT THE AURORA POLICE DEPARTMENT A PRESS CONFERENCE TO SIGN NEW LAWS THAT REVAMP THE FOID PROGRAM WITH J.B. PRITZKER.

EVERYBODY IS TRYING TO GET ACROSS THE IDEA THIS GUY IS NOT A TRUE REPUBLICAN HE IS A DEMOCRAT WHO IS GOING TO FLIP.

HE PROBABLY NEEDS TO DO IT IT WILL BE HELPFUL BUT HE HAS TO MAKE IT TO THE GENERAL ELECTION.

>> J.B. PRITZKER IS SPENDING HE IS ANOTHER BILLIONAIRE WHO IS IN THERE.

>> YOU ARE RIGHT.

GETTING INVOLVED IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.

>> HE IS TRYING TO GET DARREN BAILEY NOMINATED, BELIEVING LIKE JOSH SPA REQUIRE ROW IN PENNSYLVANIA WHO GOT MASTERY ON KNOW IN.

PRITZKER THINKS HE WILL WIPE THE FLOOR WITH DARREN BAILEY IN THE FALL.

IF IRVIN DOES SURVIVE THIS ONSLAUGHT A LOT OF VOTERS WILL REMEMBER IT AND SAY HERE IS THE GUY WHO EVERYBODY SAID...

IF HE MAKES IT THROUGH THIS GAUNTLET ALL -- J.B. PRITZKER MAY BE REGRETTING SOME OF THE COMMERCIALS.

>> AND JERMONT TERRY?

>> I WAS GOING TO SAY, IRVIN HAS A NEW AD OUT AND HE IS REALLY THERE IS A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WHERE YOU HAVE PEOPLE SAYING HE IS TOUGH.

HE IS TAKING ALL OF THIS.

AND THE REALITY IS HE IS TRYING TO LET PEOPLE KNOW I'M TAKING THE HIGHER ROAD.

I KNOW THE ARROWS ARE COMING AT ME AND YOU ARE RIGHT IF HE MAKES IT TO NOVEMBER IT CHANGES THE DIRECTION HOW THE RACE IS GOING TO GO AGAINST GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER.

YOU ARE RIGHT, HE DOES WANT BAILEY TO BE THERE THE CANDIDATE BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE IS EAT HIM UP.

>> AND THAT HARKENS BACK TO THE STORY WE DID ON THE TEXTING THAT HE HATED TRUMP MIGHT HURT HIM BUT HELP IN THE GENERAL.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

GREG PRATT WE SAW TWO NEW FOLKS JUMPING IN, ALDERMAN RODERICK SAWYER AND PAULETTE JONES PAUL VALLAS.

HE GOT 5% OF THE VOTE LAST TIME.

IS THERE ANY REASON TO BELIEVE HE HAS A BETTER PATH THIS TIME?

>> HE HAS A CLEAR LANE THIS TIME.

AND THERE'S REASONS TO BE SKEPTICAL OF VALLAS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

HE IS NOT COMPETING WITH BILL DALEY, GARRY McCARTHY, INTO A LESSER EXTENT SUSANNA MENDOZA.

HE IS FITTING THAT LANE AND IT IS A SIGNIFICANT LANE.

IS VALLAS GOING TO GET SOMEBODY TO GIVE HIM A BUNCH OF MONEY?

I WILL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT.

HE HAS UNDER DELIVERED IN THAT REALM BEFORE.

BUT HE HAS AN OPEN LANE AND HE IS SOMEBODY WHO YOU CAN'T COMPLETELY WRITE OFF.

>> AND HE IS NOT SHORT OF ENERGY AND IDEAS IT'S TOUGH TO CORRAL MIM IN THE INTERVIEWS HE TALKS TO FAST.

WHAT ABOUT RODERICK SAWYER WHAT IS HIS LANE AND WHO MIGHT HIS BENEFACTORS BE?

>> THAT IS NOT CLEAR.

HE HAS GONE -- I SPOKE TO THE TWO OF THEM FOR MY PROGRAM FOR TONIGHT AS I KNOW YOU'VE SPOKEN TO BOTH OF THEM AS WELL.

ONE THING THEY AGREE ON IS THAT ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THEY ARE GOING TO DO IS FIRE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT DAVID BROWN.

THE TWO OF THEM ARE ALSO FOCUSING ON CRIME, CALLING MAYOR LIGHTFOOT AN ABYSMAL FAILURE.

CALLING HER OUT FOR NOT DELIVERING ON CAMPAIGN PROMISE TO REDUCE THE VIOLENCE THAT WAS ON ITS WAY DOWN WHEN SHE TOOK OFFICE IN 2019.

SAWYER IS A BIT OF A SURPRISE.

AND THE ANNOUNCEMENT THE WAY THE ANNOUNCEMENT SORT OF -- >> IT FELT LIKE IT CAME OUT OF NOWHERE.

>> YEAH, IT WAS UNUSUAL.

AND SO WE HAVE TO SEE JUST WHAT SUBSTANCE AND WHICH DIRECTION SAWYER IS GOING TO TAKE TO CAMPAIGN.

>> AND GREG HINZ AS WE TALKED ABOUT MAYOR LIGHTFOOT EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE HER REELECTION NEXT WEEK.

SHE WANTS TO HAVE SOME ALDERPEOPLE WITH HER AT THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.

AND SHE RUBBED MANY OF THEM THE WRONG WAY.

WHO DO YOU EXPECT TO BE THERE WITH HER AND SUPPORT HER IN THIS REELECTION?

>> I WOULD LOOK FOR COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN PEOPLE SHE MOVED INTO POSITIONS OF HONOR.

MAYBE SCOTT WAGUESPACK THE HEAD OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE LAST TIME TYPE VOTERS AND HE IS ONE OF THEM.

PAT DOWELL FROM THE SOUTH SIDE RUNNING FOR CONGRESS AND DOESN'T WANT TO ALIENATE LORI LIGHTFOOT RIGHT NOW.

THIS MAYOR HER NUMBERS ARE NOT GOOD.

THERE'S ALL KINDS OF POSSIBILITY THAT LIGHTNING COULD STRIKE WITH ONE OF THESE FOLKS.

THIS IS FAR TOO EARLY TO PREDICT I WOULD NOT WRITE OFF LORI LIGHTFOOT EITHER.

YOU NEVER WRITE OFF A MAYOR.

SOME THINGS STARTED TO GO RIGHT FOR HER UNTIL SHE SOLVES A CRIME PROBLEM, SHE IS GOING TO BE VERY VULNERABLE IF SOMEBODY ELSE CAN PUT IT TOGETHER.

>> GO AHEAD?

>> I WOULD AGREE WITH GREG THERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THE MORE PEOPLE WHO JUMP INTO THIS RACE, THAT ACTUALLY SPLITTING THE VOTE AND IT'S MAKING MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT SHE IS SAYING MORE -- SHE WANTS MORE PEOPLE TO JUMP IN.

ALL IT'S GOING TO DO IS SPLIT THAT VOTE AND WHILE HER NUMBERS ARE LOW IT WILL MAKE HER OUT -- SHE WON WITH ALL 50 WARDS LAST TIME.

IN A RUNOFF WILL SHE HAVE THAT SUPPORT?

LIKELY NOT BUT MORE PEOPLE JUMPING IN ALL THE ALDERMEN JUMPING INTO THE RACE, LORI LIGHTFOOT WAS SITTING BACK SAYING BRING THEM ON I CAN WIN WITH A SMALLER PERCENTAGE BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO SPLIT THAT VOTE.

>> AND GREG PRATT THE OTHER THING ME IS SAYING ALL MEN TAKING HER ON AND SHE IS THE LONE WOMAN.

IS THIS THE KIND OF DYNAMIC THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE OUT OF HER IN THE RACE?

A NUMBER OF TIMES SAID THE CRITICISM TO HER IS BECOME THAT SHE IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND LESBIAN AND A WOMAN.

IS THIS THE DYNAMIC WE ARE GOING TO EXPECT?

>> SURE.

LORI LIGHTFOOT IS GOING TO BURN HER OPPONENTS TO THE GROUND.

SHE IS GOING TO [INAUDIBLE] SHE IS NOT A FEROCIOUS FIGHTER FOR HERSELF AND FOR -- FRANKLY FOR THE THINGS SHE BELIEVES IN.

SHE IS GOING TO LIGHT PEOPLE UP.

AND THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE THINKING ABOUT RUNNING FOR MAYOR HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT.

SHE IS NOT A PUSH OVER AND SHE IS GOING TO DEFEND HERSELF AND SOMETIMES SHE IS GOING TO HURT PEOPLE'S FEELINGS.

SHE COMPARED PRECKWINKLE, MENDOZA, CHICO AND DALEY TO COCKROACHES AFTER THE BURKE AID.

SHE HAS A REAL RECORD SHE CAN RUN ON AND AS TOUGH A HAND AS SHE HAS AND SHE HAS A TOUGH HAND SHE IS JUST A TOUGH A PERSON.

>> AND IT'S WORTH THROWING ONE MORE NAME IN THERE, THE SOUTH SIDE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, SOPHIA KING WHO IS STUDYING THIS RACE F YOU GO TO THE WEBSITE AT THE TRIBUNE THAT GREG CONTRIBUTES TO THERE, WITH THE MAYOR'S RACE WHO IS IN WHO IS OUT, SHE IS ONE OF THE HALF DOZEN WHO IS LOOKING AT IT.

IF SOPHIA KING THAT GETS IN THAT WILL CHANGE THAT DYNAMIC.

>> WHAT ABOUT FORMER GOVERNOR PAT QUINN SOMEONE IS WHISPERING HE IS INTERESTED.

I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THAT PERSON IS NAMED PAT QUINN.

WHAT ABOUT HIM?

>> PAT LIKES TO HAVE HIS NAME OUT THERE NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.

I AM SKEPTICAL OF THAT ONE.

BUT MIKE IS RIGHT THAT THE FIELD IS NOT SET YET HERE.

WE'RE GOING TO SEE MORE CANDIDATES.

MAYBE A BIG ONE.

THERE IS A LOT OF INTEREST IN TAKING ON LIGHTFOOT.

GREG PRATT IS RIGHT.

YOU CANNOT WRITE HER OFF SHE IS A TOUGH COOKIE BUT THE PERCEPTION SHE IS VULNERABLE AND YOU CAN SEE MORE AND MORE CANDIDATES.

>> AND THERE'S NO ONE IN BUSINESS COMMUNITY COALESCE AROUND AND KEN GRIFFIN IS INVOLVED IN THE GOVERNOR'S RACE BUT WE HAVE NOT SEEN HIM INVOLVED IN THE MAYOR'S RACE.

WE HAVE TO GET TO THE VIOLENCE OVER MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND.

HERE IS HOW CHICAGO POLICE SUPERINTENDENT BROWN GRADED HIS FORCE AFTER THE MOST VIOLENT MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND IN FIVE YEARS WHERE NINE PEOPLE DIED FROM GUN VIOLENCE.

>> WHAT GRADE I WOULD GIVE, A FOR BRAVERY, A FOR COURAGAGE.

, COMMITMENT.

>> JERMONT TERRY, SUMMER HOLIDAY WEEKENDS WE HAVE COME TO EXPECT IN CHICAGO ARE VIOLENT AND WHOEVER THE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT IS TO SPIN THE NUMBERS AND SAY WELL IT WASN'T AS BAD AS THIS YEAR OR IT COULD BE.

DO YOU THINK THAT WHAT HAPPENED ON MEMORIAL DAY PORTENDS FOR A FAIRLY VIOLENT SUMMER?

>> BEING A CHICAGOAN WE ALL KNOW IT LOOKS BAD.

AND THE REALITY OF IT WHEN YOU HEAR STATS, THAT WE SAW AND THE NUMBERS WE SAW FROM THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, IF YOU LIVE IN THE CITY ALL YOU ARE SAYING IS WHAT MORE CAN THEY DO?

THIS DOES NOT LOOK GOOD FOR DAVID BROWN.

IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD FOR THE OFFICERS OUT THERE.

BUT I'VE TALKED TO HIGH RANKING CHICAGO POLICE OFFICERS AND THOSE ON THE STREETS, THEY ARE STILL DEDICATED.

BUT THE REALITY OF THIS VIOLENCE IS IN CERTAIN COMMUNITIES AND I KNOW YOU ARE PROBABLY GOING TO HIT THIS WITH THE OFFICER SHOT IN WEST ENGLEWOOD THEY ARE GETTING A HUGE RESISTANCE DOING THEIR BASIC JOB.

AND THAT IS THE ISSUE THAT WE'RE SEEING WHEN IT COMES TO A PORTION OF THE CRIME.

TEENS RUNNING AROUND AND CURFEWS DIFFERENT STORY.

WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE AND OFFICERS BE TARGETED DRIVING ON PATROL, THAT RESONATES WITH RESIDENTS IN A WAY THAT IS LEAVING THEM A LITTLE SCARED.

AND OFFICERS ARE STILL COMMITTED FROM THE ONES I'VE TALKED TO GO THERE AND FEEL AS THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS POLITICAL -- SOME OF THIS IS POLITICIZED BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THEY GET A NEW MAYOR, A NEW SUPERINTENDENT, IS EVERYTHING HAPPENING THE WAY IT SHOULD?

AND OFFICERS I'M TALKING TO SAID THEY FEEL AS IF THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A POLITICAL SEE-SAW.

>> YOU BROUGHT UP THAT OFFICER THAT WAS SHOT IN ENGLEWOOD TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.

FIRST OF ALL, DOES ANYONE KNOW THE CONDITION THE LAST WE HEARD FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SHE WAS IN SERIOUS BUT STABLE CONDITION AND ANYMORE WORD ON CATCHING SOME OF THE ALLEGED OFFENDERS?

>> ANYONE.

>> CBS SOURCES ARE SAYING THE OFFICER WILL BE IN THE ICU FOR THE NEXT [INAUDIBLE] IN REGARDS TO INDIVIDUAL DESPITE THAT MASSIVE PRESENCE THEY HAD AT 63rd AND LOOMIS, THEY CAME OUT THERE WITH SUCH FORCE AND THEY DID NOT FIND THAT INDIVIDUAL.

THEY KNOW WHO HE IS BUT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO TRACK HIM DOWN.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A PERSON ON ELECTRONIC MONITORING JUST RELEASED IN FEBRUARY.

HE HAD FOUR GUN CHARGES.

SOMEONE IS LIKELY HELPING THIS INDIVIDUAL ALONG THE WAY BUT THE REALITY OF IT IS POLICE ARE NOT GETTING THE HELP THEY NEED TO FIND THIS PERSON.

>> WE'LL FOLLOW THIS.

GREG PRATT ARE YOU HEARING ANYTHING OUT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN TERMS OF A SUMMER PLAN THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE'VE HEARD YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR?

ALL WE HEAR IS CANCELED DAY OFFS, MANDATED OVERTIME.

IS THIS ALL WE'RE HEARING IN TERMS OF A PLAN TO TACKLE THIS?

>> HONESTLY, IT ALL SOUNDS MORE OR LESS THE SAME TO ME AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS A LAYMAN THING THEY SAY ALL HANDS ON DECK CANCELING DAYS OFF AND WORKING TO PINPOINT AREAS THAT STRUGGLE.

AND IT SEEMS TO BE WHAT THEY SAY EVERY YEAR AND RESULTS MAY VARY.

AND I DON'T KNOW.

THAT IS NOT THE POLICING REPORTER.

BUT I THINK THE PERCEPTION IS THEY ARE MORE OR LESS DOING WHAT THEY USUALLY DO EXCEPT WITH A SMALLER FORCE BECAUSE OF ALL THE RETIREMENTS.

>> MIKE FLANNERY, AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL THE REPORTS THAT BIPARTISAN GROUP OF SENATORS ARE TALKING ABOUT SOME POSSIBLE GUN RESTRICTIONS, SOMETHING LIKE RAISING THE AGE FROM 18-21 TO PURCHASE AN ASSAULT RIFLE.

A RED FLAG LAWS PERHAPS STRONGER BACKGROUND CHECKS.

ANY OF THESE IN YOUR MIND STAND ANY CHANCE OF GETTING 10 REPUBLICAN VOTES BECAUSE THAT WHAT IT WOULD ATAKE TO AVOID A FILIBUSTER?

>> I THINK IT IS A LONGSHOT AND ALSO POSSIBLE.

WE ARE IN UNCHARTERED TERRITORY, PARIS.

THE FRONT PAGE.

"NEW YORK TIMES" THIS MORNING I STILL DO GET THE OLD DINOSAUR PRINT EDITION, IT HAD ON THE FRONT PAGE THE HEADLINE MASS SHOOTINGS JUST WON'T STOP.

20 IN THE LAST SEVEN DAYS.

AND IT'S UP TO 22 NOW.

THIS -- THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS IN COMPETITIVE STATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS REMOVED AS AN ISSUE.

THEY WOULD LIKE TO DO SOMETHING AT THE FRINGES ON THIS ISSUE.

MAYBE STRENGTHENING BACKGROUND CHECKS, MAYBE SOMETHING MORE.

BUT NOT THE KIND OF THING THAT MAYOR LIGHTFOOT TODAY OUT IN RENO, NEVADA TOLD THE CONFERENCE OF MAYOR SHE SOUNDED MORE PESSIMISTIC THAN IVO DAALDER'S HEARD HER PUBLICLY TODAY WHEN SHE SAID THERE'S NO MAGIC SOLUTION TO THIS SHOOTING.

SHE SOUNDED LIKE YOU KNOW, DON'T LOOK AT ME.

SHE SAID IT'S THE FEDS WHO HAVE TO STOP THE GUNS FROM COMING INTO CITIES LIKE CHICAGO.

THE MAYOR OF KANSAS CITY JUMPED TO THE MICROPHONE AND SAID THE SAME THING.

>> I WANT TO GET BACK LOCAL.

GREG HINZ COOK COUNTY SHERIFF TOM DART HAS THREE CHALLENGERS IN HIS RACE.

HE DID NOT SHOW UP TO A DEBATE WITH THEM.

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS RACE?

>> WELL, I THINK THAT LIKE ALL ENTRENCHED INCUMBENTS, HE FIGURES PEOPLE KNOW WHO HE IS.

I THINK HE DOES HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF REASON FOR CONCERN IF HIS OPPONENTS CAN CATCH ON.

THEY SEEM TO HAVE GOOD MATERIAL.

BUT HE'S PLAYING IT SAFE.

PLAYING ROPE ADOPE TRYING TO RUN OUT THE CLOCK THREE WEEKS LEFT AND MAYBE A SUCCESSFUL STRATEGY.

>> WE'VE RUN OUT THE CLOCK SUCCESSFULLY HERE ON "THE WEEK IN REVIEW".

WE'RE OUT OF TIME.

OUR THANKS TO MIKE FLANNERY, GREG PRATT, JERMONT TERRY AND GREG HINZ.

AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

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AND NOW FOR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

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STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE.

AND ENJOY THIS WONDERFUL WEEKEND!

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