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latinos now make up nearly 30% of chicago's population.ment. and illinois' first mexican american representative, congressman jesús chuy garcía, who i'm meeting today, has been working to change that. congressman garcía wants to make sure that mexican americans in this city are seen and heard. and one way is by showing off the chicago mariachi project with this warm traditional welcome. [all singing in spanish] ♪ - [speaking spanish] [cheers] - this city has a rich history of activists and community leaders, and congressman garcía is cut from that same cloth. chuy started out as a community organizer, then became a politician. he started enlace, a community-driven activist group that among other achievements demanded a new high school be built in little village, one of the most under-resourced communities in chicago. - we are going to be sure that the money that has been approved goes to the people in need. [all cheering] ♪ all: sí, señor! - bravo, bravo. amazing. you guys killed it. chuy, what a welcome. i don't deserve it. - [laughs] yes

. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> now joining us from chicago is pamela toler, the author of this book, the dragon from chicagotold story of american reporter in nazi, germany. miss toler, who was robert mccormick? >> robert mccormick was the owner and publishing of the chicago tribune in the years between the two world wars. he had been a artillery officer in world war ii, or world war i. he inherited the paper from his father and he was a newspaper man to the core. >> how would you describe his work? >> he was fascinated by world war politics. he was fascinated by the military. he also was an isolationist. he was anti-semitic and sort of a reflex way. much the way he was presbyterian and an inherited identity, he hadn't thought through very much. he was anti-england. he was -- he had his hesitations about the east coast of the united states. and he gradually came to go from disliking franklin roosevelt to actively hating franklin roosevelt, and that combination of isolationism, and being anti-roosevelt shaped much of his policies around the paper. but at the same time, he was interested in putting out a good

look who's here, chicago resident, member of chicago fripps red sow -- flips red, zoe lee.democrat mayor here, brandon johnson? is. >> he should be convicted of treason. elizabeth: why? >> that's number one. [laughter] we are dealing with a mayor who is a democratic socialist. and he's bringing agenda to chicago that's just not going to work. and it is an agenda of illegal immigration that has gotten out of hand since last year because i believe that the city of chicago believe that president biden was going to continue to send funding for this illegal immigration invasion, and it did not the happen a like that. and now they're all over the place because they don't have any money to cover this situation or this mess that's in chicago. elizabeth: so, basically, this was a money machine, a money machine operation with federal money coming out the door through nonprofits, what are called ngos. it's sort of this secret infrastructure where cities and democrats are run -- they're getting funding for it, is that what's happened? >> yes. and it's gotten out of hand, you know? chic

to a lot of people who were struggling, who are residents to chicago, who lovere chicago.those people? >> he doesn't care anything about those people. those people are me and this miss jessica and others that come down there who are homeowners and who he iset proposing and has proposed thate get a $300 million property tax hike. so those people who are struggling with this bad economy that the biden-harris administration has put on as. so, we are the people that are struggling, the tax paying people in the american citizens, that he refuses to listen to.de >> laura: what i still don't understand because we know what happened to chicago. we know what happened to oakland. we know what happened to places like st. louis and baltimore. wet, t know what has happened to them. yet, they still keep voting and democrats. now, there has been republican gains courtesy of president trump, and iur will gt tont that in a moment. what is the deal to return failure back into power or rewarding power? >> you have to remember we are fighting against the chicago machine.perv the chicago machi

in chicago, if you really want to rip off the people of chicago, don't rob a bank, become an aldaldermand: the mayor basically cleared the room and said he did not want the citizens there. they get an opportunity to weigh in. has chicago reached the tipping point that many towns and frankly the us of america remad with their vote and bring sanity back to chicago? >> it is an old joke, todd, is chicago ready for reform. the fact is it might just be. we see this money going to migrants and i dids math myself. mayor johnson has 100 plus staffers making six figures, many have become notorious as result of at william j kelly on x videos where i have to chase them down the hallway of city hall. kennedy barkley is famous for saying f the pigs, i guess her number one qualification for becoming a mayor johnson staffer. 100 plus staffers, six figures a piece adds up to millions of dollars out of pockets of real chicagoans. chicago might be ready for real reform. >> todd: the mayor wants to pay for migrants and ridiculous salaries by raising taxes on -- that did not pass for people of chicago, they

in your face, to the chicago mayor from tom homan. deportations will start in chicago.s president trump have a plan to eliminate dei from federal departments and agencies? chris rufo is concerned he doesn't. he'll be here. i'm john roberts. join sandra and me top of the hour for "america reports." see you in about 11 minutes. ♪ ♪ >> kayleigh: canadian prime minister justin trudeau tried to hit back at president-elect trump but instead he maned to insult you, all of you americans out there. you may remember at a recent meeting trump reportedly suggested to trudeau that canada become the 51st state if the country couldn't handle his border tariffs trump then doubled down on the jab, labeling the prime minister the "governor" of canada. here is trudeau's attempt at a counterpunch. >> we were supposed to be on a study if difficult sometimes march towards progress. and yet just a few weeks ago, the united states voted for a second time tend not elect its first woman president. everywhere women's rights and women's progress is under attack covertly and subtly. but i want you

biden and chicago democrats stuck chicago residents with a huge $600 million bill to pay for illegalgo resident p rae easley fired up ready to go on that, but first president biden politico says he rubber stamped and let out of prison record numbers of known convicted criminals but didn't know the details of their cases. why did he do it? he wanted positive headlines. the great legal mind greg jarrett ready to rumble on this one. stay there we'll be back in two. progressive makes it easy to see if you can save money with a commercial auto quote online so you can get back to your monster to-do list. super helpful. see if you can save money at progressivecommercial.com. thank you. advil liqui-gels are faster and stronger than tylenol rapid release gels. ♪ also from advil, advil targeted relief, the only topical with 4 powerful pain fighting ingredients that start working on contact and lasts up to 8 hours. after last month's massive solar flare added a 25th hour to the day, businesses are wondering "what should we do with it?" bacon and eggs 25/7. you're darn right. solar stocks are up

sigrid was born in chicago, 1893, and she would identify herself as a chicago f the rest ohelife. but she really grew up in europe. her parents immigrated to chicago. they had every intention of making this their permanent home. but the market for portrait dried up in the economic depression of the 1890s. so when hermann got a really important portrait commission back in, he picked up the family and headed back to europe. sigrid was eight and she really wasn't happy to go and she would have been even more unhappy if she'd known it would be 40 years before she would live the united states again. she attended schools in both germany and france. she often spent summers visiting her father's family in norway in 1911. she graduated with honors from a renowned parisian girl's school. and then she took classes at the sorbonne in history and in international law, though she was never able to enroll because of some health issues. by that time, she'd lived in paris longer. she lived in chicago. but as far as she was concerned, that was just bad luck. she was an american. she was an american

and she came up with the idea, september of 1936, the chicago the chicago office sent an instructions for her to paris asking her to write an in-depth article about the night of the long knives, which was an event two years earlier in which hitler had the ss leadership and anyone who he thought might be a political rival as well as a lot of innocent people who got caught in the violence. but the paris office, they weren't under nazi at that point. they didn't have a visceral sense of the friends of dangers. she living with. so the secretary from the paris office and gave her the news by the phone just totally clueless about the fact that the tunnels were being tapped. and then the head of the paris office sent her the letter and forwarded to her home again not thinking about the fact their mail was being read. she knew they read that one because the letter was open and. it had the censors stamps right on the envelope. but really, really wanted to write that story. it was a month. the berlin olympics of 1936 and a bunch of americans who had come were just sucked by the sort of disbelie

peter: why did you choose "the dragon" from chicago?amela: it was a nickname herman goering gave her. he was part of an attempt to trap foreign correspondents to give them information that would make them look like they were spy. in fact, one day a gentleman she didn't know delivered a package to the apartment she shared with her mother. and her mother, as soon as he was gone, her mother called and said you should look at this. she went home, sure it was going to be a trap. it was full of what looked like flarns airplane engines. she suspected she wouldn't have much time and if she was caught with them in her possession he would be arrested. so she shredded them by hand she put them in the fireplace. stayed until they were burned down to ash. she headed back to the office and sure enough the -- a man who she had long suspected of trying to entrap journalists was headed toward her apartment, accompanied by what schultz described as two shady characters. she stopped them on the street and said don't even bother. i destroyed it. there's no

you joined the chicago -- dr. hayden: the chicago public library. david: you rose up to be the? dr.ayden: the chief librarian. i went back to chicago. i also did a stint at the museum of science and industry. that was really helpful because i worked more with the curators, but also opening up a public library in a museum. david: when you are in chicago, he met two people. did they borrow a lot of books, ? barack and michelle obama? did they ever have overdue fines? dr. hayden: we could never tell if they did. but what happened was when i went back, the person that was the administrator for the city of chicago that had in her portfolio the public library was michelle robinson. i got to know her because she was responsible as a deputy mayor type of position. then, she got engaged to this gentleman who had an interesting name and i was recruited to head up the baltimore library. that july, i missed the wedding. david: whatever happened to him? dr. hayden: he did well. it was so interesting too, that years later, i would be sitting almost like this in the oval office, being interviewed

trump to come to chicago. to chicago, los angeles, places that have been lube i got a little bit redder over this election? >> of course he will be back in d.c. even during the campaign, the president was there for a number of events in chicago. obviously, the time he spends in new york, and we saw him go to california in the general election. the difference from president trump from what we've seen in the last four years is he will be president for all americans because the economy will go up for all americans, the border security will go up for all americans. you will see them back in the blue cities because -- turning in red. >> last question real quick. pete hegseth, tulsi gabbard, kristi noem, robert f. kennedy jr.: some the people that are expected to see more pushback in the senate hearings. is the president-elect concerned about any of these nominees, and are you picking anything up on the senate side that there are concerns about any of those? >> no. feeling good about the nominees. they have these on

chicago residents have had enough and slammed the democrat chicago mayor and the city council.$600 million in their taxpayer money on more than 5 1,000 illegal aliens since 2022 as biden opened the borders. joining us now, chicago resident p ray easley. we saw you in that sound bite. what exactly are chicago residents experiencing with illegal aliens? what's happening on the streets of chicago? >> crime and chaos. it is really wild. our mayor is actually about to evict the single men from the shelters within the next few weeks so we are all bracing ourselves to deal with thousands of men that we don't know anything about. remember, chicago was the epicenter of the measles outbreak in north america this past spring because they put the children of the illegals in the chicago public schools without being vaccinated and then they spread disease throughout the city, so we're looking forward to helping our president achieve in the mission of deporting everybody whose not supposed to be here ought of our city because not only are they feasting off our tax dollars but making our child

, illinois, as tom homan is putting the city of chicago on notice. >> and now the chicago mayor and illinois governor are responding. listen now to governor j.b. pritzker on homans authority. >> i'm open to a dialog with him. >> i you know, i will say that he is not a he does not have the authority to do the things that he's talked about. >> uh, being a border czar is not an official position in the government and will be up to the president of the united states and up to the leaders of the customs and border patrol to make decisions about how we'll manage the border. >> congresswoman delia ramirez, who we've had on this show to talk about immigration, posted on x tom homan the next time you come to illinois, third, a district made stronger and more powerful by immigrants, you better be ready to face the resistance. you may think that chicago needs to get out of the way of trump's plans for mass deportation, but we plan to get all up in your way, homan told fox news. game on. but he's focusing his ire on chicago's mayor. watch what's my authority? >> look, i'm not a prosecutor. i won't be pr

a lot of people struggling who are residents of chicago who love chicago, what about those people?ll, he doesn't care anything about those people. those people are me and jessica and the other one that you see that come down there who are homeowners who are -- who he is proposing and has proposed that we get a $300 million property tax hike. so those people who are struggling with this bad economy, that the biden-harris administration has put we are the people that struggling tax paying people, the american citizens that he refused to listen to. p-rae what i still don't understand because we know what happened to chicago. we know what happens happened to oakland and places like st. louis and baltimore. we know what's happened to them. yet, they still keep voting in democrats. now there has been some republican gains courtesy of president trump and we will get to that in a moment. what's the deal with continuing to return failure back into power? rewarding failure? >> you have to remember that we are fighting against the chicago machine. the chicago machine was so pervasively violen

just sit tight. -- in chicago?ople shot, a police officer shot, one person killed, eight people shot last week, now confirmed to be the venezuelans, likely illegals. a chicago woman came back from thanksgiving, found two my i can'ts -- migrants in her home with a gun. what is going on? >> it's very bad, very bad. and brandon job toson -- johnson has the nerves to say that the numbers are down. he just touted that in an interview. the numbers are up. do not listen to this lying mayor. crime is very bad. and especially when you're dealing with, now, illegal alien crime. elizabeth: what kind of crimes are we talking about? is it home invasions? is it retail theft? can you spell out the crimes? and are you worried about the city's children? >> yes. so the retail theft is really, really, really bad. and also just the gang violence. now we have venezuelan gangs, tren de aragua here. they're going against the black gangs that's here in our neighborhood. so you put 70,000 illegal aliens and you dump them into the black nei

a chicago city hall meeting.his is also a meeting about massive tax hikes the democratic socialist sanctuary mayor just got it and won that to pay for the taxpayer cash he doled out to illegal aliens. chicago resident p rae easley not happy about it, at that meeting. she's going to get us the update on biden's border collapse hitting everybody in their wallets, in chicago really hard. that's coming up. please stay right there. we'll be right back after the break. >> can we please restore order? chase knows how to put the hart in your local community. evan! you're helping them with savings, right? (♪) somebody just got their first debit card! ice cream on you? your money is a part of your community, so your bank should be too. like, chase! patients who have sensitive teeth but also want whiter teeth, they have to make a choice- one versus the other. new sensodyne clinical white, it provides 2 shades whiter teeth as well as providing 24/7 sensitivity protection. patients are going to love to see sensodyne on the sh

david: did you go back to chicago from there? dr.ayden: i went back because one of my students i had sent off with all this knowledge is power and work in libraries and help people, he came back and said i'm going to get a phd and i want to teach and i said you were doing so well i thought at this big urban library and he said you told me to bring my ideas up and i saw the director of the library and i went up to him and i was trying to tell him some of the things i was interested in, and he blew me off. i thought ok. i'm coming back to academia. david: so you joined? dr. hayden: the chicago public library. david: you rose up to be? dr. hayden: the chief librarian. i also did a stint at the museum of science and industry. that was really helpful because i worked more with the curators but also opening up a public library in a museum. david: here in chicago and you met two people, did they borrow a lot of books, barack and michelle obama? do they have overdue fines? dr. hayden: we could never tell if they did that what happened when i

chicago's among the targets.democratic mayors and governors across the country are wrestling with how fiercely to push back, where do you stand? >> yeah. well, look, first of all, my responsibility as mayor of the city of chicago is to protect working people. the city of chicago is one of the most, if not the most, pro worker city in america by past substantive policies to encourage to grow paid time off for workers, abolishing the subminimum waste. these are workers primarily black and brown. investing in neighborhoods, particularly neighborhoods that have been historically disinvested in. i stand with the people of the city, with the people of, to insure that our economy is protected and continues to grow by actually investing in people. it's unfortunate that the former president, president- elect, has taken a very petite approach towards governance. what we're doing in chicago is we're going big. we'll continue to go bigger by building more affordable homes, investing in our public education, making sure that

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chicago resisting. l.a.ng and it looks like tom homan has accepted the invitation from mayor adams to talk about what they are going to do once he takes office. >> brian: not asking for a lot. access to criminals. detainers honored. give ice a chance by the way i thought it was a great robert holden, a democrat from queens, said if you want to show that mayor adams talk is great, but if you want to show that you are sincere, give -- set up the ice office at rikers again. because they closed it down because they don't want to let ice. >> ainsley: eric adams is considering getting rid of the sanctuary city status. >> steve: tom homan meeting with the mayor of new york monday night tom homan was at an event and he revealed. the deportation plan on a wide scale. you know what american city they are going to start in? they are going to start in chicago e was a guest monday night at holiday party for law and order pac. this is one of the quotes, according to cbs in chicago. tom homan said chicago is in trouble bec

for the citizens of chicago. johnson talk about how president trump will be a threat to democracy. and i'm sure that rendon knows a lot about that because he is certainly a threat to the democracy in the city of chicago because he refuses to listen to the citizens or even the constituents who voted for him. his allegiance seems to only be to the chicago teachers union, the people who primarily put him in office and helped him to get this agenda that he is pushing. one of the things i want people to keep in mind also is that there are several millions of line items in this budget that is also going to go to benefit migrant families. so i think we would be remiss if we were not all standing up saying mayor johnson, we would like for you to resign. we are not happy with the job you are doing. you know, i keep saying this. he has been dubbed the worst mayor in america. >> we heard in the reporting and you just outlined a couple things that the school official pedro martinez is being accused of. not wanting to take a

city of chicago, in 20221 year we saw venezuelan crime go up 11000% in the city of chicago and justn you're. people are fed up with what they are seeing, and it must come to an end, thank god january 20 it is around the corner because donald trump is going to put an end to it. >> trace: thank you both for coming on. meantime robert f. kennedy jr. back on capitol hill today working to gain support among senators who will decide weather to confirm him as the secretary of health and human services. live in west palm beach with the latest, on the trump transition, at evening. >> good evening, barnstorming the hill, meeting with a total of nine senators including the incoming majority leader, john now, rfk jr. was avoiding questions about policy in the hallway, but he did at least say the meetings were really productive. he face pointed questions behind closed doors with more to come, from those who have yet to meet with them. rfk jr. reassuring people he intends to fall in line with trump. this, as fox obtained a new video being hauled away and so for pennies on the dollar, which trump

i think if we start with chicago because we are the heart of the country, all roads lead to chicago. once we get it together here, everybody else will fall in line because the citizens of chicago want this much more than political agenda of the elected leadership. >> sandra: they are under the impression people there voted a certain way and will continue to vote a certain way. we saw a lot of change this last time around. governor pritzker responded to the border czar there. this was his response to tom homan threatening to deport illegal aliens. this was a news conference on wednesday. listen. >> that dialogue with him, i will say he does not have the authority to do the things he's talked about. being a border czar is not an official position and the government and will be up to the president of the united states and the leaders of the customs and border patrol to make decisions about how we will manage the border. >> sandra: pretty hard to believe when i hear what you are saying and how so many in the city feel that he would even push back on the notion of deporting, especially th

now in chicago.le, we appreciate you so much for joining us on this show. merry christmas to you. i know it's so hard for you guys in chicago. can you please tell the viewers about what exactly is happening on the streets in chicago now when it comes to the illegal aliens? >> well, we have about 70,000 illegal aliens here in chicago. they are just having entire restaurants on the corner, residential areas, we having crime, we're having more shots going on here, and we also are having where the gangs are taking over, so it's really bad here in chicago, especially when you dump 70,000 illegal aliens in our neighborhoods. liz: you know, danielle, so on monday, a mass shooting in chicago, reportedly involving migrants from venezuela. eight shot, three dead, and now, is this right that chicago spent nearly $600 million in illegal aliens since 2022 but the democrat mayor and the city council want to raise your property taxes to pay for it when you guys are getting nothing in return? and the amount nationwi

here is one chicago resident, alvarez at the city meeting in chicago. she came to the u.s. and migrants are abusing the system. here are her words. >> these people came with wide door open and feel entitled to many things that nobody has. there are u.s. citizens suffering from poverty. they were u.s. citizens on public aid. these people are here just enjoying the benefits, be coming to link lengths, and they have no consequences periods bay to the level of frustrations from the residents. >> look out the democratic party look at that woman, you are hispanic, female and you should care about abortion and pope for kamala and you are and migrate yourself. that is her whole point, stopped putting me in a box. in the senator encapsulated this as well. she replaced the late dianne feinstein and adam schiff, talk about a step down. have a senator but she said gavin newsom to this woman's point in chicago is not the governor of resistance. nobody made him that all governor of california. you better start listening to all people. i think this alvarez speaks for many people saying's

need to start voting different in cities like new york and chicago. have 14% approval rating so the people is looking like they are telling you you were fired, man! >> can you do the job mr. brandon johnson? >> laura: how did mayor brandon johnson respond to his constituents? he threw them out of the mee meeting. >> thank you, please, restore order. may i have your attention, please, ladies and gentlemen, please go to your closest exit! >> laura: joining me now, chicago resident fish on tinsel at the city council meeting. what is the biggest problem you are seeing with illegals in chicago right now? >> well, they are getting the resources all the american people in chicago and brandon johnson has given illegal immigrants over a half a billion dollars while people struggle in the street that not only that, he wants to protect the illegals chicago, illinois, illegally, and i don't believe that is the right thing to do as a mayor when you have 14% approval rating and then the people realize why our city is so bad. it is because they keep voting democrat.

what the answer to tackling homelessness in chicago?e so many problems we are facing, the homeless situation, what we have to have is partnerships, between public and private partnerships to make sure we are able to help individuals who find themselves homeless. the mayor's office is offering not a solution or fix that addresses long-term problems as far as addiction and crime. we have to do a better job taking care of citizens. this is one of the areas where there's an uproar. they feel you've done everything to take care of illegal immigrants and now you're not taking care of people who find themselves, that the number one problem the mayor's office is facing. stuart: thanks for joining us this morning. we wish you a merry christmas. >> always a blessing. chicago has cut back on public school buses. what are the parents doing? >> getting creative, sending kids in ride shares to school. in chicago and across the country, school districts had a hard time hiring bus drivers. in chicago, they are saying we are going to get creative in doi

chicago flips read.d raised chicago when, i saw that and said, wow, is something happening there politically? i will ask you the same question every time you are on, are you still democrat? >> i am still a democrat the last 20 years i was voting but i am one of the last few same democrats in the city of chicago that holds elected office because everyone has felt the need to go left and left and left to appease an ever shrinking primary base. but i believe we can return to the center. i believe there are policies we can address. with democrats have learned nothing, stop using trump as the bogeyman and start addressing the issues people are concerned about at the kitchen table. that is how you win. >> john: it is remarkable to hear from their residents who can't vote the way they were because they can't survive under the policies being pushed by this current administration. >> it is sad to. >> sandra: we appreciate when you can join us. >> thank you, sandra. >> sandra: remarkable staff, john. >> john: for

major, if -- mre about chicago, you should step aside. the school system tonight is only a part of the story. mr. mayor, in your handling of this entire matter, you have demonstrated you are not a mayor for all of chicago, but only your friends at the chicago teachers union. you've demonstrate thed you're willing to use your power while using the children you say you care about as political cover for your disastrous decision making. so what's this all about? so friday night the chicago school board under mayor johnson's leadership voted 6-0 to fire the school's ceo, pedro martinez, without cause. he's now looking at suing. but it comes on the heels of the fact that the ceo refused to take out a $300 million loan with high interest rates which would have put the city at great risk. why? because of mayor johnson's leadership. let's just look at his record as a mayor. $98 82 million budge deficit, a proposed $300 million property tax hike. he spent over half a billion dollars on the illegal migrant crisis hitting his city. he ended chicago's

people in chicago aren't going down without a fight.yor kicked out his own constituents from monday's meeting over -- >> you caused all this money to go to illegal immigrants, not harold washington. you are going to be held accountable for it. >> you have not protected the people of chicago from invasion. >> you still feel like you have to harbor these illegals, not a good idea. >> can you do the job, mr. brandon johnson? it is looking like you can't do the job. >> harris: they know what they are talking about. look at the screen. the city is crippled with debt after spending $574 1/2 million dollars on 52,000 migrants since 2022. that's a lot of cash on 52,000 people, of anybody. they are bad with money management, too. many of those people as that last gentleman who was talking crossed our border illegally. so they aren't just protecting them in that sanctuary zone, they are giving them cash. power panel, chicago resident director of the community round table. great to see you. and tyrone, independent illinois senate candidate and fou

can you tell tom directly what you need him to do in chicago.ave a shawn. >> i want to say thank you for joining me tom homan, i appreciate these words with you. sir, please, i don't care what brandon johnson tell you please come clean up chicago, illinois. we need you, tom homan. this place sucks right now. and, like you said, our city sucks because our governor sucks and our mayor sucks. you are absolutely right about that. and i mean it couldn't get more broader than that i just really appreciate you coming here. just speaking to the people of chicago. and listening to us more than our own mayor. you're actually doing a better job than the mayor is when it comes to listening to us. >> laura: tom? >> well, look, i was there two weeks ago and i spoke to the people there. you are right, i said the mayor sucks and the governor sucks because protecting illegal aliens in your cities, responsibility communities. look i made a promise two weeks ago that i would be back. and i will be back when this operation starts i will be in chicago. and men and w

a lot of charities around chicago.days in the hospital. >> it took zero convincing. i sent him one message and he was immediately in. >> what you get ultimately from all of this? >> i get to make pizza that i'm really proud of and if chicago gets the tiniest little lift from what we're doing, than it's worth it. >> reporter: charlie de mar, cbs news. >> take care. >> reporter: chicago. >> jericka: i love it. pizza with the purpose. that's tonight's "cbs evening news." for norah o'donnell and all of us here, i'm jericka duncan. thank you for watching have a >>> the need is year-round, but it's even more so right now. >> this holiday season our local food banks are feeling the crunch putting in the work to help those who need it the most. >> something as small as some vegetables or something to make a soup or make a small comfort meal goes a long way. >> we are highlighting neighbors who are helping neighbors as the need is more dire than ever. >> one in six neighbors rely on us for food every single month. >> how commun

hello i'm. >> 1970 chicago. young men were going missing and for the most part, they've run away. >> and you're a police officer. you don't really look into that too deeply. >> the chicago police department was inundated people knew in chicago that boys were disappearing. >> but of course, if you have one boy disappear and a week goes by and another disappears, it takes a long time before a pattern emerges. >> but nobody in chicago knows that, that the explanation for the disappearance of all these boys is that a serial killer is operating in these haunts. >> this guy, his name was jeff rignall. walking outside a bar one night. when a guy in a black oldsmobile picked him up, asked if he wanted to share a joint it's a clean cut looking man and, uh, i got in the car with him and shortly after i got in the car with him, he placed a rag over my face, of which turned out to be chloroform. >> and proceeded to have a lengthy drive. every time i would come to the rag, would go back over my face and i remember him carryi

the folks in chicago are having to live through.ave gone differently and voted for a reasonable, rational person who believed in public safety and keeping budget numbers low and saving taxpayer dollars. instead we went with identity politics and brandon johnson and now we see the results. >> harris: i can't miss all the going red hats and t-shirts. the beginning of that moment. i have had them on this chicago many times. you can't miss that. real quickly will it go red next time? >> we already see it going red. many folks voted for trump. almost every neighborhood in the city of chicago his numbers went up including the cook county jail is. >> harris: you are talking about the mayor and it affects their daily lives. thank you very much. "outnumbered" after the break. there's an old saying in the navy that the toughest job in the navy is a navy wife. and if you've made the deployments and you've been the wife at home, or you've been the spouse at home, you understand what i'm talking about. your spouse has earned the right to apply f

chicago residents now calling johnson, the worst mayor in america. meantime the coast of california intercepted a boat with 21 migrants. local law enforcement could do nothing about it. orange county sheriff live on set. it all comes after elon musk in the department department of government efficiency said, the u.s. taxpayers have spent $150 billion on illegal immigration, in one year. meantime now back to our breaking news and reports that president-elect trump now considering replacing pentagon nominee pete with florida governor ron. the senior white house correspondent peter live in west palm beach with more on the breaking news. >> good evening, pete said, president elect trump's pick to be -- because people are unconvinced or have not heard about these unconfirmed reports of that bad behaviour, in pete's past trump is considering moving ron, according to "the wall street journal" who tonight is citing people familiar with the discussion, as his pick if there are further problems with the defence secretary, process. that is not the only big chan

the mayor in chicago is battling calls to step down after the firing of chicago's public school's top official late friday night. garrett tenney is live in chicago following this move. hi, garrett. >> good morning. a big reason why johnson is in office is because of the support the powerful chicago teacher's union. now in office the union wants to collect on its investment with a new collective bargaining agreement that chicago public schools can't afford. the district is facing a nearly $4 hundred million deficit and for months mayor johnson and allies have been pressuring the head of cps to take out a $3 hundred million high interest loan so the district can pay for the new contract. the new ceo has refused to do that since it would saddle the district with more long-term debt it can't afford. late night the school board fired martinez. he urged the board to keep him in place. that has a lot of folks upset. >> the mayor is a walking conflict of interest when it comes to cps and ctu. the manchurian candidate of a mayor has handpicked you not as a board members, but as pets for his ct

are chicago politics. >> it's like going to a pond when you go fishing. like if you are a prosecutor, you cannot be in illinois and not get something. >> illinois is steeped in a rich history of political corruption that dates back a century to the prohibition era, when bootlegging gangsters such as al capone bought off politicians and police departments, keeping them drunk on power, and also just drunk in rod's lifetime, illinois has developed a rap sheet that any mobster would be proud of more than 1700 convictions for corruption, including nearly 30 chicago aldermen, eight state legislators, two u.s. congressmen and before rod came onto the scene, three governors in an odd way, the very people who should hate the idea of corruption are kind of proud that this is al capone's illinois, chicago is a wink and a nod town. >> it's a shot and a beer town. >> a lot of it has to do with family relationships, because a lot of the political leadership in chicago and in illinois are family related. there's the daley family, madigan's all of these families sort of

waved up chicago.'t want their after-school programs and all of these buildings that they use their school programs -- after-school programs so that illegals can live there. what are illegals doing? committing crimes and sanctuary cities. if they are caught, got to get a translator, get them a lawyer. we have to spend our law enforcement time and in new york city, telling a 75% of the crime in new york city, manhattan is committed by illegals. they are taking jobs off the books. they are not paying taxes. there is unfortunately a lot of, especially those who are ms-13 and will work well -- he wants $300 million to tax the people of chicago because of the migrants. when they went ballistic he said "i will lower to $60 million," and you have fools like gavin newsom says "i want to trim-proof estate." you idiot. you lost $24 billion for the homeless crisis come you don't know where the money went, and now he wants to spend $25 million to get lawyers to protect the illegals who are on a deportation list fr

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i wish the mayor of chicago and san diego city council and the... i wish they would all take a page out of eric adams playbook. >> we are not good to be a safe haven for those who commit repeated violent crimes. >> speaking of chicago as you heard already, residents voiced their anger over how leaders and their sanctuary city are handling the migrant crisis. more than 1.4 million illegal immigrants are currently in the u.s. the majority of them are from mexico and the northern triangle countries in central america. ramallo, honduras and el salvador. a lot of people. >> trace: let's bring an chicago resident... it's great to have you on the show. we have talked about this a lot over the recent weeks and i want to play a bit more of these angry chicago residents so we can get a feel for how much these people harbour resentment. >> was it only to fight for the tenth and 14th moments regarding illegal aliens. >> you are fighting for some illegal aliens who haven't put a dime in this country. >> trace: you can feel their anger. do you understand their an

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