governor pritzker has ignored that. people want their streets to be safe, people want to be able to live and drive in the state. -- drive in the state. they want to be able to send their children to schools and colleges that are not costing too much and they want their families and friends and businesses to be able to stay here and thrive in illinois. that is not happening and it has gotten much worse over the last four years. i am here to restore hope and to tell everyone in illinois that help is on the way. >> during this form, you have seen that darren bailey is a dollars of a stream wants to take our state backwards. if darren bailey were governor, he would eliminate the state minimum wage, take away women's reproductive rights and restrict voting rights. our last republican governor put our state in a dire fiscal position. fought to reduce worker wages and cause college students to flee the state because he refused to make college affordable. darren bailey threatens to do the same. i have reversed all that. we are

incumbent, jb pritzker, and darren bailey. we have brought together more than 20 of the states newspapers representing all regions of illinois for these forums. questions for today's interview have been solicited from our newspapers. each will post the coverings of this interview. i am joined on our panel by patrick keck, daily herald opinion page editor, and the joint chief of capital news illinois. this is a conversation and debate. for the benefit -- this is a conversation not a debate. for the benefit of our audience, we will keep the response time to 90 seconds or less. we will give the candidates an opportunity to introduce themselves, we will start with governor it's car. >> thank you i pma for hosting this forum. i am running for reelection to address the kitchen table and issues that are most important issue -- most important to american families. -- and eight credit downgrades. so i got to work, i balance for budgets in a row. paid off all of our overdue bills and earned six credit up rates for the first time in deca

it's time for change. >> laura: darren bailey pritzker's challenge joins me now. you were going to be easy to beat, that pritzker has the money and the big operation and a lot of support from unions. so what are they getting wrong? >> well, laura, i want to remind you, and thank you for two years ago in july, you had me on when i sued jb pritzker over his illegal and unconstitutional lockdowns and mandates and i won that lawsuit. and i've been pushing back ever since. and what they got wrong is exactly what i mentioned, his arrogant incompetent blind leadership. people are fed up because of his destroying illinois. >> laura: now, darren, this moment during your debate with pritzker could really sum up the kind of pauseity of issues during his entire campaign. watch. >> how have you improved the lives of chicago's black and brown residents? >> i want to point out at that bailey has surrounded himself with racist misogynistic homophobe i can xenophobic people and organizations including chasing after the chief among them donald trump. >> that's all you can talk abou

, pritzker is expected to lumber to victory. in places where the gop probably won't win, how do they continue on with the fight? one showing how to do this is the mayor of orlandmark, illness and a congressman candidate. your reaction to pritzker casual dismessal of the concerns about this law -- >> he casually dismissed covid and this. that's his reaction to everything. their is no question about the fact there are offenses here that are non-detainable. they will be released for second degree murder and arson. to keep someone in jail you will have two options. hold them or release them. when people are already being released on basil to put $250 up to get out.ils to put $250 up to get out. it suspends disbelief to believe they will keep in jail. >> laura: illness is seeing company after company leaving. boeing and mcdonald's. how is pritzker considered at all for reelection at this point? given what they did during covid. kept the students locked down. the increase in crime and the fact that all of these people are abandoning t

there in bailey pritzker, his challenger, joins me now.aryn, they thought that youy to the going to be easy to beat, that pritzker has the moneyd and the big operation and a lot of a lot oarf support fromng unions. so what are they getting wrongod ? >> well, laura , i want tors remind you and thank you.e on for two years ago in july, you had me on when i sued jbunconsti pritzker over his illegal and unconstitutional lockdown'se mandates. and i won thatn lawsuit. and i've been pushing back ever since. >> and what they've got wrong is exactly what i mentioned. his arrogant, incompetent, blind leadership people are up because he is destroying>> illinois lau. e with now, during this moment, duringr your debate with pritzker, coul cd really sum up the kind u paucity of issues that his entire campaigduring hn watch. >>of how have you improve the lives of chicago's blackn and brown? well, i want to point out, daley has surrounded himself with racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic peoplexeh and organizations, including >> ting afteobanizati

appeal it,pr pritzker is expected to lumber to victory. o victory. so in places where the gop probably won't win, there could always win, but probably won't.d onw can they continue on with this fight? well, one of the leadersght? showing how to do this is keitho peacock. dis the mayor of overland park, illinois, and a congressional candidate. mayor, great to see you tonight. your reaction to pritzkeurr is casual dismissal of the concerns about this law? >> well, thank you for havingab me, laura .is and governor pritzker casually dismiss covid. he casually dismisses thisd because that's his reaction to everything. he doesn't th actually tacklethei serious problems. and there's no question abour t the fact that there are there te are offenses here that are thatdetainable unless very specific criteria are met. so they are going to be required to be released for things non-detai like second del murder, for arson, ford fo aggravated assault, for aggravated discharge of a weapon. they're going be required to be released. and that to keep someone

bail reform law by governor jb pritzker may open the flood gates for more crime.eral candidate thomas defor. tomas, the new act is set in january, allowing prisoners to be released the same day across the street. talk about why you are opposed to this law because there is evidence as you can see, a state like in a state like new york, it is not working. why does this state want to now start to impose it? >> i think in our state they want to impose this. almost out of guilt. been a complete failure by the democratic party to provide socioeconomic relief for marginalized communities. this caused crime to increase over the last several years they feel guilty about that. they think being soft on crime is somehow going to satisfy that guilt. all it will do is make crime worse. jackie: democratic prosecutor in chicago, now sounding the alarm over the governor's decision. to start this no-cash bail starting in january. will county state attorney james glass cois one of the most high-profile speaking out against the safety act. 100 and 102 democrat and republican state at

pritzker is facing a challenge from the gubernatorial candidate who is with us now. a lot of people in illinois, especially in chicago. the crime is beating them down. what do you tell us? what is the deal? >> well, first and foremost i tell them that help is on the way. so to hang in there. we also have the three musketeers of crime and dysfunction with governor pritzker and mayor lightfoot and kim fox. chicago is living under a no cash bail, she refuses to prosecute. the real problem is this safety act, the bill that was passed that the governor signed which will go into effect for all of illinois on january 1. since july 21, 225 people have left the office of kim fox. >> 235 people have resigned. even those that like her as a d.a., she is been a failure. what are your thoughts? >> well, it is a mess. ceo of mcdonald's called them a city and crisis. pritzker and the democrats and the super majority have all pushed business and families out of the state. so the number one problem at this time in illinois is crime and safety. almost 600 people have been murdered in t

pritzker seemed hangry. he had no real facts, no real argument and only wild claims and the usual fear mongering. >> it was darren bailey when we had no vaccinations available. they were telling people in south county and all across the state not to wear masks. if you had been governor of the state during the worst parts of covid, tens of thousands of more people would have died. >> isn't that what anthony fauci told people not to do? don't wear masks? he would have urge people to get healthy. may be taken vitamin b3 or zine or lower the bmi, for instance. we knew early on that obesity, hypertensive disorder, diabetes, prediabetes were some of the most common covid morbidities. the left was never happier than win everyone was wearing masks and you've got a bonus, bonus points when you were wearing a mask and looting or ripping down a statue in public. in fact, they are getting ready for the next pandemic. here is what the atlantic is celebrating. we have gone from bandannas basically. they are fine to double

that's what the governor of illinois, jb pritzker has said.ich is just tape from a ring camera, has a, quote, racial tinge. lori lightfoot, probably the stupidest person in america, has also accused dan of racism. and of course the local affiliate took orders as always and pulled the ad. hard to believe this is happening but it is. dan joins us tonight. dan thank you for joining us. can you be creative here. how is it, quote, racist to show raw, uncut video of a crime against a woman that happened on a leafy street in the middle of the day? how is that racist? >> well, right. and we don't even know the races of the assailants because they were masked in the video. >> tucker: such a good point. >> but this is just what lori lightfoot and jb pritzker fall back on. you're very familiar with it. you're racist. you're this, you're that. all they have is name calling because they're presiding over a lawlessness that has no comparison nationally, an exodus of residents from illinois, an exodus of humanity not seen since the israelites left jerusalem

pritzker should offer a master class on how to abuse executive authority. he just extended covid emergency in his state through november 12th. >> after the election. of course. now, this means that when the latest order ends, pritzker will have held emergency powers for nine hundred and seventy five of his thirteen hundred and ninety eight days in office, or 70% of his term. and while he did drop some testing requirements, he also expanded the state's marzook recommendations to include everyone. if you can't socially dist., regardless of vaccination status, well, it used to be a recommendation for only the unvaccinated, no longer. now, pritzker power grab came up in last night's debate with republican challenger darrin bailey. right now, it's looking like your emergency orders are going to last longer than the afghan war. >> and governor, he did something embarrassing since you're making illinois look embarrassed. >> i watched this entire exchange, pritzker same kind of hangry. he had no real facts, no real argument, only wild claims and the usual fear mong

pritzker, hasd tt said. he said that ad, which is just tape from a ring camera, has, quote, racial tinge.lori lori lightfoot, probablyhe the stupidest person elected office in america, has also accused dan profita of wait for it racist. and of course, the local nbc affiliate took orders froms politicians, as always, a and they pulled the ad.d. it's hareve thisd to believe th. is happening, but it is .s us dan proff joins us tonight. dan , thanks so much foronig co on . so can you just be creative here? how is races to show raw, uncutncut video of a crime againstthe how man that happened on a leafy street in the day? >> how is that racist? well, well, right. and we don't even know the racist of the assailants because they were masked. >>s you can't tell the video. t >> so, you know, i mean, so this is just what loriback o lightfoot and j.b. pritzker fall back on. i mean, you're veryou'rey familr with you're racist. you're this you're that. all l they havthe is name callih because they're providing the presidi

i'll tell you when they announce. >> governor pritzker. >> yes, he said when he accepted the endorsementld trump that he would roll out the red carpet for donald trump in 2024. so which is it, is he lying then or now? >> you did say that. >> donald trump hasn't announced his presidency. again, divide, divide, divide. that's all you can do. >> with the threat of democracy, surrounding himself with january 6th insurrectionists. we saw him with a number of january 6 insurrectionists and trump's endorsement and, frankly, it's corrupt. you can't surround yourself with those people, election deniers, and then say you're going to uphold voting rights in the state of illinois. >> president joe biden vowed that the first bill he would send to congress next year would codify roe v. wade if democrats could expand their control of congress. in a speech in a dnc event, biden doubled down on issues as a voting issue for democrats this november. >> if you care about the right to choose, then you've got to vote. that's why these midterm elections are so critical, to elect more democratic senators to the

pritzker, who's abysmal record on education?he wall street journal just t called out writing thats the land of lincoln is failing its children and covering iter-n up. and this educational cover upgs t deceituse they still won't because they still won't admit that their policie a theirs actually failed. pritzker, his republican challenger, darrithen bailey, hammered this issue in their first debate. >> the overwhelming majority ofc children in chicago public school systems can'tcan't re re do math at grade levelst. the wall street journal just gave us an f.. addresy untruths that have been said. i don't can't even addresss l ol of them. let's start with this.ut w he he he talks about what was in the wall street journal that was provided to them by a right wing carnival barkere state organization here in the state of illinois. hors ie. >> it's just wrong. they are wrong. the gov is hangry. oblem ther again, one problem their gove. that organized that you just cited is the same stats samthey cite that came from your own board of ed

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>> so men can have pregnancies, especially trans trends when pritzker get your saying of fee biologicalemale who becomes a man as there for quote man pair. >> somebody with uterus may be have the chance to become pregnant whether they are a woman or a man. >> i have a feeling america is almost at the point of saying yeah, we're done. at least what trump is offering makes sense and no wonder they don't like it. they never see that stafford right now they have no way forward diplomatically in endin the war we are paying for. trump might be the only person to pull this one off, but perhaps, with the help of another guy. yeah, that guy who also saw the folly in picking sides between these few countries can you imagine this? appeased team that feels exactl like a buddy cop movie. one unorthodox wild man. that is a brilliant idea. for this to happen, they would have to lose their ego. that's the same thing i tell jesse waters when you keep spra painting his bald spot. for us themselves what i be oka with real peace if trump had a role? if you say no, then that is you ego talking and you value

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under the new law signed by jay pritzker, they can be released on the street based on the assumptione. critics comparing the move to the purge was 17 state attorney suing the governor to prevent the law from going into effect. they argued that it is ludicrous with crime in chicago already up 37% from last year. >> todd: arizona's democratic candidate for attorney general chris meets focusing her campaign on climate change and abortion rights. listen to what she had to say response to a judge in a law banning abortion in most cases. >> will put the health of women at risk in a way that we have not seen in my lifetime. women and girls will die because of this. >> carley: tonight, at risk and according to a recent fox news poll, the border is the most important issue for voters in that critical battleground state come here to react is the component my component attorney general, abe hamadeh, it is no surprise the board is on the top of mind for arizona voters so if you do become attorney general, how would you handle this issue? >> good morning, thank you for having me on. i called for

pritzker. >> i believe parents have the best interest in mind for their children and parents should ben, not doctors or teachers or governors. >> back to virginia, democrats now say they will not move forward with their bill. >> bill: mike, thanks, watching that mike emanuel. thanks for that. >> dana: let's bring in former education secretary bill bennett and fox news contributor. a lot of educational use, failing test scores and also people need to be champions for parents, too. that's what glenn youngkin is doing. why do you think people should come down on this particular issue? >> well, i think it's clear that most parents or most all parents believe that children are the children of parents and of god, not the school system. and therefore critical decisions about the child's life remain with the parent. when they talk about changing pronouns, this is the first step toward this whole discussion of change -- possibly changing gender. that is earth shaking. and belongs to parents to discuss with their children. indeed at the very early grades particularly it is offensive to parents.

warden is director emeritus and co-founder of the center on wrongful convictions at northwestern pritzker school of law and a founding director of the innocent network and affiliation organizations providing pro-bono legal services to convicted persons with claims of actual innocence. we ask that during the period of q&a your where did it go? there was a standing a standing microphone. okay, it's hiding. it was more visible if you could please use that standing microphone for your questions as. this session is being recorded by c-span. we thank you so much for being here with us. and i ask you to please join me with a warm welcome to our guests today as they join us. good afternoon. i'd like to begin by saying this is an absolutely superb book, a few months ago, i was asked to review a book about wrongful convictions and i counted the wrongful conviction books on my bookshelf. there were 87 of them. i've added three or four since then. so now there are than 90 and there's only one that rivals this in literary quality. and that is bryan stevenson's just mercy. this book immensely. well and

democrat mega donors like the pritzker family all have financial stakes in proterra.und like another solyndra and another company who is getting a big juicy contract is bloomberg the bus company. the chairman of their board just happens to be a big donor to the democrats. donated thousands of bucks to biden. thousands, tens of thousands to other democrats. wouldn't it be great if democrats cared but what kids learned in school instead of how they got to school? jason isaac is the director of life, power and he joins me now. how about these electric school buses. are they really that environmentally friendly? >> well, it's all about the kids, jesse. you know, i live a high carbon lifestyle and i think the rest of the world should, too. it's about the 40,000 kids that are employed in chinese owned and controlled mines in the congo. kids that are 6 to 13 years old that earn less than $2 a day but, wait, you mentioned drag earlier and there is nothing more toxic than drag and kids. that's been going around but what's more toxic as you mentioned buses actually catching on

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pete buttigieg who can't keep flights from being canceled and you have a governor in illinois jimmy pritzkers state, a max exodus because crime. in bernie sanders was actually older than president biden. there is your bench. >> carley: you meant pete buttigieg, cnn poll talked about democrats running in midterm elections or looking to pete buttigieg more and more frequently to campaign for them. why? there is no one else. the article said pete buttigieg only political experience before failed presidential bid was serg as mayor of south bend, indiana, who has become the most requested surrogates on the campaign trail for democratic candidates in the midterm. he is getting more requests and kamala harris. the reason is people say if he is a democrat, but is not biden or harris. so that is what they have going on right now. it's been with the republicans come i am looking at my chops looking at that bench. >> carley: we shall see, more to come. you might not yet heard about this but you should know fox news fox news exclusively obtaining dhs memo with plans to recruit volunteer force to help ad

. >> what is not getting said is some of the states like illinois where pritzker is around 50% in polling at 65, that has a massive down-ballot effect which really isn't been talked about. if in the deep blue states the governors are barely above water, that means republicans will win seats that aren't expected to win. i think it will be 35 plus. that's a story that's not being told. >> yeah. i actually agree with that. the trend lines of the governor races, especially because there's so many that overlap with the senate seats, is going to be a big take-away from election night and you mentioned if there's a big wave. i mean, look at a state like washington, smiley is surging in the polls, she had another debate against patty murray, a lifetime politician. this is a really interesting rate because tiffany smiley has a ton of momentum. washington votes almost exclusively by mail. the voters likely have already started sending in their ballots. the work that was done the last three weeks is hopefully what will put tiffany across the finish line. if washington breaks or the maine state legis

democrat governor pritzker signed the bill. written by a democrat legislature.? >> definition of insanity is doing same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. have they not seen what's happened with bail reform and revolving door criminal justice system? it is ruining our country now. who in their right mind would push these policies when we are seeing murder rates we haven't seen since the 1990s? in illinois murders are up 41% in the last 10 years. you want to talk about police officers wanting to take a job there. applications are down 70% in illinois. in chicago alone they're down 83%. the idiocy of this is staggering. you have crime and disorder everywhere. you don't have enough police officers. you can't hire more. and you want to make it easier for the criminals? david: right. >> this goes to show you those elected officials they don't give a damn about the people in their communities. it is ideology over everything. david: they check every box. we have a short list what is in this. by the way, 764-page bill. it was approved in only seven

pritzker, democrat of illinois, governor, he's now in favor of school choice.s ago he wanted to kill it. do you think these last minute reversals will make any difference at all in november? >> well, hope any, voters are smart enough to see these people are just being chameleons. they're reading the polling. they're looking at immigration, inflation, energy, crime, all of these issues. hay, their policies -- democrats have the house, the senate and the presidency, they're failing. mark kelly is running ads, i was many arizona, running ads saying he stands up to joe biden, he's tough on the border. that is an absolute, total, complete fiction. it is a lie, and that's why i think people like him, mark kelly, are going to lose. because they're telling lyings. heir not telling the truth. they're not telling the truth. stuart stuart i see the polls shifting very much in pare of republicans. do you think the republicans are going to retake the house and the senate? >> i do. there's never been a better opportunity because heir on the right side of the issues. if they

. >> when people across the state consider where we are at today versus when pritzker started, there'sng that's any better. our property tax, crime, inflalgsings, everything is a disaster. >> the greatest threat to see your retirement today is the massive crushing inflation that joe biden caused. >> that last candidate there is republican blake masters, running against mark kelly in arizona. he has said he would have objected to certifying the 2020 election in a vote that happened the day of of the attack on the capitol. i want to bring in vaughn hilliard covering that race for us in phoenix. what are you hearing about that strategy and whether it's working for masters there. >> we were about that debate last night. he hammered home the message around the economy and inflation. and using them as a crutch. saying one of the senators shot back against build back better. saying mark kelly was stamp of approval for anything that the joe biden administration wanted to accomplish. in using the policies of the biden administration and the democratic senate majority of the last two years, plac

pritzker, so we wanted to talk to someone excuse me.wh to o liveo have with this law. >> keep cao is the mayor of oakland park, illinois. running for congress. he joins us tonight. mr. mayor, thanks so much forco coming on . so since you actually run a municipality in the state of illinoise , tell us what this will mean for you and your town . towthe safety echo. and thank you for having me,e tucker. a e safe course will be an absolute disaster for the town, not only the cash, the elimination of cash bail,tha which we're already dealin lg with , a lot of that with kim fox policies. and we've crime running rampant through the county and we've been fairly successful on parkl with proactive policing policies. they still keep it tamped down r . but this is going to continue to happen and even more so trespassing. you won't be able to put a handc on someone. basically, you can only ticket them so they can't remove them fromket on your property. mov and when that starts to happen and people realize that people can't, police, i'm very worried.

chicago's cat five hurricane lauri ce and ofdh course, the ever expanding hurricane jabe , as intastroph pritzker, the catastrophic ruin they've all the left in o their wakes will require years, not months, of cleanup. poe results of their terrible policiesli, pro criminal and ani business, they can't be removed with a crane. feats fo it's going to take multipleir defeats for them and their at the ballot box. r but real reporters would be pounding these pathetic governors on their records and pressing them relentpressinn on why, for instance, illinois, california, new york are losingd so much of their population to states like floridathos and tennessee and texas. how are thosing recoe winning rs if you're losing your own people? of course, mos tt the reporters who play defense for these failed politicians live themselvesns liv and well-to-don neighborhoods. they're cocooned in by their own bubbles of comfort.rt so they insulate themselves from the fallout, fallout of their heroes, policies that obviously regular working folks can't escape. s govern yet they're rooting now against florida's govern