house oversight and reform committee. he died earlier today. whererst, to chicago, 25,000 teachers and thousands more aides, custodians, and security guards, have gone on strike. is to takerategy back everything that we have already won in previous contracts and offer it back to us with percentages. not what we have already, not what ourur students deserve or what we are demanding, but the same thing or less. that is the problem here. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in northern syria, as many as 300,000 civilians have been forced to flee as turkeyey's assault on kurdish-controlled areas continues. vice presidentnt mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo have arrived in turkey, where they are expected to meet with president erdogan today. they are said to be pushing for a ceasefire, which erdogan has so far rejected. turkey invaded northern syria after president trump spoke with erdodon on the lephone ocber 6, a the u.s abruptly y drew a smalall numumber of u.s. . troom the regegn. on th

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president trump heads to chicago to boulder police and didn't delivered a message to the mayor and the police who transcended who refused to do the same. former chicago police said gary mccarthy and former nypd commissioner bernie kerrick have their own messages tonight. also, my b26 will come a little bit later and will examine trump to blue state america is good not only for him, but why it is going to terrify the 2020 down? but first after weeks of that house, didn't need formal impeachment vote, nancy is bringing a resolution to the floor this week that would finally open up the proceedings to the public. after the fact. according to our own chad pergram reporting moments ago, republicans are now rejecting pelosi's call for a vote, saying no big surprises too little, too late. perhaps more importantly to what happen going forward, charles cooperman a top aide former national security advisor john bolton defied a congressional subpoena to testify today. he is asking a federal judge to resolve whether or not he has to listen to congress or to the white house, setting up a constitutio

to chicago. rips into the city claiming the crime rate makes it embarrassing to america and less safe than afghanistan. is there any truth to that. the president getting a chilly reception at the world series. well, is this the president's own fault? he heard lock him up. joe biden ramps up attacks on trump calling him an idiot for saying russian election interference is a hoax. >> how concerned are you about foreign interference in the election? >> i'm concerned about foreign interference. beyond me. everybody knows what's going on. trump not only doesn't want to do anything about it he's going out and asking for help. come help me. help me from biden being the nominee. >> he says russian interference is a hoax. >> he's an idiot. everybody knows this. nobody doubts it. >> let's get right to the breaking news. national security counsel top ukraine expert testifying to congress tomorrow. about the president july 25th ukraine call, a call he was listening in on. joining me now. so glad to have you on. thank you so much. more bomb shell testimony expected tomorrow by the national se

is an honor for those of us that are not from chicago to be here on a very serious issue. this is the very first energy and commerce committee hearing on the gun violence epidemic in our country. as a public health issue. and this subcommittee has jurisdiction over public health issues in our country jurisdiction over public health issues in our country. i want to represent recognize members who were present chicago and the region, starting with bobby rush, whose district we are in. thank you, bobby, very much for inviting us, asking the subcommittee to come here. congresswoman robin kelly, who is here to my left. congresswoman jan schakowsky from the chicago region. enter and two representatives, adam kinzinger, from the state of illinois, a little further away, and store to robin, and mr. kensinger makes this hearing a bipartisan hearing. we are grateful to him for being here today for this his leadership and leadership of each member that is here today. we are also grateful to have with us and we welcome our congressional colleagues who are guests of the committee today, representa

hinder them. and we're waiting for a call from chicago because there is is no place we would rather help than chicago. to reduce people going back to prisons and help non-violent inmates successfully rejoin society. last year we passed historic bipartisan criminal justice reform. it has been very successful. they have been trying to get it passed for a long time. we had conservatives. connell: president trump addressing members of the police force in his first visit to chicago since he took office. the president as you heard on fox business taking aim at major issues facing the city. talking about the superintendent of police who boycotted his address. we'll monitor the president's remarks, bring you any statements he might make. welcome to "cavuto: coast to coast," i'm connell mcshane filling in for neil. he is set to sign an executive order and will attend a fund-raiser at the trump tower chicago where he is expected to get greeted by number of protesters. jeff flock is in the city of chicago with more. how are things where you are, jeff? reporter: connell, the president got a ver

should be here. because maybe he could learn something. and that's the superintendent of chicago police eddie johnson a few days ago, johnson said quote, the values of the people of chicago are more important than anything president trump could have decided. i don't think so. because it's very insulting statement. after all i've done. and i've done morethan any other president . over 100 years we can prove it but probably from the beginning and here's a man that could not bother to show up for a meeting of police chiefs , the most respected people in his hometown. and with the president of the united states. and you know why, it's because he's not doing his job. last year, 565 people were murdered in chicago. since eddie johnson has been policing, more than 1500 people have been murdered in chicago and 13,067 people have been shot. during the first weekend of august 2019, seven people were murdered. 52 were wounded and in 32 shootings in chicago. and recently they had 78 shootings over the weekends free. and three people killed. and chicago as the toughest gun laws in the united states

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week and every weekend on c-span 2. subcommitteey and met in chicago for a field hearing to learn more about gun violence and its impact on public health. lawmakers heard from doctors, a funeral home owner and a woman who lost her son's and brother to gun violence -- her sons and brother to gun violence. good morning, everyone. [indiscernible] between the majority and minority i would ask for unanimous consent for the house members who are with us today, who are not members of the committee, that they be recognized or three minutes to forquestions -- recognized three minutes to ask questions. many members will be allowed to make openings -- committee members will be allowed to make opening statements. hearing no objections, so ordered. the chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an opening statement. first of all thank you, everyone , for being here this morning. it is an honor for those of us that are not from on a very serious issue. this is the very first energy and commerce committee hearing on the gun violence epidemic in our country. as a public health issue. and this

as well. today, the president fresh from the successful baghdad thrps i operation goes to chicago going to a city is where teacher strike a horrendous and afteraffecting the just see smollett hoax but the protesterer gathering they don't want him there, but we will show you the speech. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ >> this is the big money story, the s&p 500 is poised to hit a record high right at the opening bell this morning. market watcher keith fitzgerald with us this morning. keith, can you just nail this one before we go new further as today rally anything to do we limbs of al al-baghdadi but this really still is all about earnings all if the fed all about companies doing the right thing at the right time in a strong my. >> do we go up from here? we open probably on the s&p at all time high. do we go up from here next week in the week after? >> i think next week and week after, yes. ping tactically speaking stuart, short-term trade reverse getting very itchy as investor i wouldn't pay a lot of attention to that and probably have a little bit of a pullback during

. watching the t.v. news from berlin up next our documentary chicago survival in the shadows thanks for being with us. it's called. the adventures of the famous naturalist and explorer. to celebrate comics on the phone it's 250th birthday we're embarking on a voyage of discovery. expedition voyage on t.w. . we're praying for these a parent's worst nightmare that they may live all over the coals of them to stick so clear in chicago it happens every day not. at all i believe sometime. soon to float like the river a month of the deadliest cities in the us most victims are children who. came close here don't want to help the city to the other. this man builds crosses for each use lost to the epidemic of gang violence here it's almost can do to just stay alive we have 5 courses and we have to do things not to make it so 7 people close to 5 to a city of chicago. clifton boonie mike founder is a loving grandfather back in the day he used to be a leading gang member he spent 27 years in jail for crimes ranging from assault to 1st degree murder after half a life behind bars others had filled his

graham resolution to condemn the house inquiry. >> and president trump today in chicago, promising police chiefs in the nation he will be their greatest and loyal champion, declaring it was a tremendous weekend for country, deaths of isis leaderral baghda al-baghda. and president slid shredded chicago for by loan violence. -- labelin chicagoing whichs the worse sanctuary city in america. warning since trump was elected, up to now, trump will trigger a recession, their big case for recession just fell apartment to joe biden admitting after months of denying, he did know about his son's business in ukraine. fallout for biden campaign. and probe of russia probe, democrat former top fbi official, james comey trying to under cut the probes. also, we debate, is pelosi feeling the heat of the probes? is that why she moved up the vote? thank you, i am elizabeth macdonald, the "evening edit" starts right now. welcome. first victory for president, president trump announcing killing of abu bakr al-baghdadi in a u.s. raid in syria, the president talking about it inned. today. >> you don't hear it eno

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: plenty more where that came from. carley: is the's top cop in chicago skipping out on a meeting with donald trump. our next guest's brother was shot in chicago with a message for the police superintendent. how dare you. todd: a look at top headlines. sources familiar with the impeachment inquiry say possible bias against donald trump was reported by the whistleblower. details remain unclear. it was now the whistleblower is a registered democrat and had a prior work history with a senior democrat official. jillian: have million people in california in the dark for the second day in two weeks. cutting power to prevent went from toppling powerlines and sparking wildfires. outages could last two days. heather: elijah cummings will lie in the state. the maryland democrat will be buried in baltimore. he died of complications from previous health problems. carley: the author a parenting book learn to fit a college admission scandal. todd: and executive admitting to bribing a proctor to take her son's desk. molly line has the hearing, how much time the woman will spend behind bars. >> report

the committee who represent the parts of chicago and the region, starting with congressman bobby rush, whose district we are in. thank you, bobby, very much for inviting us, asking the subcommittee to come here. congresswoman robin kelly, who is here to my left. congresswoman jan schakowsky from the chicago region. and to representative adam kinzinger, from the state of illinois, a little further away, and mr. kinsinger makes this hearing a bipartisan hearing. we are grateful to him for being here today for his leadership and the leadership of each member that is here today. we are also grateful to have with us and we welcome our congressional colleagues who are guests of the committee today, representative danny davis, who is the voice of god -- who i always say is the voice of god, that voice of his. and she we garcia who is here. the vice chair of the energy and commerce to, congresswoman yvette clarke. and i already mentioned congresswoman jan schakowsky. on this, on the subject matter today, it ise us important to note that 100 americans are killed by a gun and hundreds more are

annual police chiefs convention in chicago. todd pyro joins us with more on the pledge. >> this is pretty interesting, the president signing its way toward creating a commission to help our men and women in blue. >> it will study the best practices to recruit, retrain, hire, train and provide for the safety and well-being of law enforcement officers. >> the order will also look at key issues like drug abuse, homelessness and potential illness. chicago police superintendent eddie johnson boycotted the speech citing the city's core values and his own personal beliefs. donald trump slamming johnson at the event. >> more than anyone else this person should be here because maybe he could learn something. density johnson has been police chief more than 1500 people have been murdered in chicago. >> johnson pushing back against those remarks shortly after the president's speech. >> in chicago i can tell you we are making measurable progress creating safer neighborhoods and building world-class police department to the entire country should be proud of. >> the president taking aim at former

chicago's trump tower as the president makes his way back from his first visit to the city since his inauguration. we are on the ground in chicago with the latest next. connell: plus a destablizing blow to isis. the most wanted terrorist in the world killed in a u.s. attack. isis warns it is recruiting a new leader. a live report from northern syria at this hour. >>> fueling the space race. virgin galactic making a history as the only publicly-traded spaceflight company. i spoke earlier with richard branson, the founder of the company. we'll have more on that later in the hour. and getting her car to. all i had to take care of was making sure that my daughter was ok. if i met another veteran, and they were with another insurance company, i would tell them, you need to join usaa because they have better rates, and better service. we're the gomez family... we're the rivera family... we're the kirby family, and we are usaa members for life. get your auto insurance quote today. most people think of verizon as a reliable phone company. (woman) but to businesses, we're a reliable partner.

. >> at a police chief's conference in chicago, president trump spoke about his support for law enforcement and border security and the recent military raid in syria that led to the death of an isis leader. the president also signed an executive order to establish a new commission led by the attorney general that would study key issues facing law enforcement. ♪ >> first, let's hear a big round of applause for that playlist. it is the presidents playlist. [applause] manreat music from a great to get us excited about his presence here today. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i called to order this special session of the 2019 annual conference and exhibition of the international association of chiefs of police. over the past year, i have had the honor to meet with the president several times. during these meetings, i have witnessed the president who has demonstrated commitment and meaningful work with criminal justice reform that will make both law enforcement and our communities stronger and safer. iacp was fortunate enough to work closely with the president and his staff duri

trump takes on chicago, visiting the nation's third largest city and slamming its top cop. >> and i want eddie johnson to change his values and change 'em fast. >> o'donnell: manslaughter by text. why a young woman's messages to her college boyfriend have her facing criminal charges. what you didn't see in our "60 minutes" interview with joe biden. his take on multiple threats to the 2020 elections. a secret service agent's inspiring mission to beat stage four cancer. and talk about a brush with luck. a painting nearly tossed in the trash sells for more than $20 million. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell. >> o'donnell: good evening. thank you so much for joining us. this is our western edition. with all of california now under a state of emergency, the fire battle is even tougher tonight. the latest fire broke out in the hills north of santa monica near los angeles. more than 10,000 homes and businesses were evacuated as an explosive fire blasted flames six stories high. further north in sonoma county, the kincade fire has burned an area two times the size of san franci

investigation that has them so put out and scared. plus president trump heads to chicago to bolster police and he delivered a message to the mayor ande the police superintendent who refuses to do the same. and former nypd commissioner bernie -- have their own messages tonight. my angle will come a little bit later and investigates why it's good not only for him but why it's going to terrify the 2020 democrats. but first after weeks of stubbornly insisting nancy pelosi is now bringing a resolution to the floor this week. republicans are now rejecting pelosi's call for a vote saying no big surprise too little too late. charles cupper man a top aid to john bolton defied a congressional subpoena to testify today. asking a federal judge to resolve whether or not he has to listen to congress or to the white house setting up a constitutional showdown. adam schiff doesn't like being shown up. >> it's hard to say what other senior officials will do. i'm sure they will get like instructions from the white house and if they do and they fail to appear they will be building a very powerful case

chicago. >> they live upstairs! >> o'donnell: police storm the wrong homes, traumatizing innocent families. their ain't no mountain high enough to keep this climber from setting an epic world record. and game changer. the n.c.a.a. takes the first step toward allowing college students to cash in on their fame. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thanks for joining us. we're going to begin our western edition with that damning impeachment testimony today from a key witness, army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. e coroversial phone calluncil's that sparked the impeachment inquiry. vindman says what he heard concerned him, and he alerted a top white house lawyer. vindman joins others in confirming the details of the whistleblower's complaint. he says he's not the mysterious whistleblower. one democrat is calling today's testimony "the nail in the coffin." nancy cordes leads off our coverage on capitol hill. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel alexander vindman arrived in full military uniform and accused his commander in chief of under

. it's an honor for those of us that are not from chicago to be here here. i'm anna eschew and this is the midwestern part of my family and it's an honor to be here with my colleagues on a very serious issue and this is the first energy and commerce committee hearing of the gun violence epidemic in our country as a public health issue. this subcommittee has jurisdiction over public health issues in our country. i want to recognize first the members of the committee who represent the parts of chicago and the region starting with congressman bobby rush whose district we are in. thank you, bobby, very much for inviting us and asking the sub committee to come here. congresswoman robin kelly who is here to my left. 2s2>t+ chaicowsky who is a representative here from the state of illinois and farther away i think next door to robin, and mr. kensinger makes this hearing a bipartisan hearing and we are grateful to him for being here today for his leadership and the leadership of each member that is here today. we are also grateful to have with us and we welcome our congressional colleagues

workers in nearly hahalf a centntury. we will get the latest. and we will go to chicago to speak with the head of the chicago teachers union which has voted to go onon strike next we. >> w we need staffing and errors like nursing, for social workers and special education services. need enforceable caps on by sizes. pay and benefits alalone are not enoughgh. we care deeply about the learning and working conditions in our schools. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. turkey's powerful military has massed troops and heavy weapons on its border with syria, as u.s. troops heeded president trump's order to step aside as turkish troops prepare an offensive against kurdish-led syrian democratic forces. trump's abrupt decision sunday to abandon the u.s.'s kurdish allies in syria came after a phone call with turkey's authoritarian president, recep tayyip erdogan. trump insisisted h he had one insurance is that turkey would limit the scope of its fight against kurdish forces, tweeting -- "if turkey does anythin

event in chicago. the meeting of the nation's chiefs of police. president trump: he was a sick and depraved man and he's dead. he's dead as a doornail. and he didn't die bravely, i will tell you that. reporter: but democrats complain that the president didn't inform congress that the raid was about to take place. democrats insist the so-called gang of 8, the bipartisan house and senate leadership should have bin told. president trump did tell senator lindsey graham and richard burr. but on the way to chicago this morning explained why he didn't tell the democrats. president trump: they were talking about why didn't i give the information to adam schiff and his committee. the reason is because i think adam schiff is the biggest leaker in washington. i know that, you know that, we all know that. he's a corrupt politician and a leaker like never before. reporter: attorney general bill barr who in an exclusive interview spoke for the first time about john durham's now criminal investigation into the origins of the russia probe. >> i understand he's making great progress. he's a 35-year

chicago. you will see him about two hours from now right here on the fox news channel. >> we'll see you tomorrow morning. have a great day, everyone. >> if you want to see fox nation watch us or the radio. >> watch the radio. >> sandra: fox news alert on capitol hill. another impeachment witness could be skipping a closed-door interview expected to happen in 30 minutes. congressional investigators wanting to talk to charles cupperman, the deputy national security advisor john bolton. unclear whether or not he will show up after being told by the white house not to comply with his subpoena. he listened in on the call between the president and the president of ukraine that is at the center of this investigation and ultimately launched the impeachment inquiry by democrats. big question whether or not he will show on capitol hill when you are still a government employee. the white house has the ability to stop that key witness from appearing on capitol hill. that is what is in question this morning as we await all of that. the staffer is due on capitol hill 30 minutes from now. we await

. >> sounds like another busy week up there. thank you. >>> now to chicago where angry crowds rallied against president trump on his first official visit. many were in the streets yelling "lock him up." he used the occasion to slam chicago's top police official. jeff is there. >> all over the world, they are talking about chicago. afghanistan is a safe place by comparison. >> reporter: speaking to police chiefs from across the country, president trump targeted the one who was not there, the chicago superintendent, eddie johnson. >> this person should be here, because maybe he could learn something. >> reporter: johnson decided to skip the speech, citing the president's immigration policies and what he sees as racial insults and hatred cast from the oval office. >> last year, 565 people were murdered in chicago. since eddie johnson has been police chief, more than 1,500 people have been murdered in chicago. >> reporter: in 2016, murders in chicago sky-rocketed. but under johnson's leadership, murders are down nearly 30%. >> you stand by your record? >> yeah, i do. i do. you know, when

brigid kosgei shatters paula radcliffe‘s16—year marathon world record. we'll be live in chicago with more reaction. heartbreak for scotland, joy forjapan. the hosts‘ victory in yokohama ends scotland's rugby world cup, as they go top of the group. simone biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in world championship history. two more golds in stuttgart takes her career tally to 25. also coming up in the programme: valterri bottas storms to victory injapan as mercedes take the constructors title once again. hello and welcome to tonight's programme. thanks very much for watching. they say it's a marathon, not a sprint. the lines between the two are becoming somewhat blurred. another time barrier has been broken today following eliud kipchoge‘s incredible feat in vienna. the women's marathon world record has now been smashed. kenya's brigid kosgei recorded a time in chicago of two hours, 1a minutes and 4 seconds, eclipsing paula radcliffe‘s record set in 2003. our sports editor dan roan is in chicago. there had been whispers all week that brigid kosgei was in the mood to try and f

. all over the world, they are talking about chicago. afghanistan is a safe place by comparison. >> dana: president trump taking a shot at chicago's leadership in today's trip. his first visit as commander in chief. protesters showing up but the city's police superintendent skipping the president's speech today and the mayor refusing to meet with the president. matt finn's live in chicago with his story. >> there's a pretty lively, large demonstration here that started outside the trump hotel and tower here and they are wandering through the streets of chicago, relatively peaceful. lots of anti-trump chanting and signs. at trump tower a few blocks from here, the president is hosting a pricey private fund-raiser scheduled to wrap up soon. this is actually the first time the president has been back in chicago since 2016 when as a presidential candidate his rally was canceled because of escalating tensions. today president trump is returning to a city that actively takes a stand against him. a short while ago, mayor lori lightfoot tweeted "it's no surprise that real donald trump br

) that is up? everybody. david: a lot of police have 401(k), president in chicago touting the strength of the economy, celebrating a new record high for s&p 500, and giving president credit, praising what she calls quote bravely of the trump tax cuts. >> and 2020 hopeful joe biden disagreed. what he says he will do to tax cuts once he? was on. this is "bulls and bears" thank you for joining us, i'm david asman, joining us. s&p is up more than 13% since president's tax cuts within into effect two years okay. but former vice president, 20 candidate joe biden telling cbs' 60 minutes that benefits from tax cut to middle class have been minimal. >> you said you would repeal all of trump's tax cuts, but do you mean just for wealthy or the middle class too. trump did give the middle class-a tax cut. >> that was negligible. we should make sure that the wealthy pay their fair share. david: liz, you have a piece in the hill today on biden taking on the trump economy, how tough a sell is that going to be for joe biden. >> i think it is a very tough sell. i am so tired of the whole line that rich hav

before congress. what's on the line for chicago teachers striking in the country's third largest school district. why 2020 democratic hopeful michael bennet is running for president, and much more. >> woodruff: facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg arrived onrb capitol hill today and was put on the hot seat today about mounting concerns from republicans and democrats. amna nawaz has the story. for the record, we should note the pbs newshour produces some content as part of a business relationship with facebook. >> nawaz: it's the first appearance from zuckerberg on capitol ll since lawmakers grilled him over privacy concerns and oer issues around cambridge analytica a year and a half ago. zuckerberg's testimony before the house financial services committee was ostensibly to build support for facebook's new cryptocurrency project, libra, a global digital currency originally set to launch next year. >> the idea behind libra is that sending money should be as easy and secure as sending a message. i actually don't know if libra is going to work but i believe in trying new things. i view the finan

teachers in chicago strike outside many of the city's 500 public schools as you need as and officials push ahead with negotiations over a new contract the demonstrations of forced authorities to cancel classes for more than 300000 students john hendren reports from chicago. in the united states 3rd largest school district teachers put down their pencils in took up the picket signs walking out of schools and into the street. 25000 chicago teachers and 7000 support staffers walked out on thursday leaving the parents of 300000 students canceling work or scrambling to find childcare teachers say for them as well as for their students conditions in some schools are an embarrassment i didn't have for a whole year in my classroom i had buckets collecting water some at some point you had a fire on toilet paper in a nation where teachers complain they are under-resourced underpaid and undervalued this is the 1st walk out of chicago since 2012 and $1.00 of about a dozen for teachers across the u.s. this year this strike is a major chast for a new mayor laurie lightfoot she comes from a union family

white house refused to be deposed. also president trump is about to speak in chicago this hour after teasing the potential release of footage of the takedown of the most wanted terrorist ps. but he's under fire this morning for are revealing classified details about the raid that killed isis leader baghdabu bak baghdadi and the other major story we're watching is california in flames right now. mandatory evacuation orders are in place. 200,000 people have been told to get out so far including hospital patients, jail inmate, college students as well. we'll go to california in a bit. we start with that breaking news on capitol hill right now. a key witness has refused to show up to a scheduled deposition this morning and democrats are now preparing to hold it in contempt of congress. >> we move forward and we will obviously consider, as we inform the council his failure to appear as evidence that may warrant a contempt proceeding against him. >> charles cupperman, filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to decide if he has to comply with democrats' subpoena or follow the white house's o

this whole thing sucks. at an iconic snowboard-and-skate shop in chicago... chris: in the summertime we do skateboards, stand-up paddleboards. lemonis: ...the owners are headed a nasty collision. this business looks like it's on life support. chris: i think things kind of fell apart pretty quickly up here. lemonis: their new location loses money hand over fist. there's nobody here. it's empty. their original location suffers from low margins and the wrong inventory. salena: it's about creating a reputation. lemonis: this business doesn't have a good reputation. did you know that? and now, their partnership is spinning out of control with two of the owners sidelining the third. chris: it felt like we financed your pregnancy with my money and our time. lemonis: if i can't help them fix their process and their relationship... you guys picked this location. chris: yeah. lemonis: you guys did it. ...this board shop will have to board up its doors. my name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. we're not gonna wake up every morning wondering if we have a

let's talk about chicago because actually, i lived in chicago for a few years and i go to the south side of chicago occasionally to meet with senior citizens who live in the buildings there when i was doing a quarter show. the problem with chicago, guns are illegalal in chicago so everybody thinks if you make them illegal across the united states iteg will be nirvana, the won't be any crime. hogwash. perfect example is chicago. the reason chicago has so much gun crime is because number one the people are all criminals into this illegal weapons. the only way to resolve that is to prosecute gun crime and the last time i checked in chicago is the prosecution of gun crime is extremely low. you've got all kinds of criminal elements who got his guns so the state attorney us to tell me why is gun prosecutions so low in the city? i used to prosecute these cases. you get yourselfou in a her covered, confidential informants, squeeze defended you've already arrested and get information and do se gun trafficking prosecution and then you add the time for any crime that is committed with a gun an

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now to chicago where police stormed a home looking for a drug dealer. what they found instead was an innocent 9-year-old and his family. a year-long investigation by our cbs chicago station uncovered a disturbing pattern of wrongful police raids that often leave children badly traumatized. here's bin >> get down. police! >> reporter: police body cameras captured this nighttime raid in one of chicago's poorest neighborhoods. >> get on the [ bleep ] ground. >> reporter: heavily armed officers carrying assault weapons and wearing body armour raided this home, looking for a suspected drug dealer. but instead they found then 9-year-old peter mendez at home with his family. >> it was like my life just flashed before my eyes. >> reporter: mendez says he and his little brother were traumatized during the raid as their father was handcuffed and guns were drawn on them all. >>> where did they point the gun at you? >> i want to say like right here, but, you know, straight at it. >> reporter: chicago p.d. say they were acting on a tip from an informant who gave them this address. as police tore

chicago thousands of protesters have rallied against a visit by president donald trump and cold for him to leave office trump is in the u.s. city off to giving a law enforcement speech to the international association of chiefs of police where he discussed chicago's high crime rate and signed an executive order john hendren as more this is president trump's welcoming committee in chicago thousands of protesters outside of trump asking him to step down but the president began the day in a much friendlier venue at the international association of chiefs of police meeting there he was greeted warmly and spoke for more than an hour but not attending that meeting with the chief of police in chicago eddie johnson who said that trump's values don't represent chicago's values the president shot back saying johnson should have come because he might have learned something goes murder rate is higher than that of new york and los angeles combined both of them bigger cities this is the president's 1st trip to chicago he had to abort a trip here in 2016 after the crowd grew so vociferously that it was c

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] >> welcome to the 21st annual chicago tribune litfest. >> my name is tom paschalis. before we start i would like to give a special thank you. we're broadcasting live on c-span 2's "book tv." at the end we'll allow questioning. we ask that you step up to the icrophone up here. you can keep it going all year long to the tribune's premium book section fiction series and embership program. also, feel free to download the books app. for more information to our for more information to our digital bookstore and finally, we love social media like anyone else so feel free to take pictures, post messages and upload them to twitter, instagram or facebook using the #prls15. before we begin please silence your phones, turn the flashes off your cameras and with that i'll introduce our moderator, rick perlstein. [applause] >> i like a short but sweet introduction so i'll give a short one for bryan burrough, although for research, in his most recent book, "days of rage: america's radical underground, the fbi, and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence," i joke that we should call him bryan burroughs -

is significant because george remus was a german immigrant and his family settled in chicago and at age 13 remus was the man of the family because his father had some problems and cannot support the family and so he takes over. he had to drop out of school but luckily for him his uncle owned a pharmacy in suburban chicago. and because of that connection he was able to work. although not an athlete well over 200 pounds built like a fire hydrant but was an amazing athlete i'm sure what he did none of us could of done on our better days remus began his career in pharmacy when he comes of age but the interesting thing this places him at the heart of community because at that time in 18 hundreds pharmacists were more like small-town doctors. so these clients that they have came to remus with problems because they could not afford regular doctors so that is the farm loan - - the doctor that he went to and when he passed that licensure he lied and made himself two years older he was only 19 but said he was 21 as an interesting side point if he thought a regulation or rule was unjust he dis

streets were no matter where you went and united states and chicago was a mess and new york city streets were and st. louis had the same problems so pittsburgh came in at the same problems so he decided to put together union stop yards and he was the first to do this and the first one was in pittsburgh and what the stocky are does it's a takes the lines and connect them to stop yards and the slaughterhouse and connection at all in the same setting which might be a hotel and business facility for people to engage in a union stop yard where all of this would take all that out of the streets. and that was something people were looking forward to and he hits the second venture which was during the chicago union stock yards which was for the meat market and the huts and this he opened in december 25th 1865. which was a gift to the city of chicago. the second one was the arbitrators in jersey. here is the whole thing being done in jersey in the ferries would take the slaughtered animals to the new york shore so that the trains would arrive into the holding pins and the slaughterhouse a

tools. >> here's anna in chicago. go ahead. >> yeah. hi. i just wanted to say about the voter fraud thing, it's a local problem. i live here in chicago. you know, and i think most of the voter fraud is done by a legal immigrants. as they come into the country, they are given drivers licenses and they're told to go to the polls and vote. in 2016, we had 313 was the actual number of illegal immigrants who were found voting for obama. i am a black american. i am sick and tired of this bull -- bs from the democrats. because what they're doing is harvesting votes from illegal immigrants and poor, ignorant blakds who live in chicago. i'm on my way to mccormic place now because trump is coming in. we have almost 400 people from my community who are going to support him. we used to be democrats. we are no longer democrats. democrats are ruining this country. and that's all i have to say. >> anna in chicago, david becker, let me ask you about that. you had mentioned russia. are there other countries we should be worried about in terms of nefarious action in our 2020 elebs? >> the intelligenc