Chicago is out of control, Jeff Monoso has a live report

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alabama's Morning News. I'm JT and Jeff Mandasso joins us
now our Fox correspondent in Chicago. Speaking of Chicago, the
mayor there is not declared Warren President Trump, lovely, Jeff,
welcome in, Thanks for being here.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It is good to be with you. He's like a
slow boil that continues to slowly boil here in the
city as the fens make their move, the mayor makes
his move, the governor makes his move, and protesters do
their thing, and you don't know where it's going to end.
But all sides of saying their same pup, they ain't
going anywhere.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, I got to tell you what the National garver
ry arriving there. I think you know it's you know
where they've been. They should have been there earlier. But
I get the pushback from the mayor and the governor.
They're delaying things. But enough's enough already here and you
know it's the mayor's declared wars on Trump. This guy's
further left and LORI lightfoot ever dreamed of being here,
and it's just the mantra to push back on Trump

(00:52):
no matter what he's doing. Meanwhile, you know when he
did it in Washington, d C. And I'm not talking
about the district of Columbia versus states and you know
how they're different and why this shouldn't happen, blah blah blah.
I'm talking about the accomplishment of them being there and
the outcome afterwards. Even the mayor of DC came back
and said, you don't want to be honest with you,
things are better here.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
What are the residents saying? What do you get the
feeling of when you talk to these folks that are,
you know, living in this nasty environment.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, look, unlike DC and Memphis and others Illinois and Chicago,
they said they don't want any help and cracking down
on illegals and crime. But since Operation Blitz began, Operation
Midway Blitz began, DHS reports over fifteen hundred arrests of
the illegals, including some of the worst of the worst
that we've seen. And we've also seen while Brendon Johnson

(01:44):
is pulling that somewhere between four and six percent, a
record low for a Chicago mayor, we've also seen, like
in other cities, an uptick in urban support for what
President Trump is doing. You and I have talked about
you know, for four weeks in months about how how

(02:05):
Brandon Johnson is constantly bombarded by black Chicago wearing MAGA
hats in city Hall a time him he's his days
are numbered, he needs to go. He's terrible for the
city you go to. You know, if you're on the
ground here and you're going to black Chicago, black communities
to the south of the West Side predominantly, you're going
to run into a majority of people that are saying, look,

(02:27):
we need help, we need help because enough is enough.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, why do you think the mayor and the governor
there are so reluctant to you know, respond to these
people and say help is coming and doing. If you
don't think the guard is needed there, then what are
they doing? Why aren't they doing more to combat the problem.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, the argument that's being made on a couple of
different fronts that you know, Democrats don't want to give
Trump any type of win, just just to not give
him a win politics in play. But also if you
think JT that money, uh, it doesn't have anything to
do with it, You're you're you're nuts. I mean, Chicago
is going to be Chicago. Chicago gets billions upon billions

(03:12):
of dollars for for crime from from the federal government
for crime. Uh. And and it's got billions of dollars
in hundreds of millions going into two programs for illegals
and and and and so a lot of that money
is not just going A lot of that money is
being used by the city to to to fill other

(03:33):
budgetary holes. So crime, illegal immigration is actually said business
in Chicago, and the money is welcomed. And so one
of the arguments is being made that it's about money,
it's about funding, that they'd rather have the they'd rather
have the cash and a crime problem, uh than than
no crime and no cash.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, I got to tell you, at some point, the
residents are going to say that's enough, sick and tired
of this, and maybe they'll switch parties and switch their
voting and get people in there that work on keeping
they and their family safe as opposed to taking all
that money and get you know, you're right, follow the dollars.
And if these politicians in Chicago are getting all this

(04:16):
money in there, then he's starting to become clear and
clear why they take their positions like this. But I
think you nailed it though on the first one. Anything
to agree with Donald Trump. Forget about it. We're going
the opposite direction. I don't care if it's secure for cancer,
we're saving lives or nope, if it's his idea, we're out.
So I guess this is a time limited situation with

(04:37):
the National Guard there. What's the plan.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, we'll see what We'll see how it plays out
legally in terms of the legality of President Trump using
the Guard and what his next move might be if
that's the case. But you know, the Texas National Guard
about forty five members of the Texas National Guard. They
already came out last night. They were protecting that I
facility in broadview. So we'll see. He has options on

(05:07):
what he may or may not do with the National Guard,
as you know, as the days and weeks go by.
But it appears he's extended the Secretary of War pet
hexp has extended the National Guard in Memphis for up
to a year. This is a long term scenario that's
playing out here in Chicago, whether people realize it or not.

(05:27):
The President's got three and a half years left, and
and and and you know, if you follow the president
like we have, you know he's going to use it.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, you know, there's two things going on with the
National Guard. One to protect our federal facilities like the
ICE facilities and federal employees rounding up the bad guys,
but also crime in general in assisting the police departments
there So are the Guard being used for both in
this situation and second part of this question, where does
the law enforcement brass stand on getting some assistance.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, you know, the rank and file, I will probably
tell you something different than what the brass is telling
telling you because obviously the brass works for you know,
the city and and other cities like Broadview, like Chicago. Uh,
and and and uh. You know, the President has is
ramped up his rhetoric about having Jamie Pritzker and in

(06:25):
Brandon Johnson being jailed for not protecting ICE agents. Uh,
you know, as as Brandon Johnson for example, gets very
close to crossing some legal constitutional line with cpd issuing
that do not respond order to federal agents call for
emergency help over the weekend when they were attacked their
cars were rammed by protesters. J Johnson signing an executive

(06:48):
order on Monday barring federal agents from using city owned
land like parking lots and vacant, vacant lots as staging areas.
Though federal LA enforcement operations they always supersed locals, so
it's probably going to be likely ignored. But you know,
it's just you know, it's it's it's it's it's just
kind of ramping up rhetoric, ramping up actions.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, but so the rank and file, the rank and
file of the police tomorrowment there and the residents are
fine with them coming in.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, I mean, if you talk to them all record, yeah,
but there you go, there you go. You know, but
look at the following orders and they've got jobs and
I got you, but you know.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Cops being told to stand down in every one of
these liberal cities when it comes to all of this,
it's just insanity. What's going on? Well, Jeff, I appreciate you, buddy,
thank you for the update this morning.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
You bet