vacant positions. critics say she s only doing this because of the political climate shifting and now she s on the wrong side of it, and i think you were alluding to that before. do you agree with that assessment? yeah, i agree with that assessment. and you know what? when you beef up that budget, there s only a certain crowd you re going to hit, it s going to be the taxpayers. you can t beef that budget up when we have a 1.7 billion deficit, whatever it is right now, unless you re going to hit our taxpayers in the pocket again. i ve not once voted for a taxpayer tax increase on our neighbors and our homeowners because we re not providing them with the proper services as well as the proper protection with our police on the city streets. so i see this coming as well. jacqui: mayor lightfoot, after officer ella french was shot and killed, she got an earful from the officer s father, and she responded to that saying in times of tragedy, tensions run high, but the mayor also said
it ended during obama s second term. that means when cubans come if they make it to the sand they aren t automatically allowed to stay and begin the citizenship process. they will have to apply for asylum. over the past year we have seen more cuban migrants making their way to mexico and going up entering the country across the rio grande. bill: what a story that is. phil keating watching it from miami. we ll wait for more answers. dana: chicago mayor lori lightfoot is facing a lawsuit to only grant interviews to reporters of color. is it an abuse of color? some boys were crying and scared. bill: an apparent kidnapping attempt at a school stopped after a teacher jumps into action. dana: a shoot-out in broad daylight in the streets of manhattan where the search for is suspect stands, we ll tell you.
are you fine that white reporters cannot do a fair job of covering you? the fact that the city hall press corps is overwhelmingly white has very little in the way of diversity is an embarrassment. dana: lori light foot on diversity in the chicago press. she is being sued saying she purposefully discriminated against a white reporter to only grant interviews to reporters of color on the two year anniversary of her inauguration. let s talk about carley shimkus. can you tell i m cold? i just about called you charlie. tell us what s going on here. the lawsuit. judicial watch and daily caller reporter say that lori lightfoot violated his rights by her temporary policy to only grant interviews to people of color. now the lawsuit doesn t say