came through the l train and hit him in the back of the neck. he was survived until he was taken off life support. the fear is that yesterday was just more platitude and promises that won t be kept. i mean, lori lightfoot had the nerve recently to say that crime in chicago is on the decline, that is a blatant lie, crime is not on the decline, homicides and shooting rates are up, and as we have seen, chicago had its most murderous weekend of the year. you know, when you go through the incident reports of each of the individual shootings and most of the cases, the gunman gets away back to you. gillian: mike tobin, thank you for bringing us the details, we appreciate it. the youngest victim of chicago s violence is fighting for her life, that is terry anna smith. just a month old, shot in the head and then critically wounded while strapped to her car seat to last week. she was among seven people shot
means turning away from a light of crime on approach. i m not for killing kids in jail who steal a candy bar from 7-eleven, but if you are out there using a weapon and using it to hurt other people and/or kill them, sorry, i don t believe in restorative justice for those folks. you can t just send them to art therapy which is a real thing that some people are pushing these people to go into these criminals. you have to go hard on these folks, because when you tell the world, when you tell bad guys that yeah, we are not really going to punish you, you are going to get a slap on the wrist, guess what, they are going to take advantage of that and that s what we see across the country. gillian: democratic chicago alderman lopez accused mayor lightfoot of flip-flopping on her stance on federal health, this is relevant because even though it talked to them and closed in a month ago, this is what she talked to the president about yesterday by her own volition. it is hypocritical for this
people killed by gunfire on the way when they came to the chicago area, the goal was to talk about what he calls investment in human infrastructure, but the message of the president was quickly overshadowed by the unrelenting bloodshed particularly because two atf agents and a cop was shot and killed that morning. lori lightfoot spoke with the president on the tarmac, saying that they gave an update on the agent and thanked him for listening. one chicago alderman does not think that a quick chat will get the job done. i think what worries me is that the mayor meets with joe biden it will be a bailout to save chicago will not increasing safety on the streets. most of the shooting is gang-related, but not all of the victims are. there is a funeral today in denver, or colorado i should say for max lewis, the university of chicago student from a internship when a stray bullet
children in this country. they have to step up, or we are going to continue to see dead bodies pile up. gillian: to that point, we know that the president met with lori lightfoot for just under 3 minutes on the tarmac jen psaki tells us that what he told her is that the doj is launching a strike force meant to crack down on gun trafficking in chicago and four other cities including new york. so there we go? is that problem solved? 3 minutes, the most efficient way to go about solving the problem, look, you should be going after obviously illegal gun sales and all of this, but remember this is a president who instead of going after the defund movement decided to go after ghost guns. our ghost guns responsible for this? are ar-15s responsible for the violence we are seeing in this country? no. go ahead and get those guns, but you have to make sure that you re going after the people who are using the guns and that
agents were shot and wounded while working undercover. president biden had a short meeting with lori lightfoot yesterday, the white house says that she push the president for more federal health clinic help to combat gun violence, but in her city two more people were killed and 19 injured, that s fresh on the heels of chicago s most violent week of the year, that have been over july 4th when more than 100 people were shot. one antiviolence activists says that the city s current billing under the strain. mayor lightfoot has a dismal track record in an area of reducing gun violence in chicago, so why would the president meet with her. i would not even speak about it if she would stop saying she has a plan to reduce gun violence in chicago, the superintendent can talk about his big plans over the fourth of july weekend and we had like a massacre in chicago. gillian: mike chauvinist following the story in chicago, good morning, mike. good morning, billion, three