African-American leaders in Chicago are calling for peace ahead of the release of the Laquan McDonald video. They want people to be passionate, but peaceful. The city has until Wednesday to release the video.
5 people were injured in a fire on the 50th floor of the John Hancock Center on Saturday. John believes that this only backs up his calls for a ban on candles.
Donald Trump is claiming that people in New Jersey were cheering when the World Trade Center came down. On This Week, George Stephanopolous pointed out that didn’t happen, and Trump accused him of ignoring it in the name of political correctness. Steve Kastenbaum reporting for WLS from New York joined John with reaction.
Trump also commented on a Black Lives Matter protester getting roughed up at one of his rallies by saying “Maybe he should have been roughed up.”
Two Arabic-speaking men were briefly kept off a flight from Midway to Phoenix. Passengers said they were uncomfortable flying with them because they were speaking Arabic while they were waiting for their flight. Eventually Southwest employees let them on the airplane anyway.
