Brandon Johnson is in DC with other sanctuary city mayor is preparing for what could be combative questioning before Congress tomorrow.

And as the president prepares to give his speech before Congress tonight, the stock market continue plummeting on the first day of new tariffs while here in Chicago, a Supreme Court ruling caused a federal judge to toss out 4 of the 9 convictions in the comment bribery case here with all that.

And it's a plenty and more is our spotlight.

Politics team Amanda Heather, Sharon and Nick Blumberg.

So as we mentioned, of course, the mayor Heather testifying tomorrow before Congress going to be in the hot with the future of Chicago's protections for undocumented immigrants hanging in the balance.

What is at at tomorrow's hearing for Chicago's immigrant communities?

Well, Chicago has been a self-proclaimed sanctuary city dating all the way back to 1985.

The federal government is suing the city and the state of Illinois to sort of say those laws violate the Constitution.

And if you don't undo them, we're going to strip all of the federal funding from the city which total somewhere in the neighborhood 4 billion dollars.

>> Every year.

So there's going to be a lot of pressure on the mayor to defend those rules to say that they do not interfere with federal agents, sort of carrying out orders if they have a judicial warrant, but that it's necessary to protect undocumented residents of Chicago to encourage them to seek out the services that they are entitled to and needs such as police protection.

Medical care and protection from those who might otherwise wish them harm.

The mayor will do it alongside, as you said, 3 other mayors, including New York Mayor Eric Adams.

There will be a lot of focus on sort of how he interacts with the Republicans on the committee.

But there will also be a lot of focus on Brandon Johnson who is coming off a series of bruising financial battles in front of the city council.

And this could be.

Sort the beginning of perhaps his comeback or another sort of thing that pushes him down a little bit and makes it harder for him to prepare to run for re-election in 2 now.

Well, Mayor Johnson is preparing to testify before Congress tomorrow.

We all know the president he is preparing to give a big speech tonight.

The home address, a joint session of Congress and one of the things he's expected to address is the war in Ukraine.

Nick, both politicians and the public have been making their voices heard and Chicago about this issue.

>> that's right.

Just this past Sunday, there was a rally and a march down Michigan Avenue that featured hundreds of demonstrators.

>> As well as some members of the Illinois congressional delegation, Senator Durbin, Representatives Delhi Ramirez.

We're talking about this issue on the program last night.

Representative Mike Quigley has been very active as a strong backer of Ukraine.

And this came on the heels of that pretty unprecedented combative press conference or press event in the White House with Ukrainian President Zelensky and President Trump and vice president bans that was even before there was the announcement that there's going to be a pause in funding for, you to Ukraine.

I think a lot of people are going to be paying very close attention to this.

There's a very large population of Ukrainians here in Chicago, numbering in the 10's of thousands.

So not just, you know, some of our local politicians, but a lot of residents going to be very curious to see what Trump says that, by the way, a couple of those Congress people not going to be in the audience to see it they will be watching from TV.

That includes.

>> Congresswoman Schakowsky, as well as Congressman quickly have said they're not going to be in attendance, the threat they have Trump will also he's likely going to discuss new tariffs that went into effect today.

Amanda, and we've seen how the stock market has reacted tumbling 650 points yesterday, 670 points today.

How does the governor has Governor Pritzker think this is going to impact Illinois industry will.

So he, of course, is out there his job to stick up for Illinois.

And this is certainly something that could cause harm to some of Illinois's biggest industries.

You look at manufacturing.

You look at things like agriculture given that Illinois is very large exporter of things like, you know, beef and soy and corn, particularly to Canada into Mexico.

So then there's this fear of reprisal.

Pritzker has, course, been very out in front attacking President Trump.

Every opportunity that he has, including on this one.

And he is taking it to the message that it is largely seen as something that Kamala Harris and her run for presidency.

And that was not addressing enough the matter of the economy.

And he's saying that President Trump promised to tackle inflation, said this is going to be the opposite.

So Pritzker has characterized it as a tax on working families and by the way, one of the expected consequences if all of this has, you know, wanting to take a drink.

Well, that one of the consequences governor, frankly, brings up it is expected that this is going to cost more.

If you are the beer-drinking type because that tax on aluminum is going to make it more expensive.

So it is going to like show Roya Patrick's Day.

I do not in Chicago bring it back.

2 Chicago Cubs Heather.

>> Mayor Johnson just appointed one of his fiercest allies to head up to Chicago Park district.

What changes can we expect from all the person, Carlos Ramirez, Well, he is going to have a big task on his hands.

He not only has overseas 600 parks the U.S. to see the Park District 6,000 employees.

He has never held an executive position.

So it will be a whole new set of challenges, including the growing number of unhoused people who have begun to camp in Chicago's parks.

We have all seen sort of the footage from got conference park where there is a large tent encampment.

City officials will sort attempt to clear out that encampment this week, but it will be up to now.

Superintendent Ramirez Rose as of April.

First to sort of make sure that those tent encampments don't pop up again.

>> While sort of struggling to oversee all of the other issues involving the park district's.

Of course, he replaces Superintendent Rose as Kareen Yo, who took over after a massive scandal involving the Park district's lifeguards and allegations of abuse.

And a federal judge tossed out 4 of the 9 convictions in the comment bribery case.

This is related to a Supreme Court ruling from last summer.

Right?

Yeah, it is.

And so this one is really essentially redefined what bribery is in the eyes of the law and >> it wasn't new at the time.

But that judge who had presided over the comment for, by the way, a very respected judge passed away.

So now we have a new judge that he's said that it's not per se that there wasn't evidence that this was bribery, rather, that the jury instructions were such that it didn't address this new definition per the Snyder case has decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

So that is where there could be a retrial.

Now we aren't sure if that is going to happen.

The prosecution hasn't said whether they will do that because, of course, there are still those 5 outstanding charges.

And so may not be necessary.

That already could bring sentences for life for these individuo.

The comment for.

There are, however, Brandis additional complications.

Those 5 outstanding charges, 4 of them deal with the foreign corrupt Service, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

And that is something that President Trump, one of those many executive orders.

His said needs to be under review.

So they're still a whole lot of uncertainty.

This huge, major case as well as perhaps even Speaker Madigan.

What this could mean for them ultimately, we've got 15 seconds.

So we can't really talk about former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, I thought it was important to bring up because he did make some headlines yesterday at the Economic Club luncheon in folks can go to