Dana Perino

And they were talking about how Hegseth was downplaying some of the risks of this conflict spiraling, some of those risks that we may be seeing now, not only with the potential for casualties, but for the straight to perhaps remain closed and in control exclusively of the Iranians.

I think he's banking on the fact that

Only a few people are really going to be paying attention to majority of the things that he's saying that it's going to like we'll talk about it or it might get somewhere on conservative media.

But that's not something that most people in Chicago are paying attention to.

And he's just going to go about his business or he's really a true believer that thinks I'm here for a finite amount of time.

And I have this particular agenda and I'm going to do whatever it takes to enact it.

Even if there are people who live in Chicago, black and brown people showing up at town halls telling me that they want a change in the course of action.

Right.

These are not people who want to be Republicans.

We're not going to turn into Republicans.

They're saying a true Democratic Party, a true liberal party is going to treat crime and policing more seriously than it has been.

I wanted to see something also on the mural.

It seems like the fact that Elon Musk has said that he's giving a million dollars towards it had an effect on this.

So Musk saw online that it was going up and said, oh, I want to give a million dollars.

And Elon Musk is obviously a lightning rod political issue, you know, gave whatever, 250 to 300 million dollars to Donald Trump's reelection.

And it's on the side of an LGBTQ+.

club.

And so I think all of that was kind of like a perfect storm.

But Mayor Smiley, when this came up again, I was thinking back to the shooting at Brown and how terribly that was handled on every single level of law enforcement.

And I would just walk my head down and be focused on