And my son was with me
Thank you
Thank you And good afternoon everybody
This is Steve Schmidt with The Warning, and today I'm thrilled to be joined by the 43rd
governor of the great state of Illinois, the land of Lincoln, J.B. Pritzker
Good afternoon, Governor. Good afternoon, Steve. Great to see you. You gave a remarkable speech a little over a year ago at your State of the State address
and you talked more clearly earlier than any Democrat in the country about the danger at hand
What is it that you saw so clearly where others were still running around a bit in circles
trying to grasp what was descending on the republic? Well, I mean, let me begin by saying that I had been governor during Donald Trump's first term
and I had dealt with him as governor and especially during COVID when he was not just unhelpful but actually harmful to the people of Illinois And he had broken several promises that he had made And so I start with that and also my
understanding, my knowledge of just who that man is, and then watched him during the 24 election
consistently portray himself as if he was, you know, standing on the side of working families
and he's going to protect people's rights. And of course, he lied about Project 2025
I mean, I knew who he is. And so the minute that he won, you know, he had already begun to talk
about coming to Chicago, bringing troops to Chicago, bringing CBP and ICE to Chicago
that we were going to be the first place that he would go. So the day after the election
I held a press conference and I essentially said, if you come for my people, you come through me
And then shortly after that, what do you know, Tom Homan showed up in Chicago. This is before
Trump took office and said, we're coming to Chicago. You know, we're