back room politics chicago-style. it all started with an internal red flex memo which an internal person linked to kidwell. >> it essentially said this city employees by the name john bills had received $1500 per camera for every camera that he over saw the installation of and there were 384 of them at that time. >> then another former red flex employee named michael schmidt approached kidwell. schmidt told him about a meeting he attended. >> there was a quintessential meeting at the top of the john hancock center where bills had a meeting with karen finn ley and her top executives. >> this is schmidt's first time on camera describing what bills said to him. >> he talked to me directly, saying i will talk to you like i don't know you. karen finley held up one finger and put it down and shook her head, just a little bit. >> critics say at this point the fix was in. red flex was awarded a contract worth $120 million over the next nine years to install all of chicago's 384 red light cameras. but kidwell's series of artic

in the city of chicago. red light cameras generate 600,000 tickets a year. >> kidwell says chicago became the nation of red light cameras through a mix of politics. it started with a red flex memo, leaked to kidwell. >> it laid out the scheme, and it essentially said that this city employee by the name of john bills had received 1500 per camera, for every camera. that he over saw the installation of. and they are worth 384 of them at that time. >> then another former employee named michael schmidt approached, and told him about a meeting he attended in 2003. with red flex c.e.o. finley and john bills. >> there was a quintessential meeting. where john had a meeting with karen finley, and several top executives to coach them on how to behave at the next phase, and an important meeting at city hall. >> this is the first camera. >> he looked at me and said i'm going to talk to you like you don't know you. i looked at my boss and she held a finger up like this. and looked at me and put it down and shook her head

chicago. this donald trump event being cancelled for security reasons. the trump campaign was earlier saying that they had cancelled the event on the advice of the chicago police department. we'll talk about that in more detail later on. the chicago police department is saying they never recommended to the trump campaign that they cancel this event. joining us now is a rally participant. thanks for being us with. i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> tell me about your decision to protest tonight and tell me what happened when you were inside the venue. >> so basically a bunch of us decided to go to the protest and put this banner on because he's really something that does not in any way represent what chicago is for any us. he's something actually like completely the opposite of that. it's funny the rhetoric to me that really stuck out that i was hearing before the commercial break in talking about the troublemakers and i didn't understand that many people in a that rally would have th

chicago. this donald trump event being cancelled for security reasons. the trump campaign was earlier saying that they had cancelled the event on the advice of the chicago police department. we'll talk about that in more detail later on. the chicago police department is saying they never recommended to the trump campaign that they cancel this event. joining us now is a rally support participant. thanks for being us with. i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> tell me about your decision to protest tonight and tell me what happened when you were inside the venue. >> so basically a bunch of us decided to go to the protest and put this banner on because he's really something that does not in any way represent what chicago is for any us. he's something actually like completely the opposite of that. it's funny the rhetoric to me that really stuck out that i was hearing before the commercial break in talking about the troublemakers and i didn't understand that many people in a that rally would

speak with the professo and a student at the university of illinois chicago and former chicago mayoral candidate julie garcia, who ran against rahm emanuel. rahm emanuel has become the focus of the illinois primary he is pportingillary clinton . beie sande says ev if he ns the nination,e does n want rm emanue's pport. lis, ao go tot. th to flora, where0% of e adultopulatiocannot vot because they have a felony conviction. nearly one in four black adults is disenfranchised. >> in florida when a person is disenfranchised, they are basically stripped of their citizenship for life. amy: we will speak with the president of florida writes -- the florida rights coalition. afterdisenfranchised serving his time. all that and more coming up. to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. donald trump is forced to cancel a rally at the university of illinois chicago friday after thousands of people staged anti-trump protests inside and outside the venue. after trump canceled the event, scuffles broke out. five people were arrested. one trump supporter was for the salute.ing a nazi

louis area, chicago, cleveland. those are not the only three american cities that have proven to be real tinder boxes around issues of race, racism, policing and violence. but those three happen to be the three most recent stops on the eye tin i can't remember of republican presidential contender donald trump whose rallies have featured racially charged incidents of violence for months now. but as donald trump's campaign left the deep south and prepared to swing into chicago tonight and cleveland tomorrow, we've seen one part of this phenomenon is becoming more intense at donald trump rallies. there have been instances in the past where he has encouraged or at least praised the idea of violent actions, spoken wistfully of how great it would be to beat people up at rallies, told people he'd pay their legal fees if they'd beat up a protester on his behalf, he's done that in the last. this half tongue in cheek, mostly serious call for a tougher america where there are more beatings and where anti-trump protesters shoul

it was obviously such a strong message to trump that it's not going to happen in chicago and the chicago people spoke. it was great to have a part of it. >> what was the plan to shuttle it down? >> yes, the plan for everybody was to shut it down. moveon.org had a petition going out there where a lot of people like myself were signing up to cancel this, you know uic an urban campus, it's got a really diverse population, you've got urban people who go there as well. so the absolute goal was to shuttle it down and in this greatly city to have shut it down that way. >> donald trump though has his first amendment rights too. why do you want to deprive him of that? >> i don't want to deprive him of his rights. i don't want t him to deprive us of our rights. where should he go, right? it's all about having equal rights but it's also my rights being able to be here. >> can you tell about this protest was organized, how long you have been trying to put this together tonight? >> honestly, i mean i came in, i'm not one of the leaders of the protest or of the organizing movement. i saw it about a we

last night's protest in chicago. this is getting to a point unless donald trump -- is i think he's tried to act reasonably. he said he's condemning the violence. but on the other hand, you see a lot of these passions really spilling out in what we're seeing indayton and in chicago. unless that gets bottles up and sets in, this could maybe have a rem any sent environment of what we saw in the '60s in the united states. >> george wallace was filling stadiums. i have to ask you this. donald trump is going to places like dayton, ohio, where the far south side of chicago. they have been hollowed o where you use d to have steel industries and factory jobs. that's a message that could cross over to african-americans and hispanics. . you're seeing a very white crowd. a crowd that gets hostile as soon as there's a protest of any race. the way they are taken out. the instant tension and racial tension you're seeing. how do we describe that or explain that to people? >> you anemic and new in american politics. the fact we're in

and in chicago we let it known it shouldn't be acceptable in chicago or america. you're taking us backwards, not moving us forward. i was on that stage to shut it down after i saw that trump supporters did not have a problem with being violent, being racist, being hateful. it was a value thing. >> we have heard from republican rivals who say that donald trump's rhetoric contributed to what we saw in chicago. marco rubio was asked again, would he support trump if he is the normminee. he said he doesn't know. that was a different answer than we saw from all of them on that debate stage where they said if he's the nominee they would support him. i don't know if you have endorsed someone, and i don't know if you supported someone, but do you believe at this point that it is up to the republican party to speak out more against their front runner? >> absolutely. this was the opportunity even for trump to show amazing leadership about how he's going to lead the country. he could have got up and instead of saying it's the protester's fault, he could have said this is not

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will he go back to chicago. we know that today he is in dayton and he'll be in cleveland and later tonight will also be in kansas city, missouri. we'll be following it for you throughout the day. but we do have some other pictures for you, these, again, live pictures from dayton ohio and that airport hanger where donald trump will be in just a little less than three hours now. and you heard phil mattingly say, people have been lined up for seven hours to get in to see him. but there's other news we need to talk to you about today, too, because we have new details on major flooding. several people have died and thousands more are being evacuated. >> also, the military has been watching a search for a submarine like the one you see on your screen. up next, why this vessel may be lost at sea. rogaine® foam.with women's the only once a day treatment proven to regrow new hairs up to 48% thicker. revive your va-va-voom. and save $10. try align for a non-stop,ive sweet-treat-goodness hold-onto-your-tiara, kind-of-day.

. >> in 2015, nearly 3,000 people were shot in chicago. that's an average of one person every three hours. more than any other city in the country. what do the streets mean to you? >> they shoot people too much. >> have you seen that a lot? >> yes. >> how old were you the first time you heard of someone getting killed? >> seven. >> in the neighborhood, well, it's not civilized at all. everybody day you got to duck and dive from bullets. people actually have shootouts. >> life in chicago's poorest neighborhoods can sometimes feel like a war zone. >> where did you get shot? >> in the stomach, the back and my butt. and my leg. >> and you know which streets not to walk down. >> always, anything happen to her. >> there's no place to be safe. >> children are growing up without a baseline of safety. what are the long term impacts of this continuous exposure to violence and trauma? >> every day is hard, waking up knowing, you know, somebody know i'll probably get shot today. >> do you feel safe in this neighborhood? >> no. >> why not? >> because i

this is not a chicago rally. it's a chicago rally where people are coming out in full force. it's estimated 10,000 people would be protesting. i'm sure it wasn't as much as that. we knew it would be this really big showing. >> chicago sun times reporter. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. katie has been following the donald trump campaign from the very beginning. nobody knew what the donald trump campaign was going to turn into. boy has this turned into a wild ride of a political assignment. thanks for being with us tonight. >> hey there. >> we've been talking tonight as we've been trying to absorb these pictures we're seeing about mr. trump's responsibility and whether or not the wap he has talked about the treatment of protesters and the way he has talked incidents of violence at his events has been designed to essentially make more violence toward protesters happen, to make these things more kinetic, more potentially dangerous. have you seen a change in the way he treats these incidents from the microphone? >> i think there's a difference between saying h

lives in chicago. he left his house to join this protest, and this is why. >> we were not going to let a bigot come into my neighborhood and disparage my people or my race or ethnicity and i felt that i needed to leave my home, come here and say -- [ speaking in foreign language ] -- enough! quit the bullying. we stopped the bullying in chicago and this is historic. because when you stop a bully once you can then stop him again. guess what? people will lose fear and chicago showed how to deal with a bully. >> poppy, he says stop a bully once, you stop a bully always. chicago knows how to deal with that, but the issue here going forward is, certainly this energizes donald trump supporters and agitates this whole situation here, but we're seeing presidential candidates across the board here republicans and democrats alike, calling on donald trump to have a leadership moment here and sort of send a directive to some of this own rhetoric here that has enflamed some of this himself. poppy, i think this is j

this is chicago s. we'll have live coverage. stay right here on the fox news channel and we'll bring you all the latest. good night from washington. >>> breaking tonight. you are looking live at the streets of chicago, where earlier tonight, violent protests broke out before a rally for presidential candidate donald trump at the university of illinois at chicago. the scene inside the event was described as chaotic. and as the a.p. reported, it seems for the first time the number of protesters equaled that of trump supporters. that reality forcing mr. trump and his team to cancel the event just moments before it was set to begin out of an abundance of caution. we are live on the streets of chicago, for complete fox coverage for you tonight. joining us first with more, jeff flock who is live on the scene. jeff, get us up to speed. >> reporter: an extraordinary night here in chicago, a town that's been home to a lot of protests over the past couple of months. but tonight, we're on the street as rallygoers, these are trump rallygoer

we're at the university of illinois at chicago near downtown chicago. basically downtown chicago. this is a very racially ethnically religiously diverse campus. there were announcements in the news media all day long today from latino civil rights groups, from progressive groups, from muslim american groups, that they were planning on disrupting this rally. the question, erin, i think the other big question -- i've talked to my friends in the local press here in chicago. there is a wealth of venues in in the chicago area. you go all the way out to the conservative areas of chicago, there are arenas and venues where you can stage a pro-trump rally. trump for whatever reason decided to hold a rally almost in the lion's den. this is a very progressive city. here we are seeing another scuffle break out. erin, just the ingredients that are present here just did not make for the right mix in terms of what donald trump wanted to have in terms of a positive rally. there's too many volatile elements here. >> it sounds like what you're saying -- we don't know exact numbers. you're ballparki

we want to take you out to chicago. these are live pictures from chicago. down below you see a restless crowd after a donald trump rally was canceled. the people now spilling into the streets throughout the last couple hours it's been very active there. this scene outside the arena on the university of chicago campus. the university of illinois campus. riot police are lined up keeping a watchful eye on the crowd. about an hour ago violent clashes before donald trump took the stage. several protesters had been vocal about attending tonight's event at the university of illinois campus. that was partly prompted by faculty and staff to petition administrators to cancel this rally, claiming it would be a dangerous environment for the students. now, donald trump had this chance on our sister network msnbc just a few minutes ago. >> and i met with law enforcement. and we could have done it. we would have done it. we could have done it. but i decided not to do it. but it's very tough. i think a lot of people said oh, this is going to increase it. this has nothing t

but chicago is chicago. and it's, you know, an amazing place and i do like chicago. it's a city that i think is highly underrated, actually, but and they hear about some of the statistics and that's a shame. that's a horrible shame. and it's too bad they aren't able to do something about it. but this was i think very unrelated to this. this was an organized group. they knew that we were going to have thousands of people coming. and these are people that just wanted to listen. the theme is make america great again and wanted to listen about making america great again, we'll bring back the jobs. we'll bring back so many different things to the country that we haven't had and strengthen our borders. we'll build a wall. we'll do so many things and thing that is are positive for the country, not negative for the country. but it's all about making america great again and maybe they don't want to have that happen. i don't know. i'll say this, sean. i think we did the right thing. if we would have gone further i think you could have seen -- they have bad situations back to 1

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chicago campus. donald trump was scheduled to have a big rally with 10,000 people inside. protesters outside. and now the rally has been cancelled by the trump campaign. and we are seeing the police doing -- having a hard time seemingly so with crowd control.dÑ this is the first big trouble we have seen on this. that is one protester being taken away from our position here, greta, as you see. nothingy- major. jeff, i don't know if you are where we are looking with our camera. it does look bad it looks volatile. this goes does not look good. i wouldn't want to be in the middle of this crowd. there is pushing and shoving. police are there trying to maintain order. people are yelling. it is -- the camera shot i'm looking at doesn't look -- you know, does n look like just one protester being taken away. >> we couldn't get in. it was apparently cancelled. we would love to get in to see donald trump. you could see there is a lively debate going on right here. i would have loved to:k be inside to actually

not chicago. now i think we're showing chicago. i just wants to make sure people understood what you were describing was not what we were looking at. sorry. >> no, that's totally okay. fayette vim is another example of a time we had a lot of protesters disrupting the rally. the violence that we saw there was one incident as opposed to an entire rally that kind of decimated into pandemonium. fayetteville was not example. it hakkck har kens back to what marco rubio said, it's not just chicago. there is a pattern here we've been seeing over the course of the past few months r weeks and months with the number of protests we've seen at donald trump rallies. >> ali -- >> this isn't something to be taken as an isolated incident. >> understood. what we are looking at now is from last night. it's down on the floor of the stadium. did that all happen after the announcement was made then that the rally would not happen? >> well, if i'm assuming the pictures you're showing are what i think they are i think i was the one who took those photos a

jeff sellny has more from chicago. >> those protesters here in chicago are front and center on the democratic side of the campaign trail today as well. bernie sanders was campaigning here in chicago and later in champaign, illinois and hillary clinton was in missouri. she took a forceful tone against what happened in chicago against donald trump's rhetoric. >> if you play with matches, you could start a fire. you can't control. that is not leadership, it is political arson. >> now, political arson, those were her words here, but it could be a preview of what's to come for the general election. this could be the framework of their argument going forward, but donald trump accused bernie sanders supporters of sort of instigating the protest in chicago. i was outside the rally last night an saw several people holding bernie sanders signs, but he issued a statement say ng no way did -- some of the supporters were standing up to the rhetoric from the trump campaign they didn't like, but he says he is not responsible for organizing these protests, but certainly another day of donald trump dominating

her roots in the chicago area, mayor emanuel of chicago now endorsing hillary clinton, bernie sanders responding by saying this in a tweet "i want to thank rahm emanuel for not endorsing me. i don't want to endorsement of a mayor shutting down schools and firing teachers. can" so talk about change of strategy left and right. how is this advantageous for bernie sanders? >> well, rahm emanuel, with all due respect to the mayor, is not terribly popular right now, even in chicago much less down state. so i think bernie sanders for solid political reasons has decided to run against emanuel as much as hillary. that's the source of that. but remember hillary was born in illinois. she has a lot of strong support there but illinois is fairly competitive. it's not like florida which is heavily for clinton or north carolina for clinton. that one is competitive along with missouri and ohio on the democratic side. >> larry, buck, julian, thanks so much for-to-all of you, appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> marco rubio a very busy man today. he had five events scheduled in his home state in florida. w

trump for the first time since that rally last night was canceled in chicago. of course, we'll bring you the remarks as soon as everything here gets under way. >> yeah, but what a scene it is, victor, from the crowds in chicago last night. look what was happening then. >> these are protesters scuffling with trump supporters. fistfights broke out. trump's campaign canceled the rally altogether. and this morning, donald trump responded on twitter, calling the demonstrators, "thugs who shut down our first amendment rights in chicago." all of this, of course, as illinois gets ready to hold its republican primary on tuesday, just as ohio will. >> yeah, we'll be covering this, of course, from all angles. cnn politics executive editor mark preston, cnn political commentator and trump supporter kaley mceneny will help us break this down. we start with phil mattingly live at the trump rally there in vandalia. >> so, phil, help us understand what the scene is like. we understand that -- is it true that they're at capacity there in the hangar? i don't know if fill till ca

. >>> a tale of two come pains comes to cleveland, donald trump fresh off violence in chicago. >> and hillary clinton, making quick work of laying the blame for the violence at donald trump's feet. >> we're kicking off things tonight as ohio takes center thanks for joining us and i'm tracy carloss. >>> trump is where we start, he held a campaign rally and security was tight after yesterday. >>> i certainly don't condone violence and it's not acceptable to me. >> while today's rally did draw some protesters, seen here from our breaking news chopper, we didn't have that violence that marred the streets of chicago. and kristen, there were plenty of protesters inside that rally as well. >>reporter: there were, protesters continuously donald trump called on police to stop. and he showed off his confidence ahead of the primary. >> are we going to win ohio? >> we are, we are. >>reporter: the crowd on fire and the energy intense and his talking points are popular among the few thousand people here at the i-x center. we're going to have a wall, a real wall folks, a real wall. and who is going

. >>> chicago mayor rahm emanuel appointed 27 year eddie johnson as interim police superintendent. the department has been under scrutiny since video showed the shooting of teenager laquan mcdonald. the new boss said misconduct with him not be tolerated. >> trust between the police and the people we serve, trust between the rank and file and the command stand. i know that the first trust has been broken too often, not just in chicago, but across america where abusive police practices have occurred. >> the mayor chose johnson over three candidates offered by the police board. he called johnson a cop's cop, uniquely equal filed to rebuild morale in the democratic. >>> parts of nevada could see more snow after getting buried under more than a foot of the stuff. the spring storm left roads slick in reno monday leading to dozens of accidents. some parts of that city got more snow than the mountains. there were a dozen cancellations at the reno tahoe airport due to poor visibility. blizzard warnings are up in the west as the storm system moves through. let's bring in nicole mitchell for

rally that was scheduled for not long ago in downtown chicago at the university of chicago. a large crowd came. a lot of them came to disrupt. we saw that on setelevision. at some point somebody, i imagine mr. trump decided he couldn't put on rally like he likes to do with a lot of cheering and back and forth with the disrupt going on. of course, here is a big city, no surprise this would happen. what i guess i'm still stunned by is trump's rallies have been pl planned. why would they hold rally in downtown chicago with a diverse population. a lot of people who are progressives, a lot of minorities who don't like a word of what trump has been saying on television. here they came to disrupt it. they have succeeded. i want to go back to you, katie on this question of planning of rallies. is it normal for a trump rally to vet the people and expect most will be supporters? >> they have done the vetting on one occasion that i can remember. real vetting on one occasion i can remember. that was in burlington, vermont. that was a city that had been open about the protesters. they we

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that was essentially what happened in chicago last night. hundreds of really thousands of protesters who were able to get inside that event. they weren't stopped at the front door. they were able to disrupt the rally. and essentially cause the trump campaign to cancel it. we haven't seen evidence of that yet. you see protesters really trying to go inside for the same purposes. so i think at this point that leads me to believe maybe we won't have a repeat of last night but of course we're hours away from donald trump speakingment we'll have to wait and see. you see the police officers going past me at this moment, they are certainly well aware of the security situation that they are up against tonight. >> yeah. quite a line, quite a group and you hear their voices loud and clear this. jim, thank you very much for that. >>> let's talk more about this as we wait for this kansas city rally to begin with me now is david gergen, also with me are commentator jeffrey lord a trump supporter. jeffrey, to you first. i want you to listen to some of the

neighborhood of chicago. and he said this is chicago's duty to rise up and stand up to donald trump. so it is different from other trump events that i've been at throughout the summer and the fall. we've seen a lot of black lives matters protests. this was different. a least outside. this was the city of chicago that at least some people in the city of chicago, rising up. and it is on the eve of the st. patrick's day parade. it is interesting if you think about, generations ago, the immigrants who came here to this city were seeing a similar thing here now with these mexican american immigrants. chicago is such a diverse town. i was really struck by just how chicago, how diverse this crowd of protesters is. and you can see, there were some trump supporters leaving. but all the police are now leaving the area. >> just a few people hanging out. the protesters, you know, are leaving. another parade tomorrow. the famous st. patrick's day parade. so, so connected as we think about the bigger picture here. this tap

trump just arrived in chicago. after meeting with law enforcement has determined for the safety of all the tens of thousands of people that have gathered in and around the arena, tonight's rally will be postponed to another date. thank you very much for your attendance. and please go in peace. and just a few minutes ago we had a statement from the chicago police department telling us, as of now, no arrests have been made. and no one injured. i hope that's the case. the clashes that we saw, that's video from earlier in the left-hand side of the screen. on the right-hand side is pictured from right now outside the arena. it was thousands. people gathered outside for hours and hours and now there are even more as people are leaving the arena. just to be clear about one thing. we were watching those pictures from inside. there were hundreds, if not thousands of anti-trump protesters inside this event. it is clear what happened is that people protesting trump, infiltrated it. to saert extent, a lot of what we're seeing

in chicago, in chicago, we had an interesting day. we had 25,000 people replying. they all wanted to be there. fortunately, we could call them, we could get them. what happened is we had very professional -- very professionally organized -- the signs were made -- quiet. the signs -- the signs were professionally made. bernie, you'll have to check. it's probably the same location. [ boos ] get 'em out. get 'em out. get 'em out. [ chanting ] >> go, go, go, go, go, go! >> thank you. you know it's really amazing. you know, when you think about it, you see this, just disrupter, bad people, so bad for our country. so bad for our country. people have no idea what's going on. so, so bad. so bad. do we have a good time at trump rallies? does this happen with anyone else? man! unbelievable. here's another one. here's another beauty. get him out -- oh, bernie. bernie. it's another bernie sign. get out of here, bernie. get out of here, bernie. it's another bernie sign. get her out of here. out. that's a bernie supporter, folks. got the bernie sign. were you put in here by bern

in chicago and illinois, the mayor of chicago, rahm emanuel is becoming the centerpiece of discussion, and not in a flattering way. >> he is. rahm emanuel is hardly a soft spoken person who recesses to the background. that's exactly what he's doing this campaign. he's not been front and center. he's a big supporter of clinton's. he owes his political career from its beginning to the clintons. but he now has had such a tough approval rating here in the city of chicago at some 27% approval in the latest poll. bernie sanders is exploiting that. he's running television ads about it. he's talking about bernie sanders at campaign rallies, including one over the weekend. let's take a listen. >> based on his disastrous record as mayor of the city of chicago, i do not want mayor emanuel's endorsement if i win the democratic nomination. >> reporter: if you wonder why it matters, hillary clinton needs a strong showing from minority voters, black and hispanics here in chicago. a lot of them are displeased with rahm emanuel. that's why she's here today, trying to drive up excitement in her home st

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and you tip your caps to the chicago p.d. they know how to handle a crisis and they train for it and they're professionals. and you can see just watching john roberts' live shot earlier where the cops were lined up, shoulder to shoulder, the horses were lined up, one after the other. managing the crowd. there you can see some of that on screen right now. it appears things have settled down. these were violent protests. people were angry and there was some moments of violence. but not too many, and it's been very well controlled. i want to tell the audience that we are getting word that donald trump may speak momentarily and ted cruz may speak momentarily. they're appearing at an event, at least cruz is, and trump possibly maybe. we're trying to find out whether this initial report is true. there's a republican dinner in rolling meadows, illinois, and we are expecting ted cruz to speak in moments. we'll see if he addresses this, as more and more members of this presidential race or participants in this presidential race appear

chicago came out. we showed him exactly how we feel about him. >> what crystallized it for tour come out in such a large group? what did it for you? >> >> it's for the people. we are fighting for equality. we are fighting for everything. this is history. we are all a part of it. i think it's beautiful that we shut it down. >> i was going to ask you, what is it about mr. trump that most upsets you? >> definitely his message of hate and his message of racism. >> jeff, let me cut you off because we have john roberts on the phone inside john roberts, what's going on. donald trump airplane. and landed here in chicago a little more than an hour ago. weighs at a big rally at the university of illinois in chicago in the big peaceful here. he had told me on the plane on the way out that he had heard that, perhaps, there was going to be some trouble, that perhaps this was going to be nasty. he also heard that there was as many as 30,000 people were going to attend: the buildingc itself was nearly full. and there

those violent clashes at a donald trump rally in chicago, now according to the chicago police department five arrests have been made, no word on specific charges at this time, but two officers were injured. the officer is seen in a video bleeding from the head was hit with a bottle. he was taken to a nearby hospital and will need stitches of tune into our next newscast at 6 a.m. for more updates on this situation out of chicago. we'll also keep you updated with the latest on our website www.wfla.com. >>> in the morning things for us here? >> a nice warm start to your saturday morning. we're already in the upper 60s to begin the day. heading into the afternoon we'll top out in the low 80s, just a slim chance of a shower saturday, rain chances better sunday but not a washout by any holding steady. the valspar. that will be nice. >> mate to finish that up on monday. >> thanks for being with us. jimmy fallon is coming up next. >> our next newscast at 6 a.m. tomorrow with an update on the situation in chicago. [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart

[applause] a rally in chicago, over 25,000 people. they were seeking about 11,000, we had registered more than 25,000. seating about 11,000, we had registered more than 25,000. i understand, you are loyal to other places, that' s ok. these were great people. people like yourselves. people that want to make america great again. [applause] and they were pouring into the arena, a good arena. a planned attack came out of nowhere, printed by people that were professional people. if you look at the posters, they were printed, they have a mark who made them, done by a group, all very professionally done, a disgrace if you want to know the truth. with the thousands of people and we were able to let a lot of them know not to go, because we they would have wiped them out and that would not have been good. we made a decision, and i hated to do it, because it would have been easier to go, i did not want to see anybody get hurt. you would have had a problem like they have not seen in a long time because we have people so amazing, not necessarily l

he's in chicago. stand corrected. john. >> hey, doug, yeah, i'm in chicago. donald trump left chicago this morning. for dayton, ohio. and rather the airport there. and he seemed at the beginning to not be bothered at all by what happened in chicago yesterday. the crowd in fact was very enthusiastic, very raucous, probably as a result of what happened in chicago. donald trump wanted to show no order and neither did his supporters that koim out, but look at what happened a short time ago. almost the end of the rally. like somebody threw something at donald trump. his secret service con tin yent was on stage in a heart beat. seemed to come from behind trump because after the secret service jumped off on stage, he looked behind him there. shook his head like he couldn't believe somebody had just done that, but the event started out quite peaceful as i said, it was raucous, a lot of support es there, but then some protesters did sort of weed their way out of the crowd. during the event. what happened in chicago last night certainly has changed the whole tone of wh

jeff is in chicago. sarah, to you. this back and forth between bernie sanders and donald trump over and over again today about who insighted this -- who is a proponent of the violence, who is not. what are people saying where you are at the rally today? >> reporter: well, it was interesting at the rally today, poppy. we did not see the same kind of large scale coordinated protest that we saw in chicago or even that we've seen in the last couple weeks leading up to this event. we saw a protest break out here and there and a couple of them were bernie sanders supporters. we didn't see any bernie sanders supporters inciting violence and i only witnessed one event in which both a protester and a trump supporter started throwing punches. these were pretty quickly wrapped up. i think what bernie sanders is trying to get at this idea when donald trump holds these event, violence in certain instances he hasn't come out and taken responsibility for the climate at these and today said that his people are not the ones that are vi

what's it like in chicago on the >> well, it has cleared out. there was this happened, uh, several hour ago, bob, and, uh, right now we got streets and sanitation crews cleaning up west harrison here. earlier, though, it was ugly inside the hall the trump people who had, uh, perhaps in florida you've seen this when he has these large rallies you can go online. rn there's a website. thousand protesters did that. it was clear when i got here this afternoon that there were many, many anti-trump folks in line. they got inside shouting matches ensued. rn all this before the candidate ever appeared. it got so chaotic, the scene chicago pavilion behind me which can seat about 9,500 people. the crowd was a little smaller than that. but the scene was so chaotic trump called it off and, uh, the protesters then came out here. they were jubilant having shut him down and, uh, they say they plan to do it again if they get the opportunity. back to you guys. >> you know, mike, we hear that donald trump had made a statement saying please go in peace. how long af

because you saw some of the signs in the audience in chicago. one sign said "liberation, not deportation," another "remember not rapists" and another sign i was able to see there, "trump equals hate." so, it sounds as though these protesters took this action on their own, as opposed to, you're describing pundits are saying this. these were folks who turned out in fairly sizable numbers to this chicago support rally for donald trump. >> sure. i'll bet if you ask many of those protesters, what specifically did donald trump say with regard to a temporary ban on immigration, i'm sure that they would not know the details and the nuances, and partly responsible for that are people who have generalized and who have spun this narrative of donald trump as a racist or a bigot. those are very, very serious accusations. we just saw yesterday ben carson come out, an african-american man, one who i tremendously respect, one of the most peace-loving, kind, gentle-spirited christian men i think we've ever seen in politics, come out and endorse donald trump. peo

right now, we are expecting chicago police to begin a news conference at any moment. we'll tell you what comes of it. we begin with nbc 10 national correspondent brian moar. >> reporter: tonight in chicago, crowds took to the streets after a rally for republican presidential candidate donald trump was postponed. hundreds of dmemonstratored gathered earlierÑi in the day. they're protesting the planned appearance of the gop front-runner. inside, an audience packed with supporters and opponents. they decided to postpone because of safety concerns. >> for the safety of all the tens of people gathered in and around the arena, tonight's rally will be postponed until another date. >> reporter: there was an immediate uproar from the crowd. punches thrown, signs torn. protesters and supporters clashing inside the arena. in a phone interview with chris matthews, trump said it highlights america's anger. >> so much anger in the country, i mean, just anger in the country. it is not directed at -- i don't think it's directed at me or anything. it's just directed what's going on f