On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) threatening any federal official who would “try to incite my people into violence as a pretext” by stating that officials at all levels are united.
Host Chris Hayes played video of Pritzker saying, “To the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous, we are watching and we are taking names. … If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.”
Hayes then asked, “Are you confident, Mayor, that the Governor, at the very least, has your back in that city?”…