Trump Calls for Imprisonment of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Former FBI director James Comey pleads not guilty to two charges of lying to Congress. And a trio of scientists is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its work on molecular construction. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.3	President Trump is escalating his dispute with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois
0:45.3	Governor J.B. Pritzker, saying the Democratic leaders should be in prison for failing to protect ICE officers.
0:51.3	In a post on Truth Social, Trump didn't specify what laws the pair broke.
0:55.9	Johnson posted on social media that he's not going anywhere. And Pritzker posted he will not back down.
1:02.1	The White House didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
1:06.1	Former FBI director James Comey pleaded not guilty today to two criminal charges stemming from his
1:12.1	September 2020 testimony before a Senate committee. It's his first court appearance in a case
1:17.6	that President Trump pursued. Comey was charged last month with making a false statement and obstructing
1:22.6	a congressional proceeding. The charges against Comey came in the final days before the time window for charges
1:28.6	expired, despite the objection of career prosecutors. And Susumu Kitigawa, Richard Robson,
1:35.6	and Omar M. Yagi have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing metal-organic
1:41.2	frameworks, a new form of molecular architecture.
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