Chicago’s Morning Answer Show Notes: Monday 7/10/2017

Illinois State Representative Reggie Phillips joined Dan Proft and Chicago Tribune Editorial Board Member Kristen McQueary to explain his decision to vote for the budget:

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Donald Trump’s son has admitted meeting a Russian lawyer last year who, he says, promised to reveal damaging material on Hillary Clinton. But Donald Trump Jr insisted that Natalia Veselnitskaya had provided “no meaningful information” on his father’s rival for the presidency. Noah Rothman with Commentary Magazine joined Dan Proft and Chicago Tribune Editorial Board Member Kristen McQueary with reaction:

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Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton joined Dan Proft and Chicago Tribune Editorial Board Member Kristen McQueary with reaction to President Trump’s performance at the G20 summit as well as the ceasefire in Syria:

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Governor Bruce Rauner has fired his Chief of Staff Richard Goldberg and replaced him with Illinois Policy Institute President Kristina Rasmussen. Rasmussen, 34, of Springfield, has been with IPI since 2009. She was elevated to President and COO in 2015.

The parents of a terminally-ill British baby boy on Sunday delivered a petition of over 350,000 signatures demanding they be allowed to take him to the United States from treatment. Supporters joined 11-month-old Charlie’s parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard outside London’s Great Ormond Street hospital (GOSH), calling for him to be released so he can travel to the US for experimental treatment.

Brandon Thompson of Muskogee, Okla., asked for his girlfriend’s hand in marriage this week, as police placed him under arrest. Leandria Keith, his lady love, said yes.

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