Politics Roudup: Sen. Duckworth gets personal about IVF and mistrial in AT&T federal trial

On this week's politics roundup, we checked in on Washington DC, including:

• A key Senate hearing on Capitol Hill this week focused on the growing problem of hate speech in America. US Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL0 is the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair.
• The Senate has failed to advance a Democratic bill protecting IVF, or in vitro fertilization, a measure championed by US Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL).

In Illinois politics:

• As reported by Capitol News Illinois: A federal judge on Thursday declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked in their deliberations over whether former AT&T Illinois President Paul La Schiazza bribed longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan via a no-work contract for the speaker’s political ally.

Guests:

Linda Kenyon

Illinois Public Media Washington, DC Correspondent

Jon Seidel

Federal court reporter, The Chicago Sun-Times