officer the murder trial george floyd. and then returning to the increase federal oversight of police seen during the obama presidency with two dozen such probes let s bring in the deputy director for legal policy at the manhattan institute. welcome. good to have you again. those that don t understand this investigation explain how this works. that pattern and practice investigations are launched in departments where there is statistical disparities along racial lines as we saw under president obama doj. not an investigation based on corroborated evidence of specific wrongdoing. but rather the idea statistical disparities reveal some kind of pattern of which you could infer systemic racism and unconstitutional practices which i think is a misguided approach not just because of the fact it doesn t relate to any evidence of systemic wrongdoing but it seems to be associated with violent crime in the jurisdictions where the investigations are launched in the wake of a viral inc
good morning. thanks for waking up with us. it s sunday, november 14th. i m boris sanchez. i m amara walker in for christi paul. good morning to you. you look great in burgundy red. you too. thank you. solid choice. setting you up for that. a lot of news to get to this morning, after months of negotiations, debate and delays, president biden is getting ready to sign the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. the white house says the president will highlight how the $1.25 trillion bill benefits middle-class americans. the signing ceremony is said to include members of both party and mayors and governors. the other major piece of the biden agenda, the build back better plan which hinges on west virginia senator joe manchin. democrats will be back at work tomorrow trying to coming up with a version of the social spending bill that manchin will support. an elusive target it s proven to be. cnn white house reporter jasmine wright joins us now from the white hou
wants do in her life. stephanie elam, thank you so much. clearly the force behind her fans was pretty fierce. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka whitfield. we begin this hour with a trump ally in danger of going to jail after being indicted over a january 6th investigation. steve bannon will appear in court on monday and face criminal contempt charges. a former trump adviser has repeatedly refused to produce documents or appear before the committee concerning the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. bannon s attorney has stated his client would not be cooperating with the investigation into what happened that day because of executive privilege. cnn s kara scannell is following these developments for us. kara, steve bannon is expected to turn himself in, however, how defiant he has been. this occurred on monday. then what will happen. he ll face a judge where he s been charged with two counts of contempt of congress. one
show up before congress or face contempt charges. and the committee investigating the investigation has demanded to see him and they say they re done waiting. me mea meadows said he would not until executive privilege. brand new audio of former president trump defending supporters who threaten to to hang former vice president mike pence. were you worried about him in that siege? . no. i thought he was well protected. and i heard he was in good shape. i heard he was in very good shape. but, but you heard those chants. that was terrible. he could have well, the people were very angry. they were saying hang mike pence. it s common sense, jon, it s common sense that you re supposed to protect how can you if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? with us now, cnn legal analyst, retired ambassador, norman eisen, the house judiciary special counsel in former president trump s first impeachment trial. he was p
developers off their greener pastures? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we ll start with our money lead and a change of tone from the white house as it acknowledges the rising prices most of us are experiencing that they have downplayed will likely last much longer than expected. for weeks president biden has promised americans the inflation is only temporary but now is admitting the higher prices are slowing down the economic recovery from emergence out of the coronavirus pandemic and top biden officials are conceding it could be middle to end of next year, 2022, before we begin to see any improvement on prices at the store. just this week the bureau of labor statistics released data showing since last october 2020 gas prices have risen 50%. bacon and beef are up 20%. eggs, furniture, televisions all up double digits. the white house is scrambling to find new solutions convening frequent meetings of top economic experts. as cnn s phil mattingly reports, president biden