by the tv show. prosecutors dropped charges prompting the city of chicago to sue the actor and recoup the $130,000 it spent on the investigation. in april of 2019, a new independent review of the entire case before smollett was eventually indicted on six counts by a grand jury and that s what brings us to today. jonna spilbor, criminal defense attorney. good morning to you. let me play this clip here. he appeared on good morning america in february of 2019 and this was part of that. i m an advocate. i respect too much the people who i am now one of those people who have been attacked in any way. you do such a disservice when you lie about things like this. bill: as a defense attorney, how would you defend him? you know, this is a really tough case to defend. i was thinking about this.
jumped more than 6% in october, the largest increase in more than 30 years. the international monetary fund forecasts world consumer prices will rise 4.3% this year. supply chain problems continue to hamper the world economy, new lockdowns on top of inflation would represent a major setback to industries like travel and in-person entertainment that covid has battered over the past two years. americans have been gradually returning to normal. reopening offices, resuming travel and in-person shopping to gauge the health of the economy, investors are looking to friday when the labor department releases its november employment report. dana: you are already into december when we get there. thanks. bill: let s get more on the political impact of president biden s response to covid. jason chaffetz. we ll see what the president says next hour. this is what he said at a fourth of july event this past summer. watch. president biden: all across this nation we can say with confidence america
smash and grabs on the rise groups targeting luxury retailers and local hardware stores. what can be done to stop the brazen robberies. bill: jussie smollett, remember him? he is back in court today charged with making a fake police report saying he was attacked in chicago by two men who targeted him for his race and sexual orientation. we ll have legal analysis on what this case looks like for him coming up next. the fact that we have this fear mongerers, these people that are trying to separate us and it s just not okay. helping them discover their dreams is one of the best parts of being a parent.
eventually apprehended by agents. officials tell you there is really no way they can gauge or have a good sense of just how many that don t get that do get away. those are not all the numbers we report, bill, of those in custody continue to be record levels. bill: thank you, casey stiegel. la joya, texas for us today. dana: u.s. and iran back at the table in vienna trying to get tehran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal. the wall street journal out with a warning. tehran wants a less for more deal weaker than obama s. let s bring in jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and former vice chief of the army. i thought it was pretty interest pg. interesting. iran said the united states must lift all sanctions. that s the condition they put on the table as these talks
their life because of their sexuality or color of skin. we must confront the hate. it was a few hours after the accusation went public. of course. nobody in this country anymore bothers to get any sort of evidence before the politicians, i should say, before they open their mouth. they did it with rittenhouse, they did it in jussie smollett. they do it all the time. that s nothing knew. new. we have to have the pendulum swinging to center in the high-profile cases. it will do us all a lot of good. bill: you have the case in chicago, the maxwell case in new york. thank you for your time today. remember they said it was downtown chicago and dana: the trial is not going to be televised. no cameras in the courtroom. hopefully we can get as much information as we can. kamala harris, when it turns out the way that it is, he