president biden continues to defend his performance on the economy. why fact checkers say the numbers don t add up. the spike in crime could be worse than we think. we ll look at a new report that finds 40% of the country s law enforcement agencies have failed to report crime stats to the fbi in 2021 leaving us wondering what the real picture is. we begin with team coverage of another primary election night. mark meredith is in south carolina where there s a split decision to the two g.o.p. representatives who face off with two trump challengers. and bret baier joins us live in studio tonight to kick off our coverage on what would be a bellwether special election in the texas border district. very interesting one, brett. reporter: shannon, good evening. this is a really big deal. as we go to the big board here, i can tell that you this texas election, a special election in texas 34 which is a district that is essentially 84%, 84% hispanic. there s theboard i said would real
[indiscernible] is fine wherever this may take her. she said quite a few donors from her shelter republicans. some have threatened to cut off guns if she doesn t remove the where do you stand on gun control question. she says i say fine. keep your money. if i go out of business as a result, i go out of business. robert? she s going to go out of business. that s pretty clear, if not because of simply a lack of donations but because of the lawsuits against her. you simply can t discriminate based upon their political affiliation. we can t have a certified two-tiered. [indiscernible] imagine going into cracker barrel and you can t threat because you vote a certain way or believe in a certain political position. i don t think any federal court will uphold this. shannon: the nra spokeswoman amy hunter said to nbc news having this asinine political litmus test comes at the expense of needy homeless dogs and cats.
answer. a gun control question was always asked and he did not answer. we have seen too many of these incidents play out. there will be that debate, but that is not happening here and now. the president wanting to visit las vegas and wednesday and still scheduled for puerto rico tomorrow. a different kind of devastation and flying back to washington and likely nevada on wednesday. this is something that the president was dealing with a lot from north korea. a lot of controversy set aside for the moment. he spoke by phone to sheriff joseph lombardo who is leading the investigation here. we will hear more from the president in the oval office in the next hour. appreciate the reporting from the white house. president trump said in his remarks amid this tragedy there
aftermath, what they felt was the cause of this, what did anybody try and do. what did individual top people, how were they involved in trying to deal with it. there is so much we don t know. they are still trying to uncover facts and interview key people. that s the big takeaway from the petraeus and panetta testimony. there are still people who know a lot that haven t had their chance to shed some light on this. that s why i don t think this is going away anytime soon. martha: when people see this movie, i think the question you just raised is what will be top of mind for them. the way it s depicted in the movie. places where the pentagon was mobilizing people. people are in their uniforms and climbing into airplanes yet nobody comes.
wright is opposed to or why ted cruz is a post, these are modest fixes so we can all get behind, this is not confiscation of guns republicans keep screaming about. this is something none of us should be opposed to. i have not yet heard exactly what in the proposal you laid out yesterday is something anybody could be opposed to. he wants to confiscate the second amendment, nobody has addressed his policies, what he is proposing and what is wrong with them. i have yet to hear that. martha: we got to leave it there. jon: john scott is up next. jon: more on the gun control question. most republican candidates are opposing the president, we talk with kentucky senator rand paul plus a documentary series takes the country by storm, 200,000 people calling for the release of a convicted murderer. prosecutors say they re getting death threats, no grounds for a new trial, should steve avery s case that another the? massive power outage traced back to hackers, new info on