contest after the election if it was close in pennsylvania if the law was in place. trace: thank you, john, from the wall street journal this afternoon. we are getting more details about a shooting that killed a border patrol agent today, less than two years after the death of brian terry. remember, a shoot out on the u.s. and mexican border killed terry in 2010. some of the weapons were linked to the government s failed gun tracking operation fast and furious with one agent dying and a second agent suffering injuries in arizona. part of the known drug smuggle ing area in that city. the f.b.i. is now investigating. each time that a law enforcement person is killed or shot or injured in the line of duty, we have to take a moment and think of the families and the heroes involved.
that s how long we have waited for this report. we expect it at 2:00 eastern. house over chairman issa will be an exclusive guest of bret baier. this report is embarrassing to multiple officials and it s worpbz expected for the phoenix atf, why is the report important in it will go down as the official record of a u.s. operation that led to the death of one man and could be tied to as many as 3000 more in mexico. it will exonerate some and incriminate others. in government there is a chain of command. agents tell superiors who tell executives who tell appointees. this report should pinpoint the break down of that name names and end the blame game. finally the politics, fast and furious has become a partisan issue, many conservatives believe that the obama administration cooked this up as a way to justify an impose stricter gun control laws. democrats say that is crazy, no u.s. officials would knowingly arm the mexican cartels just to push a political agenda.
at least i ll get the economy working again, that could be very effective. jon: charlie hurt from the washington times thank you. a key battleground state where the polls show the candidates are just about even. what the campaigns are doing to win the great state of iowa, and what the folks in iowa have to say, that s coming up later this hour. jenna: right now the family of murdered border agent brian terry is in focus. they always wanted to know the truth, what is the truth of what happened to their son and whether or not they will ever get that truth, will they get the answers that they want. we may know more when the justice department releases a report on fast and furious, that botched gun-tracking operation. that report may be released in the next few hours. agent terry was killed in a drug battle with drug smugglers as you may know some of the weapons found at the scene linked to fast and furious. william la jeunesse is live from los angeles with more for us now. reporter: jen
safe, stable and secure and the vast majority of customers did not experience any issues yesterday. back to you, jon and jenna, pretty ominous stuff there. liz macdonald fox business networks. thank you. sure. jenna: parents in the windy city breathing a huge sigh of relief today as their children finally go back to school. will the teachers stay on the job? that is one of the big questions. we re live from chicago just ahead. plus we re awaiting a new report from the justice department on the botched fast and furious gun tracking operation. we ll have more on that for you now. and there is the shuttle endeavour. it is just stopping over in texas. its one of the things you have to do to get to california if you re flying a shuttle that big across the country. after a nice little spin around the city of houston the shuttle endeavour touches down there. we ll make to get video of the landing. so fascinating to see it touch down, jon. jon: space shuttle endeavour was authorized by con
yeah, look, i think the obama people are just, this is sort of gone for them. this is one of the reasons why i think this video about redistribution isn t all that interesting or all that surprising. we knew for a long time, anyone who followed barack obama s career knew that he believed in spreading the wealth around. a new video saying he likes redistribution of the wealth, like a new report saying bears are using our national forests as toilets. we knew this already. the and, so whatever obama says on this i don t think matters all that much. the simple fact is that what, romney needs to do or at least what he wants to do is to make this a clarifying choice between someone who wants to move the existing piles of money and wealth around in this country to people who are less fortunate versus a guy who wants to create ever bigger piles of money and wealth for the entire country. that is a good argument after four years of stagnation for mitt romney to make. if he can use the episode