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Report their numbers to the state. so, the number could be much higher which means thousands of rapists could be on the run, possibly raping others. how frustrated are you that thousands of rape kits are still sitting unprocessed on the shelf? >> um, i'm -- i'm very frustrated. >> reporter: she is a member of governor abbott's sexual assault survivors' task force was raped at knifepoint back in 1985. she was just 13. her own rape kit with her attacker's dna sat untested on a shelf for more than 20 years. by the time her attacker was identified, the statute of limitations had run out. and the m...

Sexual assault is certainly something that we are all interested in doing. i don't think it is a problem we can arrest our way out of however. i think it is going to take education and prevention, it is going to take a culture shift. >> that's such an important note and an important point, a culture shift and education. christina, i want to give you an opportunity to respond as well. >> you know, i think a lot of us that do work here in texas were shocked by his comments because if he had had the power over the years to end rape in texas, i don't know why he hasn't done it. we have a backlog i...

Senator who filibustered 11 hours against another restrictive abortion law back in 2013. senator davis, the governor didn't acknowledge that many women as congresswoman ocasio-cortez pointed out don't even know that they are pregnant in the first six weeks. i'm wondering what you made of his comments. >> well, i agree with the congresswoman that his comments were completely repulsive and absolutely unacceptable and not at all in keeping with the understanding of how menstruating people's bodies work. and i want to make sure that your viewers understand a couple of things about texas and its ap...

Does that he signed. and frankly it's not seeing -- something that we're even seeing the governor address. in fact, governor abbott vetoed a bill this session that would have required high schoolers to learn about the periles of domestic violence. he will give an answer that is untethered to reality of what he is doing. and we know that texas unfortunately has not been making this its top priority. it has instead made its top priority effectively banning abortion. and whether it's our backlog of untested rape kits, which even our senators talked about earlier this year, to the fact that texas ...

Rape is a crime, and texas will work tirelessly to make sure we eliminate all rapists from the streets of texas. >> his defense of this is ridiculous and dangerous and ignorant on two levels. first, texas has a massive backlog of rape kits that remain untested. you don't have to ask me. the republican senator from texas, john cornyn, he called out this problem back in february. john cornyn penned an op-ed saying texas has the tools to fix this huge problem but clearly hasn't yet. so you are excused if you don't take governor abbott's pledge seriously that he's going to, in his words, work tire...