attorney general roy austin explained the problem this way. we do not have the slightest idea how many hate crimes there are in america and we have never known. the numbers currently kept by the fbi are largely useless. the fbi agrees that the data is not at all accurate because it says it continually faces the issue of underreporting at the victim and law enforcement levels, and faces the problem of law enforcement training on classifying hate crime incidents. the latter is what a new bill is trying to help fix. it s called the jabara/heyer no hate act, offering incentives to departments for reporting hate crimes. people don t understand how data can impact policy, how policy can impact people. but right now america doesn t know how big its hate problem is. these families say that must change to save the next family from heart ache. sara si, thank you for that
juan: i think that s a really important point. dana: thank you. greg: it s an okay point. juan: i wanted to raise the point with you. what happens is you get a situation where mcconnell is blocking a vote on the house package to reopen the governmen government. dana: because the president won t sign it. greg: that is a great point. dana: thank you. juan: the president on the white house saying they are going to bring back half of the irs agents. he s deciding which part of the government stay shut even as he declares the government a third of the government should be shot. greg: i lost interest in that part. i m going to defend the caravan because you can t blame them, say, trying to go to california when he started offering incentives. hey, the tax payers are going to
workers. here s where the rubber hits the road. amazon said it will invest $5 billion in the new facility in return negotiated $2.8 billion in incentives from new york, virginia and tennessee. here s the state-by-state breakdown of what they re getting $1.85 billion from new york, virginia gave $819 million, nashville $102 million in incentives. this leaves many people wondering about the tech giant s decision for this contest-like approach, pitting 238 cities against one another in a search that only resulted in choosing the two obvious east coast hubs. now that they ve settled on location that are not by any measure in desperate need of this, some are saying the venture is corporate welfare, the practice of offering incentives in exchange for a company to move into or stick around is fairly common. one conservative estimate suggests cities and states give away $70 billion every year when they offer concessions to companies in exchange for many
schools and further how exactly is a program like this going to be funded. no clarity on those issues there yet. i should tell you jim that president right now is hosting governors from all across the nation at a governor s ball here at the white house. tomorrow there is going to be a discussion between the governors and president school security certainly will be one of the topics that is brought up, jim. whenever the governors coming to d.c. we understand that even the republican governor of florida does not agree with the president s plan to put guns and teachers hands. governors from both parties gathering in washington this weekend. they say they haven t been consulted on this. does the president have the sort of perseverance on this issue to stick with it? or does he expect to marshal governor support behind this plan? that s good question. and there may be a route to do that through funding. some have suggested offering incentives to states or local municipalities as a way t