project gun ran upper. charles grassley claims federal agents knowingly sanctioned those illegal weapon sales in hopes of tracing the guns to mexican cartels. by doing so the strategy allowed terry to be shot. it causes you to wonder why the folks who are supposed to have your back in washington d.c. seemingly don t care. reporter: terry s mother agrees. i think they ve put these guns out there and they ve lost them and now one of our own have got killed with one and they ve made a big mistake. reporter: that was william la jeunesse reporting for us on again that slain agent brian terry. accusations from terry s step-mother only to fox news that she believes there is some sort of a cover up going on. more on this story as we get it. jon: we ve been talking about the protests across the country over crippling state budget gaps, 14 rallies are planned for today, plenty more to come this week. we ll get you a live report ahead. also a tragedy for those four