of the search affidavit should stay secret or go public, and president joe biden unveils his student loan forgiveness plan canceling thousands of dollars of debt for millions of borrowers. we ll break down what it means for the u.s. economy as so many americans are drowning in debt. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. search and rescue efforts are continuing in ukraine tonight after that deadly attack on a train station. president volodymyr zelenskyy revealing a short time ago the death toll has climbed for 22 including an 11-year-old child. ukrainian officials that russia launched multiple missile strikes as vladimir putin s war hits the half-year mark. sam kyly is on the ground in ukraine and filed this report? dawn, ukrainian independence day outside kharkiv, marking 31 years of freedom from the soviet union, but not from russia. flags, but not pe
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
a crucial battleship nits fleet, has been targeted in crimea, faces new western firepower, and may have had 70,000 to 80,000 troops killed or wounded by a pentagon estimate. the russians are struggles just to find replacements, much less to find organized, equipped, and trained units. reporter: russia s economy is showing the strain of war and the sanctions. but so far, putin is still finding buyers for russian oil and gas and has recovered from a tanking stock market and crashing ruble. the russian economy has done better than expectations, given the se variy ty se varity of th. reporter: at home, putin and his war are believed to have overwhelming public support. kremlin propaganda rules the airwaves. there s been a rally around the flag effect. the economic consequences have yet to be felt by the masses, and there are no competitors.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday said he believes the citizens of NATO countries will continue to support spending billions of dollars on military aid for Ukraine.
the federal the fed chairman and these massive spending bills and what the democrats had advocated is for more spending. i mean f they hadn t pushed back i mean, if they hadn t pushed back and got build back better defeated, it would have been even worse. the democrats, they don t have a plan. what they did do is spend more money. that s examiner certify bating the problem and taking the energy sector and shutting it down and again rising costs. shannon: there are those on the left who will say and have publicly said that spending that money has created part of the inflation problem and even people within the president s own party raising these questions. the new york post editorial board says this tonight, his policy has changed people s lives for the worse by sticking americans with crushing inflation, tanking stock market and looming recession. his war on the u.s. industry and other policies. bottom line, our president is in complete denial about the perilous state of the u.