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
Off in hong kong, which is in lockdown preparing for a rivalfrom the chinese president xi jinping. Lockdown preparing for a rivalfrom the chinese president xijinping. He is arriving to mark the 20th Anniversary of the handover from britain to china. It is his first visit to the city as chinese leader and protest are expected. 26 activists were arrested on wednesday after occupying a monument to the reunification. Our correspondent joins us now from hong kong. What is expected today . The chinese president expected to land around midday, but his visit has already been marred by a series of small scale guerilla type protests. The latest one overnight happened just behind me, about two dozen pro democracy protesters were arrested. They were demanding greater Voting Rights for hong kong, as well as the unconditional release ofa as well as the unconditional release of a chinese civilians. We believe they are still in police custody. We are also expecting more smaller scale protests to come.
Off in hong kong, which is in lockdown preparing for a rivalfrom the chinese president xi jinping. Lockdown preparing for a rivalfrom the chinese president xijinping. He is arriving to mark the 20th Anniversary of the handover from britain to china. It is his first visit to the city as chinese leader and protest are expected. 26 activists were arrested on wednesday after occupying a monument to the reunification. Our correspondent joins us now from hong kong. What is expected today . The chinese president expected to land around midday, but his visit has already been marred by a series of small scale guerilla type protests. The latest one overnight happened just behind me, about two dozen pro democracy protesters were arrested. They were demanding greater Voting Rights for hong kong, as well as the unconditional release ofa as well as the unconditional release of a chinese civilians. We believe they are still in police custody. We are also expecting more smaller scale protests to come.
And glove with the president on selling the healthcare plan, the president sends out four tweets about Predecessor Wiretapping him. Did that help or hurt . That was not part of the campaign trail. How far off course did that take you . I think it was theres really often into new territory. There is part of what the Intelligence Kmo Committee is investigating. Late today, the Justice Department told them it immediate more time to review the request. The Spokesperson Sean Spicer said the president made the stupid charge. Spicer dodged some of the
wiretapped him. Now they are trying to weasel out of it. I think the grown up here is mccain who saying Put Up Or Shut up. They have gotten away with the fantasy that there were 3 million fraudulent votes casts. This president does not get called into account for putting out false statements. Even though it involves something of historic magnitude an it doesnt seem to stick
with donald trump when he fly out lies. I think there are people who bel
Recklessness. Saturday morning tweets beginning just after 6 30 a. M. The president accused barack obama of tapping his phones at trump tower. He said this is a new low. It is nixon watergate. He called obama a bad or ck guy. The source of his wiretapping claim appears to be a concerted radio hes. Host. We have a Prior Administration barack obama and his Sur Grats Who were supporting Hillary Clinton and their party using the Instrew Mentalities of the federal government shlgs intelligence activities to surveil members of the trump campaign. Thats a voice to be believed. A Spokesman Says neither President Obama or any white
house official ever ordered surveillance on any u. S. Official. If the fbi, for instance, had a court order would that be information you would know or not know . Yes. You would be told this . Yes. If there was a court order on Something Like this . Yes you cant confirm or deny whether it exists . There is no fisa court order . Not to my knowledge. Of anything at tru