wcbb investigative reporter karen anderson has been covering the slew of arrests since 2022 after the $2.5 million federal grant to send a thousand rape kits for enhanced testing. >> they're going through every single case and making sure that it is all given the same respect and attention that it deserves. >> reporter: that grant money is part of a wider push nationwide by the sexual assault kit initiative which has awarded more than $320 million to state and local jurisdictions. and has resolved thousands of cases of sexual assault and homicides since 2015. >> they were able to find an outside lab who could take a look at what they had for dna profiles and see if they could use databases with family trees to try to identify what could be a fifth cousin, fourth cousin, and then try to narrow down on who the perpetrator could be. >> reporter: investigative genetic genealogy gained rapid attention after it helped lead to the 2018 arrest of the infamous golden state kill consider. as highlightedd in the hbo documentary i'll be gone in the dark. >> he's called the golden state killer. >>

i want to bring in democratic strategist karen finney with pollster and strategist christian soltis andersonolitical commentators. thank you for being with us. karen, i want to start with you. tonight is going to be the first time that president joe biden speaks to the country from the oval office. what do you make in terms of the optics and what he's trying to deliver, and do you think that this will be something of a victory lap after striking there deal? that's something he's really avoided until now. >> yeah, i don't think it's going to have any kind of tone of a victory lap. when you talk to the white house, what they want is the president wants to reassure the american people as phil was saying. this has been a cloud that has been hanging over the country for some time, and people are still anxious despite all the good economic news. the other thing that i think you're going to hear the president stress, which is so important to him, there is another bipartisan accomplishment. and the fact that he was able to get there deal done, bring us back from the brink, and work in a bipartisan m