london tomorrow. and questions over the list of so-called best colleges and universities in the u.s. after one university said its data was cooked. a brewing scandal putting money, prestige and power on the line. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with the politics lead. any moment president biden will give a speech in boston on an issue that s very personal and important to him and his family. the cancer moonshot initiative. president biden hoping to bring more attention to his administration s efforts to cut the cancer death rates in half. his son, beau, died of brain cancer in 2015, he was only 46 years old. let s get to athena jones for us. the date and location of the speech are no coincidence. that s right. this event is taking place at the john f. kennedy library on this day because this marks the 60th anniversary of jfk s moonshot speech where he launched the years long effort to land a man on the moon. saying we choose to put a moon on the moon in th
political. cancer doesn t care if you re republican or a democrat. everyone can come together to fight this and he compared it to the moonshot saying you have to harness the resources of u.s. scientists and doctors and technology to be able to do this. elizabeth, in general since 1991, cancer deaths are down 31% according to the american cancer society. a lot of that is because of prostate cancer deaths down 50%, breast cancer deaths down 40% but a lot of that, i have to say, is because of screening, early screening and preventive measure, not necessarily curing the cancers itself. how feasible, how realistic is it to cut cancer deaths in half in 5 years? i reached out to a variety of experts asking that question this afternoon. i thought they d say, i don t know about that. they actually were quite positive and pointed to the statistic that you just pointed to, in 28 years they went down 32%. whatever reasons there were, we can do more of the same and they pointed to sev