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
the airport to meet with grieving families here today. try to bring some comfort to a community traumatized, absolutely traumatized by the loss of 21 innocent people. 19 of them children, as young as 9 years old. they were murdered in their classroom. this is a community just trying to understand not only that, but why 19 law enforcement officials waited an hour outside the classroom as the children made desperate 9-1-1 calls for help. the president lands here as lawmakers in washington and around the country are renewing calls for action again, but it is unclear whether the president and those in power will be able to get anything done. as we watch pictures of the president, i want to bring in arlette saenz. arl arlette, you are also here in uvalde over at the school at robb elementary waiting for the president to arrive with grieving families and arlette, unfortunately, this is the kind of meeting that this president has had all too often in his career. reporter: yeah, th
arlette, you have covered president biden for so many years. you have covered so many, unfortunately, so many of these instances where he can relate to people who are part of a club no one wants to be in, which is a club of people who have to bury their children. reporter: that s right. the president often points back to his own personal experience, his young baby daughter and wife in a car accident and seven years ago, beau biden to brain cancer. and here at robb elementary school. my eyes are set on his, the so-called beast, the vehicle that he rides in. so we ll let you know as soon as he s out and about to approach the memorial. of course, he s here with his wife, first lady jill biden. a long time teacher and educator, also a very personal moment for her as well. i actually see the first lady. she has now stepped out of the
that joe biden not only acted properly, but did what democracies across the west were asking him to do. and that is, clean up ukraine by getting rid of a corruption investigator. and politically this is losing ugly for the trump campaign. everybody who knows joe biden and supports joe biden will dig in deeper. they will be deeply, deeply, deeply concerned and upset about what trump is doing to the biden family. you have joe biden who lost his daughter and wife in a car accident. and then lost beau biden to brain cancer. this is joe biden s surviving son. this politically is losing very ugly for the trump campaign. that s the bottom line. up next, we ll dig into the new poll poll out of iowa. plus. i m going to call to you right now. i need everybody s help on my campaign, because we re not running an individual campaign, we will win this election not by