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
soon be over but maybe not entirely. the judge says they haven t met the burden of showing why parts of the affidavit should not be disclosed. one republican congressman says he is not holding his breathe. it will be the most redacted thing in american history. we won t get answers until the republicans take the house back. we have the ability to ask the justice department the tough questions. good morning to you both. we re closely looking at the docket now in the southern district of florida. we know this affidavit is imminent and could happen at any time. noon is the deadline unless there is a last-minute appeal. we know we ll see the affidavit at some point over the next few hours. don t expect it to be the affidavit we want to see that has detail why the feds went into the home of the u.s. president. this affidavit would have that detail in theory but the version we ll see includes department of justice redactions. the judge wrote yesterday in his order i find the go
a source saying after one instance in which justice department officials were in contact with mr. trump s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room. we re also monitoring the former president s evolving response to this search. he now says the documents taken fall under attorney client privilege and that he wants them back immediately. let s begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter kaitlin. a lot of developments and things that moved quickly since last monday. tell us what the latest is in this investigation. jim and bianna, one of the most important things we ve learned since we saw the search warrant, in june we have more of what happened that led up to this. in june a lawyer for former president donald trump did attest in writing to the justice department that there would be no more classified documents that could be found at mar-a-lago. at that time, the justice department was subpoenaing everything they had trying to get it back. still, the justice depart
donald trump s florida home. a week ago we learned of the unprecedented search of the former president s mar-a-lago home and since then, the justice department revealed the scope of the sensitive and classified documents that were recovered from there. sources tell cnn one of trump s attorneys signed a written statement back in june declaring there were no more classified materials left at ma mar-a-lago. it was asked of the attorney general for information on the records seized in trump s home. the former president continues for his part to offer shifting explanations for why he took the classified records from the white house in the first place and then didn t return them after the fact. much to get to so let s begin with cnn kaitlin live in washington. kaitlin, what more are you learning about this new request from top senators? reporter: well, kate over the weekend and today we ve seen a lot of bipartisan calls for transparency around this search even after we got that s
classified documents that includes some labeled secret and top secret. the fda also took a handwritten note, binders of photos and other documents. that is, according to a property receipt from the search. all of this unfolds as it all unfolds, trump along with his loyal allies, continue to attack the fbi and other government officials. and this heated anti government rhetoric is already having consequences. political reports the federal judge who signed off on the search warrant has been hit with antisemitic attacks online, including threats to the synagogue where he worships. there is an attack on an fbi field office in cincinnati. an official motive list being investigated. but we know the suspects repeatedly posted online through truth social, the social network started by donald trump s media company. he called for violence against federal agents and told people to be, quote, ready for combat. this rhetoric about the fbi isn t just coming from the far right fringe on t