pacific. i am jose diaz-balart and president biden commemorates the historic gun safety law , the first of its kind in years. members of congress who voted for the bill and people who have been impacted by gun violence will be attending the ceremony. there are bipartisan measures for states to implement their own red flag laws and enhance background checks and mental health and cracking down on purchases. joining us with the latest, what is the message from the white house this morning? there was urgency with this important bipartisan legislation and that led to the president signing it into law without the ceremony we will see here today. there was the effort on the part of the white house to mark this moment as the most significant piece of gun safety legislation to be passed since president biden was senator. he wanted to mark this moment to celebrate with members of congress for getting this over the finish line but also families whose lives are impacted by this as well
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
where you are going to remember where you were. laura: yes, wile e. coyote thinks he finally caught the roadrunner. the search warrant served on mar-a-lago this morning had donald trump s name on it, but the real target of this investigation isn t trump, the real target of this investigation is you. or anyone who dares to call out and take on the rank corruption of the d.c. establishment. this is the deep states revenge. they are trying to show all of us that we will be destroyed if we fight them, if we question the repeated failures of the pentagon leadership, if we make serious i m talk about serious moves to disrupt the status quo here in washington. you know, the status quo that protects the powerful as long as they play the game. for decades they got away with selling us out by letting in 20 million illegals flooding across our border. they sold us out by sending our manufacturing jobs to china. they sold us up sample wasting trillions of stupid in the middle east, a
the entire senate will be in a vote-a-rama. the next phase of passing key legislation called the inflation reduction act. if it is passed, it is a big win for the american people, addressing not just inflation, but climate change and drug prices. also, this hour, republicans and the conspiracy theory contest at cpac in texas. it s another sign the gop is no longer the party of reagan. a new face off in florida, an elected prosecutor stands up to ron desantis s extreme agenda targeting reproductive care and more. that prosecutor now suspended is here. and later, truth prevailed against alex jones war on truth. shock jock forced to pay the price for lies about the sandy hook massacre. but, will it stop him? this is american voices. we begin this eke with a potentially historic week in washington, as senate democrats push for deliver on keeps is that the biden agenda. a live look at the senate floor right now, as senators debate the inflation reduction act, also called the ira.
against alex jones war on truth. shock jock forced to pay the price for lies about the sandy hook massacre. but, will it stop him? this is american voices. potentially historic week in washington we begin this week with a potentially historic week in washington, democrats push for it to push for a donkey pieces on the biden agenda. a live look at the senate floor right now. senators debate the inflation reduction act, also called the ira. this is no small task. opposition from republicans, senate democrats have to stick together to pass the bold piece of legislation in an evenly split 50/50 senate. legislation, as it stands right now would lower prescription drug costs, collect taxes from corporations and reduce the deficit. then this the historic 369 billion dollar investment in the fight against climate change. this investment in america s future comes fresh off a red hot job report, defying signs our nation s economy, and economic recovery is losing steam. u.s. cre