Biden addresses “cancer moonshot” ambitions

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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President Biden delivers a speech about his initiative to reduce cancer deaths in the United States. Then, Ukraine’s impressive gains force Russian troops to retreat. But, are these advances temporary as the Kremlin launches retaliatory strikes? Plus, a message from the Queen’s oldest son, the new King. Also, questions over the list of best colleges and universities in the U.S. after one prestigious school said its data was cooked. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It took Ukraine one week to recapture what Russia took over five months.
0:08.2	The lead starts right now.
0:10.8	Ukraine's impressive gains forcing Russian forces to retreat, but are those advances
0:15.7	temporary as the Kremlin launches retaliatory strikes?
0:19.4	Plus, emotional farewell to Queen's four adult children surrounding their mother's coffin,
0:24.8	the message today from her oldest son, the new king, before tomorrow's journey to London
0:30.3	and calling foul, questions over the list of the so-called best colleges and universities
0:36.4	in the US after one prestigious university admits that its data was cooked, a brewing scandal
0:43.5	putting reputations, prestige, money, and power all on the line.
0:53.2	Welcome to the lead object tap, and we start today with our politics lead any moment.
0:56.9	President Biden will give a speech in Boston on an issue that is very personal and important
1:02.8	to him and his family, the Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
1:06.9	President Biden hoping to bring more attention to his administration's efforts to cut the
1:11.2	cancer death rate in half over the next 25 years.
1:15.0	President Biden's son Bo and Iraq War veteran died of brain cancer in 2015.
1:20.1	He was only 46 years old.
1:22.9	Let's get straight to CNN's Athena Jones for us.
1:24.8	She's in Boston and Athena, the date and location of the speech are no coincidence.
1:29.0	Hi, Jake.
1:30.0	That's right.
1:31.0	This event is taking place at the John F. Kennedy Library on this date because this
1:36.0	marks the 60th anniversary of JFK's Moonshot speech where he launched that year's long
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