Don't F around on Medicaid. President Donald J. Trump reportedly said that today. The lead starts now.

We have unbelievable unity. I think we're going to get everything we want.

President Trump on Capitol Hill today sounding confident about his so-called big, beautiful

bill, but some Republicans he met with are not so ready to fall in line.

What sources are telling CNN about points of contention behind closed doors.

Plus, inside job, the employee now under arrest, accused of helping 10 inmates escape from a New Orleans

jail, the warnings to people in the area with six of these guys still on the run.

And what RFK Jr. told Congress today about efforts to clean up a lead contamination

crisis in Milwaukee.

But his comments seem to contradict what city officials are telling CNN.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. And we begin today with the big reveal in today's politics lead, Joe Biden's original sin.

His decision to run for reelection in 2024 and hide his diminished cognitive state in our new book, which is out today.

Alex Thompson of Axios and I showed how this original sin sealed the Democratic Party's fate in 2024.

We also reveal new details for more than 200 sources,

almost all of them political insiders and Democrats

who were there to quote the hit Broadway play, Hamilton,

in the room where it happened, who saw for themselves

and knew about Biden's decline

and the extent to which his family and closest

advisors were doing everything they could to hide it from the American people, not just in

2024, but years before that.

So it's with great honor and humility. I accept this nomination for president of the United

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