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full extent of the president's decline. >> this news coming just hours, of course, before the president is set to give a major news conference to ramp up the nato summit here in washington, dc. our correspondents are covering all of the latest developments and we start with cnn's kayla tausche, who is at the nato summit. kayla tell us more about this new reporting you have jessica, we spoke with dozens of democratic strategists, aides, officials across the biden administration and across the party at large. >> and there was one consistent theme. and that was widespread anger and sadness at seeing the president's decline on full display on the debate stage two weeks just to go after what they chalk up to careful choreography among the president's closest advisers to shield him from public view over the last year or potentially before that democrats here in the u.s. tells cnn that when they tried to raise concerns about biden's age, they were dismissed or worse, an overseas it's officials tell us that when biden attended events on

the world stage, he appeared exhausted, sometimes needing scheduled downtime or a in response to just like we're having some technical issues there with kayla tausche. she's signaled will of course, get back to her if we get that fixed and we'll get you the latest reporting on president biden. we want to get the perspective from capitol hill now with cnn, chief congressional correspondent manu raju manu, some very important developments this afternoon, you had this this meeting between biden campaign officials and democratic senators what are you hearing from that meeting yeah. >> in fact, it's so still going on. did i have been some senators who have left we've gotten some early indication about the meeting. we do understand that they presented some polling, tried to show that there's actually a path to victory for joe biden, despite the polling that has gone really in the opposite direction than democrats want. and the aftermath of that debate, debacle of president

biden about two weeks ago, but they're trying to make the case and assuage the concerns of those very nervous democrats that there is no path according to as many of them who privately fear that this is going in the wrong direction and ultimately, donald trump will win again in november. it could cause them both the senate and the united states house. the purpose of this meeting was essentially allay those fears and try to tamp down those growing calls for biden to step aside. there are now ten house democrats have called for him to do so one senate democrat will save others, ultimately joined the ranks as well. but we caught up with one of them. one senator who just left the meeting moments ago. senator maggie hasn in of new hampshire and asked her about how this meeting went. how much concern was there in the room about biden's campaign? look what we focused on. we've got a really strong presentation from the biden's campaign team we focused on the importance of defeating donald trump. >> was there any suggestion you may leave the race we talked

about what are thinking was about how best to proceed with the reelection of joe biden and making sure we defeat donald trump so right there you heard from one of biden's allies in the senate democratic caucus, who's still supports biden staying atop the ticket, suggesting perhaps that there was not much discussion about whether or not there is a biden should step aside but we'll get a better readout when we talk to more members about whether how much back-and-forth there really was about joe biden's future as a candidate for the presidency in this election cycle. because i can tell you in talking to democrats in the house and the senate, there's still a belief that joe biden may ultimately decide to step aside given the outer cry, the growing concerns, the fears that a joe biden candidacy could what could mean for their party come november and then potentially could change his thinking. we'll see what he says at this all important news conference tonight. how he performs, how he answers the

questions about his future because there are a lot of members here, not to people around the world of course, but particularly here in the capital whose fates are tied to the president and who want to know what exactly has to do. so they will get a sense of that as well. but also interesting in this meeting today, guys, there were two democratic senators who did not attend this meeting. those senators, jon tester and senator sherrod brown, there are two of the most vulnerable democrats in congress. they actually had a meeting earlier this week when they predicted that joe biden would actually lose in november, they did not attend this meeting today. they said they had conflicts and the like and they went into their way and now they're on the way to the airport without hearing the biden campaign's pitch about why they think biden can win all right, manu raju on the hill for us, i think see you and kayla tausche are being told we have new sound, a new soundbite from senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. >> i want to listen to what he had to say. he'd said earlier today, he wanted biden advisers to show evidence that biden can win. here's what he just said moments ago.

>> from what you heard from biden campaign staffers today son, my concerns are allayed. some others have been deepen. i need more of that kind of analytics that show the path to success more important than my concerns are the questions that have been raised by the american people that donald trump is an existential threat. joe biden has to go to the american people, not just in one meeting, one press conference. one speech, but consistently and constantly. tonight will be important. the press conference will be potentially a turning point. but it has to be more than one just more than just one press conference like does he just hang out there with people having concerns until november all right, senator blumenthal, there outside of that meeting, were biden campaign officials are meeting with senate

democrats who clearly some remain skeptical. >> we've heard from some that say they feel better, but but senator richard blumenthal, not the only one who has expressed deep concern over if president biden can win and what that means. for the presidency. and also down-ballot. so joining us to discuss is cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozier, former biden white house director of message planning. meghan hays. and we should note that meghan is also a consultant for the democratic national convention coming up this summer, also joining us cnn, political and national security analyst david sanger. he is the author of the new book, new cold wars where is china's rise? russia's invasion, and america's struggle to defend the west. great to have you all here i want to get back to the hill in a second, but kim, let's start first with you with where we started this segment, which was at the nato summit. and all of these global leaders here in washington, dc, this is where biden will speak later today. what are you hearing from european? officials as they look in at our domestic politics and what's happening with the president, will look,

they're trying to keep the focus on ukraine and nato leaders are meeting with the ukrainian president. this this afternoon to discuss what a, they've given thus far but every single european official i've run across has first tried to grill me about whether or not biden is going to pull out of the race. but then express their concerns and said they're hearing from their capitols that if the presidency goes to a second trump administration, they're going to see perhaps not a pullout from nato, but reduced participation and instability that likes of which russia has in the past taken advantage of and they're all worried about that david i want to go to you because something that the finnish president said struck me earlier today. he was asked about president biden and whether he has any concerns and he said no, that he interacts with biden on a regular basis

and he says he has absolutely no concerns about his capacity you heard different you publish some reporting about european leaders when biden was visiting with them during the d-day anniversary, who said that? >> they saw lapses and confusion in the president. what do you make of what's being said now by folks like the finnish president versus what you heard from those other officials well, i don't think it's surprising bars suit. >> we're seeing these somewhat conflicting reports because the president seems to have good days and bad. we saw a bad one during the debate. we saw a very strong performance during his speech at the opening of nato so on tuesday night, which he delivered in a very strong voice and of course he was he was working from a teleprompter. so it's not the kind of informal give-and-take that you'll see tonight at the, at the press conference i've heard both from leaders

and the finnish president's fairly new. he's only been in office few months. the ones who have been in office the longest, tell me that they don't see the same joe biden that they saw say in 2021 at his first summit meetings, nato meetings and so forth or even when the war began in 2022, that isn't to say that they are nervous about whether he can handle the job now they say they're worry is what will this look like in two years or three years from now but given the choice, most of the europeans tell me they would far prefer joe biden with his long record of backing up nato than donald trump with a long record of trying to disassemble nato and meghan, let's talk a little bit about, about the politics of this in it and the president, we have this brand new reporting from our colleagues that democrats, some democrats are blaming the president's closest advisers

for shielding them from the full extent of his decline. >> one official describing the meetings as quote, an act. now you worked in the white house until 2022, just so everyone has the timeline set straight. did you experience any sort of bubble help give us context around how this president has handled the west wing is a very small place. there. there's not a lot of room to hide. he walks around the west wing ever every single day he would come into the world of communication seems that's on a daily basis. he's regularly out meeting with advisors. he has prep, he does a lot of things moving around campus. the fact that people are hiding him a little bit of a misnomer, are they probably doing things that help him they started taking the small stairs in the airplanes have a big surface or they probably doing stuff like that. sure absolutely. but that is because the man is 81-years-old. that's not because he can't handle the job or he's not in control of the jobs. so i think that there's a little bit of a little misnomer of what's happening here. i do think people are probably angry because they didn't realize maybe they didn't were not expecting the joe biden that they saw at the debate. i don't think anybody was i wasn't. you weren't no one

was expecting that the joe biden, i know is the joe biden that showed up north carolina the next day. so i just, you know, it's i understand why people are shocked and upset by that, but i think that blaming the advisers is probably misplace blame. >> lets pause for a moment because we have some brand new reporting in from katie rogers of the new york times. she's actually on the phone with us can you walk us through this new reporting hi, thanks for having me. >> so we have reporting that some longtime aide longtime aides and advisers to the president, who has, in recent days become convinced that he should step aside from the campaign, have been talking amongst themselves about ways to persuade him that he should end it and that is according to a few people briefed on these discussions they have said, in order to make a case of the president and to be clear, there is no indication that the president has been kept abreast of these conversations or have

been briefed on them. but these aides have said in order to make the case, they have to convince him that he cannot win against former president trump. they'd have to persuade him that another candidate, mainly vice president harris, could beat trump. and then they would have to assure the president that should he step aside the process to choose another candidate would be orderly and not devolve into chaos within the democratic party and katie, is there any indication or do you all get any sense that he would be open to this, that these this group of advisors believed that this could actually break through to the president who has said these made his decision despite the fact that democratic leadership keeps saying he needs to make a decision so people that are within this group and within this sort of circle of advisers believe that in order to even make this case to him, they would have to present data, facts, and figures that show

him convinced him of. number one, he couldn't be trump's number two you know, somebody like harris could. and my understanding and reporting of the president and his inner circle. and i think it's important to know that there's a distinction between these groups, right now. the president is in his inner circle, remain very convinced that he is the one he's the candidate, and he can beat trump at one of the aspects to the reporting that i found notable is that the president actually told folks before the debate that he believed he had a better shot of winning a second term than vice president kamala harris. he apparently believes that he has a better chance than any other democrat of winning. and that apparently informs this decision to stay in the race but that's notable given that these allies are trying to find a way to convince him to hand her the nomination, right you know, i

think that he very strongly believes and has believed you're right. >> according to our reporting, that he is the one who can beat trump. and that means that there is belief yes. told people that that harris could not i think that right now these these people that are talking and having these discussions are focused on the first obstacle which would be the hardest, which would be to convince him that he does not have the fuel, i guess to beat trump in november katie. >> thank you so much. stay with us. i do want to turn to meghan because again, you know, the job, the spot a little bit, but but you do know this world really well. and katie even just mentioned there is a distinction that needs to be made between as they're listening, biden advisors and the inner circle and those, if i'm understanding it right? but necessarily the same group of people that's correct. i think that there's a group of people that everyone has read about that have been prepping the prepped him for the debate and then have been around for a very long time that steve

rachetti, mike donilon, those folks who've been around him for 20 plus years, and then there's another ring of people out who are still in the white house, senior people who are leading policy, and those are also people who, you know, if you worked in white house to be considered senior staff, but they're not necessarily the ones that are in biden's ear right now. they're not the ones making these political decisions. >> listen to it for my experience, i think the cve and anita and, mike donilon and also his family. >> i think hunter and dr. biden are extremely important. i think it's sister valerie is really important in this. so i think that is really who he's going to those around his confidence for his entire political career, for the most part. and i just, you know, it's not that he doesn't respect all of the policy advisors in the white house, but they are in a different category, i think than these people all over. >> kim to tie this back to what we're watching today, the 75th anniversary summit of nato. how do you think this is perceived by world leaders not only allies, but also adversaries like vladimir putin and president xi of china. >> it has totally stolen the

victory out of this moment that biden has managed to grow the size of nato, that he has rallied this years long support for ukraine billions of dollars shore ukraine is not happy. it didn't get all the things that wanted out of this summit, but it has gotten another year of promises of aid and it's gotten a lot of the anti aircraft anti-missile type defense that it needs to protect its infrastructure, et cetera but that's not what we're talking about. instead, everyone's focused on is biden going to be the nominee or is he going to take this step to step down, then let's play this out. if he does decide. okay. i'm not going to run. he's lame duck president for the rest of his presidency. and i've already heard, especially from former republican officials, dark warnings of october surprises by iran or another country like that that they might try to stage a type of attack to take advantage of

a weakened us. so that's the kind of rumor. and fear that a step like this could feed. and so surely that's also going into biden's calculation and david. >> so now we turn to this evening and this press conference that's going to take take place after they wrap up this nato summit we've heard from some democrats that say nothing that he can do will change their mind. we've heard from others that say wait and see what he, what he does, give us the context before we go of what to watch for and what's at stake tonight. >> sure. well, i think there'll be two or three elements to it. first, i suspect the president's going to open it up by describing what he did during a very complex nato summit that involved more than three dozen leaders. those of europe invited leaders from the pacific, and that's all about creating the aura that look, he brought nato back together after the ukraine war. he is

strengthened it and he's managed to manage this summit as the host, which is, takes a fair bit of work. so it's got a political advantage to him. the second is we're all going to be looking at him for whether or not he holds the threat of the arguments answers the questions answers questions about his health, maybe whether or not he agrees to further testing so far the white house has said none is necessary. and then i think the third that we're looking for is sort of the level of his defiance to those in the party who are saying that he should step aside in till now. that's been pretty strong if there is any opening that he leaves, that he could make a decision that he would be open to to vice president harris for another person stepping in if it looked like they could defeat donald trump, then that would change the game. i don't think he'll say that because once he says

it, then you're on the slope to his stepping aside david, megan kim, appreciate the conversation. thanks so much for being with us. still ahead this hour on cnn news central, we're going to dig deeper into the most recent polling as some democrats are warning, there's no way that joe biden can win november based on the data they're seeing. anger, frustration, and fear in texas as more than 1 million people faced triple-digit temperatures without power and a shocking new study finds nearly half of adult cancer deaths in the u.s. could be prevented prevented. this story and more ahead on this hour i've seen a news central at morgan stanley old school hard work meets bold new thinking to help you see untapped possibilities. and relentlessly work with you to make them real work link relief

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close to a win in 2020. let's break down where polling stands with cnn senior data reporter harry enten and harry, let's dig into north carolina and some other key states. yeah. you mentioned what carolina the democrats want to play their joe biden wants to play they're so north carolina is a sort of pinkish state, as i might put it, back in 2016, donald trump carried the state by four points over hillary clinton. you mentioned last time back in 2020, close race, there one point, my current estimate though, is that donald trump has a clear advantage there at this particular point of six points. and this is part of a larger pattern that we're seeing sort of in the battleground states. so we can break it down by the sunbelt and the great lakes north carolina is sort of closer that sun belt, right? look, nevada, georgia, arizona, look at all of these very clear advantages for donald trump, 556 points. you go over the great lakes. this is where joe biden's campaign believes that they can play ball at this particular point, post-debate, we are seeing trump advantages, but look at how they're smaller.

they're significantly smaller than what we're seeing in the sunbelt, pennsylvania, three points wisconsin two points, michigan, basically a toss-up at one point and here's the key thing, boris if, if joe biden carried pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, he can lose arizona, georgia, nevada, and north carolina, and he will get to get this exactly 200 270 electoral votes if he carries the other states. and of course, nebraska is second congressional district which he did last time around the exact amount that he would need to become resident. that's why it's the blue wants. they need to win that there is talk of some states that historically, in recent history of not been as competitive. suddenly becoming competitive walk us through those. yes. so i'll give you two examples because this is pre-debate the polling from 2024. look these 2020 results, new york. this is a blue state. one was i don't think there's a republican who's carried out in my lifetime or certainly not when i was more than a year old. look at this, joe biden won that state by 23 points. look at this polling though that came out pre-debate. it was

biden just by eight point. i wouldn't be surprised if that state is even closer now or how about in virginia, right? a state that joe biden easily won last time around by ten points pre-debate pre-debate, the race there was tied. i wouldn't be surprised if we see some post-debate polling that actually has joe biden behind them, virginia, who would have ever thought we'd see that. but the fact is when we're looking at these states, new york, virginia, minnesota, new hampshire states that joe biden easily we carried last time around. now all of a sudden, the donald trump campaign thinks that they can put on the play and you know what, based upon this data pre-debate, i believe they absolutely can. >> virginia at least you have a popular republican governor or somebody that's been talked about as a dark horse, vice presidential pick for trump. so we'll see their harry, i got to ask you about this new new york times reporting apparently the biden campaign is testing kamala harris as the top of the democratic ticket, going head-to-head with donald trump. we don't have their numbers just yet. they may leak eventually. but what have you seen in the data to give us an indication of where that might be headed. leaky campaigns leak. so i wouldn't be

surprised if we in fact do see some of that, but this has just public polling and what we see is it's absolutely true that the vice president is polling better against donald trump than joe biden is. look overall, what do we see? we see versus biden? we see that donald trump's ahead by three points, but against harris, this is nationally, we see a tie. why is it its the center of the electorate, you know, elections are won or lost by the center of the electorate independence among independents, donald trump leads joe biden by six points, but among independents, the vice president is ahead by a point over donald trump's. so she does better in the center of the electorate. she does better overall. the fact is boris, given all the polling, we're seeing i'm not quite sure democrats can do worse than joe biden suing. so it may just be worth a shot. of course, that's going to be up to the present himself whether or not he wants to step yeah, that's the most important point. we should also note this is an average of polls. it's not just one set of data, it's a broad, this is an average, this is an average of polls we've seen in more than just one poll. the fact is, is that the vice president is running stronger than joe biden is not by a lot but elections these

days are one right by these small, small margins at the margins and she's doing slightly better than the middle. and that may be just the nakba of course, we'll have to wait and see no guarantees in politics or in life appreciate your walk-ins to the number and thanks so much. jessica. >> let's turn now to a democrat who represents north carolina congressman wiley nickel. congressman, so much for joining us this afternoon. i know you're not seeking reelection when you announce that decision last year, you said you'd quote, be working to elect north carolina democrats up and down the valid in this election year 2024. i'm curious if you think president biden is the best person at the top of the ticket for that jessica joe biden's our democratic nominee. >> we're going to do everything we can to make sure we beat donald trump we've got an really important race for governor as well with joshstein taking on maga extremist republican mark robinson vinson. a lot on the line in this election. and my focus is just making the case for why joe biden should deserve a second term. and talking about

the good things and he's especially as we contrast that with donald trump, who wants to ban abortion with no exceptions give massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy that's not going to help the folks that i represent and i know your focus, as i said, i'm getting on making sure that democratic nominee wins the governor's office. that gubernatorial race in north carolina again, that down the down ballot that's what so many people seem to be concerned about on the hill, is the impact also on the down-ballot races and control of the house and the senate. does that concern you that joe biden at the top of the ticket could drag those other candidates you know, the biggest concern i have is how we go out there and beat donald trump and that's the the focus here. >> we got to do everything we can to push that message out. this is going to be about turnout. this is going to be a close election and joe biden has just one hurdle. he has to overcome he has to make sure folks understand. he's up to the job we're gonna get to see him in action day in and day

out, but he's got a big press conference coming up today. we will get to see him the nachshon up-close. i encouraged that the biden campaign to get him out there as much as we can because once he clears that bar, it's a very low bar. we're going to be talking again about donald trump and why, especially on days like today here in washington, where we've got the nato 75th anniversary summit democracy is literally on the ballot. we can't, if, if donald trump gets back to the oval office, he will hand eastern europe over to his friend and pal vladimir putin. those are big stakes in this collection. so i hope our focus can be more on really what's at stake. and joe biden's the one that needs to put this issue to bed. >> and so with those stakes in mind, those high since you just laid out, you're saying you're confident that the president is the best person at the top of the ticket to make sure that those things don't happen. >> now, he's beaten donald trump before, and i can just tell you, in my race, i want a republican you can see it in the last election when we had fair maps in north carolina and

we did it because you know, pro-choice republicans and pro-democracy independence may did their voices heard? those are the ones we should be looking at. you know, not a big pole of the nation. it's really just about states like north carolina and pennsylvania michigan, where the states that are going to decide whether or not joe biden gets another term in the white house and we heard from the house democratic leader hakeem jeffries this afternoon they're known. >> he told reporters in part that conversations about president biden with house democrats continue that they are going to be ongoing as someone who supports the president and his talked about what you want you're saying you want to be talking about the issues. do you think that leader jeffries is taking too much time to conclude this process? that's what do you view as the cutoff date when it's when it's like, okay, if he's the nominee, we got to stop talking about that, or is there one i think i think, you know, leader jeffries is doing an amazing job with a very diverse group of house

democrats. >> a lot of people have a lot of different opinions and his job is to be a voice for everybody. so he's going out there and he's listen seemed to every opinion and we have very diverse opinions is as house democrats, but we are united in beating donald trump. and we're just trying to figure out especially at the top of our leadership what's the best way to do that? and right now, we've got joe biden is our nominee focus really should be on talking about the good things that the administration has done. and frankly, i want to hear the white house come out and talk about what they want to accomplish over the next four years. i think that's what the american people really need to hear not, not the constant dc chatter, but what we're going to do to help improve people's lives, that's if the focus is on that, it's going to be a great night for democrats on election night. >> all right, congressman wiley, nicole, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thanks so much this just into us, the governor of texas, requesting an investigation into electric companies in the wake of the power outages from hurricane beryl there's more than 1 million customers remain

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their power restored until sometime next week. think about it. we talk about the heat index that's how the body experiences air temperature, and humidity. that is a very high number that we're talking about 1.6, i think today is what that indices is standing at. so if you look at this, this is a dangerous number that we're talking about for this long. they're saying that some people will see their power restored by tomorrow, some 400,000 people and another 350 thousand restored by sunday. but that's still a very long time. the company testifying before the texts public utility commission, going so far as to say that they've restored about 50% of their customers, about 1.2 million have seen their power restored. but what they're encountering is, as you would expect, after a hurricane, that there are tree limbs that have taken out power lines and they've got to get through that debris and to do so, they've got to get boots on the ground to get out there, fix those lines and make it work obviously, the people that you would expect to be hurt the most are the ones who were in that path of beryl that really

did get pounded by that. but there's another question here that seems to be coming up is when did centerpoint energy start asking for mutual aid? that's when they look to the other communities nearby, say hey, can you bring in some people, move them in before the storm preposition, they said that three days before the storm hit, they requested 3,000 of those troops to come in to help out. and as it became clear that the path of the storm was changing, they upped that number to 10,000, still, a lot of questions you hear now from the governor and the lieutenant governor of texas saying that they're going to investigate. but obviously there are a lot of questions about how prepared the infrastructure is in these states, in these hurricane lines, as we see that the oceans are warming, we're seeing human induced climate change, making things hotter, that makes these storms even more dangerous. and they're hitting places that were not used to this level of intensity of storms. and so what is the plan going forward to protect these people under deadly circumstances when the heat is just this hot how they badly need help. stephanie elam, thanks so much for the

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boris donald trump may say he doesn't know who is behind product 2025, but he would be very familiar with many of the names who are involved with it when you look through the list of authors and contributors and all the conservative groups advising this project. we found more than 200 connections between donald trump and the pran project 2025, including 140 people who worked in his administration who helped write or contributed to prior to 2020 2025 signature work this 900 page manifesto with their ideas it's for a second term. it includes some of the people who reached the highest levels of his government, six cabinet secretaries, including former hud secretary ben carson, for people who are nominated to be ambassadors. his former chief of staff, mark meadows, is closely involved with one of the groups that has been invited advising this project. so stephen miller, another longtime adviser to trump, he's involved with a group that has been advising project

2025 as well. many of the people who were behind the immigration policies that he pushed early in his term there, they helped write this thing as well. we took this information to the trump campaign and they said, look yes, these people did work for donald trump, but they don't speak for him now they may never work for him again. if you want to know what donald trump believes, they said you should look at his website. he has this entire agenda put up there. he supports the republican party platform, but he is not involved with project 2025. but i want to point you to a clip from earlier this year. this is in february. were donald will trump spoke at an event, as well as the heritage foundation president, which is the group behind project 2025. and he had some interesting words to say about kevin roberts, the president of heritage heritage foundation president somebody else doing an unbelievable job is bringing it back to levels. it's never seen dr. kevin roberts are project 2025 is developed a comprehensive policy agenda, but even more importantly, recruiting people

20,000 people to go into the next administration hopefully to help take back this country for you and for your audiences. we want no credit. we want the american people. if president trump is elected again, president trump and his the administration to take credit for that now, i was actually at that event and also speaking was paul dansie is a former high level trump official who has been the director of project 2025. >> and at this event, he actually said he intends or would like to work for donald trump again, if he wins in november right. so steve, you kind of read between all those tea leaves and it all things can be true, right? he may not know exactly about it, but it seems like he's very linked to it and yet they're trying to distance themselves from it now they are. and that is because democrats have been making this a campaign issue and we have seen both the biden campaign, the democratic national party put out a lot of messaging

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perhaps not completely, they found that among adults aged 30 and older 40% of cancer cases and 44% of cancer deaths are attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors. now, what are those? no surprise, the leading one is a smoking cigarettes that contributed to the most cases of cancer and deaths from cancer, but also excess body weight alcohol consumption, exposure to uv radiation through sunlight without protection are also up there, including as well things like diet, not enough fruits and vegetables, eating too much red meat or processed meat. and certain cancer causing viruses. now the cancers that are most connected to these modifiable risk factors are lung cancer. of course, because of smoking also female breast cancer melanoma for skin cancer and colorectal cancer. but guys, there are a lot of cancers they looked at here that do have some risk factors that it could

potentially be modified to reduce focuses risk and meg, what are the recommendations for people to reduce their risk? yes it will lot of this can be on a personal basis, but a lot of this is also societal and systemic and there could be policy changes as well. but on a personal basis, avoiding smoking clearly maintaining a healthy body weight, cutting or not stopping drinking alcohol exercising. and i'm using sunday and protection avoiding excess sun exposure. but on a policy level, the researchers in this study really focused on things that communities can do. they focused in on smoking, for example, one of the most effective ways of reducing smoking rates is to make it more expensive through excise taxes and they've pointed out that a pack of cigarettes and missouri is about half as expensive as a pack of cigarettes in new york state, if you look at the rates of lung cancer in those states, they are dramatically different. so there really can be societal things that can be done on top of reminding

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