a.m. eastern. we will be covering it all on the c-span networks today. but we begin with "washington >> period beginning "washington journal" focusing on thejo presidents cancer moonshotub initiative we are joined by a the reporter covering the fda at politico

good morning. you are covering this yesterday the president says he wants to cut the death toll from cancerye inhofe over the next 25 years. how does he plan to do that? fact the president yesterday went through and then looking to the future to achieve that goal. and that moonshot he has been working on since he was vice president senses son died of brain cancer and thinking that to f president jfk speech six years ago yesterday on —- county years ago to strike those parallels to go to the moon and while it may seem a

far-flung idea and then the brain power to achieve that one of the big things is with the advanced research project agency for healthcare modeled on innovative agencies and renders focused on defense technologies another being energy with $1 billion of funding and the president introduced for that initiative yesterday and to show they will lead the effort and one of the big goals of this agency is to backup research

and accelerated and to bring those implementations but those chronic diseases you typically hear people are suffering from that they don't have treatments or cures alzheimer's or diabetes or many types of cancer. the lead of the agency the president introduced her yesterday also signing anor executive order yesterday with the headline on that the white house launches the effort to bolster domestic bio manufacturing. you wrote the story. what is the effort? >> he signed the executive order to try to focus departments around the idea of but it's all private sector.

that may not the those that are going for pharmaceutical supplies either on your it on —- us shores is all of those to mitigate climate change impact andat to improve food production and and then to bring those manufacturing jobs back to the united states. hoping to coordinate federal investment and senior administration officials teased earlier they expect an announcement later this week

and with that sound like they will make announcements of goals. >> and you cover the fda. so what role does the fda have in the cancer moonshot? >> the president talked about the law that passed in the waning days of the obama administration called the 21st century care zach so to accelerate the processes he did succeed to review innovative drugs are treatment that manufacturers and drug companies have developed. it was a bipartisan effort and pretty popular on capitol hill.

and right now there is a big debate over and then actually with the f pa and then to review these applications in a timely manner it's pretty much like everything so there's in to get that over the line. so that is a key part to make sure that to do those reviews and separate is to build on that 21st century teachers out worry there will be

innovations but who can make it across the finish line by the end of the calendar year but those of the discussions going on right now on capitol hill so focusing on the innovation. >> politico.cap and those that pro from yesterday and discussing it. we appreciate your time

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