as for politico.com is where you can go to see lauren gardner's work food and drug administration worker there and her story from yesterday. appreciate you getting up with us this morning and appreciate your time. >> thank you. ken cuccinelli is back with us served as the department of homeland security for the trump and is now serving as the election transparency initiative. what is the election transparency initiative? >> guest: if that's a good place to start. sig group we formed less than two years ago to take advantage of frankly the interest on both sides of the aisle andnd electin reform. having been a state legislator and as an attorney general i can tell you elections another legislators will play the same they are often they left behind subject and all over the country are election laws need updated. pennsylvania is operating on a 1937 election code. their words and their election codes almost don't have any meaning today. last few years we have been encouraging state legislators to open up by which i mean transparency to open up the election system so citizens can see event an

we are joined by a reporter covering the food and drug administration at politico, lauren gardner.ou covered the speech, the president saying he wants to cut the u.s. death toll from cancer and half over the next 25 years. how does he plan to do that? >> the president yesterday went through a list of some things he has already done as both vice president under president obama and now as president and looking to the future in terms of what he wants to do to achieve that goal of having cancer deaths over the next 25 years. yesterday was kind of a way to link his cancer moonshot, which he has been working on since he was vice president, since his son beau died of brain cancer in 2015, and linking that to president john f. kennedy's speech 50 years ago yesterday about trying to take the u.s. to the moon. drawing parallels, and while it may seem like a far-flung idea right now, if we can dedicate the resources and the brainpower to it, we can achieve it. one of the big things around that is this new agency called arpa-h, advanced research projects agency for health care. it is modeled o

lauren gardner good morning to you. you are covering this are covering the speeches are to present say you want to cut the u.s. death toll from cancer in half over the next 25 years. how does he plan to do that? the >> guest: the president yesterday went through a list of the things he has already done as vice president or president obama now as president and the future in terms of what he wants to do to reduce cancer deaths over the next 25 years. yesterday was a way to link his cancer moonshot which he's been working on since he was vice president and thinking that to president john f. kennedy's historic speech six years ago yesterday about trying to take the u.s. to the moon and strong parallels about how that may seem a far-flung idea what now if we can dedicate the resources and the brainpower to achieve it. one of these big things around that is this new agency. it's the advanced research process for health care and it's modeled on a couple ofs innovative agencies in the federal government one being focused on def