The White House says the President is saving America's children by killing the Department of Education.

The lead starts right now.

President Trump signing an executive order just moments ago, taking a controversial step towards dismantling the Department of Education.

What this order aims to change and not change

about education in America? The president does not have the standing to destroy the department,

so how is he attempting to dismantle it? Plus, a Georgetown University researcher with a valid

U.S. visa, one of the latest detained by immigration authorities. So why did he pop up on the administration's

radar? And journalist Ronan Farrow, with an unbelievable find in his new podcast, how his investigation

into a former beauty queen uncovered a series of unsolved crimes, cold cases, including attempted murder.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, President Donald Trump, today fulfilling a major

campaign promise officially signing in order to begin the process of dismantling the Federal

Department of Education.

We're going to be returning education very simply back to the states where it belongs, and

this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it's a common sense thing to do,

and it's going to work.

While completely shuddering the department would require an act of Congress, the president

is going to direct education secretary Linda McMahon, a former executive with World Wrestling

Entertainment, to smack down the entire department.

It has been conservative dogma for years, we should note, that the department gives the federal

government too much control over what should be left

to localities and the states. But let's take a closer look at the Department of Education.

It's been around since 1979. Let's explain to you what it does. Even before the department

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