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It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

Can CNN thread the needle?

How do you pivot from excitedly promoting your anchor's book to somberly and respectfully promoting your anchor's book?

Biden's health was very much in the news even before the cancer diagnosis was announced on

Sunday.

That's because of a new book by CNN's Jake Tapper.

This was already going to be a tough week and this makes it much harder and that is a

reference to the fact that our colleague Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have a book

that's set to publish on Tuesday.

This very tough news, this very challenging news,

and at the same time, the backdrop of our colleague Jig Tapper's book with Alex Thompson coming out this week.

It's so hard.

It's such a difficult time, so unfathomable in terms of the pain

this family must be feeling and yet if you act now

and you use the code backslash tap that book. You will.

All right, hackaroos, that was satirist John Stewart talking about the book that we're going to talk about.

We're going to talk about everything.

We're taping this thing in the afternoon.

Normally we do it early in the morning and then we edit it and get it to you.

So this may get out a little late.

And we're loopy.

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