How will CNN's Jake Tapper be remembered 30 years from now?

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week on Inside the Hive, CNN’s Jake Tapper joins Joe Hagan for a wide-ranging conversation, from his role covering Trump to the gripping new war movie “The Outpost," based on Tapper’s 2012 nonfiction book about a harrowing battle between 53 U.S. forces and 400+ Taliban in which eight Americans were killed. Tapper talks of his emotional reaction to reports that Trump ignored intelligence about Russia paying Taliban insurgents to kill U.S. soldiers. Tapper also addresses the theory that CNN itself is partially culpable for Trump's rise and explains what motivates his reporting in a world where Watergate-sized revelations rarely move the needle of public opinion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive. This is Joe Hagen. I'm here with Emily Jane Fox. Hello Emily.
0:07.0	Hi. Good morning.
0:10.0	And good morning or good afternoon or good evening wherever you are in America and the world.
0:18.0	It is a week when we are seeing a new character emerge on the stage who we have not seen very much of
0:26.0	brand new character.
0:28.0	He's like a fresh, a spring chicken.
0:32.0	I actually don't know that anyone's ever used that phrase to describe who we're talking about.
0:38.0	We're talking about Joe Biden so spring chicken may not be exactly it, but it feels like a fresh face.
0:46.2	He's a fresh face.
0:47.4	He's, I don't know, yeah, is he spry?
0:49.9	Does he have a new spring in his step?
0:52.0	Maybe all we can say about him is that he's there,
0:54.5	he's appeared.
0:55.3	That's, honestly, that's more than we could have said two weeks ago.
0:58.8	So being there, an improvement in the 2020 race for the White House.
1:04.0	Joe Biden has emerged over the last few days
1:08.0	to do what any candidate would have done in any half a day in the six months leading up to the any real novel movement worth talking about on our podcast because he has given
1:25.4	to public press appearances. What a marvel, what a wonder, what a cause for pause in our news cycle.
1:37.0	Well, I both get excited about it and I get a little bit of tense when I see him talking.
1:42.4	I feel like I'm out on the tightrope with
1:44.0	Joe Biden. What's making you tense about it? Well I don't I want him all the
1:48.2	words to line up. Sure. And you know I want it to come out smooth and I want to feel some level of you know that he's
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