Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.

Meet the press.

Meet the press.

So see if this sounds familiar.

My guest today has a Sunday morning politics show

and a weekday cable show.

My interviewing myself, no, my good friend Jake Tapper.

You may know him as the host of CNN State of the Union

and the lead with Jake Tapper.

But he's also an author and now a novelist.

His first novel, The Hellfire Club.

The book is a thriller that takes place in Washington, DC

in the 1950s, the height of McCarthyism, the Cold War,

backroom deals.

Might say it has a little something

for people who pay attention to politics today

as well, Mr. Tapper.

Welcome to 1947.

It's great to be here.

That's where we named our broad, so our podcast.

This is one of the few times where I feel like the name

of the podcast, which is after our birth year here at Meet

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