Jake Tapper talks McCarthyism, Trump, and the Media

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🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jake Tapper, host of CNN's "State of the Union" and "The Lead with Jake Tapper" joins Chuck to talk about his new thriller "The Hellfire Club" - a novel about Washington during the era of McCarthy, and why history might be repeating itself.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:09.3	So see if this sounds familiar.
0:10.6	My guest today has a Sunday morning politics show
0:12.9	and a weekday cable show.
0:15.0	My interviewing myself, no, my good friend Jake Tapper.
0:18.0	You may know him as the host of CNN State of the Union
0:20.3	and the lead with Jake Tapper.
0:22.4	But he's also an author and now a novelist.
0:25.8	His first novel, The Hellfire Club.
0:28.1	The book is a thriller that takes place in Washington, DC
0:30.8	in the 1950s, the height of McCarthyism, the Cold War,
0:33.4	backroom deals.
0:35.0	Might say it has a little something
0:36.5	for people who pay attention to politics today
0:38.8	as well, Mr. Tapper.
0:40.2	Welcome to 1947.
0:42.4	It's great to be here.
0:43.4	That's where we named our broad, so our podcast.
0:45.3	This is one of the few times where I feel like the name
0:47.5	of the podcast, which is after our birth year here at Meet
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