One on One with CNN's Jake Tapper

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Higher Ground

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🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Anchorman and author Jake Tapper (CNN) joins us this week! We discuss his approach to challenging politicians on air (3:15), the danger of “both sides-ism” (5:55), the mental instability he’s come across in Washington (9:53) and why all politicians think of themselves as the “hero” of the story (14:52). With the release of his new book, The Devil May Dance, Tapper candidly reflects on the power dynamics between journalists and elected officials (16:22), CNN’s role in generating the Trump phenomenon (18:40), the mistakes made in the past four years (21:27), and why he believes the new media can (and will) “rise to the challenge” of better coverage in future elections (29:09). Then, before we go, we return to Tapper’s guiding journalistic principles (37:29), a passage from the late Walter Cronkite (40:30), and why he continues doing the work he’s doing (46:03).

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:06.0	This is.
0:07.0	This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco, so welcome to the show. Yeah. Today I'm joined by journalist and broadcaster Jake Tapper. He's the anchor of
0:47.1	CNN's The lead with Jake Tapper, weekdays from four to six p.m. Eastern time.
0:54.0	Whether you live stateside or abroad,
0:56.6	you've likely watched his show at one point or another.
1:00.6	Although Tapper has been working on television since the early 2000s, he came to prominence during the Trump presidency.
1:08.0	In four years, Tapper transformed as a leading voice in broadcast news.
1:14.8	In a climate of partisanship, hot takes, and bite-sized opinions, he sees himself as fair,
1:21.3	researched, and level-headed.
1:24.3	His job is to report the news, he says, not to opine about it.
1:30.0	He poses tough questions to all people on his show,
1:33.5	Democrats and Republicans alike.
1:36.1	We get into that in this talk.
1:38.1	His latest project is a book called The Devil May Dance,
1:41.8	set in 1961 around a congressman and his wife who've been
1:45.9	given marching orders by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to travel west. The
1:52.4	mission to look into potential mob connections of Frank Sinatra,
1:57.6	a close friend to John F. Kennedy. It's a page-turning historical thriller as the couple moves from Capitol Hill to the
2:05.8	Hollywood Hills, only to discover a different kind of corruption.
2:11.2	The central question of the book is,
2:13.0	who are you willing to get in bed with?
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