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CNN's Jake Tapper interviewed Emily Miller on "The Lead" about Republicans infighting over immigration reform and same-sex marriage.
Broadcast debut of note Monday: that would be CNN's "The Lead," showcasing the he-man talents of Jake Tapper, who has managed to sidestep the land mines of broadcast to emerge with his own show, credibility intact.
Jake Tapper's mission before starting his new CNN show has been to make sure people know that he's more than a political wonk.
Chris Cuomo is leaving ABC News to host a new morning show at CNN, where new boss Jeff Zucker is moving fast to try to turn around the cable news pioneer, which has fallen on hard times.
Chris Cuomo is leaving ABC News to host a new morning show at CNN, where new boss Jeff Zucker is moving fast to try to turn around the cable news pioneer that has fallen on hard times.
Fox News has signed former Ohio congressman Dennis J. Kucinich as a paid contributor on both the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.
Jake Tapper is leaving the White House beat at ABC News to become CNN's chief Washington correspondent and anchor of a one-hour weekday news program.
Suddenly, the president's new clothes seem embarrassingly transparent. The contention relentlessly promoted by Team Obama, to the effect that the commander in chief's performance with respect to foreign policy and national security was simply unassailable, is being seen for what it is: an utter fraud.
It's mushroom cloud after mushroom cloud for President Obama.
The Obama re-election effort shifted into a higher gear over the weekend, with the president and the first lady leading rallies at colleges in Ohio and Virginia on Saturday.
Two things you need to know about President Obama's nearly $4 trillion budget for fiscal 2013: It will likely add another $1 trillion to a $15.3 trillion debt, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he will not act on any full budget plan this year.
President Obama recently compared the Tea Party to the Occupy Wall Street protests, telling ABC News' Jake Tapper, "in some ways they're not that different." We beg to differ. The Tea Party and the protesters are almost exact opposites.
Angelina Jolie, for the last 10 years a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, has accepted a position as Special Representative on the Afghan refugee situation, the U.N. announced Tuesday in Geneva.
Christiane Amanpour stood on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday in a khaki shirt with a backdrop of Cairo in crisis, rattling off reports from the street in Egypt and noting the presence of flyovers by fighter jets in what she described as eardrum-ripping sound.
"We're consumed with other matters today, but spare a moment for [Salman Rushdie] who spent his weekend watching [Yusuf Islam, the former Cat Stevens] who called for him to be murdered for blasphemy playing to an adoring crowd of thousands of liberals," writes Blogger Allahpundit at Hot Air.
"There are more than 300 million people in America. They have a wide variety of tastes. If they want information told by those who share their political point of view, that's fine. But that's not what we're going to do. We'll have a wide variety of guests," he says. "Hopefully, people will be left with the impression that I ask tough but fair questions."
"We want to put on a news show you want to watch, one that doesn't have political ideology, and one that aggressively seeks the truth," Mr. Tapper tells Inside the Beltway. "We intend for this to be engaging and compelling. We'll cover a wide range of topics, from Syria to HBO, from Capitol Hill to Wall Street, from the gridiron to soda bans. We're going to carve out time for all those topics."
