Jake Tapper
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Jake Tapper
Jacob Paul "Jake" Tapperis an American journalist, cartoonist, and author. As of 2016, Tapper is the Chief Washington Correspondent for CNN, anchor of the CNN weekday television news show The Lead with Jake Tapper, and anchor of the Sunday morning affairs program State of the Union. In 2016, The Lead was honored with two National Headliner Awards: Best Newscastand Best Coverage of a Major News Eventfor the show's coverage of the Paris terrorist attacks in 2015...
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth12 March 1969
CityNew York City, NY
But why immediately link blacks and crime. Bennett told me on the phone that race was on his mind because of recent stories in the media about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.