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Jake Tapper is a prominent American journalist, author, and anchor who has been the chief Washington correspondent and a host at CNN since 2013, where he currently leads the weekday news program “CNN News Central.” With a career spanning print and broadcast, he previously worked for ABC News and the Associated Press, and is the author of the political novels The Hellfire Club and The Devil May Dance.