Jake Tapper Worries Legacy Media Bent the Knee

Today's guest is Jake Tapper, the host of The Lead on CNN and author of the new book, Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda killer at the dawn of the Forever War.

He tells Nick Gillespie why it matters that Donald Trump is following Barack Obama’s lead in trying terrorists in criminal courts rather than military tribunals, why he believes the Trump administration is unleashing an all-out offensive against journalists critical of the president, and what the legacy media got way wrong with Joe Biden and COVID.

They also discuss the future of journalism in an age of media consolidation where Free Press upstart Bari Weiss is heading up CBS News--and possibly CNN too.

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0:00–Introduction
1:34–Race Against Terror
5:25–The Bush administration and the war on terror
8:39–The legality and effectiveness of torture
17:06–President Trump’s approach to foreign policy
22:19–Media censorship and the FCC
29:43–CBS News, CNN, and the challenges facing legacy media
40:14–The rise of independent media
52:07–Joe Biden’s decline and its impact on the Democratic Party
58:37–What is being underreported in the second Trump administration?
1:06:05–Generational shifts in political views

Producer: Paul Alexander
Audio Mixer: Ian Keyser
Illustration: Eddie Marshall