CNN's Jake Tapper says he wouldn't have done a town hall with Robert Kennedy Jr. because he spreads "dangerous misinformation" He adds that Donald Trump is incredibly popular with the Republican Party, and his event was picked the same way as any other one. But what would you have done differently there if you could go back and change it?Tapper: There's an argument to be made that what Fox did when they did their town hall like a week or two later, it was not live.
When political spectacles abound, how can the media focus on the substance and avoid the clickbait? And is there a market left for nonpartisan cable news? Chief Washington Correspondent and Anchor of The Lead Jake Tapper joins us to discuss these questions, and his new book, All the Demons Are Here, a Post-Watergate thriller with inspiration from Trump, Murdoch and more.
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