CNN tried out a new look on Friday (March 20) when Jake Tapper hosted The Lead from his actual office, complete with poster-covered walls and an exposed podcast-style microphone.
“We‘re going to try something a little different today. Welcome to my office,” Tapper said at the top of Friday’s show, per The Daily Beast. “We thought we would bring you into the space where me and my team do our actual journalism and plan the show every day. So here we are giving it a shot.”
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