The Lead

In a rare act of journalism on CNN, anchor Jake Tapper on Wednesday afternoon grilled Biden's Director of National Economic Council Brian Deese on the administration’s stunning incompetence in dealing with the ongoing baby formula shortage. 

In the anti-gun hurricane that has been the liberal media’s response to the tragic Texas school shooting all week, including calls for sweeping bans on everything from rifles to handguns to shotguns, the eye of that storm seemed to pass over CNN’s The Lead on Thursday as anchor Jake Tapper brought on the founder of The Reload (the home for “sober, serious firearms journalism”) former…

In the wake of the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, former Homeland Security official turned CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem appeared on Jake Tapper’s The Lead and demanded that President Biden suspend immigration enforcement in the area of the town. She would go on to scoff at Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s desire to have armed protection in schools and…

On his Sunday morning State of the Union show, CNN host Jake Tapper demonstrated his blatant sympathy with the left's pro-abortion views as he pressed both Republican and Democratic guests from the left on the issue.

The words "Hunter Biden" surfaced on Jake Tapper's CNN show on Tuesday...but only to condemn Donald Trump for the apparently horrific act of asking war criminal Vladimir Putin for details on the wife of Moscow's mayor giving $3.5 million given to a company Hunter Biden co-founded. 

President Biden flip-flopped during his Thursday press conference in Brussels when he declared that sanctions were never meant to deter Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine despite constant proclamations from the administration to the contrary. On The Lead, CNN chief political analyst Susan Glasser reacted to Biden’s dishonesty by talking about former President Trump.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr took his book tour to The Lead with Jake Tapper on CNN on Friday, where Tapper, despite acknowledging that Barr’s assessment of the Russian collusion narrative is correct, wondered if Barr was still helping Vladimir Putin.

President Biden’s weakness on the world stage is on full display again as new sanctions on Russia have failed to curb President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. And during Wednesday’s edition of The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper pressed on this truth and was backed up by OutFront host Erin Burnett, who was reporting from Lviv, Ukraine.

Not long after Tuesday’s joint press conference between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba announcing new sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine, CNN’s Jake Tapper was joined on The Lead by the latter. There, Tapper called out the sanctions as weak, less than what Ukraine was asking for, and barely a deterrent to Russian President Vladimir…

Just like their network counterparts, the primetime hours of both CNN and MSNBC completely ignored the bombshell court filings from Special Counsel John Durham showing that Hillary Clinton’s campaign allegedly spied on then-President Donald Trump both at Trump Tower in New York and the White House. In fact, with the exception of a brief segment on Jake Tapper's show in the 4 pm hour on CNN,…

CNN’s anti-Freedom Convoy correspondent Paula Newton was at it again Wednesday as she desperately tried to smear the peaceful Canadian protest against their COVID restrictions. In reports throughout the day, Newton suggested that they should be feared and were a threat to the country. She even suggested that their “civil disobedience” can’t be “tolerated” because “what can happen next?”

In addition to making headlines by giving Russia the green light for a “minor incursion” into Ukraine during a press conference on Wednesday, President Biden dropped jaws when he declared the 2022 midterms would be illegitimate if the Senate didn’t pass the federal takeover of elections. And it was a declaration that raised serious concerns on both sides of the aisle as White House Press…

On Wednesday afternoon, the House Select Committee on January 6 requested cooperation from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Naturally, CNN returned January 6 to its prime position as, from 3:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Eastern, the Jeff Zucker-led network spent 97 minutes obsessing over what it (and other developments) meant for the probe. In contrast to the 97 minutes and 19 seconds on…

For nearly two years, conservatives and Republicans were vilified as conspiracy theorists for raising questions about COVID hospitalization numbers when it came to who was there because of COVID and who just happened to be infected. On Monday, CNN and anchor Jake Tapper finally arrived at the scene to ask the obvious questions after CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky admitted to Fox News that…