Johnson said that he had seriously considered a presidential run but, as he told CBS Sunday Morning recently, his concentrating on being a father for now. The administration will also require all businesses with 100 or more employees to require testing at least once a week for unvaccinated workers. Tapper contributed regularly to Good Morning America, Nightline, and World News with Diane Sawyer. So, when news broke Wednesday that Tapper would be moving back to his 4 PM perch after the midterms, the network had what appears to be simple explanation. Tapper was part of a team that was awarded an Edward R. Murrow Award for Video: Breaking News for "Target bin Laden: The Death of Public Enemy #1". CNN went on with coverage of the settlement for some time before moving back to a story related to the recent Pentagon intel leak and Russias dentition of a U.S. journalist who happens works for the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal. Jacob Paul Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is an American journalist, author, and cartoonist. His mom's Canadian a descendant of British loyalists who fled . Two months ago, in anticipation of the midterm elections, CNN made a major change to its lineup, putting Jake Tapper on at 9 PMa marked departure for the cable news veteran who typically hosts his show, The Lead, in the afternoon. "[69], Tapper also has two honorary degrees from UMass Amherst[70] and Dartmouth. He added that Biden is scolding the people that are being lied to as opposed to the liars ignoring that the president also attacked elected politicians who have been spreading lies, and that unvaccinated people themselves promote lies about the vaccines. He contributed a report to a broadcast of World News Tonight with Peter Jennings that won the 2005 Edward R. Murrow Award for best network newscast. What about the feelings of their viewers? [8] He is the son of Theodore S. "Ted" and Helen Anne (ne Palmatier) Tapper. However, Tuesdays debut averaged just 387,000 total viewers, trailing behind Fox News Fox & Friends average of 1.5 million viewers and the 793,000 average for Morning Joe.. And I walked into the Hotel Fort Des Moines and there was Jennifer, he added. Tapper made the comments on Kimmel's show when he was asked if his life was far more boring after former President Donald Trump left office. 2023 Cond Nast. [17] He later enrolled at Akiba Hebrew Academy, an independent Jewish day school formerly located in Merion, Pennsylvania, and attended Dartmouth College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with a B.A. Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost. While working there, Tapper covered a range of topics including work in the ABC News Baghdad bureau, from New Orleans after the failure of the levees after Hurricane Katrina, and from Afghanistan.