''The Lead with Jake Tapper'' is an afternoon and early evening newscast hosted by

Jake Tapper Jacob Paul Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is an American journalist, author, and cartoonist. He is the lead Washington anchor for CNN, hosts the weekday television news show '' The Lead with Jake Tapper'', and co-hosts the Sunday morning public a ...

on CNN and

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. The show currently airs weekdays live from 4:00pm to 6:00pm ET. The show contains a "lead" for different subjects. They are the ''National'', ''Political'', ''Money'', ''Buried'', ''Sports'', ''World'', ''Pop'', ''Faith'', ''Earth Matters'', ''Tech'', and ''Health'' leads.

History

In 2013, the show was given a week of primetime re-run at 10pm ET. That week, the Boston marathon terror attack caused this rebroadcast to be axed in favor of a live edition of ''

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''. Following Piers Morgan's departure from CNN in March 2014, CNN President Jeff Zucker had various anchors fill the 9pm ET slot as a test run. Among them was ''The Lead'' airing at 9pm ET for the weeks of April 7 and April 14. ''The Lead with Jake Tapper'' was also broadcast via tape-delay on

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every Tuesday-Saturday for one hour at 11:00 am, local time from February 15 to July 23, 2016. From March 16 until September 5, 2015, the show aired at 4:00 pm. ''The Lead'' moved its morning telecast to 9:00 am but was truncated to 30 minutes until late January 2016 when it was moved to 8:30 for at least a month. Before August 2016, ''The Lead with Jake Tapper'' was axed on CNN Philippines as part of program restructuring. On September 10, 2018, the program started to be simulcast on

. In October 2020, the show aired for two hours from 3pm to 5pm ET. Brooke Baldwin's

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hour was removed for the month. The show went back to its usual air time in November after Baldwin returned. In January 2021, CNN announced that the show would expand to two hours starting in April, taking over the former first hour of The Situation Room.

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