''State of the Union'', branded as ''State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash'', is an American Sunday talk show and political discussion television program on

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and broadcast around the world by

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. It has been co-anchored 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 af ...

since 2015 and

Dana Bash Dana Ruth Bash (born June 15, 1971; née Schwartz) is an American journalist, news anchor, and chief political correspondent for CNN. Early life and education Bash was born Dana Ruth Schwartz in Manhattan, New York City, into a family of Jews, ...

since 2021. It has been broadcast since its debut in January 2009. The program is broadcast from 9:00am to 10:00am ET, with a replay at noon to 1:00pm ET from CNN's studios in Washington D.C.

History

The program premiered on January 18, 2009, originally with John King as host, and aired from 9:00am to 1:00pm ET (though only the 9:00am and noon ET hours are simulcast on

) and from 8:00pm to 9:00pm ET. It features news analysis and interviews with politicians, reporters, and newsmakers, as well as the " Magic Wall", an interactive touch screen map previously used by King to cover the 2008 presidential election. At four hours long, it was by far the longest of the Sunday talk shows. It was created as a merger between '' Reliable Sources'' and ''

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''; ''Reliable Sources'' continued unchanged as a one-hour "segment" of ''State of the Union''. On February 11, 2009, CNN announced it had hired former ''

Meet the Press ''Meet the Press'' is a weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. It is the longest-running program on American television, though the current format bears little resemblance to the debut episode on November 6, 1947. ' ...

'' producer Michelle Jaconi as the executive producer of the program. On a January 31, 2010, broadcast, John King announced that senior political correspondent

Candy Crowley Candy Alt Crowley (born December 26, 1948) is an American news anchor who was employed as CNN's chief political correspondent, specializing in American national and state elections. She was based in CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau and was the anch ...

would become the new anchor of the program, following King's move to take over Lou Dobbs' former timeslot. In the move, the program was cut from four hours to one, and the '' Reliable Sources'' "show within a show" was spun off once again as its own program. After Crowley left CNN in December 2014, ''State of the Union'' had a series of fill-ins until

was named permanent host in April 2015. In January 2021, CNN announced that

would join Tapper as a co-host, with the two alternating Sundays hosting.

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