Jake Tapper wrote the bestselling nonfiction book
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, which was turned into a critically acclaimed film in 2020, and two
New York Times bestselling novels,
The Hellfire Club and
The Devil May Dance. He is an Emmy Award-winning TV journalist as lead DC anchor and chief Washington correspondent for CNN. A Dartmouth graduate and Philly native, he lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, daughter, son, three dogs, and cat.
Alex Thompson is a National Political Correspondent for Axios and a CNN contributor. He won the White House Correspondents' Association award for overall excellence in White House coverage for his reporting on Joe Biden in 2024. Before that, he created
Politico's
West Wing Playbook newsletter and worked at
The New York Times and
Vice News. A Harvard graduate, he lives in Washington, DC. He has no pets, but is a proud uncle.