CNN's Jake Tapper Talks Trump, Marriott and Family Travel


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The D.C. swamp is a little less swampy because Jake Tapper is there. Sometimes the interests of great journalism and the travel industry's desire to break down cultural barriers find themselves in harmony.
Jake Tapper came to talk about President Donald Trump, the Washington swamp, and to plug his new novel, The Hellfire Club, but in front of an audience of hundreds of travel agents and other industry executives, the CNN anchor addressed how media and travel interests may sometimes converge. At the American Society of Travel Advisors global conference in Washington Thursday, Tapper said one way the travel industry could further its own aims about breaking down barriers between people of different countries would be to support the media's international coverage. The media doesn't do enough international coverage, but CNN does more than anyone, Tapper said, adding that the network does have CNN International, its news channel focusing on developments abroad. However, people