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After cornering Conway, CNN’s Jake Tapper explains why Trump will never get a free pass

“Our coverage follows his lead. I think that if he pivoted as he claimed he would and was more presidential, not sending out nasty tweets about Nordstrom or judges or not go to the National Prayer Breakfast and talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger ratings, then I would be delighted, frankly, to cover the policies more. But there’s this whole other thing going on with this White House.” — Jake Tapper to Stephen Colbert, when asked whether Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway’s plea with him the day before to change CNN’s coverage of the President would be considered.

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