Jake Tapper

I said, you know, he's a guy, nice guy, seemed like a very nice guy.

I bet him he was pretty heartbroken.

Pretty.

But I said, you know, it's a shame.

He ran for Congress twice.

Call him up, give him a job in the White House.

Smart.

They gave him a job in the White House.

And this is what he does to me.

You know, being a nice guy doesn't pay off too much.

So you're probably wondering what's going on, why we're in my office for the first hour of the lead today.

So it's an experiment.

This is my actual desk where I do my actual work, not the desk in the studio.

And we thought we would bring you into the space where me and my team do our actual journalism and plan the show every day.

So here we are giving it a shot.

You might also be wondering about the decor, the posters and the kerchiefs and such on my wall.

Well, the theme is these are all losing presidential campaigns.

And this hobby started 26 years ago after I covered my very first presidential campaign in the year 2000.

Campaigning and hopping from bus to plane to bus to plane, I collected the lawn signs and posters of all the candidates I covered.

And by the end of the election, I had a really great collection of, well, losers.