Dana Bash

Bash was born Dana Ruth Schwartz in Manhattan into a Jewish family, to Frances (née Weinman) Schwartz, an author and educator in Jewish studies, and Stuart Schwartz, an ABC News producer who served as the senior broadcast producer for Good Morning America. Bash's maternal grandmother, Teri Vidor Weinman, and her family were Hungarian Jews. Weinman escaped to the U.S. with her husband in October 1941, but her parents and sister were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp after the occupation of Hungary in 1944. Bash moved with her family to Teaneck, New Jersey, and shortly thereafter to Washington, D.C., returning to Montvale, New Jersey, as a preteen. She graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in political communications from George Washington University. While at college, she interned at NBC, CBS, and CNN. ==Career==

After college, Bash joined CNN as a producer of their weekend programs such as Late Edition, Evans & Novak, and Inside Politics (later occasionally filling in for regular host John King). Later, she began producing programming specializing in coverage of the United States Senate, eventually becoming CNN's Chief Congressional Correspondent. Bash was one of the women honored at Elle magazine's 2014 "Women in Washington Power List" event. Bash was host of the 2019 Democratic presidential primary debate where Kamala Harris was noted for making her "that little girl was me" statement to Joe Biden. In 2021, Bash joined Jake Tapper to become co-host of CNN's Sunday morning show State of The Union. In April 2023, CNN announced that Bash would succeed John King as solo anchor of Inside Politics. In 2024, she co-moderated a Republican primary debate in Iowa alongside Tapper between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. She also co-moderated the 2024 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, also alongside Tapper. In September 2024, in an interview with Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, Bash and Tapper misrepresented a statement from Michigan U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib in an interview with the Detroit Metro Times, falsely rendering her criticism of Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel as antisemitic. After rebuke from the Detroit Metro Times, Tapper said in an interview with Nessel that he "misspoke" and that he "was trying to characterize [Nessel's] views of Tlaib's comments". In 2024, Hanover Square Press published her book, written with David Fisher, about the 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election. It is titled ''America's Deadliest Election: The Shocking True Story of the Election that Changed American History''. ==Personal life==

in 2009 From 1998 to 2007, Bash was married to Jeremy Bash, who would become CIA chief of staff and Department of Defense chief of staff under President Barack Obama. In 2008, she married fellow CNN correspondent John King. Bash gave birth to a son in 2011; she and King divorced in 2012. In 2011, she resigned as a trustee of Jewish Women International under pressure over its abortion-rights advocacy. A number of conservative blogs had highlighted the group's position on abortion after Bash accepted the trustee position. ==Notes==