text:  Going back to this article, Daily Caller, this is what it says. Both of CNN's moderators for Thursday's presidential debate have deep ties to intelligence officials who peddled now-debunked conspiracy theories about former President Donald Trump. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are both intimately connected to former deep state officials who pushed the now-discredited Steele dossier and the hoax that reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop was a product.