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CNN Hires April Ryan as Political Analyst

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The Wrap reports that CNN has hired veteran White House correspondent April Ryan, who has sparred with at least three members of the current administration, as a political analyst.

Ryan has been a White House reporter for more than 20 years with American Urban Radio Networks. In February, she tangled with White House communications official and former reality show star Omarosa Manigault, who claimed to have a dossier on black reporters, outside the White House briefing room. Days later, she butted heads with the president himself when she asked whether he planned to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus and he seemed to assume she was friends with all the Black members of Congress and should set up the meeting. Most recently, she helped inspire the #BlackWomenatWork hashtag when White House spokesman Sean Spicer told her to “stop shaking (her) head.”

CNN also announced three other hires on Monday: Former homeland security and chief counterterrorism advisor to President Obama Lisa Monaco has been brought on as CNN’s senior national security analyst; Former State Department and Pentagon spokesman John Kirby will be a CNN military and diplomatic analyst; and four-star general, and former CIA director Michael Hayden was named a CNN national security analyst.