John King to replace CNN’s departing Lou Dobbs | reuters.com

CNN reporter John King will replace controversial departing host Lou Dobbs in a new weeknight political program on the 24-hour cable news network, CNN said on Thursday.

The appointment of King, currently the chief national political correspondent and host of Sunday political show “State of the Union,” follows the abrupt resignation one day earlier of Dobbs before the end of his contract in 2011.

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