Just prior to the 2009 US presidential inauguration, King began hosting his new talk show "State of the Union," which replaced CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer". With Lou Dobbs' sudden resignation from the network on November 12, 2009, CNN announced that King would take over Dobbs' timeslot in early 2010. On January 31, 2010, King announced that CNN's senior political reporter, Candy Crowley, would replace him as anchor of "State of the Union". King began hosting his new weeknight show on March 22, 2010, called "John King, USA". On May 2, 2011, John King was the CNN anchor who confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden to that network's viewers.