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Reliable Sources

April 5, 2020: Trump delivering daily doses of misinformation; Zoom CEO on taking a "step back" to focus on platform's privacy issues

Reliable Sources

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🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Plus... When Covid-19 reporting becomes a first-person story; Washington Post editor on the White House's crippled response to pandemic; Fox's fingerprints all over Trump's pandemic response; Sharing stories from front-line health care workers; and more. Gregg Gonsalves, Susan Glasser, Nisha Mehta, Marty Baron and Eric Yuan join Brian Stelter.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey welcome to a special new Eastern Time edition of Reliable Sources.

0:04.6

I'm Brian Stelter.

0:05.8

Ahead this hour, the Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Barron, one of the top newspaper

0:10.0

editors in the country.

0:11.2

Here what he's doing to stay on the pandemic story and protect his staff at the same time.

0:16.0

Plus, the platform that's connecting millions during the shutdown is now facing a lot of scrutiny.

0:21.0

Zoom's CEO will join me live for an exclusive interview. And later

0:25.0

Fox News fingerprints are all over the Trump White House's reaction to this

0:29.0

crisis. I will show you how to spot those fingerprints. Plus an interview with a New York Times

0:33.5

reporter who was diagnosed with COVID-19 and is now recovered Sarah Maslinear

0:37.9

coming up later this hour. The first leadership in crisis. This week President Trump was praised for his tone. He soberly

0:45.6

told the country that the great shutdown of 2020 is necessary because COVID-19

0:50.4

could claim the lives of 2.2 million Americans otherwise.

0:55.0

So let's take a quick look at what else he said and did this week,

0:58.0

as we consider his tone.

1:00.0

He celebrated the TV ratings for his briefings. He bragged about his popularity on

1:04.9

Facebook. He hyped up a drug despite concern about it from the government's top

1:08.6

doctors. That was at Saturday's briefing. You know what's happened at the briefings here?

1:12.8

They've been taking up more and more time and Trump has been taking up more and more time

1:16.4

than the task forces medical experts have been. And he is still getting lots of facts wrong

1:21.6

at these briefings.

1:23.2

One day he said scarves work better than masks.

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