August 16, 2020: Stelter on how Trump is eroding Americans' confidence in voting system; GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger takes a stand against QAnon

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🗓️ 16 August 2020

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Plus... Carl Bernstein on covering Trump's election threats; how the pandemic has changed 2020 campaign coverage; Trump lies to reporters while Biden avoids the press; the origins of the latest bogus "birther lie"; "excess death" data shows the true toll from Covid-19; Rolling Stone reporter says Fox "escaped accountability" for Seth Rich hoax. Carl Bernstein, Asma Khalid, John Harris, Olivia Nuzzi, Oliver Darcy, Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Andy Kroll join Brian Stelter.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Seltre, live in New York, and this is reliable sources.
0:05.0	Our weekly look at the story behind this story.
0:08.0	This hour, on the eve of the Democratic Convention,
0:11.0	President Trump's answering lots of questions and issuing lots of lies.
0:15.5	What about Joe Biden?
0:16.5	Is he taking questions at all?
0:18.3	We're going to get into the differing media strategies.
0:20.7	Plus, a GOP congressman is here with a message for the people in his party who are
0:25.9	tolerating and even promoting the Q-Anon cult. Also standing by Olivia knows of
0:31.4	the first look at her brand new cover story in New York magazine
0:35.0	about the president's dysfunctional re-election campaign.
0:38.1	Rolling Stones DC Bureau Chief Andy Cole is also standing by.
0:41.3	He has an exclusive news story about Fox News. But let's get to this first.
0:46.1	How interested are you in this year's presidential election? Fox has been asking that question
0:51.9	several times every election season going back many years
0:55.2	and right now the results are off the charts.
0:58.6	Take a look at this graph.
0:59.7	This is the 2008 response to the question of how extremely excited are you in the election
1:04.9	are you extremely interested in the election you can see every year that the
1:09.3	amount of interest grows but this year, 20, 62% of Americans say they are extremely interested
1:17.5	in the election.
1:19.0	Most others say they are very or are somewhat interested.
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