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🗓️ 2 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Plus... Many Fox viewers changed the channel during John Lewis funeral; pandemic disinformation is wasting precious time; how the AP is prepping to cover 'election week' in 2020; 'Election Meltdown' author on Trump's threat to democracy; why was Homeland Security collecting 'intel' on journalists?; James Murdoch breaks with family's media empire; how news outlets can empower voters in 2020. Susan Glasser, Erin Geiger Smith, Richard Hasen, Sally Buzbee, TJ Ducklo and Errol Louis join Brian Stelter.
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0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources. |
0:05.0 | Our weekly look at the story behind the story. |
0:08.0 | Ahead this hour, why misinformation about miracle cures is just worsening America's pandemic pain. |
0:15.8 | Plus, new reporting about one member of the Murdoch family |
0:19.0 | making a dramatic break from the family business. |
0:22.2 | And later, what is the GOP doing? Why are they |
0:25.4 | claiming the Republican National Convention will be closed to press? What is going |
0:29.8 | on? A new statement from the party coming up in minutes. |
0:33.0 | But first, an election mess in the making, |
0:36.0 | with three months before ballots will be counted. |
0:40.0 | Picture all of us Americans in a car together. |
0:44.1 | President Trump is the driver, |
0:46.6 | and he is trying to drive us off the road. |
0:49.6 | He is trying to crash the car. |
0:52.6 | In this analogy, the car is our democracy. |
0:55.6 | It is old, it's got a lot of miles on it, |
0:57.5 | but it's still running strong. |
0:59.2 | It's been well maintained. |
1:00.4 | It stays humming along. |
1:02.0 | It stays on the road through voting, through elections. |
1:05.0 | But the driver, ever since 2016, I don't know. |
1:10.0 | Either he wants to go off-roading, |
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