Hey, I'm Brian Seltter, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, our weekly look at the story behind the story.

This hour, brand new reporting about what we will see from the Republicans Convention.

This coming in now.

And also this question, will the TV networks carry it live?

Plus, we are going behind the scenes of the Democrats' big show.

How did it work?

We're going to talk to the producer who made the

virtual event happen and of course all of this is going on in the midst of a

pandemic L.A. Times sports columnist Bill Plashkey will be here later this hour

to share his COVID-19 story and what the media is missing in its coverage of the virus.

Oh, and Alice Camarada is here to interview me about this. The first, one DNC down, one RNC to go. And what we are

going to see in the next few days is a truth imbalance.

Because if we've learned anything from the Trump ears,

it's that there's a real likelihood,

there's a real forecast of lies coming fast and furious

from the president and sadly from many of his allies in these

speeches, in these videos, in these events that we are about to witness.

There's a real difference, there's a real contrast in how much line and deception takes place between

Trump world and other parts of the political universe. I don't think we can pay with too broad a brush here, Democrats versus Republicans,

but it's definitely Trump world versus other political leaders.

I think it's something called asymmetric line. I mean look at this this is from the

DNC a CNN's fact-checking team led by Daniel Dale checked out the DNC

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