August 30, 2020: Expert compares Trump's politics to fascism; the GOP's 'big lie' about Covid-19; Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones on America's racial reckoning

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🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Plus... Kevin Roose on how algorithms are distorting American politics; Daniel Dale on his fast-paced fact-checking; Carolyn DeWitt on voter groups suing Trump over his social media executive order. Susan Glasser, Kevin Roose, Ayesha Rascoe, Jason Stanley, Daniel Dale, Radhika Jones and Carolyn DeWitt join Brian Stelter.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, and it's time for reliable sources.
0:03.0	Our weekly look at the story behind the story.
0:06.0	This hour, you're going to hear from the author of a book called How Fascism Works,
0:10.0	because he is so concerned about what he is seeing in the past week.
0:13.4	Also Daniel Dale shares the story behind this RNC fact-checking moment
0:17.8	that went viral and later a new First Amendment lawsuit targeting Trump.
0:21.5	Find out by groups like Rock the Vote are sounding
0:24.2	the alarm. We have a lot ahead this hour including vanity fair editor-in-chief
0:28.0	Fradika Jones and many more but first a comment about the news agenda and maybe it's time for a reset of that agenda.
0:36.5	The most important story this week was never the lead story on the nightly news or the top story
0:41.0	on the home page.
0:42.1	Instead, it was a story on Friday's Washington Post front page.
0:45.0	Below the headline about Trump drawing battle lines,
0:48.0	across from the story about Hurricane Laura,
0:50.0	the headline there says,
0:52.0	unemployed Americans feel the sting of abandonment,
0:55.0	abandoned by Congress
0:58.0	by lawmakers who let jobless benefits lapse
1:01.0	in the middle of a pandemic.
1:03.5	This story is about the jobs crisis that too many people are still in denial about,
1:08.8	that too many politicians are still ignoring.
1:12.4	The story is about Americans like Sean Gabriel, a single father of two in
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