You're going to be. Welcome to the ticket, I'm Isaac Dauver. Well, next week is the election. By the time you hear from me again, America will know who won. Or maybe not.

With the pandemic and the president adding chaos to the vote process,

Tuesday may not have the kind of final answer we're used to.

Nonetheless, it's still the event of the year. final answer.

Nonetheless, it's still the event of the year for cable news.

Even with the reasonable expectations that we won't know the answer, we'll have the

breathless moment-by-moment coverage.

And there may be a real risk in failing to emphasize uncertainty.

The president has pushed the idea that state should call a winner's on election night.

But news organizations make those night of calls.

States count their votes for days or even weeks before certifying a winner.

The scenario that worries many though is what happens if a small portion of the vote is counted

that night and we don't know the outcome, but President Trump declares victory and then ask courts to step in if anything changes.

A lot is at stake in how the people narrating the election on TV portray what is happening on Tuesday night.

So to understand how they should approach it and how they are approaching it,

I'm going to talk with Brian Stelter today.

Brian has covered the media for years with a focus on television news.

He's been in front of the camera himself for a while now

hosting reliable sources every Sunday on CNN and of course as his own podcast, also called

reliable sources. We talk about election night coverage, the lessons cable news has learned in four years of Trump,

and what the future holds in either a Biden presidency or Trump's second term.

Take a listen. Brian Stelter, thanks for being here on the ticket.

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