December 27, 2020: Four CNN reporters reflect on Trump White House coverage; Jake Tapper and Daniel Dale's evaluation; will the media tune out Trump when Biden takes office?
Reliable Sources
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🗓️ 27 December 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Plus... Trump declared 'war' with the media, but did he win?; 'blood sport' aspect of Trump's anti-media attacks; how Trump's unhealthy TV addiction affected all of us; Dale says, 'coverage of Biden is going to be equally rigorous'; Tapper says some reporters 'bought into' Trump's narrative; Stelter says the press works for the people, not politicians. Abby Phillip, Jeremy Diamond, Kaitlan Collins, Jim Acosta, Daniel Dale and Jake Tapper join Brian Stelter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, and this is Reliable Sources. |
| 0:05.0 | Our weekly look at the story behind the story, where we figure out what is reliable. |
| 0:11.0 | This hour is a program five years in the making. We are looking back at how President |
| 0:15.6 | Trump changed the media and how the media changed him. Plus we're looking ahead |
| 0:20.4 | at what this polarized news environment means for the |
| 0:24.0 | Biden administration. Daniel Dale is here with a tale or two from the front lines of |
| 0:28.8 | fact-checking and Jake Tapper is here to assess the MAGA media and the best and worst coverage of the Trump White |
| 0:35.2 | House. |
| 0:36.2 | Plus, lots of Biden voters are so tired of Trump, they want the media to stop covering him. |
| 0:41.7 | Is that realistic? Will it happen? We are going to have a candid |
| 0:45.0 | conversation about that in just a few minutes. But I want to begin by |
| 0:49.2 | rewinding four years back to the very beginning, Trump's very first full day in office in |
| 0:55.0 | January 2017. I know everyone remembers when President Trump freaked out about |
| 0:59.5 | crowd size at his inauguration but most people don't know that his fury was triggered by |
| 1:05.5 | this segment on CNN. It was at 5.19 in the morning on January 21st. |
| 1:11.4 | Yet crowd-sized gate started right here on this network. |
| 1:15.9 | It was a short accurate report, but it drove Trump up a wall. |
| 1:20.3 | It was the first sign that his entire presidency will be ruled by what he saw on television. |
| 1:27.0 | He screamed at Sean Spicer that day, he flipped the TV over to Fox, |
| 1:32.0 | he felt better over there watching Fox and friends. |
| 1:35.6 | And the rest is history. |
| 1:37.7 | That same day, Trump went to the CIA and stunned everyone by giving a rage-filled political speech on hallowed ground. |
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