Hey, grab your coffee, come on in. I'm Brian Stelter, and this is reliable sources.

Our weekly look at the story behind the story. So let's get right to it.

This hour, President Trump bringing back Hope, aka Hope Hicks. I'll speak with two authors who have new insight into all the DC swampiness.

Plus, the Democrats TV primary continues with Bloomberg buying his way to the top with these ads.

Erin Carmona's here, to talk about who's winning the ad war and more.

And later, the growing crisis in local news

and why democracy is suffering as a result.

Julie Kay Brown of the Miami Herald, the reporter who

investigated Jeffrey Epstein, will be here to tell us about the fate of her paper and

other papers owned by McClatchy now that that company is going bankrupt. But first, the aspiring autocrat and the media's response.

As this banner on Fox says, President Trump is unleashed.

And that's why there are growing fears of something called Democratic backsliding.

This is a term used in political science, a term used to describe the erosion of institutions that sustain democracy.

Another way to put it is creeping authoritarianism,

a move toward autocracy.

Now that's a word we are increasingly seeing being tied to President Trump.

You can see it in some of these headlines from the past week.

Trump's authoritarian style is remaking America, things like that.

Now a lot of these are opinion columns, perspective pieces, but these are important and complicated

concepts. My question for you is, how can the nation's news media make time and space to explain

this? I mean we live in this new story every minute

info-saturated world but this may be the biggest story of the mall so what are the

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