February 7, 2021: One-on-one with White House press secretary Jen Psaki; 'consequence culture' comes for Lou Dobbs; Zeynep Tufekci on why everyone should stop 'doomscrolling'

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🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Plus... Dominion spokesman Michael Steel explains the voting tech company's legal strategy; David Folkenflik discusses the latest turmoil at The New York Times; and Dannagal Young explains the twisted psychology of conspiracy theories. Lynn Oberlander, Brittany Shepherd, Michael Steel, David Folkenflik, Dannagal Young, and Zeynep Tufekci join Brian Stelter. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine
0:08.1	the story behind the story, and figure out what is actually reliable.
0:13.2	This hour CNN's exclusive interview with White House press secretary Jen Psaki, including
0:18.2	how she compares President Biden to his predecessor.
0:21.6	Plus, it is known as doom scrolling, maybe you do it just like I do, scrolling for bad
0:27.4	news about COVID-19, but the news is improving, and we're gonna talk about it with an expert.
0:32.8	And they are new reporting about upheaval at the New York Times.
0:36.0	We have a lot to come in the next few minutes, but let's begin by going behind the scenes
0:41.4	of Fox's surprise ouster of loot ops.
0:45.2	It's not cancel culture here, it is consequence culture.
0:50.4	What are the consequences for riling up people with reckless lies about a democracy that
0:56.4	most Americans cherish?
0:58.0	Well, lately there have not been many consequences, but maybe that's changing, maybe.
1:04.6	The pro-Trump love in, the live fest of known as loot ops tonight, was canceled on Friday,
1:10.7	one day after dobs was singled out in a $2.7 billion lawsuit from the voting tech company
1:16.4	Smartmatic.
1:17.9	The company alleges that Fox and dobs and Sydney Palin, Rudy Giuliani, all waged a disinformation
1:23.4	campaign against the company in a desperate bid to keep Trump in power.
1:28.0	There are other lawsuits coming too, and we're gonna get to those in a little bit with
1:32.2	a spokesman for another company that was smeared by the likes of dobs.
1:36.5	But here's the thing, yeah dobs is off the air, but Janine Piro was named in the Smartmatic
1:41.4	lawsuit too, so was Maria Bartiromo.
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