Hey, welcome to reliable sources. I'm Brian Stelter. This is our weekly look at the story behind the story.

And we're talking this hour about the fallout from the Senate impeachment trial.

I'll discuss the Fox Fear Factor with Democratic Senator

Sherrod Brown. Plus if you thought election

misinformation was bad in 2016, take a look around. It is worse this year.

The Atlantic MacKay Coppins is here with his disturbing new

reporting about that. And later something I've been wondering for a couple of

weeks now how do you cover an outbreak when we are all locked out of the

epicenter? How are reporters in China getting information about the

coronavirus? Well see you then David Culver is going to join us live from Beijing

with the behind-the-scenes look. But first the Word of the Week could be

of indictiveness, it could be revenge.

Trump world is taking revenge through the media and also on the media.

Victory in the Senate impeachment trial wasn't enough for the president or his right-wing media allies.

They are now on a search and destroy mission.

The administration is purging key players who testified about the Ukraine scheme, and

pro-Trump outlets are lambasting that Romney for daring to break ranks and declare

Trump guilty. I turned on Fox on Wednesday night expecting an absolute

celebration, but instead the primetime hosts were all hitting the anger button over and over again, raging

against Romney and denouncing Nancy Pelosi for tearing up that copy of the State of the Union

speech. They were angry, they were bitter, they were outraged. And the name calling's been going on all week long. It's been led

by the president at that vindictive vulgar speech he gave, and it's continued on TV.

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