Hey, I'm Brian Salter live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine

the story behind the story and try to figure out what is reliable.

That's the question about these Tom Brady retirement reports this weekend.

We're going to break down the anonymous sourcing play, plus we'll head to Moscow to find

out why Tucker Carlson is a nightly fixture on Russian State TV.

And later, the amazing Amy Schneider, one of Jeffery's all-time champions, she's here,

talking about her buzzer strategy, her troll handling, and her pick for permanent hosts.

But first, is there a way out?

Is there a way out of the cataclysmic conflicts that seem to consume everything?

Divisions over COVID, vaccines, teaching, policing, feel like they're making the United States

less and less so.

And media outlets are very much a part of this, entangled in conflict, us versus them,

the first is right, the middle versus extremes, heroes versus villains, alt-right versus

mainstream, and so on and so on.

Healthy conflict can be good, but we are in a state of high conflict, defined in a recent

book as a good versus evil kind of feud.

When people lose their minds in ideological disputes, political feuds or gang vendettas,

high conflict is a force that causes people to lie awake at night and fear for the future.

And I can see this kind of conflict right now with a lumensipreme court confirmation battle.

I guess I could call it a confirmation process, maybe I should, but I default to the word

battle because that's the way it's portrayed in the press.

And look, maybe it won't really be a battle.

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