Interview with New York Times editor Dean Baquet; Stelter on Trump's infomercials; what's missing from the narrative about 'reopening the economy'

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🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Plus... Senators urge stimulus funding for local newspapers and David Zurawik says "this isn't reality TV anymore." Sen. Angus King, Dean Baquet, Nicholas Kristof, Elaina Plott and David Zurawik 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 City. Welcome to reliable sources on this
0:05.9	Easter Sunday. We have some big interviews coming up including the top editor of the
0:09.6	New York Times Dean Bekay. He's here talking about the papers, brand new revelations about the coronavirus,
0:15.0	and what President Trump knew when.
0:18.3	Plus, we're going to take you behind the scenes of the latest White House Press Secretary
0:21.6	Shakeup and what it's all about.
0:23.0	And later local news in dire straits,
0:26.0	Senator Angus King is here with a potential source of help.
0:30.0	We're going to look at the nation's front pages today
0:32.0	and talk with experts, but let's begin with life
0:34.7	on hold and why it's going to stay that way for a while longer, despite the faulty story President
0:39.8	Trump is telling.
0:41.6	Because that's ultimately what he does at these near daily briefings.
0:44.8	The former reality show star tells a story about American resilience.
0:50.0	What he lacks in empathy for the dead, he makes up for in his insistence that the country
0:54.2	will come back stronger than ever.
0:56.9	Now all self-promoters are good storytellers and Trump might be the best of them all.
1:01.8	He is the hero of his own story. He casts different villains
1:05.5	every day, Democrats, immigrants, journalists, etc. So all of us, whether you're a
1:10.8	member of the media or a US voter or you're a citizen of another
1:14.3	country watching us live on seeing international all of us have to see it for what
1:18.3	it is. These are storytelling sessions. These are infomercials more than accurate sources of information.
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