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

the story behind the story, and we figure out what's reliable.

This hour I'm going to sit down with the filmmaker who testified during the prime time January

6th hearing, plus former Obama A. Dan Pfeiffer coming up.

Also this hour, a young family ripped apart by Russia's censorship law.

What do you tell your kids when their dad may be facing 15 years in prison?

And later, the Washington Post airing its dirty laundry.

Will the online drama move offline, or will it tear that newsroom apart?

Lots to get to, but first, appeals to fact versus appeals to feelings.

The January 6th Commission's appealing to both.

It's presenting new facts, and it's pushing people to feel that U.S.

democracies under assault.

Many insiders, political pros, types of people who populate your TV screen all day.

They had a gnawing feeling that the presentation on Thursday would not change anything.

The implication was that it should sway a public opinion,

that the fact pattern should convince skeptics to care more about the attack of the capital,

and all of Trump world dishonorable conduct in the winter of 2020.

But this is where the facts come into conflict with feelings.

Now I'm with Jim Chudow on this one.

The scene in Anchor was sick of all the chatter about whether any minds will be changed on Thursday night.

That's not our job, he wrote.

Our job is to report and disseminate the facts.

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