July 19, 2020: April Ryan and David Zurawik on Trump's Fox interview; Brian Stelter on the coronavirus testing lie; Anne Applebaum on why authoritarians try to discredit the media

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🗓️ 19 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Plus... Trump's reality distortion field extends to "fake polls;" Dr. Anthony Fauci returns to TV; is there growing intolerance in American newsrooms? Peter Nicholas, Ed Yong, April Ryan, David Zurawik, Amanda Carpenter, Jill Filipovic, Tim O'Brien and Anne Applebaum join Brian Stelter.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, live in New York, and this is reliable sources.
0:05.0	It is our weekly look at this story behind the story.
0:08.0	And we have a lot to show you this hour, including Fox's Tucker Carlson Problem.
0:12.0	And why the Murdoch don't think it is a problem.
0:15.2	David Zerwick is here to weigh in.
0:17.6	Plus Barry Weiss leaving the New York Times, Andrew Sullivan leaving the New York
0:21.1	magazine, the so-called cancel culture debate is raging.
0:25.0	So what's really going on in newsrooms?
0:27.0	We're going to get into that.
0:28.0	And most importantly, we have a tribute to the late great John Lewis.
0:32.0	We want to share with you some words from his
0:34.5	extraordinary memoir. That's all coming up plus Tim O'Brien and Applebaum and many
0:39.4	more. But first President Trump has just wrapped up what was probably his toughest interview in months.
0:45.7	He usually just speaks with sycophans, but he has agreed to sit down with Fox News
0:49.8	Sunday moderator Chris Wallace.
0:52.2	The interview has just aired. We've gone through the hour long transcript and all hour here.
0:56.6	We're going to show you the highlights and the low lights.
0:59.2	Here is the worst news on top of all the bad news about the summer spike in COVID-19 illness.
1:06.0	President Trump is still in denial about the pandemic's devastation.
1:10.0	In the Fox interview, he defaulted to his favorite coronavirus lie, that is that the rise in cases is all due to the rise in testing.
1:19.0	With Chris Wallace, he immediately complained about America's high levels of tests.
1:24.5	I can tell you cases are 6,000 in the whole European Union.
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