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June 14, 2020: Brian Stelter challenges Trump attorney Jenna Ellis; Sara Sidner on her experience 'from Ferguson to Floyd;' is the Trump admin keeping medical experts off the air?

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🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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A racism reckoning for the media industry? Plus... Why the press should be careful when forecasting "waves;" an interview with journalist Linda Tirado, who was blinded at a protest and is now suing police. Dr. James Hamblin, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Dan Diamond, Jenna Ellis, Sara Sidner, Linda Tirado, Tai-Heng Cheng and Farai Chideya 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 and this is reliable sources our weekly look at the

0:06.6

story behind the story. Coming up this hour a new example of President Trump abusing his

0:11.7

power. I'm going to speak with a senior legal

0:13.8

advisor for the Trump campaign joining me live. Plus what it's like to be covering

0:18.5

the Black Lives Matter movement and living at the same time. CNN Sarah Cydner is here to reflect on what it's been like covering George Floyd's death

0:26.0

and the resulting protests in Minneapolis.

0:28.7

And later, an interview with a photographer who was in Minneapolis doing the same thing covering the protests and now

0:34.3

is permanently blind in one eye. Here her account of what happened and why she's suing

0:38.8

the Minnesota police coming up. First though journalists are jugglers, tracking multiple stories at the same time.

0:45.5

But there can really only be one lead story here on TV at a time.

0:49.7

For the past two weeks, George Floyd's death and the resulting protests have been the lead

0:54.3

almost everywhere. This movement is continuing into this weekend and we're going to cover it later this hour.

0:59.4

But the lead is definitely shifting back toward the coronavirus.

1:03.8

Of course the virus never went anywhere,

1:05.5

and I've noticed on Friday, on Saturday,

1:07.5

network newscasts, leading with new warnings

1:10.4

about the virus and about outbreaks in different states across America.

1:15.0

So where is the expert leadership?

1:17.1

Is the Trump administration in denial

1:19.4

about the ongoing pandemic?

1:21.6

Think about April. Back at the end of April that's the last

1:24.1

time we saw these daily coronavirus task force briefings on television. Since

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