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

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

This hour, a special interview with the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki.

She has answers about how she tries to make sure the briefing room does not become a forum

for propaganda, interesting insights and an exclusive in-depth interview coming up.

Plus, as D.C. debates infrastructure spending, what about reporters, the faces of local

news layoffs and cutbacks?

We're going to talk about whether local news should be considered infrastructure.

And later, a first look at my brand new reporting about Fox News from the new paperback edition

of Hoax.

But first, a big story that's developing this weekend.

Gag orders against the American news media.

That sentence doesn't make any sense, right?

It's oxymoronic.

The media can't be gagged, sure shouldn't be gagged, but that is exactly what happened.

The government enforced a gag order against the New York Times in a leak investigation

earlier this year.

There's the front page headline, Justice Department waged secret fight to get emails of Times

reporters.

And the Times couldn't even talk about it.

The newspaper's lawyers were gagged.

They couldn't even tell the people involved about this secret fight.

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