Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, live in New York, and it's time for reliable sources.

This is our weekly look at the story behind the story.

More protests are expected today in Times Square and across the country.

We're going to talk this hour about the New York Times and the op-ed by Tom Cotton

that The Times says should not have been published.

So then what happened?

And insiders here to speak out on what this says about

journalism in 2020. Plus President Trump telling Americans not to believe

their own eyes or ears. Marsha Gessin is here with analysis and later I will show you what happened when the White House turned the press corps into props.

Yes, anti-social distancing props.

Alexi McKam and Oliver Darcy are coming up as well.

But first to the power of pictures and the power of camera phone videos.

From the video of George Floyd dying to the videos of these marches in big cities across the country.

We are able to see it all these days.

Also in small town America, don't sleep on what's happening in small town America.

Protests in hundreds of cities.

Buzzfeeds Ann Helen Peterson's been keeping a list of hundreds of these protests

in towns and small cities.

In many cases, these are unprecedented.

Reporters in these towns are saying they've never seen anything like it.

This weekend there were anti-racism protests from Hickory, North Carolina to Loveland, Colorado,

from Richmond, Kentucky to Palmer, Alaska and in so many places in between.

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