A whistleblower has turned Washington upside down and has changed American politics in just the span of a few days.

How's the press stepping up for this moment and what might happen next?

Welcome to this week's Reliable Sources Podcast. I'm Brian Stelter and we use this

weekly podcast to go in depth with media leaders and newsmakers

talking about how the news gets made and how all of us can help shape it and make it

better. And this has been an extraordinary week of news.

We are recording this on Friday, September 27th.

You know, just a couple of weeks ago on television, I said the Democrats are losing the impeachment

messaging wars, that President Trump is

winning that the Democrats don't seem to have a strategy or a plan.

But then this whistleblower story erupted and every day this week we have been bombarded by news.

It's like drinking from a fire hose

and I have the perfect person with me to try to process it, try to make sense of it,

and make sense of how this news environment affects something like an impeachment inquiry.

Jeff Greenfield is with me, he's the award-winning political analyst. He's endured two rounds of presidential impeachment proceedings in the past as a television journalist working for almost all the major networks, including CNN for many years.

Jeff, thank you so much for joining me.

Okay, always a pleasure to be with you, Brian.

You are a calm voice amidst the tsunamis of media output, the signal to noise ratio is relatively high with you.

Oh gosh, well thank you. I don't always feel very calm, but I'm glad to hear it. I have this sense that maybe viewers and readers

heads are spinning right now at the end of this week you know there was this

impression that the Democrats were were far from impeaching Trump that Nancy Pelosi was reluctant to go forward and that was just like four days ago.

How do you make sense of this week?

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