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Miami Herald reporter speaks about Jeffrey Epstein arrest; unpacking the census citizenship battle; Trump claims the truth is up to him; Carl Bernstein on the post-Mueller news cycle; new book says there is a method to Trump's 'madness;' how news coverage

Reliable Sources

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3.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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July 7, 2019: Julie K. Brown, Catherine Rampell, Philip Bump, Carl Bernstein, Allen Salkin, Aaron Short, Elora Mukhurjee and Carl Cameron 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. It's time for reliable sources. This is our weekly look at the story behind the story of how the media really works, how the news gets made, and how all of us can help make it better.

0:12.9

We've got a number of important and thought-provoking stories coming up, including this

0:16.3

heart-aking story in today's New York Times.

0:19.0

It describes children, a migrant children being held at the border as hungry, scared, and sick.

0:25.0

We are still unable to see the whole picture inside these border camps, but we have a lawyer

0:29.4

standing by who's been there and advocating for change.

0:33.0

Plus this hour, an exclusive first look at this new book about President Trump.

0:36.8

It's called The Method to the Madness.

0:38.8

This book has more than 100 sources on the record,

0:41.4

and the authors will join me live for their first interview.

0:43.4

Plus we're going to break down the legal battle over the census citizenship question

0:47.9

and what it means about the truth. Where is the truth? But first the breaking news here in New York, as first

0:54.6

reported by the Daily Beast, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein arrested. sources tell

0:59.4

CNN that a sealed indictment contains new charges relating to alleged sex crimes involving minors.

1:06.0

Epstein, you can see there, sex trafficking of minors.

1:09.4

He is an accused pedophile.

1:11.3

He's also a former pal of both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump,

1:14.8

rich and well connected and for very long able to skate. This scandal was forced

1:20.7

onto the national news radar by one newspaper the Miami Herald and

1:24.5

by one reporter in particular Julie K Brown. Last November she came out with

1:29.1

this three-part series called Perversion of Justice.

1:32.6

She included on the record interviews

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