Hey, I'm Brian Selter. Welcome to 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.

This hour, The Daily Beast has uncovered the maker of that misleading Nancy Pelosi video

and the editor of the site is here to explain.

Plus, one of the Stars of the Handmaid's Tale is here to talk about this.

All of those Hollywood studios saying they may pull out of Georgia due to the state's very

restrictive new abortion law.

And later Bill Nye, the science guys here talking about this skit from the John Oliver show and the most intriguing

news item this week, UFO sightings.

But first, let's question the conventional wisdom from this week.

Did this television moment really matter that much?

Of course all the networks went into breaking news mode and rightly so when

Robert Mueller made his first TV appearance since the launch of his Special Counsel

probe.

Mother tried to clean up months of misleading

and straight up false claims about his report.

He practically begged people to read the report for themselves.

And he said, now I hope and expect this

to be the only time that I will speak to you in this manner.

In other words he doesn't want to be back on TV.

But a parade of commentators came out and said Mueller's statement was so powerful it showed why he should be back on TV, why he should testify in front of

Congress. People don't read, they said, people watch. Well we do know one person who always

watches and seemingly never reads and he seemed really

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