Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, with a special edition of Reliable Sources, counting down to Election

Day.

And in the next few minutes, we're going to go live to the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Plus, CNN's DC Bureau Chief Sam Feist is here

to answer your questions about election night.

The coming days are really a referendum on President Trump.

So what is the Fox News base saying?

What our viewers hearing?

We will get into that.

And later, the difference between these past election live shots, see how close they're all sitting together, versus this year's

pandemic era plans.

This hour is all about what to expect on Tuesday night and beyond.

But let's zoom out first.

The coming days are a test of American democracy.

The world is watching live through this network and others.

America passes this test by staying tied, tethered, secured to the truth.

America may fail this test if lying politicians and propagandists drown out what's true and replace it with what they

want to be true. Failure means succumbing to fantasy and conspiracy theory and hate and division,

and there's already too too much of that.

Distrust is already so high.

Distrust in polls, in politicians, in the press, in each other.

This country needs a trust injection, a trust infusion. And maybe it starts right

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