November 1, 2020: Stelter on the coming 'test of American democracy'; CNN DC bureau chief on election night possibilities

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🗓️ 1 November 2020

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Plus... What reporters are saying about the election in private; Susan Glasser says damage to election credibility "has already been done"; how will TV networks handle bogus Trump claims on election night?; CNN reporters on responding to Trump era technique to "flood the zone with sh*t..." Susan Glasser, Philip Bump, Olivia Nuzzi, Sam Feist, Oliver Darcy and Donie O'Sullivan join Brian Stelter.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, with a special edition of Reliable Sources, counting down to Election
0:08.0	Day.
0:09.0	And in the next few minutes, we're going to go live to the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia.
0:13.4	Plus, CNN's DC Bureau Chief Sam Feist is here
0:16.1	to answer your questions about election night.
0:19.1	The coming days are really a referendum on President Trump.
0:21.9	So what is the Fox News base saying?
0:25.1	What our viewers hearing?
0:26.6	We will get into that.
0:27.8	And later, the difference between these past election live shots, see how close they're all sitting together, versus this year's
0:35.6	pandemic era plans.
0:37.9	This hour is all about what to expect on Tuesday night and beyond.
0:42.4	But let's zoom out first.
0:44.1	The coming days are a test of American democracy.
0:48.4	The world is watching live through this network and others.
0:52.4	America passes this test by staying tied, tethered, secured to the truth.
0:58.0	America may fail this test if lying politicians and propagandists drown out what's true and replace it with what they
1:05.3	want to be true. Failure means succumbing to fantasy and conspiracy theory and hate and division,
1:12.0	and there's already too too much of that.
1:14.0	Distrust is already so high.
1:16.0	Distrust in polls, in politicians, in the press, in each other.
1:21.0	This country needs a trust injection, a trust infusion. And maybe it starts right
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