November 29, 2020: Trump’s delusional TV interview; Jonathan Rauch on the ‘firehose of falsehood;’ how Politico is preparing to cover the Biden administration
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🗓️ 29 November 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Plus... Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Alemany shares her Covid-19 experience to counter deniers; press freedom experts on recovering from the ‘fake news’ era; Oliver Darcy on Fox’s ‘propaganda’ in service of Trump. Amanda Carpenter, Jonathan Rauch, Carrie Budoff Brown, Suzanne Nossel, Joel Simon, Oliver Darcy, Jacqueline Alemany and Amanda Marcotte join Brian Stelter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Selter, New York, and this hour of reliable sources begins with some |
| 0:06.7 | breaking news. |
| 0:07.7 | President Trump breaking his silence, the President wrapping up his first TV interview since losing the election. |
| 0:15.4 | He had a phone call with Maria Bartaromo on Fox News for the better part of an hour. |
| 0:21.0 | President Trump breaking his silence and refusing to accept that he lost the election 26 days ago. |
| 0:27.0 | Yes, 26 days ago. |
| 0:30.0 | He is, I'm sorry to report to you, he is delusional about the state of the election and about the result of the election. |
| 0:39.0 | He is making claims that are dangerous, completely false, and doing so with an interviewer who was not |
| 0:47.4 | an interviewer at all. |
| 0:49.2 | This was not hardball, this was not even softball, this was T-Ball. |
| 0:53.0 | Maria Bartaromo once a feared and acclaimed journalist best known for working the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, forcing CEOs to tell the truth. Now sits behind a desk and invites |
| 1:08.0 | the President to lie and lie and lie, to do it for more than half an hour. To do it 26 days after the election. |
| 1:21.7 | 22 days after Fox and all the other major networks called the election for President-elect |
| 1:27.9 | Joe Biden. |
| 1:30.0 | You might have thought after a week or after two weeks the president would start to accept the reality that he lost. |
| 1:37.0 | You know, he hadn't given any interviews for three weeks. |
| 1:40.0 | He had not even called into Fox and Friends or called into NewsMax. |
| 1:43.8 | So it was a big deal that he gave his very first interview |
| 1:46.8 | to Maria Bartiromo just an hour ago. |
| 1:49.0 | His very first television interview since the election. |
| 1:54.0 | And I would sit here and tell you he was defiant |
| 1:56.2 | and he vowed to fight on. |
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