Shock and all Trump style I'm Brian Stelter and this is reliable sources.

Our weekly look at the story behind the story of how the media really works and how the news gets made.

Ahead this hour, Newsmax CEO, and Trump Confident Chris Ruddy is here to share what

he's been talking about with the president.

Plus Maggie Haberman is here on why this was a new low, the worst week of Trump's presidency.

And later one summit but two very different narratives.

David Zerwick and Olivia Nuzzi are here

with reactions to the news coverage.

But first, this prediction, when historians look back

on the Trump presidency, they'll say that this was the week that something

changed, something really shifted in the conversations about the president.

Uncomfortable questions moved into the mainstream in a big way.

Trump's odd behavior with Vladimir Putin is compelling so many people to ask what

does Putin have on Trump has Trump been compromised all of those people those

experts those reporters they are looking at the fact pattern and they're

seeing something strange, even sinister.

No rational president would act this way if he weren't being blackmailed on some level.

You can't just dismiss the idea that Putin has something on trouble.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but his behavior is so pervasively bizarre and against the national

interest that it certainly raises the possibility that something untoward is going on.

See these concerns are now in the bloodstream in a whole new way. I don't think there's

any coming back from this. Josh Marshall of the Liberal Talking Points memo, but but it this way he said the press conference in Helsinki made

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