Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, and it's time for reliable sources.

This is our weekly look at the story behind this story,

and there are a lot of them today.

This hour, a big difference between Bogan's information on Twitter and BS on Fox News.

Plus how the press should cover the titanic power struggle now underway for the Supreme Court.

And later bracing for election chaos to come,

the legendary former Washington Post editor Len Downey

will be here with some lessons from the year 2000.

Nicole Hannah Jones, David Zerwick, many more also coming up. 2000. us. Is America slouching toward autocracy?

And if so, what pro-democracy steps should be taken?

And by who? And what's the role of a press at a time like this?

I have answers coming, I promise. But first, look at the

evidence with me because every day it is something new. Political scientists are

issuing starker and starker warnings about erosions of democratic norms in the

United States. Warnings about things like this, President Trump stoking fears

about voter fraud saying the election will be rigged unless he wins.

There are so many disturbing stories in the news, many of them that tie back to the government's

failures in ways that point toward authoritarianism.

Look, America's failure to contain the coronavirus pandemic is related to all of this.

The country is nearing 200,000 plus deaths.

And yet the falsehoods continue from the Trump administration with

he and his appointees undermining career scientists who have been trying to get

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