Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, and this is Reliable Sources.

Our weekly look at the story behind the story.

And how the media really works, how the news gets made,

and how all of us can help make it better.

This week, an important legal victory for CNN.

Jim Acosta is back to work.

But what comes next?

Attorney Ted Boutros will join me to discuss the path ahead.

Plus, a story you have to hear about a disturbing development in the Philippines

and one brave journalist fight against her media-hating leader.

And later, how the deadliest fire in California's history is being

covered on the ground there. The editor of the local paper will join me live.

But first a fact about President Trump.

There are times when he is beyond fact-checking.

Case in point this week, the big story across the nation's news media has been the president's mood

President Trump is lashing out

Lashing out angry unhinged fuming, angry, angry, angry,

isolated, pissed.

Particularly unhinged.

Unhinged.

Lots of talk about mood swings.

Could all this be a direct result of midterm losses?

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