Susan Glasser on Trump's lies, Mueller's aftermath, and the danger of "information bubbles"

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🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Were the "optics" of the Mueller hearings worth the media's attention? "Let's be real," Susan Glasser says, "of course it was." After a "nutty" week in politics, the author of The New Yorker's "Letter from Trump's Washington" column talks about Mueller coverage; the impeachment count; and what to do about Trump's distortion field of lies. "It's on us as journalists," she says. "Our job is literally to bear witness." She also says the week showcased how the "right and left now are so deeply dug in to their respective information bubbles."To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Robert Mueller hearings have come and gone.
0:03.0	How did the media cover this key moment of the Trump presidency?
0:07.0	And does anybody have an idea where this story is heading now?
0:11.0	I'm Brian Stelter and this is the Reliable Sources Podcast.
0:15.0	It is our weekly chance to go more in-depth
0:18.0	with media leaders and newsmakers.
0:20.0	Talking about how the news is made and how all of us can help make it better.
0:23.2	And I think there's been a lot of scrutiny this week of the news media's framing of the Mueller hearings,
0:29.3	how the hearings were covered.
0:31.5	Whether there was that much interest from the audience at all, and what
0:36.3	is going to happen next in Washington.
0:39.4	Joining me is Legendary Journalist Susan Glasser.
0:41.9	She's the author of the indispensable letter from
0:44.4	Trump's Washington column for the New Yorker magazine. She's also the founding
0:48.7	editor of Political magazine. She previously served as the editor-in-chief of Foreign
0:52.0	Policy magazine and before that spent
0:54.3	a decade at the Washington Post, covering, among many other things, President Bill Clinton's
0:59.2	impeachment.
1:00.2	Susan, great to see you.
1:02.2	Ryan, thanks for having me.
1:05.0	I think this week more than most, I'm just having a hard time figuring out what the heck just happened.
1:10.0	You wrote for your most recent column for the New Yorker that when you actually read the Mueller report
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