Happy Mother's Day everybody. 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.

I had this hour an exclusive interview with daily show

host Trevor Noah. Is Trump rewriting the art of the punchline? And we're going to

talk about the media's addiction to a certain U.S. President. Yes, Nick

Christoph is here. He's calling for an intervention. And later, the

Washington Post, Jason Rizion, he spent a year and a half in an Iranian prison. Now he's here to talk

about the Iran story that's not being covered. The first attacks, leaks, and lies. The Trump administration has had a lot of good news lately a lot of good news to

tout but internal leaks and presidential tweets keep sending the White House off script. There's a lot to address and we have an all-star

panel to do so. But I want to first look at what another of the country's leaders is saying

about this. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who used to be talked about as a possible

presidential candidate, he gave a really interesting commencement speech yesterday

that I want to show you.

He talked about dishonesty a dozen times in his speech at Rice

University saying we're suffering from an epidemic of dishonesty.

The greatest threat to American democracy isn't communism or jihadism or any other external force or foreign power.

It is our own willingness to tolerate dishonesty in service of party and in pursuit of power. The only thing more

dangerous than dishonest politicians who have no respect for the law is a chorus of

enablers who defend their every lie.

Now who's he talking about there?

Bloomberg, of course, didn't actually mention Trump by name,

couldn't bring himself to say the T word,

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