Top story on Father's Day: migrant families; Karem not sorry for briefing room outburst; Trump's 'vicious cycle' of dishonesty; How to make a 'truth sandwich'; Rob Reiner on Trump, the probe and the press; Stelter on the AT&T deal and CNN's future; Vice:
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🗓️ 17 June 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Father's Day. I'm Brian's Delta 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. |
| 0:12.0 | There is a lot to cover this hour including AT&T's win in |
| 0:15.8 | court against Trump's Justice Department. AT&T now owns this channel and many |
| 0:20.4 | others so I'll break down what it means. |
| 0:23.0 | Plus, an interview you're really going to want to see with filmmaker and activist Rob Reiner. |
| 0:28.0 | He's calling the pro-Trump media essentially state-run TV. |
| 0:32.0 | The first, The big umbrella story of the week. The lying, the |
| 0:37.4 | deception, the anti-media attacks, it is getting worse. Are we actually reaching a boiling point? |
| 0:45.0 | Because it sure seems that way to me. |
| 0:47.0 | When the Trump show returned from Singapore and landed on the White House lawn, |
| 0:51.0 | the story wasn't so much what he said, it was how dishonest he was being. |
| 0:57.0 | I hate the children being taken away. The Democrats have to change their law. That's their law. |
| 1:02.8 | They were forced to vote. |
| 1:04.8 | Quiet. |
| 1:06.8 | Quiet. |
| 1:07.8 | That's the Democrats law. We can change it tonight. |
| 1:10.8 | We can change it right now. |
| 1:12.2 | I will leave here. You can feel the reporter's frustrations. |
| 1:17.0 | You can hear them trying to correct the president. |
| 1:20.0 | Now as you know by now this policy about separating parents or adults from children |
| 1:26.0 | was announced back in a press release in April then on camera by Jeff Sessions |
| 1:29.9 | in May this policy has been in effect now for a couple of months and the numbers are now coming |
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