Hey I'm Brian Stelter. It's time for reliable sources. This is our weekly look at the story behind the store of how the media really works and how the news gets made.

This weekend, breaking news from President Trump he's upping his

ferocious language against the news media and Robert Mueller. New York Times

columnist David Leonard is here with a theory about what's going on.

Plus, think of him as the storyteller and chief.

Are we in the news media over analyzing

President Trump's statements, his stories?

Should we really be analyzing him more like a

novelist? A lot of thoughts to get to a lot of angles to discuss because the

president is really attacking the press with renewed vigor.

It's something we need to analyze in detail

because it's something that's being talked about

in newsrooms across the country right now.

You might say his attacks against the media

are becoming normalized in some way.

Let me show you what I mean. I think it's as simple as this.

President Trump's newest attempt to strip away our legitimacy and indeed our humanity is coming through on

Twitter. He's posting these kinds of tweets. Here's one of them that I want

us to take a look at and dissect. He is saying the fake news hates being called the enemy

of the people only because they know it's true. He's claiming he was providing a great service

to the public by explaining this. Here's what the president says about journalists. He says they

purposely cause great division and distrust. They can also cause war, he says. They are

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