Hey, I'm Brian Stelter. Welcome to Reliable Sources. This is our weekly look at the story behind the story of how the media really works, how the news gets made, and how all of us can help make it better.

Lots going on this hour.

We are drowning in hypocrisy about the economy,

the debt and the deficit.

Thankfully, Daniel Dale is here to save us.

Plus April Ryan is here for her first interview about this troubling

incident at one of her speeches, her bodyguard took a man out forcibly. We're going to

get into what happened coming up. And later a five-year milestone, journalists James Foley and Stephen Saltloff

were murdered by ISIS five years ago this summer. Find out what their parents are doing

now to help other reporters.

Now that's all coming up in a minutes ahead.

But first, the story that's playing out every day

on our TV screens and Twitter feeds.

He's getting worse.

We can all see it. It's happening in public, but it's still a very hard,

very sensitive story to cover. I'm talking of course about President Trump, about his behavior, about his instability, the

contradictions, the lies, the complete rejection of reality.

Some prominent figures, including the husband of Trump-aid Kelly and Conway are pleading

with the press to take this more seriously. On Friday, George Conway said

Trump is decomposing before our very eyes. He said quote, Republicans need to face up to the fact that the president

is mentally unstable and psychologically unfit. Now Conway seems to think it's

narcissistic personality disorder. Others have other concerns.

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