us every sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 1 pm eastern. good morning. i'm brian stelter. it's time for "reliable sources." we have a fantastic lineup of stories for you from what looks like a campaign at fox news to label black lives matter a murder movement. stephen colbert preparing to step out of character and maybe break some big news with joe biden. let's begin with a name you have heard once or twice on this show before. donald trump. all summer critics have been accusing the political press of letting trump run amok, reveling in the circus atmosphere of his campaign while giving him a pass on substance. this week conservative radio host hugh hewitt threw trump some curveballs.

everybody is talking about it. here is an example. >> are you familiar with general s soleimani. >> tell me. >> he runs the quds forces. >> i think the kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated by us. >> not the kurds, the quds forces. the bad guys. >> do you -- >> i thought you said kurds. >> no. quds. >> i'm sorry. i thought you said kurds. >> so what is it like to stump trump? let's ask hugh hewitt. he joins me now from denver. good morning. >> good morning, brian. happy birthday weekend to you. >> thank you. you being here is a great gift. tell us your intent with that interview. you've interviewed trump many times before, and you told him this time you wanted to ask him some commander in chief questions. >> yeah. i have talked to donald trump four times in 30 days. and i don't do gotcha questions. i'm very open to being

criticized by people if they think it's a gotcha question. when i asked jeb bush would he be hesitant to invade iraq a third time because of his brother and father, when i asked jeb bush if he was worried about dynastic politics influencing young democracies, these are tough, focused questions. i ask everyone hastraight, hard-hitting questions. in my mind it was a lead-in to talk with the anti-iran deal rally -- >> were you surprised he seemed caught off guard? >> he had a great interview, by the way. the rest of the interview he actually had a tough question for me on how would he respond as president if the chinese were to sink accidentally or intentionally a japanese or a philippines vessel. he gave a very sophisticated i would almost say nix onnian answer about why you don't tell people what you're going to do in certain situations. he took a shot at me, that's

fine. i tell people i'm not perfect. i'm just the best on radio. i think i am the best interviewer on radio in the united states. what's important to me is that people know the debate is coming up. i have no favorite or dis-favorite. i'm going to ask them all hard questions because i think the job of hosts is to ask questions that republican primary viewers, and there are millions of them, and they're across a broad spectrum -- wasn't answered. some people want hard questions. some want softballs. i keep in mind the republican primary voter, who do they want to nominate to run against in all likelihood hilary clinton and how will they do it and are they prepared to beat her. that's my objective coming up on september 16th working with japer and dana bash on the next debate. >> let's talk about trump's reeer reaction to you. here is what he said on friday morning. >> when you say quds versus kurds. i thought he said kurds, as the

third-rate radio announcer. gotcha, gotcha. every question was do i know this one and that one. it was like he worked hard on that. >> he says he thinks you worked hard to prepare for that interview. maybe he is just now punching at the messenger. >> look, i got my donald trump tattoo and i'm proud to join hammer and chuck todd. donald trump is the great interview of america. i would lead every show with him every time. he has been on four times this month and other times. he endorsed my book "the queen" on air. if he wants to take a shot that's fine. we have to be willing to listen to the criticism in our business. after the conversation i had with him which i had on the air about did you think it was a gotcha question? i didn't. i immediately contacted carly fiorina before the interview aired, asked her to come on, didn't tell her what the questions were and taped an interview of the questions so i

could have a control group. i hate gotcha questions. who is the president of nigeria is a gotcha question. i think the difference between hamas and hezbollah is important. >> carly fiorina received a lot of confidence for the way she answered your questions. some of the same questions. >> she also admitted which is a good thing, sometimes she gets the names confused. are we talking about had h. it's easy to get confused. what matters and where i was going with the interview is israel is surrounded by proxy states and proxy terrorists of iran. >> looking ahead to the debate. you're going to be a questioner. jake tapper the moderator on the september 16th debate. you and dana bash will be participating in the questioning. some people wonder if you'll be fair to trump. we saw one saying you are biased. what's your response? >> i'm going to be fair to

everyone. i am not biased to anyone. have no favorites. same question set i had before. it will not be impacted by donald trump's criticism or his praise. people can send me love notes and valentines or say horrible things about me. it won't change my point of view which is to ask questions that the republican primary electorate wants to have answered. if the criticism that comes comes and the praise that comes comes it shouldn't affect our job as journalists. i've been doing this for 25 years. it doesn't change my approach. i'm not anti-donald trump. >> we'll see you at the debate september 16th. thanks for being here. before we look ahead to the debate, let's look back. the trump show has been, without a doubt, the block buster event of the summer. we wanted to trace the arc of the story back to june before he even entered the race. here we go. >> donald trump's once again making noise about running for president. why is anyone taking this talk

seriously? >> they don't think i'm runlini. >> i'll be surprised if you say you are running. >> he will be tempted to run, be predictably shellacked. >> don't tell me he's in this to win this. he is a side show. >> turning a three-ring circus into a side show sni. >> i'm officially running for president of the united states. >> he's running for keep me famous. >> i thought it was a strategy for a new reality show. >> how should republicans handle donald trump? >> ignore him. >> they all said i'd never run. i announced i was going to run. >> he is not a serious candidate. >> he has not filed his fec election papers. >> he'll never file his forms papers. i filed my form papers. oh! >> he is tapping into something. an angry at politicians. >> done voyage. trump is toast after insults. >> you've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs.

>> she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions and, you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. >> he creates controversy because that creates media. what in turn keeps him in the headlines. >> the ratings! if i didn't get ratings, they wouldn't be here. >> look, it's all entertainment. he is having the time of his life. >> donald trump is god's gift to the democratic party, cable tv pundits and late-night comics. we're having a trump gasm. >> hey, are we leading in every poll? every single poll. >> putting donald trump atop the field of u.s. republican presidential candidates. >> can anyone stop the trump juggernaut? >> it's clear that donald trump is not what some people think, which is a summer fling. >> it's the summer of trump. >> how good that for my ego? >> that demonstrates that the summer trump confounded the predictions of political talking heads. before labor day gets here we thought we'd look back and do

some self-examination. a clip from this show on mid-july when trump was taking a lot of heat for seeming to criticize the war record of john mccain. my guests were nate cohn and rich wilson who has been one of the summer's biggest critics of trump. watch. >> now you're going to see the rest of the republican party is going to rally against him. that was totally change the way that he is covered for the rest of the campaign. he will now face scrutiny from across the party and from the media. that will eventually blunt his surge in the polls and eventually reverse it. >> cohn's prediction was that the mccain insults would, quote, mark the moment when trump's candidacy went from boom to bust. since that didn't happen, they rejoin me right now. gentlemen, thank you for being here. it was rare on cable news to go ahead and look back on what was said before.

nate, are you surprise that weekend was not more of an infliction point in the race? >> absoluteabsolutely. there were two things about what trump looked like then and what we see now that suggest a more robust candidacy than we saw at the time. it looked at first as if he was a media-driven candidate. that sounds like it's not important but it matters in terms of where the support is coming from. once the coverage changes, trump goes away. now we can at least say he's not just benefiting from media attention. he's driving media attention in interesting and important ways that allows him to deflect the debate away from things that would otherwise hurt him? the megyn kelly thing. his comments about jeb bush speaking spanish deflected from a very strong attack at about jeb bush -- i'm sorry, about mr. trump's record on policy issues that were quite liberal. this is a skill. it's not something that would be like kim kardashian.

on the show i joked that she would benefit from the same media attention. mr. trump is showing additional skill that wasn't evident at least to me. >> rick this was one of the points. you've called him a cancer, a hair shadow with a delicious hint of fascism. those are just the quotes i can say on the air. have you had any impact this summer then? >> you know what, i've come to recognize that the folks in the core of trump supporters as i like to say, they are post-rational. they don't care what his history or his record is. they are in love with the celebrity candidate. who he plays on tv. they've stopped caring about the policy. the one driver of policy for him is immigration, but the rest of the things, even when you point out inconsistencies in trump, they don't care. they're so locked into the dynamic of being with this rebellious media character and the reality tv show that he's

creating instead of our normal political dialogue, they love it. the media folks love it and he loves it. the spectacle is great for ratings. there is a dynamic there in the fact that he'll call into any show and that everybody will take his calls has led him to continue to eat up cycles. the other candidates, you know, they don't have the same privileged position where they can -- marco rubio can't call up sean hannity and say give me an hour on tv. it won't happen. or jeb bush or anybody else. >> maybe it would. i don't know if we know that for sure. i think some shows would take phone calls from other candidates. but i think you're right to some degree. there is a unique quality to a trump interview. you're guaranteed to make some news. he is guaranteed to be unpredictable. in the minute i have left, we're here revising our predictions from july. that's great. a lot of tv pundits are not held accountable very often. there are not a lot of consequences. i wonder if that's a factor in

trump's success. voters are tuning out the usual political voices. rick, what do you think? >> i think there is a certain degree in the trump base where not only do they not want to listen to the normal political voices, they are now declaring them to be an anathema. they're throwing them off the island. we are in the point in the conservative movement where they believe they are insufficiently conservative and pure. they're after people who disdegree with trump, not just ignoring them. >> nate, what do you think of the idea that becauthat because pundits are not accountable. people tune it out and don't believe our frpredictions? >> i think that's often true. if you have a well grounded framework for the way you understand candidates you're right more often than not and it's okay to apply that across

the board. sometimes you're wrong but that's part of usually being right. >> thanks for being here and being good sports. coming up finding a new foe on fox news. dr. cornel west and marc lamont hill have a message for the critics when we return.

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a hate group. a murder movement. these are some of the terms floated by fox news this week to describe the black lives matter movement, a movement that says it exists to demand accountability and justice for victims of police violence of the here is a few of the comments made on fox it week. >> kevin, why has the black lives matter movement not been classified yet as a hate group? >> how much more has to go in this direction before someone actually labels it as such? >> i think they're a hate group. they hate police officers. >> they have strong feelings about -- >> they hate them. they want them dead. >> i don't think we're watching the same black lives matter movement. i think if you talk to the organizers on the ground in ferguson and baltimore, they'll tell you they are a nonviolent

movement. >> why are they chanting pigs in a blanket. >> this on-air offensive came after recent killings of police officers and the reaction to chants at a black lives matter march in minnesota where some in the crowd could be heard saying this. >> pigs in a blanket. pigs in a blanket frying like bacon. bigs in a blanket frying like bacon. >> some of the organizers said that was actually in humor. some attempt at being plafyful. is a dangerous connection being made between the movement and a misunderstood movement. joining me cornel west president of african-american studies at princeton and mark lamont hill in philadelphia a professor at moorhouse college. thank you for being here. >> first, that clip we just saw, the pigs in a blanket comments. cornell, doesn't the movement

itself, don't some of the people who support the movement undermine it is hateful remarks like those? >> we have to keep in mind, they said the same thing about martin king, the same thing about snick. whenever you have black rage expressed based on black suffering in the face of white fear grounded in white privilege, that clash is one in which you're going to get some hyperbolic rhetoric. >> you're saying it was only hyperbolic? >> absolutely. have you seen them going about engaging in injurious harm to police? >> everything is being recorded means that these protesters can get their message out and potentially undermine themselves. marc, what did you make of the video? >> i didn't make much of it. here is why. i have been on the ground in ferguson. i've met with and met in terms of organizing the blm founders and many of those around the country. that is not part of the dialogue

or the engaged action we see on the ground. there are always outliers to show up to twist the message. there will be people who engage in hyperbolic rhetoric. that's different than being genuinely committed to injuring law enforcement. >> do you think the fox news host seized on it to create too broad a brush? seems like they had a narrative. >> they did have a narrative. it's different than the narrative they are with the tea party sign. they said those are outliers. thes are extra folk who we dismiss. why can't the same generosity and -- be given to those involved in this movement? >> you made a comment about dr. martin luther king. you suggested the same attempts were made to delegitimize the movement in the 1960s that you're seeing now.

>> brother martin was viewed as a hater, a trouble-maker, a divisive figure trying to undermine a status quo in which white persons were living in a world of denial. yet he persisted because he had integrity. >> marc, have you found this to be effective this week, the new rhetoric from fox news and from conservative commentators describing black lives matter as a literal hate group? >> i think it's been effective in jenning up the base and distracting us from the fundamental issues that we should be preoccupied with. we should devote time to saying wait a minute. what happened to those police officers is wrong. it's a moral atrocity if someone stalks and murders police officers. we should be able to do that and still have a sustained conversation about police terrori terrorism, state violence. mass incarceration. when the rhetoric spikes up about blm, black lives matter movement, being a hate group, it distracts us. many of us turn it into a defensive posture where we're trying to defend that and having our conversation about that instead of the core issues.

i think that is exactly what particular media outlets. and i'm also talking about pockets of social media, not just fox news. what they're committed to doing. their purpose is to troll the world and convince us the suffering we're facing is not as essential as the distracting conversation. >> at the same time the voices of police officers need to be taken seriously. many of them do believe there is a very serious threat to them because of rhetoric not because of the movement necessarily but because of a climate that we're in. >> i don't think that -- i don't think that they have grounds for that. >> no? >> no. i think part of the moral impulse behind the black lives matter is that innocent life must not be violated, must not be taken, yet unfortunately oftentimes the innocent lives that are taken by state-sponsored figures tend to be black and brown people. >> marc, i'm curious.

you mentioned you were in ferguson multiple times in the past year. it's been a little bit more than a year since michael brown died there. do you feels the black lives matter movement has been overall winning the media war for attention? >> they're winning the war for attention but they're not just working to create the spectacle. the spectacle is the entry point into social and policy change. we're talking about body cameras now, oversight of police, citizen review boards. you can't run for mayor in a city right now and not talk about what your plan for policing is. you can't run for president and not talk about black lives mattering. that's a testimony to the power and strength of the movement and to the power and strength of the three black women who created a movement that has the world on its heels. >> marc and cornell, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us this morning. coming up the guy who added trutiness to the lexicon is making his late show debut. wait until you hear who stephen

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comedians in cars getting coffee. take a look. >> the weird thing, of course, is that new york is now the center of talk shows. that's the weird thing. both you and jimmy fallon are adult enough not to get into that. >> nothing would be more boring than a late-night war. >> he's wrong with the late-night wars. it's getting very interesting between colbert and fallon and all of the rest of the hosts out there. colbert has jeb bush his very first night and vice president joe biden on his third night, thursday night. fallon has donald trump on friday night. these shows are not usually, pardon me here, reliable sources of news. maybe that's changing. what can we expect from colbert? o joining me now john fugelsang, the most of "tell me everything" on sirius xm. >> he's launching at a good time. i'm not really worried about a booking war.

i think that getting into that sort of thing is not really going to be stephen's style as he indicated in the video with jerry seinfeld. it will be fun to watch him make jeb bush look entertaining but i think colbert will go for content and quality of the sesmen segments and jokes rather than trying to win on the guests. i don't think people tune into the talk show for the guests. they tune in because they like the show. >> that's awkward for my guest to say. colbert also has elon musk and the ceo of uber. silicon valley wars. week two he has bernie sanders. most incredibly he has a supreme court justice, stephen briar. it's going to be a different late show from david letterman's. >> it will be like letterman in the sense it will have a lot of heart. johnny carson and merv griffin had authors on all the time. i think colbert was one of the

few shows on comedy central where authors could go on tv and do an entertaining session about their books. i think you'll see a cerebral quality to his show. i think he's excited to be dropping the satirical persona. >> going back to biden for a minute. do you think biden would agree to appear on colbert's show if he didn't have an announcement to make about some sort of bid. >> do you think he would have leaked to maureen dowd that his son wanted him to run or that he met with elizabeth warren in d.c.? biden is always a good talk show guest. whether he's running or not, it's good for him to make this appearance. the show is lucky to have him. >> if he is not making an

announcement about presidential ambitions on the show, it will keep people talking and speculating about his plans. >> they're a good mix together. one of the things that will inform the quality of stephen's show is his life-long commitment to catholic principles of social justice. stephen is a practicing catholic but he is the kind who uses the bible in the tradition of matthew 25, to help the least among us. he testified for migrant workers before congress. that kind of morality has always informed his humor. even though he won't be doing an overtly political show it will be a hell of a presidential season and he'll be doing a lot of jokes. you can see an underlying morality informing the outrage behind his sketches. >> we were trying to get a glimpse behind the scenes this week. we interviewed people who did the test shows. you went to the ed sullivan theater and saw a taping but it wouldn't be aired.

there was one that sounded like a "daily show" or colbert type of clip reel. maybe they're bringing that focus to "the late show." >> i think late night needs that. i think dave would be doing that as well. he's now after to go after democrats and republicans equally for their mutual silliness. the band will be dynamite. it's going to be a different energy and tone for late-night music. >> any other previews you can give us? >> we had a party at my place the other weekend. david crosby and me were trying to get our friend who writes for colbert to tell us more. he said it will be extremely creative and i think it will have the same exuberance that the colbert report had while being more of traditional. >> it will be a very interesting

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an arduous commitment that would be proud to undertake under ordinary circumstances. but the honest to god answer is i just don't know. if i can reach that conclusion that we can do it in a fashion that would still make it viable, i would not hesitate to do it. >> could a biden decision be a game-changer? isn't all of this cat nip for the press which loves to build up rivalries and possible competitors for hillary clinton? joining us to talk about that here in new york, maggie abram a presidential campaign correspondent for the new york times and a politanalyst. we experience the waves where candidates are going up and down. is it a press-created cycle where the talk is all about biden right now? >> no. i think events are dictating the coverage, and i think that, in every presidential cycle you see, right before labor day is when you start to look at the field again, not just on the

democratic side. you had this on the republican side in 2012 when you are president obama and rick perry came in late and august and he was potentially supposed to help the party when it was restless and its frontrunner was capped at 25%. hillary clinton is much more popular even with her poll numbers taking a hit than mitt romney was last time. she is also not a sitting president but has been treated as an incumbent. i think when you have a sitting vice president putting out signals that he's seriously considering a campaign, i think the media has to cover that? >> john fugelsang made a great point about the leaks we've seen involving biden. he was suggesting biden himself is doing the leaking. somebody has been doing his leaking about his meeting with elizabeth warren, for example, the leaks have helped to build up the possibility. can you give us an inside sense of ho you that works? >> i think there are a couple things going on. people certainly around biden are talking. there is a split in biden land

about whether he should run. a lot of his aides believe he will run even though some don't think it's a great idea. that doesn't mean that he will, but they're preparing for the idea that he will. the draft biden movement and a lot of biden's aides are not completely working in harmony. i think some of what you're seeing coming out may seem like it's completely orchestrated. a lot of it is very organic. >> let's look at one of the declared candidates had to say about the media this week. bernie sanders. it's one of his favorite critiques, to criticize what he calls corporate media. here is what he said the other day. >> what we need, and i know i'm going to be critical of the media, you're probably going to cut this out. >> i'll keep it in. >> all right. what we need is a serious debate on serious issues. that's what the american people want. people want to hear why it is that despite increased technology and productivity people are working longer hours for low wages.

i would hope very much that media allow us to have that discussion rather than just get involved in political gossip and soap opera type approaches. >> maggie, has this been effective for bernie sanders. >> that's one of the most conventional things that the unkongsal sort of candidates is saying. i think there has been a fair amount of discussion about wage stagnation and about the issues that bernie sanders really does care about. my colleague pat healey was very early on the notion that bernie sanders was attracting a lot of crowds and that his message was resonating. so i think it's very easy to blame the media. i'm not exactly sure what specifically he's talking about in that clip. >> you wrote this week about the debates. we know bernie sanders wants to have more debates. so does martin o'malley? is it possible there will be? many fewer are scheduled for the democrats. >> what happened this cycle, people who support this schedule for the debates would say this

is actually no different than what we've seen in previous cycles. >> the difirst democratic one i in october. how many are scheduled after that? >> five more. really we're only talking about four. bernie sanders and martin o'malley are not in harmony completely on the issue. martin o'malley is going hard at the dnc. bernie sanders isn't doing that. although some of his supporters are upset. there was a perception that was done to help hillary clinton. debby wasserman schultz has strenuously denied that. hillary clinton is actually a pretty good debater. so there isn't a great reason to not do it. >> interesting. maggie, thanks for being here. up next an example of how the close-up is so much more impactful than a wide shot. one photo of a dead child on a beach in turkey. when we come back. if you haven't heard about the latest sale

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is one tragic picture able to do what countless hours of news coverage and gallons of ink failed to do so far? that is, wake us up to the human suffering wrought by the migration in syria and the middle east? we should note this picture is sensitive and disturbing. we saw it on wednesday. a young syrian boy, a toddler, dead on a turkish beach. we have since learned more of the story. his name is aylan kurdi. two years old. the overcrowded vessel capsized in the water off turkey. only the father survived. they were buried friday at home in syria. i wanted to hear from the photographer, the woman who was on the beach. here is what she said to cnn

turk. quote, there was nothing to do except take his photograph and that is exactly what i did. i thought, this is the only way i can express the scream of his silent let that sink in for a moment. there was nothing she could do except share the photo. it has been shared around the world. when a picture like this so powerful and so personal comes across the wires or twitter, do we honor the victim's privacy or share it as publicly as possible. she is one of the leading experts on journalistic ethics and joins me now. there have been a lot of cases on imagery of people being killed dying or having already died. such a young person dying on the beach. what was the proper response by journalists?

>> you have to publish the photo widely and let people see it. because it symbolizes so much. as soon as i saw that photo i recognized that it would be one of the photos that changes the course of history. i still believe that. as a journalist, as painful as it is to innovate that private moment of a young child, a baby, of his death and to invade that moment of his family, our obligation is to the greater good and that's for people to understand the gravity of what's happening and to this point it has been hard to do that. >> there have been so many stories of the whole, of the group. of the masses of people. it took this individual story. that has been true throughout history, hasn't it? >> think about the girl fleeing nepalm in vietnam or the child

fleeing famine in the early 1990s with a vulture lurking nearby. those were photos that changed the world. i think this is happening with this photo too. look at what happened in britain. david cameron said he was going to allow in thousands more refugees as a result of this. >> let's think about other cases recently of imagery of death. every case is different, but there were headlines last week and we talked about them on the program of the shooting in virginia. frank talked about images of the moment of death and how television networks were restrained about showing the moment of death. this is a different case in turkey. how do we make sense of the various elements in a situation like this? >> well, i think one thing is you have to think about what preceded that moment of death and whether there is a systemic

failure that led to that moment of death. in the case of the syrian child, there certainly has been. in the case of the shooting with the reporter and the photographer from wdbj, that was an incident of workplace violence which is very different. so the incident that led up to that moment of death is quite different and so as a journalist you have a different response. i don't think you want to be gratuitous about showing the moment of death. you want to do so with a purpose. that's why the two images are so very different. >> here's another complicated case out of san antonio. a local station published a video that raised a lot of questions. it was acquired from a citizen bystander for $100 of a man shooting and killing an unarmed man. the police station said complain to the station for being unethical. do you think they were on solid

ground showing this video online of this moment of death? >> yes. they were on solid ground and they needed to do more. videos and photos don't tell the whole story and always require additional context. in that case the video had the power to either exonerate the sheriff deputies or to hold them accountable. either way, that is the station's job to do that. without the additional context, viewers didn't know what to make of the video. >> they needed the video and also needed more and more reporting that. is maybe the one similarity to the case that captures the world's attention in turkey. more reporting about the refugee situation as well as the images. >> yes and more reporting in the micro. this story is a dramatic one because he had a path of escape,

but he was trying to get to canada. his family was trying to get to canada and bureaucracies got in the way. the story in the micro is quite important. in the macro, it's just as important. how many refugees are there. how is the european union responding. what are international and national governments doing to alleviate the crisis? >> thank you so much for joining me this morning. >> you're welcome. >> we'll be right back in a moment. i don't use super poligrip for hold, because my dentures fit well. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. even well fitting dentures let in food particles. just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. so it's not about keeping my dentures in, it's about keeping the food particles out. try super poligrip free.

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