i'm brian stelter and this is "reliable sources." >>> choose your own reality culture is pervading every corner of american life. choose your own reality. if you want to believe that the pro-trump riots january 6 were instigated by the feds, you can choose a show that claims that is true. you can choose a movie star that claims that is real. if you want to believe a tv star is reading your e-mails, go ahead. for tucker carlson's fans, that's just further proof of the plot. car carlson is a conspiracy monger, but he's far from the first. he is sounding more and more like info wars host than conspiracy theorist alex jones. you can hear the similarities. >> i have to say he's been reading our e-mails. >> it's not that i think the government spies on me, it's been admitted that they do. >> there is a risk in everything, including in getting a vaccine. >> everybody has got family that got killed or sick from a vaccine. >> so fbi operatives were organizing the attack on the capitol on january 6, according to government documents. >> it is overwhelming the evidence that criminal elements the fe

you can bet that although cnn fan boys aren't answering his calls anymore except maybe brian stelter who is lonelier now that he was an launch in the high school cafeteria. is it wrong to take a victory lap? it's my favorite form of cardio. we are talking about the media who thinks you are stupid and that they are always right on everything. when they turn out to be wrong, they memory hole it faster than joe biden being asked what he had for breakfast. almost all the media's handiwork is a hate crime hoax against you. they spend their careers making you into the bad guy while elevating creeps like avenatti who buy their own narcissism they elevated him so they could look cool. avenatti had more problems than a "fox & friends" cooking segment. and he makes kat look more wholesome than a multigrain breakfast cereal. they took pictures with them, partied with him. now they look like tools because they are tools. his tools. i wonder if brian stelter will admit his humiliation on reliable sources because if he doesn't, how can he be considered reliable. just admit you screwed up and be do

you can bet that although cnn fan boys aren't answering his calls anymore except maybe brian stelter who is lonelier now that he was an launch in the high school cafeteria. is it wrong to take a victory lap? it's my favorite form of cardio. we are talking about the media who thinks you are stupid and that they are always right on everything. when they turn out to be wrong, they memory hole it faster than joe biden being asked what he had for breakfast. almost all the media's handiwork is a hate crime hoax against you. they spend their careers making you into the bad guy while elevating creeps like avenatti who buy their own narcissism they elevated him so they could look cool. avenatti had more problems than a "fox & friends" cooking segment. and he makes kat look more wholesome than a multigrain breakfast cereal. they took pictures with them, partied with him. now they look like tools because they are tools. his tools. i wonder if brian stelter will admit his humiliation on reliable sources because if he doesn't, how can he be considered reliable. just admit you screwed up and be do

brian stelter, thank you as always. s and one in oregon is even creating its own weather system. the latest on the effort to bring this blaze under control when we come back. stay with us. >>> so you know, cutting grass is a chore a lot of kids do not want to do. well, there is one man now who has convinced hundreds of young people across the country to do so, to mow lawns for people who really need the help. here is this week's cnn hero, robbie smith jr. >> it's a challenge we have issued to kids nationwide and worldwide. they will make a sign saying "i accept the 50 yard challenge" and we send them a t-shirt with safety glasses and ear protection. i present them a brand-new mower, blower. we have 2,000 kids nationwide. kids are responsible for finding their own lawns. that's a way to meet people they probably normally wouldn't have met. at a young age i mowed lawns as a chore and i didn't like it. every day i get to mow lawns and encourage kids around the world to make a difference one lawn at a time. >> what a great g

cnn's brian stelter is following the story. ticket sales, they are ripping her off, right? >> the film is streaming online, you're able to pay $30 to watch it online, she wants a cut of that as well. we're seeing this big battle over the future of thollywood economics. i think it will rewrite the rules for hollywood filmmaking economics. oftentimes these stars, they're betting on themselves. they bet their movie will be a big hit, so they want to have a cut of whatever happens in the theaters. now, with this shift towards online and on demand, the rules are changing. netflix, when they make movies, they pay the stars a gazillion amount up front, but the stars don't get paid months or years later for how well the film does or doesn't do. so the netflix rules are different than the disney rules and we're seeing this battle play out. and everyone in the entertainment world is watching this lawsuit. it's the first time we've seen one of these blockbuster stars go to war with her studio over how much she earns. by the way, disney sa

. >> let's bring in cnn's chief media correspondent brian stelter. the lies. it's just nuts. but does it sound like the former president is emboldened to spin even more outrageous lies about january 6th as time passes on the deadly attack? >> we see this video day after day. it sounds delusional to listen to what he is saying. >> emboldened is the word. that is why this is relevant. we've seeing him over time dig in further and further and lies on this level are like a power trip. they are a challenge to the audience. lies on this level, delusions on this level, you know, you're daring people not to believe their eyes and own ears and daring people to deny what they know them to be true. when you challenge someone, when they go along with it and they buy into your lives, you have power over them, a propaganda technique that we're seeing trump employ in the situation and the more time goes on, the less these videos are seen on fox and the more are seen on news max and the memories do fade and they fade in the rest of the country but the memories are fa

brian stelter or anna navarro should show up to jail with a pie with a file in it so they can springmy show tonight, so shut up. >> jesse: i was put off by the fact that the hosts were sucking up to a guest. that should never happen. it should never happen that way. >> dana: unless we are guests on greg's show, then it is allowed. i'm for the criminal justice system that found him guilty, he's been convicted, he's been sentenced and he will go to jail and he's facing two other big problems, so low, the system works, the media did not. >> jesse: this was one and many times the media latched their wagons to a fraud. remember just a small ad, they latched onto him and it blew up right in their face. >> greg: hillary clinton. >> jesse: cricket. >> greg: i did say that! >> jesse: why do you guys keep getting duped, jessica? >> jessica: it turned into a top liberal media's grew up there because i feel like there are so many but i knew there would be many mentioned at this table, not that that is necessarily what i think about it. i never liked michael avenatti and i'm not just saying that.

. >>> i'm brian stelter live in new york and this is "reliable sources "where we examine the story behind the story and try to figure out what is reliable. this hour we are going live to kabul for anna coren's notebook where america's longest war draws to a close. >>> can you spot the difference between these two men? is tucker carlson the new alex jones? we'll get into that. and later, what needs to change in the coverage of climate change. david singer, david epstein, all coming up. but first declaring independence from the virus. that's probably more of a question than a statement. noting traveling is surpassing pre-covid levels. it signals the return of the city's air show. a roaring comeback, the best kind of story to tell. but you know what i'm going to say next, right? other headlines from the region reflect the pandemic's continued grip, specifically its grip on americans who are not vaccinated. on this holiday weekend, it's true, many communities are able to declare independence from covid-19, but others still are not. only 20 states have reached president biden's july 4th goal o

cnn's brian stelter has the details. >> reporter: the biggest story of the nba finals is off the court times" revealing the tape of host rachel nichols, who is white griping to a friend that the network gave a coveted job to black reporter, maria taylor, instead of her. >> i wish maria all the success in the world. she covers football. she covers football. you need to give her more things to do because your feeling pressure about your crappy long time record on diversity, which i know personally from the female side of it. go for it. just find it somewhere else. you're not going find it with me and take my thing away. >> nichols thought she was speaking privately, but her words were beamed back to espn for a camera set up for her live shots. the recording, which she called a spy video, made the rounds inside espn last summer, stirring racial tensions amid a nationwide reckoning about racism. >> this is a really unfortunate situation. >> reporter: now it's public. and even the nba commissioner is weighing in. >> i think it's particularly unfortunate that two women in the industry are pi

let's talk about this with brian stelter. cnn chief media correspondent and anchor of "reliable sources." good to see you. you've been following the election big lie since november 5th but how has it turned into so much misinformation on vaccines as well? >> it's gone from one lie to a dozen of them and i'm sad but not surprised to see it, fred, because the disinformation campaigns are connected in the same way you had trumps and others lying about the election, anti-vax propagandists taking advantage of the same distrust, of the same platforms like facebook and fox and so these kinds of lies, the disinformation committees, they are related. they are connected and i think it's really valuable that we're talking about them in a connected way because that's the only way to really get our arms around the problem, which is ultimately, it's a societal problem. this is a problem about our neighbors and our friends and our family members. it's a very personal issue especially on vaccines, fred. >> and it's confusing too because many

watch what michael wolff said to brian stelter.atch this. >> i don't want you to think that what i said at that point was in any way inauthentic. i think the media has done a terrible job on this. i think you, yourself, you know, you're a nice guy, you're full of sanctimony. you become part of one of the parts of the problem of the media. you come on here and you, and you have a, you know, monopoly on truth. you know exactly how things are supposed to be done. you know, you are why one of the reasons people can't stand the media. sorry. don't talk so much. listen more. you know people have genuine problems with the media. the media doesn't get the story right. the media exists in its own bubble. liz: what do you say, andy? final word. >> well-stated and i would say the point wasn't, the point of cnn and other media outlets, wasn't the truth. we have to get donald trump. he can't be reelected. they succeeded. liz: got it. >> but they blew their credibility in the process. liz: dr. saphier, next time, you will have the last word. tha

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live coverage continues with brian stelter right now. >>> i'm brian stelter live in new york picking up cnn's live coverage of what is a new space race on earth, taking off from earth heading up to the edge of space. in just a few minutes that is where richard branson and the other passengers aboard unity 22, that's where they're going to reach. you can see about 20 minutes ago, the aircraft, the mother ship, taking off down this 12,500-foot runway in rural new mexico. we've seen the mother ship take off, now we're waiting for that pivotal moment when the rocket will blast and when the space plane will actually reach the edge of space. to give you a sense of timing, we are expecting that in the next 20 minutes, and once we reach that point, that is when branson and the other passengers will experience weightlessness and will earn their astronaut wings. in the next few minutes, we'll watch it happen live here on cnn. let's begin by heading to

>> thanks to brian stelter for that. we should try to book some of these authors. day" to talk about their books. just saying. >> that was like your book report yesterday. i enjoyed your book reports yesterday, though. they were excellent. fascinating. >> my best book reports always had an accompanied diarama. >> i love them. waiting for this one. >> next time. >>> is an american pastor behind the assassination of haiti's president. the latest on the investigation on the intricate murder plot next. >>> plus, new cnn reporting shows taliban fighters executed 22 unarmed afghan special forces soldiers. the taliban issued a response and we're live in kabul next. ♪ i've spent centuries evolving with the world. that's the nature of being the economy. observing investors choose assets to balance risk and reward. with one element securing portfolios, time after time. gold. agile and liquid. a proven protector. an ever-evolving enabler of bold decisions. an asset more relevant than ever before. gold. your strategic advantage. if you're 55 and up, t- mobile has plans built j

cnn's brian stelter is with us now. not maybe too hard to guess which one, brian.erica news completely ignored the hear, only aired the gop's counterprogramming. so imagine that the people that needed to see this the most, the people who don't believe there was violence on january 6th may not have seen it at all. fox and news max, yes, they showed the hearing live but surrounded with so much spin. >> reporter: for a few short hours on tuesday, fox and news max viewers did hear the violent truth. >> i heard people in the crowd yelling, get his gun. kill him with his own gun. >> reporter: but then right wing media reverted to form. >> i refuse to lead my show with it tonight. >> reporter: news max host grant dismissing the hearing. >> it is all theater. >> reporter: and distributing talking points heard all a across the right wing web, radio and tv. >> the video doesn't back up nearly all of it, one officer said he thought it was going to be the moment he died. well, there were no guns at this place. >> reporter: of course, there were guns. and there were weapons tha

cnn's chief media correspondent brian stelter reports. >> reporter: for a few short hours on tuesday,he violent truth. >> i heard people in the crowd yelling, get his gun. kill him with his own gun. >> reporter: but then right wing media reverted to form >> i refuse to lead my show with it tonight. >> reporter: news max host grant stitchfield dismissing the hearing. >> it is all theater. >> reporter: and distributing talking points heard across the right wing web, radio, and tv. >> i'm having a real hard time believing a lot of what i am hearing because the video doesn't back up nearly all of it. one officer said he thought it was going to be the moment he died. well, there were no guns at this place. >> reporter: of course there were guns and there were weapons that injured scores of officers. >> rebars, bats, pvc pipes, copper pipes, rocks, table legs, broken down. >> reporter: news max and fox did air the hearing live but wrapped it in republican commentary. >> what they already know, this as political stunt by ploesy and democrats and nothing more. >> reporter: it is hard to know

and most people don't want to turn to brian stelter to tell us what's real.her coming on cnn a few times this week? >> you know, i'm a book salesman. >> michael, i love talking to you. i am grateful you came on. and i guess let's do it again in four years. thanks so much. >> see ya. >> so wolff's book is one example of this broade er phenomenon that you've been hearing about, this bevy of trump books that says now these sources are coming forward to tell us what happened. six months after donald trump vacated the white house, now sources tell us general mark milley was concerned trump might attempt a coup. now they tell us milley compared trump's lies to adolf hitler's rhetoric. these shockers are showing up in the new books and it's begging the question why now? i've heard from a lot of you over email saying why are these stories only coming out now? why weren't these sources leaking to reporters in realtime? and if they were, why didn't the reporters tell us what's going on here? let's dig into that part of the story with susan glasser. she is working on on

brian stelter, thanks so much. >> thanks for breaking all of that down for us, brian. she said, she thought she was having a private conversation and now it's gone global. >> but also, to say something in front of the camera and then to say something you're caught, allegedly saying something else, that's important. >> all true. >>> "the lead" starts right now. >>> a race between vaccinations and the variants. "the lead" starts right now. president biden moments ago pushing for more americans to get their shot, but will it work, as the delta variant rips through unvaccinated communities. >>> and then, double trouble in florida. the urgent search in surfside as the death toll grows and a tropical storm gets closer to making landfall. >>> plus, a possible death sentence for a man who helped the u.s. military. how an incident from when he was 9 could land him back in afghanistan where the taliban awaits

unintended errors on the origins of the coronavirus, not a moment too soon, they are moving slower than brian stelterly the w.h.o. will clarify that the first cluster of covid was not tied to the wuhan-like market. no one is more excited about this development than the pangolin. surely it's thrilled to be one step closer to vindication. furthermore, let's go live to a drunk pangolin. >> what do you mean i'm cut off? vindicated. you can't lie when it matters and tell the truth when it doesn't. they spent a year calling me a serial killer. then said you may not be a serial killer. that's my reputation. the guy who might not be a serial killer. by the way, shout out. >> greg: you have a fan in china, pangolin. i don't know how he can get your show. >> sean: if it helps us get a break on, bring him. >> greg: the pangolin is a key demo. they spend a lot of money on footwear. i don't know what i'm saying. i find it ironic. the government wants to flag covid post because that's the only flag they like. we'll be right back. >> kat: that's why you're sitting in that chair and i'm over here. >> greg: that's my

the show, probably one of the biggest hits and cable news has outlasted everything from 24 to brian stelter'so put it 10 years in perspective, that's four geraldo marathons. [laughter] i still remember when i was asked to do the show, he called me and said hey, we are doing this thing. want to be on the thing? you have to write a model for the thing. i said what does this pay? we had no expectations. all we had was our good looks. i remember sitting here on the first day next to dana perino, she had ghosted me the entire time she was at fox. but now she was stuck with me. and against her better judgment and a restraining order, we bonded. >> dana: [laughs] >> greg: and the rest is what liberals hate, history. the show exists for one reason that other networks can't replicate. we are real and they are not. even though it seen by millions, he could just be one person per the cameras are on, the cameras are off, we don't change. there is no difference between talking in your ear and talking in a green room. we are deliberately unpredictable. we just can't help it. we've just done something like

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brian stelter versus -- then media does it to the religious and trump supporters. they happily punch down against street thugs willing on an 80-year-old asian woman. now they have a new one, the on that they demonize and it does seem more harm than good. yes, the lab created battle in the octagon is now the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated. the vaccine debate sure can. in this is us -- are not getting vaxxed, but the back slick hollowpoint bullet hitting a pumpkin blow holes in narrative. we've had that. have the employees at public safety agencies in new york, those are fox viewers. at that to the 50,000 illegal immigrants released into the us. they don't count because they didn't vote for trump. the us versus them are the us versus them narrative is even more. when you look at who is being vaxxed, suddenly they become republicans, democrats, blacks, whites, the poor, the young, an the middle class. a group as diverse as geraldo's ex-wives and the bifurcation that cnn pushes disappears much like their audience and at the new york times nailed by splitting americ

unintended errors on the origins of the coronavirus, not a moment too soon, they are moving slower than brian stelter.h.o. will clarify that the first cluster of covid was not tied to the wuhan-like market. no one is more excited about this development than the pangolin. surely it's thrilled to be one step closer to vindication. furthermore, let's go live to a drunk pangolin. >> what do you mean i'm cut off? vindicated. you can't lie when it matters and tell the truth when it doesn't. they spent a year calling me a serial killer. then said you may not be a serial killer. that's my reputation. the guy who might not be a serial killer. by the way, shout out. >> greg: you have a fan in china, pangolin. i don't know how he can get your show. >> sean: if it helps us get a break on, bring him. >> greg: the pangolin is a key demo. they spend a lot of money on footwear. i don't know what i'm saying. i find it ironic. the government wants to flag covid post because that's the only flag they like. we'll be right back. >> kat: that's why you're sitting in that chair and i'm over here. >> greg: that's my line. a

. >>> i'm brian stelter live in new york and this is "reliable sources "where we examine the story behindfor anna coren's notebook where america's longest war draws to a close. >>> can you spot the difference between these two men? is tucker carlson the new alex jones? we'll get into that. and later, what needs to change in the coverage of climate

the irony is thicker than brian stelter's thighs. don't judge, you know it is true. hyperbole continues. let's see what is happening over at cnn, shall we? >> the civil war, that's not even close. >> no, this is worse than when lee harvey oswald shot abraham lincoln. >> it is worse than when the hindenburg crashed into the iceberg. >> it is worse than when all of the good soldiers lost their lives in the battle of chernobyl. >> worse than when the villagers of pompeii got wiped out by the bp oil spill. >> tried to cover up watergate. >> greg: little known fact. now remember, during the civil war, those confederate democrats may have owned slaves, but they never put on red hats, wandered into the capitol, and stole office supplies from jerry nadler. >> confederates, back then, never breached the capitol. as insurrectionist did on january the 6th. i'm not saying this to alarm you. i am saying this because you should be alarmed. [laughter] >> greg: so wait a second, powell. january 6th shouldn't have alarmed you because by january 6th, you should have already been alarm

like brian stelter without a chamber, surviving ten years and cable isn't normal.ant you to think about the image. mtv didn't even play music that long. a book of the five" is like one of the super old japanese ladies. they just found out they became 120 years old, and everyone wants to know her secret. but it turns out she can't count. i don't know if that's a good thing. but think about all the stuff that "the five" outlasted. hummingbirds, green frogs, koala bears, hedgehogs. you have to get all their average life spans. "the five" is greater. we also beat these shows, a whole bunch of them. in your face, "will & grace." seriously, who expected a reboot of that to work? what's next, the alleged reboot of covid. debra messing could play the delta variant. yeah, we outlasted shows with bigger shows, better staffs, and better drugs. at fox, we are lucky if we can snort crushed i believe in the green room bathroom. in case you need a refresher of how great the five's, here is a montage. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i want to get greg and here. >> greg. >> greg. >> greg. >

here is brian stelter. >> power grabs and needle gabs is the focus. >> to see one reason why the red is getting worse, turn up the volume. >> the focus of this administration on vaccination is mind booggling. >> the focus of right wing media is vaccine rejection and getting ridiculous. >> want to go door to door, the vaccine police. skip my house, pro. >> that's dan reacting to president biden. >> we need to go to community by community neighborhood and neighborhood and often times door to door knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus. >> and that simple idea, something that local governments have already been doing was made to sound sinister by the anti biden media. >> the biden administration is threatening to send political operatives to the homes of people who refuse to take an experimental covid vaccine. >> door to door, hey, joe, how about no. >> this is what happens when you get a government too big for its own good. >> this is how it works, how distrust of the government of big pharma and media gets whipped up into anti science rhetoric.

yeah, they are racing to the bottom faster than brian stelter eating a can of concentrated tomato pastelegant, but it's tasty. there prime time hours are in free fall averaging under 1 million viewers. meanwhile in the daytime it's roughly 650,000 viewers but i do that when i do pilates on my balcony. reliable sources hosted by captain pop and fresh lost 53% of its viewers since january. remember, it's a tough question that jen psaki was asking on how he could do his job better. stop writing books about fox news and report the news, you shaved hamster. since last year, cnn lost 49% of total viewers. they are changing their slogan from the worldwide leader in news to the most-watched news rent network at planet fitness. msnbc lost viewers also succumb but not nearly as much. you can't attribute it to such generic disinterest but they got hit losing 70% -- it's understandable given a country reopening and coming out of an election. some are arriving, slow news, brian kilmeade. but there's something else going on with cnn. they don't have a single show in the top 20. who could have predict

. >>> hey, i'm brian stelter live in providence, rhode island, and this is "reliable sources" where we >>> this week the tokyo olympics brought to you by nbc. will the networks sink or swim in their coverage? >>> we have brand new audio from a former president that you need to hear to believe. later really important new book. it's about the lan

joining us now is tal use olla run paw and brian stelter.is more startling, the fact that trump is starting to not convince people to believe their eyes about the 6th or that he may succeed in doing so beyond his qanon supporters who already don't live in reality. your thoughts? >> right. by talking to the authors and giving these interviews he's trying to convince others and make this delusional ideas more mainstream and more accepted and that is what i worry about, kate. we know what the former president is and the deal with him at this point. the downstream effects are what is concerning. when you are told not to believe your eyes and ears and if you go along with it and tens of millions of people have gone along then you enter into an alternative universe and that could have a warping effect on your life to be quite honest. i think the concern at this point has to be the millions of people who are saying they believe him, and how is it possible to bring them back and show them the video clips an show them reality, or whether he said they

>>> hey, i'm brian stelter live in providence, rhode island, and this is "reliable sources" where we examine the story and figure out what's reliable. >>> this week the tokyo olympics brought to you by nbc. will the networks sink or swim in their coverage? >>> we have brand new audio from a former president that you need to hear to believe. later really important new book. it's about the landsliding reporting on the jeffrey epstein case and the court perversion of justice. the woman behind it all, julie k. brown, joins me live in a few minutes. but first the rhetoric around covid-19. if you think about it, life is just one big, long set of calculated risks. crossing the street to the park, taking a car to the store, taking a trip. we all make risks every day. if we didn't, we wouldn't be living. the covid-19 is all about risk. how much risk is acceptable to you? what's your risk tolerance? what about the risk of passing the virus on to others? what's the cost benefit analysis? covid requires constant risk assessments. but those nuances don't always come through in the media coverage.

they want you crushed like the wheels like the wheels on brian stelter's desk chair. >> dam >> greg: know. sorry. i wonder what the angry white male has to say. ♪♪ sure is great taking a walk and being at peace with my thoughts. you know, it's so strange that those same politicianings who pushed for locked downs and then encouraged those violent protests that led to the destruction of cities now want to decriminalized shoplifting and property crimes which will hurt small businesses. i mean, i just can't think of any reason for it at all. don't say great reset it will make you seem crazy. >> don't say great reset it will make you seem crazy. did i just say something? ♪ >> greg: he is crazy. but i wonder what the angry black male has to say. ♪♪ >> what it is, what it was, what it shall be. this i tyrus. enough said. what? yes. what happened january 6th? everyone involved that was arrested and was seen on video is being given some stiff sentences. as they should. it was a bad thing. i don't believe in what aboutism and i'm not taking one from the other but i will say this. everyone that

brian stelter is outfront. >> reporter: the biggest story of the nba finals is off the court and on tvng roils espn. "the new york times" revealing the tape of rachel nichols, who was white, griping to a friend that the network gave a coveted job to maria taylor, a black reporter. >> i wish maria taylor all the success in the world. she covers football, she covers basketball. if you need to give her more things to do because you're feeling pressure about your crappy, long-time record on diversity, which i know personally from the female side of it, go for it. just find it somewhere else. like you're not going to find it with me and take my thing away. >> reporter: nichols thought she was speaking privately but her words were beamed back to espn through a camera set up for her live shots. the recording made the rounds inside espn last summer, stirring racial tensions amid a nationwide reckoning about racism. >> this is really an unfortunate situation. >> now it's public and even the nba commissioner is weighing in. >> i think it's particularly unfortunate that two women in the industry

cnn's chief media correspondent brian stelter explains. ♪ for the best night's sleep in the whole widelike a source of nightmares due to ceo mike lindell's delusions that threaten democracy. >> this was the biggest fraud -- biggest crime i believe against humanity. >> reporter: his pillows have been propping up fox news for years. >> i want you to get the best night's sleep of your life. >> reporter: with lindell spending tens of millions on ads to pitch towels, sheets, and, yes, pillows. now fox is ejecting one of the pillow guy's promos, and he is pulling all of his other ads in response. >> fox isn't doing their job -- >> reporter: his frustration with fox has been palpable for months. as he has ascend ed into a vote fraud fantasy land, even fox has tuned him out. now lindell is promising a big august reveal. >> we're going to bring in to the supreme court, it's going to be 9-0. they're going to take the election down and, yes, donald trump will be your president. he is your president now, and get this country back where it should be -- >> reporter: so he wanted to run an ad on fox

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host of "reliable sources" brian stelter joining us.hoax donald fox news and the dangerous distortion of truth. good morning. so, yeah, fox news isn't the only offender here, but it is a major source of misinformation and their audience size is significant, it is influential as a news network, as sol call it, and this may be costing lives? >> it shows the scale of the problem. >> this is a problem for months. there is more attention around it right now because the white house government officials are trying to figure out why they are not able to reach more people with vaccines and vaccine messaging. i would be tempted to call this a blame game. there is nothing fun, no game here. clearly, these public officials are trying to apportion some blame and they have been pointing lately at facebook, but i think another, fox has to a lot to do it with it. they are five f's. faith, it's about fear of vaccines, it's about fox and facebook and falsehoods. i mean, honestly, we could make a list of dozens and dozens of reasons why vaccine hesitancy

let's discuss this with cnn's chief media correspondent brian stelter as well as defense attorney joeylet me start with you. is what britney spears is asking for here unreasonable? what do you make of her legal claims? >> i think her legal claims are perfectly appropriate. i think we have to remember what this conservatorship was all about when it started. and it may have started in a very good way. and what i mean by that in 2008 when there were things that were of concern with respect to her mental status, behavior, and other usages of substances, then perhaps that was appropriate for her father to step in and temporarily try to get a measure of, you know, control over her and what she was doing, in addition to her finances. but i think over the course of the last 13 years there have been significantly changed circumstances, being whether or not she has reached a stage in life where she's ready to move forward. all of us have the right and ability to control what we control, to do what we do, unfettered by anyone else. and so last point is that these conservatorships really they're d

brian stelter knows. ♪ for the best night's sleep in the world visit my pillow.com ♪ >> my pillow iss delusions that threaten democracy. >> this was the biggest fraud and the biggest crime i believe against humanity. >> lindell's pillows have been propping up fox news for years. >> i want you to get the best night's sleep of your life. >> with lindell spending tens of millions of dollars on ads to pitch towels, sheets, and, yes, pillows. but now fox is rejekting one of the pillow guy's promos and he is pulling his other ads in response. >> fox isn't doing their job. >> his frustration has been palpable for months. >> is fox here? >> as he has descended into a dangerous voter fraud fantasyland -- >> the election was hacked. >> even fox tuned him out. now lindell is promising a big august reveal. >> we are going to bring it to the supreme court. it's going to be 9-0. they are going to take the election down. yes, donald trump will be your president. he is your president now and get this country back where it should be. >> so he wanted to run an ad on fox touting the theories, and fox s

brian stelter reports. >> reporter: for a few short hours on tuesday, fox and newsmax viewers did hearviolent truth. >> i heard people in the crowd yelling get his gun, kill him with his own gun. >> reporter: but then right wing media reverted to form. >> i refuse to lead my show with it. >> reporter: dismissing the hearing. >> it is all theater. >> reporter: and dsz conttcontr distributing talking points. >> i'll having a hard time believing a lot of what i'm hearing because the video doesn't back up nearly all of it. one iofficer said he thought it would be the moment he died. there were no guns at this place. >> reporter: of course there were guns and weapons that injured scores of officers. >> rebar, bats, pvc pipes, copper pipes, rocks, table legs broken down. >> reporter: newsmax and fox did air the hearing live but wrapped it in republican commentary. >> they know that it is a political stunt by pelosi and democrats. >> reporter: hard to know whether the testimony and the terrifying video montage will change any maga minds sflp putting it all together and seeing it again is jarr

so, i just want to say that this is a statement given to our brian stelter from facebook.ok. each, claiming novel insight into how we operate. it seems, this one is not only a rehash of history, but relies on anecdotes supplied by mo mostly-unnamed critics. you want -- you want to respond to that, quickly, please? >> sure, as a reporter, i can't help but notice that is two words different from their original statement which was that there were 367 books written about facebook. i think they realized they have to shift that language because that's not true. if you count facebook for dummies, maybe, you get to 367. but really, there's been a handful of books written about facebook and the inner workings of the company and i think they know our book is different because we spoke to those people inside the company. and yes, they are anonymous but they're anonymous because they still work there. and facebook did not allow them to speak to us. so, in order to keep their jobs, they had to speak to us, anonymously. >> sheera frankel, we thank you so much. the book again is "an ugly

. >> reporter: brian stelter, cnn, new york. >> let's talk about this now with journalist maria schiavocampo run tell this which is a wonderful podcast. you've been tracking this story. this is something that's been going on for months but very much coming to a head with this new york times story recently coming out. what do you think what you're seeing at this moment? >> yeah. the problem here is not that rachel nickels was trying to defend her turf. that happens all the time in television. the problem is that in defending her turf she thinks maria taylor got that job because she's black, not because she earned it and not because she deserved it. that's the issue here. and that's something that a lot of black people from all walks of life can identify with. we're often viewed as unqualified for the spaces that we're in based on the assumption that we're some type of diversity token. when the reality is we are almost always having to be twice as good to get half as much, overqualified and undervalued. there's also a point here that's kind of interesting in that rachel nickels is saying this.

democratic presidential hopeful -- i heard this from brian "potato head" stelter.i don't want to be canceled. i'll be dinged if i post this on social media for misinformation because i didn't include "democratic presidential hopeful, which that was accurate, right? so nice michael is going away for a couple of years. he got off light rell tyson fury the sentencing. he's up for three other things. one of them is defrauding like a client of his, but he's a wonderful human being. remember, he was leading the democrat charge. >> i love you! don: i love you too! [applause] no, but in all seriousness. thank you for that. it means the world us to. i think it is because we'll actually fight. we'll actually push back, right? and that's what donald trump did for the republican party. he showed that you don't just have to turn the other cheek, roll over and die as the other side gets whatever they want and laughs their way to the bank. right? now, we need you guys in that fight with us, ok? and to be clear so that they don't say that i'm antagonizing, i mean the metta physica

stuart: governor, i'm going to run a sound bite from cnn's brian stelter who has a big problem with billionairesgrees, the highest temperature ever. saturday, same thing. today it might set again for the highest temperature on the planet. is it moral, is it ethical to be launching off rockets, flying to space, spending all this money on fuel in a age of climate crisis? stuart: why don't you answer mr. stelter's question, is it moral, is it ethical, go. >> i'm sure he thought that was the dumbest question he was ever asked in his life f they want to save power at cnn shut the whole place down. that would save energy. i would like to ask mr. stelter do you have air conditioning in your home? if you do, shut up. if you drive a car, and you do, shut up you're a hypocrite. do you have a washer and dryer? you don't use a wash tub and hang wash on a balcony. shut up. you're a hypocrite. this is virtu signaling from a little guy that embarasses himself when he opens his mouth. stuart: you're trying to restrain yourself. you're doing a noble job, governor. it is great stuff. i couldn't stop laughing. gov

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