Brian Stelter says Steve Bannon's 2018 confession might be the single quote that best explains the Trump era. Oliver Darcy says the "blizzard of misinformation" surrounding the 2020 election poses unique risks. Donie O'Sullivan describes what CNN is doing to sort out fact from fiction.

Due to the pandemic, all the major TV networks are taking precautions to keep staffers healthy. "You'll see some more distance on the sets than we've had in the past," CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist says, but the "same faces" as previous election nights.

Brian Stelter asks CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist about the prospect of Trump prematurely declaring victory in the presidential election. Feist says that "once you start counting and reporting the votes, the spin and the time for spin is over."

CNN's Washington bureau chief, Sam Feist, says it is possible that decision desks will project the winner of the presidential election on Tuesday night, but it may well take several days to know the outcome. "It takes longer to count those mail-in ballots," so people should remain patient, Feist says.

Did the paper exaggerate Miles Taylor's position by cloaking him in anonymity and calling him a senior administration official? Olivia Nuzzi says the title suggests "someone familiar... and who they know about," not a bureaucrat: "There is a kind of inherent trickery, I think, inherent deceit when you use anonymous titles."

Brian Stelter says Fox News has a unique role in reporting on the results of the election, and viewers are currently being misled about Trump's chances. Susan Glasser says that without Fox personalities backing him up, Trump is "just a man screaming into the wind," adding, "it's his enablers who have made Donald Trump, and that of course means we are in a very dangerous situation right now."

The New Yorker's Susan Glasser says "we've never had a president who's been willing to attack the legitimacy of our institutions" like Trump has. She adds, "he has been running to erode the trust in the media" from the very beginning.

"Anything is possible but Biden is probable" is Brian Stelter's takeaway after hearing Susan Glasser's candid assessment of the presidential race. Glasser says the October surprise was that there was no surprise, meaning nothing occurred to reshape the race. Philip Bump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania and Olivia Nuzzi in Georgia also weigh in.