Recent show highlights 

  • Reckoning with inaccurate 2020 election polls

    When it comes to the state-level polls that missed the mark this election cycle, pollster Ann Selzer notes that polls are estimates, so "it's always going to be a matter of degree to which you get it right and get it wrong." Selzer and Evan Osnos also discuss whether president elect Biden will be able to restore trust.
  • Will Trump move from the White House to a TV network?

    Brian Stelter brings up the possibility of "Trump TV" in the future. Chris Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax, says he would "love to have Donald Trump on Newsmax a lot, whether he is president or not. I think he is great television." Ruddy also says Trump feels "disappointed" in Fox News.
  • Fox is enabling Trump's election denialism

    Numerous hosts and guests on Fox News are backing up the president's baseless claims about mass voter fraud. Oliver Darcy says they are "enabling and encouraging the president's worst impulses." Evan Osnos says Biden's team is responding to Trump's denialism by conveying a "sense of inevitability."
  • Abby Phillip: Election week was intense but the system is working

    "It's been an intense five days," CNN political correspondent Abby Phillip says, reflecting on the period between election night and Biden's victory speech. "Despite what's going on with the president, the majority of this country accepts what is happening and that is a testament to the system working in a good way," she says.
  • Has Trump's spell on the media been broken?

    Brian Stelter points out that Trump's tweets and comments are getting a lot less media attention now that he is the projected loser of the election. "The salience of this administration goes down by the day," Jeffrey Goldberg says. He says the key question for journalists now is, "what is the Biden administration going to do to vanquish the virus?"
  • Balancing coverage of the lame duck and the president-elect

    Abby Phillip, Jeffrey Goldberg and Jon Karl discuss Trump's decision not to immediately concede to Biden. Goldberg says the unusual situation "warrants pretty serious conversations in newsrooms about how much attention we pay to the lame duck pronouncements."
  • Election news briefly eclipsed worsening Covid-19 crisis

    Brian Stelter says the sharp rise in coronavirus cases would "be the lead story were it not for the election" in the United States. He asks Biden campaign national press secretary TJ Ducklo about the president-elect's plans to address the pandemic.

 

  • Brian Stelter

    Chief Media Correspondent and Anchor of Reliable Sources
    Brian Stelter is the chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide and anchor of Reliable Sources, which examines the week's top media stories every Sunday at 11:00 a.m. ET on CNN/U.S. Stelter reports for CNN Media, and writes a nightly e-newsletter.