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welcome back to reliable sources i m brian stelter. i counted it up and president trump tweeted about so-called fake news more than 210 times this year. almost always referring to real and reliable news outlets. he said 60 minutes was take, the new york times, the ap, cnn, numerous polls, he even questioned nbc s broadcast license. are we getting numb to this? is that a danger? ben douglas and sara are still with me. ben, is it a risk, this constant poison the president spreads about the news being fake? i feel like over time it does have this affect on the public. absolutely. i think he s done real damage to broad trust in the media and, yeah, to kind of the institutional relationship between power and the press. i think that s something that his democratic or republican successor will no doubt