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With this kind of scale and scope amplifying extreme voices and reaching into the oval office. in today's look at the fractured states of america, we're turning the camera back on ourselves, the news media. once upon a time, there was the fairness doctrine which kept partisan opinions balanced by their opposition. this was considered a public good, not just a profit center. and there were some epic skirmishes. like ed murrow against joe mccarthy with reminders we must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. but this was the exception rather than the rule. even as conservatives began to believe th...

What ed murrow said many years ago. the sanctity of the court and of the press. if you wound them you wound the essence of the system. >> i want to tap into your expertise on foreign policy. this is what lindsey graham of the president's recent comments on north korea just a few moments ago with jeffrey goldberg. >> i'm worried that north korea's dividing us from south korea. i'm worried that we are being played here. so i'm telling president trump enough with i love you. this is not a guy -- >> you specifically cl-- >> this love crap needs to stop. >> why did he say it? >> in his world trying...

Counsel is looking at in terms of obstruction of justice. why was the president so obsessed with having someone loyal to him run the investigation? why did he ask jim comey for his loyalty? was this simply loyalty because the president was someone who wanted people around him who were loyal to him, or was there a reason for this, and why has the president continued to go after sessions publicly? why has he tried to get him to resign? what was really behind that? has he tried to install someone more loyal to him atop the justice department? those are the questions. >> michael, we observe around...

Suggests? you know, there was outcried from conservatives. litman, ed murrow, walter cronkite. >> our how about ben bradley and jfk? >> maybe even more relevant. >> it was those relationshipses that let it decry the close necessary, and democratic presidents. we've never had media outlets staffing an administration literally to the extent that breitbart have been, and for hannity -- remember trump-tv was plan b for the president. the enormously dynamic relationship, of course it should be divulged. it ends up demeaning the independence of the good reporters at fox, people like

Welcome back to this new year's edition of "reliable sources." i'm brian stelter. my next guest says this is our murrow moment. john avlon is joining me, a cnn political analyst and author of the new book, "washington's farewell" out next week. you wrote that the trump administration, covering trump promises to be a stress test. what do you mean by that? >> the next four years are going to be challenging. there are going to be attacks and insults and perhaps a crisis or two. but the character of the nation didn't change on election day and i think the job of a journalist is more important than...