Jane Mayer says her story for The New Yorker about Senator Dianne Feinstein's "missteps" exposed one of the Senate's open secrets. Brian Stelter asks Mayer how she handled rumors of "cognitive decline," and Mayer says "this is an issue that used to be swept under the rug. I really don't think it can be anymore." And "given the aging of our current leaders," she says, "it's going to be something you'll see more of."

Anne McCloy, a news anchor at WRGB in Albany, New York, became a conduit for thousands of state residents who struggled to obtain benefits after losing their jobs. "We started getting desperate phone calls into the station, and even had a gentleman show up in our parking lot crying with his unemployment papers asking us to help him," she says.

Charlotte Alter, who wrote the cover story for Time magazine's Person of the Year feature, says "Biden and Harris won overwhelmingly," and "the story is not just about how they beat Trump this year, it's also about the future.

Astead Herndon says that asking about the news diets of voters provides "a direct, causational understanding of why they feel the way that they do." Charlotte Alter also joins the conversation about the impact of conspiracy theories.

According to Trump's own description of what a "good job" would be, he has not done a "good job" addressing the pandemic, Brian Stelter points out. S.E. Cupp talks about why Trump's favorite media sources downplay the pandemic, saying, "they don't even want to talk about it because then they have to admit they've gotten it wrong too."

"Whether it comes to Covid or it comes to this election, Fox News and OAN and Newsmax are not telling their viewers what they need to hear, they're telling them what they want to hear. That's fan fiction," S.E. Cupp says. Matt Lewis calls it "fake news, for lack of a better word."

Democratic voting rights attorney Marc Elias, general counsel to the DNC and a member of the Biden legal team, notes that Trump has "lost virtually every lawsuit" and says "it's well past time" to move on. "The media needs to start reporting this for what it is, which is the new birtherism," he says.

All throughout U.S. history, "losers of elections have cried foul," Brian Stelter says. What makes this chapter in American history unique is a hyper-partisan, hyper-connected media ecosystem that empowers election denialism. Stelter says the 2020 election "will never be over," in the minds of some voters, due to misinformation.