Latest Fact-Checks By Chris Nichols

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Sanchez makes Pants On Fire claim about California gun database

February 4, 2016

"Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don’t have that (gun ownership) database."

Brown speaks the truth about California’s job growth

January 25, 2016

"Two million new jobs have been created," in California since 2011.  

Ted Cruz misfires on Feinstein gun claim

January 15, 2016

"California Senator, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said if she could say to Mr. America and Mrs. America, 'Give me your guns, I'm rounding 'em up,'…

Did 2,000 suspected terrorists legally buy guns in the U.S.?

December 17, 2015

"Since 2004, more than 2,000 suspected terrorists have legally purchased weapons in the United States."

Senator claims California grows jobs faster than “rest of the nation”

December 7, 2015

California has "robust job growth that outpaces the rest of the nation."  

Does California have the most children in poverty?

December 4, 2015

"California has more kids in poverty ... than virtually any other state."

Have costs dropped ‘several hundred million dollars’ for California’s bullet train?

November 24, 2015

"The actual (construction) contracts that we’ve awarded to date have come in several hundred million dollars below estimates."

Is the private sector ‘unwilling’ to fund California’s bullet train?

November 23, 2015

"We now know these firms are unwilling to put up any private money," for California's high-speed rail project.    

Claim says all California drivers are insured

November 9, 2015

"Everyone on California’s roads is properly licensed, tested and insured."  

Does California have the most ambitious clean energy goals on the planet?

November 3, 2015

"No city in the state, no state in this nation, for that matter the entire world, has adopted (clean energy) targets more ambitious in scale."

Jerry Brown’s hazy claim: L.A. ‘invents’ smog

November 3, 2015

"Smog was invented in Los Angeles. It was. The name was invented. There was a fellow at Caltech and he came up with the idea…

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