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Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on July 27, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Russia "has an economy the size of Italy."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • July 27, 2014
Rula Jebreal
Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on MSNBC
"Ninety percent" of people living in Gaza "don’t have access even to water."  
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 24, 2014
Rula Jebreal
Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on MSNBC
Between June 30 and July 10, CNN interviewed "17 Israeli public officials versus one" Palestinian official.  
Half-True
By Katie Sanders, Linda Qiu • July 24, 2014
Kate Obenshain
Kate Obenshain
stated on July 17, 2014 an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor"
Compared to President Obama, "President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2014
Stu Burguiere
Stu Burguiere
stated on July 15, 2014 comments on The Glenn Beck Radio Program
There are fewer wars, there are fewer people dying in wars "now than there have been in quite some time."
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 21, 2014
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on July 20, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"The so-called defense minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • July 20, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 12, 2014 a post on the blog "Outside the Beltway"
"North Korea is telling its people that their men’s national team is in the World Cup final."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • July 17, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 16, 2014 a meme on social media
Former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney are "unable to visit Europe due to outstanding warrants."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2014
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on July 8, 2014 a broadcast of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell"
"Radio Marti and TV Marti have spent more than $500 million to reach less than 1 percent of the Cuban population."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 14, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 14, 2014 posts on Facebook
Fox News is "banned in Canada" because it violates a law that "prevents ‘news’ channels from lying to their viewers."  
Pants on Fire!
By Linda Qiu • July 14, 2014
Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
stated on July 8, 2014 an interview on the PBS "News Hour"
When undocumented children are picked up at the border and "told to appear later in court ... 90 percent do not then show up."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2014
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on June 24, 2014 a "Roll Call" interview
The Export-Import Bank "doesn’t cost taxpayers anything."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • June 30, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 26, 2014 emails and social media posts circulating on the Internet
Says Barack Obama said that "ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs" and that individuals should "surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2014
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 11, 2014 a speech
All 28 members of NATO have "pledged to spend at least 2 percent of their economy on defense. But only three countries do -- Britain, Greece and us."  
Mostly True
June 19, 2014
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on June 1, 2014 an interview
Our "trade with Mexico is $720 million a day; that’s our No. 1 trading partner."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 13, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices."
"The U.S. military footprint in Africa is nearly nonexistent."
True
By Steve Contorno • June 12, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices"
"In Iran in 1979, the extremists hijacked the broad-based popular revolution against the Shah and established a brutal theocracy."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices"
By 2009, "dozens of senior terrorists had been taken off the battlefield" by drones.
True
By Lauren Carroll • June 11, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices"
"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on June 4, 2014 a broadcast of the "Rachel Maddow Show"
In February, John McCain "suggested" the Bergdahl-Taliban swap that he now calls "outrageous and dangerous."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 10, 2014
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