Latest Fact Checks By Lauren Carroll

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Hillary Clinton: US negotiated agreement that made it easier to get EU flight data

March 29, 2016
"It’s actually easier for the United States to get flight manifests from E.U. nations than it is for E.U. nations to get them from their…
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Paul Ryan says Cuba is a ‘safe harbor’ for fugitives and terrorists

March 24, 2016
"To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives."
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Mitch McConnell exaggerates ‘tradition’ of not confirming election year Supreme Court nominees

March 22, 2016
Says Senate Republicans are "following a longstanding tradition of not filling vacancies on the Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election year."  
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Harry Reid says unlike the GOP, Senate Democrats never held up a Supreme Court nomination

March 20, 2016
Senate Democrats "have never held up a Supreme Court nomination."
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Bill O’Reilly wrongly says Merrick Garland voted to ban citizens from having guns in DC

March 18, 2016
Says Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland "voted, so the folks know, in Washington, D.C., to keep guns away from private citizens."
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Hillary Clinton said ‘my predecessors did the same thing’ with email

March 10, 2016
Regarding her State Department email practices, "my predecessors did the same thing."
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Hedge fund-backed PAC attacks Clinton’s Wall Street ties

March 10, 2016
Banks paid Hillary Clinton "over $1 million and are contributing millions more to elect her."  
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In Michigan, Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders ‘was against the auto bailout’

March 7, 2016
Says Bernie Sanders "was against the auto bailout" and "voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry."
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Donald Trump is right: Marco Rubio has worst Senate voting record

March 4, 2016
Marco Rubio "has the No. 1 absentee record in the United States" Senate.
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Sanders: Welfare reform more than doubled ‘extreme poverty’

March 2, 2016
"Since (welfare reform) was signed into law, the number of families living in extreme poverty has more than doubled."
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Obama: None of the GOP candidates have climate change plan

March 1, 2016
"There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change."
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Bill Clinton wrongly says San Bernardino attackers never went to the Middle East

February 22, 2016
"The people that perpetrated that travesty in San Bernardino had never been to the Middle East."
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