Latest Fact Checks By Lauren Carroll

Fact-checking O’Malley’s claim that Hillary Clinton flips on gun issues ‘every election’

By Lauren Carroll

December 20, 2015

"Secretary Clinton changes her position on (gun issues) every election year, it seems, having one position in 2000 and then campaigning against President Obama and…

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Rubio and Cruz spar over domestic surveillance program

By Lauren Carroll

December 16, 2015

Regarding the USA Freedom Act, "There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before."

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Marco Rubio says the states have always defined marriage

By Lauren Carroll

December 13, 2015

"The states have always defined marriage."

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Scalia says most black scientists went to ‘lesser’ colleges

By Joshua Gillin , Lauren Carroll

December 11, 2015

"Most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools."

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Trump cites shaky survey in call to ban Muslims from entering US

By Lauren Carroll , Louis Jacobson

December 9, 2015

Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."

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Joe Scarborough says in days after Paris attack, White House ruled out possibility of attack at home

By Lauren Carroll

December 8, 2015

In the weekend after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the White House said "this couldn't happen in the United States. ISIS couldn't reach us here."

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Marco Rubio: 700,000 Americans could be affected by bill tying terrorist watch list to gun purchases

By Lauren Carroll

December 6, 2015

"There are over 700,000 Americans on some watch list or another that would all be captured" in a Democratic amendment intended to stop suspected terrorists…

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Bill Maher: Cancer drugs cost $10,000 a month

By Lauren Carroll

December 2, 2015

"15 years ago, cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 a year. Now it’s $10,000 a month."

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Hillary Clinton says she helped usher Iran to the negotiating table

By Lauren Carroll

November 23, 2015

"I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table."

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Fact-checking Trump’s claim that thousands in New Jersey cheered when World Trade Center tumbled

By Lauren Carroll

November 22, 2015

"I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.    

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Hillary Clinton: 3,000 killed by guns between Nevada and Iowa Democratic debates

By Lauren Carroll

November 17, 2015

"Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns."

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What Barack Obama said about ISIS being contained

By Lauren Carroll

November 15, 2015

When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he "was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria."

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