The Democratic presidential candidates were interviewed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in a Nov. 6 forum. And they stretched the facts on a few topics.
FactChecking the MSNBC Democratic Forum
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Video: Carson on ‘Extreme Bias’
This week, CNN’s Jake Tapper gives the full account of an incident Ben Carson has described as an example of “extreme political bias” on college campuses.
Nov. 6: Missed Votes, Income, Business ‘Deaths’
Carson, Trump at the Debate
The big issue this week was the Republican presidential debates in Boulder, Colorado, and that’s the topic of the latest installment of our weekly fact-checking collaboration with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
FactChecking the CNBC Debates
Republicans make false and misleading claims on jobs, taxes and entitlements in economic-focused debates.
Did Biden Revise History on Bin Laden?
In this week’s collaboration with FactCheck.org, CNN’s Jake Tapper discusses a new narrative Vice President Biden provided recently: that he told President Obama privately in 2011 that he should go ahead with the mission that ended up killing Osama bin Laden.
Three Democratic Debate Lowlights
In this week’s collaboration with FactCheck.org, Jake Tapper of CNN’s “State of the Union” tackles three claims from the first Democratic debate.
FactChecking the Democratic Debate
The candidates stretched the facts on unemployment, wages and Social Security, among other topics.
Oct. 9: Health Insurance, Homicides, Refugees
‘Nobody Did Anything Wrong’ on Benghazi?
The subject of this week’s fact-checking collaboration with CNN’s Jake Tapper is Hillary Clinton’s comment that all of the government investigations into the terrorist attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi concluded that “nobody did anything wrong.”