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Latest Fact-Checks By Katie Sanders

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Steven Emerson
stated on January 10, 2015 in an interview on Fox News:
“There are actual cities” like Birmingham, England, “that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in.”
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • January 14, 2015
Matt Lauer
stated on January 11, 2015 in a red carpet interview before the Golden Globes:
“The name Frank has risen in popularity by 20 percent” since the debut of ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix.
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 12, 2015
Craig Melvin
stated on January 5, 2015 in an MSNBC segment:
“There have even been Republican congressmen who have said, ‘If you give us more money we don’t know where we would even put additional Border Patrol agents.’ “
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 8, 2015
Matthew Cooke
stated on December 10, 2014 in a Huffington Post column:
The United States has “more of our people in prison than Russia, China, and North Korea combined.”
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • December 16, 2014
John Stossel
stated on December 4, 2014 in an interview on "Fox and Friends":
“There is no good data showing secondhand smoke kills people.”
False
By Katie Sanders • December 11, 2014
Bill O'Reilly
stated on December 1, 2014 in a segment on "The O'Reilly Factor":
“In 2012, 123 African-Americans were shot dead by police. … Same year, 326 whites were killed by police.”
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • December 4, 2014
Thom Hartmann
stated on November 7, 2014 in a segment on his RT show:
“The Kochs stand to make around $100 billion if the government approves the Keystone XL pipeline.”
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • November 19, 2014
Russ Girling
stated on November 16, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
The State Department says the 42,000 jobs created by the Keystone XL pipeline are “ongoing, enduring jobs.”
False
By Katie Sanders • November 16, 2014
Anna Kooiman
stated on November 6, 2014 in a segment on "Fox & Friends":
“There would be tens of thousands of jobs created” if President Barack Obama approved the Keystone XL pipeline.
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • November 11, 2014
Greta Van Susteren
stated on November 9, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
New Jersey has had “seven credit downgrades” since Chris Christie became governor.
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • November 9, 2014
Joe Scarborough
stated on November 3, 2014 in a segment on "Morning Joe":
2014 midterm election spending by “the left and the right are both equal.”
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • November 6, 2014
Jonathan Karl
stated on November 2, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
“Kansas has not elected somebody other than a Republican (to the U.S. Senate) since before ‘The Wizard of Oz’ hit the movie theaters.”
True
By Katie Sanders • November 2, 2014
Megyn Kelly
stated on October 21, 2014 in a segment on "The Kelly File":
A new Colorado law “literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers, then encourages them to turn ballots over to ‘collectors.’ “
False
By Katie Sanders • October 30, 2014
Stephanie Cutter
stated on October 19, 2014 in an episode of "Meet the Press":
“Money towards the Ebola vaccine is basically cut in half to what it was. More cuts are coming under the congressional sequester.”
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • October 24, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on October 21, 2014 in a debate:
Says high-speed rail would have created 60,000 jobs.
False
By Katie Sanders, Steve Contorno • October 22, 2014
Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 12, 2014 in an interview with Howard Kurtz:
“When I go on Letterman” the “ratings go up.”
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • October 21, 2014
Rick Scott
stated on October 10, 2014 in a gubernatorial debate:
“The CBO says if we raise the minimum wage the way Charlie (Crist) wants to do it, it would lose 500,000 jobs.”
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • October 10, 2014
Sarah Silverman
stated on October 8, 2014 in a video for the National Women's Law Center:
“Every year the average woman loses around $11,000 to the wage gap,” which amounts to “a $500,000 vagina tax” over her working career.
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • October 10, 2014
Ben Affleck
stated on October 3, 2014 in an interview on "Real Time with Bill Maher":
The Islamic State is so small it “couldn’t fill a Double A ballpark in Charleston, W. Va.”
False
By Katie Sanders • October 7, 2014
Gloria Steinem
stated on October 1, 2014 in an AP interview:
More women were killed by their husbands or boyfriends since Sept. 11 than “all the Americans who were killed by 9/11 or in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
True
By Katie Sanders • October 7, 2014
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