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It was called a tidal wave of tall tales, false claims, and revisionist history. That is certainly what we saw. Did 25 separate claims of false or misleading state that fact check as false and misleading statement the president made. And that was probably just scratching the surface. Weve rotating old book and what we called his assault on truth. Up to ourly lived expectations in his reputation, say thingswho will that are often not based in any reality. Jonathan glenn, that reminds me , listening to the president s speech, im wondering for you as , did you hear anything new that needed to be fact checked . we fact to mend also the democrats on a daily basis. We were pretty well prepared. Cash bail,ne about he was criticizing biden for supporting a policy that governor Chris Christie of new jersey has implemented. That popped up in the past week, but we were prepared because we had seen he started to say that. Otherwise, it is a litany of his golden oldies, the greatest economy in the
Latest night, im going to start with you. Give us an overview of your fact check of last night. Glenn were running out of superlatives during the Republican Convention. One night we called it the tsunami of untruths. For trump we called it a tidal wave of tall tales false claims and revisionist history. Thats certainly what we saw. We did 25 separate claims of false or misleading statements that fact checked false or misleading statements the president made and that was probably just scratching the surface. Did 25 separate claims of false or misleading state that fact check we wrote book on his false statements and hes lived up to his reputation as someone that will say things not based in any reality. We have heard to our mind listening to the president s speech, theres a lot of things ive heard before. Im wondering for you as a factchecker, did you hear anything new that needed to be fact checked . Jonathan glenn, that reminds me , listening to the president s speech, im wondering fo
We were running out of superlatives. We called a tall tale of false creams and revisionist history. That is certainly what we saw. We did 25 separate claims of false or misleading state that fact check as false and misleading statement the president made. And that was probably just scratching the surface. We have wrote a whole book on what we call his assault on the truth and his propensity to say false and misleading things. He certainly lived up to our expectations in his reputation, as someone who will say things that are often not based in any reality. Jonathan glenn, that reminds me listening to the president s speech, im wondering for you as a fact checker, did you hear anything new that needed to be fact checked . Wefactcheck factcheck the democrats on a daily basis. He had a line about cash bail where he was criticizing biden for supporting a policy that governor Chris Christie of new jersey has implemented. That popped up in the past week, but we were prepared because we had s
Some small plane had lost its way and hit one of the World Trade Center towers. Obviously, within a short time after that, we understood that it was a big plane and it was a deliberate attack. I never made it to new york that day. Dayd to defer my trip one while we dealt with the chaos that was created by the attack. David talk about that chaos for a moment. Obviously we lost power throughout southern manhattan. A lot of markets went down there was concern about the payment system, for example. Harvey the problem was the damage that was done was quite extensive. Was figuring out how extensive the damage was, and what the protocol should be forgetting the markets back to a normal state. We immediately decided to shut down the security market. With thet in tandem then chairman of the new york Stock Exchange, and who became my constant telephone buddy throughout the week we had to deal with the wreckage that was caused by the attack. David how could you get information those first hours .