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Wearing like really tight cutoffs. that would make male bowling -- oh ya. >> watches tennis, plays tennis, have i to say something. there is a physical reason for the grunt. i play tennis and i happen to make that noise when i hit the ball. >> pretend you are hitting the ball. >> oh my god. so here is the deal. you are releasing air from your body. you are hitting the ball. this is ridiculous. that whole thing is ridiculous. >> we are needing an example. it is for the people at home so they know...

Were all very up there. karen, you are the winner on the spacious-o-meter. you have 140. congratulations, you are experiencing what many people dream of in terms of fun. we have jimmy at 128. i came in at 128 as well, and susan, were a little concerned because youre 106. >> oh, no! >> sometimes youre feeling free and easy but it depends on the day. my question, jimmy, is this correlation or causation? does being open to fun, does that come from being on the mega panel or does being that fun get ...

>> in the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. last year they created the most jobs since 2005. thats what he said. so the self-proclaimed fact-checking news site, politifact, decided to fact check this claim by the president. politifact describes itself as a nonpartisan journalism enterprise. they fact check what politicians and public figures say and then they rate the statements with this thingy. they call it the truth-o-meter. so politifact looked into this part ...

Budgets. most people think thats good. >> four consecutive balanced budgets. sounds good. >> but it didnt happen when he was speaker. so we rated that false on our truth-o-meter. we have heard this many times. he actually made this when he announced he was running for president, but hes referring to two years when he had already resigned, 2000 and 2001, so he gets a false on the truth-o-meter. >> mitt romney criticized president obamas jobs record. lets listen to this. >> this president came int...

Obama has since then often said to his aides, that thats an important goal. so true on the truth-o-meter. the sanctioning on iran. that was the topic. heres rick perrys ideas. >> when you sanction the iranian central bank, that will shut down that economy. at that point in time, they truly have to deal with the united states. how does it score? >> thats a half-true. we talked to some experts, the question on whether sanctioning the bank would instead shut down the economy. a couple wrinkle, on...

The numbers are right. its just important to note that the big growth in government spending is because of transfer payments like social security that people control, not the government, but mostly true for the first piece of the claim. he goes off the tracks though with the second one when he says that at some point we will cease to be a free economy. the conservative heritage foundation actually rates the united states ninth for having the freest economy, and, you know, you look at any other o...

Agenda project. it literally shows a paul ryan look alike rolling grandma off the cliff. aside from the visual, we want you to take on a couple of the things it says in this ad. the first one is, it says that the ryan plan privatizes medicare. how do you rate it? >> we rated that mostly true on our truth-o-meter. thats a reasonable description of what it does. you know, medicare currently, the government pays private providers, doctors and hospitals, for the care. under ryans plan, it would be p...

>> it did get under 4% just after he left. i guess he thought he still should. maybe he was still calling himself speaker. >> yeah. >> finally, tim pawlenty. this is what he said at a fox news debate two weeks ago. "on the night of the iowa caucuses, president obama, promised the nation that he would do health care reform focused on cost containment he imposed. he said he was going to do it with republicans," and that was part of tim pawlentys criticism of what the president did to health care. ...

Truth-o-meter. hes right about that. thats a very deliberate thing on obamas part. obama and some of his aides have talked about it. theyve said that they want to be precise with their language. it is not a war against terror, they say. it is a war against al qaeda and its affiliates. so pawlenty gets a "true." >> it was one of the first things president obamas aides had decided early on. finally, weve heard a lot about the birther controversy surrounding president obama. we know donald trump ha...

Also, how did more than 450 prisoners escape from one afghan prison? plus, hard to believe statements of the week tested in the truth-o-meter. and dancing with the royals. music and sound for the royal wedding. also, getting the edge on your competition. >> i like to think weve entered the decade of me2.0. a time when we have to dump all our shame, figure out where our strengths are and what were good at and broadcast that to the world.