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Todd whitman is my guest. Lets if out front. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Breaking news, a shrewd leader, how President Trumps lawyers are painting Paul Manafort. A jury of six men and six women listening as hewellers team outlined its case describing manafort as a con artist who ran a global scheme to avoid paying millions in taxes. Prosecutors say manafort made 60 million in ukraine and that he didnt report to it the irs. They say he had 30 Bank Accounts in just three Foreign Countries which...

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President trump declaring victory tonight over abraham lincoln. he just did it moments ago. here is jeanne moos. >> reporter: president trump seems to have a touch of lincoln envy. >> the late great abraham lincoln. >> most people dont even mow he was a republican, right? does anyone know? >> ah, yeah, but we didnt know this. president trump tweeted, "wow, highest poll numbers in the history of the republican party. that includes honest abe lincoln and ronald reagan. there must be something wron...

Diligence that might be performed. jesse: cnn is fact checking the statement. they are doing a truth-o-meter. he was kind of making light of sexual harassment. but that wasnt the point. the point is hes taking direct preemptive action. i want to show you some video. a flight attendant got flamboyant doing the seat belt demonstration on board airlines. place it over your head, wrap that strap around your waist. your flight attendants are walking the walk to make sure your seat belt is securely fa...

Performed. jesse: cnn is fact checking the statement. they are doing a truth-o-meter. he was kind of making light of sexual harassment. but that wasnt the point. the point is hes taking direct preemptive action. i want to show you some video. a flight attendant got flamboyant doing the seat belt demonstration on board airlines. place it over your head, wrap that strap around your waist. your flight attendants are walking the walk to make sure your seat belt is securely fastened. and make sure al...

When you ran the state department, $6 billion was missing. how do you miss $6 billion? you ran the state department. $6 billion was either stolen, they dont know, its gone. >> donald trump pointing the finger at hillary clinton claiming $6 billion disappeared during her tenure as secretary of state. pulitzer prize winning politifact put it through the truth-o-meter. joined by aaron schockman. thank you for being with us. how did you rate that claim? >> not just not true, but pants on fire. there...

Cheering as that building was coming down. >> reporter: confronted with the fact that there is no video of that ever happening, trump held his ground. >> it was well covered at the time. there were people over in new jersey, they were watching it. a heavy arab population that were cheering as the buildings came down. not good. >> the terrorists used hijacked civilian airliners -- >> reporter: nbc news found no instance of cheering in jersey city. just a long, discredited rumor. and polite facts ...

Treat him like we treat any other candidate. we take his statement and put it on our truth-o-meter. we look at documents and fact check whatever he says and give it our truth-o-meter rating at the end of the report. >> im looking at his rating. it looks like its not very favorable for the donald. >> you know his ratings have been fairly negative. >> 75% mostly false. >> you know we use our news judgment to pick what to check. we listen for things that are provocative or make people go hmm. we fa...

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...

Wearing great glasses, im here to say, lets start with this one. mitt romney talking about how much repealing health care reform would save. lets listen. >> the number one to cut is obamacare. that saves $95 billion a year. >> thats a lot of money. is it true or false? >> that one gets a false on our truth-o-meter. what hes doing is cherry picking a number that $95 billion that he talked about was for one year in a ten-year period. but when you look at the overall costs, you have to remember tha...