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"the washington post" fact checker has now counted more than 9,000 false or misleading claims by the president since he took office. and the rate is increasing. joining us now is glen kessler. glen, great to have you. what is the exact number? you crunched the numbers all the time. what are we up to this morning? >> well, we update it every couple weeks. so as of march 3 trd was 9,014. >> okay. 9,014. and one of the things that you have uncovered is that the rate of misleading and false statements is increasing. so when the president first took office he was making about 5.9 false or misleadin...

It's one thing for the president to make up stories to help his case for the government to spend time and resources to try to retrofit the narrative is troubling. >> it is. it doesn't surprise anybody that the president has a knack for saying things that aren't necessarily true. he does this on average 16.5 times a day. but it's troubling when taxpayer dollars go in in an attempt to make falsehoods true. it happened in the case with the duct tape but it's been happening all along. we saw it at the very beginning with the inauguration crowd when the president calls the park service and says com...

The president averaged 5.9 false claims a day in his first year, 16.5 falsehoods a day in his second year in office. why do you think the pace is increasing now? >> well, we know when this president comes under pressure, he usually lashes out, and every time he leans into kind of his own messaging or off-the-cuff messaging, we get more and more falsehoods. i'd also say i'm not surprised on the second year because we're in an election year. we know that when it's come to election time, president trump to rile up his base and whip up votes, he doesn't care about whether things are truthful and b...

Claims in his second year alone. that is according to the hard-working fact checkers at "the washington post." let's discuss. chris cillizza and astead herndon. so good to have both of you here. happy king day. astead, let's talk to you first. the lies appear to be piling up faster than average. the president averaged 5.9 false claims a day in his first year, 16.5 falsehoods a day in his second year in office. why do you think the pace is increasing now? >> well, we know when this president comes under pressure, he usually lashes out, and every time he leans into kind of his own messaging or o...

Crisis going on. may not be as deadly but worrying and no one mentions it. at this moment, more than one in six american adults is on some kind of psychiatric drug. among americans over the age of 12, one in eight take antidepressants. 65% increase compared to 1999. 20 years ago. among women, 16.5% are now on antidepressants. one in every six women in america is now taking a pill just to cope with feeling miserable. what is going on? after anti-depresssant the most common drugs are. anxiety medication like xanax. they're abusive. try to get off one of the ben.o drugs, you can die from withdraw...