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The numbers are right. it's 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 objective measurement, it's ridiculously false to make that claim. so that piece we give a pants on ...

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. that's a reasonable description of what it does. you know, medicare currently, the government pays private providers, doctors and hospitals, for the care. under ryan's plan, it would be private insurance companies that would do the payments to private providers. using in many cases wh...

>> 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 pawlenty's criticism of what the president did to health care. how did you rate that statement? >> he got a mostly true on the truth-o-meter. we broke that into t...

Truth-o-meter. he's right about that. that's a very deliberate thing on obama's part. obama and some of his aides have talked about it. they've 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 obama's aides had decided early on. finally, we've heard a lot about the birther controversy surrounding president obama. we know donald trump has been one of the loudest voices as he explores his own possible presidential run. he says pre...

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 we've entered the decade of me2.0. a time when we have to dump all our shame, figure out where our strengths are and what we're good at and broadcast that to the world.