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Briefings or things like that, constant interviews on fox news. and lots and lots of rallies where there tend to be quite a few claims. so it's the fact that he spews out a lot of words and a fair number of them happen to be false or misleading. >> you've broken them down by subject, so let me put this up. immigration gets a lot of falsehoods. 1,688. foreign policy, 1,015. trade, 939. the economy, 840. jobs, 815. do you call these lies when you hear them? >> well, it -- we tend to avoid the use of the word lie. you know, we at the "washington post" we have a pinocchio system. so in many of the...

Completely missing. and so therefore it leaves a misleading impression in the listeners' ears. >> that's interesting but it makes your job harder the fact you have a continuum. so how do you figure -- so basically you have the different pinocchio system and how do you go about categorizing it as a falsehood? what's your process? where do you start by figuring out if it's false or if he's just using different statistics than, say, the average person? >> well, i mean, we wouldn't be different statistics. we would include it if it's statistics that he does in a misleading way. so, for instance, w...

President of the united states. we haven't talked to him since last disaster. then the president picked up the phone and he did talk with speaker boehner and mitch mcconnell yesterday. jay carney wouldn't give us any details other than it was a good conversation. >> brian: here is the deal, the president of the united states goes golfing over the weekend even though is looming two weeks away and congress goes on vacation for a week, even though there is clearly warrants extra attention if it's something they want to avoid. the president feels the polls are on his side. the people are on his si...