-So, it's the end of 2019. -Mercifully.
-I am not sure what 20 year we're in.
Could be 2019, could be 2020, could be 2018.
Sometimes I think I'm still in 2016.
-I can't distinguish between years.
They're all the same.
-But, from the release of the Mueller Report
to an impeachment hearing, a lot happened in 2019.
-It was busy! -It was just a relentless
chasing of Donald Trump's false and misleading statements.
-And, by the end of it, they were.
-Exhausted.
-But they're seasoned professionals.
-[laughs] I've been doing this for nine years, now.
-Some false claims were more memorable than others.
-I've taken better care of Puerto Rico than any man, ever.
-So we asked the fact-checkers
to rewatch 2019's biggest Pinocchios
and tell us what these offenders got wrong.
-Do you want me to stop every time
he says something wrong or just when he says
the claim that made the Pinocchios of the Year list?
-The claim. -Okay.
Okay.
-While others made this year's list,
here's five of the biggest Pinocchios of 2019.
-On the USMCA, the new trade deal
we have with Mexico and Canada, what we save on that,
just with Mexico, will pay for the wall many times over,
just in a period of a year, two years, and three years.
So, I view that as absolutely Mexico is paying for the wall.
-Okay. So, Mexico?
Not paying for the wall.
-Here, he kind of has convinced himself that the trade deal
will pay for the wall, that $25 billion wall.
But it's not the case.
And, in fact, after we did our fact-check,
he more or less dropped this claim,
so maybe he even thought it was pretty ridiculous.
-I was the first person who ran for president
without the protection of the Voting Rights Act
and I will tell you it makes a really big difference.
And it doesn't just make a difference
in Alabama and Georgia.
It made a difference in Wisconsin,
where the best studies that have been done said somewhere
between 40,000 and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls.
-This is an effort by Hillary to mischaracterize,
you know, some of the reasons behind her loss.
-Yeah.
Well, here, Hillary Clinton gets lots of things wrong
about voting rights issues.
She claimed that the Supreme Court's changes having to do
with the Voting Rights Act made a difference in Wisconsin.
That's completely false.
The changes only affected Southern states.
-This is a very dangerous time
for women's health in our country.
Before Roe v Wade, thousands of people died every year
because they didn't have access to safe, legal abortion.
-We looked into this and she was completely wrong.
The year before Roe v Wade, it was, you know,
the statistics from the Centers for Disease Control
was under 50.
And the thousands, you only get to that
if you go way back into the 1930s,
before the advent of antibiotics.
This is part of his obsession with the squad,
these four women, mostly women of color,
who are, you know, kind of young,
left-leaning, new members of Congress.
-All they do is complain.
So all I'm saying is,
if they wanna leave, they can leave, John.
They can leave! -They're all American citizens.
-I mean, I look at the one, I look at Omar.
I don't know. I never met her.
I hear the ways he talks about al-Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda has killed many Americans.
She said, "You can hold your chest out.
When I think of America, huh.
When I think of al-Qaeda, I can hold my chest out".
-This is just a complete falsehood,
invention that he made up about some statements
she had made long ago.
And I see the other one.
This is part of a combined claim
that we did on his comments on Omar.
He did this, here, I remember.
-Omar has a history of launching vicious anti-Semitic screeds.
-[chanting] Send her back!
Send her back!
Send her back! Send her back!
-The president, when he's asked about this rally and this chant,
he told reporters, falsely, that he had intervened
to try to stop the chants.
-Well, number one, I think I did.
I started speaking very quickly.
It really was a loud.
I disagree with it, by the way.
-And we quickly did another four-Pinocchio fact-check
because the video was right there.
We could all see it and he did nothing of the kind.
-Well, the whistleblower's very inaccurate.
The whistleblower started this whole thing by writing a report
on the conversation I had with the president of Ukraine.
And the conversation was perfect.
-Right.
He says the whistleblower is very inaccurate
and he said this, I believe, in our database,
it's gonna exceed 50 times already,
just in the last few months.
-Based on what we learned through congressional hearings
and testimony, is that, in fact,
most of what was outlined in the whistleblower's claim
has been confirmed, one way or another.
To me, this is the most significant claim of the year.
-It's very interesting.
They have the server, right, from the DNC,
Democratic National Committee.
-Who has the server? -The FBI went in
and they told 'em, "Get outta here!
You're not getting it. We're not giving it to you".
They gave the server to Crowdstrike,
or whatever it's called, which is a country,
which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian.
And I still wanna see that server.
You know, the FBI has never gotten that server.
That's a big part of this whole thing.
Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company, why?
-Are you sure they did that? -"Fox & Friends,"
like his biggest supporters,
they, you know, Steve Doocy even asked,
"Are you sure [laughing] they have it"?
-Because we're looking for corruption.
-Okay, well, I'm gonna start out by saying
that the Defense Department had already certified
that Ukraine had met the anti-corruption standards
required for the US to give aid to any country,
well before President Trump had this phone call,
well before he started claiming
that he was rooting out corruption.
In terms of Crowdstrike and the connection to the DNC server
and the Russian hacking that happened
during the 2016 campaign, you know, at this point,
that is a well-trodded conspiracy theory
that we have disproved several times.
This claim has gotten four Pinocchios at least once
and certainly has been in our database of Trump's false
and misleading claims for well over a year, at this point.
And, yet, here we are.
-2019 was busy.
2020, I think, will be busier.
-2020 is gonna be an election year
and it's gonna be nasty and brutish.
It's gonna be bad.
-The same way that I can barely remember what day or month
or what year we're in now,
I imagine I'll get to the end of 2020
and I will feel exactly the same way,
but maybe slightly more confused.
-If you had to describe the year in fact-checking for 2019
in one word, what would it be?
-[laughing] One word?
-One word; you get one word. -Pinocchios!