Democrats town hall, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and above Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton met at The Ohio Accompaniment University on Sunday for a Democratic boondocks anteroom hosted by CNN and TV One, and CNN's Reality Check aggregation spent the night putting their statements and assertions to the test.
The aggregation of reporters, advisers and editors beyond CNN listened throughout the boondocks hall, called key statements and afresh rated them true; mostly true; true, but misleading; false; or it's complicated.
In talking about trade, Sanders decried the agreements that he said acquire aching the nation's accomplishment sector.
"We acquire lost, aback 2001, about 60,000 factories. Can you brainstorm that? Sixty-thousand factories, millions of good-paying jobs," he said.
He's right.
There were 352,600 accomplishment establishments employing just beneath 16 actor humans in 2001, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By 2013, that amount was down to 292,100 establishments, employing 11.3 actor people.
Sanders told the admirers that there are "more humans in bastille in America than any added country on Earth."
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were added than 2.2 actor adults captivated in bounded jails and prisons in the United States in 2014.
The Chinese acquire 1.66 actor humans bound up in their bastille system, while the Russian bastille citizenry doesn't hit a million, with about 644,000 humans incarcerated, according to the Convention for Criminal Policy Research.
However, the convention addendum that China's confined citizenry is apparently college aback that amount does not cover humans captivated in apprehension centers. In 2009, an added 650,000 humans were captivated in apprehension centers, according to numbers appear by Chinese government officials.
Just based on those raw numbers, we amount Bernie Sanders' affirmation as true.
However, abounding experts say it is best to analyze the bastille citizenry amount of countries.
By this measure, the United States locks up 698 per 100,000 people, which puts it at second, according to the ICPR.
Only the island nation of Seychelles acme the United States, with 799 prisoners per 100,000 people. However, some incarceration experts say that it is arbitrary to analyze Seychelles, which has a citizenry of about 90,000, to the United States, a country with added than 300 actor people. The Bastille Policy Initiative did not cover countries with beneath than bisected a actor association if it appear its 2014 States of Incarceration address "to accomplish the comparisons added meaningful."
China's amount is 119 prisoners per 100,000 humans and Russia's is 446 per 100,000.
Even if searching at the numbers from a altered perspective, we still amount Sanders' affirmation as true.
Sanders ticked off a account assuming how diff America is.
One of them centered on wealth: "Problem is that we acquire the affliction administering of abundance of any above country on Earth," Sanders said.
Financial casework Acclaim Suisse and Allianz attending at abundance globally every year. They both activate that the United States has the accomplished akin of asperity a part of developed countries. Noting that the bread-and-butter crisis of the endure decade and the consecutive apathetic accretion has affronted the divide, Allianz dubbed us the "Unequal States of America."
The richest 10 percent of Americans controlled 74.6 percent of the nation's abundance in 2014, according to Acclaim Suisse. The alone added developed nation that comes abutting is Switzerland, area the top 10 percent own 71.9 percent of the wealth.
Wealth asperity in the U.S. rivals that of several arising countries, such as Russia, South Africa and India.
When Clinton was asked whether her almanac in appointment was ever interventionist, she referenced her role in allowance lay the foundations for the all-embracing accomplishment to barrier Iran's nuclear program. She declared the Iranian nuclear affairs as getting awful avant-garde if Admiral Barack Obama took office.
Clinton said, "You know, if Admiral Obama went into appointment and I became secretary of state, the Iranians had baffled the nuclear ammunition cycle. They had congenital buried facilities, they had abounding them with centrifuges. All of that happened while George W. Bush was president, and we had done, you know, sanctions and aggregate that we could anticipate of as the United States government and Congress, but it hadn't chock-full them. And there were a lot of added countries in the arena who said they would yield aggressive activity if necessary."
Iran's nuclear affairs dates all the way aback to the 1980s. In 1996, Admiral Bill Clinton active off on sanctions adjoin Iran to amerce it for advancing a nuclear program. But the Iranian government did not advertise it had baffled the nuclear ammunition aeon until the end of 2010, about two years into Hillary Clinton's administering as secretary of state.
Iran now produces aggregate it needs for the nuclear ammunition cycle, authoritative its nuclear affairs self-sufficient, the arch of the country's Atomic Energy Organization told accompaniment media Sunday.
While Iran's nuclear affairs fabricated abundant strides during the Bush presidency, the ammunition aeon was baffled during the aboriginal years of the Obama administration, and Iran's use of buried accessories dates all the way aback to the 1990s.
Clinton's account that these developments occurred while Bush was in appointment is false.
Clinton took acclaim for bringing Iran to the negotiating table for a accord that would bind its nuclear program.
Clinton conceded that some sanctions on Iran were imposed beneath George W. Bush's administration, but went on to advance that these did annihilation to apathetic Iran's weapons-related nuclear activities.
"So I led the accomplishment to appoint sanctions on Iran, to absolutely accompany them to the negotiating table," said Clinton, adding, "the negotiations started beneath my watch."
Talks did in actuality activate during Clinton's administering arch the Accompaniment Department, and she did play an important role galvanizing all-embracing abutment for tougher sanctions, but Clinton's statements Sunday abbreviate cogent contributions by both Congress and the Bush administration.
In her 2014 account "Hard Choices," Clinton wrote about how negotiations emerged from back-channel discussions through the absolutist of Oman, who ultimately appropriate the talks. Clinton afterwards beatific a top abettor to Oman to accommodated with the Iranians, paving the way for a analytical buzz alarm amid Admiral Barack Obama and Iranian Admiral Hassan Rouhani, and the admission of added academic negotiations.
Clinton aswell argued auspiciously for harsher U.S. and United Nations Security Council sanctions that added the burden on Iran's abridgement in the months arch up to negotiations.
In particular, Clinton lobbied adopted admiral to assurance assimilate nuclear-related sanctions in aboriginal 2010, allowance body accord amid the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China abaft the measures.
Congress aswell imposed new unilateral sanctions adjoin Iran about that time, but in some cases, those measures in actuality went added than the Obama administering capital to go, and were in actuality about adjoin by Accompaniment Administering officials.
Clinton's statements Sunday aswell undervalue the account of measures taken by the Bush administration, led by then-Undersecretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Banking Intelligence Stuart Levey.
In fact, in the endure three years of the Bush administration, the United Nations Security Council imposed several circuit of boxy all-embracing sanctions adjoin Iran in affiliation with the country's nuclear activity. It's accessible these sanctions, in accession to the ones Clinton promoted, afflicted Iran's calculus in chief to accompany adept talks.
Verdict: Mostly true. Clinton played a above role in bringing about the Iran talks, but those initiatives were bolstered by aldermanic activity -- some of which her administering adjoin -- and by Bush-era measures.
In talking about angry poverty, Clinton acicular out that abjection fell acutely during the administering of her husband, Bill Clinton.
"In the '90s, added humans were aerial out of abjection at any time in contempo history because of the abhorrent bread-and-butter behavior of the Bush administration. Admiral Obama was larboard with the affliction banking crisis aback the Abundant Depression, and humans fell aback into abjection because they absent jobs, they absent homes, they absent opportunities and hope," she said.
Poverty did acceleration beneath the aboriginal Bush administration. In 1989, George H.W. Bush's aboriginal year in office, there were 31.5 actor humans in poverty, or 12.8 percent of Americans.
It rose to 39.3 million, or 15.1 percent, by 1993, if Bill Clinton entered the White House. In 2000, his endure abounding year in office, it had alone to 31.6 actor people, or 11.3 percent of Americans, the everyman amount aback 1974.
Poverty jumped afresh to 39.8 actor people, or 13.2 percent, by 2008, if George W. Bush was abrogation office.
The Abundant Recession beatific millions added Americans into poverty. The amount hit 15.1 percent in 2010, if 46.3 actor Americans were beneath the abjection line.
There are now 46.7 actor humans in poverty, of 14.8 percent of the nation. (The allotment has eased somewhat because the citizenry has grown.)
Both Clinton and Sanders addressed a contempo adventure at one of Donald Trump's rallies.
Hours afterwards a Wednesday assemblage in North Carolina, videos alike of a man punching a atramentous protester in the face at the assemblage and saying, "The next time we see him, we ability acquire to annihilate him." Badge arrested the declared attacker, John McGraw, the afterward day and answerable him with assault, chaotic conduct and communicating threats.
The protester was getting escorted out of the assemblage by badge officers, and the Columbus County Sheriff's Appointment is internally investigating whether the admiral should acquire bedfast or arrested McGraw on the site, according to a spokesman.
At Sunday night's boondocks hall, Sanders said, "Some of you may acquire apprehend just a few hours ago that Mr. Trump said that he is able to pay for the acknowledged costs of an alone who accoutrement punched somebody at a contempo event. ... What that agency is that Donald Trump is in fact annoying abandon with his supporters. He is adage that 'If you go out to exhausted somebody up, that is OK, I'll pay the acknowledged fees.'"
Clinton afterwards said, "Donald Trump is amenable for what happens at his events. He is the getting who has for months now been not just annoying violence, but applauding violence. The images of the, you know, adolescent African-American protester getting attacked absolutely after any affront whatsoever, and accepting Donald Trump say that he would pay the acknowledged bills of the attacker."
In February, Trump spurred his admirers to "knock the applesauce out of" humans "getting accessible to bandy a tomato" at his rallies. "I affiance you, I will pay for the acknowledged fees. I promise, I promise," he said.
And Sunday morning on NBC's "Meet the Press," host Chuck Todd apprenticed Trump on whether he would advice pay McGraw's acknowledged fees. Trump said, "I've in actuality instructed my humans to attending into it, yes." Trump said he wants to see the abounding video of the adventure and does not acquire albatross for it or "condone abandon in any shape." He aswell said the protester was "sticking a assertive feel up in the air, and that is a abhorrent affair to do in foreground of somebody that bluntly wants to see America fabricated abundant again."
The aggregation of reporters, advisers and editors beyond CNN listened throughout the boondocks hall, called key statements and afresh rated them true; mostly true; true, but misleading; false; or it's complicated.
In talking about trade, Sanders decried the agreements that he said acquire aching the nation's accomplishment sector.
"We acquire lost, aback 2001, about 60,000 factories. Can you brainstorm that? Sixty-thousand factories, millions of good-paying jobs," he said.
He's right.
There were 352,600 accomplishment establishments employing just beneath 16 actor humans in 2001, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By 2013, that amount was down to 292,100 establishments, employing 11.3 actor people.
Sanders told the admirers that there are "more humans in bastille in America than any added country on Earth."
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were added than 2.2 actor adults captivated in bounded jails and prisons in the United States in 2014.
The Chinese acquire 1.66 actor humans bound up in their bastille system, while the Russian bastille citizenry doesn't hit a million, with about 644,000 humans incarcerated, according to the Convention for Criminal Policy Research.
However, the convention addendum that China's confined citizenry is apparently college aback that amount does not cover humans captivated in apprehension centers. In 2009, an added 650,000 humans were captivated in apprehension centers, according to numbers appear by Chinese government officials.
Just based on those raw numbers, we amount Bernie Sanders' affirmation as true.
However, abounding experts say it is best to analyze the bastille citizenry amount of countries.
By this measure, the United States locks up 698 per 100,000 people, which puts it at second, according to the ICPR.
Only the island nation of Seychelles acme the United States, with 799 prisoners per 100,000 people. However, some incarceration experts say that it is arbitrary to analyze Seychelles, which has a citizenry of about 90,000, to the United States, a country with added than 300 actor people. The Bastille Policy Initiative did not cover countries with beneath than bisected a actor association if it appear its 2014 States of Incarceration address "to accomplish the comparisons added meaningful."
China's amount is 119 prisoners per 100,000 humans and Russia's is 446 per 100,000.
Even if searching at the numbers from a altered perspective, we still amount Sanders' affirmation as true.
Sanders ticked off a account assuming how diff America is.
One of them centered on wealth: "Problem is that we acquire the affliction administering of abundance of any above country on Earth," Sanders said.
Financial casework Acclaim Suisse and Allianz attending at abundance globally every year. They both activate that the United States has the accomplished akin of asperity a part of developed countries. Noting that the bread-and-butter crisis of the endure decade and the consecutive apathetic accretion has affronted the divide, Allianz dubbed us the "Unequal States of America."
The richest 10 percent of Americans controlled 74.6 percent of the nation's abundance in 2014, according to Acclaim Suisse. The alone added developed nation that comes abutting is Switzerland, area the top 10 percent own 71.9 percent of the wealth.
Wealth asperity in the U.S. rivals that of several arising countries, such as Russia, South Africa and India.
When Clinton was asked whether her almanac in appointment was ever interventionist, she referenced her role in allowance lay the foundations for the all-embracing accomplishment to barrier Iran's nuclear program. She declared the Iranian nuclear affairs as getting awful avant-garde if Admiral Barack Obama took office.
Clinton said, "You know, if Admiral Obama went into appointment and I became secretary of state, the Iranians had baffled the nuclear ammunition cycle. They had congenital buried facilities, they had abounding them with centrifuges. All of that happened while George W. Bush was president, and we had done, you know, sanctions and aggregate that we could anticipate of as the United States government and Congress, but it hadn't chock-full them. And there were a lot of added countries in the arena who said they would yield aggressive activity if necessary."
Iran's nuclear affairs dates all the way aback to the 1980s. In 1996, Admiral Bill Clinton active off on sanctions adjoin Iran to amerce it for advancing a nuclear program. But the Iranian government did not advertise it had baffled the nuclear ammunition aeon until the end of 2010, about two years into Hillary Clinton's administering as secretary of state.
Iran now produces aggregate it needs for the nuclear ammunition cycle, authoritative its nuclear affairs self-sufficient, the arch of the country's Atomic Energy Organization told accompaniment media Sunday.
While Iran's nuclear affairs fabricated abundant strides during the Bush presidency, the ammunition aeon was baffled during the aboriginal years of the Obama administration, and Iran's use of buried accessories dates all the way aback to the 1990s.
Clinton's account that these developments occurred while Bush was in appointment is false.
Clinton took acclaim for bringing Iran to the negotiating table for a accord that would bind its nuclear program.
Clinton conceded that some sanctions on Iran were imposed beneath George W. Bush's administration, but went on to advance that these did annihilation to apathetic Iran's weapons-related nuclear activities.
"So I led the accomplishment to appoint sanctions on Iran, to absolutely accompany them to the negotiating table," said Clinton, adding, "the negotiations started beneath my watch."
Talks did in actuality activate during Clinton's administering arch the Accompaniment Department, and she did play an important role galvanizing all-embracing abutment for tougher sanctions, but Clinton's statements Sunday abbreviate cogent contributions by both Congress and the Bush administration.
In her 2014 account "Hard Choices," Clinton wrote about how negotiations emerged from back-channel discussions through the absolutist of Oman, who ultimately appropriate the talks. Clinton afterwards beatific a top abettor to Oman to accommodated with the Iranians, paving the way for a analytical buzz alarm amid Admiral Barack Obama and Iranian Admiral Hassan Rouhani, and the admission of added academic negotiations.
Clinton aswell argued auspiciously for harsher U.S. and United Nations Security Council sanctions that added the burden on Iran's abridgement in the months arch up to negotiations.
In particular, Clinton lobbied adopted admiral to assurance assimilate nuclear-related sanctions in aboriginal 2010, allowance body accord amid the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China abaft the measures.
Congress aswell imposed new unilateral sanctions adjoin Iran about that time, but in some cases, those measures in actuality went added than the Obama administering capital to go, and were in actuality about adjoin by Accompaniment Administering officials.
Clinton's statements Sunday aswell undervalue the account of measures taken by the Bush administration, led by then-Undersecretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Banking Intelligence Stuart Levey.
In fact, in the endure three years of the Bush administration, the United Nations Security Council imposed several circuit of boxy all-embracing sanctions adjoin Iran in affiliation with the country's nuclear activity. It's accessible these sanctions, in accession to the ones Clinton promoted, afflicted Iran's calculus in chief to accompany adept talks.
Verdict: Mostly true. Clinton played a above role in bringing about the Iran talks, but those initiatives were bolstered by aldermanic activity -- some of which her administering adjoin -- and by Bush-era measures.
In talking about angry poverty, Clinton acicular out that abjection fell acutely during the administering of her husband, Bill Clinton.
"In the '90s, added humans were aerial out of abjection at any time in contempo history because of the abhorrent bread-and-butter behavior of the Bush administration. Admiral Obama was larboard with the affliction banking crisis aback the Abundant Depression, and humans fell aback into abjection because they absent jobs, they absent homes, they absent opportunities and hope," she said.
Poverty did acceleration beneath the aboriginal Bush administration. In 1989, George H.W. Bush's aboriginal year in office, there were 31.5 actor humans in poverty, or 12.8 percent of Americans.
It rose to 39.3 million, or 15.1 percent, by 1993, if Bill Clinton entered the White House. In 2000, his endure abounding year in office, it had alone to 31.6 actor people, or 11.3 percent of Americans, the everyman amount aback 1974.
Poverty jumped afresh to 39.8 actor people, or 13.2 percent, by 2008, if George W. Bush was abrogation office.
The Abundant Recession beatific millions added Americans into poverty. The amount hit 15.1 percent in 2010, if 46.3 actor Americans were beneath the abjection line.
There are now 46.7 actor humans in poverty, of 14.8 percent of the nation. (The allotment has eased somewhat because the citizenry has grown.)
Both Clinton and Sanders addressed a contempo adventure at one of Donald Trump's rallies.
Hours afterwards a Wednesday assemblage in North Carolina, videos alike of a man punching a atramentous protester in the face at the assemblage and saying, "The next time we see him, we ability acquire to annihilate him." Badge arrested the declared attacker, John McGraw, the afterward day and answerable him with assault, chaotic conduct and communicating threats.
The protester was getting escorted out of the assemblage by badge officers, and the Columbus County Sheriff's Appointment is internally investigating whether the admiral should acquire bedfast or arrested McGraw on the site, according to a spokesman.
At Sunday night's boondocks hall, Sanders said, "Some of you may acquire apprehend just a few hours ago that Mr. Trump said that he is able to pay for the acknowledged costs of an alone who accoutrement punched somebody at a contempo event. ... What that agency is that Donald Trump is in fact annoying abandon with his supporters. He is adage that 'If you go out to exhausted somebody up, that is OK, I'll pay the acknowledged fees.'"
Clinton afterwards said, "Donald Trump is amenable for what happens at his events. He is the getting who has for months now been not just annoying violence, but applauding violence. The images of the, you know, adolescent African-American protester getting attacked absolutely after any affront whatsoever, and accepting Donald Trump say that he would pay the acknowledged bills of the attacker."
In February, Trump spurred his admirers to "knock the applesauce out of" humans "getting accessible to bandy a tomato" at his rallies. "I affiance you, I will pay for the acknowledged fees. I promise, I promise," he said.
And Sunday morning on NBC's "Meet the Press," host Chuck Todd apprenticed Trump on whether he would advice pay McGraw's acknowledged fees. Trump said, "I've in actuality instructed my humans to attending into it, yes." Trump said he wants to see the abounding video of the adventure and does not acquire albatross for it or "condone abandon in any shape." He aswell said the protester was "sticking a assertive feel up in the air, and that is a abhorrent affair to do in foreground of somebody that bluntly wants to see America fabricated abundant again."
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