hank you. >> woodruff: daniel dale, you've coffered the white house closely. i know there's been tention id to what the president says, remarks that cannot be born out by facts since he took office, but you have observed this is more of this taking place now. we've quantified it. so in 2017 he averaged 2.9 false claims per day. as of now it's 4.5 false claims per day some it' fmore thve per day in 2018. and it's escalated even further as wegotten closer to the mid-terms some every successive junth, junely, august, and september set a new record for the president's false claims. so over timhe's getting more dishonest. >> woodrufna started out her interview just now asking about the president's conntion that there are people of middle eastern descet in tharavan. we heard reporter alan gomez say there is no evidence of, that but there are othmments the president has made about immigration. utr example, he's talked abo democrats paying to get that migrant caravan started, democrats in the united states. he's made this statement. is there any evidence of this? >> n

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in fact, daniel dale of the toronto star who joins us in just a moment reporting trump obliterated hiseek record for dishonesty in this wave of premidterm appearances. also in the course of this day continuing into tonight's rally, the president painted himself as a victim of unfair media coverage that is behind the anger in our country. well, here to talk about it, the aforementioned daniel dale, washington correspondent for "the toronto star" and tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr. daniel, we like having you on because you are now famous as the cataloger of misstatements and mistruths, but someone else has been following along in your foot steps. i give you our former president tonight in wisconsin, we'll talk about this on the other side. >> what we have not seen before in our public life. >> outright lies. >> is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying. just making stuff up. calling up down, calling black white, but that's what's happened. >> see how i buried a mistruth in there? i said wisconsin, he was in detroit. daniel, i want to put on the

daniel dale is the washington bureau chief of the "toronto star" and joins me now. thank yaw for being here >> thank you. >> woodruff: daniel dale, you've coffered the white house closely. i know there's been attentiont paid to whe president says, remarks that cannot be born out by facts since he took office, but you have observed is is more of this taking place now. >> we've quantified it. se in 2017 he averaged 2.9 fal claims per day. as of now it's 4.5 false claims per day some it's more than fi per day in 2018. and it's escalated even further we've gotten closer to the mid-terms some every successive month, june, july, august, and september set a new record r the president's false claims. so over time he's getting more dishonest. >> woodruff: amna started out her interview just now asking ntentione president's that there are people of middle eastern descent inavhat car. we heard reporter alan gomez say there is no evidence of, that but ther are other commentse president has made about immigration. for example, he's talked aboutmo ats paying to get that migrant c

daniel dale is with us. he's washington bureau chief for the "toronto star."e's been the go-to social media expert for a lot of us today looking for someone to truth squad this. so daniel, where to begin? the crowd the president was talking to in tennessee tonight, what will they get from this? and can he argue with a straight face that nafta is going to be thrown out the window, we are starting fresh? i'm paraphrasing. how much nafta is going to be in usmca? >> i'll answer the second one first. there is a whole lot of nafta in this agreement. this is a revision of nafta, no matter what they call it. trump for political branding purposes is eager to pretend like nafta has been thrown out the window and replaced by something entirely new. it hasn't. these are incremental, sometimes significant in some areas on some industries, but incremental changes to an existing agreement. as for what the average person will get from this, it is very possible the average person -- it's likely the average person will feel nothing from it. in some industries people might feel

joining me now is daniel dale, the washington bureau chief for the "toronto star." fact check the president's speeches and tweets in realtime on a daily basis. some of the claims from over the weekend that are getting a lot of attention. i'll tick off four, the democrats are funding this caravan, that there'll be a middle class tax cut by november -- of course, congress not even in session -- that california residents are rioting over sanctuary cities, and that the opioid bill had no democratic support. of course, it had broad bipartisan support. which of those statements have you found actually seem to be gaining traction? >> well, i think many of his extremely false statements gain some traction in conservative circles in the stridently pro-trump media. his claims will be amplified without anyone questioning him. whether the broader electorate is believing any of this, i don't know. but i think what he's found is he can say more or less anything and get his echo chamber to repeat it. and not only that, get some mainstream media to repeat it in headlines, in cable

well, daniel dale who we often have on this show says it's a predictable pattern. first, the president reads a conventional statement prepared for him usually from a teleprompter. next, he begins to dial back, showing his true thoughts in a press gaggle or at a rally. he blurts out his true feelings, often on twitter. examples, you say? here is president trump on his best behavior about christine blasey ford. >> i thought her testimony was very compelling, very credible witness. she was very good in many respects. >> and so here he is on twitter, right, he says i have no doubt that if the attack on dr. ford was as bad as she says charges would have been immediately filed with local law enforcement authorities by either her or her loving parents. i ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time and place. and here's the real trump days later at a rally. >> i had one beer. well, do you think it was -- nope, it was one beer. oh, good. how did you get home? i don't remember. how did you get there? i don't remember. where is the place? i don't

well, daniel dale who we often have on this show says it's a predictable pattern.the president reads a conventional statement prepared for him usually from a teleprompter. next, he begins to dial back, showing his true thoughts in a press gaggle or at a rally. he blurts out his true feelings, often on twitter. examples, you say? here is president trump on his best behavior about christine blasey ford. >> i thought her testimony was very compelling, very credible witness. she was very good in many respects. >> and so here he is on twitter, right, he says i have no doubt that if the attack on dr. ford was as bad as she says charges would have been immediately filed with local law enforcement authorities by either her or her loving parents. i ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time and place. and here's the real trump days later at a rally. >> i had one beer. well, do you think it was -- nope, it was one beer. oh, good. how did you get home? i don't remember. how did you get there? i don't remember. where is the place? i don't remember

my fellow torontoian daniel dale of the "toronto star" reports president donald trump made 170 falseecond week of october, obliterating his previous record of 133 which he set in august. that's actually a negative. it's also a fact. that's just reporting. that is a central tenet of journalism. journalism exists to bear witness, speak truth to power, and challenge inaccuracy. journalism. journalism exists to bear witness, speak truth to power, and challenge inaccuracy. it is not about positive or negative coverage. sentiment the way you or i feel about it is entirely irrelevant in the search for truth and accountability. news coverage in pursuit of the truth is not biased. it's crucial. i'm ali velshi. thanks for watching. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. >>> the breaking news tonight, the crime scenes now from east to west and across this country, all of them places where bombs were delivered. all of them also happen to be critics of the administration and frequent targets of the president. tonight donald trump without mentioning the former presidents who were ta

legendary journalist carl bernstein, and the toronto star's daniel dale. now, he is tasked, enviable or unenviable, it's up to your own disposition, to fact check donald trump in realtime. gentlemen, welcome to "primetime." mr. dale, that is one heck of a job you got yourself there. tell us, what is it like fact checking donald trump? have you taken a day off since he's been in office? >> i have gone on vacation, but then i have to catch up and that's even more exhausting. >> oh, the anxiety you must have when you're away. >> those are my worst days of the year, those catch-up days. >> am i right that we are in a moment right now that seems to be a little bit of a credibility kcrescendo for him, that he sees to be putting out a little more out there that is demonstrably false than usual. >> yes. i fact checked everything he said the last two years. i don't know that he's uttered more false claims this week than any other week, but the magnitude and complete fabrication that he's doing is different. so there are weeks where he's exaggerated a trade deficit

washington post" describes the strategy, it is a bet on fear and falsehoods as the "toronto star's" daniel dale has been a serial liar on just about everything for his entire tenure in office but he's rarely before deployed so many complete fabrications about so many important subjects at the same time. so let's get into just some of them from false claims about the migrant caravan, to imaginary riots in california, to dreamed up tax cuts on the horizon. >> you know what you should do. go to the middle of the caravan, take your cameras and search, okay. search. take your camera, go into the middle and search. you're going to find ms-13, you're going to find middle eastern, you're going to find everything. >>> you said you wanted tax cuts by november 1st. congress isn't even in session. how is that possible >> we're putting in a resolution sometime in the next week, week and a half, two weeks. we're giving a middle income tax reduction of about 10%. we're doing it now for middle income people. this is not for business. that's on top of the tax decrease we've given. >> do you need to sign an exec