there are judgments about the pinocchios, particularly if i'm trying to decide between two pinocchiosthree. it's a judgment call. >> do you do it all yourself? >> yes. yes. >> all right. you have done videos for the "washington post" website. and here is one where you're talking about rick perry and climate change and i want to ask you how you do this. >> uh-huh. ♪ ♪ >> in this episode of fact check video, take a look at rick perry's comments on climate change and the science behind the research. >> i think there are substantial number of sciences who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects and i think we're seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists coming forward and questioning the original idea that manmade global warming is what is causing the climate to change. >> the fact of the matter is the science is not settled on whether or not the climate change is being impacted by man to the point where we're going to put america's economics in jeopardy. >> governor perry is wrong to suggest this growing skepticism among scientists. to th

is that the same as four pinocchios? >> roughly equivalent. >> this was done by the crossroads group. run this. we will run this and you can tell us what it is all about. >> the first thing i am going to promise is that i will be a voice in the room on behalf of middle-class families. >> you are bailing out the same banks that helped cause the financial meltdown that gave big bonuses to bankers. she went on a defense that was some of the banks that got bailed out. we need jobs not more bailout. >> that critical 60th vote. >> he was accused of selling his vote. what is wrong with washington? look at the damage he did. cutting medicare spending, and there is in nebraska. bill nelson sold out to obama. it is time to make it right. >> you know at the bottom of the screen, both sides tell you where it is coming from. what do most people do when they see something like this? what did we just what? >> these are both hard-hitting ads. the warren one i put on my list as one of the worst ads of the year to return something complet

the "washington post" gave him three pinocchios. there's no proof of that. i'm controversial at times. i'm very direct at times but i really do try to be very candid and very direct, as you know, from all the shows we've done together over the years. that's just my style is to be very direct and try to level with the american people. >> schieffer: now you have called on your super pac to take down or correct some of the ads that they've been running because there have been some inconsistencies in some things that, among other things, the "washington post" has given pinocchios to. they said they weren't krebt. >> that's right. >> schieffer: why did you do is that that? are they going to comply with your wishs? >> this is all a public conversation because it's illegal to coordinate these kinds of groups. i had challenged governor romney to take the same position when one of his ads was so false that it got four pinocchios in i think 30 seconds. and he didn't do it. i would say that i'm trying to set a standard here. i don't particularly super pacs. i would muc

now, a pinocchio is what you get from the "post" about not telling the truth. we thought about doing an ad where the nose gets longer. three would be a long nose but we won't do that. but i just challenge governor romney. release the records. show us the facts. you can't hide -- you can't run for president, have half your campaign be about your great achievements, and then hide them. >> here's your south carolina ad running -- now, that's attacking romney's career at bain taken from a full-length movie that gingrich called it in for its inaccuracies. >> a group of corporate raiders let by mitt romney, the company was bain capital, more ruthless than wall street. >> pulled the rug out from our plant. >> everybody was fired. >> they fired people, cut benefits, sell assets. >> mitt romney, them guys, they don't care who i am. >> i feel this is a man that destroyed us. >> winning our future is responsible for the content of this message. >> well, your response for the content, are you happy with its accuracy, rick, because there are reports there are actually peopl

it's nothing to brag about. >> just one pinocchio but not a gepeto.r, always good to have you. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> an american citizen, a former marine, has been sentenced to death in iran. a court found the 28 year old guilty of spying for the cia. his father lives in michigan. he says his son was visiting his grandmothers in iran when he was detained. i'm joined by nbc news tehran bureau chief. what more can you tell us about this? >> reporter: good morning, chris. that's right. a very heavy death sentence is being handed down. the charges are spying for the cia. >> obviously having some problems with our signal there. i can tell you a little bit more about this story. obviously he was american born. his family lives in michigan. his father is a college professor in flint, michigan. the state department has called for his release. he is entitled, by the way, to appeal this. his family has said he didn't get adequate legal representation. we'll continue to follow this story. a little bit of technical difficulties getting that out

so i think -- one of the things i've complained about, got four pinocchios in "the washington post." now to get four pinocchios in a 30-second ad means there's virtually nothing accurate in 30 seconds. >> speaker, you decry the washington establishment and you just talked about "the new york times" and "the washington post." you have agreed with the characterization that governor romney is a liar. look at him now. do you stand by that claim? >> sure, governor i wish you would calmly and directly state it is your former staff running the pac, it is your millionaire friends giving to the pac, and you know some of those things are untrue. just say that, straightforward. >> well, of course former staff of mine, and of course they're people who support me. they wouldn't be putting money into a pac that supports me if they weren't people who support me. with regards to their ads, i haven't seen them. as you know, under the law i can't direct their ads. >> speaker -- >> hold on a second. i can't direct their ads. if there's anything in them that's wrong i hope they take it out. i hope every

the "washington post" two days ago reported in their fact check column that he get three pinocchios. now a pinocchio is what you get from the "post" if you're not telling the truth. >> we're in a great and growing movement. some call ourselves conservatives, others say we're tea partiers. >> ron paul, battling santorum for third place in south carolina, is taking another weekend off. he is back home in texas. >>> midway through january now. parts of new york and new england getting their first significant snow of the winter. buffalo got a bit more than six inches of snow today. a daily record. but it was the wind, gusts up to 40 miles per hour there, that made thing kind of difficult. we had our own share of wind down here. a little chilly out there tonight. doug? >> a little chilly, but nothing compared to what they're seeing toward parts of the great lakes. they're still seeing the lake-effect snow coming through the buffalo area. their biggest snowfall of the season, 6.3 inches. our biggest snowfall of the season, .6 inches. we haven't seen the snow with this cold air. that's the

one of the ads running four pinocchios. how hard would you have to design and add to have four different pinocchios? the standard would be to take a picture of romney and have the nose grow. that would be a clever ad. gingrich is hitting back. that would be stupid. i am running because this is about these young people and about my two grandchildren. i'm going to run a campaign were the of my grandchildren. -- worthy of my grandchildren. if they have secret pacs, that is up to the american people. i am not going to use those techniques because i could not govern if i use those techniques anymore then governor romney will be able to. you try to win the presidency with that kind of stuff, you have no reservoir of goodwill. you have no capacity to grow and in the end you cannot govern. george w. bush helped prove it in 2004. he john kerry in a bush's campaign where the boat was slightly better than the anti- bush vote and he tried to pass social security reform and he could not get off the ground because he had a 48% opposed fr

"the washington post" two days ago reported in their fact check column that he gets three pinocchios. now, pinocchios, when you get to the post if you're not telling the truth. >> reporter: but that same fact check analysis by "the washington post" found gingrich's own supporters guilty too. rewarding them four pinocchios for their facts. >> i'm calling on them to either edit out every single mistake or to pull the entire one. >> reporter: he wrote, romney and his partners made hundreds of millions of dollars while taking companies to bankruptcy. romney's supporters are also targeting rick santorum whose message could target the evangelical christians. >> voting for the bridge to no wrr, a teapot museum, even an indoor rain forest. >> reporter: and rick perry friday took his struggling campaign to target practice, but he was off the mark again during an interview, concerning which three agencies he vows to shut down. mitt romney very nearly missed his campaign last night in hilton head. he was stuck in paralyzing traffic so bad he needed a police escort. he called in with an event fil

pinocchios.ingrich super pac chief rick tyler said about that. >> the fact checker often gets his facts wrong. i find that to be ironic. the truth is we were the first people who really brought any attention to the story, so if the mainstream media or the presses upset because we did their job, i understand they're embarrass embarrassed. >> are you embarrassed glen kessler? >> not at all. i don't know what rick tyler is talking about. maybe one instance he's called me up to complain. he's not said anything about this particular fact check. and newt gingrich is claiming that i gave four pinocchios to one of romney's ad, and that's why it should be taken down. >> let's look at a clip. >> one of the very first orders of business for romney's bain team slashed paychecks while keeping the workers in the dark. >> we were worried we weren't going to have a job. >> i was stressed out all the time. i never knew if i was going to have a job when i came in the next day. >> your ruling on that? >> that whole

it is true. -- it is a giapetto, not a pinocchio. we were able to get bipartisan support to do something that had never been done in the history of our country. and a broadbased federal entitlement -- end a broadbased federal entitlement. [applause] president clinton vetoed. we communicated with the american public. we told them what will there was doing and how much harm was being done. we can and we must do the same thing. go out and communicate to the american public that these programs, as well-intentioned as there, are not helping people as much as they could. and we need to give the flexibility to the local committees to make sure that these programs are not dependency programs. do what we did with welfare, give them back to the state with two requirements. number one, a work requirement, never to come a time limit. those two things. [applause] if we can do that for the rest of these programs, like we did for welfare, we can accomplish when we did in welfare. the two things we were able to accomplish -- we cut the rolls by over

remember, one of his ads, got four pinocchios in the washington post. that's fairly amazing to get four pinocchios -- >> greta: you know what? it is. it is, mr. speaker. but unfortunately, i think it's like the clash of the people, people want to look at it substantively and look at the programs. the problem is that you are getting roll over with all of these negative ads and no one's really looking at the substance, they are hearing what a horrible person you are? >> well, i think, greta, that -- look, you have a different view of people than i do. i think the american people, given a clear choice -- we didn't try to give them a clear choice in iowa. we tried to give them a positive choice about me. we ran very positive adears and stayed very much on the positive side. i said at the time, it was an experiment. it did well enough that i came in above both congresswoman bachmann and governor perry. and 45% of the ads in iowa were negative ads about me. so in some ways, it was a remarkable achievement. and the people of iowa deserve to be commended for lo

now a pinocchio is what you get from the "post" if you aren't telling the truth. we thought about doing an ad where the nose gets longer. three would be a pretty long nose. we're not going to do that. but i just challenge governor romney. release the records. show us the facts. you can't run for president, have half your campaign be about your great achievements and then hide them. >> here's your south carolina ad running now that's attacking romney's career at bain taken from a movie that gingrich called for today to be pulled because of its inaccuracies. let's watch. >> a group of corporate raiders led by mitt romney. the company was bain capital, more ruthless than wall street. >> pulled the rug out from under our plant. >> everybody was fired. >> they fire people. they cut benefits. they sell assets. >> mitt romney and them guys, they don't care who i am. >> i feel that is a man that destroyed us. >> winning our future is responsible for the content of this message. >> your response for the content. are you happy with its accuracy? there are reports that there

so i think -- one of the things i've complained about, got four pinocchios in "the washington post."o get four pinocchios in a 30-second ad means there's virtually nothing accurate in 30 seconds. >> speaker, you decry the washington establishment and you just talked about "the new york times" and "the washington post." you have agreed with the characterization that governor romney is a liar. look at him now. do you stand by that claim? >> sure. governor, i wish you would calmly and directly state it is your former staff running the pac, its is your millionaire friends giving to the pac, and you know some of the ads aren't true. just say that, straightforward. >> well, of course, it's former staff of mine, and, of course, they're people who support me. they wouldn't be putting money into a pac that supports me if they weren't people who support me. with regards to their ads, i haven't seen them. as you know, under the law, i can't direct their ads. >> speaker -- >> hold on a second. i can't direct their ads. if there's anything in them that's wrong, i hope they take it out. i hope eve

"the washington post" two days ago reported in their fact check column he gets three pinocchios. that's what you get from the "post" if you're not telling the truth. >> reporter: that same analysis found gingrich's supporters guilty, too. awarding them four for actual errors in this movie that portrayed romney as a selfish profiteer while at bain. >> i'm calling on them to edit out every single mistake or to pull the entire film. >> reporter: meanwhile, the scathing new memo president obama's re-election team seized on the line of attack writing, "romney and his partners made hundreds of millions of dollars while taking companies to bankruptcy." supporters are also targeting rick santorum whose message could appeal to the state's evangelical christians. >> santorum pushed for billions in wasteful pork voting for the bridge to nowhere, a tea pot museum, even an indoor rainforest. >> reporter: rick perry took his struggling campaign to target practice, but he was off the mark again during an interview, confusing which three federal agencies he vowed to shut down. for his part, jon

. >> he had three pinocchio's for his claims.have no idea how many of those jobs were in the u.s. >> romney is fighting back. in a new interview he paints himself as a conservative businessman. his attacks are also directed at president obama. >> i will take the programs that exist in washington and i will ask this question. is this program so critical, it is worth bororing money from south carolina to pay for it? >> this race is just beginning. south carolina can completely change the whole tenor of this race. >> the candidates are mostly gunning for romney. the candidates in south carolina. plevb 11 news. >> john edwards treating what his card oljift calls a life-threatening condition. attorneys asked for a delay to get him to recover. >> joe paterno has been hospitalized. a diagnosis the 85-year-old hall of fame coach has been undergoing a series of treatments. he was hospitalize in december after a pelvic injury he sustained. >> a multimillion dollar commitment to make states green. >> and how president obama plans to consoli

"the washington post" gave him three pinocchios for his claims. >> this is a pr business mit romney helped start, and this one. >> romney is fighting back. in a new tv ad he paints himself as a conservative business firm. his attacks are also directed at president obama. >> i will take all the programs that commivet exist in washington and i will ask this question for each one. is this program so critical, it is worth borrowing money from china to pay for it. >> rick santorum is banking on. >> this race is just beginning. south carolina can completely clay this whole tenor of this race. >> the candidates are mostly gunning for romney and hoping his wins in iowa and new hampshire will warn southern voters. south carolina's primary is january 21. wbal-tv 11 news. edwards scheduled to go on trial for his campaign finance claims. >> joe paterno has been hospitalized due to complications involved with his ongoing cancer treatment. paterno dig diagnosed back in november with a treatable form of lung cancer. since that diagnosis the hall of fame coach has been undergoing a series of medical treat

if you say something really outrageous, you will get for pinocchios.you get something slightly out of context, you might get as little as one pinocchio. >> glenn kessler evaluates and rates the truthfulness of political figures and others. >> whether they are deliberately lying, if a politician says the same thing over and over again, even when it has been pointed out as untrue, that they know that it is essentially an true, and they are just going to say it anyway. >> glenn kessler tonight at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome back to suspend the author of this book, q q the swing vote -- the untapped power of independents." this can be seen in your words. our broken political system is ridiculous, embarrassing, and dysfunctional. explain. guest: i think polls have shown that is what a majority of americans think about the political system. i think the increasing number of independent voters, unaffiliated voters all of the country, the democratic and republican parties are losing voters. so clearly they

you could get four pinocchios. or as low as one pinocchio. >> rating the truthfulness of political figures and others. >> if a politician says the same thing over again, they know they are saying something untrue and they will say it anyway. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our next topic is on the right to work laws, focusing on the state of indiana. there's been a battle for quite a while. let me introduce our guest. david madland is the director of the american work project, a progressive think tank. is vice president ofd the national right to work committee. what is the concept? guest: the right to work without being forced to pay dues to a union as a condition of employment. host: how many states have right to work laws? guest: 22 states. abilityken the workers' to get paid fair wages and benefits. they join together in a union and are able to negotiate an equal footing with their employer. that is good for not just those workers but for other workers who are not part of a

it is true. -- it is a giapetto, not a pinocchio.mmunicated with the american public. we told them what will there was -- what welfare was doing and how much harm was being done. we can and we must do the same thing. go out and communicate to the american public that these programs, as well-intentioned as there, are not helping people as -- as they are, are not helping people as much as they could. and we need to give the flexibility to the local committees to make sure that these programs are not dependency programs. do what we did with welfare, give them back to the state with two requirements. number one, a work requirement, never to come a time limit. -- no. 2, a time limit. those two things. [applause] if we can do that for the rest of these programs, like we did for welfare, we can accomplish when we did in welfare. the two things we were able to accomplish -- we cut the rolls by over 50%. that is a good thing. but it is not a good thing if we cut the rules and people ended up in abject party. but that is not what happened. peo

peace is something really outrages and completely inaccurate, you get four pinocchios.say something slightly misleading, you could get as low as 1 pin of the. >> in his column, glenn kessler rates the truthfulness of political figures and others. >> whether or not someone is deliberately lying? i think that a politician says the same thing over and over again, even when it has been pointed out that it is untrue, that they know that they're saying something untrue, and they're just going to say it anyway. >> glenn kessler >> this morning the political reporter for "the state"

i'm not going to go out and show romney with a growing nose like pinocchio, even though one of his ads pinocchio rating from "the washington post" which would justify a pretty long nose if you wanted to play that game. but if somebody asked me straight from my face do i think governor romney is going to tell the truth, i will say, no, i don't think he has been telling the truth. megyn: it seems to be in terms of your race here in iowa, it's coming down between you, mr. perry, governor perry and senator santorum. senator saber to up seems to be taking the gloves off and before perry talking about how you are the earmark king, other king of all earmarks. how do you respond? >> i think perry said that about santorum. it illustrates what a mess it is. my response is to say grow up. governor perry did a lot of stuff that involved ear narkts state of texas. ron paul got earmarks. all this stuff is junk. the fact is what is his solution for jobs in america. what is his solution to the iranian nuclear weapon. what is his solution for getting washington back on track. i think america wants some

"washington post" gave him three pinocchios. they pointed out in 1994 he claimed to have created 10,000 jobs and he wasn't in bain capital and he couldn't find any evidence that he created 100,000 jobs. working with clinton 11 million jobs. so i had to ask questions let's look at the record. let's see the details. don't just give us the claim. show us what actually happened. that somehow got turned into questioning capitalism which is baloney. he is making a set of claims. he bases it on his career. he is running for president, i think he owes the country a much more detailed answer about what his career was like, what decisions they made. because we're looking at the judgment, values of a particular person, not of a system, but one guy, mitt romney who wants to be president. >> sean: you keep using the term massachusetts moderate. i think most people recognize you are conservative. doing that between you, rick perry, rick santorum you are slitting the conservative vote? >> of course we are. that is of concern to us, frankly as

saying it was unfair, to have you come in and run a super pac -- >> well, giving romney's adds for pinocchioe false hoods, we will not run false advertising. we will run well documented ads. look, if we knew the record of what barack obama would do when he got into office, my guess is people wouldn't have voted for him. shouldn't people know what mitt romney's record is? i think they should. >> what is the strategy going knot debate. >> i think newt needs to be newt. he has been pavarotti among pop stars in debate. he clearly thought about the issues. he is the most experienced, most intellectual and he knows what to do. he did pay off $400 billion worth of debt, 22 million jobs created and welfare. that is achieved, one that mitt romney cannot match. >> with rick santorum doing better than anyone expected in iowa and ron paul doing so well, dividing the anti-romney vote, does there come a time when gingrich has it say, we have to aless and stop -- >> well he has done that. >> but only romney and paul are getting the votes. >> gingrich ran in 1974 in georgia when you couldn't get your trash

what about the washington post awarding you three pinocchios for the way you criticized him on bain. that you cannot have it both ways? >> i agree, and mitt romney cannot have it both ways. he is taking credit for jobs at companies that have grown since he was long gone dp fr great ba. if are you taking your job creation experience and staking it on your time at bain, then you have to admit what it was. his partners were saying that their job was to create wealth not jobs. if you will talk about jobs created at places like staples, you have to talk about the consequen consequences, people fired and jobs shipped overseas. that is part of filing bankruptcy and shutting down the companies. that is in many ways many of the deals that mitt romney was involved in, that was how they created wealth. tell the whole story. every time he is asked about it, he said we are attacking free enterprise. we are not doing that, we are asking him for him to level with the american people about what exactly his experience was and i don't see what is wrong with that. i see the debates that have been takin

so i think -- one of the things i've complained about, got four pinocchios in "the washington post."s in a 30-second ad means there's virtually nothing accurate in 30 seconds. >> speaker, you decry the washington establishment and you just talked about "the new york times" and "the washington post." you have agreed with the characterization that governor romney is a liar. look at him now. do you stand by that claim? >> sure, governor i wish you would calmly and directly state it is your former staff running the pac, it is your millionaire friends giving to the pac, and you know some of the ads aren't true. just say that, straightforward. >> well, of course, it's former staff of mine, and, of course, they're people who support me. they wouldn't be putting money into a pac that supports me if they weren't people who support me. with regards to their ads, i haven't seen them. as you know, under the law i can't direct their ads. >> speaker -- >> hold on a second. i can't direct their ads. if there's anything in them that's wrong, hypothey take it out. i hope everything that's wrong is ta

"the washington post" two days ago reported in their fact check column that he gets three pinocchios! pinocchio is when you get to the post if you're not telling the truth. >> reporter: the same fact check analysis by "the washington post" found gingrich's own supporters guilty too and awarding them four pinocchios in this movie for portraying romney as a selfish profiteer. >> i am asking them to pull the entire film. >> reporter: a new memo president obama's re-election team seized on the line of attack writing brom romney and his partners made hundreds of millions of dollars while taking companies to bankruptcy. romney supporters are targeting rick santorum. his message could appeal to the state's large population of evangelical christians. >> vote for the bridge to nowhere. a teapot museum even indoor rain forest. >> reporter: rick perry took his struggling campaign to target practice. but he was off the mark again during an interview confusing which three federal agencies he has vowed to shut down. >> that -- >> reporter: a little more detail for you this morning about that 28-min