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“This email reads as if it was cut-and-pasted from an official government briefing. An official government briefing that one would infer his father had received. And it reads as if it could easily have come from a classified briefing..”

Washington Post says: This material was available in newspapers and magazines

“Video shows Congress “erupting” over U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s remarks.”

“US President "spoke only" with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on the sidelines of the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York City.”

Vera Files says: White House records show Biden met with at least five other world leaders on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York City.

“In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, “but the Democrats filibustered it.”

PolitiFact says: Democrats did set a supermajority threshold, but only after Republicans pledged to filibuster the underlying bill, and Republicans unanimously agreed to the voting plan.

“We know from past experiences that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus.”

PolitiFact says: Broad research, including two studies from 2021, does not provide support for Cruz’s claim that armed law enforcement officers on school grounds are the "most effective tool" for keeping kids safe from mass shootings.

“Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson "described in a speech to a law school what you were doing as critical race theory.”

FactCheck.org says: Jackson said CRT "doesn't come up in my work as a judge. It's never something that I've studied or relied on." Her speech was about sentencing policy, not sentencing decisions.

“At a Senate hearing in May, Dr. Fauci said, ‘The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.’ That was under oath, under testimony. On October 20th, the NIH principal deputy director in writing directly contradicted it.”

Washington Post says: Cruz is spinning an NIH letter as confirming what it does not say. He is welcome to offer an opinion about its meaning. But, so far, it’s not a fact that NIH has admitted funding gain-of-function research.

“Every single Democratic member of the United States Senate is now on record supporting abolishing the police.”

FactCheck.org says: Cruz's claim is based on his misleading interpretation of the words of two of President Joe Biden’s nominees.

“Video shows President Joe Biden saying "bingo" after a reporter says: “To gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden administration means they’re going to come for my guns.”

FactCheck.org says: The video leaves out Biden's full answer, which makes clear he was referring only to the purchase of semi-automatic firearms, or so-called assault weapons.

“You didn't see Republicans when we had control of the Senate try to rig the game” for Supreme Court nominations.”

PolitiFact says: Cruz’s comment ignores that Republicans gave diametrically opposite treatment to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland and President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.

“Said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies “blocked a resolution condemning anti-Semitism — which I passed unanimously in the Senate.”

PolitiFact says: Ocasio-Cortez opposed the initial draft of a House resolution, saying it ignored bigotry other than anti-Semitism. She voted for a revised resolution that added condemnations, and it passed by a wide margin.

“Says Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Ted Cruz took two weeks paid sick leave to self-quarantine. Gaetz “voted in 2013 to make it illegal for any city in Florida to enact paid sick leave,” and Cruz “voted in 2015 in the U.S. Senate against paid sick leave.”