MSNBC ran a radio clip from House Speaker Paul Ryan, R., Wis.: “I don’t think many people are saying Bob Mueller is a person who is a biased partisan. We have an investigation in the House, an investigation in the Senate, and a special counsel which sort of depoliticizes this stuff and gets it out of the political theater.”
Fact-check: Transgender people in the military would lead to tremendous medical costs and disruption (lacks context)
In a series of tweets this week, President Trump wrote, “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow… Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming… victory buy sales lead and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.”
For FactCheck.org, Eugene Kiely reported, “ ‘tremendous,’ RAND estimated that providing transition-related health care would increase the military’s health care costs for active-duty members ‘by between $2.4 million and $8.4 million annually.’ That represents an increase of no more than 0.13 percent of the $6.27 billion spent on the health of active-duty members in fiscal 2014.”
Fact Check: Nixon held meetings with heads of state without an American interpreter (true)
Speaking on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, said: “Apparently, President Nixon used to do it because he felt, didn’t really trust the State Department, at that point, providing the translators and didn’t necessarily want information getting out, leaking, that he would want to keep private.”