[Roberts:] Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. Take a look at this amazing new video from just outside of Boston. A car crashes through the front of a bakery while a mother and her 2-year-old son were waiting on line. The impact knocked the toddler to the ground, but miraculously he only suffered a small bruise on his lip. Police say the driver of the car was an 87-year- old woman who accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes. Local television station reporting that her driver's license was revoked after the crash. Wow. Quick reaction by the mom there, too. Just about 30 minutes past the hour. And here's a check of this morning's top stories. Eight people have now reportedly been arrested for their ties to the party where Michael Phelps was photographed, apparently taking a hit from a bong. Phelps is not one of those people charged at this point. There's also word that the bong has been confiscated by the sheriff's department after its owner tried to sell it on eBay for as much as $100,000. And right now marijuana advocates are calling for a nationwide boycott of Kellogg after the company opted not to review Phelps' endorsement contract. They're saying if you can do it for munchies pick something other than Kellogg's. You'll soon have to dig a little deeper next time you want to mail a letter. The cost for a first class stamp will increase 2 cents to 44 cents starting on May the 11th. The U.S. postal service says the increase is necessary because of rising production costs. The good news? You'll still be able to mail letters after the May increase if you purchase forever stamps at the 42-cent rate. And Senator John McCain putting an end to speculation that the presidential campaign might have been his political swan song. McCain announced his plans to seek re-election in an online message. The Arizona Republican says the magnitude of the financial crisis that many American families are facing makes it clear that he should continue to serve in the Senate.
[Chetry:] Well, the debate is on this morning over how best to pull the economy out of a ditch. Lawmakers and the House and Senate back at the bargaining table this morning trying to iron out differences between the versions of the economic stimulus package. After hearing arguments for and against the bill, we thought it would be a good idea to separate fact from fiction, and joining us this morning from Washington to help us out with that is Bill Adair. He's a founder of politifact.com. Good morning, Bill. Great to see you.
[Bill Adair, Founder, Politifact.com:] Good morning.
[Chetry:] So one of the things that President Obama has been talking about as he goes around the country trying to sell this plan is that it is not, even though it's going to cost a lot of money there's not any wasteful spending in it. Let's hear what he said in Elkhart, Indiana, at the town hall yesterday.
[Obama:] Understand, this bill does not have a single earmark in it, which is unprecedented for a bill of this size. It does not have a single earmark in it.
[Chetry:] Not a single earmark. That sounds unbelievable for Washington. What do you say about that?
[Adair:] That one got a false on our truth-o-meter, because it is unbelievable. He's right in the sense that this bill does not have many, but there are at least a few. There's money in the latest version in the Senate version for FutureGen, a big coal plant in Illinois. There's an authorization to reimburse, to make a payment to Filipino veterans of World War II. There's some other things that we would consider reasonably to be earmarks, so this one gets a false on the truth-o-meter.
[Chetry:] All right. On Monday, Barack Obama, the president, also gave his first press conference as president, and he was asked by reporter about his efforts to reach across the aisle and this is what he answered by saying "Putting three Republicans in my cabinet is unprecedented." Is it true? Have there ever been three members from an opposite party in a president's cabinet?
[Adair:] This one gets a truth on the truth-o-meter. We checked with some presidential historians and found that Obama's right. That the closest anyone has come before is two members of the opposite party. That's what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had. So a true on this one for Obama.
[Chetry:] All right, and let's move on and sort of put the Republican's feet to the fire as well on this one. One of the chief complaints by Republicans about the economic stimulus is that there's a lot of spending programs that won't happen now. They're saying that a lot of the stimulus is going to take place too far away from right now to make a true difference. And in fact, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts took to the Senate floor, Thursday, he proclaimed that the "The congressional budget office estimates that only 15 percent of the stimulus package will be spent in 2009 and only 37 percent in 2010." What did the truth-o-meter say about that?
[Adair:] Truth-o-meter gave Roberts a barely true on this one. This is a really egregious case of cherry-picking. What he's done here is take the worst case scenario numbers involving the House bill and specifically just the spending portion of the House bill when he was really debating the Senate bill. Democrats have been using numbers more like 79 percent because that includes not just the spending provisions but also the tax benefits that would get into the economy, so barely true for Roberts on that one.
[Chetry:] All right. That's why we love having you on, Bill, because you separate fact from fiction for us every week. Thanks so much. And thanks for being with us this morning.
[Adair:] Thanks. Thanks for having me.
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