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Fact-Checking The Latest GOP Debate

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Republican presidential candidates (from left) Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are pictured during the Republican presidential debate at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston on February 25, 2016 in Houston, Texas. The debate is the last before the March 1 Super Tuesday primaries. (Michael Ciaglo-Pool/Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidates (from left) Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are pictured during the Republican presidential debate at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston on February 25, 2016 in Houston, Texas. The debate is the last before the March 1 Super Tuesday primaries. (Michael Ciaglo-Pool/Getty Images)

Thursday's Republican presidential debate on CNN was a raucous affair, with Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio swinging hard at Donald Trump, who has won the last three of four Republican contests so far.

From accusations that Trump illegally hired undocumented Polish workers, to claims that President Obama's signature health care law has enriched insurance companies and "killed millions of jobs," there's a lot to fact-check.

Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post's Fact Checker team joins Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti to sort it all out.

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This segment aired on February 26, 2016.

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