It's safe to say the 2024 campaign cycle was unlike any in modern American history.

The team at the fact-checking organization, Politifact, investigated hundreds of claims made this year by political figures to separate fact from fiction.

As Ali Rogan reports, one comment stood out as Politifax's 2024 lie of the year.

It was the claim heard round the world, watched by an audience of more than 67 million people during September's presidential debate, and rated pants on fire by Politifact.

In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in.

They're eating the cats.

They're eating the pets of the people that live there.

And this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame.

Those untrue comments set off a firestorm on the campaign trail and had a profound impact

on the residents of Springfield, Ohio.

Now it's been named Lie of the Year.

Katie Sanders is the editor-in-chief of Politifact and joins me now.

Katie, thank you so much for being here.

First of all, is there any kernel of truth to this? And also, how does

Politifact determine whether something is an outright and deliberate lie versus other types of untruths?

When Trump and Senator J.D. Vance were asked about this lie and they were asked to defend

it as so many officials and journalists were saying there was no evidence to support it, they kept

talking about reports they heard from television in Trump's case or from constituents in the Ohio

Senators case. And they basically said, that is enough for us to make

this claim. It's enough of a basis. But people make reports to police and other agencies all the

time. And that just prompts an investigation. That doesn't mean that something actually happened.

And Trump and Vance were circulating screenshots of allegations and police calls that were about

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