At an April 14 MSNBC town hall, Ted Cruz was asked about abortion. The senator and presidential candidate made a point of mentioning last year’s Center for Medical Progress undercover investigation showing Planned Parenthood striking illegal deals to sell fetal body parts for profit. “I will say virtually none of the network news would show the videos on air,” Cruz said. “These videos showed Planned Parenthood officials essentially admitting to what appeared to be a pattern of federal felonies.” MSNBC’s Chuck Todd immediately pushed back. “A lot of controversy around how those videos were made,” he told Cruz. “Some of the video was made up. Reenactments.”

To be clear, there are absolutely no “reenactments” in the Center for Medical Progress’s videos, and there is no evidence any of the horrifying footage was “made up.” In fact, a few days after the town hall, the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, held a hearing on the matter of whether abortion clinics were illegally selling fetal body parts. That hearing dramatically reinforced the veracity of the Center for Medical Progress’s reports.