Presidential Debate Fact-Check: What Trump and Clinton are Claiming

The final presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in Las Vegas started out as a policy discussion, but quickly erupted into a boxing match between the two candidates over issues from Clinton's emails to tax returns.

The showdown came as Trump's campaign has been consumed by allegations of sexual misconduct -- allegations he vehemently denied -- and Clinton is grappling with the fallout from the publication of her campaign chairman's email archives by WikiLeaks.

Debate moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News attempted to focus on six topics: debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots and fitness to be president.

Fact-check No. 1: Clinton said 17 intelligence agencies "confirmed" Russia is trying to influence our election.

Clinton: Russians "have hacked American websites, American accounts of private people, of institutions, then they have given that information to Wikileaks for the purpose of putting it on the internet. This has come from the highest levels of the Russian government, clearly from Putin himself, in an effort, as 17 of our intelligence agencies have confirmed, to influence our election. So I actually think the most important question of this evening, Chris, is finally will Donald Trump admit and condemn that the Russians are doing this?"

Our grade: True

Explanation: The head of the U.S. intelligence community, overseeing 17 intelligence-related organizations, has said publicly that the community is "confident that the Russian Government directed" the recent hacks in an attempt "to interfere with the US election process."