CNN host slaps down Congressman who cites American killers as justification for Muslim ban [View all]

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“Congressman, can you point to a single terrorist attack in this country that was carried out by a Syrian refugee?” CNN’s Poppy Harlow said.

“I think you could look at DHS records and see that refugees in general have often been the cloak under which terrorists do move from country to country,” U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA). “And we do not know who’s coming in to our country.”

Harlow doubled down, “But Congressman, I asked if you could point to an event that you feel justifies this ban, that has endangered or killed American people.”

“Poppy, let me point to it, Ft. Hood, Orlando, San Bernardino, and terror attacks around the world,” he said...

“Congressman, you’re talking about American citizens,” Harlow said. “I want to correct this for our viewers.”

The Ft. Hood shooter, she said, Nadal Hassan, was born in Arlington, Virginia. The San Bernardino shooter was born in Illinois. Omar Mateen, the shooter in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub massacre was born in New York.

“How is that justification?” she said.


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