Sen. Chris Murphy, CNN's Wolf Blitzer do the Fake News Shuffle

On the 3/1 broadcast of CNN's Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) claimed that no terrorist attacks in the US have been perpetrated by persons from any of the seven countries specified in the travel pause.

But, nearly two weeks previous, Martin Arostegui of the Washington Times had reported differently. 

"Nationals from seven countries listed on a travel ban issued by President Trump have participated in ongoing terrorist plots against the US, according to congressional and law enforcement reports that challenge the widely circulated media criticism that no one from those nations has ever staged a attack on American soil."

Arostegui cited his source. "A senate judiciary report last year found that of the 390 foreign nationals arrested on terrorist-related charges since the Sept. 11 attacks, 67 come from the countries listed in the travel ban." ("Terror plots against US planned by foreign nationals in seven countries on Trump's ban list" Washington Times 3/1)

Surely, given his position and responsibility, Murphy was aware of the falseness of his CNN claim even as he misled that channel's unwary viewers. Ironically, calculating dissembler Murphy had earlier smeared President Trump as a "liar." 

It is not at all surprising that the dodgy Blitzer allowed Murphy's anti-Trump lie to pass unchallenged.