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GOP congressman shrugs off detainment of Iraqi war heroes: ‘This happens’ to ‘people of this color’ https://t.co/mUtjD3QoGN pic.twitter.com/4aMn0PHbXx

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) defended Donald Trump’s ban on travel from certain majority-Muslim nations, while refusing to answer questions on the executive order’s reported author.

The Republican lawmaker appeared Monday morning on CNN Newsroom, where host Carol Costello pressed him to address concerns that the order was written by Steve Bannon, the chief strategist for President Donald Trump and former chief executive of the “platform for the alt-right” Breitbart News.

“Does that concern you that Steve Bannon was advising the president, and he didn’t reach out to lawmakers like you? Costello asked. “You’re on the foreign relations committee.”

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The GOP congressman, who is Lebanese-American, disputed Costello’s characterization of the order’s implementation as “chaotic,” saying that was simply her opinion and that only a few travelers were detained.

“Carol, I don’t want to argue, but you’re conflating what happens every day with to people of this color,” Issa said, pointing to his own cheek, “every day at the airport — and has been happening for 16 years. When you take these anecdotal examples, that’s what you’re doing. The numbers are relatively small, I think Americans like myself who have been stopped — even as a congressman — (for) secondary (screening) or even refused to be boarded on an airplane once, this sort of thing happens.”