[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
CNN's Dana Bash hounded Senator Ted Cruz on the 17 November 2015 edition of New Day over President Obama slamming the Republican presidential candidate at a press conference earlier in the day. Bash touted how "President Obama called you out...and he said it was shameful for saying that there should be, effectively, a religious test for refugees — especially since...your family benefitted from the policies of America — allowing refugees in."
When Senator Cruz replied by slamming the President's commitment to bringing tens of thousands of refugees from Syria as "nothing short of lunacy," the correspondent boosted the Democratic chief executive's point by asking, "What would have happened if your father was trying to get from Cuba to the United States, and the political leaders here said, nope! We don't think so, because — who knows? Maybe you could be somebody who could — you know, commit crimes against Americans."