Chris Murphy: “I believe that what Putin has done here has actual, maybe not in the short term, but in the mid to longer term, real…”

This should be unacceptable to every member of Congress—Republicans and Democrats—and this should be unacceptable to the American public.

This trip confirmed for me that there is an active, unprecedented, unconstitutional effort underway to hide the costs of this war and the implications of this war from Congress and the American people," Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told…

This is part of a coordinated, deliberate campaign by the Department of Defense to hide the consequences and the true costs of the Iran war.

I plan to see for myself the damage to American facilities, hear from our partners in the Gulf about how this war has hurt their security and their economies, and assess our regional counterterrorism efforts.