'Where's the bravery'? CNN host buries GOP senators for not standing up to Trump

A CNN host shouted over a former GOP governor Friday as he suggested brave Senate Republicans would stand up to Donald Trump to push through a border deal.

Mark Sanford, who was governor South Carolina and a congressman, had been describing Senate Republicans' frustrations as a border deal weeks in the making looks set to be scrapped because Trump doesn’t like it.

Host Kate Bolduan asked him, “What is happening in the Senate right now?”

“Frustration,” he answered. “... You get close on, you know, legislation that's been long anticipated and long talked about, and yet somebody who’s not there at the playing field or in the playing field or there at the table says no, I don’t like it. That’s something that tends to irk people at the table and that’s what going on.”

The way to solve the problem, Sanford said, is, “You know, bravery. Everybody is skittish about Trump’s base, which is why you see the alignment that you see within both House and Senate members, disproportionately going towards Trump. There's a juxtaposition between legislation …”

That’s when Bolduan cut him off.

“The question is, where is the bravery? Here's the truth!”

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Sanford, who is a conservative but not a Trump supporter, seemed to agree that no senator was willing to stand up to the former president.

“Good luck finding it,” he said.

Bolduan went on: “Honestly, it's like we have been screaming from the rooftops about a border crisis for a long time. We're going to get so much of what we have been fighting for on the border very soon, and now we're going to spike this to make sure the other side doesn't get credit, even though we would also be getting credit? Who's being played for a fool here?”

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