CNN Interview Turns Into 12 Seconds Of Silence As Fetterman Appears To Ponder Dana Bash’s Question

A CNN interview turned into 12 seconds of complete silence Wednesday as Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman pondered a question asked by host Dana Bash.

Fetterman stood for twelve seconds without uttering a single word after Bash asked whether President Joe Biden’s executive order prohibiting new asylum requests after crossings exceeded a daily average of 2,500 migrants was “the right approach.” The CNN host repeated her question to break the silence.

“Thank you so much for being here, sir. The first question is about the president’s border executive action. Was that the right approach?” Bash asked, followed by the silence.

“Senator, the president’s border executive action. Was that the right approach?” she repeated.

“Well, it’s been very clear that the Republicans are playing politics on the border and I voted twice now for the bipartisan border deal,” Fetterman replied. “I was disappointed, but I was also very open to having an ongoing dialogue to enact more and more, perhaps even more strict kinds of border kinds of issues as well too, closer to H.R. 2. But now that the Republicans don’t want to have that conversation, now the president was forced to do that and anything that makes our border more safe is a good thing that’s happened.”