Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a strong message for lawmakers avoiding meetings with their constituents. “If you don’t have the guts to face your constituents, then you shouldn’t be in the United States Congress,” Sanders told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday. Republican lawmakers have been avoiding town hall events after several recent meetings turned contentious. “If you need police at the meetings, that’s fine, have police at the meetings, have security at the meetings,” Sanders said. If you are going to do all those things, answer the questions that your constituents have.”Watch his response in the video above.

Source: Huffington Post February 24, 2017 09:45 UTC