'Worth Taking A Pause For': CNN's Kayyem Reflects on Warnock Senate Win

Speaking on Boston Public Radio Wednesday, CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem took a moment to reflect on Tuesday’s Senate runoff victory for Democrat Raphael Warnock in Georgia.

Warnock will join the Senate after serving 15 years as pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. presided as co-pastor throughout the 1960’s.

"A man of faith entering politics is rare enough, but the extent to which he views his faith as requiring him to have entered politics at this moment is really something that is worth taking a pause for,” she said, adding “I’ve been really intrigued by that very un-threatening combination of faith and public service… I think a lot of us have grown weary of faith in public service, given what’s been done in the name of religion and religious leaders supporting some pretty bad behavior.”

Juliette Kayyem is an analyst for CNN, former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and faculty chair of the homeland security program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.