Rick Santorum Tells CNN’s Chris Cuomo He “Misspoke” In Remarks About Native Americans; Don Lemon Says Interview Made Him “Furious”

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Rick Santorum said that he “misspoke” when he told a conservative youth conference that there was “nothing here” at the founding of the United States.On Monday, Chris Cuomo asked Santorum about the comments, saying that “it seemed like you were trying to erase diversity in the interest of some white Christian right.”“Just to be clear,” Santorum said, “what I was not saying is that Native American culture…I misspoke…what I was talking about is the founding of the country.

I gave a long talk about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and what I was saying is that we sort of created that anew, if you will.