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Ex-Republican senator’s April comments prompted outrage
Santorum said he misspoke but did not apologize for remarks
CNN has dropped former Republican US senator Rick Santorum as a senior political commentator after racist remarks he made about Native Americans at an event in April.
News of Santorum’s termination was first reported by HuffPost. A CNN spokesperson confirmed to the Guardian that the network has parted ways with Santorum. No further comment on the firing was provided, though an anonymous CNN executive told HuffPost that “leadership wasn’t particularly satisfied with that appearance. None of the anchors wanted to book him.”
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Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said former President Barack Obama had the power to bring the nation together but wound up increasing racism in part by the way he handled police shootings. Karine Jean-Pierre, a senior adviser and national spokeswoman for MoveOn.org, a political action committee that raises money for progressive politicians, said it was "pretty horrific" to see voters sway toward Donald Trump's campaign after electing the first African-American president.
Former Republican Senator Rick Santorum on Thursday tried to defend President Donald Trump's declaration this week that he was deporting a lot of "animals" from the United States - but his defense fell apart when confronted by several of the president's other past statements about immigrants. During a panel with CNN host Chris Cuomo and guest Ana Navarro, Santorum tried to claim that Trump was only referring to MS-13 gang members as "animals" on Wednesday.
Miss: We're not sure what former Sen. Rick Santorum was thinking earlier this week when he dismissed the March for Our Lives rallies as a political movement and suggested students learn CPR to combat mass shootings rather than stage protests.
Only minutes after taking to Twitter early Wednesday morning to falsely claim that "no one" was talking about repealing the Second Amendment, CNN New Day co-host Chris Cuomo doubled-down on that assertion during an interview with former Senator Rick Santorum. When the Republican pointed to a Tuesday New York Times op/ed in which former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens demanded that the right to bear arms be revoked, Cuomo simply pretended it didn't happen.
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels attends the 2018 Adult Video News Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Jan. 27, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nev. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was allegedly paid $130,000 by an attorney for Donald Trump one month before the 2016 presidential election to keep her from talking about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has suggested that students pushing for changes in gun laws would be better off taking classes in CPR so they would be better prepared for active shooter situations. The Republican appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday and said: "How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that."
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Sunday that students who have rallied for gun control should instead learn CPR or find their own way to prevent a school shooting. "How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," the Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Charlie Goodman looked at the massive crowd around him, the largest youth-led protest in Washington since the Vietnam War era. He listened to people speak about toughening gun laws.
Stormy Daniels describes her alleged affair with Donald Trump - The adult-film star and director is being threatened with financial ruin, but she wants to set the record straight about her alleged affair with Donald Trump - A week and a half before the 2016 election Adult Film Star Says She Stayed Silent on Trump Out of Fear - The adult film star Stephanie Clifford told "60 Minutes" that she struck a $130,000 deal for her silence about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump in the final days of the 2016 campaign because she was worried about her safety and that of her young daughter.
Stormy Daniels describes her alleged affair with Donald Trump - The adult-film star and director is being threatened with financial ruin, but she wants to set the record straight about her alleged affair with Donald Trump - A week and a half before the 2016 election Adult Film Star Says She Stayed Silent on Trump Out of Fear - The adult film star Stephanie Clifford told "60 Minutes" that she struck a $130,000 deal for her silence about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump in the final days of the 2016 campaign because she was worried about her safety and that of her young daughter.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum says students who are rallying for gun control should instead learn CPR to help their classmates during a school shooting. The Republican said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that teenagers shouldn't look to other people to solve their problems but find their own way to prevent violence in schools.
Former Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested students protesting for gun control legislation would be better off taking CPR classes and prepping for active shooter scenarios, CNN reports. "How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," Santorum said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum suggested teens protesting gun violence instead prepare to help the victims of mass shootings by learning CPR and practicing active shooter drills. "How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," Santorum said on CNN's "State of the Union."
During a discussion about the solutions in wake of the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, former Sen. Rick Santorum argued that laws are already in place to keep guns away from the mentally ill. CNN host Chris Cuomo had to fact-check the senator with an A+ rating from the NRA in real time.
Former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum said Tuesday he believes the Senate will launch an ethics investigation into Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore if he wins the election even if Donald John Trump House Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for 'serious case of amnesia' after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: I don't want to represent Trump at Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans think senior Trump advisers had improper dealings with Russia MORE "I have no doubt if Roy Moore wins tonight that there will be an ethics investigation," Santorum said during CNN's election night coverage. "Doesn't matter whether the president supports it or not, the president isn't a member of the Senate," Santorum said.
A conservative student group at George Washington University believes liberal students are responsible for tearing down hundreds of posters promoting an upcoming visit by former Sen. Rick Santorum, the Washington Examiner reported. "Locked and Loaded with Rick Santorum," scheduled for Nov. 29, will feature the two-time GOP presidential candidate addressing "the importance of the Second Amendment and debunking liberal gun myths," according to Young Americans for Freedom group, which is hosting the event.
A few years after President Richard Nixon resigned, Attorney General Griffin Bell gathered Justice Department lawyers in the department's elaborate Great Hall to address their independence in the post-Watergate world. "The partisan activities of some attorneys general combined with the unfortunate legacy of Watergate, have given rise to the understandable public concern that some decisions at Justice may be the products of favor, or pressure, or politics," he said in the September 6, 1978 address.