Don Lemon was furious Chris Cuomo had Rick Santorum on his CNN show

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“Did he actually think it was a good idea for him to come on television and try to whitewash the whitewash that he whitewashed?” Lemon asked Cuomo, referring to the former senator's recent racist comments about Native Americans, which have led to calls for CNN to fire Santorum. “It was horrible and insulting and I apologize to the viewers who were insulted by this.” Santorum told Cuomo he "misspoke." “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." Santorum said that he was “talking about the founding and the principles embodied in the founding. I would never … the way we treated Native Americans was horrific. It goes against everything I have done and everything I have fought for as a leader in the Congress.”