Stephanopoulos Presses Santorum on Rand Paul Blaming GOP for ISIS

Kyle Drennen | May 28, 2015
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In an interview with newly announced Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday’s Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos tried to put the former Pennsylvania senator on the spot: “Rand Paul had something interesting to say about ISIS this morning.” A clip followed of Paul declaring on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday: “ISIS exists and grew stronger because of the hawks in our party who gave arms indiscriminately and most of those arms were snatched up by ISIS.”

Santorum quickly pushed back: “Well, I would expect to hear that from maybe Bernie Sanders. I don’t expect to hear that from someone running for the Republican nomination. I think that is just fundamentally a misunderstanding of the nature of the enemy we face.”

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