CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talks to former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum about Penn State’s child abuse scandal. This interview aired today on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer during the 4 p.m. ET hour.
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RICK SANTORUM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I just felt like I was punched in the gut. I — I couldn’t believe it. I mean I — you just don’t want to believe it. You just — you just can’t think that, obviously, an institution that is your alma mater, you love and that you — you support, could do something like that. But it was a systemic failure. I mean from the — from the — from the graduate assistant who just inexplicably could witness something like this and do nothing, I mean do nothing at the moment, much less do nothing afterwards. To me, it’s just — I don’t know — I don’t know what’s being taught up there anymore.