Santorum: Right Here in Charleston We Saw the Best and Worst of America

RADDATZ: “You heard President Obama there say by one count, this was the 14th time he’s had to respond to a mass shooting. If you don’t think any gun control measures are a solution, what do you think we, as a nation, should to do stop this reoccurring?”

SANTORUM: “Yes. What I saw here in Charleston over the last few days, to me, has given me more hope than any -- anything that I’ve seen in a long time. The way the people in this community, the victims’ families, that bond hearing, I -- if I were a pastor in a church today, I’d play that bond hearing, those -- of those family members getting up and showing true forgiveness, showing that -- how the pain of what this young man did to their families and then being able to forgive. I mean we saw here in Charleston, right here, within 24 hours, the worst of America and the best of America. And I think that gives hope. I mean the real sense that we have -- we have people here who understand that the way to overcome all of this horrible violence is through reconciliation.”

RADDATZ: “But not everybody responds that way. You, in 2002, said the country still had a simmering problem in America when it comes to race. Do you still believe that?”

SANTORUM: “Oh, I – it’s --“ [Crosstalk]

RADDATZ: “And what do you do for the people who aren’t responding?”

SANTORUM: “I would just say that, again, the best answer is showing the humanity of -- I mean who —comes out looking better in this entire -- to the world, who looks better. And that’s really the --“