which was about black children. >> so santorum fully acknowledged it was something he could have said. but after his success in the iowa caucuses he rethought his position. last night he gave a new response. >> i'm pretty confident i didn't say black. what i think -- i started to say a word and sort of blu -- sort of mumbled it and changed my thought. i don't recall saying black. what i started to say is a word and sort of change and it sort of blu -- came out. people said i said black. i didn't. i don't use the term black very much. i use the term african-american more thain use black. >> blu isn't what i heard. let's play it one more time. >> i don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. >> i'm not buying santorum's excuse, and neither is reverend jesse jackson. today he released the following statement. "santorum's comments are not accidental. they are a calculation to target immigrants and now blacks. he is appealing to the fear vote that will take us backward, not