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Jake Tapper Corrects Leon Panetta After He Says ‘Mentally Retarded’ On Air

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Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said “mentally retarded” on CNN Thursday, prompting a quick correction from Jake Tapper.

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“You know, at this stage, I would be satisfied if they moved anything dealing with trying to limit weapons going to those who are mentally retarded, establishing a communication,” Panetta said. “My God, even the killer that was involved yesterday is somebody who clearly had indicated that he was going to shoot people, and to at least have some base of information available to law enforcement so that they can go out and try to prevent these things from happening.”

“Just do something. Just–you know, take some kind of action to show that this country understands how terrible it is that these kinds of mass killings continue to take place. We have got to do something, otherwise we’re going to see this repeated again and again.”

“I think you meant mentally disturbed in that previous sentence. I think you misspoke,” Tapper replied.

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