CBS Hosts Rush to Defend Black Lives Matter After Giuliani Blasts the Group

Kyle Drennen | July 11, 2016
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On Monday, the hosts of CBS This Morning, along with Face the Nation moderator John Dickerson, proceeded to defend the Black Lives Matter movement in wake of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani slamming the left-wing group as “inherently racist.”

The segment began with a clip of Giuliani telling Dickerson on Sunday’s Face the Nation: “When you say, ‘Black lives matter,’ that's inherently racist....Black lives matter, white lives matter, Asian lives matter, Hispanic lives matter. That's Anti-American and it's racist.” After the tape, puzzled co-host Charlie Rose asked: “So what did you make of the former New York mayor?”