(CNN) Native American elder Nathan Phillips, who has made headlines everywhere after a video showed him in a face-off with a Catholic school student in front of the Lincoln Memorial, spoke at length with CNN the day after the incident. How did you end up surrounded by this group of young people with the MAGA hats on? ... Then there was this young group of young students that came there and were offended by their speech, and it escalated into an ugly situation that I found myself in the middle of. Phillips: Yes, that's the impression that everybody has, and I guess that's what I was doing. JUST WATCHED Video shows teens mocking Native American Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Video shows teens mocking Native American 02:56Phillips: That was exactly the thing is that I was there.

Source: CNN January 21, 2019 18:22 UTC