Mike Pence said Sunday morning that he refused to push a 'radical left agenda' by using the phrase Black Lives Matter and instead asserted 'all lives matter.' Dickerson, whose interview with the vice president aired on CBS News' Face the Nation Sunday morning, pushed Pence: 'So you won't say Black lives matter?' Vice President Make Pence says he doesn't use the phrase 'Black Lives Matter' because it has been used to push a 'radical left agenda''John, I really believe that all lives matter,' Pence told CBS News' John DickersonThe Black Lives Matter movement started in 2013 to protest police brutality against black AmericansDickerson asserted that protesters want to hear leaders use the phrase turned civil rights movement. The Trump administration has not used the phrase 'Black Lives Matter' in the wake of George Floyd's death, which has led to nationwide unrest and more than a month of protests and riots in cities across the country. Civil Rights activists and groups claim the phrase 'all lives matter' is counterproductive to the movement.

Source: Daily Mail June 28, 2020 19:23 UTC