CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2015: on Civil Rights


Chris Christie: Black Lives Matter encourages cop killing

Q: What about Black Lives Matter?

CHRISTIE: There's lawlessness in this country. The president encourages this lawlessness.

Q: Encourages it how?

CHRISTIE: By his own rhetoric. He does not support the police. He justifies Black Lives Matter.

Q: But Black Lives Matter shouldn't be justified at all?

CHRISTIE: Listen, I don't believe that that movement should be justified when they're calling for the murder of police officers.

Q: But they're not calling for the murder of police officers.

CHRISTIE: Sure, they are. They have been chanting in the streets for the murder of police officers.

Q: Well, individuals have, but the Black Lives Matter.

CHRISTIE: Well, listen, that's what the movement is creating. And the president of the United States is justifying that. But not only that, he hasn't backed up police officers from the minute he's gotten into office. When there are bad cops, they need to be prosecuted, like there are bad lawyers and bad doctors and bad engineers

Source: CBS Face the Nation 2015 interview by Bob Schieffer Oct 25, 2015

Rick Santorum: Push for religious liberty in workplace, but not anti-gay

Q: In Indiana, was it right for Governor Pence to change the language in the bill [clarifying that businesses may not deny service to gay couples based on the business owner's religion beliefs]?

SANTORUM: I was hoping he wouldn't. I think that the language they had is better language. This is acceptable language. I voted for this language, so I certainly can't say that it's a bad bill. It's a good bill, but it is a pretty limited view of what religious liberty is in the workplace. And we need to look at as religious liberty as now being pushed harder to provide more religious protections. And that bill doesn't do that.

Q: What now do you think with this new language changes?

SANTORUM: I think what we need to look at is, we aren't for discrimination against any person. I think that no business should discriminate because of who you are. But it should have the ability to say, we're not going to participate in certain activities that we disagree with from a religious point of view.

Source: CBS Face the Nation 2015 coverage:2016 presidential hopefuls Apr 5, 2015

  • The above quotations are from CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2015
    (Bob Schieffer interviewing candidates for 2015 and 2016 races).
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