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?”

Dickerson claimed not to know what the Republican was talking about: “So it’s not clear what he means. But what he seems to mean is that the Black Lives Matter phrase is about black lives mattering more. The Black Lives Matter phrase is about the argument that black lives should matter as much as...”

Co-host Gayle King advocated on behalf of the cause: “And that's why it's so frustrating, John, because anybody in the Black Lives Matter movement has never said that black lives matter more than yours. No one’s ever said that. They're just trying to bring attention to the cause that a lot of black, unarmed men are being shot by white police officers.”

The fact that Black Lives Matter protesters have repeatedly shouted down anyone stating “all lives matter” flies in the face of that assertion.

Fellow co-host Norah O’Donnell fretted: “But is there a certain responsibility by politicians, former politicians, and even those of us in the media to make sure that the facts are clear? I mean, Giuliani said on your show yesterday that ‘the real danger to them is that 99 out of 100 times it's other black kids who are going to kill them.’ That's not true.”

Only seconds later, she completely contradicted herself by citing the actual numbers that nearly matched Giuliani’s claim: “Well, according to FBI statistics, 90% of black people are killed by black people and 82% of white people are killed by white people. I mean, those are the facts.”

Here is a full transcript of the July 11 segment: