A day after an aide apologized to Black Lives Matter organizers on his campaign’s behalf, presidential wannabe Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) publicly dissed the apology, telling Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Sunday that it wasn’t necessary.

BuzzFeed’s Darren Sands reported Saturday that Sanders’ African-American outreach director, Marcus Ferrell, emailed a group of activists asking them to have a “more formal” meeting with the senator.

“I apologize it took our campaign so long to officially reach out,” Ferrell wrote the activists. “We are hoping to establish a REAL space for REAL dialog between the folks on this email and our campaign.”