Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., pushed back on White House chief of staff John Kelly’s claim the Civil War started because of a “lack of an ability to compromise,” saying Tuesday there “was no compromise to make.”

“We need to stop relitigating and referencing the Civil War as if there was some moral conundrum,” Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, told CBS News. “There was no compromise to make — only a choice between continuing slavery and ending it. We need to move forward together, instead of letting the divisions of the past continue to force us apart.”