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We're back with our live panel, steve schmidt, neera tanden and jason johnson. neera, we've been watching this interview with steve bannon. his defense on charlottesville? >> yeah, i think he's -- his statements are just reprehensible and as you point out in the interview, i just need to say again, one person died here in charlottesville, her name was heather heyer, the president never talked about her, never discussed her, steve bannon still trying to equate antifa with the people who came in, initiated the whole thing, announced over and over statements like "jews will not replace us," racis...

Hood on, you're trying to hide your shame. you're going 24r. you're shameful. trying to hide who you are and probably trying to commit crimes. if the hood is white or the hood is black, then you have a problem. >> oh, no. >> antifa comes to these rallies with a black hood, they're not coming because they are proud of their ideology. i disagree with you that antifa said the reason they're protesting is because of thoughtful ideology on white suprema supremacy. white supremacists and kkk should be denounced. but antifa when they come and commit violence, and nancy pelosi and donald trump, i agre...

Supremacist side, and the other side was tee tpa. only one side was yelling blood and soil. only one side believes in an ethnic khraepbtsing to remove everybody but white men from america. >> yeah. >> and that is the problem here. it seems as though he is continue to go equate antifa with white supremacists. that is not what he should be doing. >> the president, while he recognizes violence on both sides, he doesn't draw the distinction between the ideology and the antifascists who are fighting that. that is the knew answer that he always seems to lose in this discussion. >> i was listening to...

Setting aside antifa -- okay. we don't condone the violence. it's this kind of false equivalency that is creating such a stir. >> i don't think there's a false equivalency. >> if the president could just come out and say i didn't mean to say that these were somehow equal doses of evil, that would go a long way. >> but as far as the violence is concerned, there are equal doses. and the reason you can't equate -- or you can equate antifa, you said you can't -- antifa is a new group. they're a new group. violence is violence. you can't say well, the violence from the kkk is worse simply because t...

Period. >> i think that's absolutely right. we can't expect donald trump to change because of the photo opportunity that he orchestrated with senator scott. that's the first thing. the second thing we need to suggest or say very clearly, lawrence, is this. it is a longstanding practice in the united states when confronting racist organizations that are violent to in some ways castigate those who resist the organizations. so there's a reason why we often associate law and order with nixon when, in fact, law and order was invoked over and against dr. king in those nonviolent protesters. we need ...