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They should be condemned totally. you had many people in that group other than neo-nazis and white nationalists. and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. now, in the other group, also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and the helmets and the baseball bats. there were people in that rally, and i looked the night before. if you look, they were people protesting very quietly. the taking down of the statue of robert e. lee. i'm sure in that group there were some bad ones. the following day it looked like they had some...

You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent. >> reporter: do you think what you call the alt left is the same as neo-nazi? >> those people, all of those people -- excuse me, i've condemned neo-nazis. i've condemned many different groups. but not all of those people were neo-nazis. believe me. not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch. those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue of robert e. lee. this week it's robert e. lee. i notice that stone wall jackson is coming ...

Breitbart, two are black, one is jewish, and others are hispanic. i know that steve bannon founded breitbart in israel the israel publication there. i know some of the people that work there. and so i take issue -- and i know that the people that work there are not racist. i know that these are minorities who care about this country and want to make this country a better place for their children. >> so -- >> you don't think there's any politics in the president's thinking about how to respond to the instance in charlottesville? the reason he's saying there's good people there who are for the s...

Against jews, if you're a good person, wouldn't you turn around and go home? >> one could hope you would go home. i guess i want to -- the good people that were just upset about the statue coming down, robert e. lee was a general of the confederacy. earlier today the president invoked the name of thomas jefferson and george washington. let's be clear george washington owned slaves and he took up arms against the british to enslave people, but he freed his slaves at the end. robert e. lee was fighting to preserve the america that george washington and founding fathers created. by the time rober...

I think people out there will tell you this is not your grandmother's civil rights movement. i want to be really clear that folks were protesting taking down the statue of a general of the confederacy. a statue that invokes hate to some people, invokes terror. a statue that it embodies the worst of the american people. and if you're one of those really good folks that came out because you believe in monuments of the confederacy, in germany kids don't attend schools named after nazi generals. they don't walk down streets named after nazi generals, play in parks. but in the united states of amer...