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Go ahead, alice. >> don, i think what we're seeing is that chief of staff kelly is a lot more like donald trump that he we thought when he went into this position, and he clearly -- >> amen. >> -- is there to be the gatekeeper for the president and limit the amount of incoming flow of information that the president has. but also, at the end of the day, he is the chief of staff. he answers to the chief, commander in chief, the president of the united states. and three things that are top of his agenda -- he will defend the president, he will work to deliver on his policies, and in the end, he w...

I think if you don't believe it, you don't say it. and i think listen, even some of those people down there who were carrying tiki torches, they have jobs. they have to work with people of color. but that's not what they believe in their personal lives. go ahead, alice. >> don, i think what we're seeing is that chief of staff kelly is a lot more like donald trump that he we thought when he went into this position, and he clearly -- >> amen. >> -- is there to be the gatekeeper for the president and limit the amount of incoming flow of information that the president has. but also, at the end of ...

So i asked a simple question. as they're supporting the confederacy and these statues and the general kelly saying robert e. lee, do you think slavery is wrong? that's a legitimate question. it wasn't to be smart or anything. i wasn't trying to attack her or make any assertions. i was asking a legitimate question. >> of course it's a legitimate and it's a very simple answer. she could have said yes, absolutely we believe that slavery is wrong. but she can't. she's in a tough spot because she has to defend someone who says that robert e. lee put the state over the country at that time. i think ...

The white house standing by the chief of staff john kelly's shocking comments about the civil war. let's discuss now. anna narar row, bakari sellers and alice stewart, here we go. more from general kelly. >> robert e. lee was an honorable man. he was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which in 150 years ago was more important than country. it was always loyalty to state first back in those days. now it's different today. >> bakari, robert e. lee, an honorable man? >> well, i think that the chief of staff is giving robert e. lee the benefit of history to say the least. you k...

Time to be explaining to people the root cause of the civil war and whether or not robert e. lee was a great man. in fact, in 2017 i can't believe we're having those discussions. the reason robert e. lee was fighting for the state was for slavery and expansion thereof. i don't know why the white house is doubling down, exception for talking to portions of their base, which adhere to these vial, old-fashioned rhetoric that was more divisive than we want to deal with. if we have to talk about why the civil war was fought, will we ever get to the real discussion of race in this country and how to...