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Broadly rejecting, you know, if white supremacists and alt-right groups are part of his base, he needs to reject that. that's not how you win elections. you win elections with people that are conservatives, people that are republicans, and people that are independents and democrats that believe in growing the american economy is in the best interest of all americans. >> but do you, matthew, realize how it looked? right, he took 72 hours to outright condemn neo-nazis and white supremacists, yet it takes the president all of like 51 minutes, once ken frazier, the ceo of merck, major, majorly suc...

Week, from yesterday, where he spoke out against neo-nazis and white supremacists. this is an ongoing conversation that he needs to be very clear that, you know, he does not represent them and he does not represent their interests and he does not want their support and i think that is going to have to be a continuing dialogue from this president, and, you know, i think folks like steve bannon who represent that lightning rod in the white house, he's going to have to take a serious consideration on that. i mean, that's something that, you know, steve bannon has been part of the campaign and has...

Something that would take you and i, anybody on this panel, a half a second to do. and so i think that, you know, i actually saw an interesting conversation last night with anderson, with the -- a similar panel, and folks being challenged about the president saying, i don't know who david duke is, i don't know anything about that. well, it's not true because he was considering a run, donald trump, in 2000 for the reform party and was asked by matt lauer what he thought was wrong with the reform party and he listed david duke as one of the ills of the reform party because david duke was a bigot...

I think his humanity was being challenged. i think he was asking him, as a person of color, as a president who has not stood up for the values of african-americans, how could he just reflexively support this president, and i think that, you know, maybe paris has some issues going on with people questioning his blackness because he is a republican and a trump supporter, that's a whole other thing, but i don't think that's what was happening and being challenged in that moment. and i think if you do support this president and considering what he did and how he handled the reaction, how he reacte...

Anti-semitism was just as much, even if not more for african-americans. >> and people are making the point that the president's own son-in-law. >> and the daughter is jewish. can i say something about 45? it was funny because i mean, that's old to me. as a -- >> you're hearing people -- >> i hear it all the time. if you watch "the view," whoopi says it, joy says, the guy in the white house. i like to respect the office but we have to remember that the person in the office needs to respect the office in order to garner respect from other people. he is the leader. so if he doesn't respect the of...