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"Several hundred masked men belonging to the white nationalist group, the Patriot Front, marched with Confederate flags. And they did it through neighborhoods in the U.S. Capitol, at least near the Capitol, and they chanted, Reclaim America. There's a widely circulated photograph, I'm sure you've seen it, taken by Reuters, of an African-American woman on a subway surrounded by members of this group. Are you concerned about this? Well, I think we obviously, when we're celebrating America, we've had an incredible celebration and we've got, this is a kickoff of a celebration year, but we know from our very founding that this was something that divided our nation. Eighty-five years after those brave patriots signed the Declaration of Independence, we fought in the bloodiest war America's ever fought, the Civil War, and it's, our nation survived thanks to the courage and leadership of Abraham Lincoln and led us on away as we continue to move forward as a country, we can be an exceptional nation because our ideals are exceptional, that all men are created equal. Do you condemn this group and what they were doing and, most importantly, what they stand for? Well, I think that the, certainly what they stand for is nothing that I could possibly agree with, but one of the foundational principles of the United States, which makes democracy messy, is free speech, and there are plenty of things that I see that I might personally find offensive, irreprehensible, but in America, free speech is allowed, and this is by the whole spectrum of things. I mean, we're a country where someone can run and be elected saying that they're a communist. Do you, as Interior Secretary, will you recommend to the president that he condemn this group and what they were trying to message, what they did try to message here in Washington? Well, there have been, Dan, a part of my response to that is that there are protests on the mall that people say things that I think are irreprehensible about President Trump, and yet they're allowed to go on because of free speech in our country. And so this is a something, but you've seen President Trump. I was with him in North Dakota. I was with him in Mount Rushmore. This is white nationalism. It's, as you said, a part of America's history that still has pockets, but the fact that they were here in Washington on such an important day, I do want to move on. But I do think, again, I mean, there are people that are saying death to Israel and death to America. I mean, this is part of free speech in America. They can say it. We can object to it, but it is something that comes with free speech in America."

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