people. that s silly. that s not true. i think they should call out their members by name. i don t have anything further to say. after charlottesville they were saying they were very fine people on both sides in charlottesville essentially suggesting there are very fine people in the nazis. that s not at all what the president was stating. not then, not at any point. the president has been incredibly clear and consistently and repeatedly condemned hatred, bigotry, racism in all of its forms whether it s in america or anywhere else and to say otherwise is simply untrue. cnn s jim acosta joins us now from the white house. jim, the white house certainly is not backing down from the statements by the president even though sarah sanders wouldn t kind of go there. reporter: yeah, she wouldn t confirm it and she wouldn t share the president s sentiments, i suppose, word for word but, listen, they view these anti-sem mitt particular comments from elan omar as a
were saying there were very fine people on both sides, essentially suggesting there are very fine people in the nazis. that s not at all what the president was stating. not then, not at any point. the president has been incredibly clear and consistently and repeatedly condemned hatred, bigotry, racism in all of its forms whether it s in america or anywhere else and to say otherwise is simply untrue. cnn s jim acosta joins us now from the white house. jim, the white house certainly is not backing down from the statements by the president even though sarah sanders wouldn t kind of go there. reporter: yeah, she wouldn t confirm it and she wouldn t share the president s sentiments, i suppose, word for word but, listen, they view these anti-semitic comments from ilhan omar as a gift and a gift that keeps on giving, whether or not it s justified to keep running with it, they re going to keep running with it and they re going to run with it as long as they can. obviously what you saw du