Newt Gingrich discusses "The View" hosts on "Very Fine People" from Trump to Charlottesville Video

ABBY HUNTSMAN: People are coming back to Charlottesville as one of the ugliest days in US history, and some are accusing the president of the hate that we are currently watching and his lack of reaction. He recently said that he was "perfectly busy" with it. Even Joe Biden has used it in his recent announcement and announces that we are in a battle for our soul. Do you think that the president has handled the situation perfectly or is he one of the reasons why such division and hatred currently exist?

NEWT GINGRICH: It's a good question. I watched your show Friday and the Biden interview. I want to start by saying that there is this myth on the left. This is not true. Go back to see what Trump said. Trump made it clear that he was opposed to white supremacists and that he was opposed to the Klansmen, he was opposed to the Nazis. He says it clearly.

JOY BEHAR: It's not so clear.

SUNNY HOSTIN: It's not so clear.

NEWT GINGRICH: I think I can find a video that shows that it's very clear.

SUNNY HOSTIN: That's not it. I have what he said here. In his first statement, he said "there was violence on several sides", two days later, after all the violent reaction was mentioned, he even mentioned the KKK and the neo-Nazis. the bad people in this group and very good people on both sides. "

NEWT GINGRICH: If both sides – and look, it's an interesting topic. Will we say if you were anybody who thought that Robert E. Lee was an honest person, which would represent a high percentage of white Virginians?

JOY BEHAR: Was not he a traitor in the country?

SUNNY HOSTIN: Was not he a slave trader? And a horrible person?

NEWT GINGRICH: Now, you're going to tell everyone in the South who thinks that someone is a reasonable person, you know …

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Which would have worked better, if the good people he referred to were showing up and seeing signs and anti-Semitic elements written and narrated, they might have walked in a different way.

NEWT GINGRICH: I think they would have it.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: If you see that, you leave. If you are going to walk with these people and you are part of it, it seems that you are part of the problem. Even if you say that they are good people, you have to understand that this is not what people see, because you think that if you are a good person and you are heading to the monument, you will not let people say, you know, we will not let the Jews take control of our lives. And more Jews, more blacks and all that.

NEWT GINGRICH: With your permission, I would like to make two points. The first is that when you watch organized groups like Antifa, there is a lot of violence on the left.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: This is not what we are talking about. Let's stay with Charlottesville.

NEWT GINGRICH: The second point is that you have a president whose daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren are Jewish. The idea that he is anti-Semitic is irrational. It is not.

SUNNY HOSTIN: Nobody said that. What we said was that he said you had very bad people in this group. You also had very good people on both sides. The suggestion that he did not say is intellectually dishonest.

NEWT GINGRICH: I do not agree with your interpretation. Are you literally saying that all those who prefer to have these statues are somehow a bad human being?

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: If you walk with people who carry signs that speak with the Jews, the Jews will not take our life in hand and if you do not go away, you are grouped in this group. That's what we save.

JOY BEHAR: Because he has a Jewish daughter, a son-in-law and grandchildren, he can not do both at once, have it and give dog whistles to white nationalists.

NEWT GINGRICH: He does not do that.

JOY BEHAR: He does it.

NEWT GINGRICH: He does not agree.

JOY BEHAR: I never heard that my daughter was Jewish, that my grandchildren were Jewish, I never heard of that.

ABBY HUNTSMAN: You did not answer my first question, though. Did he manage that perfectly?

NEWT GINGRICH: No, he did not do it.

ABBY HUNTSMAN: There is so much confusion. People are still angry at this day and the lack of response.

NEWT GINGRICH: I said that he did not use it perfectly at the time. I will not come here or anywhere else, not even in a Republican band, and say that I think Donald Trump does just about anything. Donald Trump has a very powerful personality who sometimes relies on his own messages and makes mistakes. That's the reality.