Tuesday afternoon, President Trump gave a press conference on what was supposed to be about his proposed infrastructure bill — that quickly veered off the rails as he began to answer questions about Charlottesville.

You can watch the entire video below. He begins answering questions around 6 minutes into the video:

Despite his statement yesterday, where he specifically condemned white nationalist and racist groups that organized the Unite The Right Rally, today he defended participants of the rally, saying:

What about the Alt Left who came charging at as you say the Alt Right? Do they have any semblance of guilt? Do they have any problem?… You had a group on one side that was bad and a group on the other that was also very violent… There's blame on both sides.

He continued, defending supposed protesters that were at the rally that weren't affiliated with white nationalist groups:

Not all those people were neo-Nazis. Not all those people were white supremacists… Those people were there because they wanted to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. You had very bad people in that group, on both sides, but you also had very fine people… there were people in that rally, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of that statue.

Trump went on to echo cries of the white nationalist protesters, who were in Charlottesville officially to protest the removal of the statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee. White nationalists believe the removal of such statues is part of a "white genocide" aimed at erasing white culture:

I wonder, is it George Washington next week? Is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?… Where does it stop?… George Washington was a slave owner… Are we gonna take down statues to George Washington?… You're changing history, you're changing culture.

Trump also waved off his slow response to rally, saying:

I didn't wait long [to make a statement] I wanted to make sure my statement was correct…to get the facts… Unlike the media, before I make a statement I like to know the facts… I didn't know David Duke was there..I couldn't make the statement sooner because I didn't know all the facts…

Trump also pushed back on calls for senior adviser and former Breitbart chief Steve Bannon's resignation, while also seemingly confirming that his employment has been under consideration:

We'll see, I like Mr. Bannon, he's a friend of mine, but look, Mr. Bannon came on very late… I like him, he's a good man, he's not a racist… we'll see what happens.

Immediately after the press conference, former KKK leader David Duke thanked the president: