Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer took on CNN's Don Lemon and Ana Navarro for not accepting the fact the president has denounced white supremacists and neo-Nazis numerous times.



"I was not ashamed," Brewer said of Trump's Tuesday press conference. "I think that he took the bull by the horns. He spoke from his heart. And you know, this relentless reporting and this relentless attacking of him, is not serving our country or the issues that we talk about well. And it's getting a little over burdensome. I'm feeling that the people of America, the people of the United States particularly have about had it. You know."



"He has denounced the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazis," Brewer said. "He has done it over and over and David Duke. And you people just keep on reporting that he hasn't done it. I mean, it's just unbelievable."



"We keep hearing all these mistruths about what's going on and people reading things in to a situation that are absolutely not happening. And so you're forming all this stuff in people's minds without them being allowed to make their own decision," Brewer told Don Lemon.



Transcript, via CNN:





LEMON: The President insisting that there were a lot of innocent and quiet protesters in Charlottesville. Let's discuss that now. Jan Brewer is a former Republican Governor of Arizona and Senior Political Commentator Anna Navarro, they are both here. Hello to both of you, Governor, I'm going to start with you. You were a prominent Trump surrogate from the early days of his campaign. Were you ashamed of the President today?



JAN BREWER, (R) FORMER GOVERNOR ARIZONA: No, absolutely not. I was not ashamed. I think that he took the bull by the horns. He spoke from his heart. And you know, this relentless reporting and this relentless attacking of him, is not serving our country or the issues that we talk about well. And it's getting a little over burdensome. I'm feeling that the people of America, the people of the United States particularly have about had it. You know.



LEMON: Governor, with all due respect, the words came out of his mouth today. He said it. The words came out of his mouth on Saturday. He said it. So what are we supposed to ignore it? And how is it the news fault?



BREWER: He said this hatred and this bigotry.



LEMON: He equated a racist Nazi group to protesters, people who were protesting fascism. That is what he did.



BREWER: He has denounced.



LEMON: He appears to be ignorant of the history of this country. It's those are the facts.



BREWER: Don, you're just saying that doesn't make it true. It doesn't make it the facts because we know.



LEMON: Tell me what's not true. Tell me how, governor, tell me how the protesters and the anti-protesters how are they equivalent?



BREWER: They -- he has denounced, he has denounced the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazis. He has done it over and over and David Duke. And you people just keep on reporting that he hasn't done it. I mean, it's just unbelievable.



LEMON: No one has reported he hasn't done it. That is not true, governor. He denounced them. Each time he does it under duress and it takes him days later to do it.



BREWER: That is not true.



LEMON: We're not reporting he hasn't denounces. That is true. You are not watching or reading?



BREWER: Well, I am watching. I'm watching a lot. But today I've been quite busy. But it's from morning to night. We keep hearing all these mistruths about what's going on and people reading things in to a situation that are absolutely not happening. And so you're forming all this stuff in people's minds without them being allowed to make their own decision. I thought his speech on Saturday was fine. I thought the one on Monday was terrific. I thought today he came forward and spoke from his heart. He doesn't want this. We need to bring our country together.



You know, Don, I am old. You know, I'm 72 years old. I've lived through a lot of this. And I denounce the Ku Klux Klan. You know, I think they're terrible. I think what happened in Charlottesville was horrible. But the fact of the matter is, is that there were groups there to the far left and to the far right, call them what you want. To the left you had Antifa. They were there with clubs, too. I listened to this now tonight waiting to come on. No one ever talks about the left. I mean, it was a bad situation. It's not America. We have got to come together and we've got to stop all this.

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