MSNBC Asks Michigan's Whitmer: What's Up With Confederate Flags At Lansing Rally? [View all]

The mass protest in Lansing on Wednesday against Michigan's restrictive stay-home order caught the nation's attention.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, appearing on MSNBC long after protesters had dispersed, was asked by host Joy Reid: "Some of these people were flying, not just Trump MAGA flags, but also Confederate flags. ... What do you make of people flying Confederate flags on your streets to protest a stay-at-home order that's meant to save their lives?"

Whitmer had a strong answer, but dodged the obvious answer Reid was fishing for about the Confederate flag.

"It really wasn't about the stay-at-home order at all," Whitmer said. "It was essentially a political rally, a political statement that flies in the face of all of the science, all the best practices...It looks like a lot of people and it felt like a lot of people but in the bigger scheme of things, Michigan is a state of 10 million people, the vast majority of whom are doing the right thing. Our hospitals have stepped up, our nurses, our doctors, the average citizen whose staying home or is contributing in some way to help people on the front line. That's the story of what's really going on here.

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