Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .

Washington (CNN) Steve Bannon disparaged the mindset that motivates white supremacists in an interview published Wednesday, calling the group "a collection of clowns." "Ethno-nationalism -- it's losers," Bannon reportedly said in an interview published by the progressive magazine American Prospect. The White House chief strategist's comments follow a weekend of turmoil in the United States after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent and forced a state of emergency. One woman was killed and several of her fellow counter-protesters were injured when a car plowed through a crowd. In the days following the incident, President Donald Trump made a series of remarks -- some off the cuff -- that were strongly rebuked by politicians from both sides of the aisle.The White House chief strategist's comments follow violence over the weekendThe former editor of the far-right news website Breitbart is a controversial figure within the White House

But Bannon's comments to the _ pushed back on that notion.