President Trump clarified why he said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her fellow liberal congresswomen were a “racist group.”

“I think they are very bad for our country. I really think they must hate our country. I think the four congressmen that we are talking about, the congresswomen and what they’ve said about Israel and what they’ve said about our country,” Trump said during a Monday press conference. “When the one mentioned that, ‘Brown people should speak for brown people’ and ‘Muslim people should speak for Muslim people.’ And you hear all this, it’s not what our country is all about.”