In a clip from his first major television interview since leaving his White House post, Steve Bannon said that he remains a strong “wingman” of Donald Trump, and those in the administration who disagree with the president should resign.

Bannon, the controversial populist who returned to far-right news site the day of his resignation as White House chief strategist on August 18, defended Trump’s handling of the fatal Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally. The president said there were “fine people on both sides.” That stance was widely seen as sympathetic towards the white supremacist ideology underpinning the event, which was ostensibly protesting the proposed removal of a Robert E. Lee statue.

“I was the only guy that said, ‘He’s talking about something, taking it up to a higher level,'” Bannon told Charlie Rose. “Where does this end? Does it end in taking down the Washington Monument?”

Rose counters by saying that Trump should have immediately denounced Neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Bannon grants that there’s “no room in American politics” for those groups, which he describes as “absolutely awful.” However, he said that people disagreeing over whether to take down the monuments is the “normal course of the First Amendment.”

At the “Unite the Right” rally, hundreds held tiki torches and Confederate and Nazi flags while marching through Charlottesville, chanting fascist slogans like “Blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us.” The following day, far-right demonstrators were documented beating up counterprotesters, and an alleged Nazi drove a car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one person and injuring 19 others.

Bannon had no patience for members of the Trump administration who spoke out against the president’s handling of that matter, or of any other. “If you find it unacceptable, you should resign,” Bannon said.

He named Gary Cohn, the White House economic adviser who told The Financial Times in late August that he felt compelled to “voice my distress over the events of the last two weeks. Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK. I believe this administration can and must do better in consistently and unequivocally condemning these groups.”

Bannon said that “when you side with a man, you side with him … if you’re going to break, then resign.”

When Rose asked if Cohn should have resigned, Bannon was firm. “Absolutely.” Bannon spent much of his time in the White House fighting against Cohn and his “globalist” ideology.

Bannon said that the media’s image of him is “pretty accurate,” because he’s a “street fighter.” That’s why he and Trump get along so well—the president is also a fighter, he said. The two remain in touch.

He told The Weekly Standard on the day of his resignation that he was excited to return to Breitbart to continue his fight from outside the White House. “Now I’m free. I’ve got my hands back on my weapons. Someone said, ‘it’s Bannon the Barbarian.’ I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There’s no doubt. I built a f***ing machine at Breitbart. And now I’m about to go back, knowing what I know, and we’re about to rev that machine up. And rev it up we will do.”

A few weeks into his return, his perspective seems similar. “Our purpose is to support Donald Trump,” he said in his 60 Minutes interview. When Rose asked if that meant destroying his enemies, Bannon replied, “To make sure his enemies know that there’s no free shot on goal.”