In a public roundtable, President Trump asked his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, to apply the designation to Antifa.
NPR's Ryan Lucas reports that it could have enormous consequences, including making it illegal to provide something as meager as a bottle of water to what the Trump administration deems to be Antifa.
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