Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and MSNBC anchor Ari Melber traded barbs during a tense interview on Wednesday, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.

As they spoke about the current political scene, Melber brought up Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign, and how critics have accused Kennedy of creating a "false equivalency" between President Joe Biden and embattled GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

"People are concerned not that this is Nader 2.0, but that you are using the platform and the following you have to suggest that they are both catastrophic, and they are similar and that you, they say, are ignoring not only the policy difference, but the actual possible democracy and autocratic threat of Donald Trump if he wins again," Melber said on The Beat.

RFK Jr. noted he never said that, clarifying, "I think both of them did bad things for our country."

"Neither of them can end the vitriol that you are trying to prop up right now," RFK Jr. continued, aiming at Melber, who demanded that the politician "substantiate" his claims.

RFK Jr. and Melber went back and forth before the former noted that it's a polarizing time in history with cancel culture and social media stoking the flames.

"You're