>>> SEVERAL MAG A REPUBLICANS IN
THE HOUSE UNDER FIRE AND BACK
PEDALING OVER A LEAKED DOCUMENT
THAT SPARKED ALL KINDS OF
ACCUSATIONS OF RACISM, EVEN FROM
WITHIN THEIR OWN PARTY
LEADERSHIP.
THE DOCUMENT OBTAINED BY PUNCH
BOWL NEWS DESCRIBES PLANS FOR
CREATION OF AMERICA FIRST CAUCUS
WHICH WOULD PROTECT AND I AM
QUOTING, ANGLO-SAXON POLITICAL
TRADITIONS THAT STRENGTHEN
AMERICA’S CULTURE, WARNING THAT
IMMIGRATION PUTS AMERICA’S
UNIQUE IDENTITY AT RISK.
THIS GROUP INITIALLY WAS
REPORTED TO HAVE INVOLVED
CONGRESSWOMAN MARGERY TAYLOR
GREEN WHO HAS BEEN QUITE
CONTROVERSIAL FOR HER PAST ON
THE RECORD EMBRACE OF ALL KINDS
OF RHETORIC AND CONSPIRACY
THEORIES, UNDER PRESSURE, SHE
AAPOLOGIZED FOR SOME OF THEM,
WALKED THEM BACK, AS WELL AS THE
NOTORIOUS CONGRESS PAUL GOSAR.
>> THERE’S AN ISLAMIC INVASION
INTO OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICES
RIGHT NOW.
>> THE DISGUSTING AND DEPRAVED
INDIVIDUALS.
WE KNOW THESE MEN FROM
PREDOMINANTLY PAKISTANI,
BANGLADESHI, MUSLIM BACKGROUNDS.
>> NOW, THE STORY OF RALLYING
AROUND THE IDENTITY STUFF HAS
BEEN MOVING QUICKLY.
GREENE’S OFFICE DISCUSSED THE
IDEA THAT THE SO-CALLED CAUCUS
WOULD BE ANNOUNCED VERY SOON,
AND FLORIDA CONGRESSMAN MATT
GAETZ PUBLICLY TWEETED HE IS
PROUD TO JOIN THIS AMERICA FIRST
CAUCUS, MENTIONING HE WAS
ALREADY WORRIED ABOUT OR DEALING
WITH LIES FROM THE AMERICA LAST
CROWD, BUT THINGS ARE CHANGING
QUICKLY.
AMERICA FIRST IS PERHAPS
RHETORIC, COULD MEAN DIFFERENT
THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
ONCE THE DRAFT DOCUMENT WAS OUT,
ONCE THE REFERENCE WAS TO
EUROPEAN IDENTITY, ANGLO-SAXON
IDENTITY, WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY OF THE HOUSE, THAT WAS TOO
MUCH EVEN FOR THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS
SAYING SOMETHING.
REPUBLICAN LEADER KEVIN McCARTHY
SPEAKING OUT, TALKING ABOUT WHAT
THEY NEED TO BE ABOUT IS
OPPORTUNITY, NOT, YOU SEE THIS
HIGHLIGHTED, NATIVIST DOG
WHISTLES.
THAT’S THE REPUBLICAN LEADER
CALLING IT OUT.
NOW SAYING THE LEAKED DOCUMENT
THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT
ANNOUNCING, IT WILL BE A GREAT
BIG AMERICA FIRST PARTY, THEY
SAY IT WAS A STAFF LEVEL DRAFT
PROPOSAL FROM AN OUTSIDE GROUP,
CLAIMED SHE HAD NOT READ IT AND
IT IS OUT.
THIS SPEAKS TO DEEPER RIFTS
WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS
WE REPORTED, INCREASINGLY
STRUGGLES TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT
LOSSES IT WAS DEALT, ABOUT ANY
KIND OF POLITICAL AUTOPSY, LET
ALONE GREATER ETHICAL RECKONING
WITH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
POLICY POSITIONS, SURE, DEBATE
IMMIGRATION AND RACISM, WHITE
SUPREMACY, WHICH IS A PROBLEM IN
THIS COUNTRY.
I WANT TO BRING INTO THE
CONVERSATION ONE OF OUR EXPERTS,
JUANITA TOLLIVER.
WE TALKED ABOUT MANY ISSUES.
I AM CURIOUS WHAT YOU THINK
ABOUT THIS, ONE PART WAS
DIFFERENT, EITHER IT WAS SO
BLATANT OR UGLY THAT UNLIKE
OTHER PROBLEMS WE REPORTED ON,
KEVIN McCARTHY HAD TO GET
INVOLVED, CALL HIS OWN TEAMMATES
EFFECTIVELY APPEALING TO RACIST
DOG WHISTLES TO TAMP IT DOWN.
>> LOOK, I APPRECIATE McCARTHY’S
TWEET BUT I DON’T THINK IT WENT
FAR ENOUGH TO DEMONSTRATE THIS
IS SOMETHING HE WON’T ACCEPT.
ONE, HE DIDN’T NAME NAMES.
WE ALREADY KNOW THE NAMES OF
CONGRESS MEMBERS FROM WITHIN THE
CAUCUS THAT ARE READY TO PUSH
THIS AND DRIVE IT FORWARD.
SECOND PART OF IT, IF HE IS
TRULY SERIOUS, WHERE IS THE NEXT
STEP CENSURING THESE INDIVIDUALS
WHO ARE PUTTING OUT THIS TYPE OF
LANGUAGE WHO ARE STILL COMMITTED
TO PUSHING FORWARD AN AMERICAN
FIRST AGENDA THAT WAS SUSTAINED,
ESTABLISHED, NOT ESTABLISHED BUT
PERPETUATED FOR TRUMP.
THAT’S THE OTHER THING IN
ADDITION TO HER SAYING I DIDN’T
READ IT, EVEN IF IT WAS A DRAFT,
IT CAPTURES THE SENTIMENT SHE
HAS PREVIOUSLY SPOKEN ON, AND
SHE WENT ON TO TWEET YESTERDAY
THAT SURE, SHE’S STILL COMMITTED
TO THIS.
I DON’T THINK THE IDEAS ARE
GOING ANYWHERE.
>> APPRECIATE YOU DRAWING THAT
LINK.
I WANT TO READ A LITTLE FROM
THIS SO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND.
I GO OUT OF MY WAY, TRY TO BE AS
FAIR AS POSSIBLE.
IF PEOPLE WANT TO DEBATE LOWER
IMMIGRATION FROM ALL PLACES,
THAT’S A POLICY POSITION.
FINE.
WHEN PEOPLE START TALKING ABOUT
WELL, CERTAIN IMMIGRANTS ARE
RUINING THIS COUNTRY, PEOPLE
THAT LOOK LIKE THIS, PRAY TO
THAT, WE’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT
IMMIGRATION, WE’RE TALKING
RACISM, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
ANTI-ISLAM OR ANTI-SEMITISM.
IT SAYS SOCIETAL TRUST AND
POLITICAL UNITY ARE THREATENED
WHEN, QUOTE, FOREIGN CITIZENS
ARE IMPORTED EN-MASSE INTO A
COUNTRY.
I WONDER IF YOU COULD ENLIGHTEN
US ON THAT.
THIS IS WELL KNOWN TO BE A
COUNTRY OF IMMIGRANTS, NOW
ITALIAN, IRISH, OTHER WHITE
IMMIGRANTS DON’T SEEM TO BE WHAT
IS TARGETED HERE, WHICH IS WHY I
WOULD ARGUE WE HAVE TO CALL IT
FOR WHAT IT IS, IT IS NOT ABOUT
IMMIGRATION POLICY.
>> IT IS ABOUT RACISM AND
XENOPHOBIA LIKE YOU SAID.
BACK TO MY PREVIOUS POINT, IT
MIRRORS THE SAME THEMES DONALD
TRUMP PERPETUATED WITH HIS
TRAVEL BAN IN JANUARY 2017, WITH
HIM SAYING SHIT HOLE COUNTRIES,
REFERRING TO AFRICAN NATIONS,
MUSLIM NATIONS, THIS CONTINUES
THAT SAME THREAD AND IT IS ONLY
THROUGH THIS PERPETUATION OF
NATIVISM AND STOKING, LET’S BE
REAL, FEARS THAT REPUBLICANS
HAVE TRADITIONALLY REPORTED
THROUGHOUT HISTORY OF THIS
COUNTRY THAT’S GOING TO EXCITE A
BASE THAT WE KNOW IS THERE,
BECAUSE MARGERY TAYLOR GREEN,
AGAIN, SAYING THINGS, LIFTING UP
WHITE SUPREMACY, RAISED
3.2 MILLION IN HER FIRST TERM AS
CONGRESSWOMAN.
THERE’S GRASS ROOT SUPPORT FOR
THE IDEAS THAT EXTENDS FROM
TRUMP TO RIGHT NOW THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
>> I AM ALMOST OUT OF TIME.
I HAVE TO READ YOU THE
ARCHITECTURE SECTION.
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS --
>> OH, MAN.
>> A SAD STORY.
BUT IT GETS A LITTLE BAROQUE AND
BIZARRE.
AMERICA FIRST FOLKS WANT
INFRASTRUCTURE THAT REFLECTS
ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING AND
AESTHETIC VALUE THAT BEFITS THE
EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE,
CLASSICALLY BEAUTIFUL, BEFITTING
A WORLD POWER.
WHO KNEW WE WOULD END UP
DISCUSSING THE CONCEPTS OF
BEAUTY.
GIVE YOU THE FINAL THOUGHT.
>> CONCEPTIONS OF BEAUTY THAT
APPLY TO ARCHITECTURE AND
INFRASTRUCTURE.
IT IS LIKE OKAY, MAKE IT THE
WHITE WAY, WHITE EUROPEAN
STANDARD IS THE GOAL HERE AND
THAT’S RIDICULOUS.
ABSOLUTELY AS
ABSOLUTELY ASININE.
I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE IT.