The GOP had to push back against
right winger Marjorie Taylor Greene
after she said that she wanted to
form a caucus within the House that
would focus on the Anglo-Saxon
political tradition.
Now, obviously there are issues
with that.
What does that even mean?
She's really leaning into racism,
something that Tucker Carlson does
nightly on his Fox News program.
And so in this next clip,
Tucker Carlson weighs in
on the Derek Chauvin trial, but
more importantly what he believes
regarding the Anglo-Saxon political
tradition, watch.
>> We've got to make sure they know
we mean business, she said.
That couldn't be clearer.
Do what we say or we'll kill you.
That's the message.
Maxine Waters doesn't have much use
for those Anglo-Saxon civic
traditions, like jury trials.
Her demand was very clear.
Convict Officer Derek Chauvin
of first-degree murder or
we will burn it down.
No one asked the question,
is Chauvin actually guilty of
first-degree murder?
And the answer is you may
believe he committed a crime and
he may have.
But no honest person who has
watched the trial would tell you he
is guilty of first-degree murder.
A lot to unpack there,
now obviously, Tucker Carlson did
that segment prior to the jury
finding Derek Chauvin guilty of all
three charges, which includes
second-degree unintentional murder,
third-degree murder, and
also second-degree manslaughter.
And Tucker Carlson, much like
other right wingers in the media,
have decided to latch on to what
Maxine Waters had said about
essentially encouraging activists
to take to the streets and
continue to demand justice.
He certainly put words in her mouth
there.
She did not say what he claims
she said.
But nonetheless,
what's amazing is that he seems to
care deeply about jury trials and
where they originate from.
It's just that he doesn't care
enough to actually look at
the origin of jury trials.
But luckily, we have super dark
Brett Erlich, looking into it for
us and we got a little bit of
a history lesson this morning
during our production meeting.
So let me give you the details on
where jury trials come from.
The Lafif in Maliki jurisprudence
developed between the 8th and
11th centuries and stipulated that
12 members of the community would
swear to tell the truth and
reach a unanimous verdict.
Sounds like it actually comes from
Muslim culture, doesn't really
go along with his narrative there.
Let me give you more.
In the 12th century, Henry II of
England similarly instituted a jury
system of 12 free men charged to
uncover the facts of the case with
the same characteristics as
the lafif system.
He was likely influenced by his
exchequer, Thomas Brown,
who formerly worked under the diwan
of the Kingdom of Sicily which had
recently conquered the Emirate of
Sicily and incorporated Islamic
government and legal systems
into their procedures.
Sometimes the truth hurts, Tucker.
Sometimes it hurts.
>> [LAUGH] That was a long way to
go and a huge payoff.
[LAUGH] >> I'm so
glad you read that and
that Brett brought that up.
Wow, Islamic law,
looks like we owe that our due
process to Islamic law, funny.
And the other thing I was going to
say is that actually trial juries
and juries have been sidelined
immensely in this country,
to try and leave more and
more things up to judges, right?
And we know how under,
depending on who the president is,
depending on whether it's Trump and
you've got however many hundreds of
federal judges, far right wing
federal judges appointed, your case
could go very much the wrong way.
But then, I mean in terms of
the way of power, and
not in the way of justice, and so
I think it's great that we remember
where juries come from.
And yes, of course, tonight, Ana,
Tucker will be still talking about
Maxine Waters and
somehow trying to resuscitate
the name of Derek Chauvin.
>> Yeah, of course,
that's what he does.
But what I also,
look, the second half of this is
the fact that he is paying homage
to Marjorie Taylor Greene and her
intention to form a caucus that's
just flat out in favor of racism,
right?
I mean, Anglo-Saxon tradition,
that's what she wants to maintain
through the creation of this
caucus.
She ended up backing away from it
after she got pushback from House
Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy,
and other members of the GOP.
They were like, listen,
we're supposed to do dog whistles.
We're not supposed to just flat out
talk about how racist we are and
how we want to protect Anglo-Saxon
traditions.
So they pushed back against it.
Cenk has a theory that I think is
probably correct, which is, yeah,
corporate donors,
they kind of want to stay away from
that kind of language.
So it makes them uncomfortable.
That's probably why you have
members of the GOP pushing back
against it.
But Tucker Carlson has no problem.
He's like, no, no,
I'll fly that flag.
That's who I am.
And I want you guys to remember
that as he pretends to care about
the economic anxiety of people in
this country.
He doesn't actually care about it.
And even if you believe him,
even if you think that he genuinely
wants to hold corporations
accountable and he wants a more
equitable system, his solution
isn't to actually hold corporations
accountable or to increase taxes
paid by the rich or any of that.
He's not in favor of redistributing
wealth in this country.
His solution, much like other white
nationalists, is to shut
the borders, is to divide and
conquer in this country and
to essentially push this narrative
that all the economic anxiety that
people are feeling has to do with
the others.
It has to do with foreigners.
It has to do with people of color,
and we need to do something about
them in order to fix the system.
That's what his solution is.
He's not an ally.
He's not a friend.
And for anyone who thinks it makes
sense to whitewash him and make
him out to be a good guy, wake up.
Either you know what you're doing
and you just like appearing
on his show or you don't know what
you're doing and you're a dummy.
>> And this is my problem with the
idea that right-wing populism and
left-wing populism can join forces.
No, they can't, [LAUGH] for
the people in the back, no,
they can't, no, they won't.
Right-wing populism is based on
xenophobia, racism,
tears of citizenship.
It is about, yes, deporting people.
It's about separating kids from
their parents.
It's all that stuff, right?
Whereas actual populism is about
lifting up folks economically,
is about an anti-racist,
politics based in solidarity,
right, that doesn't distinguish
between immigrant labor and
non-immigrant labor, right?
Not calling people illegal or so
yes, it's so important,
remember that.
And I feel like the progressive
caucus and some progressives in
Congress have taken up the mantle
but not the ones in leadership,
not the ones who have power,
not the ones who understand things
better and so that's it.
I feel like that I don't want to
miss this moment again.
I don't want when a smarter Trump
comes along, when Stephen Miller
launches his campaign, or
Tucker for
that matter launches his campaign.
I don't want the New York Times to
be like, what did we get wrong
about economic anxiety?
[LAUGH] No