Two Fox News hosts on Monday mixed it up over whether the United States faces a real threat from sovereign citizen extremists here at home.
A panel on “The Five” was discussing a recent Department of Homeland Security report detailing the threat from right-wing sovereign citizens, who are considered domestic terrorists. The report noted that the primary targets of those extremists were law enforcement officers, according to CNN.
After co-host Greg Gutfeld quipped that DHS feared “armed Lutherans laying siege in a Hot Topic in a mall,” Fox’s Juan Williams reminded him of the Oklahoma City and Atlanta Olympics bombings.
Co-host Eric Bolling then challenged Williams to come up with any example of right-wing or “Christian crusade” terror attacks on American soil in the last seven years. When Williams said he wouldn’t “get into it,” Bolling chastised him for giving a “typical left wing response.”
“I remember a doctor getting shot in his church,” Williams said, referencing the fatal shooting of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller.
“An abortion clinic shooting, you’re calling that a terrorist attack?” Bolling asked.
“What would you call it?” Williams countered.
“A lunatic who murdered someone,” Bolling said.
“Oh you sound like Obama. I didn’t know you were working for Obama these days,” Williams shot back. “All of the sudden it’s a ‘domestic effort,’ I see. Maybe next you’re going to call it a man-made disaster.”
Watch below via Media Matters:
