Chris Hayes Tears Apart Tucker Carlson's AR-15 Advice Following Trump Indictment

The MSNBC anchor asked why Carlson would suggest that Fox News viewers hold on to their guns amid the former president's legal woes.
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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes is questioning why Fox News host Tucker Carlson would suggest that gun owners hold on to their AR-15-style rifles in the wake of Donald Trump’s indictment this week.

On Friday, Hayes played clips of various Fox News personalities’ reactions after a Manhattan grand jury indicted the former president for his role in a hush-money payment to a porn actor.

The footage showed Jesse Watters saying the indictment “lights a fire” under the country, Jason Whitlock urging viewers to get “ready for whatever’s next,” and Carlson remarking that it’s “probably not the best time to give up your AR-15.”

“Why not? Why’s he saying that?” Hayes asked.

“The implication is you have the AR-15 so that you can shoot at, kill, maim — who? Fellow citizens? Agents of the state? Why do you have them? Who are you going to shoot?”

Carlson had made the comment after conservative activist Ned Ryun, a guest on his Fox News show, said the U.S. was on the path to “a one-party state and authoritarian government.”

These remarks accompanied a number of others from Fox News personalities as they predicted potential acts of violence in the wake of Thursday’s indictment.

(H/T Mediaite)

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