 As he watched the statue of Christopher Columbus come tumbling down after standing for almost 90 years outside the Minnesota State Capitol, Tucker Carlson wondered aloud why Republican senators wanted to cancel the Italian navigator and his holiday. Speaking over a chyron reading, The rage mob comes for Christopher Columbus, the Fox News host focused on the amendment proposed by Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and James Lankford, R-Okla., on Wednesday that would replace Columbus Day as a federal holiday with Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The GOP senators are hoping to add it to the bipartisan bill introduced last month to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, which came after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the nationwide protests against systemic racism and police brutality. But Carlson, along with other congressional Republican and conservatives Wednesday, decried the senators push to strip Columbus Day of its status, accusing the pair of succumbing to the current moment in history instead of sticking up for a federal holiday that dates back to the 1930s - even as more places have opted out of honoring the explorer. They want to delete it from the national calendar, Carlson said. He added later, Theyre hoping to quietly eliminate Columbus Day and then move on to the next item on the rioters list of demands. In a joint news release announcing the amendment, Johnson explained that the measure is not due to Columbuss oppression of indigenous people but rather the cost of adding another federal holiday on the calendar. They pointed to an NPR report estimating that the cost of a federal holiday was than 600 million for paid time off for federal employees. The Wisconsin senator described the amendment to cut out Columbus Day as a way to not put us further... 