Former GOP lawmaker calls idea of 'America First' caucus 'racism in a jar'

Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for a now-scrapped plan to organize an "America First" caucus in the Republican party focused on Anglo-Saxon values and political philosophy.

“It was sort of gobsmacking,” Riggleman said Monday on CNN's "New Day." “You read the first seven pages ... and it sounds like what happened to me in my district with the same sort of vile language, like racism in a jar.”

Riggleman lost his seat in the U.S. House last June after being defeated in a GOP primary by Rep. Bob Good, a born-again Christian with views more closely aligned with the party's more conservative wing.