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🗓️ 3 February 2023
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The Republican-led House voted to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over past statements she’s made related to Israel, with some members of both parties considering it antisemitic. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Omar’s removal a “continued attack” against women of color. Ocasio-Cortez tells AC360 ousting Omar and other Democrats from their committees is “about political revenge.”
Plus, the Pentagon is tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon flying over the United States. Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove joins AC360 to discuss what the potential downside is of shooting it down and what kind of intelligence the balloon could be trying to collect.
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0:00.0 | ProMoses kept, Revenge as politics, or both. |
0:06.5 | John Burman here in Ferranderson. |
0:08.1 | In a moment, I will be joined by Representative Alexandria Acasio Cortez to talk about what |
0:12.7 | happened on Capitol Hill today. |
0:14.9 | You will remember House Speaker Kevin McCarthy vowed last year that if Republicans took the |
0:18.9 | House, he would strip Democrats Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Ilhan Omar of committee |
0:24.3 | assignments. |
0:25.3 | So far, he is bounts Swalwell and Schiff from the Intelligence Committee, and today, |
0:30.2 | he let a House vote along party lines to remove Congresswoman Omar from the Foreign Affairs |
0:34.7 | Committee. |
0:35.7 | The reason given statements she has made related to Israel that, in some cases, have been |
0:40.3 | criticized by members of both parties as anti-Semitic statements which she subsequently apologized |
0:46.0 | for making. |
0:47.0 | At the same time, though, Speaker McCarthy has reinstated committee assignments for Marjorie |
0:51.2 | Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, both of whom have close ties to the far right, including |
0:56.5 | some white nationalists. |
0:58.2 | The Congresswoman, as you know, has compared masking rules to the Holocaust. |
1:02.0 | She apologized for that. |
1:03.6 | She also posted on Facebook a long ramble about California wildfires solar power, spottings |
1:09.1 | of what looked like laser beams and the Rothschilds of Jewish family long central to anti-Semitic |
1:14.9 | tropes. |
1:15.9 | Congressman Gosar was responsible for a violent anime-style video showing a character with his |
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