The Ilhan Omar controversy.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Ilhan Omar. Rep. Omar (D-MN) was voted off of the Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. Last week, we covered the removal of Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) from the House Intelligence Committee, which new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was able to do on his own. Removing Omar, however, required a full vote in Congress.
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be, we're talking about something pretty spicy. |
| 1:08.3 | Ilhan Omar getting removed from her committee seat, |
| 1:13.4 | her committee assignment, and it's a little different than the story like this that we covered |
| 1:19.0 | last week. I've got some strong feelings about it. We're going to jump into it in a minute. |
| 1:24.3 | Before we do, as always, we'll start off with some quick hits. |
| 1:39.2 | First up, President Joe Biden will deliver his second state of the union address tonight, |
| 1:46.9 | beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern. Number two, authorities in Ohio intentionally released toxic chemicals into the air from five tanker cars that were part of a derailed train, hoping to prevent an explosion. |
| 1:53.2 | Number three, China claimed ownership of a second balloon floating through Latin America, |
| 1:57.9 | maintaining that it was also a meteorological tool. |
| 2:07.0 | Number four, the death toll from a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Turkey and Syria has risen past 5,000, authorities say. |
| 2:10.9 | Number five, Google released its first chat GPT competitor called Bard, which it says will |
| 2:16.7 | roll out to a wider audience in the coming weeks. |
| 2:29.3 | The new House Republican majority has voted to oust Democratic Congresswoman Ilan Omar from her post |
| 2:36.6 | on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. They cited some of Omar's past controversial statements saying |
| 2:42.3 | she doesn't have an objective mindset. House Republicans ousted Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan |
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