She has never posted a video depicting herself decapitating and killing fellow members of Congress.

She doesn't question whether a plane really smashed in to the Pentagon of 9-11.

She does not wonder if school shootings in America are staged.

She has not propagated the absurd notion that space lasers, financed by the Rothschild family, are the cause of wildfires

in California. She has never equated vaccine mandates with Adolf Hitler.

Hmm, is he really talking about there? Democrat Dan Phillips of Minnesota defending Congresswoman

Ilhan Omar before the partisan vote to remove her from the House

Foreign Affairs Committee. We'll have much more on the fallout from that move just ahead.

And President Joe Biden meets with the Congressional Black Caucus for a discussion on police reforms.

It comes a day after Tyree Nichols is laid to rest. And China is doing some damage control this morning.

Beijing says it's looking at weather a surveillance balloon that flew over Montana is actually theirs.

We'll have the latest and the response from the Pentagon coming up next. Next.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Friday, February 3rd.

I'm Cathy Kay sitting in for Jonathan Lemire.

Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has been formally removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

218 Republicans voted to back the resolution removing Omar from the committee and condemning her for past anti-Semitic comments of which she has apologized.

One Republican, Dave Joyce of Ohio, a senior member of the Ethics Committee, voted present.

All 211 House Democrats voted against Omar's removal.

Omar delivered a powerful floor speech ahead of the vote,

calling on her experiences as a refugee from Somalia

and displaying a picture of herself as a nine-year-old in a refugee camp.

Representation matters.

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