place, not a place that congress used to go in the past. and i think it s, you know, worth discussing whether that s good for the country. i think mccarthy will continue to try to argue that all he s doing is going by the precedent set by democrats in the last congress but there is a very clear distinction between removing members from a committee or refusing to allow them to sit on a committee because you have some political or ideological differences, you know, objections that have to do with politics and ideology versus doing this because somebody has a real ethical or character issue. like i think just being very clear about the two distinctions there is really, really important. and so the next challenge will be on the floor as you note to remove ilham omar from the foreign affairs committee you have to have a vote of the full house. she says unless mccarthy can say how myself, adam schiff and eric are a danger then he s not following the example set by speaker pelosi.
do, i will put the national security ahead of partisan politics any day. i don t care if they re in my party or not. integrity matters. with me in studio to share their reporting and insights cnn kasie hunt, cnn mj lee and rhonda colvin of the washington post. you saw in the photos, congressman and schiff you heard from. ilham omar is next. mccarthy says he can because intelligence is select committee he has the power of speaker to remove swalwell and schiff. omar is next, the full house has to vote on that. the democrats say it is retribution for the two intelligence committee democrats because they stood up to donald trump. is that all it is? that s what it looks like right now. it looks like it is a political game, of course, this is something that mccarthy did promise that he would remove them from intelligence. of course, giving background to the situation both were involved in the impeachment efforts by democrats, both impeachments of trump and both are saying that this i
representative from minnesota, that s a little different. it does have to go through a house vote situation. the question now is, does mccarthy have those votes and republicans, there are a handful of republicans say they re not comfortable voting on that to kick her off that committee. there s also one republican who is he is in florida right now going through i guess rehabilitation from an injury and may not be on the house floor to vote so there is a question right now of if that will be successful but, of course, it s just a lot of politics. there are the specifics, there s a lot of politics, that s an understatement to that. there are the specifics of what the republicans say their grievances are about these members but is it about that or about, you know, this is to prove that there s a new sheriff in town. i think it s fundamentally about politics before it s about anything else, john. i do think this shows you why norms are important in our system because, you know, the r
and go on fox news and talk about how he kept a promise. it wouldn t surprise me. the case of ilham omar is more complicated because the house foreign affairs is not a select committee, and to kick her off would be a majority vote in the whole house and we saw how challenging it is to get a majority vote in this house. and some of the newer members, the group of new york freshmen, who are so essential to turning the house red this time around, who might not want to engage in that kind of tit for tat, and might not look the look, that s a different case. yes, you re so right, garrett. we ve seen kevin mccarthy have to deal with the right flank of his party. there is going to come a time when he has to deal with the moderate flank as well, and perhaps this battle is where it is. thank you so much. we appreciate it. coming up, the former head of counter-intelligence for the fbi s new york office was arrested. what he is accused of, and the charges he is now facing. but first, more cla
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