minnesota. the house is about to vote to kick her off the house foreign affairs committee. she is speaking right now saying yes, she s a muslim, she s a refugee, she has said some controversial things but she s a proud american and her views should be considered by republicans and democrats alike. let s listen. and my leadership will be celebrated around the world as it has been. [ applause ] so take your vote or not. i am here to stay, and i am here to be a voice against harms around the world and advocate for a better world. i yield back. [ applause ] again, ilhan omar speaking a fiery address, a defiant speech on the floor of the house of representatives. the republican led house is about to vote to kick her off of the foreign affairs committee. she says it is retribution and unfair. she says it is unamerican. but it is no surprise to her. the republicans who said barack obama as president was secretly a muslim. let s get to our chief congressional correspondent manu r
this was going to be the next thing certainly because mike pence s team want to try to get this wrapped up. they don t have a special counsel, unlike president biden, who is now the subject of a special counsel investigation. of course, donald trump is also the subject of special counsel investigation. nobody wants a special counsel. so if you re mike pence, you want to cooperate and make this as painless as possible. one of the best ways to do that is to invite the fbi to come consensually, do a search of the home in carmel, indiana, which he just moved into recently. he also has an office here in washington, a think tank office which they would want to do as well. we ve been watching and waiting for this. we thought it might happen perhaps as soon as today. and i think it s going to happen in the next coming days because, for pence, you want to try to get this story wrapped up as soon as possible. it s not just because of a special counsel, because he wants to run for president. wh
if he actually did that. he is, of course, not answering that question or about any of the other fabrications about his life. the house is about to vote to kick off ilhan omar from the house foreign affairs committee. there is a belief among the republican leadership they will have the votes to do just that here as many things are happening here and developing at the same time here, john. i ll come back to that in just a moment, connect the dots for me here. one of the reasons here, m kevi mccarthy, has stood by george santos is in that vote that s about to happen, kevin mccarthy needs george santos vote, correct? reporter: yeah, he does. in fact, that s one big reason why he has not called on him to resign. now, mccarthy did tell us yesterday when he came back from the white house that he has, quote, new questions about santos. that is one reason why he supports the decision of santos to get off of those two house committees, that he had made that voluntary decision to step aside
the military in america is equal to hamas and the taliban. on 9/11 something happened that day. even the former democratic chair of the committee believed her comments were wrong. when a resolution was brought up to deal with this last time, she never apologized. they changed the resolution to say anti-semitism is wrong. we re not removing her from other committees. we just do not believe when it comes to foreign affairs, especially the responsibility of that position around the world with the comments that you make. she shouldn t serve there. but this is what if it was tit for tat we would have picked people, taken them off all committees. we don t believe that. i just had a conversation with hakeem jeffries. i asked him to select a couple members along with himself and mine, and i have a couple members. one s going to be nancy mace and ken buck and some others. i think what we should do is put into the rules. there is a code of conduct here.