hello, everyone, i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. today the republican-led house voted to remove democrat ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. omar calls it revenge. it passed along a party line vote of 218-211. she faced backlash over her anti-israel comments in the past which were criticized by members of both parties as anti-semitic. before he was even house speaker, republican leader kevin mccarthy promised he would take this step. he claimed nancy pelosi set a precedent when she removed rips, marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar from committees, although that was for violent rhetoric and posts. omar told her colleagues, she s not going anywhere. i am muslim. i am an immigrant. and interestingly from africa. is anyone surprised that i am being targeted? is anyone surprised that i am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about american foreign policies? and my leadership and voice will not be diminished. if i am not on this co
military in the region in decades. tensions between china and taiwan escalate and there are fears of a potential china invasion. oren is live at the pentagon. so what are you hearing? reporter: this is part of an expansion of military reegsz between the u.s. and the philippines. access to more bases in the philippines. from china s perspective that means perhaps a greater u.s. military presence close to china and close to taiwan. this is where the u.s. currently has access to military bases this is lloyd austin in the philippines where the agreement was reached. this is the map where the u.s. currently has access. this will expand for four more basis. neither the u.s. or philippines will name those bases. but we know the u.s. was interested in the north closer to taiwan as well as in the western philippines. that s why china has accused the