is in essentially playing with the membership of our committee, and to try some of the independent of the committee, establishing a new select committee on the weaponization of the federal government, it s going to bree distress, and they founders of the. committee they re not gonna want to share information with congress that we need to make decisions, because they re not gonna trust mccarthy other people leaflets on these committees. republican congressman don bacon said tonight that it s quote, corrosive, unquote, to be kicking people of committees in the hopes that it can end. also just moments ago victoria sparks weighed in against the move, given that, would you support a deal between speaker mccarthy, and minority leader jeffries that would put an end to either party blocking lawmakers from certain committees? the precedent that was said in the past congress, was that if members of congress incite violence against other members
we know how hard a full house vote can be with the narrow majority. it took them four days and 15 votes just to pick a speaker, and on the ilhan omar issue, there are two republican defectors victoria sparks of india now joins nancy face of south carolina, as a no vote on austin omar from the committee. in a statement, sparks busted the leader of her party, writing quote, to run tsunami right, i will not support this rate again. speaker mccarthy needs to stop bread insurgences in congress to start governing for a change. you have to wonder, how many times republican speakers will have to learn the lesson that political gravity does exist for him and his party. there are 18 members of his caucus who represent districts that president biden won in 2020, the constituents that those 18 members and other members like victoria sparks, nancy mace and others, may not want ilhan omar voted out the committee and do not want republicans playing chicken with the debt ceiling, abandoning migrants m
at the end of the day was his real motivation. he sent out an email blast encouraging people to click a button to remove me from the committee. it was a fundraising gimmick on the one hand. more seriously, this is kevin mccarthy s way of getting and keeping the votes he needs to be speaker. this is what marjorie taylor greene demanded and he is ready to do it. you know, my primary concern, anderson, is in essentially playing with the membership of our committee and destroying some of the independence of the intelligence committee in establishing a new select committee on the weaponization of the federal government, this orwellian creation, is going to breed distrust in the intelligence committee. they are not going to want to share information with congress that we need to make decisions because they will not trust mccarthy or the people he puts on the committee. don bacon said it s, quote, corrosive, unquote, to be kicking people off committees and hopes it can end. moments ago vict
the president said he is proud it s true now that it comes so close to his own investigation. surrounding efforts to block some democrats from committees. what can you tell us? this is a statement from victoria sparks. she is out with a statement saying she doesn t want to take part in the bread and services kind of government that will force ilhan omar off a committee. republicans vowed to retaliate, and speaker mccarthy said he can and intends to unilaterally remove adam schiff and eric swalwell from the house of select committee intelligence, but it has to go to the floor to remove ilhan omar to the foreign affairs committee. we are up to two house
they d made, whatever arrangement, whatever had happened where mccarthy ran to the front and tried to change his vote so there would not be a motion to adjourn so they could go on and have this 15th vote, it did look to me as though kevin mccarthy actually waited until matt gaetz actually cast his vote against adjournment before he cast his. and if i read that correctly, that would suggest he wanted to make sure matt gaetz went through with what he said he was going to do. it s also quite possible that kevin mccarthy did not promise matt gaetz anything because he has led for most of it, we saw the remarkable moments on the floor when he got involved tonight, but for most of the past few days his fingerprints are not on these deals because he s not trusted by the rebels as well, he has let his deputies do the winks and nods. victoria sparks, republican of indiana, having a late night