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
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but it also comes in the very early days of this new congress and new divided government. the speaker just met with the president yesterday. they both emerged saying we re going to try to have a respectful conversation even though we disagree completely. but how will someone like this affect the tone? the democrats and the republicans are already the gap of trust, the gap of respect is pretty wide. does this make it worse? i don t think it makes things better. and i think the difference between someone like ilhan omar and her comments and marjorie taylor greene like we discussed and what she has said, ilhan omar has shown remorse and apology for those remarks. i don t recall marjorie taylor greene ever having remorse or apologies. and instead of being punished in this congress, like the way she was in the previous congress, and how ilhan omar is being punished now. marjorie taylor greene is a major speaker to speaker mccarthy. again, we re watching this vote and we ll bring you t
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
obama as president was secretly a muslim. let s get to our chief congressional correspondent manu raju. the vote that will take place in moments is a key test of the new speaker kevin mccarthy. he has a very narrow majority, and many of his members are a little squishy about this. yeah, no question about it. he can only lose four republican votes in order to allow this to succeed, to kick her off of the house foreign affairs committee. and he has been moving behind the scenes over the last several days to shore up concerns, concerns about his tit for tat that has occurred after democrats moved two republicans off of their committee assignments last congress. mccarthy vowing some retribution of sorts for ilhan omar ever since that happened. behind the scenes, mccarthy has locked up the votes. he has indicated that he has made sure that his members are in line. just moments ago congressman nancy mace is one who said she would oppose this because of her concern about the precedent this