absurd notion that space lasers financed by the roth child family are the cause of wildfires in california. she has never equated vaccine mandates with adolph hitler. who s he really talking about there? the democrat defending ilhan omar before the partisan vote to remove her from the house foreign affairs committee. and president joe biden meet with the congressional black caucus for a discussion on police reforms. it comes a day after tyre nichols is laid to rest. and china is doing some damage control this morning. beijing says it s looking at whether a surveillance balloon that flew over montana is actually theirs. we ll have the latest and the response from the pentagon coming up next. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 3rd. i m sitting in for jonathan lemire. democratic congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota has removed from the house foreign affairs committee. 218 republicans voted to back the resolution removing omar from the c
decision, quote, prayerful consideration. we ve gotten a lot of encouragement, very humbled by that. small town guy in southern indiana, grew up in a cornfield in his backyard, and it s it s a humbling thing even to be mentioned for the highest office of the land. and we are giving it prayerful consideration. ronald reagan said memorably once he said the american people have a funny way of letting you know if they want you to run for president of the united states. so we re going to keep listening very intently to the american people, keep praying and listening to our hearts and promise to keep you posted. aw, shucks, i m humbled. i was vice president but who would thing i might want to run for there presidency. still ahead in sports soccer legend lionel messi gives a hint about his future and a baseball hall of famer makes a revealing confession about how he broke out of a hitting slump.
for tats going around. at least publicly they haven t said that. they felt they had to act, you know, and of course there s two people we aren t talking about here which is the fact you also had speaker mccarthy make the unilateral decision to remove eric swalwell and adam schiff from the intel committee. so you do wonder where does this end, right? this was an unprecedented decision by democrats. they kind of started this, republicans continuing in this line. and the real question is going to be to your point what happens next? is there another issue where you have a democrat saying something that is anti-semitic or really inflames the right? are they going to try to take more action here? i think a lot of people would say, all right, let s have a pause here. you had the republicans reframe their kind of, you know, debate here, but the question s going to be, you know, is this a slippery slope, will we see more of this? i think for people that care about the institution, they hope n
in our house, prayerful consideration. do you believe you can beat donald trump? well, that would be for others to say and it would be for us to decide whether or not we d want to test that. so if you decide to run and he s up there, so be it? so be it. our chief political analyst gloria borger and david urban ashes longtime strategist a senior adviser to the trump campaign and bakari sellers, former member of the south carolina house of representatives. how significant is it to hear these comment from pence literally 24 hours trump may announce he s running for president again and days after trump s major mid-term lowe s losses? i think it s very significant. i think mike pence was a very loyal vice president, and in this interview you hear him calling the president rec hess, saying he endangered me and my family. that he was filled with indignation and that he can t