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She tweeted "we have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the u.s., hamas, israel, afghanistan, and the taliban. she then later tried to walk it back insisting she wasn't equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries that have well-established judicial systems. the republicans are claiming a double standard is clearly at work. they are demanding to know why speaker pelosi is still keeping her on the has foreign affairs committee. take a listen. >> we need to see more democrats in congress speaking out. we need speaker pelosi to remove her from the committee. ilhan omar shouldn...

Ilhan omar's words. she said i was not at all equating the u.s. and israel with terrorist groups hamas and the taliban. we just pulled up her tweets twice. it seems like that was precisely what she was doing. the entire point of the entire tweet. right? >> 100%. it is good that democrat leaders are finally speaking out about this, but it is too little, too late. she doesn't need to clarify her comments. she needs to be removed. nobody who thinks that israel and the united states are the equivalent of the town abandon hamas in terms of the atrocities they have committed deserves to be sitting o...

Wasn't equating those two directly. >> chris, it underscores the growing pains from being a governor to getting used to being on the national stage. >> just being a governor scott walker is a high profile governor. not like he was the governor of idaho and no one heard of him before he emerged. he has been in the national spotlight with the recall election and those sort of things, it's a different stage. say to people not like going from one to two but 1 to 100 going for statewide office. the attention on you, how your statements are looked through, looks into your background all of those thi...

>> krystal, let's go back to dr. carson. this week we saw him awkwardly use gays, nambla and bestiality in the same sentence. he tried to backtrack those comments this afternoon with msnbc's andrea mitchell. i think he only served in complicating matters. listen to this. >> that was taken completely out of context. what i was basically saying is there was no group. i wasn't equating those things. i don't think they're equal. just, you know, if you ask me for an apple and i gave you an orange, you'd say, that's not an orange. then i say, here's a banana, that's not an apple either. >> i'm still...

Examines what i've been talking about and writing about over the last couple of decades, it's the same thing that i'm talking about now. it's just that now more people are paying attention to them. i think in terms of what was said on sean hannity's show, that was taken completely out of context and completely misunderstood in terms of what i was trying to say. as a christian, i have a duty to love all people and that includes people who have other sexual orientations, and i certainly do. and never had any intention of offending anyone. what i was basically saying and if anyone was offended, i...