Too Little, Too Late: Rep. Omar Tries to “Clarify” Statement on US, Hamas, Israel, and Taliban

Secular is too little too late. As Omar the congressman from Minnesota tries to clarify comments, equating the United States and Israel militaries with the actions of the terrorist groups Hamas and the Taliban will talk about that more today live from Washington DC secular line phone lines open for your questions right now.

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They have been down this road with with her before, which I met Congressman L had Omar back in the news again because of what she said again, most people most of the time necessary to spend a lot of time on rhetoric where they're coming from, but there there are these realization moments when you realize weight, not just members of the Democrat party and you consent to that offshoot that is far left part of it in the not really the mainstream. Then you realize at the Democrat party empowers them of the seats on powerful committees and time and time again comes out with condemnations of their statements and and basically force clarifications and her clarification was. I just wanted basically the US to be subject to ICC, a jurisdiction which which we've done a lot of work in the ICC. You don't want anyone to be subject to ICC jurisdiction, especially our US military. It's it is a an institution that is not been able to get off the ground. After decades of of massive amounts of funding for the world.

It is not been able even in the countries that have signed on to the Rome statute and I have agreed to this jurisdiction is not been successful. I think was much more again successful process if you would look at international tribunals that when you have cases of war crimes going back to World War II and beyond is better to set up temporary tribunals that are focused on that situation. There were there. That's the birth of the ICC came out of a lot of what was going on in Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslavia and and these atrocities and there was a special court set up to deal with those atrocities is a widely does the whole world instead of taking the time to set up to make sure you have the right people independently who can go in and hold people who are actually should be being held accountable at the top and and that was it.

It just has become a disaster ever since, but is also a backdoor way to equate the United States military again as she did with actions of the Taliban and Hamas and and then try to put Israel lumping in Israel, and Israel is, by the way, he is constantly under attack costly having to engage in conflict on a scale again with a population around 7 million.

This is very different. Our military and our military operates as well.

They have been watching to because stamp the question. It was white as is and how long does a Pelosi type leadership and in this house leadership which was fairly quick to condemn this but still obviously afraid of of removing her from this committee assignment, which, by the way, Republicans have a long history of those who made controversial statements and is not like an accident. It's not what office-based kind of have historically after a few statements, they basically they take that action to correct themselves internally and you and this is an opportunity for the for Democrats to show that they're not as far outside the mainstream the country but do you think that they will actually take that step. Well first of all, your correct Jordan. There is a long history in the Republican side of it.

Some of them are recent examples, and some of them date back many congresses ago by the way, both committee assignments and places of prominent inside the caucus. I think there's definitely a double standard here a look at that's where I think I would start with this. If this were the first offense, so to speak, from Congresswoman Omar.

I would tell you that probably there's gonna be quite a bit of leeway quite a bit of patience but Jordan, this is become standard operating procedure for a minute look at. At this point I think it's safe to say that she is failing the most basic task that every member of Congress should have and that should be that America should be the top priority. Clearly, America's not the top priority and Jordan, I think the most important policy point is probably the one you just made even if she'd been more articulate in these comments. Clearly she thinks the US should be subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. That in and of itself is problematic enough but here is what I would tell you. Jordan just for from kind of the inside baseball with Congress. Yes, it's true. Voters send members of Congress to Washington DC and when you have a Congress that is this closely divided neither party is likely to expel a member of Congress altogether. But Jordan.

They haven't even taken the first step.

The step that is readily available to than this this statement that you read from Democrat leadership. Yeah, I mean it's good. I guess Jordan but it rings very hollow to me when they are the ones with the mechanism in their hand.

The lever in their hand to actually make her pay a price for this they could take her off that seat on the House foreign affairs committee immediately and Jordan they can do one of two things, and I think probably most appropriate they could put her on no committees but you know what, at a bare minimum.

She should be on committees that don't have jurisdiction don't have oversight over this very issue. So if Nancy Pelosi is serious that she should be drawn. These moral equivalencies don't put her on the committee that provides oversight over that issue. We witness you go back to 2019. The tweet which we spent time is broadcast to all about the Benjamin suite. Using this known anti-Semitism to fuel this is that that the Israel dual loyalties. She brought up this this idea and she was quickly condemned, but retains that seat and I guy go to that statement from the progressive Caucus, which is part of that this the squad world and that there first thing they said here they put out in her defenses. Her voice is critical and necessary both the House foreign affairs committee and the House Democratic Caucus.

I like you said it's not source the House Democratic Caucus.

You could draw politics of that. That's one thing again.

Voters get to decide they render this political party okay but there is when you elected official know they know to this is the target, the House foreign affairs committee seat and they will try to make this our issue of race, religion, gender, she's already done that hurt her supporters of Artie done that. I just say read the words doesn't matter who is gender that is whose religion that is its anti-American on top of her anti-Semitism in the past and the this idea.

Again, it's she's also what about my freedom of speech.

No one saying she can't say this, but there are consequences for what you say and do in a country that has freedom of speech and you can take actions because what people say that it doesn't mean again shut losing her seat in Congress. That's up to the voters about, but I think it just seems to be if this is if they're worried about these kind of individuals because you got AOC come to the defense and fundraising grassroots ability and worry about primaries in situations like that at the these responses again, they're not.

She's not really apologizing, any statements in this back-and-forth that she had with the anti-blanket. She's cutting him off its very long of a place over for people but so they know, but she decided to put that tweet along with the video she decided to use those words and put it in that order and is specifically in the order of having get out with the US and then she she puts in Hamas then puts back Israel to put Afghanistan and the Taliban separately and of course tying at the ICC, but good to me, that level of more sophistication in the long-term game. The long-term strategy is that moving the party apart, a Democrat party which is been more open to the idea of the international criminal court. Her rhetoric pushing that back which might be another reason that they they jump on it so quickly, but if if they were and if Nancy Pelosi today were to say you know what enough with this, she, it would not commit.

What will no longer empower her to have the ability question secretaries of state from either party. She's actually goat because she's his abuse that right to spread anti-Semitism, the spread racism to spread violence and support for terrorist groups that would be something to commit and I think you're right then that this this. It was like when they had to pass a resolution condemning anti-Semitism in the United States in 2019. Because of her statement on all about the Benjamin's. The list goes on and on and on but yet they continue to continue to make the strategic statements like I said no one. This was not an accidental statement. It was not just her words from a question she put out the tweet.

That way it hears the true Jordan. If this is a member of the Republican Party are quite frankly, if this was a member almost any other member of the Democratic Party.

Here she would already be off the House foreign affairs committee, Congressman Omar Jordan as she is benefiting actually from a whole lot more leeway than another member of Congress would get in is because Speaker Pelosi and the other leadership want to have it both ways.

They don't want to alienate the so-called progressives which I can't imagine I can't even believe were talking about anti-Semitism and anti-American views being progressive but I think that's just the reality of worry that if it were another member of Congress, they would've Artie lost the seat on the committee and turn you mentioned AOC's response. I just want to read a couple lines from. She said I'm pretty sick and tired of the constant vilification, intentional mischaracterization, characterization, and public targeting of bill on Omar coming from a caucus. They have no concept for the danger they put her in by skipping private conversations and leaping to fueling targeting new cycles targeted new cycles around her. Jordan there there putting Congressman Omar in danger, danger the US service member is in by being subject to the dearth jurisdiction of the ICC about the danger that US service members invite selling the rest of the world that the United States is equivalent to the Taliban that is the danger that AOC and Speaker Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic caucus should be worried about, not so much the danger that Johan Omar is in over what the words that she intentionally put out into the world. This is this is the idea get actively involved in in this the ICC, the US doesn't go weekly when represented by the US position at the that's the case she's referencing the case she's referencing the case. We worked on at the ICC that we've shown you before, as they were at this right before covert right for the first impeachment trial. So again were to take a couple phone calls Ricky Nelson between his next segment against talk that this invite overseas only one.

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ACLJ.org where you can learn more about her life changing work, become a member today ACLJ secular senior counsel joining us as well through counsel for foreign affairs, national security, Rick. I wanted that we can't let this develop see how the Democrats were going to take action as well but I want to stop this line of question because this idea for melanoma. It's not just rhetoric.

She tied it to set up a much longer game plan, which is the. The international criminal court and I think to just take her words as extremist rhetoric which it is and should be condemned within forget what the longer-term play, which is not so necessarily out of line with some in the Democratic Party and the semi-many on the left which is ultimately that the US I joined the ICC. So we see the condemnation coming out for the entire house Democrat leadership, but she still sits Rick on the House foreign affairs committee, no Republican would ever be still sitting on that committee making any statements that would be considered racist, sexist, homophobic, the list goes on and on and the public. A party takes quick action not to take away from the voters they get to choose who they wants in the Congress that vote does not include getting to pick what committees it said on is not her first time right she's she's had multiple chances now really messing up here week we keep tripping over ourselves in the national media to give her yet another chance or another explanation. Remember on and talking about 9/11. She said some people did something I really minimizing 9/11 she's comparing the United States to Hezbollah and Hamas on the Taliban and now it said growing problem in the way she views America. She clearly doesn't like America being a leader. She wants us to be one of many, and so therefore she jumped at the chance to highlight any problem as being a systematic problem and that's where I really have the hardest time with her worldview is that she doesn't think that America is exceptional.

She doesn't think that we are the greatest and and look at it it's fine for her to critique American policy Israeli policy. We are all 14 this is a free country, and she gets to do that but but I think that it's a really dangerous and that she should be called out consistently when she's trying to blame America first or the world's problems. She's she's lost her perspective. I read the statement and have been reading the state more than even playing the long-winded audio because the chief along with the statement and inner clarifications to take out doesn't. But at what because what she merely went to. That's because of a Muslim is because of a woman. This list goes on and on it it's not it's because the words it could be uttered by anyone but II think more so possibly that your life experience would inform her that these groups are not necessarily ones you want to be living under control of, or society's earlier parents made that decision.

That's why America exist is for actual people need refuge to be able to seek that refuge.

They family did that up but the idea she sitting on those committees is getting briefings that other members of Congress aren't on our foreign policy, and it's tied to a bigger policy fight did you think if they don't move to actually say okay you know what I can let you be on this committee and that's that's the strongest kind of action they can. They can really take their empowering the rest of that group and also this is kind like the forest of far left thinking right from the edge of the academic world and it started to play out. Now in reality in Congress. Well, let's talk about a little bit of the good news.

She's been able to unite Republicans and Democrats.

Sadly, against her, and now we have Democrats condemning her actions taken way too long. Let's be very honest about that, but it's also good news is that there feeling empowered their feeling like they have to condemn her there. There you know, obviously walking on thin ice, and they're very careful in how their condemning their but make no mistake, this is a very big deal when the leadership of the Democratic Party is calling out her words and she of course did whatever progressive dies and I was glad to see that Nancy Pelosi and Lisa got a little taste of what they usually throw around his you know immediately.

She says oh you're sexist, or your homophobic and as you point out, it has nothing to do with her gender or her religion. It has everything to do with her equating morally that Caliban Hamas, Hezbollah, with the United States of America, which really honestly angers me because somebody in her position should not maybe we gotta put it into a better perspective for her. Let's see what the Palestinian position as an climate change and gay-rights and just those two progressive issues, let's let's match Palestinian Authority with Israel are America, she will see a dramatic difference and so I think that this is the beginning of a problem for her in Congress leadership is called around. She's probably not going to have much power for a little while at least be a good thing and a big thing for the country.

Looking past partisan politics machine. These kind of committees that will this info as I want to go to Rick that the you receive at present binds first foreign trip.

It is not getting the print sconces were not a lot a question back and forth so I again this speech is a bit of criticism of the joint chief saying that the climate change. The number one issue, but past that and the fact that they won't let us the question that there was already talk just in the UK alone. In fact, there's been no and the ambassador stated that the all these that they're just sitting empty. As a former master Jeremy at unities making this this first foreign trip.

He wants to heal reengage the world to talk of these big issues as if as if we were to engage the world but they're not putting the investors for Dylan again you see any explanation for why be the date that this doesn't seem to be in line with them. Usually the boy can add on the battering moving through Congress. But it's not that not even the UK. Therefore they were in floating names yet. Look, he Pres. Biden is visiting multiple countries and every place he's going to Switzerland, the UK, NATO, Belgium.

We don't have an American representative. We don't even have an American nominate there's not even names out there and and now we got on the announcement that Chancellor Merkel is coming to the states again. We he's met with South Korean Pres., we don't have a South Korean ambassador Germany coming we don't have a German Japanese ambassador he's met with Japanese.

This is a real problem in the trumpet ministration we had David Friedman announced confirmed and in Jerusalem by May 15. So for all of the criticism that median DC made of the trauma diplomacy team the trauma team is doing way better than Joe Biden. And yet Joe Biden is getting away with saying diplomacy is back is what Sec. Blake St. this is a very big problem and of course there's a double standard in Washington when focusing on Rick as always, thank you for your insight. Because these are issues you get to and that's when we take the time to get into and on the show see how things develop and then have the discussion because in that given the analysis of because to look at. Okay, these just say well by wanting to have his abashed but that problems that actually causes and issues that actually causes me to see play out in real time, and these kind of mess of these foreign trips that you had the vice President strip. Total disaster and ending at the present you hope is American's are going to be successful there going to be thinking projecting a good image of the United States at least abroad to recover domestic fights here that is not happening right now were not seeing that particular cause, suddenly come back in one 800 684 31 two that's 100-684-3110 decades ACLJ has been on the frontlines of protecting your freedom is defending your rights in court in Congress and in the public arena.

The American Center for Law and Justice is on your side, you're already a member thinking. If you're not well this is the perfect time to stand with us, ACLJ.org, where you can learn more about our life-changing work, member today ACLJ live from Washington DC and a country facing major issues domestically again just getting reopened economic focus getting America back on track. The inflation issues that letter that are obviously could see whether it's if the cost of any basic kind of essential items that you feel happening to messy our southern border. The highest numbers in 20 years of of people being encountered by our federal services on the border and were not even exactly sure how that gets defined with the it with the reimplementation policies like catch and release in the ending of policies like remain in Mexico. I meet that that is just the people that they are able to stop or effort for some period of time and what happens next. It is kind of up near the second is that this issue with them when you have Congresswoman Omar and getting it elected by her constituents. No one is taking that away from her notice taking away her right to freedom of speech that but we also including her members her own party.

But every American. Also the freedom of speech to to call out what she says and when you are public official. You brought more attention to that always. I wanted to spend that first half-hour and really focusing on the words because the way she delivers it is again exactly the trap she's trying to create, which is you're doing this because I'm a woman and I'm a Muslim and I'm an immigrant and I'm part of this. Your far left caucus and stop beating up on Muslim women in in in the United States that lists if if you compare the US military to the Taliban and draft isn't listen people be talking about this if she compared the Israeli military, the Taliban in Afghanistan, but she instead cited include the United States of America. This is all of our homes including her home. She is elected to represent her constituents, she can do that. That does not give her the right, though, to just sit on the foreign affairs committee.

That's a choice Democrat leadership makes is not a choice.

You will initially call coming in. Centers withhold not someone take this and go to fan Cedric, I welcome secular you're on the high Jordan Hong Kong today.

I was actually asked question out on Omar, but after hearing the segment with Rick Grenell and I was. I watched something where Biden was meeting with the UK and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and he had made a comment about how he talked to Fort Johnson at Pres. like a year ago when trumpet in office tonight. We know that Biden has some sort of cognitive illness going on on saying that to a US and first payment to the prime minister, UK and India or onto the younger. He's obviously aware hearing what's going on on and then hearing Biden say that like it and then you'll talk to my father. No US investors abiding by dealing with all these people in the world like that's very scary and dangerous, like what you stated that you say is the best kind of person the world if you don't have those levels of of people that you choose to represent the country that also your ideas. I take it to the met the mess of the Kemal Harris trip.

It's it's it's a gimmick it's layers of failure that start with staff start with people briefing you use and end with present time. We didn't see the traditional press conference yet I see yet. Maybe we will see again him open to the international media, but we haven't seen it yet.

He's been hiding around the fact that the UK is the lead on the G7 right now, but this is again he's could be called out by those leaders did not get it there going to be of the US too important. I think it's this the you got it administration which is facing uphill battles.

Other major legislation legislative initiatives and they would abroad and when you go abroad in your legislative agendas or failure then you got the issues like ill hot Omar issue arises. Know this can condemnation coming from Nancy Pelosi but is there going to be action what will that cause the quote you what protest would hear that. I think that this is a significant problem of the US leadership abroad.

Are we just willing to be part of the group instead of leaving the group taking the lead you did this issues of why she in Congress elected by her constituents when trying to take that away the challenges facing Americans or substantial time in our value freedom sword constitutional rights are under attack is more important than ever to stand with the American Center for Law and Justice for decades ACLJ has been on the frontlines protecting your freedoms defending your rights in court in Congress and in the public arena and we have an exceptional track record of success. But here's the bottom line we could not do our work without your support, we remain committed to protecting your religious and constitutional freedoms than remains our top priority, especially now during these challenging times.

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The benefit of the doubt doesn't exist for Muslim women in Congress. This is not a someone else's taking the words this this this this response and condemnation is is because of what ill hot Omar decide to put out on her own. She decided to put the tweet out and then link the video and the video goes further detail about how she would like the US to be treated like Taliban at the international level and be art our military be subject to the same treatment as the, the Taliban or Hamas or Afghan security forces and throws in Israel as well. They need to be thorough because where do people go to seek that you note these again injustices are done in an and of course we have a huge military justice system with its own rules and its own laws its own experts and it is subject to different than just the normal constitutional rights. We see in our court system to the United States and that the court-martial process that that the fact is that we do hold this wrongdoing in the US military. There is people how to get there and people have accountable you could talk about it. You can ask questions about it. It doesn't make you unpatriotic to to ask question about the system. It does, though draw your patriotism and the question and your fitness to serve on a specific committee in the House of Representatives when you morally equate and then try to get out of that moral equation. This is not the first time as Rick said this is everybody's in pointing out this is the fourth and fifth time of this moral equivalency of the United States and our foreign policy, with the actions of known Islamic terror groups which are to write which to raise their own citizens which don't respect human rights, which would not. In most cases would not allow her to seek office at all or have a vote on who gets to hold office, or a represent people are there is no freedom of speech. There is no freedom to organize. There none of those freedoms exist, it doesn't mean everything is perfect everywhere and again that state that the danger fan is the it becomes almost difficult to have the real tough discussions because we have people making these broad statements that actually silences real discussions about our policy. Israeli policy how how to handle Afghanistan. What to do situation with Thomas because you are you are Scaring away people from the discussion of of also legitimate concerns legitimate questions, but that to me if if if if the House Democratic Nancy Pelosi won't take the action she has the power to do it. She's got the support of their caucus likely to do it to say you know what will it take the action we can. Enough is enough. I think that you don't then you can't run an ad with Nancy Pelosi, male, hot, Omar.

I think words are no longer enough at this point word. These words should have consequences that