Omar says she's 'confident' Pelosi will take action in Islamophobia controversy

Omar says she’s ‘confident’ Pelosi will take action in Islamophobia controversy

Dec 06, 2021

Omar says she’s ‘confident’ Pelosi will take action in Islamophobia controversy

1 00:00:00,120 –> 00:00:02,760 >> I’ve had a conversation with this speaker. 2 00:00:03,390 –> 00:00:08,940 >> And I’m very confident that she will take decisive action next 3 00:00:08,940 –> 00:00:14,100 week. As you know when I first got to Congress I was worried that I wasn’t going to 4 00:00:14,100 –> 00:00:19,260 be allowed to be sworn in because there was a ban on the hijab. She promised me that 5 00:00:19,260 –> 00:00:24,450 she’d take care of it. She fulfill that promise. She’s made another promise to me that she will 6 00:00:24,450 –> 00:00:28,800 take care of this. McCarthy is a liar and a coward. 7 00:00:28,830 –> 00:00:34,500 >> He doesn’t have the ability to condemn the 8 00:00:34,500 –> 00:00:40,110 kind of bigoted Islamophobia and anti-Muslim rhetoric that are being 9 00:00:40,110 –> 00:00:45,480 trafficked by a member of. Why does he have the ability to do that. Because this is this 10 00:00:45,480 –> 00:00:51,180 is who they are. And we have to be able to stand up to them and 11 00:00:51,180 –> 00:00:56,670 we have to push them to reckon with the fact that their party right now 12 00:00:56,670 –> 00:01:00,190 is normalizing anti-Muslim bigotry. 13 00:01:00,210 –> 00:01:05,580 >> We should point out that there are some members of the Republican House caucus Nancy 14 00:01:05,580 –> 00:01:11,010 Mace Reid Adam Kinzinger FRED UPTON I believe reached out to you who have condemned the 15 00:01:11,010 –> 00:01:15,270 remarks but that’s four out of hundreds. 16 00:01:15,270 –> 00:01:21,060 >> Most of them and they are being attacked they’re being attacked for condemning it which 17 00:01:21,060 –> 00:01:27,210 tells you that their conference condones this. And that’s why it’s dangerous.

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