Pelosi, AOC look to put to rest the latest spat over Omar comments

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried on Sunday to put to rest the latest spat between congressional Democrats sparked by controversial comments from Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Pelosi downplayed a split between Democratic leadership and the progressive “Squad” over the remarks which some interpreted as equating the US with Hamas and the Taliban. “We did not rebuke her,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Pelosi and 11 other House Democrats had penned a letter to Omar asking for clarification – and they “thanked her” after she issued a clarification, the speaker told Bash.