McCarthy made us his scapegoats — but we refuse to go down quietly

In an op-ed for MSNBC, Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar explain how the House speaker's move to target them sets a dangerous precedent. [VIEW IN BROWSER]( MSNBC DAILY Understand today's news [VIEW IN BROWSER]( MSNBC DAILY Understand today's news Jan. 27, 2023 THE LATEST [Alternate text] [Kevin McCarthy targeted us. This is just the start of a dangerous precedent.]( by Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and llhan Omar This week, in a partisan political stunt, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unilaterally stripped two of us — Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell — from our positions on the House Intelligence Committee, where the latter serves as ranking member. And the speaker is attempting to remove another one of us, Ilhan Omar, from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite opposition from within his own party. We will not dignify or amplify the flimsy pretexts McCarthy has given for removing us from our committees by repeating them here. Nor do we accept the fallacious argument that Republicans are merely echoing Democrats' past removals of representatives from committees. [Read the full op-ed from Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar here](.     TOP STORIES [Alternate text] [ZEESHAN ALEEM]( The tragedy underlying Marjorie Taylor Greene's VP dreams]( The rumors are a frog-in-boiling-water moment. [Read more.]( [JORDAN RUBIN]( [The feds used 'geofencing' to find Jan. 6 rioters. A judge just said it's legal.]( The novel issue here is an important one to watch. [Read more.]( [JA'HAN JONES]( [Trump tries to claim executive privilege days before Peter Navarro's contempt trial]( When it comes to White House aides, Donald Trump clearly had his favorites. It's a safe bet that Navarro is not one of them. Read more.]( [STEVE BENEN]( [Trump took another racist jab at Elaine Chao. She hit back.]( Will other Republicans side with her or not? [Read more.](//link.msnbc.com/click/30376566.77533/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubXNuYmMuY29tL3RoZS1yZWlkb3V0L3JlaWRvdXQtYmxvZy9iYW5uaW5nLXRpa3Rvay1ub3QtZ29vZC11c2UtYmlkZW4tcmVwdWJsaWNhbi10aW1lLXJjbmE2MzczMT9jaWQ9ZW1sX21kYV8yMDIzMDEyNyZ1c2VyX2VtYWlsPWQ3ZGM3NDUxNzI5N2IzOTcxYWExNGQ2ZjMzMTEzNWEwODc4ZjhmNjQwZmExYTEwMTlmMTU3YjY1YzFiNWRkMWQ/58292da26e4adc7b0b8b4914B12750928 TOP VIDEOS [Alternate text] [ALEX WAGNER TONIGHT]( [Nation on edge ahead of release of Tyre Nichols video]( [ [THE LAST WORD]( [Exclusive: Rep. Adam Schiff explains what spurred his decision to run for Senate]( [THE MEHDI HASAN SHOW]( [Rep. Omar on why McCarthy's quest to oust her from committee isn't about her 'antisemitism']( [ALL IN]( [House GOP vows to probe 'weaponization' of government. They must not remember how that went last time.]( DEADLINE: LEGAL BLOG [Alternate text]   "[Deadline: Legal Blog](" is the newest online extension of "Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace." Every big story is a legal story, and former prosecutor Jordan Rubin tackles these crucial legal issues with digestible explanations — from the multiple investigations into Donald Trump to decisions by the Supreme Court. Read Rubin's latest blogs [here](.     MORE FROM MSNBC [Alternate text]   This week on "Into America," Trymaine Lee revisits the final episode of 2022's "Reconstructed" series, to understand how Trayvon Martin became the face of the movement at a grave cost — through the eyes of his father, Tracy Martin. [Listen now](, wherever you get your podcasts.   Last year's Super Bowl featured a who's who of celebrities hawking crypto currency and crypto platforms like FTX. In retrospect, that looks like the boom before the bust. This year, crypto prices have tumbled and one of the most valued exchanges, FTX, collapsed in a cloud of alleged fraud and federal indictments. So is it all a scam? A pyramid scheme? Will crypto endure? Our guest this week thinks it will, but says accused fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried has shown the world just how risky the market can be for new users. It remains unclear if FTX customers will ever get their money back or if crypto can ever be seen more broadly as a trustworthy store of value. Tonya Evans is a tenured full professor at Penn State Dickinson Law School whose work focuses on the legal, regulatory, policy and economic justice implications of new technologies and innovation. She also hosts a weekly podcast called "Tech Intersect," all about the intersection of law, business and tech. Evans joins [WITHpod]( to discuss why, in her view, the collapse of FTX isn't a crypto problem, rather a fraud problem, what the future of regulation in the space could look like and more.     [Image] [Image] 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 [PRIVACY]( | [CONTACT]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE](listvar=sub_daily) [PRIVACY]( | [CONTACT]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE](listvar=sub_daily)