Essentially he did the following:
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Blamed the house speaker
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Took no responsibility
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Some fluff about being disappointed and embarrassed
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Blamed Russian propaganda
Seriously, he didn't even skip a beat before launching into a lecture about Russian propaganda. It was all in the same breath, and clearly pre-meditated.
The thing is, we know this motherfucker was a Nazi who fought in the fucking SS. We know what the SS was. We know who the Nazis were. This is not Russian propaganda. This is just a fucking FACT.
I worry that this is a broader symptom of the re-writing of history to "both sides" World War 2: the notion that the Nazis and the Soviets were equally evil because "muh totalitarianism". We all know here that that is unequivocally untrue, and furthermore some Jewish scholars (correctly) argue that this is a form of genocide denial: by saying that the USSR was equally evil to the Nazis downplays the utter depravity and evil of the intentional extermination of a race of people.
To find out who the real MVP was in WW2 all you have to do is watch this video.
Furthermore, the notion that the Holodomor was an intentional genocide is a load-bearing idea to the double-genocide theory, as they need some ammunition to back up their absolutely baseless claim.
This whole thing just seems (for lack of a better term) Orwellian. All this cheerleading about Ukraine and the intentionally disingenuous media coverage of the whole affair, the whitewashing of literal fucking nazis and the fact that the overwhelming majority of people are just uncritically lapping it up is deeply troubling to me.
I feel like we are watching history being re-written in real time 
Yeah, this is exacty what is happening. Getting the whole population whipped up in to xenophobic bloodlust, while supporting the "holodomor" narrative and the double genocide narrative is intended to both corrupt the history of the 20th century, of communism, and to stain modern russians with these lies so dc et al can further their agendas in eastern europe. The "double holocaust" is also a hand-out specifically to baltic, polish, ukrainian, and other eastern european fascists whose ahistorical mythology requires the soviets to have engaged in genocidal actiions so the fascists can both justify their ant-russianness and anti-communism, while also creating the impression that the deliberate extermination of the Jewish population by the very regimes they admire was not unique or significant bc they fasely assert ehy were also subject to genocidal destruction, but from the soviets.
Absolutely depraved delusions, and nato, dc, and the eu are going all-in on it to support their 21st century geopolitical strategies.
Yep. We are moving into a territory where "actually the nazis weren't that bad, they fought the much worse communists after all" isn't just something you'll only see from deranged reactionaries, it's going to become the mainstream consensus.
And once that ball starts rolling? I don't even want to try to imagine what this might lead to.