(CNN) Comments Republican Rep. Mark Meadows made in 2012 -- that then-President Barack Obama should be sent "back home to Kenya or wherever" -- are resurfacing this week following a tense conversation over race at a public House hearing Wednesday.

Asked about the 2012 video showing the then congressional candidate at an event calling for an investigation into President Barack Obama's citizenship, Meadows said he's "addressed that a dozen times."

"And candidly it was not the way that I should've answered the questions," Meadows said on Capitol Hill on Thursday. "Certainly is not something that I support from a standpoint of any racial overtones."

He added, "I can tell you that anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body."

Liberal commentators resurfaced the video after a contentious dialogue at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday between Meadows and Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who said it was a racist act that the North Carolina congressman would use a black Trump administration official as a "prop."

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