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El-Sayed Hit With New Terror Tie Questions and the Story the Media won't Chase · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: So your mother had no ties? I have never had
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  Speaker 1: these conversations with my mother. I wasn't raised by my mother.
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  Speaker 1: So you were unaware? But I'm just telling you that, like,
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  Speaker 1: you're using hearsay evidence from a tweet. This is not serious.
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  Speaker 2: This is not serious.
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  Speaker 1: But you've also gone after the president for truthfulness. You've
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  Speaker 1: also gone after the president for truthfulness. So when people
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  Speaker 1: ask you a question, they all do expect the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And do you think, are you insinuating that somehow I
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  Speaker 1: was lying? I don't know. That's why I'm asking. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you I was not.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 1: Good Friday morning. So nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 1: on the 47 Morning Update. And we've got two big
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  Speaker 1: stories for you. First up, a lot of you have
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  Speaker 1: heard the name El-Said. The question is, who's funding his
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  Speaker 1: massive campaign? We're now learning about the radicals who are
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  Speaker 1: sending him money and what their thoughts are about the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America is going to scare the heck
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  Speaker 1: out of you. We've got it for you in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. Up next after that, El Sayed is also
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  Speaker 1: in serious hot water for lying to NBC News about
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  Speaker 1: his ties and his family ties to a terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 1: What organization is it and what did he have to say?
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  Speaker 1: Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a big question that is coming out of Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: and it deals with El-Sayed. The leftist Muslim U.S. Senate candidate,
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  Speaker 1: Abdul El-Sayed, failed to deny receiving money from leftist billionaire
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  Speaker 1: George Soros or terrorist groups during a debate with his opponent, U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Senate candidate Mike Rogers. Now, this was not reported by
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  Speaker 1: the media, which is why I think it's important that
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  Speaker 1: we talk about it. Now, Al-Said accused Rogers of stock
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  Speaker 1: trading when he was in Congress and claimed he failed
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  Speaker 1: himself does not own stock before failing to deny receiving
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  Speaker 1: money from Soros or literal terrorists. I'm not joking. Literal terrorists. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make myself rich off my job
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  Speaker 1: in public service. This guy has done exactly that. 14 million.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he made when he left Congress doing the
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  Speaker 1: work for the corporations he had just previously been regulating,
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  Speaker 1: who had bought him off when he was in Congress
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  Speaker 1: in the first place, Al-Said stated. Rogers? He was more
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  Speaker 1: than prepared. He countered his comments by saying they were
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  Speaker 1: offensive and it was a lie that he ever traded stocks.
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  Speaker 1: So that means you're bought off by George Soros' family.
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  Speaker 1: That means you're bought off by Hamas. He responded, bought
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  Speaker 1: off by Hezbollah, bought off by Al-Qaeda. Those people who
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  Speaker 1: are supporting you pour that money into your campaign. You
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  Speaker 1: begged Chuck Schumer, begged Chuck Schumer. Matter of fact, you
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  Speaker 1: had to sneak by the trash cans in the back
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  Speaker 1: of the building to beg for that money. So here's
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  Speaker 1: the guy to send money out of politics until it
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  Speaker 1: gets shoved into his pockets. That absolutely tells you who
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  Speaker 1: he is, Rogers stated. Now, Rogers is a guy that,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's important you hear part of this
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  Speaker 1: debate because I think this was a defining moment in
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  Speaker 1: this campaign.
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  Speaker 3: So that means you're bought off by George Soros' family.
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  Speaker 3: That means that you're bought off by Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda,
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  Speaker 3: those people who are supporting you, pour that money into
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  Speaker 3: your campaign. You begged Chuck Schumer, begged Chuck Schumer. Matter
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  Speaker 3: of fact, you had to sneak by the trash cans
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  Speaker 3: in the back of the building to beg for that money.
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  Speaker 3: So here's the guy to send money out of politics
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  Speaker 3: until it gets to shove into his pocket. That tells you,
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  Speaker 3: that tells you, that absolutely tells you who he is.
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  Speaker 3: The guy on his staff that said he will say
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  Speaker 3: anything to get elected is and tell you one thing
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  Speaker 3: one time and another the next time.
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  Speaker 1: He's a manufactured candidate. We've come to the end of
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  Speaker 1: our discussion. I love that moment because this heated debate came,
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  Speaker 1: I really think, as America has to decide something. What
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  Speaker 1: are we going to do in these midterm elections? Are
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  Speaker 1: we going to go the way... of the socialist Marxist communists,
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  Speaker 1: the candidates that are backed by the radicals in Hamas
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  Speaker 1: and Hezbollah? Or are we going to go with America first? Now,
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  Speaker 1: Fox News also reported in August that, quote, a Senate
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  Speaker 1: counterterrorism expert testified that the Michigan Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, said,
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  Speaker 1: candidacy raises homeland security concerns because his family's ties to
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood link groups and connections to the Midwest
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  Speaker 1: Voter Engagement Organization that experts said is tied to the
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  Speaker 1: Council on American Islamic Relations. You know it as CARE. El-Said,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it is a fact, has accepted hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars from terrorist organizations and Rogers in
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  Speaker 1: September pressed him to return that money. Now, let's go
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  Speaker 1: back to just the money part of this, because I
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  Speaker 1: think this is also important. When Mike Rogers called out
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  Speaker 1: Al-Said to return donations from terrorist organizations, he didn't return
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  Speaker 1: the money. Why? Because it's one of the core financiers
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  Speaker 1: of his campaign. And Al-Said has, in fact, accepted hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars from terrorist organizations, and he won't
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  Speaker 1: say that's a lie. Quote, I guess when Abdul claims
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  Speaker 1: he wants money out of politics, he doesn't count terrorist organizations.
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  Speaker 1: As a former army officer and house intelligence chair, Rogers said,
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  Speaker 1: I spent my life fighting to defeat terrorist organizations. Abdul
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  Speaker 1: cashes checks from them. He's absolutely right. Rogers added that
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  Speaker 1: it is absolutely disqualifying and an insult to the brave
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  Speaker 1: men and women who risked their lives in service to
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  Speaker 1: this great country. Abdul returned the money. Now, on its website,
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  Speaker 1: Rogers doubled down on the claim and had the list.
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  Speaker 1: The money donated to him from terrorist organizations, including the
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  Speaker 1: Council on American Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood. This includes,
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  Speaker 1: he said, nearly 130,000 from donors who identified connections to
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  Speaker 1: CARE and alleged Hamas-linked groups, a designated terrorist organization in
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  Speaker 1: multiple states. The donations came from over 41 staff. or
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  Speaker 1: board members, including National Board Chair, the National Board Treasurer,
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  Speaker 1: the National Board Vice Chair, and the Michigan Board member
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  Speaker 1: of the organization. Abdul Al-Sid's father-in-law, by the way, has
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  Speaker 1: donated more than $ 300, 000 to his super PAC. He is
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  Speaker 1: a top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood organization linked to
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  Speaker 1: terror funding in and is the president of CARE Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: That's his father-in-law. Now, the site adds $ 7, 000 from Aman Barakat,
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  Speaker 1: who's the chair of Al-Awada. a group that supports dismantling, quote,
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. military, as well as the Unity and Justice Fund,
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  Speaker 1: the super PAC controlled and funded by CARE's lobbying arm,
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  Speaker 1: which claimed credit for helping Abdul win the Democratic primary, which,
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  Speaker 1: of course, he says, I don't know, I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: part of the Muslim Brotherhood. One of the other things
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  Speaker 1: that was said by Rogers, and I think it's an
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  Speaker 1: important point, is he said, quote, this is not about
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  Speaker 1: anyone's fate. This is about judgment. It's about transparency and
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  Speaker 1: who is financing a candidate for the United States. The
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  Speaker 1: El-Said campaign is more than just about a single U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Senate seat in the same way that Mandani's mayoral campaign
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  Speaker 1: was more than just about who would be the next
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  Speaker 1: mayor of New York City. As is always the case
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  Speaker 1: with the political left, this is really about attempting to
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  Speaker 1: normalize a form of anti-American, anti-Western extremism that even Democrats
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  Speaker 1: would have rejected 20 years ago. That is how Mike
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  Speaker 1: Rogers put it, saying this is Obama 2.0. The use
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  Speaker 1: of charismatic cutouts like Mondami and El-Said to cloak a
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  Speaker 1: dangerous radicalism That will further undermine Western and classically liberal values.
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  Speaker 1: For years, by the way, he says Elside didn't even
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  Speaker 1: try to hide where his allegiance stood. He has since
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  Speaker 1: deleted this tweet. But here's what he wrote on September
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  Speaker 1: the 11th of 2021. Today, I mourn the 3,000 lives.
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  Speaker 1: 6,000 injuries, and infrastructural devastation in New York City, perpetrated
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  Speaker 1: ignorantly in the name of my faith. Then he said this,
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow I'll mourn one million lives, millions of injuries, and
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  Speaker 1: infrastructural devastation in three countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name
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  Speaker 1: of my country, clearly referring to the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: El-Said said the following during a podcast the same year, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I think the more appropriate way to center this conversation
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  Speaker 1: is in telling the broader global story about the conduct
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  Speaker 1: of the United States and what followed. Does that sound
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  Speaker 1: like a guy that Likes America? Does that sound like
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  Speaker 1: a guy that would stand up for America? Or does
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  Speaker 1: this sound like a guy that hates America? And a
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  Speaker 1: guy that is accusing America of some sort of genocide,
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  Speaker 1: of murdering one million lives, of millions of injuries, he says.
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  Speaker 1: He says it was done and perpetrated ignorantly, his words,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of my country. This is a guy
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  Speaker 1: that I would say is an enemy of Western civilization.
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  Speaker 1: I would say that he is an enemy of the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. And he's trying to act like
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  Speaker 1: he somehow loves America while accusing America of genocide. This
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  Speaker 1: is also the same guy that can't tell you who's worse,
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America or Israel or actual terrorist organizations.
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  Speaker 1: He won't even answer the question about Israel. Which one's worse,
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  Speaker 1: Israel or Iran? When you can't answer a basic moral
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  Speaker 1: question like that, he was asked, which one's a bigger
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  Speaker 1: threat to the United States, Israel or Iran? He couldn't
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  Speaker 1: answer it. Because he truly hates Israel. He hates the Jews.
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  Speaker 1: He also hates, yeah, you guessed it, he hates what
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  Speaker 1: is this country. He hates freedom. He hates what we
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  Speaker 1: believe in. He hates the fact that America stands up
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  Speaker 1: right against wrong. He hates the fact that we stand
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  Speaker 1: up to the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist organizations that he
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  Speaker 1: is clearly a part of, on the take from. And
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  Speaker 1: he hates the fact that Americans... Well, created the greatest
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  Speaker 1: country in the world. And he wants to destroy it
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  Speaker 1: from within. How do you do it? You do it, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: by becoming a United States senator. That's his goal, folks.
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  Speaker 1: That's his plan.
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  Speaker 2: Next, story number two.
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  Speaker 1: There is a political firestorm that is exploding today in Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: And it involves one of the most consequential Senate races
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  Speaker 1: in all the country. Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is
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  Speaker 1: now facing serious new questions about his family's alleged connections
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  Speaker 1: directly to the terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, here's
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  Speaker 1: what makes this story even more interesting. Just yesterday. Al-Said
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  Speaker 1: went on national television. He looked at NBC News' Kristen
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  Speaker 1: Welker in the eye and denied that either he or
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  Speaker 1: his family had any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. It
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  Speaker 1: was a very short, simple question. And, of course, she
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  Speaker 1: did not ask any follow-up questions with any evidence, which
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  Speaker 1: is what she should have done. It was almost a
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  Speaker 1: check the box, let's get out of here, move on
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  Speaker 1: from this controversy thing. And it was almost like NBC
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  Speaker 1: News was literally trying to help him get rid of
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  Speaker 1: this issue. Well, guess what? They did not help him
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  Speaker 1: get rid of it at all. Now, not once, but twice.
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  Speaker 1: And now on social media posts, we are now seeing
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  Speaker 1: that he has been lying based on what his half
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  Speaker 1: sister had put out there. These newly unearthed social media
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  Speaker 1: posts dating back more than a decade have come to light.
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  Speaker 1: And the person who wrote them isn't some, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Republican opposition research. It isn't Mike Rogers. It isn't Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: It is literally El-Said's own half sister. And what she
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  Speaker 1: said about their family is also raising massive questions about
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  Speaker 1: the sweeping denial El-Said just made on national television. Now,
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  Speaker 1: El-Said's campaign is also responding to this breaking news coming
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  Speaker 1: from Fox News. And here's the question. Did they actually
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  Speaker 1: answer the most important part of the controversy? Because this
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  Speaker 1: story is no longer simply about what Mike Rogers is alleging.
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  Speaker 1: It's now about what El-Sayed said, what his sister wrote,
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  Speaker 1: and whether Michigan voters are getting the complete truth out
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  Speaker 1: of El-Sayed. Sunday morning, Abdul El-Sayed appeared on NBC's Meet
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  Speaker 1: the Press, and they gave an amazing interview to him.
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  Speaker 1: They were even asking him questions like, is America ready
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  Speaker 1: for a Muslim president? It was a glowing interview. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this again, I want to be clear. This was not
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  Speaker 1: an ambush interview. El-Sayed said that he knew that there
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  Speaker 1: were allegations involving his family and the mother brotherhood and
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  Speaker 1: had become an issue on the Senate campaign. Days earlier,
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  Speaker 1: he and Mike Rogers, a Republican nominee, they faced off
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  Speaker 1: in a big debate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During the debate,
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  Speaker 1: Rogers raised questions about Al-Said's family association, his political supporters,
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  Speaker 1: and his alleged connections to organizations that are directly tied
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  Speaker 1: to the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, Al-Said, during the debate, rejected
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  Speaker 1: all that and accused Rogers of targeting him because of his, quote,
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  Speaker 1: Muslim faith. Then comes Sunday morning. Kristen Welker asks Al-Said
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  Speaker 1: directly whether he or members of his family had ties
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  Speaker 1: to the Muslim Brotherhood. His answer, one word, no. Welker
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  Speaker 1: had a very flimsy follow-up to that, and she just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to apparently make absolutely certain that she understood his response,
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  Speaker 1: and just to make it look like she was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being a journalist. Was he saying his family didn't have
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  Speaker 1: ties to either? Again, El-Sayed answered no. Now, that's really
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  Speaker 1: important in this story. He wasn't simply denying personal membership.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't limiting his answer to whether he currently associates
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  Speaker 1: with the organization. He was asked about his family, and
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  Speaker 1: he gave the unequivocal denial. Elsay then argued that Rogers
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  Speaker 1: was trying to make voters suspicious of him because of
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  Speaker 1: his name and his religion. Now, a candidate's religion, by
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  Speaker 1: the way... is important. We've looked at this for years.
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  Speaker 1: You can go back to JFK when he was Catholic,
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  Speaker 1: and was it a big deal? You can go back,
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  Speaker 1: another example on the Republican side is Mitt Romney and
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  Speaker 1: him being Mormon. Was it an issue? Yes, it was
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  Speaker 1: with voters. We found that out in the data. So
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  Speaker 1: this is normal. It is normal to ask questions about
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  Speaker 1: what you believe, who you believe in. Do you believe
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  Speaker 1: there's a God? Is it Allah? What is it? That's
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  Speaker 1: all fair game. He says, though, look, we are not
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  Speaker 1: associated with any of these terrorist groups or any of
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  Speaker 1: these groups tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. There's the story. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then someone actually did their job. And when I say
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  Speaker 1: someone actually did their job, the Washington Free Beacon, not
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times, not the Washington Post, not the
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  Speaker 1: New York Times or L.A. Times or anybody else. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: The Washington Free Beacon yet again does the job of
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  Speaker 1: journalism that everyone else refuses to do. They uncovered, and
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  Speaker 1: this isn't hard to find, they just did their job,
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  Speaker 1: social media posts attributed to El-Sayed's half-sister. She's an assistant
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  Speaker 1: professor at the University of Chicago. And these posts weren't
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  Speaker 1: written yesterday. They date back to 2012 and 2013. Now
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  Speaker 1: think about that. More than a decade before his Senate campaign,
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  Speaker 1: she was publicly discussing what she described as her family's
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  Speaker 1: relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. One post from
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  Speaker 1: June of 2012 stated, My family has long been MB,
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  Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood. Now, MB is a common abbreviation for the
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  Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood. She didn't stop there, by the way. In
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  Speaker 1: another post, she discussed her mother's activism in the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: Brotherhood while attending college in Egypt during the early 1970s.
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  Speaker 1: Then again in July of 2013, she wrote about having
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  Speaker 1: family members jailed because of their involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: Does that sound like a family that has no connections
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  Speaker 1: or ties to the Muslim Brotherhood? It certainly doesn't to me.
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  Speaker 1: She also expressed concerns for relatives who support the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: Brotherhood in Egypt. Now, you put all that in context,
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  Speaker 1: consider the significance. These weren't statements from a Republican campaign.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't anonymous allegations posted online during an election. They
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  Speaker 1: were statement attributed to someone in El-Sayed's own family discussing
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  Speaker 1: what she described as a family history of involvement within
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood. And also, they were made years before
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  Speaker 1: El-Sayed became a major national political figure, right? Where there'd
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  Speaker 1: be more safety in saying these things because they probably
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  Speaker 1: didn't think he was going to be running for, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Senate. Now, that is the backdrop for what I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to play for you, all right? Rogers' campaign did
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  Speaker 1: something that was very brilliant. They put out a minute
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  Speaker 1: campaign ad, paid for by Mike Rogers. And Mike Rogers
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  Speaker 1: put this out saying, quote, Abdul El-Said's family has, quote,
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  Speaker 1: a long been Muslim brotherhood. OK, he's using their words
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  Speaker 1: has long been Muslim brotherhood. He then said Abdul needs
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  Speaker 1: to be honest with Michiganders about he and his family's
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  Speaker 1: ties to terrorism. So that is a statement from Mike Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: The ad is put out and I'm going to play
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  Speaker 1: it for you.
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Have you set the record straight about whether you or
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  Speaker 1: your family have any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, you don't have any ties?
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  Speaker 1: No. Abdul El-Sayed's sister tweeted, my family has long been
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  Speaker 1: supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 3: Al-Sayed's birth mother reportedly worked for a designated terror group
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  Speaker 3: that provided financial support to Osama bin Laden, the Taliban,
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  Speaker 3: and also Hamas.
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  Speaker 1: His father-in-law sits on the board of an organization that
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood celebrated
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  Speaker 1: his win in the primary.
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  Speaker 3: He said Al-Saeed took money linked directly to terrorist groups
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: and Al-Saeed couldn't deny the claim.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: His sister-in-law was on a terrorist watch list and his
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: sister publicly praised the October 7th terrorist attack. No, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have any ties.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: No. And your family doesn't. No.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: At what point are Michigan voters... Now it ends on
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  Speaker 1: the screen with Abdul El-Sayed, the most dangerous candidate in history.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. I understand exactly why. This has become
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a campaign issue, and it should be. To be very,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: very clear, it should be a major issue. Now, I'm
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: going to guess that the El Say campaign, they're going
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: into what I would describe as damage control. And when
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I say damage control, my gut is that they're going
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to just try to act like this ad didn't come out,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: that this didn't happen, that this is a non-issue. And
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, This is going to be
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a major issue. And everyone listening right now, you should
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: pay attention to exactly what was said here. It is
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: extremely important. And we're going to keep covering it.
• 20:47
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