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The Overwhelming Evidence that Abdul El-Sayed Supports the Muslim Brotherhood · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: with you. It's so nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 1: on the show. And as we speak right now, Senator
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  Speaker 1: Cruz is on the ground in Michigan. He is campaigning
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  Speaker 1: with Mike Rogers against Al-Said. It is obviously one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest races in the entire country. We did a
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  Speaker 1: deep dive on Al-Said, his direct ties to the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: Brotherhood and other radical organizations that are directly tied.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, to terrorists. So why has the media not done
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  Speaker 2: their job? Who is El-Said?
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go back and visit that conversation because
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the most important Election Day races
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  Speaker 1: in all the country.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Ben, I think today's podcast is an important podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I have said for a long time the two most
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  Speaker 3: dangerous candidates running in the country today. are Abdul El-Sayed
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  Speaker 3: in Michigan and James Tallarico in Texas. Now, we've covered
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  Speaker 3: James Tallarico quite a bit. He's an extreme candidate. We'll
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  Speaker 3: continue covering him up till and hopefully no longer after
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  Speaker 3: Election Day. But today we're going to do a deep
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  Speaker 3: dive into Abdul El-Sayed, and in particular what I think
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  Speaker 3: is a real and acute national security risk. Abdul El-Sayed
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  Speaker 3: could win. The polls coming out of Michigan show the
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  Speaker 3: race roughly tied. There have been polls that show him ahead.
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  Speaker 3: There are polls that show him slightly behind. If he wins,
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  Speaker 3: I believe that poses an unprecedented national security risk. Abdul Al-Sayed,
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer could place him on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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  Speaker 3: Understand the way the United States Senate operates. There is
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  Speaker 3: no separate security clearance for a senator. The fact of
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  Speaker 3: getting elected to the United States Senate gives you clearance.
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  Speaker 3: And Abdul Saeed, I believe the overwhelming evidence indicates, has
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  Speaker 3: been a lifelong supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist
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  Speaker 3: organization responsible for murdering countless Americans. And I believe if
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  Speaker 3: Abdul El-Sayed is elected and if he is appointed to
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  Speaker 3: committees like the Senate Intelligence Committee or the Senate Armed
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  Speaker 3: Services Committee that have access to classified information, that poses
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  Speaker 3: an acute risk that U.S. servicemen and women will be
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  Speaker 3: killed and that intelligence assets, U.S. intelligence assets abroad will
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  Speaker 3: have their lives endangered. We're going to lay out the evidence.
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  Speaker 3: This is not... This is not a podcast where we're
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  Speaker 3: going to use a whole lot of adjectives. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to use a whole lot of hyperbole. We're simply going
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  Speaker 3: to walk through the evidence. Because this is important, I think,
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  Speaker 3: for the people of Michigan, that they do not want
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  Speaker 3: a radical Marxist Islamist as their senator. But it is
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  Speaker 3: important to all 50 states that we not have a
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  Speaker 3: member of the United States Senate who, by virtue of
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  Speaker 3: that election, has access to classified materials for whom he
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  Speaker 3: There is an unacceptable risk that Senator will pass on
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  Speaker 3: classified materials to terrorists who want to murder us. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to lay out the facts, let you decide.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I want to take a moment.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you real quick about the
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  Speaker 1: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, because what we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: in France should send a chill down the spine of
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  Speaker 1: every American. We're watching violence in the streets, a synagogue
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  Speaker 1: that was ransacked in Paris, Jewish families that are now
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  Speaker 1: wondering whether their children will be safe. And you better
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  Speaker 1: understand something. America is not immune to this type of hatred.
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  Speaker 1: Anti-Semitic attacks are at a record level both in Europe
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  Speaker 1: and across our nation and our cities. We cannot wait
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  Speaker 1: until the danger gets worse to stand with our Jewish neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I'm asking you to support the International
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  Speaker 2: All right, Senator.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to go back to one of the
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  Speaker 1: very interesting and unique things about the Senate that has
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  Speaker 1: really been mentioned by some, but very much overlooked in
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  Speaker 1: the reporting. And that is if you become a United
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  Speaker 1: States senator, there is not a mechanism from what I understand.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm asking you, you're in the Senate. to say
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  Speaker 1: to someone, hey, you can't get classified information. If you're
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  Speaker 1: a senator, you automatically get access to it, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're on one of these committees, as you described it.
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  Speaker 2: And if there is someone in the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Senate that, again, heaven forbid, is an actual threat to
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  Speaker 1: our national security, the way that you're describing it with
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  Speaker 1: El-Said and his connections, how in the world did we
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  Speaker 1: get to a point where this could become a real reality?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's the reality that senators, when they are elected,
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  Speaker 3: they don't go through security clearance. There's no process to
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  Speaker 3: vet them. The fact that the voters of their state
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  Speaker 3: sent them to the Senate, that they were in a
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  Speaker 3: constitutional office, gives them security clearance under the law. And
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  Speaker 3: each party assigns committees differently. The Democrat Party gives that
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  Speaker 3: authority to Chuck Schumer. The most sensitive committee in terms
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  Speaker 3: of intelligence information is the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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  Speaker 3: That is appointed by the leaders. So Chuck Schumer, if
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  Speaker 3: he wanted, could put El-Said on the Intelligence Committee. And
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  Speaker 3: by the way, I think there would be real pressure
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  Speaker 3: from the far left to do so. And on the
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  Speaker 3: Intelligence Committee, he would have access to the most sensitive
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  Speaker 3: intelligence we have. Intelligence that goes to sources and methods
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  Speaker 3: that goes to potentially uncovering undercover assets, assets that we
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  Speaker 3: may have covertly with the Muslim Brotherhood, with other terrorist organizations.
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  Speaker 3: The CIA sends human operatives in to go undercover to
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  Speaker 3: pretend to infiltrate terrorist organizations and to try to give
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  Speaker 3: us information to prevent terrorist attacks before they occur. That
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  Speaker 3: information is not widely available, but the Senate Intelligence Committee,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, the Senate Intelligence Committee has jurisdiction over
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  Speaker 3: the CIA, the NSA, the Central Security Service, the Defense
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  Speaker 3: Intelligence Agency, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and the
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  Speaker 3: intelligence branches of all of the divisions of the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Military.
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  Speaker 3: The Intelligence Committee was established in 1976. after the Church
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  Speaker 3: Committee found evidence of spying on American citizens and illegal wiretapping.
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  Speaker 3: And the official duties of the Senate Intelligence Committee are to, quote,
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  Speaker 3: oversee and make continuing studies of the intelligence activities and
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  Speaker 3: programs of the United States government and to, quote, submit
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  Speaker 3: to the Senate appropriate proposals for legislation and report to
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  Speaker 3: the Senate concerning such intelligence activities. Another purpose of the
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  Speaker 3: Senate Intelligence Committee is to, quote, provide information vigilant legislative
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  Speaker 3: oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States to
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  Speaker 3: assure that such activities are in conformity with the Constitution
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  Speaker 3: and laws of the United States. The committee meets every
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday that the Senate is in session. They are generally
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  Speaker 3: closed meetings that are not public. They're classified. And senators,
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  Speaker 3: by virtue of being constitutional officers, quote, by tradition and practice,
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  Speaker 3: United States officials who hold positions prescribed by the Constitution
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  Speaker 3: of the United States are deemed to meet the standards
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  Speaker 3: of trustworthiness for eligibility for access to classified information. All classifieds,
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  Speaker 3: all senators have access to classified intelligence assessment, regardless of
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  Speaker 3: the committee you're on. However, quote, members are not inherently
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  Speaker 3: authorized to receive all classified information, but agencies provide access
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  Speaker 3: as is necessary for Congress to perform its legislative function.
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  Speaker 3: For example, to members of a committee or subcommittee that
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  Speaker 3: oversees classified executive branch programs. So I have been in
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  Speaker 3: my 14 years in the Senate, I've been on the
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  Speaker 3: Senate Armed Services Committee, and I've also been on the
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  Speaker 3: Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Both of those committees regularly receive
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  Speaker 3: classified materials. I'm also on the Senate Judiciary Committee. and
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  Speaker 3: I'm chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Both of those
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  Speaker 3: committees receive classified information as well. But the classified information
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  Speaker 3: you receive is within the jurisdiction of that committee. By far,
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  Speaker 3: the most sensitive is the Intelligence Committee, because that is
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  Speaker 3: engaging in oversight of covert activities. And it is the leaders.
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  Speaker 3: It is Chuck Schumer who could place Abdul Al-Sayed on
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  Speaker 3: the Intelligence Committee or the Armed Services Committee.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the question I was going to ask you,
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  Speaker 1: is there's going to be people that say, well, hold
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  Speaker 1: on a second. You just don't let him get on
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  Speaker 1: the committee. This is nothing you have to worry about. So, like,
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  Speaker 1: why are you guys making a big deal out of it?
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  Speaker 1: That's how the media is going to talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: So let's debunk that right now. How do you get
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  Speaker 1: on these committees?
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  Speaker 3: Schumer decides it. Schumer puts you on it. It's very simple.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer puts you on it. Nobody. There's no oversight.
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  Speaker 3: There's no control. Chuck Schumer has unilateral authority. He can
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  Speaker 3: place any Democrat senator on any committee he wants. That's
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  Speaker 3: how the Democrats do it. They give the minority leader,
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  Speaker 3: maybe even the majority leader, enormous authority. Now, I want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about the facts. because El-Said was on a
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  Speaker 3: Sunday show. He was on Meet the Press this weekend,
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  Speaker 3: and he was asked about his connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to listen to what he said.
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  Speaker 4: For Michigan voters who are hearing those attacks against you,
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  Speaker 4: who are looking to separate fact from fiction, can you
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  Speaker 4: set the record straight about whether you or your family
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  Speaker 4: have any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?
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  Speaker 2: No, but let's talk about this.
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  Speaker 4: No, you don't have any ties. No. And your family doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: The shocking part of that exchange is there is so
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  Speaker 1: much evidence that she could have used in her question
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  Speaker 1: to El-Saeed saying, there is evidence, there is reporting, there
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  Speaker 1: is documentation that you have these ties, the Muslim Brotherhood,
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  Speaker 1: through your sister, through your father-in-law. There's multiple ties, which
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  Speaker 1: we're about to lay out. But notice how Chris and
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  Speaker 1: Welker just said, do you have it?
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  Speaker 2: And he says, no. And she's like, okay, I've done
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  Speaker 2: my job. Like, there's nothing to talk about here. Let's
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  Speaker 2: move on with this.
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  Speaker 3: So understand, number one, What Abdul El-Sayed did right there
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  Speaker 3: is a lie. It is a flat-out, provable lie. And
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  Speaker 3: what Kristen Welker did is one of the greatest acts
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  Speaker 3: of journalistic malpractice I think we have ever seen. She
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  Speaker 3: did so knowingly. Tim Russert, who built his career on NBC,
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  Speaker 3: the same network on which she aired, Tim Russert has
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  Speaker 3: got to be spinning in his grave. Because what you
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  Speaker 3: just witnessed, what you just heard, that was not journalism.
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  Speaker 3: That was political propaganda. That was NBC saying, so a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people are saying you're a terrorist. Are you
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  Speaker 3: a terrorist?
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  Speaker 2: Answer.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm not a terrorist. Okay, good by me. You
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  Speaker 3: said no, we're all good. Next thing to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: That is literally what she did. So let's talk about
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  Speaker 3: the evidence, because theoretically NBC is a news organization.
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  Speaker 2: Not NBC.
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  Speaker 3: A propaganda mouthpiece for Democrat candidates, although this interview, this interview,
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  Speaker 3: I actually think this interview should be taught in journalism
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  Speaker 3: classes if journalism classes actually were trying to train journalists.
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  Speaker 3: This is what not to do. So let's just start
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  Speaker 3: very basically. Abdul El-Sayed is lying. He says there is
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  Speaker 3: no evidence that I am connected to the Muslim Brotherhood
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  Speaker 3: or that my family is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. Now,
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  Speaker 3: there's significant evidence that Abdul El-Seed is directly, but let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about the second part, his family. Do you know
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  Speaker 3: who disputes what he just said?
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  Speaker 2: His own family members.
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  Speaker 3: His sister. I want to read to you what she tweeted.
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  Speaker 3: This is her sister in a public tweet. On June 24th, 2012,
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  Speaker 3: and this is right after Egypt elected the leader of
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  Speaker 3: the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Morsi, as its president. And she
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  Speaker 3: tweeted out, unhappy emoji, unhappy emoji. My family has long
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  Speaker 3: been MB, Muslim Brotherhood. but I've always felt that it
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  Speaker 3: navigated the political sphere poorly, destructively. So that is his
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  Speaker 3: sister flat out saying, my family has long been Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 3: Abdul Al-Sid said, my family has no connections to the
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  Speaker 3: Muslim Brotherhood. Now, if Christian Welker were a journalist, if
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  Speaker 3: Tim Russert were there, he would say, why did your
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  Speaker 3: sister tweet out that your family's long been Muslim Brotherhood?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he would have read the tweet the same way
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  Speaker 1: you just did.
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  Speaker 2: He would have put it up on the screen. He
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  Speaker 2: would have said, you denied it. Here's what your sister said.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, not only that, his sister also
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  Speaker 3: tweeted on July 3rd, 2013, praying for all my family
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  Speaker 3: that supports the Muslim Brotherhood, the MB, in Egypt. Lie low,
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  Speaker 3: stay safe. So twice, she says, my family's long been
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  Speaker 3: Muslim Brotherhood, praying for all my family that supports the
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  Speaker 3: Muslim Brotherhood. Now, A real journalist would say, are you
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  Speaker 3: lying or was your sister lying? But that would require
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  Speaker 3: actual confronting with facts. All right, but let's talk. Let's
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  Speaker 3: continue from there. So his sister says their family has
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  Speaker 3: long been Muslim Brotherhood. What other evidence is there? Let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about Abdul El-Said himself.
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  Speaker 1: back to what you just mentioned a moment ago, the
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  Speaker 1: direct evidence tying El-Sayed, his family, to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 3: Not his family, him. Abdul El-Sayed has previously and publicly
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  Speaker 3: advocated for the Muslim Brotherhood. He's authored numerous op-eds defending
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  Speaker 3: the Muslim Brotherhood, and he has explicitly supported the group's
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  Speaker 3: authoritarian tactics against both the media and and the police.
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  Speaker 3: In January of 2011, Abdul El-Sayed authored a robust defense
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  Speaker 3: of the Muslim Brotherhood in an op-ed for the Huffington
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  Speaker 3: Post that was entitled, quote, why the U.S. should support
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  Speaker 3: the protesters in Egypt. Now, mind you, the protesters were
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  Speaker 3: the Muslim Brotherhood. Writing, quote, even if the Muslim Brotherhood
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  Speaker 3: were to take power, The resulting state, he said, quote,
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  Speaker 3: would look nothing like Iran. He dismissed comparisons to Hamas. Hamas,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, is the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. And
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  Speaker 3: he later made the same case to President Obama and
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  Speaker 3: the Guardian. Likewise, on November 25, 2012, days after President
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  Speaker 3: Mohamed Morsi declared himself sweeping powers.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Abdul Rahman El Said, of New York at the time,
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  Speaker 3: was the 33rd of 46 signers of an Arabic language
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  Speaker 3: letter on Al Aram Gate, an Egyptian news portal, stating, quote,
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  Speaker 3: we call on him to purge the media and the
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  Speaker 3: police as quickly as possible. The letter also, quote, strongly
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  Speaker 3: rejected those voices that are courting America and Europe to
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  Speaker 3: take a position against the Egyptian regime. Co-signers of this
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  Speaker 3: letter included Khaled Lamada, a former chairman of Islamic Relief's U.S. branch,
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  Speaker 3: who has praised Hamas, and Akram Elzend and Sameh whom
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  Speaker 3: Egypt's El-Watan listed as U.S.-based brotherhood cells.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: In the following months, at least six Egyptian reporters were
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  Speaker 3: charged with, quote, insulting Islam or, quote, insulting the president. So,
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  Speaker 3: Abdul El-Sayed, and by the way, where's Kristen Welker saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: why did you write in support of Mohammed Morsi, in
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  Speaker 3: support of the Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt? Why did
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  Speaker 3: you say they should purge the police and the press?
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  Speaker 3: She didn't ask any of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Not only that, do you know who Abdul El-Sayed's biggest
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  Speaker 3: donor is? Let's talk about his campaign right now, because
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  Speaker 3: maybe you say, okay, that was 2011, 2012, 2013, that
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  Speaker 3: was a long time ago. He used to be Muslim Brotherhood,
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  Speaker 3: but he's changed. There's no evidence of that whatsoever that
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  Speaker 3: he's changed, but let's assume you think that. Who do
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  Speaker 3: you think is the biggest donor to the super PAC
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  Speaker 3: supporting Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign in Michigan right now?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to guess it's a group or someone that
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  Speaker 1: is directly tied or connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you would ding, ding, ding. You win $ 64, 000. His
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  Speaker 3: biggest donor is his father-in-law. Yep. his father-in-law, is Tayeb Jukaku.
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  Speaker 3: And Jukaku has served at least since 2007 on the
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  Speaker 3: 20-member founding committee of ISNA, the Islamic Society of North America,
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  Speaker 3: which the Holy Land Foundation prosecutors named as an unindicted
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  Speaker 3: co-conspirator and one of eight entities that are, quote, are
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  Speaker 3: and or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, committee members, like Jukaku, must give ISNA at
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  Speaker 3: least $ 5, 000 per year. Lorenzo Vedino, who's the director of
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  Speaker 3: the program on extremism at George Washington University, called the
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  Speaker 3: committee members, one of whom is Abdul El-Sayed's father-in-law and
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  Speaker 3: the largest owner of Super PAC, quote, the elders of
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  Speaker 3: the organization.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Jukaku was also president of CARE Michigan from 2005 to 2010.
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  Speaker 3: He remains on its board today, and he was photographed
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  Speaker 3: in 2010 with CARE's Niwad Ahmad, the infamous CARE leader
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: and the member of the 1993 Palestine Committee, who declared
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: he was, quote, happy to see Hamas, quote, break the
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: siege on October 7th. Now, what has Jukaku done? He
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: has given $ 300, 000 to Fighting for Michigan PAC, the largest
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: outside group backing El-Sayed. He gave another $ 100, 000 on July
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: 20th to the Unity in Justice Fund, a PAC launched
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: by CARE Action in 2024 as part of its efforts to, quote,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: elevate the political influence of the Muslim community following October 7th.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: CARE denies creating or funding the Super PAC, although Ahwed
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: said in 2024 that, quote, CARE has also created a
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Super PAC called Unity and Justice Fund.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Seems to check out, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: In the July 2026 debate, not.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Very long ago, Representative Haley Stevens, mind you, a Democrat,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: charged that El-Said's, quote, father-in-law is running his super PAC. Now,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: where the heck is Kristen Welker if she can't even
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: quote from the Democrat who El-Said narrowly beat in the
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: primary and said, look, your father-in-law is running your super PAC? El-Said,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: to this day, maintains close financial ties with CARE. CARE
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: is another unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case, which,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: by the way, the Holy Land Foundation case resulted in
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: convictions of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas and other
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: terrorist organizations. The Unity and Justice Fund, launched by CARE Action,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: gave $ 175, 000 to the pro-El Saeed PAC fighting for Michigan
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: on July 21st, its largest single outlay to date. The
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Unity and Justice Fund also paid a Dearborn consulting firm
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: owned by the Dearborn Heights Mayor Chief of Staff $ 400, 000
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: for canvassing and claimed credit for assisting El-Sayed's one-point primary
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: win while, quote, building a movement in masjids, which means mosques.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: CARES Executive Director Nihat Awad gave $ 750 directly to to
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: El-Said's campaign. Current and former CARE employees have given more
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: than $ 115, 000 to the campaign, according to Fox News. El-Said
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: also maintains close ties with Islamic Relief USA, IRUSA, an
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: outfit previously labeled as, quote, a prime example of brotherhood
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: influence in the United States, and that was labeled by
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: the House Oversight Committee. El-Said headlined four $ 100- ahead Erusa cruise-for-a-cause
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: fundraisers in Washington, Miami, Chicago, and New York between March
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: 23rd and April 6th, 2019, posting that he was, quote,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: proud to be joining them. The House Oversight Committee in
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: 2018 called Erusa a, quote, prime example of brotherhood influence
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: in the United States and Israel, in the United States,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: and Israel sanctioned its parent, Islamic Relief Worldwide, in 2014
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: for alleged Hamas support. Arusa, meanwhile, denies funding terrorist groups.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Arusa's CEO, Ahmed Shehata, photographed at a pro-brotherhood event under
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: the group's Rabia symbol, gave $ 500 to El-Said's Senate campaign.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Arusa director Issam Omaish gave $ 4, 350. Omaish is a former
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: president of the Muslim American Society, a, quote, overt arm
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: of the Brotherhood, per the House Oversight Committee, and Omaish
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: has urged Muslims to embrace, quote, the jihad way. This year,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: not a long time ago this year, El-Sayed spoke at
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: ISNA's national convention, hosted by one of the main Brotherhood
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: groups to emerge from the Holy Land Foundation trial. He
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: spoke at this convention just six days before the 25th
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: anniversary of September 11th. His speech followed a montage in
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: which Imam Siraj Wahaj an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: World Trade Center bombing, said, quote, America is going down.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: The montage closed on a photo of El-Said fist-bumping Hasan Piker,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: the ethnically Turkish influencer who stated that America, quote, deserved 9-11.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: His campaign has said he is not affiliated with and
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: does not endorse other participants.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, you go through this and you sit there
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and you say to yourself, was Kristen Welker basically a
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: part of El Said's campaign strategy?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Hey, let's sit down together. Let's have a conversation. I'm
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: going to bail you out on this.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: By the way, is there any leadership? Are there any
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: executives at NBC? Is there anyone at Meet the Press
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: who has a tiny bit of journalistic integrity? That's like
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: an interview. Can you imagine Meet the Press interviewing Al Capone? Hey,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: are you a mobster? Nope, not a mobster. Okay, good
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: by us. Capone says he's clean. NBC says it's all fine.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it is the exact I mean, it
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: would be like asking Adolf Hitler, did you gas the Jews?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: And he says no.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And you're like, all right, even though there's evidence that
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: that is how absurd this moment was on Meet the Press.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Yet it actually happened. And you saw it was only what,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: 15 seconds long. It's embarrassing. But they did it because
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: they wanted the narrative to get out there. that he
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: is some sort of mainstream normal guy that has no
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: connections to terrorism, no connections to radical extremist Muslim ideas, organizations, groups,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and they wanted to put it all to bed so
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: he could finish out the campaign by saying, I'm just
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a normal guy that just wants to represent America in Congress.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Now, Senator, before we get to more of this.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Let's talk real quick about planning on getting your vote
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: counted for the midterms. The midterms are here and the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Democratic Socialists of America, if they win, they're going to
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: push a radical socialist agenda and they're going to drown
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: President Trump in endless investigations. I've already said that publicly. Now,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: we've seen this playbook before. They've tried impeaching him. They've
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: tried putting him in prison. They've tried everything. So don't
• 27:13
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• 27:17
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• 27:20
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• 27:22
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• 27:25
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• 27:27
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• 27:31
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• 27:33
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• 27:40
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• 27:56
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: So let's get back into this story. And again, there's
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the scary part is there's even more to this.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So in 2018, there was a documentary that showed
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: El-Sayed asking filmmakers to keep his living room bookshelf out
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: of the frame to, quote, keep the shot secular. So
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: now what do you think that bookshelf held that he
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: was trying to keep out of the documentary because he
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: didn't want people to see that? By the way, this
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: is not just a book he had somewhere that he
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: proudly displays in his living room. Yeah. Well, it included
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: works by Abu Aminah Bilal Phillips, who is a 1993
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: World Trade Center bombing unindicted co-conspirator. It also included books
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: by Brotherhood member Muhammad al-Ghazali, a Jamaat al-Islami member, and
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: also by Shakul Islam Ibn Taimiya, whose writings both Al-Qaeda
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: and ISIS cite. His campaign later said, this was not
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Abdul's bookshelf. It was apparently another bookshelf someone smuggled into
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: his living room against his wishes. And they said, a
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: background book is, quote, not an endorsement. This is, again,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: apparently someone mysteriously is putting books in his living room. Now,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I want to stop and go back to a foundational question.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: The evidence is overwhelming that Abdul Al-Sayed is a supporter
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: of the Muslim Brotherhood, that his family, as his sister says,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: have long been Muslim Brotherhood supporters. But let's stop for
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: a second and say, what is the Muslim Brotherhood? Should
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: we be worried? I mean, Brotherhood is nice, right? What's
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: wrong with Brotherhood? So let's do a little bit of
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: background as to what the Muslim Brotherhood is. The Muslim Brotherhood,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: whose technical name is Al-Ikwan Al-Muslimun, is a transnational Sunni
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Islamist movement founded in Egypt in 1928 by schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: whose stated aim was government by Sharia and ultimately a
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: global Islamic order. The Muslim Brotherhood's motto declares, quote, the
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Quran is our constitution. Jihad is our way. Death for
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: the sake of Allah is our wish. Al-Banna's doctrine of tamkeen,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: which means empowerment, lays out a stage path for reforming
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: individual Muslims to building loyal communities to taking state power.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Brotherhood members assassinated Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Nakrashi in 1948.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: and tried to kill Egyptian President Nasser in 1954. And
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: the writings of Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb later supplied the
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: theological framework for both Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: The theological framework. Let's say that just again.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: The theological framework is one of the people involved in
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood for ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Yes. The Brotherhood operates through national branches that adopt their
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: tactics to local conditions. Hamas is, by its own 1988 charter,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: the Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. The Lebanese branch of the Muslim
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Brotherhood fought alongside Hezbollah. Qatar serves as the movement's chief
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: state patron. In Egypt, the Brotherhood briefly held power under
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: President Mohamed Morsi from 2012 to 2013 before he was
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: removed and the group was banned as a terrorist organization.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: In the United States, the Brotherhood built a network of
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: public-facing 501c3 and 501c4 organizations. In the Muslim Brotherhood's 1991
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: explanatory memorandum, which was seized by the FBI and entered
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: into evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial, it describes
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: its U.S. mission, the U.S. mission of the Muslim Brotherhood, as, quote,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Western civilization from within. And it lists the Islamic Society
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: of North America, which... Abdul Al-Sayed's father-in-law was one of
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: the founding members of, the Muslim Students Association, and the
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: North American Islamic Trust as among, quote, our organizations. This
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: is the Muslim Brotherhood saying these are our organizations. After
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Hamas's founding, and in an effort to derail the Oslo Accords,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: the U.S. Brotherhood created a, quote, Palestine Committee in 1993.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: This group of Brotherhood officials raised money for Hamas under
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: the banner of an American C3 known as the Holy
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Land Foundation. The Holy Land Foundation's leaders were convicted in
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: 2008 on all 108 counts of funneling roughly $ 12 million
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: to Hamas, and prosecutors named Kerr and Isna and Nayet
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: as unindicted co-conspirators. A federal judge ruled in 2009 that
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: the government has produced, quote, ample evidence linking CARE, ISNA,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: and NAIT to the Holy Land Foundation and to Hamas.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Since then, President Trump, via Executive Order 14362, has begun
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: the process of designating certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists. By the way,
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: that's something I have been fighting for for years, to
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, which President
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Trump has taken major steps to do, and also designating
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: CARE as a terrorist organization, which has not happened yet,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: although the state of Texas has done so.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing, Senator, that just you and I sitting
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: here can spend a half hour exposing exactly how he
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. But in 12 seconds,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: NBC News does the job for the entire media of
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: saying there is no Muslim Brotherhood there.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: There's no fire. There's no smoke. He already denied it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: It's done. It is fact. We can move on.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but look, NBC is covering up for him, but
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: you don't see ABC covering this or CBS or CNN
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: or MSNBC. None of them are covering this because at
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: this point, these are institutions where you've got many leaders
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: in the leadership there want the Democrats to win. And listen,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: I think the evidence is overwhelming that Abdul Al-Sayed's family
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: is directly connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, that they have
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: financial ties to the Muslim Brotherhoods. and that they have
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: been vocal supporters. If you do not believe me, believe
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: his sister who says, our family have long been Muslim Brotherhood.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: That's his own sister. And yet, Abdul Al-Sayed is lying
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: about it. By the way, the evidence is very clear
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: that Abdul Al-Sayed has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood. He
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: has written in support of the Muslim Brotherhood over and
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: over and over again. The largest donor to the super
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: PAC supporting his campaign is his father-in-law, who is a
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: founding member of an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Foundation case. The evidence is clear, and understand the threat.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I want to close where we started. If Abdul Al-Sayed wins,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: by virtue of being a senator, he will have access
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: to classified information, classified information about what the United States
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: government is doing to stop the Muslim Brotherhood, what the
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: United States government is doing to prevent terrorist attacks by
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: the Muslim Brotherhood, to prevent terrorist attacks by the Muslim
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Brotherhood against the United States, against U.S. servicemen and women,
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: against civilians in American cities. And I believe if Abdul
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Al-Sayed has access to that classified materials, that it will
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: endanger the lives of servicemen and women, American servicemen and
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: women serving overseas, and that it will endanger the lives
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: of U.S. intelligence operatives serving overseas. This is a profound danger.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: And so, listen, I hope Election Day is a great
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: election where Republicans keep the House and Senate, where we
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: grow our majorities. That would be a very good outcome.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: But what I... pray is that at a minimum, Abdul
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Al-Said is not elected to the Senate, and James Tallarico
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: in Texas is not elected to the Senate. These two
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: are radicals, and they're dangerous for our country, and I
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: hope that everyone involved between now and Election Day does
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: everything they can to prevent that danger to our servicemen
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: and women, our intelligence operatives serving abroad and protecting this nation.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great point.
• 37:15
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• 37:17
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