El-Sayed refuses to answer questions about Muslim Brotherhood letter: Im not interested

Abdul El-Sayed tried to shut down Bret Baier Friday as the Fox News host attempted to ask the Michigan Senate hopeful a question about the Muslim Brotherhood.The polarizing Democrat immediately got defensive and repeatedly interrupted Baier during an interview on “Special Report” as the newsman pressed him on a 2012 letter addressed to the leader of the extremist group in Egypt that was signed by El-Sayed. “Bret, Bret … no, no, no … let me just stop there,” El-Sayed interjected, cutting off Baier before he could finish the question. “You are asking this question to raise the question about whether or not I have dual loyalty,” the former public health official assumed. Baier shot back: “I’m not, this is specific.” “My loyalty will be to the Constitution of the United States, and as as every senator who’s ever served, I will swear an oath to that Constitution,” El-Sayed said, interrupting the host again. Undeterred, Baier attempted to ask the question once more, but El-Sayed, again, started talking over the journalist.  “I’m not interested in anything you’re going to pull out from a 2012 statement, a letter, you’re going to pull that out of context, you’re going to ask questions about my allegiance,” he said. “Don’t be Rogers’ campaign.Be a journalist,” El-Sayed snapped. “So as a journalist,” he told Baier condescendingly, “if you’re asking the question about my allegiance to the Constitution: I have never been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

I never will be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.I am interested in serving the United States.

I’m interested in swearing an oath to the Constitution that every senator has sworn oath to.” The 2012 letter, signed by El-Sayed and more than 30 others, urged Mohamed Morsi, the then-newly crowned president of Egypt and a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, to “purge” the media and police, the Washington Free Beacon first reported last month. The letter w...