Speaker 1: Tuxi.
Speaker 2: This is the seventy seven WABC mini cast.
Speaker 3: Tonight on the Rita Cosby Show. Well, it gets even
Speaker 3: crazier when it comes to Abdul l Sayed. Abdul Rachman
Speaker 3: Mohammad al Sayed, this is of course the far left
Speaker 3: Michigan Senate candidate, and this is really crazy. Now it
Speaker 3: turns out, remember we talked about his sister. We've heard
Speaker 3: of some of the crazy things he said. And now
Speaker 3: it turns out that his mother once worked for an
Speaker 3: organization that was designated as a global terrorist group and
Speaker 3: accused of funneling money to Osama bin Laden, the Taliban,
Speaker 3: and Hamas. Yeah, you heard it right. She worked for
Speaker 3: a group called the Islamic American Relief Agency for at
Speaker 3: least five years, and during the time when the US
Speaker 3: Department of Treasury linked that group to a number of
Speaker 3: very serious terrorist organizations. So what is it going on here?
Speaker 3: The mother worked for that. The sister has said some
Speaker 3: pretty vile things. She's a professor there at the University
Speaker 3: of Chicago. Now it turns out the mother was entrenched
Speaker 3: in all these kooky things. And Abdul l Sayed is
Speaker 3: not running for mayor of Gaza. He is running for
Speaker 3: the US Senate in Michigan, and he's running up against
Speaker 3: a former Army veteran, a decorated military guy, and a
Speaker 3: decorated FBI guy, and a decorated former congressman. I mean
Speaker 3: to me, this is really really shocking, and what a
Speaker 3: contrast between the two candidates. And here is Scott Jennings,
Speaker 3: a conservative commentator on CNN, talking about these terror ties
Speaker 3: tied to Abdel l Sayed's.
Speaker 2: Now, Mom, this stuff coming out of Michigan. It's like
Speaker 2: a little too on the nose. But at this point
Speaker 2: should any of us be surprised? Michigan Democrat socialist candidate
Speaker 2: for Senate, Abdua l Sayed, is facing new scrutiny over
Speaker 2: his mother's former employer. The report is is that El
Speaker 2: Sayed's mother worked for something called the Islamic American Relief
Speaker 2: Agency from nineteen ninety nine until two thousand and four.
Speaker 2: Now that year, the US Treasury Department designated that organization
Speaker 2: as a global terrorist entity, and they alleged that its
Speaker 2: international offices provided financial support to Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, Hamas,
Speaker 2: and other terrorist groups. The organization's US branch later pleaded
Speaker 2: guilty to illegally transferring nearly one point four million dollars
Speaker 2: to Iraq in violation of federal sanctions. Now, l say
Speaker 2: Ed's mother has denied any wrongdoing. But this is what's
Speaker 2: in the news up in Michigan. And l Sayed himself
Speaker 2: in his campaign has exhibited sympathies for terrorists. Remember back
Speaker 2: in the primary, he didn't want to comment on the
Speaker 2: Ayatola's death. He was worried it would offend his supporters.
Speaker 2: Keep an eye on this. This campaign in Michigan is
Speaker 2: wild because of the contrast between American patriot Mike Rogers
Speaker 2: and terror sympathizer Abdul l Sied.
Speaker 3: I would say it's quite a contrast. And of course,
Speaker 3: remember when Abdul l Sied won his primary Haley Stevens,
Speaker 3: who lost. She did well in Detroit, she did well
Speaker 3: in African American cities, and he knows that he didn't
Speaker 3: do as well in those cities. So now he's trying
Speaker 3: to appeal to African Americans. So listen to this new one.
Speaker 3: Abdel el Sayed. Remember his families all from Egypt, and
Speaker 3: here he is making an appeal saying I'm one of you.
Speaker 3: Listen to this. You mean, what do you just make
Speaker 3: it just happen?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 1: Guys staying here and hear if you don't care about
Speaker 1: black books. You know, I hate to say this.
Speaker 2: But I continue to hearing from older.
Speaker 1: With black mooks, people like the someone that says, how examined,
Speaker 1: they're uncommitted for you. You know, there's been an effort,
Speaker 1: I think, to divide people against each other, and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: you see that the consequence of that to tell us
Speaker 1: that some group or another group have to be counterposed
Speaker 1: because there's not enough for all of us. I am Arab,
Speaker 1: I'm also African. My family immigrated to this country from Egypt.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of my African heritage.
Speaker 3: I'm proud. I'm one of you. I am one of you.
Speaker 3: And now here he is with a little bit more,
Speaker 3: I'm one of you. People. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 1: You got to read doctor Martin Luther King, you know,
Speaker 1: you got to read the stuff that he actually wrote. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Malcolm X, Yeah, I learn I learned what it meant
Speaker 1: to be a person of color reading black folk and
Speaker 1: the civil rights struggle. And I understand that my responsibility
Speaker 1: is about trying to address racial and equity.
Speaker 3: I mean come on, it is so pandering, so blatant,
Speaker 3: so disgusting. He knows he did not do well in
Speaker 3: the African American community, knows that he has to tap
Speaker 3: into those people so they don't stay home and go
Speaker 3: who is this guy? And a lot of common sense
Speaker 3: people are looking at this guy, going he's crazy, and
Speaker 3: they're very concerned when they see his history, of his statements,
Speaker 3: the statements that his mother, the things attached to the sister,
Speaker 3: this guy hanging out with us on Piker And yet
Speaker 3: he's saying, oh, no, come one, come on, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: one of you. I'm waiting for him to appeal to
Speaker 3: the drag queens too, since we talked about them too
Speaker 3: as well tonight. But here he is ready for this one. Now,
Speaker 3: this guy, I remember he was born in Michigan. I
Speaker 3: believe in Rochester Hills. I think in Michigan, right, But
Speaker 3: his family's from Egypt, right. And there's a lot of
Speaker 3: questions about the ties to the Muslim brotherhood. So here
Speaker 3: he is and he says, you know what, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: may be a little radical, but someone else in history
Speaker 3: was radical to get this.
Speaker 4: Oh you know, Jesus, Peace and blessings be upon him
Speaker 4: was considered radical in his time too, and there is
Speaker 4: a radical nature to being willing to stand forthright in
Speaker 4: a time of corruption.
Speaker 3: So wait a minute, now, is he comparing himself to Jesus.
Speaker 3: Let's play that again. That is an incredible statement here.
Speaker 4: It is, Oh, you know, Jesus, peace and blessings be
Speaker 4: upon him was considered radical at his time too, and
Speaker 4: there is a radical nature to being willing to stand
Speaker 4: forthright in a time of corruption.
Speaker 3: What like the organization that your mother worked for is
Speaker 3: at the corrupt organization you're talking about, and speaking of radical,
Speaker 3: I would call Osama bin Laden really radical. I would
Speaker 3: call the Taliban radical, and I'd call Hamas radical. I'd
Speaker 3: call them all radical and dangerous. And your mother worked
Speaker 3: for an organization that was accused of funneling money to
Speaker 3: that group. What did she know, We don't know. But
Speaker 3: she was working for a group that was accused of
Speaker 3: being thicke as thieves with them