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00:00:00DEARBORN. HE WILL GO ON TO FACE REPUBLICAN
00:00:03NOMINEE MIKE ROGERS IN THE
00:00:05NOVEMBER 3 2026 GENERAL ELECTION, WHICH IS RATED A
00:00:10TOSSUP.
00:00:18MR. EL-SAYED: THANK YOU FOR
00:00:29BEING HERE TODAY TO HAVE A CONVERSATION THAT WE UNFORTUNATELY NEED TO HAVE AGAIN
00:00:33FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AMERICAN. I CANNOT BE MORE AMERICAN.
00:00:37PEOPLE CAN FOCUS ON THE DIFFERENCES THEY WANT TO FOCUS ON.
00:00:41I JOKE ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE
00:00:42BETWEEN ME AND MY BROTHER, AND MOST FOLKS WOULD SAY YOU COME
00:00:46FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, AND I WILL SAY HE HAS A FOOT ON ME.
00:00:50[LAUGHTER] I ALWAYS HAVE TO ADJUST THE MICROPHONE.
00:00:56THE THING ABOUT IT IS HUMANS CAN'T -- COME IN ALL SHAPES AND
00:01:00SIZES. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT US.
00:01:02AND THIS COUNTRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN
00:01:05ABOUT BRINGING PEOPLE ACROSS OUR
00:01:09DIFFERENCES TOGETHER, E PLURIBUS UNUM. THAT IS AN AMERICAN IDEA, OUT OF
00:01:13MANY ONE. I AM A KID HE WAS BORN AND
00:01:16RAISED FROM CHILDHOOD
00:01:20IMMIGRANTS, RAISED BY A DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND
00:01:24STEPMOM, RAISED IN THE PART OF OUR STATE WITH THE LARGEST
00:01:26JEWISH MINORITY IN THE STATE,
00:01:29WHO LIVED WITH MY PRESBYTERIAN
00:01:33DEACON GRANDPARENTS IN COLLEGE AND BROKE BREAD ON THANKSGIVING
00:01:38DINNER WITH MY POLISH ATHEIST UNCLE.
00:01:41AIN'T THAT AMERICA? AND I LOVE THAT ABOUT AMERICA.
00:01:44EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE
00:01:47ENRICHED MY LIFE, BUT I AM SO,
00:01:49SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE HAD THAT.
00:01:53NOW, WHEN SOMEBODY LIKE JAKE
00:01:55LANGE COMES HERE, CONVICTED
00:01:57JANUARY 6 TERRORIST, AND TARGETS DEARBORN, IT IS NOT BECAUSE HE
00:02:01HATES A PARTICULAR GROUP OF PEOPLE, IT IS BECAUSE HE HATES
00:02:04THAT THING ABOUT AMERICA.
00:02:06AND AMERICA IS BIGGER THAN THIS SMALL VERSION OF IT THAT HE
00:02:09WANTS IT TO BE. HE HATES THE IDEA THAT HE DOES
00:02:12NOT GET TO DEFINE AMERICA TO BE
00:02:15SO SMALL THAT IT ONLY INCLUDES A
00:02:18FEW PEOPLE WHO LOOK AND THINK AND ACT JUST LIKE HIM.
00:02:21AND IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME, ASK YOURSELF WHY SOMEBODY LIKE
00:02:25THAT WOULD VIOLENTLY ATTACK AMERICA, AND THE IRONY IS THAT
00:02:30HE USES THE WORD TERRORIST AND DOES TERRORIST THINGS.
00:02:34I SAY THIS BECAUSE,
00:02:38UNFORTUNATELY, THERE HAS ALWAYS
00:02:39BEEN A TUG OF THIS COUNTRY
00:02:43BETWEEN HIM AND WHAT HE
00:02:45REPRESENTS AND ALL OF US AND WHAT AMERICA REPRESENTS.
00:02:49THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT
00:02:50THE PIE IS ONLY SO BIG, AND THEY
00:02:54DON'T REALIZE THAT THE WAY THAT YOU BUILD A BIGGER PIE IS TO GET
00:02:58MORE PEOPLE BAKED IN THE PIE. AND WE HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY.
00:03:01SO WE ARE HERE TODAY NOT JUST
00:03:03AGAINST HATE BEFORE AMERICA.
00:03:08THE AMERICA WE UNDERSTAND AMERICAN'S E PLURIBUS UNUM, A
00:03:12PLACE WHERE IT SHOULD NOT MATTER THE COLLAR OF YOUR SKIN OR HOW
00:03:15YOU PRAY, SHOULD NOT MATTER WHAT YOUR FAMILY COMES FROM, SHOULD
00:03:18NOT MATTER WHO YOU LOVE --
00:03:20SHOULD NOT MATTER THE COLOR OF
00:03:24YOUR SKIN. IN DEARBORN, IF YOU TALK TO
00:03:27SOMEONE AROUND JAKE LING, THEY WILL FIND IT AROUND PARTICULAR
00:03:30FAITH COMMUNITIES OR ETHNIC
00:03:34COMMUNITIES, BUT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS PLACE, THAT IT
00:03:38IS WHERE PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER DESPITE DIFFERENCES, BUILDING A
00:03:41THING TOGETHER.
00:03:45THAT IS THE BEST METAPHOR FOR
00:03:50AMERICA, PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER TO DO THINGS TOGETHER.
00:03:52RIGHT NOW, THE REASON PEOPLE WANT TO HAVE A CONVERSATION
00:03:55ABOUT RELIGION, ABOUT RACE, THE
00:04:00REASON THEY ARE TURNING UP THE
00:04:03LIKES OF THE KKK IS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT TO HAVE A
00:04:06CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE FAILING TO PROVIDE.
00:04:10RIGHT NOW IN AMERICA, THERE ARE PEOPLE SHOPPING IN GROCERY
00:04:13STORES, SECOND-GUESSING WHAT THEY CAN INCLUDE IN THEIR CART.
00:04:17RIGHT NOW IN AMERICA, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE OUTGROWN THEIR
00:04:20HOMES AND DO NOT KNOW IF THEY CAN GET ANOTHER ONE. THERE ARE PEOPLE IN AMERICA WHO
00:04:24WOULD LOVE TO OWN A HOME BUT UNDERSTAND THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN FOR THEM.
00:04:28THERE ARE PEOPLE IN AMERICA WHO CANNOT PAY OFF THEIR OWNS,
00:04:30WHETHER IT IS FOR CREDIT CARDS
00:04:32ARE FOR THE GROCERIES OR A
00:04:35STUDENT LOAN TO GET AN EDUCATION OR A CAR LOAN OR MORTGAGE OR A
00:04:38LOAN THEY HAD TO TAKE BECAUSE I GOT SICK AND FELL INTO MEDICAL
00:04:42DEBT. THERE ARE PEOPLE IN AMERICA WHO
00:04:45ARE DRIVING BROKEN ROADS,
00:04:48BREATHING UNCLEAN AIR, DRINKING POOR WATER.
00:04:54AND ALL THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION AND ITS APOLOGISTS WANT TO DO IS
00:04:57FIGURE OUT HOW TO DIVIDE US RATHER THAN UNITE US WHEN WE CAN
00:05:02SOLVE PROBLEMS TOGETHER. BECAUSE I DO NOT CARE HOW YOU
00:05:04PRAY, WHO YOU LOVE, HOW YOU IDENTIFY, YOU DESERVE A GOOD HOME IN GOOD HEALTH CARE.
00:05:08YOU DESERVE TO KNOW THAT YOU CAN
00:05:11SEE A DOCTOR WHEN YOU GET SICK. YOU DESERVE PROTECTIONS AT YOUR
00:05:15JOB. YOU DESERVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
00:05:18BREATHE CLEAN AIR AND DRINK CLEAN WATER. THAT IS WHAT ALL OF US HERE ARE UNITED OVER.
00:05:22I AM GOING TO FINISH HERE WITH A
00:05:25THOUGHT THAT I HAD THAT KEPT COMING TO MY MIND AS I THOUGHT
00:05:27ABOUT WHAT I WOULD SAY HERE TODAY, AND THERE IS A VERSE IN
00:05:31THE KORAN THAT SAYS DO NOT LET
00:05:35ANOTHER PEOPLE'S HATRED FOR YOU STOP YOU FROM DOING JUSTICE.
00:05:39IF THAT IS NOT THE GREATEST CALL
00:05:44TO UNITY, I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS.
00:05:46BECAUSE THE THING ABOUT JUSTICE
00:05:49IS THAT JUSTICE GETS PEACE, AND
00:05:52PEACE BEGETS PROSPERITY, PROSPERITY BEGETS OPPORTUNITY, FRIENDSHIP, AND LOVE.
00:05:56SO EVEN WHEN THERE IS HATE, THE
00:05:59BEST ANSWER IS JUSTICE PIERCE ALL OF US HERE ARE UNITED AROUND
00:06:03THE IDEA THAT WE DESERVE A KIND OF JUSTICE IN THIS COUNTRY WHERE YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
00:06:06BASIC THINGS. YOU HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY.
00:06:10I'M DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE
00:06:12LEADER STANDING HERE TODAY, HERE
00:06:15FOR AMERICA, FOR THE IDEA OF A PLACE WHERE YOU DESERVE THE
00:06:18BASIC GOOD THINGS IN THIS WORLD.
00:06:21WE CAN HAVE NICE THINGS IF WE'RE
00:06:24WILLING TO REACH ACROSS THE DEVICE.
00:06:26JAKE LANG REMINDS US JUST HOW
00:06:34STRONGER WE ARE TOGETHER. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE]
00:06:37>> WE HAVE ABOUT FIVE MINUTES
00:06:41FOR QUESTIONS.
00:06:46>> CBS NEWS, DETROIT.
00:06:52[INAUDIBLE]
00:06:59WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?
00:07:01MR. EL-SAYED: IT STARTS WITH THE
00:07:08IDEA THAT WHAT IS CENTRAL TO
00:07:11AMERICA IS WE HAVE DEMOCRACY.
00:07:13DON'T FORGET WHO JAKE LANG IS,
00:07:18WHAT MIKE ROGERS HAS SAID, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SAID.
00:07:21THEY'LL QUESTION THEIR ELECTIONS.
00:07:24START THERE, REGARDING THE
00:07:27VOTING RIGHTS ACT AND SUPREME COURT JUSTICES APPOINTED BY
00:07:30THE'S PRESIDENT. THE NEED FOR US TO COME OUT AND STAND UP.
00:07:33FOR THE LAST ELECTION, WE HAD
00:07:37OBSERVERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. YOU KNOW WHY.
00:07:41WE HAVE BEEN RUNNING SOME OF THE CLEANEST, BEST ELECTIONS IN
00:07:45MICHIGAN, ANYWHERE.
00:07:48IN THE ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY IS AN ATTACK ON AMERICA ITSELF.
00:07:52SO MAYBE LET'S START THERE, START WITH THE IDEA THAT IN
00:07:55AMERICA, WE SOLVE OUR DISAGREEMENTS PEACEFULLY, BY WAY
00:07:59OF DEMOCRACY, CHOOSING OUR LEADERS, COMING TOGETHER AND BUILD THE THINGS WE NEED AND DESERVE.
00:08:03>> [INAUDIBLE]
00:08:12SAID YOU AND HE HAVE BEEN
00:08:16WORKING TOGETHER TO UNITE THE COMMUNITY.
00:08:19WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THAT
00:08:24RELATIONSHIP? MR. EL-SAYED: LOOK, I LIKE TO
00:08:28KEEP PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS PRIVATE. WHAT I TELL YOU IS THE
00:08:31CONVERSATIONS I HAVE HAD WITH
00:08:37CONGRESSMAN MOSS HAVE BEEN ABOUT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO COME
00:08:40TOGETHER ACROSS OUR DISAGREEMENTS.
00:08:44WE HAVE DISAGREEMENTS AND
00:08:47FOREIGN POLICY AND THE BEST USE OF OUR TAX DOLLARS.
00:08:49THE PLURALITY OF MICHIGAN, THE
00:08:55PRIMARY VOTERS NOMINATED ME TO BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.
00:08:58I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE POSITION I
00:09:02HOLD ON FOREIGN POLICY IS ABOUT
00:09:05TRYING TO UPLIFT AND EMPOWER ALL PEOPLE.
00:09:09IT IS ABOUT THE KIDS IN A COMMUNITY NOT FAR FROM HERE
00:09:12WHERE THE MEDIAN INCOME IS
00:09:15$14,000 A YEAR, AND THE SCHOOLS
00:09:18AND COMMUNITY DISTRICT, IT IS
00:09:19STILL NEARLY ONE POINT 7 BILLION
00:09:22DOLLARS BEHIND NECESSARY REPAIRS .
00:09:25I HAVE PUT MONEY INTO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. IT IS ABOUT KEEPING OUR TAX
00:09:29DOLLARS HERE TO INVEST IN THE SCHOOLS HERE.
00:09:31ALSO ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT IN OUR FOREIGN POLICY, WE
00:09:35SUBSTANTIATE EQUAL RIGHTS TO
00:09:39SELF-DETERMINATION FOR PALESTINIANS. I WOULD RATHER MY TEXTILE
00:09:42DOLLARS NOT GET SPENT TO TILT -- TAKE AWAY SOME PEOPLES
00:09:47SELF-DETERMINATION. IT IS NOT ABOUT HATING ANYBODY. I AM GRATEFUL TO HAVE GROWN UP
00:09:50IN A COMMUNITY WHERE I GOT SO
00:09:51MUCH EXPOSURE AND EMPOWERMENT
00:09:55FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.
00:09:58JUDAISM AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE ALL OVER THE WORLD,
00:10:02INCREDIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR SOCIETY, A BEAUTIFUL FAITH.
00:10:06IT REMINDS ME SO MUCH OF MY OWN.
00:10:08SO WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION.
00:10:11SO FAR AS OUR DISAGREEMENTS
00:10:13ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY, MY HOPE IS THAT FOLKS UNDERSTAND WHERE
00:10:18THOSE DISAGREEMENTS ALIGN AND UNDERSTAND THAT DOES NOT COME AT THE COST OF THEIR SAFETY.
00:10:24I HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE JEWISH
00:10:27COMMUNITY, AND THEY ARE WILLING TO HAVE REALLY GOOD CONVERSATIONS AND CONTINUE THOSE.
00:10:31I THINK ALL OF THOSE AGREE. THE THINGS THAT DIVIDE US ARE SO
00:10:35MUCH SMALLER THAN THE THINGS THAT UNITE US AGAINST SOMEONE LIKE MIKE ROGERS.
00:10:39DON'T FORGET, THAT REALLY, JAKE
00:10:43LANG'S RALLY WAS ATTENDED BY
00:10:47SOMEBODY WHO IS A PART OF THE ROGERS CAMPAIGN.
00:10:50DON'T FORGET THAT MIKE ROGERS
00:10:53QUESTIONED THE OUTCOME OF HIS
00:10:562024 ELECTION AGAINST A
00:10:59JEWISH-AMERICAN SENATE CANDIDATE
00:11:03AND NOW U.S. SENATOR AND ELISSA SLOTKIN.
00:11:05DON'T FORGET THAT DONALD TRUMP,
00:11:08THE CHIEF SURROGATE OF MIKE
00:11:10ROGERS, WINED AND DINED
00:11:14APPOINTEES. DON'T FORGET THAT WE DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS AND GUARANTEED
00:11:16HEALTH CARE AND OPPORTUNITY AND
00:11:19GOOD SCHOOLS, ALL THINGS THAT
00:11:22JEREMY AND I AGREE ON. LOOKING FORWARD TO BUILDING THE
00:11:25RELATIONSHIP AND MOVING FORWARD SO WE TAKE BACK THE U.S. SENATE
00:11:28AND START MOVING ON SOME LEGISLATION THAT PROTECTS ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND THE POWERS EVERYONE.
00:11:33>> [INAUDIBLE]
00:11:44MR. EL-SAYED: HE CAME TO DETROIT? OH, MY GOD.
00:11:46THIRD TIME MAYBE IN THE SUMMER.
00:11:50>> [INAUDIBLE]
00:11:57MR. EL-SAYED: I THINK HE GOT ALL
00:12:04EIGHT DEMOCRATIC CURIOUS FORMER REPUBLICANS TO STAND IN FRONT OF SOMEONE'S HOUSE TO HAVE A PRESS
00:12:08CONFERENCE, I UNDERSTAND HE IS TRYING TO SPIN THE PUBLIC.
00:12:12IT IS A NICE NARRATIVE, I GET IT. AND IN AN ERA WHERE YOU DO NOT
00:12:16WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT
00:12:18YOU VOTED 19 TIMES TO RAISE
00:12:22PRESCRIPTION DRUG CRISIS OR YOUR ROLE IN INFLAMING THE OPIOID
00:12:26EPIDEMIC, PRETEND LIKE YOU'RE NOT TAKING IMPACT MONEY BUT YOU
00:12:29DID FOUR APEX FUNDRAISERS AND 24 HOURS -- THINK THAT IS A RECORD.
00:12:32IN CALIFORNIA, MIND YOU. I THOUGHT HE WAS FROM FLORIDA.
00:12:36NICE THAT HE CAME TO DETROIT. I'M REALLY GLAD.
00:12:39NEXT TIME HE COMES, I WOULD BE GLAD TO SHOW HIM AROUND.
00:12:43>> THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE]
00:12:46>> AFTER CAMPAIGNING TOGETHER IN
00:12:54-- AFTER CAMPAIGNING TOGETHER, JAMIE RASKIN AND ABDUL EL-SAYED
00:12:57TOOK QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS, INCLUDING RECENT CRITICISM OF
00:13:01MR. EL-SAYED FOR HIS.
00:13:05HE WILL FACE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE
00:13:07MIKE ROGERS IN THE NOVEMBER 3
00:13:092026 GENERAL ELECTION, WHICH THE NONPARTISAN COOK POLITICAL
00:13:12REPORT RATES A TOSSUP.
00:13:19>> I HAVE TRAVELED ALL AROUND
00:13:20THE STATE ASKING ABOUT A BILL
00:13:24WITH PROGRESSIVES.
00:13:29WHERE ARE YOU IN TERMS OF TRYING TO CONVINCE OR TALK TO DEMOCRATS
00:13:33ABOUT HAVING MORE FROM OTHER
00:13:37DENOMINATIONS?
00:13:41SUPPLE RASKIN -- REP. RASKIN:
00:13:48PRESIDENT KENNEDY ANSWERED THAT QUESTION AND SAID ONE LEGITIMATE
00:13:50QUESTION WAS IF ANYONE EVERYONE
00:13:54RELIGIOUS FAITH COULD BE TAKING ORDERS FROM SOMEONE ELSE.
00:13:57I AM NOT TAKING ORDERS. HE SBE