ABDUL EL-SAYED: So this sort of hypothetical, who's a bigger threat, is a dumb question. I'm sorry.

MODERATOR: Dr. El-Sayed, we didn't quite-we got the part that you thought it was dumb, but we didn't understand or kind of get to that answer.

So I'm going to ask you again tonight: Who do you think is a bigger threat to the United States, Israel or Iran? You have 60 seconds.

ABDUL EL-SAYED: And again, Rick, I'm just going to say that that's a ridiculous hypothetical, because here's what's happening right now.

Our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran. We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world's energy supply.

So this is a situation in which I don't think we should be a part. I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel, and I don't want to be in a war with Iran.

I want our money spent here to buy schools and health care and child care here. I don't understand why that is so inconceivable.

Now, I've got a guy to my left over here who thinks that the best use of our money is to go fight wars abroad. What has that given us?

It's part of the reason why, when he was in Congress, $12 trillion-the national debt blew up because he's never seen a war he didn't want us fighting.

So I don't consider an ally a country that takes us to wars we don't need to fight, and I don't want to be fighting wars we don't need to fight. I just think that makes both of them kind of dangerous.

MODERATOR: I'll ask one last time. Israel or Iran?

ABDUL EL-SAYED: That's again a ridiculous question. I think both of them have proven dangerous in their own way. One at risk of attacking us, one getting us into wars we have no business fighting.

MODERATOR: Congressman Rogers, Axios reported that your allies asked AIPAC not to advertise on your behalf. Axios also reported that you talked with the chair of AIPAC, and the next day they discontinued an ad on your behalf. Do you welcome AIPAC's public support, given that you do support many pro-Israeli positions? You have 60 seconds.

MIKE ROGERS: Anybody that wants to help my campaign stop a guy who can't condemn terrorism in our own country because he's so close to the people who are supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, I'll take all of that help.

And matter of fact, I think he's a little concerned about the two properties he owns. United Arab Emirates, I think the other one is Egypt, if I'm not mistaken. Can you correct me? Where's the other one?

ABDUL EL-SAYED: Yeah, no, uh-huh, yeah, that's exactly right. He owns $2.7 million in Florida, my guy.

MIKE ROGERS: Yeah, I'll talk yachts. You know what? Did you sell your yachts?

ABDUL EL-SAYED: I've never owned a yacht in Florida, brother.

MIKE ROGERS: Oh, really? What was your yacht? You had two of them.

Let me tell you this one thing. Today-or yesterday-was October 7th. This is why you should get absolutely angry.

He could not bring himself to even acknowledge the pain, the terrorism, the rape, the murders, cutting off of women's breasts, putting children in ovens and killing them in front of their families.
Could not even muster-and he could not even muster-

ABDUL EL-SAYED: Condemn that? But I didn't turn it into political theater like you just did.

MIKE ROGERS: He did not. So let me tell you this-

ABDUL EL-SAYED: I just need to-

MIKE ROGERS: No, no-

ABDUL EL-SAYED: You interrupted me for about half of my time, so I'm so sorry, but I just-I'm not somebody who tries to make political theater out of other people's pain.

MIKE ROGERS: [Unclear] pain is political theater, and you're-and you turned it into political theater.

ABDUL EL-SAYED: I'm sorry, including by putting on a white jacket.