El-Sayed declines to address Piker a third time on "Face the Nation"
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Michigan
“Weija, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer in California... I'm not all that interested in having a conversation about streamers in California because they are not raising the prices of gas and groceries.”
Source and context
Interview
About this source
Full transcript of Abdul El-Sayed's September 13 Face the Nation interview. In the AI exchange, he argues for a public AI-safety agency, defined no-go uses, public oversight, and a pause in frontier-AI research pending safety assurance.
Before the quotation
Asked by moderator Weijia Jiang on CBS's "Face the Nation," aired September 13, 2026, why he had not directly condemned Hasan Piker's rhetoric.
After the quotation
Two days later, at the Fox 2 Detroit debate, El-Sayed gave a narrower, more specific answer on Piker (see related statement).
How this statement is classified
Case context: Mike Rogers’s 9/11 accusation against Abdul El-Sayed
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Why this label?
Pressed directly on why he has not condemned Piker's rhetoric, El-Sayed redirects to a different topic rather than answering — an explicit decline, not silence.
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Mike Rogers’s 9/11 accusation against Abdul El-Sayed
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