El-Sayed said he was more focused on who he was campaigning to than who he might campaign with, and separately said America did not deserve 9/11 and called Piker's statement dumb.
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Part of this event: El-Sayed Defends Campaign Ties to Hasan Piker Amid 9/11 Remark Backlash
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NBC's transcript retains El-Sayed's campaign-association answer and his express rejection of the 9/11 statement.
The interview establishes El-Sayed's words and disavowal, while any future campaign appearance with Piker remains prospective.
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A later El-Sayed or Piker statement, campaign clarification, NBC correction, or registered-outlet report that materially changes the campaign-association or 9/11-comment context.
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El-Sayed Defends Campaign Ties to Hasan Piker Amid 9/11 Remark Backlash
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The directly fetched NBC transcript identifies El-Sayed as the interviewed Michigan Democratic Senate nominee; registry identity review remains pending.
Open source receipt - originating speaker
El-Sayed directly answered Kristen Welker's questions about campaigning with Hasan Piker and Piker's 2019 9/11 statement.
The NBC transcript retains the questions and El-Sayed's complete answers as labeled speaker turns.
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Kristen Welker conducted the Meet the Press interview; NBC News published the transcript on August 9.
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El-Sayed said he was more focused on who he was campaigning to than who he might campaign with, and separately said America did not deserve 9/11 and called Piker's statement dumb.
Both statements appear in labeled El-Sayed speaker turns in the directly fetched NBC transcript.
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NBC's transcript retains El-Sayed's campaign-association answer and his express rejection of the 9/11 statement.
The canonical NBC page returned HTTP 200 and the bounded URL, date, speaker, disavowal, and campaign wording were content-hashed.
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Fact-Checking Candidates in Maine, Michigan and Ohio
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El-Sayed explicitly said America did not deserve 9/11, called Piker's statement dumb, and said Piker had disavowed it, while declining to rule out future campaigning together.
The response is preserved verbatim in the directly fetched NBC transcript.
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The interview establishes El-Sayed's words and disavowal, while any future campaign appearance with Piker remains prospective.
The transcript answers the present attribution question but cannot establish later campaign conduct.
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subject identity
The directly fetched NBC transcript names Hasan Piker as the streamer whose campaign association and prior statement are the subject of Welker's questions; registry identity review remains pending.
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