Abdul El-Sayed Fan of Human Rights, Hot Cheese | TMZ DC

all right y'all yeah i'm about to be i i hate what i'm about to do right now what you you're not oh because he's uh gluten-free gluten-free you're gluten-free he's gonna have to have a big one of these wait a second wait a second wait a second is it so lame you're gonna make them there's no there's there's really no reason this should have gluten in it all right then i'll go and i'll all right then if i uh i'll see you all right thank you cheers cheers i'm very glad yeah a little bit of heat there too i like it i was gonna say look red hot cheese i know bro i'm like gluten-free coughing with the freaking hey can we ask you some serious stuff too yeah okay it's like hot ones right now it's like yeah this is like seven but it's not actually a hot bro it's not that i don't do heat clearly i know i'm sorry i didn't mean to do this no no oh you want some Gatorade right you got some white you want some Gatorade right i have a bunch of the car no no no no get this man a gatorade zero here all right thank you it's an emergency all right boy no no no no tell me how good that is you're fountaining your water out of respect oh you're okay i respect that i would have found me enjoy enjoy all right we're all doing that since we're passing around here oh wow there you go we've shared a Gatorade with Abdul not bad not bad is this not the flavor that's not good right and then here's the thing you water found and if you were to spill on yourself you wouldn't be all right you know what i was like it's the white flavor right if you had the orange flavor or the blue flavor you spill all over yourself there's a problem i actually really needed that so how are you doing sir how are you doing i'm good what's your name Andrew very nice to meet you you too hey appreciate you i got you hey thank you appreciate you thank you so much thank you for that because actually that helped a lot so now we're getting to now here's the interview time so we've been here now for a few hours we went to Kalamazoo and we pulled one person first person we met i said Syed or Rogers they said the thing about Syed is i don't think he's going to be as progressive as he says he's going to be I said, what do you mean? They said, well, due to his religious beliefs, I don't think he's going to be as progressive as he says. What do you think about that? Hearing that from 100% of the people that we pull. Look, I'll tell you this. It is because of my religious beliefs that I need an America where we believe in and protect the Constitution at all costs. I don't want the federal government, and certainly not the crazies like Ted Cruz, using the federal government to tell us what we can do with our lives. Can you live your way? I live my way. He lives his way, right? That's the beauty of this country. So I believe in rights. Rights are rights are rights are rights. And I want everybody to be able to live their best life simply as a function of who they are in a country where the federal government doesn't get used against you. If the party in power thinks that the way that you live your life is somehow less than the way that somebody in power chooses to live their life. And, you know, I choose to put my face on the ground 34 times a day. That's a choice that I make and I love the right to make, which means that why would I ever allow this government to take that right away from me? Just like I would never allow the government to take away the right for somebody to love who they love, to be who they are, you know, to make choices and live their life as they are, you know what I mean? And so I'd say it's because of that, right, that I believe in the kind of America where everybody has their rights. The other thing I'll tell you is that like the notion, the things that bring us together are the things that we all need. We all need a good job and not to be told that we can't have a job because of the color of our skin, how we pray, who we love, how we identify. We all need a home. We all need health care. We all need to breathe clean air and drink clean water. Like those are the things that all of us need. Doesn't matter who you are. Doesn't matter where you live. You need those things. I'm trying to focus on a government that stops discriminating against us and provides those basic things so we can all participate. can i ask you this like politics aside yeah i heard trump call you muhammad again today and you know it is my middle name you know what it means what does it mean it means the praised one here's the funny thing about the you know what abdul means what's that servant so he took me from servant to the praised one he thinks he's doing me a disservice look i mean he's calling you muhammad for a reason and we all know and when i watch certain content they're calling you Al-Sayyid that they're doing this thing right politics aside how does that like make you feel because like it hurts me when i hear that like and so how does it make you feel you probably not never had to hear that very often i've been in my whole life i've been 42 years i turned turned 42 at the end of this month been 42 years of this right anybody who's ever been discriminated against knows that there are a few people who speak very loudly and look i stand on the shoulders of giants like you You know what they did to President Obama when he ran in 2008? Same stuff they're doing to me, right? Barack Hussein Obama, they accentuated his middle name. And you know, here's the thing about it. Like I get an opportunity to do this with a level of grace that I hope opens the door for the next person. Just like President Obama opened the door for me. So look, I get it, I understand. How does it make you feel? It makes me feel determined to build a bigger America. That's how it makes me feel. Does it make you, how you're feeling to make you motivated? Here's the thing, this is not new to me. See what I'm saying? Like this is not new. Yeah. I understand that too often, this is how a few small people want to behave, to try to distract all the rest of us from what's really at stake. And I know what's at stake. It just seems like the White House right now and Republicans are making you persona non grata. And like the other day, I heard Katie Zakaria, she's new White House press secretary, she's calling you radical and that's a new spokesperson for the White House. What do you think about that? I don't think about that. It doesn't bother me. My conversations with the 10 million people in the state, They're the folks that I'm focused on. They're the folks who get to decide who their next US Senator is. And I know Michiganders are open-hearted and big-minded and they're bigger than Katie Zakaria. And also her name is Zakaria. It's an Arabic name. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. Isn't that rich? Did you catch any of her opening statements or her first press conference the other day? I heard it didn't go well. I hope she improves at the job. Last thing, you know, we've talked all about health. You know, you work out clearly. You got a six pack here? Like- Not since I've been running for office. much too much of that of that of that red hot cheese better made by the way listen like you can order this this is this is made by the way just right here in Detroit so love it it was very great thank you very much appreciate it hey popcorn fingers appreciate it yeah how you doing sir thank you mate all right glad to be here to congratulate you on that i see you on tv i like the way you handled him i appreciate that you handled him real nice listen i have to stay on that they're not from here i had to teach them about red hot yeah i had to think about better name okay yeah better make y'all have this favorite before no he's not here it's the go-to you want something no no no i'm sure you want something i don't like it i don't like it i'm doing this offering you something you know they know what they like they don't like it it's really hot it's really hot good luck i appreciate that i appreciate it thank you so much me and my mom you got it you already got it yeah we already got you good like i said good luck good I appreciate it. I hope everybody comes. You got me. I'm grateful for you. Come to Turner. Thank you. And make sure you call everybody you know. We got 20 days left to vote. Right. You can't leave any stone unturned. I got about a thousand girls, so I'm calling them all. Obama, Obama. He just made TMZ, man. He just made TMZ. . . . . . . . . . . . .