El-Sayed defends taking campaign funds from Soros family, dodges questions on Muslim Brotherhood

Abdul El-Sayed.

Democrat candidate for U.S. senate Abdul El-Sayed dodged questions about traveling to California last week to attend a fundraising event at a home owned by the Soros family during an appearance Monday on Fox News. 

Martha MacCallum pressed El-Sayed about his previous calls to take "money out of politics" and how that squares with accepting fundraising from the family of a multi-billionaire investing titan. "Here you are in L.A. with the Soros family. So my question is: How is this not taking money from billionaire oligarchs and power brokers?" MacCallum asked.

"When individuals want to give to my campaign, I welcome their support," El-Sayed replied. "You know what I don't do? I don't call corporations. I don't call AIPAC."

McCallum then pointed out that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's PAC donated $30 million El-Sayed's campaign. "Do you know where that money comes from? Corporations," MacCallum said. El-Sayed dodged the question, saying he was heavily outspent in his primary run. 

McCallum also questioned whether El-Sayed would support the Muslim Brotherhood, and the terror groups it funds abroad, being designated as terrorist organizations. 

El-Sayed said, "I will support a terrorist designation for any group that is engaged in or committed to political violence." But when pressed on whether he supports the designation for the Muslim Brotherhood and the overseas terror groups that it funds, he walked a fine line, saying, "Show me that their engaged -- any organization that's engaged in political violence -- I will back a terrorist organization." But he refused to specifically say he supported such a designation for the Muslim Brotherhood even when MacCallum read statements made by the Muslim Brotherhood calling for violence against the U.S. 

Watch a highlight from the interview below.