US Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed is under fire over a letter urging Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood to 'purge media and police'
Republican Mike Rogers used Wednesday's debate in Southfield, Michigan, to claim Democrat Abdul El-Sayed once asked Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi to defund the police. El-Sayed insisted he has never been part of the group. He told Rogers it was 'beneath you' to question his loyalty to the Constitution. The race is tightening ahead of November's vote.
El-Sayed called the attack 'shameful', saying the Constitution lets everyone 'pray as we choose'.
Senator Mike Lee says El-Sayed 'should not come anywhere near' the Foreign Relations Committee.
President Donald Trump is due in Michigan on Sunday at Rogers' invitation.
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