00:00This might be the most disgraceful smear ever broadcast on live American television.
00:05Confronted on live TV with white supremacists inside his own home and campaign staff,
00:11Republican Mike Collins panicked and tried to accuse Georgia's first Jewish senator of anti-Semitism.
00:17Watch his face when John Ossoff drops the hammer.
00:20Excuse me, Senator. I'm sorry. Congressman Collins, your opponent rarely mentions your name without calling you a bigot,
00:26though many feel you have not adequately addressed the fact that your son-in-law is a white supremacist social
00:33media influencer
00:34and several members of your staff have been linked to racism and anti-Semitism.
00:39Take Georgia voters to your family dinner table.
00:42What specifically have you said to your daughter and son-in-law about his posts?
00:48And will you once and for all denounce white supremacy? You have 60 seconds.
00:52You know, Rick, that's my family.
00:54That's the craziness that John Ossoff has been spewing out there.
01:00I actually had a crazy person get put in jail this weekend because he not only wanted to kill my
01:04son-in-law,
01:05but he wanted to kill me. And you're exactly right.
01:08I've got a daughter and grandkids there as well as my wife.
01:11I've condemned racism, anti-Semitism, hate.
01:16I don't care where the source is. And I tell him that, too.
01:19It's wrong. We have no place in this world for that.
01:23But I've never heard him say a word about his DSA pick up there, Abdul El Saeed, Hassan Piker.
01:30How about Reid Hoffman? None of those.
01:32He doesn't denounce anybody or anything or condemn them because he's part of them.
01:37But yet he wants to take that and spew that on me.
01:40That's not me. When I had things happen, I'm a businessman.
01:44I fired them. I got rid of them. Don't need them.
01:47Let's pause right there and look at the sheer desperation on display.
01:52Moderator Rick Fulbaum asked Congressman Collins a direct, specific question about his own household.
01:58How do you explain to Georgia voters that your son-in-law runs a white supremacist network
02:02and that your office intervened with the Department of Justice on behalf of a Holocaust denier?
02:08Collins' answer was to play the victim, dodge the question about his family dinner table entirely,
02:13and recite a bizarre list of names handed to him by party consultants.
02:18He brings up Abdul El Saeed, a public health physician in Michigan who has literally zero connection to Georgia.
02:24He brings up Twitch streamer Hassan Piker, someone Senator Ossoff has never coordinated with
02:29and has explicitly condemned.
02:31And then he throws in Reid Hoffman, the billionaire founder of LinkedIn.
02:35Why? Because Mike Collins has zero intellectual autonomy.
02:39He is a carbon copy candidate running on an automated right-wing script.
02:43When cornered by documented facts, his only play is to throw progressive buzzwords at the wall to confuse voters.
02:50But watch what happened when Senator Ossoff stepped to the microphone.
02:53He didn't let him hide behind the talking points.
02:56Senator, 30 seconds.
02:58Imagine running for the U.S. Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your
03:06home.
03:06That's Mike Collins.
03:07And it's not just those around him.
03:09Mike Collins himself has amplified neo-Nazi propaganda online.
03:14Mike Collins' office intervened at the Department of Justice on behalf of a Holocaust denier
03:19while his office was in cahoots with some of the nation's most notorious white supremacists.
03:24Mike Collins is a bigot, and it's disqualifying for a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
03:29Congressman, 30 seconds.
03:30Yeah, imagine being a U.S. Senator and out there recruiting, endorsing, and supporting these people
03:36that want to see Israel wiped off the map, that would say that they would rather be for Iran than
03:41for Israel.
03:42That's who John Ossoff is supporting.
03:44He has yet to say anything about that.
03:46Just like John Ossoff has yet to say anything about why he voted to raise your taxes.
03:51He wanted to see your taxes double.
03:54Matter of fact, he wants to see all your taxes.
03:56At the end of the day, what they're looking for is to have control over your life.
04:00Why does he feel like that you don't have to have your money in your pocket, that they can spend
04:04it better than you?
04:05Congressman, thank you very much.
04:06Atlanta News First statewide reporter Abby Casores has our next question.
04:10Abby.
04:10Notice the level of moral depravity in that final response.
04:15When cornered by the fact that neo-Nazi propaganda is being broadcast from his own residence,
04:20Mike Collins looks at John Ossoff, Georgia's first Jewish senator, and accuses him of wanting to wipe Israel off the
04:27map.
04:28Think about what that requires.
04:31John Ossoff was elected alongside Reverend Raphael Warnock, reviving the historic civil rights coalition of Black and Jewish Georgians that
04:38John Lewis gave his life to protect.
04:40To stand on a public stage and weaponize anti-Semitism against a Jewish senator solely to shield the white nationalists
04:48on your own campaign payroll is political cowardice at the highest level.
04:53And look at how Collins' brain completely short-circuited in the final 10 seconds.
04:57Within three breaths, he jumps from Middle Eastern foreign policy straight into he wants to raise your taxes.
05:02He wants control over your life.
05:04It is the classic, pathetic conservative retreat.
05:08When exposed on civil rights, when exposed on white supremacy, when exposed on basic human decency, the only card left
05:15in the deck is to scream about taxes.
05:18This debate drew a crystal clear line for Georgia and the United States.
05:23One leader fighting for constitutional rights, human dignity, and economic sanity.
05:29Versus an empty, pre-scripted partisan who cannot even denounce the extremists in his own house.
