After the Al Jazeera reporter said he’d been filming in Gaza, Cotton asked how he had access to the territory.
“Who’s letting you go in to film in Gaza? That would be Hamas,” the Arkansas Republican said.
When the reporter revealed that he worked for Al Jazeera, Cotton laughed.
“That’s what I thought. Beautiful,” Cotton said. “What do you say about working for a terrorist sympathizing network?”
Al Jazeera journalists have repeatedly been tied to Hamas, with one holding Israeli hostages after Oct. 7. Another, Anas Al-Sharif, was a leader in the terror group—until he was killed by a targeted Israeli strike.
“You’re an embarrassment,” Cotton said. “You got anything more? I’m happy to keep going.”
Might as well go global; the man already owns the New York Times.