it's time americans stood up and say that's not up. >> deedra abboud, thank you again. best of luck to you. sorry again this happened to you. >> thank you. >> thank you. i want to bring in dean obeidallah, an opinion contributor to cnn who posted a commentary today about this incident. and cnn political commentator andre bauer. good evening, gentlemen. she was very well spoken. >> hello, don. >> very smart lady there. dean, i know you feel strongly about this. >> sure. >> what is your reaction to what you just heard? >> i thought she was great. and i must say i have never praised a republican before ever on cnn. so wake up with wolf blitzer, this is breaking news, i did. jeff flake did the right thing. jeff flake what everyone should do as a profile in leadership. >> i say it's extraordinary, it really shouldn't be extraordinary. >> but in today's climate it actually. you know what? there are parts of the republican base that are going to be upset that jeff flake spoke out about against anti-muslim bigotry. my tale of two republicans. flake stands up against bigotry. do

. >> i think i just heard the arkansas accent come out, deedra, just a second ago. saying myself.e an accent until you said "myself." do you find it interesting to be running for a seat in arizona coming from a southern background? what are the biggest questions you get as being raised in the south and now living out west? >> i think a lot of people ask why i moved here. i actually came here on vacation and fell in love with it. my husband and i feel like arizona is our home. we wouldn't want to live in any other place. we always wants best for arizona and to work for arizona to make it better. that's what i've spent my entire almost 20 years in arizona doing. it is the "i" and vowels that give me away every time. >> don't worry about it. as we witnessed the heat of politics, a lot has changed because of the 2016 race and our current the way that he used muslim rhetoric on the trail. take a listen. >> i think we have to look at the mosques. i think we have to be extremely careful. we have to look at mosques. we're making enemies by doing nothing. we're knocking down world trade ce

always are going to find something negative to come at you with and we still have good folks like deedrae. >> putting up pictures of -- >> they don't say that but they say things that are hate filled, they say things about killing me or i don't belong here. >> let's be real. when you look autothe first six months of this year compared to last year, hate crime against muslims has inkreeszed by 91%. what do you say to the people fuelling this haft? >> the good thing is we have a process whereby the peep bhool do these hate crimes are prosecuted and i hope law enforcement will go forward with prosecuting folks committing these crimes. >> first of all there's been i think four or five mosques burned down since january. and you even had it prior to this. a man was just sentenced last month for 19 years in prison for a plot to kill muslims. but thanks to trump, we've seen a speak in people bold bdened. >> this directly connects. >> i think when the gop nominee and the president of united states who said things literally islam hates it. and said thousands of muslims cheered on 9/11. what messag