What is the Egypt letter Mike Rogers uses to link Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood?

Abdul El-Sayed signed an open letter to Egypt's new president after the Arab Spring urging him to purge Mubarak-era loyalists from the media and police, who were feared to be plotting a coup. Pod Save America's hosts argue the letter matched mainstream thinking at the time, and that Rogers himself spoke in 2012 about finding moderates in Mohamed Morsi's government to work with.

• Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February 2011 and Morsi was elected president in 2012.
• Morsi studied at USC, taught at Cal State Northridge and helped broker a 2012 Gaza ceasefire.
• Morsi was later removed in a military coup, and the army has ruled Egypt since.

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