Back in July, CNN anchor Kasie Hunt sat across from Abdul El-Sayed and asked him whether Israel has a right to exist. He wouldn't say yes. The interview aired. The tape exists. CNN owns it.

Now El-Sayed has won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, and Hunt is back on the air covering him. Except this time, the question about Israel's right to exist has vanished. What replaced it? Outrage that Republicans used the candidate's full name in a campaign ad.

El-Sayed, a 41-year-old physician, defeated Rep. Haley Stevens on Tuesday to become the Democratic nominee for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat. If he wins in November, he'd be the first Muslim U.S. senator in American history. That's the story every network ran with. What they didn't run with — what CNN specifically buried — is that he doesn't believe America's biggest ally doesn't have the right to exist.

Hunt's own July interview captured El-Sayed refusing to affirm Israel's right to exist. And when the primary results came in, and El-Sayed won, Hunt pivoted to her show "The Arena" not to revisit the question, but to attack the National Republican Senatorial Committee for running an ad featuring El-Sayed's full name.

"Using El-Sayed's full name there, a not so subtle reference to President Trump's own racially charged attacks," Hunt told viewers. The NRSC ad featured former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers declaring, "Abdul isn't just another liberal. He's an extremist." President Trump was more direct, calling El-Sayed a "communist loser."

But here's what CNN decided wasn't worth your time: El-Sayed's actual policy positions. In a CBS Mornings interview that ran nearly six minutes — and managed only one probing question about Israel, El-Sayed said the quiet part out loud. "If you're gonna use the money that we send you to do apartheid and genocide, then you should think twice," he told the hosts. He separately stated he opposes Iron Dome funding and doesn't believe there's a difference between offensive and defensive weapons sent to Israel.

That's not a man who's ambiguous about where he stands. That's a candidate who has told you, on camera, multiple times, exactly what he thinks about America's closest Middle Eastern ally. CNN has the receipts. They just don't want to show them to you because they're too busy running interference on a campaign ad.

Meanwhile, the celebration footage tells its own story.

Even Democrats see the problem. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel — a Jewish Democrat — described the climate around El-Sayed's movement bluntly. When asked if she planned to go to Democrats convention in Michigan she said no, "I don't want to get chased around. I don't want to get harassed... get booed off the stage."

So the network that has footage of a Senate candidate refusing to affirm Israel's right to exist chose instead to spend its airtime scolding Republicans for the grave offense of using the man's legal name. The same network that once treated the use of "Barack Hussein Obama" as a dog whistle now wants you to believe that saying "Abdul El-Sayed" in a political ad is the real scandal — not the part where the candidate wants to defund the Iron Dome.

A Senate candidate openly opposes defensive weapons for a U.S. ally. His own party's attorney general says she's afraid of his supporters. CNN has the interview tape proving he won't say Israel has a right to exist. And the story they ran was about a Republican ad using his name.

That's not bias. That's editorial suppression with a press badge.