Video: CNN asks newly elected Democrat Adam Hamawy again and again if Iran is an adversary. He won't say yes

New Jersey Rep.-elect Adam Hamawy, a Democrat elected last week, repeatedly refused to call Iran an adversary of the United States in an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room" on Tuesday, Fox News reports.

Co-host Pamela Brown pressed him about his demand that the U.S. cut off all military funding to Israel. "Well, now, what I see is that we were pushed into this war by Israel," Hamawy said. "It's not helping Americans. Americans didn't ask for it. It's illegal and immoral."

"Do you see Iran as the adversary?" Brown asked. "I see that we pushed them into a fight," he answered, and said the U.S. is "making adversaries when we should be making friends."

When Brown reminded him that Iran's regime has chanted "Death to America" for decades, Hamawy replied: "We've been saying 'Death to Iran' for decades as well." When she said Iran has killed a lot of Americans, he said: "And we've killed a lot of them as well."

Later in the interview he called Iran's government a "dictatorship" and "authoritarian," but he still would not answer the question.

StandWithUs co-founder Roz Rothstein said Hamawy "refused to acknowledge a basic factual and moral reality. Iran's oppressive regime has made itself the enemy of both the United States and its own people." His answers echoed Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed, who in October would not say whether Israel or Iran is the bigger threat to America. Fox News said Hamawy's team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.