Jan Crawford Apologizes for Post on El-Sayed Town Hall

CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford deleted a social media post criticizing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and apologized, saying the post violated the network’s news standards. The apology, posted Sunday, October 18, acknowledged the standards breach but did not specify which rule was involved. Crawford had shared a video of El-Sayed answering a town-hall attendee who asked whether he would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. In the post, she thanked the attendee, identified as Tommy, and called El-Sayed’s response a “spectacular self-own,” describing his answer as a brief affirmation followed by an uninterrupted three-minute response. The video account included in the supplied reports shows El-Sayed replying, “Sure. Yeah, absolutely,” before asking why the question was being asked. The candidate then challenged the implication that he might have a loyalty higher than the U.S. Constitution. The exchange concerned a question that has also been raised by Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, according to one account. Crawford’s post was deleted before she issued her apology on X. She wrote that she had tweeted a video from an El-Sayed town hall, deleted it...