CBS’s chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has apologized for and deleted a social media post praising a man who questioned Democratic Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about the Muslim Brotherhood during a town hall on Saturday.
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who → apologize → Saturday
On Sunday, Crawford, who initially joined CBS in 2009, wrote on X: “Earlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul El-Sayed town hall.
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I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards.
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it → delete → standards
I apologize.”
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I → apologize → ?
Crawford’s deleted post had thanked a man named Tommy while also saying: “I had to watch this twice to catch Dr Abdul El-Sayed’s nanosecond, ‘yeah, absolutely,’ response.
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His subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe proving your exact point is the kind of spectacular self own most [people] only dream about triggering.
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people → prove → self
The video to which Crawford referred showed the man who identified himself only as Tommy asking El-Sayed: “Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?”
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you → refer → Brotherhood
In response, El-Sayed said: “Sure.
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Why are you asking the question?”
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Tommy replied: “Well, because they’re a terrorist group.”
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they → reply → ?
El-Sayed then rejoined, “But what are you implying?
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Do you assume that I wouldn’t?
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“You’re asking the question because implicitly you assume that I’ll have dual loyalties, right?
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You assume that somehow I wouldn’t disavow, or that I’ll have some higher order allegiance than the constitution.”
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I → assume → constitution
Crawford’s tweet evidently generated substantial backlash from within CBS and among other members of the news media.
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tweet → generate → media
The Guardian’s media reporter Jeremy Barr wrote on X on Sunday: “I’m told there was a lot of internal backlash at CBS News to the Jan Crawford tweet – which may be why she deleted it.”
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Meanwhile, journalist AJ Katz wrote: “Jan Crawford is CBS News’ chief legal correspondent, not an opinion commentator.
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Pod Save America co-host Tommy Vietor said in part: “Very strange editorializing from a chief legal correspondent!”
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Vietor → say → correspondent
Meanwhile, CNN political commentator Karen Finney wrote that Crawford had been “caught red handed” trying to help “spread false, racist lies about Abdul because he is Muslim”.
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he → write → Abdul
“Shame on you,” Finney also wrote.
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Crawford’s apology and post deletion comes as CBS has faced intense scrutiny over allegations of political bias after conservative commentator Bari Weiss was appointed as the network’s editor-in-chief in October 2025.
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Weiss’s appointment came after CBS’s corporate parent, Paramount Skydance, acquired Weiss’s right-leaning digital media company, The Free Press.
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Furthermore, on Tuesday after recently joining CBS News as its global affairs correspondent, veteran British broadcaster Sir Trevor Phillips delivered a blunt message during a tense meeting with the network’s London bureau staff, telling critics questioning the outlet’s integrity to “fuck off and let us do our jobs”.
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MS Now host Ali Velshi interviewed El-Sayed on Saturday and asked him about getting Muslim Brotherhood-related questions while running against Mike Rogers, a Republican, for a Senate seat in the 3 November midterms.
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“The whole reason this question is being asked is to insinuate that somehow I have dual loyalties,” said El-Sayed, whose party is predicted to gain seats during the midterms.
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He also said: “It’s a crazy thing to assume that somehow I’d have dual loyalties, as somebody who is avidly running to protect” rights related to abortion, the LGBTQ+ community and religion.
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who → say → abortion
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