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CBS reporter apologizes and deletes post praising Abdul El-Sayed heckler

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Jan Crawford had praised man who asked Democratic candidate whether he would disavow Muslim Brotherhood 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. On Sunday, Crawford, who initially joined CBS in 2009, wrote on X: “Earlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul El-Sayed town hall.

I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards. I apologize.”

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