CBS legal correspondent deletes post about El-Sayed town hall, apologizes
CBS chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford deleted an X post about a Michigan Senate candidate's town hall and apologized, saying it broke CBS News standards.
CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford deleted a post on X about a town hall held by Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan. She then apologized.
The Guardian reports the post praised a man who asked El-Sayed at Saturday's town hall whether he would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. Fox News reports the post criticized El-Sayed's response to that question. Fox's headline quotes the post as calling it a "spectacular self own."
On Sunday, Crawford wrote on X that she had deleted the tweet because it violated CBS News standards. "I apologize," she wrote.
The reports do not say what El-Sayed answered at the town hall.
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- The GuardianCBS reporter apologizes and deletes post praising Abdul El-Sayed hecklerSun, Oct 18, 5:07 PM EDT
- Fox NewsCBS reporter deletes post calling out El-Sayed on 'spectacular self own' on Muslim Brotherhood questionSun, Oct 18, 7:00 PM EDT
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