CBS News’ Jan Crawford Apologizes for Anti-Abdul El-Sayed Tweet That Broke News Standards

Skip to content The chief legal correspondent described remarks from the Michigan senatorial candidate as a “spectacular self-own” October 18, 2026 @ 12:01 PM CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford attends the 2025 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament held at Pete Maravich Assembly Center on March 22, 2025 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Credit: Beau Brune/NCAA Photos via Getty Images) CBS News’ chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford apologized for a since-deleted tweet criticizing Abdul El-Sayed in a manner she disclosed “was a violation” of the network’s news standards. “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,” Crawford wrote in a Sunday morning X post. The deleted post in question was Crawford resharing a video from El-Sayed’s official account, but siding with “Tommy,” the town hall attendee who asked the Michigan senatorial candidate to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. “Tommy, thank you,” Crawford wrote, per a screenshot that continued circulating Sunday. “I had to watch this twice to catch Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s nanosecond ‘yeah absolutely’ response. His subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe proving your exact point is the kind of spectacular self-own most people only dream about triggering. Congrats.” Watch the full town hall interaction with “Tommy” and El-Sayed in the video post below: Crawford serves as CBS News’ chief legal correspondent and contributes to “CBS Evening News,” “CBS Mornings” and “Face the Nation,” in addition CBS News Radio and CBSNews.com. More to come …