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Oct 23, 2026
John PassantinoHOST
Oliver, while they were trying to put out one fire in London, another fire at CBS News erupted this week.
John PassantinoHOST
Jan Crawford, the network's chief legal correspondent, posted this bizarre tweet on X, just inexplicably.
John PassantinoHOST
She decided to just log on and applaud this, what was, I think, an attempted ambush on Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic senator candidate from Michigan, who was asked a question by a man in the audience about whether or not he supports the Muslim Brotherhood and basically whether or not he would disavow them.
John PassantinoHOST
Of course, Abdul El-Sayed quickly disavowed them.
Oliver DarcyHOST
She didn't need to blow up at staff.
Oliver DarcyHOST
That's a news cycle that CBS News itself, its senior management in this case, created that has consumed the network and distracted from other things.
Oliver DarcyHOST
And then this Jan Crawford tweet is another self-inflicted wound.
Oliver DarcyHOST
In fact, it came hours after Tony DeCoppo did a pretty good job of pressing Vice President J.D. Vance in a town hall setting.
Howard KurtzHOST
He may win and I think immediately become a national figure.
Howard KurtzHOST
I had to watch this twice to catch Dr. Abdul El Saeed's nanosecond yeah absolutely response his subsequent uninterrupted diatribe proving your exact point is the kind of spectacular self-own that people only dream about triggering congrats so that was his comeback over at CBS Jan Crawford has been there a long time deleted one of her posts and apologized, admitting it violated CBS standards.
Howard KurtzHOST
This involves Syed as well.
Howard KurtzHOST
Earlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul Al-Syed town hall.
Thom HartmannHOST
Graham allegations surface.
Thom HartmannHOST
CBS shields Crawford.
Thom HartmannHOST
And gas prices sink Trump.
Thom HartmannHOST
Good day.
7 MINS LATER
Thom HartmannHOST
Why is Barry Weiss protecting the CBS reporter who cheered a bigoted
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heckler?
Thom HartmannHOST
Early Sunday morning, CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford posted video of a heckler named Tommy demanding that Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, disavow the Muslim Brotherhood.
Thom HartmannHOST
El-Sayed said, sure, absolutely, and then asked why.
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Because if that happens, they're hostage to the DSA.
Andrea PitzerHOST
CBS chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford went mask off when she revealed that her brain was so baked by either working for Barry Weiss, by X, or by a longtime quiet turn toward rancidness that was enough to get her to cheer on the bigotry of the young man at the town hall.
Andrea PitzerHOST
And she replied as if he had won the day rather than embarrassed himself into leaving the room without even being asked to.
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She later apologized and deleted the tweet saying it did not meet CBS standards.
Opinionated OgreHOST
And it was fucking magnificent.
Opinionated OgreHOST
It should be noted that CBS chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford, who's a Barry Weiss ass-kisser, rushed out to defend this poor schmuck.
Opinionated OgreHOST
His name's Tommy.
Opinionated OgreHOST
And she claimed that El-Sayed was totally owned and humiliated, which is a really, really...
Lindsay MastHOST
He took on the motives of the questioner and suggested the question itself was bigoted.
Lindsay MastHOST
El-Sayed posted the encounter on X. CBS correspondent Jan Crawford watched and said she had to watch again to catch what she called El-Sayed's nanosecond disavowal of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Lindsay MastHOST
She called the extended response a spectacular self-own.
Lindsay MastHOST
Crawford subsequently had to delete her post and apologize, citing CBS News standards.
Michael Ian BlackHOST
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Michael Ian BlackHOST
Jan Crawford, I wanna say her name is?
Jim BiedermanHOST
Uh, it j- uh, yes, I think it is Crawford, yeah.
Michael Ian BlackHOST
Uh, she tweeted something essentially taking the exact opposite take of what everybody else saw.
John WilliamsHOST
El-Sayed was clearly ready for this and rather dismantled the argument.
John WilliamsHOST
But Eric, pick it up from here, because Jan Crawford, who is a CBS legal analyst, then posted about that.
John WilliamsHOST
And what happened about that?
Eric ZornGUEST
Yeah, Janet Crawford is a former Tribune legal affairs writer who's gone on to much greater fame and fortune as a television legal affairs correspondent.
John WilliamsHOST
He did not dwell on that fact.
Eric ZornGUEST
He did not dwell on it, but he said, yeah, absolutely, he said.
Eric ZornGUEST
And then Jan Crawford went on to write, his subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe, proving your exact point, is a kind of spectacular self-own.
Eric ZornGUEST
Most people only dream about triggering... congrats she wrote which is such a partisan response such a nakedly partisan response to this moment as a journalist as a ostensibly objective journalist just congratulate this troll in the audience uh and when anybody who watched that could see that abdul sayed not only he wasn't a diatribe he was trying to engage this guy and saying why are you asking oh he talked to the kid a
John WilliamsHOST
El-Sayed was clearly ready for this and rather dismantled the argument.
John WilliamsHOST
But Eric, pick it up from here, because Jan Crawford, who is a CBS legal analyst, then posted about that.
John WilliamsHOST
And what happened about that?
Eric ZornPANELIST
Yeah, Janet Crawford is a former Tribune legal affairs writer who's gone on to much greater fame and fortune as a television legal affairs correspondent.
John WilliamsHOST
He did not dwell on that fact.
Eric ZornPANELIST
He did not dwell on it, but he said, yeah, absolutely, he said.
Eric ZornPANELIST
And then Jan Crawford went on to write, his subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe, proving your exact point, is a kind of spectacular self-own.
Eric ZornPANELIST
Most people only dream about triggering... congrats she wrote which is such a partisan response such a nakedly partisan response to this moment as a journalist as a ostensibly objective journalist just congratulate this troll in the audience uh and when anybody who watched that could see that abdul sayed not only he wasn't a diatribe he was trying to engage this guy and saying why are you asking oh he talked to the kid a
Matt RobisonHOST
El-Sayed, however, he was absolutely masterful in this moment, and the insinuation that he is somehow connected to terrorism because of his parents' country of origin is deeply racist and offensive, and he handled it extremely well.
Matt RobisonHOST
That's not the way that CBS legal correspondent Jan Crawford felt about it.
Matt RobisonHOST
She posted the clip, thanked the questioner, and called El-Sayed's reply a spectacular self-own, and then she turned around and deleted it, apologizing for violating CBS News standards.
Matt RobisonHOST
The point is that the CBS News situation is emblematic of the broader situation going on, where you have people with stunning right-wing agendas in charge of major news platforms where we all get our information.
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