A CBS News correspondent apologized and deleted a post praising a heckler who questioned whether left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has an allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood. 

Jan Crawford, chief legal correspondent at CBS News and a frequent contributor to the network’s morning and evening news shows, wrote Sunday: “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.”

In the since-deleted post, Crawford lauded a man known as “Tommy” who asked El-Sayed to denounce the terror-designated Islamist group.

“Tommy, thank you. I had to watch this twice to catch Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s nanosecond ‘yeah absolutely’ response,” she wrote above a re-post of the viral video. 

“His subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe proving your exact point is the kind of spectacular self own [sic] most ppl [sic] only dream about triggering. Congrats.”

During the town hall, Tommy asked El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed’s opponent, Republican Mike Rogers, a former House Intelligence Committee chairman and ex-FBI special agent, has tried to link the lefty candidate to the radical group.

“Sure. Yeah, absolutely,” El-Sayed replied to Tommy’s question – before going on a nearly five-minute screed against the line of questioning. 

“Why are you asking the question?” El-Sayed asked Tommy. 

“Well, because they’re a terrorist group,” Tommy responded.

“But what are you implying?” El-Sayed pressed. “Do you assume that I wouldn’t?”

Tommy said, “Yes…because I have not heard you disavow them yet.”