El-Sayed’s Synagogue Attack Apology, Milo Deported, Fake NFL Player’s Alleged Scam: AM Update 8/31

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Good morning, everyone. I'm Tom Bevan, co-host of RealClear Politics on the Megyn Kelly Channel. It's Monday, August 31st, 2026, and this is your AM Update.

**Abdul El-Sayed** (0:42)
To anybody who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I'm really sorry that was not my intention.

**Tom Bevan** (0:47)
Michigan's Democrat nominee for US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, apologizing for his response to a Michigan synagogue attack as Democrats clash over the party's direction and a possible Kamala Harris comeback.

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British commentator and social media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by ICE and deported back to the UK.
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**Tom Bevan** (2:26)
Michigan's Democrat nominee for US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, trying to put a string of controversies behind him, apologizing Saturday for his response to a March synagogue attack as he works to bring skeptical Democrats aboard his campaign against Republican Mike Rogers. The Associated Press reporting the apology coming during a meeting with the state's Jewish Democratic Caucus in Lansing. The controversy dating back to March 12th after an armed attacker drove into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township outside Detroit.
El-Sayed addressing the attack in a March 13th social media video.

**Abdul El-Sayed** (2:58)
Ayman Ghazali hurt people. There is no justification for what he did. It was wrong and he never should have done it.
Hurt people hurt people.
A week earlier, an airstrike killed his niece and nephew. Imagine if that had never happened. Imagine there was no war in Iran. Imagine if there were no airstrikes in Lebanon. Imagine if his family had never died. Imagine there was never an attack on Temple Israel. That's the world that we want to live in. That's the world we need to build for. Violence always begets violence. Only peace can extinguish that because hurt people hurt people.

**Tom Bevan** (3:29)
Nearly six months later, those remarks following El-Sayed into the general election. El-Sayed facing questions from a reporter Saturday at the state Democrat convention.

**Abdul El-Sayed** (3:37)
At the end of the day, our responsibility is to come together as a party. And I made clear I got a really important question about that at the Jewish caucus. And my comments might have been misconstrued to be justifying something I did not intend to justify. Right? To anybody who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I'm really sorry that was not my intention. We condemned that terrorist attack. We condemned it outright. What I was trying to do was offer context for why it happened, but it wasn't the time for context. And you don't ever want to trample somebody's pain.

**Tom Bevan** (4:04)
El-Sayed also reportedly softening his message at the state convention after defeating Congresswoman Haley Stevens in the primary. CNN reporting he avoided naming a frequent target of his campaign, the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, in his speech.