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

Good morning, everyone. I'm Tom Bevin, co-host of RealClearPolitics on the Megyn Kelly Channel. It's Monday, August 31st, 2026, and this is your AM Update. To anybody who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I'm really sorry. That was not my intention. Michigan's Democrat nominee for U.S. 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. He was ordered to appear in immigration court. He didn't show up. The judge ordered him deported. British commentator and social media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by ICE and deported back to the U.K. A third day of deliberations getting underway in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after jurors asked to examine key evidence before breaking for the weekend. And a fake NFL football player and his supposed financial advisor accused of turning online romance into a million-dollar scam. 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U.S. 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. The U.S. Senate's Democratic candidate for U.S. appetite. But what if you are looking to lose weight but are are not interested in painful weekly injections, especially when you hear about some of the intense side effects. This is why doctors created a weight loss supplement called Lean, and the results could be remarkable. 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Clancy pleading not guilty to three murder charges after strangling her three young children inside their Massachusetts home in January 2023, then attempting to take her own life. Both sides acknowledged she was mentally ill, leaving jurors to determine whether she was also criminally responsible for the killings. The panel able to consider first-degree murder, second-degree murder, or manslaughter. As well as not guilty or a verdict of not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington telling reporters jurors sent just one note on Friday, asking to examine prescription pill bottles and the knife used during Clancy's suicide attempt. That request coming around 10 a.m., less than an hour into Friday's session, and roughly four hours into deliberations overall. Judge William Sullivan discussing the request with attorneys at Sidebar without bringing jurors into the courtroom or publicly reading their question. Any verdict requires unanimous agreement, and the judge may declare a mistrial if jurors cannot resolve their differences and remain deadlocked. We spoke with the MK True Crime Show co-host Phil Holloway, asking first whether jurors should have been kept sequestered as they weigh Clancy's fate. Whether or not to sequester a jury is always within the sound discretion of the trial judge. It's one of these things where there's a trade-off because juries don't like to be sequestered. And so it can make a juror less likely to pay attention in court. It could cause them to be distracted by feeling like they're missing out on personal matters. And so judges have to balance that with the needs of the trial, or in this case, the rights of the parties to have a fair trial. So the judge basically has to balance those considerations. I think in this case, probably sequestration would have made more sense, but it is something that's within the sound discretion of the judge. Inside the jury room, Friday's request for evidence offering a rare glimpse into deliberations, though Holloway cautions against reading too much into it. Anytime we have jury notes, you really lack context other than the actual note itself. But we just don't know what prompted them to submit that note. It may have been one juror that had a question about what the knife looked like, or it may have been a group of them that wanted to know more about the pills. And so it's very difficult to infer anything, particularly at this early stage in the deliberations. Once we start to see more notes, and I think we probably will, we might be able to discern some sort of a pattern and be able to see if they might be leaning one way or another based on a series of notes. But with just one note, you really can't tell. The panel now set to enter a third day of deliberations. We asked how that timeline stacks up against the volume of evidence presented. Ten hours of deliberation for a trial that lasted more than a month is really no time at all. We can expect probably several more days of deliberations. There's a lot of evidence to go through. There's a lot of testimony to go through. You have a lot of conflicting testimony that the jurors are going to have to consider and debate with each other in the trial. And so we're going to have to consider and debate with each other in the trial. And so we're going to have to consider and debate with each other in the jury room. And you might imagine that there's going to be some strongly held beliefs in that jury room. There's a lot of people in the public, for example, who have strong feelings that she's absolutely guilty. And you have strong feelings that she's absolutely not guilty by reason of insanity, perhaps. And so you can imagine there's probably some of that in the jury room. And so it's going to take a while for the jury of 12 people to reach any kind of consensus. A man posing as a San Francisco 49ers player, along with his supposed financial advisor, now under arrest, accused of running a shocking fraud involving scamming dozens of women out of about $1.3 million. Federal prosecutors in Oregon identifying the defendants as 35-year-old Dajon LaBraye Love and 18-year-old Taylor Jamie Chan, both charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Investigators identifying 26 alleged victims across California, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. In a scheme stretching back to February 2022, Love allegedly finding women through dating apps and social media, then convincing them to send money for investments to him or Chan, whom he introduced as his financial advisor. Love presenting himself online as a wealthy San Francisco 49ers wide receiver. Love publicly posting photos and videos of himself dressed in team gear, pretending to train, along with posts allegedly stolen from real NFL players and presented as his own. An affidavit submitted by an FBI agent detailing more than $1,100 in purchases from a custom football helmet company, plus purchases from businesses selling realistic fake cash and social media followers, likes and views. Investigators describing those purchases as part of an effort to make his invented lifestyle look legitimate. Outkick obtaining video of Love documenting supposed career milestones for the woman he was trying to impress. An affidavit submitting by an FBI agent detailing more than $1,100 in purchases from a custom football helmet company, plus purchases from a custom football helmet company, plus purchases from a custom football helmet company.