Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed said Democrats will work with Trump if "he wants to act serious," according to an ABC News interview with Abdul El-Sayed. The network reported that El-Sayed joined the program This Week after what it described as a historic victory over Republican Mike Rogers in the midterm election.
The ABC News report, published Nov. 8, describes El-Sayed's appearance on This Week but gives no further detail of his remarks about Trump.
A Fox News report on Trump's immigration instructions said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had been told by Trump to engage Democrats on immigration reform. According to the Fox News report, published Nov. 9, Mullin insisted that amnesty "will never happen."
The Fox News summary does not say when or where Trump gave that instruction. It also does not say whether Trump has commented publicly on immigration reform.
ABC News and Fox News published their reports on Nov. 8 and Nov. 9, respectively. Both concern engagement between Democrats and the Trump administration, though the summaries describe different occasions: a television program appearance in one case and remarks attributed to Mullin in the other.
The ABC News and Fox News summaries do not connect El-Sayed's remarks to Mullin's statement, and neither says whether the two officials have discussed the matter.
Neither the ABC News nor the Fox News summary includes a statement from Mike Rogers or from Trump addressing El-Sayed's comments.
Full texts of the ABC News and Fox News reports were not available for this account, so the details above come from their headlines and summaries.
Sources: ABC News: El-Sayed: Democrats will work with Trump if 'he wants to act serious'; Fox News: Trump tells DHS chief to work with Democrats on immigration reform, but no amnesty.