Bombshell Epstein Revelations & a Voting Rights Battle!

The Don Lemon Show

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Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Tonight, we’ve got a LOT to unpack. First, new bombshell developments in the Epstein saga. Tara Palmeri joins us to break down the latest revelations, growing questions about Epstein’s network, and the fallout from a closed-door hearing involving Howard Lutnick and reported ties now back in the spotlight. We’ll also discuss the newly surfaced “suicide note” and why it’s already fueling even more speculation and controversy. Then we turn to breaking news out of Tennessee, where Republicans have redrawn congressional maps to dismantles the state’s only majority-Black district. We’re joined by Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones and civil rights activist Gary Chambers to break it all down. And finally, we pivot to the state of the free press and why independent journalism matters now more than ever with journalist and author Sophia Nelson. A packed night covering power, accountability, democracy, and the stories shaping the country right now. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at https://BetterHelp.com/donlemon This episode is brought to you by Aura Frames. Exclusive $25-off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/DONLEMON. Promo Code DONLEMON This episode is sponsored by FFRF. Visit https://ffrf.us/don or text DON 511511 to join or learn more. Because freedom belongs to all of us. Text Fees May Apply Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone.
0:15.0	Welcome to the program.
0:17.5	Welcome to Lemon Live at 5.
0:19.0	We want to get right to it.
0:20.0	Make sure you hit the like and the thumbs up. It affects the algorithm. More people become aware of our conversation.
0:24.0	Please do that. And we will get started because we have some breaking news. We have a few breaking
0:28.9	news stories that are just coming into the Don Lemon Show newsroom. And one of them is on Jeffrey Epstein.
0:36.0	And also someone that you know, Remember John Kerry ran for president?
0:39.9	Also was in the Obama administration. And so, and Rokana is speaking out on it. It comes from our friend,
0:49.2	Tara Palmeri, over at her sub-sac is the red letter and she has been doing this investigation
0:53.7	for a while.
0:55.0	Tara, Paul Mary, joins us now. Tara, this is an interesting thing. You said exclusive. John Kerry's Uncomfortable Epstein Connection. What is the reporting on this? What's going on? Yeah, so I spent about 10 months looking into all of the files. Obviously, we got more files when they released the Epstein,
1:12.0	well, not the full, but some of the Epstein files. And what you can see is, you know,
1:17.8	a relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and John Kerry. I remember back in 2019 when I was
1:24.0	working with Virginia Jew Frey trying to find witnesses to corroborate her story.
1:29.2	We traveled all around the country.
1:30.7	She told me that she encountered John Kerry.
1:33.5	And I was frankly shocked because the years in which she would have encountered him were the height of Epstein's sex trafficking operation.
1:41.0	And just a few years before he ran for president in 2004. If you all remember,
1:45.7	he was the Democratic presidential nominee. He went on to be the Secretary of State, a climate
1:51.1	envoy. And as part of that job, he was a member of Biden's National Security Council.
1:55.0	So he has had critical roles over the last three decades of administrations, and he was a senator and senior
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