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🗓️ 31 January 2026

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On tonight's show, we dig deep into the four horses of the democracy apocalypse: the FBI raid and seizure of Fulton County Georgia election office, the rendition of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father to Texas, the ongoing occupation and terror campaign against Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the arrest of Don Lemon, fellow independent journalist Georgia Fort, Trahern Jeen Crews, co founder of Black Lives Matter Minnesota, and Jamael Lydell Lundy… who is a lobbyist for the Hennepin County attorneys office – and a candidate for the Minnesota State Senate. And we throw in some shade for Trump's new pet: Nicky Minaj. Our guests: former prosecutor Paul Butler, Mo Ivory, the Fulton County, Georgia Commissioner representing District 4 and a candidate for Chair of the Fulton County Commission, Texas Rep. Julian Castro, abortion rights activist Lizz Winstead, Judge Glenda Hatchett, Nana Gyamphi of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and our friend Lev Parnas. Sign the petition: Demand congress subpoena key figures on Epstein case https://tinyurl.com/5n8cuc23 GUEST SOCIALS: Paul Butler: IG, X Bluesky: @lawprofbutler Mo Ivory: Instagram: @themoivory Twitter/X: @moivory TikTok: @moivory YouTube: @CommissionerMoIvory Rep. Joaquin Castro: IG &X: @joaquincastrotx Judge Hatchett: IG: @thejudgehatchett Lizz Winstead: X/IG/tiktok: @lizzwinstead @lizzwinstead.bsky.social Nana Gyamfi: IG: @attorneynana BAJI: IG: @instabaji X: @BAJItweet THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Go to Quince.com/JOYREID for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too ABOUT JOY REID: Joy-Ann Lomena Reid (AKA Joy Reid) is a best-selling American author, political journalist and TV host. She was a national correspondent for MSNBC and is best known for hosting the Emmy-nominated, NAACP Award-winning political commentary and analysis show, The ReidOut, from 2020 to 2025. Her previous anchoring credits include The Reid Report (2014–2015) and AM Joy (2016–2020). STAY CONNECTED WITH THE SHOW: Website: https://www.joyannreid.com Merch: https://shop.thejoyreidshow.com/ Substack: https://substack.com/@joyannreid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Joy-Reid-Show/61576759980854/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyreidshow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thejoyreidshow FOLLOW JOY ON SOCIAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyreidofficial/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyannreid/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joyreidofficial Want to hear more of our theme song? Check out the Foodchain page on BandCamp: https://pthefoodchain.bandcamp.com/track/the-foodchain-basically-ft-jd-era ============================= Copyright Notice: This video and my YouTube channel contains content that is property of The Joy Reid Show, a production of Image Lab Media Group. You are authorized to share the video link and channel, and embed this video in your website or others as long as a link back to this YouTube Channel is provided. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, everybody. Happy Friday, kind of TGIF, and welcome to the Joy Reid show.
0:19.7	Thank you to everybody who tuned in earlier today for our live
0:23.5	coverage of the arrest of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and two other African Americans in who
0:30.2	covered and who were present for the protests at a church in Minneapolis. We want to show you some video right now of the scene outside
0:40.4	of the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. That's Karen Bass, who's speaking now. She
0:46.4	attended the hearing where Don Lemon was, I guess, being arraigned on the charges, the federal
0:53.4	charges that have been levied against him for no other reason than that he was doing journalism.
0:59.5	This is a pretty outrageous moment.
1:01.3	But let's listen just for a second to what Karen Bass is saying.
1:10.0	Hold on, guys.
1:10.8	That's all right.
1:16.1	While we're doing that, while we're setting that back up, I just want to let you all know that these are the four things that we are trying to kind of wrap our heads around and keep our focus on tonight. That is before the thing started.
1:29.2	So Jason's going to line that up. We're focusing obviously on the rest of Don Lemon, as well as Georgia
1:33.9	Fort, who's an independent black journalist from Minneapolis, as well as two other black
1:40.2	citizens. There are actually four people arrested. Trahearn, Jean Cruz, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Minnesota, Georgia Fort, and a gentleman
1:48.0	named Jamail Lindell Lundee, who is a lobbyist from Hennepin County Attorney's Office and
1:54.9	also a candidate for the Minnesota State Senate.
1:57.7	And we listen to here.
2:01.8	Anyway, how far is this going to go?
2:05.5	We're 1505 days away from celebrating 250th anniversary of our democracy that has been under attack every day since this administration took over.
2:18.3	I am not a lawyer, but I will tell you to listen to this court proceedings and made no sense at all what they described as his crime
2:29.3	from my place around the country. This would spark a lot of danger, obviously, the arrested journalists,
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