Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Arrested
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Andrew Gillum and Angela Rye respond to breaking news that journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been arrested by Trump's DOJ for reporting on a church protest in St. Paul, Minnesota. Two others were arrested, AG Pam Bondi announced, Trahern Jeen Crews and Jamael Lydell Lundy.
Guests:
Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent for The Nation
Elizer (Eli) Darris, ED, MN Freedom Fund
Resmaa Menakem, NYT Best Selling Author My Grandmother’s Hands
Leslie E Redmond, Past President of the Minneapolis NAACP; Executive Director of Win Back Nonprofit
Zaynab Mohamed, Minnesota State Senate
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Lambot is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome home, y'all. |
| 0:13.9 | There is breaking news today as we have just been told that Don Lemon was arrested. |
| 0:19.0 | And last night, covering the Grammys, by the way. |
| 0:21.9 | And so was Georgia Ford, who's become a dear friend to us, has been wonderful on this show. |
| 0:28.5 | As you all know, Georgia Ford joined me just last Tuesday for a solo pod talking about the threat of arrest, |
| 0:34.7 | talking about everything that was going on on the ground in |
| 0:37.8 | Minneapolis, Minnesota. Today, Georgia Fort was served with an arrest warrant where they claimed |
| 0:44.5 | emphasis on claims that there was a grand jury impaneled. She was charged with both the Face Act |
| 0:51.9 | and the KKK Act of 1871. For those of you have been watching, you know what we have to Act and the KKK Act of 1871. |
| 0:54.5 | For those of you have been watching, you know what we have to say about the KKK Act of 1871. |
| 0:59.2 | For those of you who have not been following, we will get into that today. |
| 1:02.2 | But before we get any deeper, joining us right now is this tremendous constitutional law expert, a commentator and a columnist for the nation. |
| 1:13.0 | He is a friend to this show, Ellie Mistow, please tell us what in the world is going on. |
| 1:18.1 | Yeah, there's no point of having constitutional expertise because nothing happening right now is |
| 1:22.3 | constitutional, right? The white supremacist running this government do not care about the |
| 1:26.4 | Constitution. It's not clear that they've read the Constitution, and they certainly don't understand the Constitution |
| 1:31.2 | because arresting journalist is unconstitutional 101, right? |
| 1:36.4 | It's right in the very first amendment to the Constitution that the freedom of the press shall not be abridged. |
| 1:42.6 | Don Lemon, Georgia, Fort were covering a |
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