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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Don Lemon Arrested

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been taken into custody, charged with dozens of anti-immigration protesters as they interrupted a church service in Saint Paul, Minnesota, last week. Lemon said he was there as a journalist, not a protester. Meanwhile, parts of the Southeast are bracing for snow and hurricane-force winds this weekend as a winter storm intensifies off the coast of North Carolina.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.1

Happening now, breaking news, former CNN anchor, Don Lemon, is arrested by federal agents and how it's tied to the St. Paul

0:39.1

Church protests. We're going to explain all about that and what we're learning. Plus, new CNN

0:44.0

analysis of the movements of the two officers involved in the killing of Alex Pready. And winter

0:50.5

wallet parts of the southeast are bracing for snow and hurricane force winds this weekend.

0:56.2

We are tracking the storm as it intensifies off the coast of North Carolina.

1:00.5

Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.

1:03.4

I'm Pamela Brown.

1:04.2

Wolf Blitzer is off and you're in the Situation Room. And we began this hour with that breaking news.

1:20.3

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been taken into custody.

1:23.6

Lemon was with dozens of anti-immigration protesters as they interrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, last week.

1:31.3

Now, Limon said he was there as a journalist, not a protester.

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