Don Lemon Forgot About This Piece of Evidence Which Could Send Him to Jail | Harmeet Dhillon
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Harmeet Dhillon about the evidence against Don Lemon for violating the FACE Act by being involved with the anti-ICE protesters who stormed a Minnesota church to protest; the DOJ's civil rights enforcement and the legal limits of protest under the First Amendment; how the FACE Act applies to both abortion clinics and houses of worship; high-profile protest cases and claims of uneven enforcement in blue cities; free speech versus unlawful obstruction and intimidation; the DOJ Civil Rights Division's priorities on voting integrity, Second Amendment protections, religious liberty, and rolling back DEI in public institutions; restoring equal application of federal law, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | We strongly believe that all of the nine people who've been indicted so far by the grand jury had both violations. |
| 0:07.0 | They all went inside. They all obstructed, harassed, intimidated, frightened. |
| 0:12.0 | People were actually injured in this melee. And on top of that, they all planned to do it. |
| 0:17.1 | They met outside, and Don Lemon helpfully provided us with live stream video of planning, |
| 0:23.4 | of him bringing donuts and coffee to the co-conspirators, of using the Royal Wee repeatedly |
| 0:30.7 | when he was talking about what we were going to go inside and what we were going to do. |
| 0:34.6 | He even turned off his microphone at one point to conceal what the |
| 0:41.1 | co-conspirators were talking about doing. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ. My old friend and Twitter colleague, Harmeet, Dillon. Harmeet, it's nice to see you. |
| 1:04.1 | Nice to see you, too, Dave. You know, although I've never hired you as a lawyer, I consider you my lawyer. Is that strange? You're basically |
| 1:13.1 | the one person I call if I've got a legal question, and you do it for free. I just want people to know |
| 1:18.4 | that. Like, you really care about all of this stuff. So I'm just saying some nice things about you up |
| 1:22.2 | top. Well, I do it for free for you, Dave. Let's not invite all your viewers to call me with their legal aid questions. Fair, fair. All right. Well, I do it for free for you, Dave. Let's not invite all your viewers to call me with their |
| 1:28.7 | legally aid questions. Fair, fair. All right. Well, it is great to see again. Obviously, |
| 1:33.5 | there is a lot to talk about here. I suppose we should first dive in with some of this Don Lemon |
| 1:41.3 | stuff indicted by a grand jury in Minnesota, does not go to jail, at least yet. |
| 1:49.6 | Some of this will be fought over. |
| 1:52.1 | Can you talk a little bit about the Safe Act, why it was passed, how it pertains, |
| 1:58.4 | how this case involving Don pertains not only to the worshippers civil rights, |
| 2:03.6 | the protesters civil rights, and in this case, Don, who, you know, says he's a journalist, |
| 2:08.9 | and I just don't even know if that's a special protection anymore in an age where everybody |
| 2:13.0 | holds cell phones. Yeah, well, so first of all, I don't even think of this as the Don Levin case. I think of |
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