Exclusive: Don Lemon's attorney, Abbe Lowell, one-on-one with Jen Psaki
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
MS NOW, Jen Psaki
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | That is all in for this very, very, very busy week. The briefing with Jen Saki starts right now. Good evening, Jen. |
| 0:08.7 | Chris, I guess we've reached the point in this story where journalists are arrested in the middle of the night. That is the point in this story that we've reached. And I'm sitting here. I have Abby Lull here sitting across from me |
| 0:22.1 | at the table. He's Don Lemon's attorney. We're going to talk about that. And not just what it means for |
| 0:27.5 | Don, but what it really means for everybody out there. Because I think that's one of the big questions |
| 0:32.8 | that I'm looking forward to digging into. But what a freaking week this has been and a day. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah. And I'm looking forward to watching that interview because that, well, I'm not a lawyer, but let's just say I read the indictment and strikes me as a little dubious, but I'm curious to hear what Tom Lemmon's lawyer has to say. I read it too, 14 pages. It's available. Everybody can read it out there, but we're going to dig into that in just a moment, too. Awesome. Thanks, Jen. Have a good weekend. Okay. I don't know about you. I went to bed last |
| 1:01.3 | night thinking that the story that would absolutely dominate the news today was Donald Trump suing the IRS |
| 1:07.6 | and the U.S. Treasury for $10 billion. I mean, that is, it is a huge freaking deal. The president of the United States suing the IRS and the U.S. Treasury for $10 billion. I mean, that is, it is a huge freaking deal. |
| 1:12.9 | The president of the United States suing a government agency that he himself controls, |
| 1:18.0 | an agency that will be defended by government lawyers who ultimately are under his control. |
| 1:23.6 | A president just blatantly abusing his power to enrich himself, like that felt like it would be |
| 1:30.7 | the biggest story of the day. I was reading up on it. I was all ready to talk about it. |
| 1:35.4 | But boy, was I wrong on that one. I mean, today my colleagues, first of all, Carol Lennig and |
| 1:40.1 | Kenselan, and also broke another story that would be dominating news coverage on almost any day. |
| 1:46.5 | Because it turns out the reason the special agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta field office was |
| 1:51.2 | forced out of his job earlier this month was because he expressed concerns about the FBI's plan to |
| 1:57.6 | investigate the 2020 election results in Fulton County, Georgia. We also learned that |
| 2:01.8 | news today. Now, that news comes just days after the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton |
| 2:07.7 | County Election Center, seizing 700 boxes of materials, including ballots related to the 2020 |
| 2:13.9 | election. So the fact that the special agent in charge of the Atlanta field office |
| 2:18.3 | balked at that investigation and the FBI fired him and then move forward with it anyway, |
| 2:24.8 | that, it should be the biggest news of the month. And I promise you we're going to continue to |
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