EXCLUSIVE: First Black Woman Governor!? With Keisha Lance Bottoms

The Don Lemon Show

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🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Tonight, we break down the growing fallout from Donald Trump’s leadership, from rising economic anxiety to escalating global tensions and mounting questions about corruption and accountability. Gas prices are climbing, recession fears are spreading, and critics are sounding alarms over the massive $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded pool that could potentially benefit Trump allies and political loyalists. Add in the ongoing chaos surrounding Iran policy, and a lot of people are asking the same question: how much more instability can the country take? And then there’s Trump himself. After another round of rambling public remarks today, concerns about his behavior and mental sharpness are once again dominating conversation online and across the political world. We are joined by Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Keisha Lance Bottoms! This episode is sponsored by SelectQuote. Save more than fifty percent on term life insurance at https://selectquote.com/lemon TODAY to get started. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at https://BetterHelp.com/donlemon This episode is brought to you by Lean. Lean is having a Huge Memorial Day Sale and Lean is 25% off!! Visit https://TAKELEAN.com and enter THANK YOU 25 for 25% OFF. That's promo code THANK YOU 25 at https://TAKELEAN.com For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 212-931-0855 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/don DISCLAIMER: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan's contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don't directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. Average potential savings are based on realized premium, co-pay, and out of pocket savings estimates self-reported by consumers that worked with Chapter Advisory LLC to enroll in a Medicare Supplement, Medicare Advantage, and/or Part D Prescription Drug Plan. The average is limited to consumers that chose to self-report. Savings information is subject to periodic updates and corrections. There is no guarantee of savings and any savings may vary by policy type, state, or other factors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are really excited.
0:16.2	Hello, everybody.
0:17.0	Good evening.
0:17.5	Hit the like and the thumbs up.
0:18.7	We had a last second change here. It's why we're a little bit late because we're ready at 5 o'clock. We have Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms at the last minute that her person called back and said, oh my gosh, yes, Don, of course she wants to do your show. And I said, we're going on in 15 minutes. Can you do it? And they said, yes. So all hell broke loose around here. So Mayor Keisha Jay's Bottoms is going to join us in just a little bit here on the show. But look, good evening. I had to tell you something, and I want to get to it really quickly because it's very important. I had this whole monologue that I was going to go through about Donald Trump's unhinged
0:54.3	rant, all of that. He did do all of that. But look, this is why I do what I do and people say, oh my gosh, you're doing man on the streets. What's that all about? By the way, this is our new Pride shirt, Lemon Nation Pride for a Pride month, which is next month. We had the best, I believe, most interesting and eye opening and illuminating conversation
1:14.4	right on the streets of New York on the sidewalk, standing in the crosswalk next to a garbage
1:21.0	can.
1:22.0	I'm not kidding you.
1:23.2	That's why I love doing the man on the streets about Iran.
1:27.3	From an Iranian who approached us, they stopped and they wanted to talk to us and an American man. Are you guys ready for this conversation? I want you to sit, I want you to listen, and then we're gonna get to Mayor Keish Lance Bottons. We're gonna talk about what's happening with the elections. So elimination, like and thumbs up. This is why that you, this is why you support
1:45.3	us as independent media and you should continue to support us as independent journalists
1:48.8	because of conversations like this. Roll it.
1:51.1	Do you want to you care, what's on your mind?
1:54.0	Iran is on my mind. Yeah, tell me about that.
1:57.0	Well, I'm Iranian. So obviously I'm very upset about the whole situation because I feel like this little war that
2:06.6	we did with Iran just made the Islamic regime even more powerful.
2:12.6	And, you know, our government went in without any preparation, any consultation with any other countries and
2:19.3	thinking this is Venezuela where they can just go kidnap somebody and it'll be done, but
2:24.3	that's not how it was over there. They're much more powerful. They've been in Iran for 47
2:29.3	years. Iran is a very, very rich, wealthy country. So they have all the resources on money to become more powerful.
2:39.0	So a little war wasn't going to basically solve the situation.
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