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This is hot topics.

10 a.m. Eastern time.

I am still in the nation's capital.

When can I get out of the nation's capital, especially before Monday? Get me out of here.

Good morning, my friends. So good to have you on Hot Topics on the Don Lemon Show. What a crazy week it has been.

As I said, I'm still in Washington, D.C. I got extended because yesterday was such a crazy day with our

interviews. I got lots of things I had to do,

lots of folks asking me to do interviews about the Wendy Williams interview that I did and

other things, inside edition, et cetera, that kind of thing. And then I went over to the NBC here

and spoke to Jen Saki, and you'll hear about that a little bit later on California wildfires,

cabinet confirmations. Remember, we started with the wildfires and the cabinet confirmation, Pete Hexeth.

And we talked about the TikTok ban.

That shows you my age, TikTok.

TikTok ban.

And then, of course, we had, who did we have the other day? Oh, Pam Bondi. And then Wendy Williams. So, so much has happened. So I have a flight to run to in a little bit. So it's going to be a little bit short, not quite that short, but a little bit short. But I wanted to check in with elimination. I want to share with you the great conversation that I had with the Daily Beast.

The Daily Beast, name me, guess what? Beast of the week. But before that, just real quickly,

because we warned yesterday when I was on with Ms. Monique Presley about the dangers or the danger

of jumping to conclusions as it relates to what is going on with Wendy Williams,

okay, and with people who are in conservativeships, et cetera, et cetera. As we watch the confirmation

from Christy Noem. Remember, Christy Noam is, I mean, they called her the puppy killer. It's

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