HOT TOPICS | MAGA's Shutdown Lies & Don Responds to Megyn Kelly - October 2nd, 2025

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The government is shut down, but MAGA is wide open for lies. Despite controlling both the House and the Senate, Republicans are spinning this mess as somehow the Democrats’ fault. Their latest tall tale? That Democrats are pushing “free healthcare for all illegal immigrants.” That’s not even remotely true. What Democrats are fighting for is accessible, affordable healthcare for Americans, something MAGA politicians clearly don’t care to protect. And if that wasn’t enough nonsense for one morning, we’ll also be unpacking Megyn Kelly’s latest attack on Don. She’s spinning her own brand of fiction, but Don’s bringing the facts to set the record straight, and maybe a little shade, too. This episode is sponsored by Ollie. Take the guesswork out of your dog's well-being. Go to https://ollie.com/lemon and use code lemon to get 60% off your first box! This episode is brought to you by Hexclad. Find your forever cookware @hexclad and get 10% off at https://hexclad.com/lemon #hexcladpartner This episode is sponsored by Lean. If you want to lose meaningful weight at a healthy pace and keep it off... Add LEAN to your diet and exercise lifestyle. Get 20% OFF WHEN YOU ENTER LEMON at https://TAKELEAN.com This episode is brought to you by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Don’t let your rights be rewritten. Go to https://FFRS.US/school or text “DON” to 511511 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.5	Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Hot Topics, a Don Lemon Show, 10 a.m. Eastern time right here on the East Coast. So thank you for joining us, wherever you're joining us from around the country, around the world. Let us know. Also, hit the like, hit the thumbs up. It does affect the algorithm and more people become aware of our conversation and our channel. And that's very important, especially the conversation we're about to have this morning.
1:01.9	Because you guys see someone on the thumbnail that I don't really like to talk about because they love attention.
1:08.5	They love it. And so, but you know, sometimes you got to do your thing.
1:15.7	So I want to talk about, you know, we talked about the liars of MAGA.
1:20.3	Initially when I wanted to talk about this, it was in relationship to the shutdown and the lies at the right, excuse me, the MAGA folks, politicians and pundits
1:30.0	are telling about the shutdown that they're saying it's about transgender people in sports
1:36.1	and it is about giving Cadillac insurance, health insurance to undocumented immigrants,
1:43.2	none of which is true.
1:45.0	Okay?
1:46.0	And then I saw this.
1:48.0	Are you guys ready?
1:49.0	This is our friend, Megan Kelly.
1:53.0	And I just said, you know what?
1:56.0	We got to talk about this.
2:00.0	And first off, I'm going to bring in an analysis and an expert, an analyst and an expert,
2:06.8	and that is Tim Wise.
2:09.5	Tim Wise is a friend of the show.
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