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The Don Lemon Show

Is Washington D.C. Reaching A Breaking Point?!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Another week, another surge of chaos, and the pressure in Washington, D.C. is clearly building. From the shocking shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to the eyebrow-raising indictment of James Comey, it’s been nonstop headlines and even more questions. Then came a major Supreme Court decision out of Louisiana, gutting the Voting Rights Act and setting off alarms about how far protections against discrimination are eroding. And through it all? The distractions, the spin, and yes, continued focus on priorities that feel wildly out of step with the moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Shots fired at the White House Correspondents' dinner. The president is evacuated. Something

0:04.1

serious just happened in Washington. Before we get into it, hit the like, subscribe, and thumbs

0:10.6

up, and become a member if you want to support our work. Washington just had one of the most chaotic

0:16.5

weeks in recent memory. A former FBI director is indicted over a beach photo. The Supreme Court

0:22.9

just gutted the Voting Rights Act in a ruling critics are calling one of the most serious blows

0:27.7

to black political power since the Jim Crow era. And there is a $400 million White House

0:34.5

construction fight raising real constitutional questions we're breaking all of it

0:39.1

down for you now and you need to hear it and i want to start with cole allen now cole allen is a 31 year old

0:46.1

man he's from torrents california he is a caltech graduate one of the hardest schools in the country to get into. He has a degree in mechanical

0:56.7

engineering. He has a master's in computer science. He is a teacher. He's a game developer. He's a

1:05.3

tutor. He was named Teacher of the Month at his tutoring center. I believe it was December of

1:10.0

2024, reportedly. That was in his LinkedIn profile. I believe it was December of 2024,

1:11.8

that was in his LinkedIn profile.

1:13.9

And on his profile, there's a cap and gown photo,

1:16.8

a graduation photo of him, but everything,

1:19.8

but everything this country tells you matters

1:23.8

by any means, all of that, by any of that,

1:27.2

he did it right. He seemed to be like someone

1:30.2

who was educated and then people say this is the right way to do it. He did it right. And then

1:33.7

something, sometime in the weeks before last Saturday, he made a drastic decision. He bought

1:40.1

a train ticket in Los Angeles. He wrote to Chicago. He got on another train to Washington, D.C.

1:46.7

He checked into that Washington Hilton, D.C. hotel.

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