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The Don Lemon Show

Keith Edwards Responds to Jasmine Crockett Backlash

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Don sits down with political commentator Keith Edwards to unpack the growing controversy around the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. In a moment marked by escalating attacks on the press, they ask a difficult question: should journalists attend, or does showing up risk legitimizing the very behavior they’re meant to challenge? They also address recent backlash surrounding Edwards himself after his reaction to Jasmine Crockett’s Senate run sparked accusations of bias. What was said, how it was received, and what does it reveal about political discourse today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, sir. Hi. So you're in D.C. now, back again. I'm back to ground zero. Why? Why? I'm here for the White House correspondence. Not the dinner, but the events. You're not going to the dinner. No. Are you going to the dinner? No. No. I can't, I can't, here's my stay. Were they arrest you if you showed up? That's the thing. Why would I go and sit and like have champagne with people who arrested me?

0:23.2

And so I feel like sitting there and sipping champagne in the tuxedo is kind of normalizing

0:27.2

it and it's this isn't normal and legitimizing.

0:30.9

I feel there's exact same way.

0:33.5

Like he's obviously going to make fun of the press Because he's going to give a little speech, right?

0:38.3

And so what do the press do in that moment?

0:42.2

They do laugh at themselves?

0:43.7

They laugh at him.

0:44.6

Like, he's been such an enemy of the First Amendment.

0:47.8

I just don't.

0:48.4

And this is really just supposed to be a celebration of that.

0:51.4

Yeah.

0:51.6

And he is someone who's been constantly fighting. So I don't understand going. I understand wanting to be here to have community and that sort of thing, but going to that event, you know. When you think about the people who are going, what do you say to them? Or what do you think of them? I don't, I mean, oh God, I don't feel, I don't feel very, like, I don't understand it.

1:14.0

But you said to me you think they should reavala.

1:15.3

I think they should reevaluate their lives.

1:17.8

Because he, because he is, like, why do you want to celebrate with someone who wants to take away your profession or wants to control how you speak.

1:30.3

It doesn't make sense to me.

1:32.3

The First Amendment is number one because it's the most important and he's been the number one enemy of it.

1:38.3

So I just don't get it. I would like, I mean, you're not going. I wish I could talk to someone to explain to me why it's important that they're there.

1:45.1

Well, people tell me I don't want to go, but my corporate media friends, many of them are like, I got to go. Like the company asked me to go, and if they ask me to go, you have to go. And some people think, look, I had someone on this morning when I talking about journalists. I mean, I guess he is now, sort of, because he's in the Pentagon briefing room.

2:01.9

Charlie from TMZ was on the show today. And Charlie said, oh, I think you should go.

2:06.6

I would want to be in that room and so that I can report it. And I said, but the people in that room aren't reporting on it. I mean, maybe they'll come out and report on it later, but still, they're still in there celebrating it as a party with the very same

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