meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | Tulsi Gabbard, Markwayne Mullin & Right Wing Media Drama!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Don sits down with political strategist and friend of the show Mike Nellis to break down a day that somehow managed to be both chaotic and completely absurd.From Markwayne Mullin’s tense confirmation hearing to Tulsi Gabbard’s eyebrow-raising testimony, the serious cracks inside the administration are getting harder to ignore.And then… there’s whatever is happening in right-wing media right now between Megyn Kelly and Mark Levin. Yes, that controversy. You really can’t make this stuff up.Don and Mike break it all down, the politics, the dysfunction, and the pure circus of it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Let's start with Mark Wayne, I think, because that one's the most, most of it's happened already.

0:18.1

You know, my father taught me never to trust a man with two first names, so I don't trust this guy at all.

0:23.8

I don't know if you saw Rand Paul really got in his face this morning over Mark Wade Mullen,

0:29.0

basically encouraging political violence.

0:30.7

So it seems like there's a bit of unhappiness in the tent.

0:33.9

I assume that Mullen is on track to get confirmed because he's already got John Federman lined up to vote for him because Fetterman can't even pretend like he's not just caucusing with the Republicans at this point. So I imagine they have the inside straight, but the guy is no different, in my opinion, than Christy Knoam. They're basically show horses. Trump likes them because they look good on TV. I think Mark White-Mullin might be the only member of the senator who doesn't have a college degree. I don't even know if he has a GED, to be honest with you. But I don't think he's qualified for the job and he'll be an absolute disaster. Yeah, the thing is, why him is my question. I don't understand why him. And I guess, you know, the answer to that question is

1:13.3

it's this administration and that's why. But I really don't understand why they would

1:19.1

nominate him. But look, they had Christy Nome in that position as well. So that should answer

1:24.2

just about every question that you have about this. Like, look, like, Nome was a disaster, but she was a former governor. Like she had some gravitas to her. Like Mark Wayne's a senator, but he's a freshman senator. He's relatively new. He has zero accomplishments. So to me, it's actually a step backwards from Nome. Now, maybe he'll play his cards a little bit smarter and he won't be having sex

1:44.7

with Cory Lewandowski on a government plane that they were.

1:50.6

He is lost on this administration. There's nothing about Mullen that screams Homeland Security,

1:56.7

ICE, TSA. He doesn't know what he's doing. And he's basically admitted that. He literally said in his hearing earlier today,

2:03.7

he's not a particularly smart human being.

2:05.5

So I just don't, I don't understand what they're doing.

2:08.4

They got to find people that actually know what the fuck they're doing so that they can

2:11.2

govern this nation.

2:13.1

I'm going to try something here that I've never tried before.

2:16.9

So stand by. and that is this.

2:19.1

Can you see what I have on the screen?

2:20.7

I can.

2:21.9

I don't think sound doesn't work for this, though, if you're going to play the clip.

2:25.0

There's no sound.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 18Hundred LLC., and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of 18Hundred LLC. and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.