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The Don Lemon Show

Lemon LIVE at 5 | Are Donald Trump & Pam Bondi Trying to Stop the Release of the Epstein Files?!

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Tonight we’re diving into Pam Bondi’s absolutely disastrous press conference where she dodged and danced around every question, somehow managing to say nothing at all. It was a mess, and it raised even bigger questions about what the Trump administration is planning next. Are they preparing to block the release of the Epstein files? Are they trying to limit what the public gets to see? We’ll break down her evasive answers, the political signals she tried (and failed) to send, and what all of this might mean for transparency, accountability, and the fight to get these files released. This episode is brought to you by Graza. Take your food to the next level with Graza Olive Oil. Visit https://graza.co/DON and use promo code DON today for 20% off your first order! This episode is sponsored by MSI. Donate now to help millions of women get access to care — and to hope. You can Text LEMON to five eleven five eleven, or go to https://MSIUnited States.org. This episode is brought to you 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 sponsored by Beam. Go to https://shopbeam.com/LEMON, use code LEMON, and get up to 50% off during Beam’s Cyber Sale. You can grab Dream for just $32.50—But here’s the catch—Dream is only available at this price until it sells out. For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 212-931-0855 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/don DISCLAIMER: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan's contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don't directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. Average potential savings are based on realized premium, co-pay, and out of pocket savings estimates self-reported by consumers that worked with Chapter Advisory LLC to enroll in a Medicare Supplement, Medicare Advantage, and/or Part D Prescription Drug Plan. The average is limited to consumers that chose to self-report. Savings information is subject to periodic updates and corrections. There is no guarantee of savings and any savings may vary by policy type, state, or other factors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening, one and all. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5, right here on the Don Lemon show on the Don Lemon channel.

0:24.1

We welcome everybody. We're happy that you're all here. We're going to talk about a lot of things,

0:28.6

including showing you some of what happened last night at the most spectacular, amazing,

0:35.3

bigly, huge, humongous live show that I had last night, that we had last night,

0:40.5

with Jennifer Welch and Anthony Scaramucci and Jay Jordan.

0:44.9

Fantastic. But we have a lot of news that we want to catch you up on.

0:48.3

Two really, really big stories that shows you how I keep telling you guys, MAGA is having some problems

0:57.6

right now, floundering, flailing, flinching, flagellating, flagellants, all of it, whatever, all the F-words

1:08.5

is what's happening right now. So let me know where you're streaming from because you know that's important. I like to shout you guys out and I like to know, especially if you're somewhere like, you know, around the world. Okay, so did someone say they're in Kyoto, Japan, or were they saying hi to Kyoko? I don't know. Anyways. So welcome everybody. Like and thumbs up. Florida, Alaska,

1:30.6

Virginia. Amazing. Okay. So here's what happened today. And we have, oh, my gosh, wait till you see the guests

1:36.6

that we have on Laguna Beach. I love Laguna Beach. I love Laguna Beach, Laguna Nogal, Magna Hills. I

1:42.1

love all of it. Virginia. Thank you. New Jersey is here.

1:46.8

Connecticut is in the house. Dublin. Yay. Dublin wins the award so far.

1:51.5

Atlanta, Georgia, here, Rhode Island. Okay. So just in case you guys did not see it,

1:57.4

we're going to tell you all about it, Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles and Chicago and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

2:03.4

Pam Bondy stood at a podium today and sounded like somebody who had unplugged the personality chip from her body.

2:12.7

She kept giving the same sentence again and again, no matter what the question was, no matter how

2:18.6

directly the press pushed her. I mean, it was like, it was like watching a, you ever seen

2:23.9

watching a robot glitch on live television? And so it's, it's, it's, they went in there,

2:32.9

and they said, what can we say legally in case we don't release these

2:38.2

because we're not we don't plan on doing it and then they said this is the answer that will get

2:45.2

you through all of this if you release them or not release them come come up with an investigation, find an excuse.

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