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The Don Lemon Show

Lemon LIVE at 5 | Beto O'Rourke SLAMS Trump and MAGA on Texas & Epstein! - August 7th, 2025

The Don Lemon Show

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Society & Culture, News

3.8659 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Welp… the Epstein meeting saga just keeps getting weirder. First, reports said top Trump officials were gathering to strategize damage control. Then JD Vance called it “fake news.” Now? Turns out it did happen after all. These people couldn’t keep their story straight if you stapled it to them. Meanwhile, in Texas, the redistricting fight is hitting a dangerous new level. Senator John Cornyn says the FBI will help track down Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block the vote. Legal? Constitutional? Sounds like a hard no, but apparently, that’s just a minor detail to the GOP. Tonight, the one and only Beto O’Rourke joins us to break it all down. From shady meetings to political manhunts, it’s a lot. Let’s get into it. This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEMON and use LEMON at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. This episode is brought to you by DeleteMe. Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you text DON to 64000. Message and data rates apply. This episode is sponsored by Wild Alaskan. Not all fish are the same! Get seafood you can trust. Go to https://wildalaskan.com/LEMON for $35 off your first box of premium, wild-caught seafood. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/donlemon and get on your way to being your best self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18 plus opt in and bet on any football marketing at odds of evens or greater no, cash out seven-day expiry one and all. Thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Lemon live at 5 o'clock, we're on right on time today. Actually, two minutes late, but we were

0:55.9

waiting on our guests. But we said, you know what, he's going to join us in progress.

0:59.9

Here's a series, glad you're here. Let me know where you're watching from today. By the way,

1:04.7

yesterday and today's show, the engagement was fantastic. And we're happy that you guys are

1:09.6

enjoying the lives so much and that we're growing. You're helping us to grow this amazing community of almost a million subscribers. So thank you so much for that. Here's a question. We're here's the not even the question. This is the conundrum that we're in now. We're at a crossroads. We have one party, especially in one state,

1:31.4

but trying to take it around the country, really trying to steal elections, being, I believe,

1:38.6

ordered by the President of the United States to go and try to steal elections by gerrymandering districts and doing it in a period where it's not normally done.

1:52.4

And then lying about, oh, this is just, you know, this is normal.

1:56.3

I've spoken to some of the folks who are involved in this and they said, Don, procedural, you know, this is racist,

2:03.1

that he, that Donald Trump or the governor, the Republicans in Texas are trying to disenfranchise

2:09.5

black voters, minority voters, and not in tech, not only in Texas, but they want to take it

2:15.4

around the country and do that. So joining us now

2:18.8

is Beto O'Rourke. He's a former congressman, a presidential candidate, someone that I have interviewed

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many times, downtown halls with. He now runs powered by people, a voter registration and mobilization

2:29.8

nonprofit that does really great work. Thank you for joining us, Beto O'Rour. Thank you for having me.

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It's good to be with you again. How are you doing? I know you're doing okay, but how are you really doing in all this? Because this is crazy. This is crazy. I've never been better. And this is the way I think about it. Some folks, and I get it and I go through these days myself, are tempted to despair right now. And they say, well,

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