Lemon LIVE at 5 | Donald Trump's War In Iran: How Scared Should We Be?!

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Tonight, Don sits down with an all-star panel to break down the rapidly escalating crisis surrounding Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran and what it means for the U.S., the region, and the world. We’ll unpack the latest developments as the U.S. and allied forces continue military operations, Iran fires back, and Trump repeatedly signals that “more is coming,” with no clear end in sight. Multiple service members have already been killed, and officials have not ruled out even broader engagement as this conflict threatens to widen. What are the legal, strategic, and geopolitical implications of this escalation? How are U.S. leaders reacting at home? And what could this mean for the next chapter of Middle East tensions? Tonight Don is joined by the host of The Majority Report, Sam Seder, the host of Breaking Points, Krystal Ball, White House reporter for Axios Marc Caputo, Zeteo political reporter Prem Thakker, independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel, and Congressman Jimmy Gomez. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at https://BetterHelp.com/donlemon This episode is brought to you by Shopify. See less carts go abandoned and more sales go with Shopify and their Shop Pay button.Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://SHOPIFY.COM/lemon This episode is sponsored by Bioptimizers. Go to bioptimizers.com/donlemon and use my exclusive code DON15 to get 15% off any order. Make 2026 the year you finally start sleeping great again. This episode is brought to you by 120Life. Go to https://120Life.com—and use code DON for 20% off. Try it risk-free for two weeks. If your blood pressure doesn’t come down, you get a full refund. Don’t wait until next month. Nothing to lose except higher blood pressure numbers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, everybody. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5. Thank you so much for joining. You know the first sort of business like and thumbs up.
0:21.6	It affects the algorithm.
0:22.6	More people become aware of our conversation.
0:24.6	The algorithm pushes it out when you have engagement. And so we want people to really be engaged in this one because we have a great group of people to discuss. discuss I mean, I believe this smartest panel that we have had, which involves Sam Cedar,
0:37.9	Crystal Ball, Mark
0:38.7	Fudo, Prim Tucker, all coming on in different parts of the show.
0:41.6	Jasper Nathaniel, Representative Jimmy Gomez, and County Commissioner Nita Alam is going to
0:46.5	join us.
0:46.9	So it's going to be a great show.
0:48.4	We're going to try to make your sense somehow of what's happening in the Middle East, why
0:53.7	all of a sudden there was this urgent
0:56.1	need or desire to strike in Iran. So thank you for joining us, everyone. Appreciate it. Let us know
1:02.6	where you're streaming from. But as we start to stream to you on this particular evening here,
1:08.2	we have the breaking news that CENTCOM says six U.S. service members have now been killed due to ongoing military operations related to Iran.
1:19.6	U.S. forces today recovered the remains of two previously unaccompanied or unaccounted, excuse me, for service members from a facility that was struck during Iran's initial attack in the region.
1:32.3	Over the last three days, as you have been watching if you've been paying attention to the news, Israel,
1:36.3	President Donald Trump's unprecedented attack on Iran has escalated from a decapitation strike into a massive, chaotic, regional conflict
1:47.6	with huge consequences for U.S. forces, global energy flows, and financial markets.
1:54.5	And so let's discuss some of this.
1:57.8	I believe Sam is here a bit early, Sam Cedar, over at the majority report,
2:02.1	who I watch religiously, and I'm not just saying that because he's on the program. He knows
2:05.8	that. I'm sure his algorithm picks it up, that I'm a member as well. Sam Cedar, thanks for
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