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The Don Lemon Show

Lemon LIVE at 5 | Hegseth's SignalGate Continues - April 22nd, 2025

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

Society & Culture, News

3.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The Pete Hegseth Signal scandal is still spiraling—and the question remains: will he ever face consequences? Leaking military plans in a family group chat isn’t just reckless, it’s a national security nightmare. So why is he still calling the shots? Meanwhile, chaos continues as Tim Pool—yes, the beanie’d YouTuber with alleged ties to Russia—somehow landed a seat at a White House press briefing. How did that happen? And what does it say about the administration’s media strategy... or lack thereof? Don is joined by journalist, author, and radio host Clay Cane to break down the dysfunction, the double standards, and the daily disaster that passes for governance in 2025. It’s gonna be a wild one. This episode is sponsored by Shopify. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at SHOPIFY. COM/lemon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Lemon Light of Five, the Don Lemon Show. So glad that you are here. How's it going? How's life, people? What's happening in your world? How have you been since 10 a.m.? You know what, man, these lives, I don't know if you guys, I have been live all day on the YouTube. I've been live all day on the, what do you call it? The substack. I had been

0:40.4

working. I walked my dogs. I had some meetings. I, yeah, it's a lot of work. But I'm happy to be

0:49.3

here doing it for you. How are you guys doing? Where are you streaming from? Late again,

0:52.2

says Jason Wilborn. Jason, it's 5'10.

0:55.1

We're not that late.

0:56.1

Come on.

0:56.8

Cut a brother a break, Jason.

0:59.3

Hi, everyone.

1:00.1

I told you we were working.

1:01.0

Life is exhausting but good.

1:03.8

I agree.

1:04.5

Sorry, I'm trying to get a thing to plug in my phone.

1:07.0

Yeah, life is exhausting, but good. A little more informal in the beginning here because I just want to talk to the fan a little bit. I'm so glad, um, that you are with us today. Thank you so much. What did someone say something about being drunk? Yeah, I see that. Not about me, but about something that we have up there. And that is our thumbnail today, which we will get to. Just Living, says August to winter. Hi, August.

1:29.7

How are you? Hello from Maui. Rudy Huber is in Maui. Don, Virginia, says Dawn. Louisville,

1:38.0

Kentucky, says K-100s. Thank you. Hi, Don from New York, says Starsen. So glad that you heard, Maureen. I loved your interview with Olivia on SubSack. Thank you, Maureen. I saw you in the chat. That was a great conversation. Olivia Troy is fantastic. I did a live with her on Substack today. So here's the thing. People are asking me, why are you on Substack? Whatever. Subsack I'm doing writing. I've been writing this thing on Pete Hegg-Seth since yesterday and still had not finished because I wanted to be perfect because there's a sort of a parallel in it for me that I'm comparing a couple of people with. I told you guys that this morning, but I've been so busy I can't finish writing. So you'll get writing from me on sub-sac, but also you get impromptu lives and not just like

2:18.1

quick sort of TikTok things or social media things, but you will get lives on there with me.

2:27.2

Like I did 30 minutes, 35 minutes with Ryan Lizzo who started his own thing who worked for Politico. I did 30 minutes with Olivia Troy. I did 30 minutes with Ryan Lizza, who started his own thing, who worked for Politico.

2:34.4

I did 30 minutes with Olivia Troy. I did 30 minutes with Michael Cohen. So great stuff.

2:39.5

I just go on quick. And I only want to do like 15 minutes and then we end up talking.

2:43.7

But this is the big show. So welcome to the big show. Okay. So like and subscribe.

2:50.1

Remember, if you hit the thumbs up and you hit that

2:52.4

like button, it does affect the algorithm. More people become aware of our conversation and more people

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