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The Don Lemon Show

Lemon LIVE at 5 | Is Trump Endangering his Political Enemies? - January 24th, 2025

The Don Lemon Show

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Society & Culture, News

3.8659 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Hey there Lemon Nation! Tonight, Don is joined by journalist, writer, and founder of Zeteo, Mehdi Hasan to dive into all the biggest news of the day. Trump has been removing security details for his political opponents. Is he putting them at risk? And what about the ongoing friction between Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Join Don and Mehdi to break it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening, everyone. Welcome. We are live. Lemon Live at 5 Eastern in New York City. Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. We have a big show for you. So I'm going to get right to it. Okay. Today, caps the first week. Yeah, just five days of the second term, Donald Trump's second term.

0:38.7

What a week it was? We saw a blizzard of executive orders. We actually saw blizzards,

0:43.3

bad weather around the country, but a blizzard of executive orders, an unconstitutional

0:47.0

attack on birthright citizenship. We saw ICE immigration raids sweep the country this week

0:53.6

and a sweeping pardon for violent criminal

0:57.4

insurrectionists. People who were found guilty were pardoned by this president. And today,

1:03.8

Trump revoked the security details for a number of his political rivals, enemies, foes, including

1:10.6

John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

1:14.0

So I have a lot to talk about, as you can imagine, with this guest, Medi Hassan, the perfect

1:20.3

guest here. Medi is the founder and editor-in-chief of Zateo. Thank you, sir. Good to see you

1:25.5

again. Thank you for coming on. Thanks for having me on. Good. Thanks for having me on, Don.

1:28.3

How are you doing after this raucous week?

1:31.5

Try to keep bearings, trying to keep up with what's going on, trying to follow the news.

1:35.7

Your eyes and that sigh said it all.

1:38.1

It's just, it's everything we knew it would be on steroids.

1:42.8

And more.

1:43.8

So look, I'm going to set the table.

1:46.0

I'm going to start by at the beginning of the week.

1:50.0

And I'm going to have Ezra Klein get us through this.

1:52.0

And I'm going to put this up and then get your response.

1:54.0

Here's Ezra.

1:56.0

Donald Trump's second term certainly revealed a president who

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