Mark's 11am Monologue.
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Mark Simone Show on 710 W.O.R. |
| 0:06.5 | Well, we've got a lot to get to this hour, just to bring you up to speed. |
| 0:10.5 | Don Lemon was arrested. |
| 0:12.0 | He has been indicted. |
| 0:14.8 | Apparently, he was partying like crazy in L.A. |
| 0:17.2 | The Grammy Awards this Sunday night, the parties have already begun. He was out there all |
| 0:21.9 | night partying. The night ended with him being arrested by federal agents. And now remember, |
| 0:29.9 | this is not, it's not just Donald Trump deciding to arrest him. It's not the Attorney General. |
| 0:35.0 | It's not the Justice Department. It's nothing in the Trump administration that made the final decision. |
| 0:38.7 | It was the grand jury. |
| 0:40.3 | They just simply presented it to the grand jury, and the grand jury voted to indict Don Lemon for – |
| 0:47.2 | there's a couple of laws he violated in that church. |
| 0:50.1 | Now, a lot of people worried that this will make Don Lemon into a huge martyr that he'll be on every... |
| 0:58.3 | You know, he's a guy that was basically fired in disgrace. |
| 1:02.0 | He was out of work. |
| 1:03.6 | Nobody would touch this guy. |
| 1:05.0 | Nobody would hire this guy. |
| 1:06.3 | He was doing one of these silly podcasts from his bedroom running around with a microphone, totally out of work. |
| 1:14.0 | But this, well, this is different. |
| 1:16.4 | Now, suddenly he'll be all over MSNBC and CNN, and there'll be a GoFundMe that could raise millions and millions. |
| 1:23.0 | He's hired the top lawyer you could hire in a matter like this, Abby Lowell. |
| 1:27.7 | So a lot of people worried that this will make Don Lemon not only a martyr, but bigger than ever, |
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