Monday, February 2, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 13:50)
The Arrest of Don Lemon: There are Massive Religious Liberty and Constitutional Issues at Stake in This Case
- Don Lemon Released Without Bond Over Minnesota Protest Charge by The New York Times (Hamed AleazizDevlin BarrettAlan Feuer and Jesus Jiménez)
- Case 0:26-cr-00025-LMP-DLM by United States District Court District of Minnesota
Your Faithful Church Might Be Next: We Are entering a New Stage in Cultural Conflict
Part III (16:16 – 27:05)
President Trump’s Fed Appointment: Kevin Warsh Nominated to Lead the U.S. Federal Reserve
- Meet the Federal Debt, the Fed’s Actual New Boss (Sorry, Kevin Warsh) by The New York Times (Binyamin Appelbaum)
A Word From the Heart: To the Moms Who Wrote Me, Thanks and . . . Sorry, Mom.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, February 2, 2006. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | It was two weeks ago yesterday, January 18, that a leftist activist mob invaded an evangelical congregation on the Lord's Day interrupting worship, |
| 0:23.1 | deliberately interrupting worship for the purpose of a political protest. |
| 0:27.1 | That political protest was occasioned, said the activist by the fact that one of the elders or pastors of the church |
| 0:33.2 | is the acting field director for ICE, the immigration, Cussons Enforcement Agency. |
| 0:39.1 | And now we know, and it's been headline news all over the country, what exactly took place. |
| 0:43.5 | And we know not only because we have heard of it, not only because we have read of it, |
| 0:47.3 | but because there is extensive video of it, and that becomes a crucial issue. |
| 0:51.9 | So one of the things that we knew almost immediately is that this was |
| 0:56.0 | just grotesquely, morally wrong. Here you had a political mob invading an evangelical church at |
| 1:02.6 | worship. Now, there are many different contexts in which those kinds of protests can be done. There is |
| 1:09.5 | certain constitutional protection, but there is no constitutional right to go into a place of worship and interrupt it for your political protest, period. There is no such right. As a matter of fact, that should be recognized just with the U.S. Constitution. But beyond that, it is also now enshrined in a federal act. And here's the irony. |
| 1:28.3 | The federal act was originally intended by the left to protect abortion clinics and to prevent |
| 1:35.3 | protesters from at least going into and stopping what takes place in an abortion clinic. |
| 1:41.3 | So here's the irony. |
| 1:42.3 | Congress added religious worship spaces |
| 1:45.8 | and worship to the same category. It's the Face Act, as it is known. And federal authorities made |
| 1:51.3 | very clear the Assistant Attorney General, eventually the Attorney General of the United States, |
| 1:56.0 | Pam Bondi, made clear that there would be criminal charges. Now, one of the most interesting |
| 2:00.1 | questions all along |
| 2:01.4 | is, of course, what about Don Lemon? Because Don Lemon was really central to the story from the |
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