The Tragic Don Lemon Backstory; Guest: Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney

The Breitbart News Daily Podcast

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Former CNN journalist Don Lemon has been arrested for his involvement with a recent church protest in Minnesota. How did such a powerful American voice come to this? Our studious host, Mike Slater, has those answers as he does a deep dive into the life story of this liberal icon. Following that opener, Slater chats with Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney about President Donald J. Trump's new pick to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve: Kevin Warsh. Is this a good pick or a bad pick? Tune in to find out!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Breitbart News Daily.
0:17.9	We talked to the exclusive senior agent of Melania Trump and the producer of
0:22.4	the Melania film, Mark Beckman, at the end of the show today. Please continue to make this movie
0:26.4	an incredible success. Highest, best opening weekend of a documentary in 14 years. Awesome.
0:32.4	We want conservatives to take over media, to continue to take over media, conservative ideas,
0:36.8	conservative stories, to continue to infiltrate media, conservative ideas, conservative stories,
0:37.7	to continue to infiltrate our culture, that we need things like this to be a wonderful success.
0:42.5	So go see it as soon as you can, the Melania movie.
0:45.7	Let's start here with our segment on Don Lemon.
0:49.5	This was one of two segments on Don Lemon.
0:52.5	Did we play the clip in this segment?
0:54.6	I think we did.
0:55.4	I think we played his...
0:56.6	Yeah, yeah, we did.
0:58.8	His turning point moment.
1:01.7	Don Lemon had one segment in particular
1:03.0	that was so conservative
1:04.8	that he, well, got chased off the reservation
1:09.8	and... But do anything to get back.
1:12.8	Enjoy. Let's take a couple minutes here and talk about Don Lemon.
1:36.7	First, what happened in Minnesota, and then I want to branch out into a different Don Lemon thing,
1:41.2	which brings this into a totally different topic.
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