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Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

Jennifer Hayne

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Does former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon have a First Amendment right to interfere with the First Amendment rights of the worshipers and pastor at that church? “I think the question answers itself, and the answer is no,” argues Scott Johnson, a Minneapolis-based attorney, Claremont Institute fellow, founding member of Power Line and one of the great minds behind 2004’s “Rather Gate”, on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” with Jack Fowler. 👉America is worth preserving. Do your part and act now by going to https://www.heritage.org/beautiful 👉Tap water in the United States often contains a variety of harmful contaminants that pose significant health risks. Go to CovePure NOW and get $250 off the #1 water filtration system: https://CovePure.com/vdh 👉Claim your liberty offer of up to $5,000 in free metals with allegiance gold by going to https://www.ProtectWithVictor.com 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest editions of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iOoN0xoOoSNvDFlpLLYGY?si=5a9f369acc874c6e 👉 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words/id1566731706 👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/VictorDavisHansonInHisOwnWords?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o 👉 Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My participation in exposing Dan Rather took place mostly on the day of September 9th, 2004.
0:07.7	60 Minutes 2 had broadcasted that segment trying to shame President Bush and assist John Kerry
0:14.3	on the evening of September 8th.
0:16.5	And I started writing about that segment.
0:18.8	I posted what I wrote, 7.51 a.m. on the morning of September 9th.
0:23.3	And if you were following along with our updates online on Powerline, you could see it was all
0:28.8	over by about 1130, you know, with updates.
0:31.8	But we got information from people all over the country on the things that were wrong with
0:35.9	the documents, the fabricated
0:38.1	documents that 60 Minutes had relied on for that segment.
0:41.4	There's a famous constitutional test in the First Amendment area called the Lemon test.
0:46.3	Don Lemon wants a new one.
0:48.0	Someone who claims to be doing what he's doing as a journalist is somehow immune from the
0:52.5	laws that govern the rest of us. In this case,
0:55.2	he's indicted under two statutes, one of which prohibits interference with the civil rights
1:00.3	of others. And in this case, that would be the First Amendment rights of the worshippers and the pastor.
1:05.1	There are eight indicted defendants. Nobody's talking about them. Do they have some special claim to immunity from
1:12.5	the laws that Don Lemon is being subjected to?
1:27.2	Well, hello, ladies and hello, gentlemen, welcome to Victor Davis-Hanson, in his own words.
1:34.2	Alas, without Victor Davis-Hanson here, but that's okay, because we have a great, great guest today,
1:40.1	pinch-hitting, and that's Scott Johnson, who is one of the founders of Powerline, one of the more
1:46.9	important conservative, I should say just truthful media sites out there, and a man of much
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