Welcome to the beat. We begin with this breaking news.

Veterans CNN journalists, now an independent reporter, Don Lemon, is inside a federal courtroom

in the custody of Trump administration agents right now. We have learned that the hearing

ended, but he has not yet come outside, so we are following this along with you.

As a reminder, where we begin tonight, the First Amendment protects journalists doing reporting,

and it protects people speaking out or protesting. Thousands are doing that right now in frigid temperatures,

marching in Minneapolis and other cities, just as reporters are continuing to do their jobs, as Don Lemon was doing his against this administration, which we can report today,

has indicted to journalists. It is, if you read the actual case, trying to criminalize their

reporting on actions also in the same ongoing clash in

Minnesota. These are related stories that we're covering. They both involve whether the Trump

administration is following or breaking the law and these aggressive, now very unpopular crackdowns

that have seen two Americans slain dead and whether this administration is

following or breaking the Constitution and how it's pursuing journalists covering this same

stories. Longtime reporter Don Lemon is indicted in this case, which among other things,

and I'm going to show you this tonight in detail. You can make up your own mind, but I'm going to

show you exactly what the government's claiming, because it literally claims

that the questions that he posed were in furtherance of a crime. When he covered an ice protest

that stormed a church, this was in the tense period after the death of Renee Good, killed by

Donald Trump's federal agents, and a week before what people

are still marching about right now tonight, the death of Alex Prettie, killed by a DHS agent.

Today, the Trump-Bondy DOJ charges Lemon and another reporter named Georgia Fort, a Minnesota

journalist, and several of the people who did storm that church.

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