Alex Wagner

Welcome to Pod Save America.

I am Alex Wagner.

This week, I sat down with journalist and newfound target of the Trump administration, Don Lemon, to talk about the federal charges the Department of Justice brought against him after covering an ICE protest at a Minnesota church.

We talked about what those attacks on the free press mean for this political moment and how his move from mainstream journalism at a major network to independent journalism on his own platform has changed how he does the news, a move I am also a little bit familiar with.

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This week, I spoke to Stephanie Villarreal, whose husband has been detained despite the fact that he is a

DACA recipient.

And I also got into it with The Bulwark's Jonathan V. Last.

It is a good, good, good episode.

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Thank you in advance.

So let's get into it.

Here is Don Lemon.

I got to say, I am so excited to talk to Don Lemon.

I just read the name Don Lemon in the headlines and follow the national news about Don Lemon.

But here we have the man in the flesh.

Well, not quite in the flesh, but in the internet flesh.

It's great to see you, man.

They sure do, don't they?