Don Lemon

I went to Minneapolis to report.

I went to Ferguson to report.

I went to Ukraine to report.

I went to war zones to report.

I went to India to report.

That's all I'd been doing for the past 30-some years.

And that's my only intention.

There was no conspiracy.

There's no any of it.

To me and to most people, most sane, rational people, these are cooked up.

charges to, I believe, embarrass, well, to really suppress journalism, to make journalists afraid and fearful, and to second and third-guess themselves about telling the truth.

And I think it's also to embarrass people.

And I think it's racist.

Because they're using laws that were meant for people who were truly oppressed, meaning African-Americans who fought for civil rights in this country.

They're using those same laws to prosecute and persecute African-Americans.

Look at the journalists who were arrested, black journalists.

But they're going after all journalists.

Look at what's happening with the Washington Post.

They had a search warrant.

They searched our home.