Harmeet Dhillon

I've been a journalist.

I have deep respect for the First Amendment.

I've even been on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union many years ago after the Patriot Act.

So no one cares about the First Amendment more than I do, and we checked our boxes and did our homework before we applied for this arrest warrant.

Now, Abbey Lowell, I respect him as a lawyer.

He's a successful and smart lawyer.

He's talking out of his, you know, he's talking out of, he is fabricating.

His ear.

Out of his ear.

I'm trying to be decorous here as a DOJ official.

So he is making things up.

There is no basis for him to say that the magistrate judge's decision is just because Don Lemon was a so-called journalist.

That is, I think, inaccurate, and it is a fantasy.

Now, ultimately, at trial, that would be a defense I would expect.

Abby Lowell or whoever Don Lemon gets at that point, because...

You know, people change lawyers sometimes.

Who knows what happens?

But whoever the lawyer is, expect them to make a journalism argument.

There were a couple of other journalists.

William Kelly is described as a journalist.