Exclusive: Don Lemon's attorney, Abbe Lowell, one-on-one with Jen Psaki
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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All episodes available now. That is all in for this very, very, very busy week. The briefing with Jen Psaki starts right now. Good evening, Jen.
Chris, I guess we've reached the point in this story where journalists are arrested in the middle of the night. That is the point in this story that we've reached. And I'm sitting here. I have Abby Lowell here sitting across from me at the table. He's Don Lemon's attorney. We're going to talk about that. And not just what it means for Don, but what it really means for everybody out there. Because I think that's one of the big questions that I'm looking forward to digging into. But what a freaking week this has been and a day.
Yeah, and I'm looking forward to watching that interview because that, well, I'm not a lawyer, but let's just say I read the indictment and it strikes me as a little dubious, but I'm curious to hear what Don Lemon's lawyer has to say.
I read it too. 14 pages. It's available. Everybody can read it out there, but we're going to dig into that in just a moment too.
Awesome. Thanks, Jen. Have a good weekend.
OK, I don't know about you. I went to bed last night thinking that the story that would absolutely dominate the news today was Donald Trump suing the IRS and the U.S. Treasury for $10 billion. I mean, that is it is a huge freaking deal. The president of the United States suing a government agency that he himself controls, an agency that will be defended by government lawyers who ultimately are under his control. A president just blatantly abusing his power to enrich himself, like, that felt like it would be the biggest story of the day.
How has Donald Trump's administration impacted journalists and media?
I was reading up on it. I was all ready to talk about it. But boy, was I wrong on that one. I mean, today my colleagues, first of all, Carol Lennig and Ken Delaney, also broke another story that would be dominating news coverage on almost any day. Because it turns out the reason the special agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta field office was forced out of his job earlier this month was because... He expressed concerns about the FBI's plan to investigate the 2020 election results in Fulton County, Georgia. We also learned that news today. Now, that news comes just days after the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County Election Center, seizing 700 boxes of materials, including ballots related to the 2020 election.
So the fact that the special agent in charge of the Atlanta field office balked at that investigation and the FBI fired him and then moved forward with it anyway, that should be the biggest news of the month. And I promise you we're going to continue to follow these stories very, very closely in the days and weeks ahead. We are really tracking all of them. Now, one of the other things I thought would have been one of the biggest stories of the day was that today, Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia was scheduled to announce an impeachment inquiry into Trump's DHS secretary, Kristi Noem. Calls for Noem's removal have grown so much that this week we even saw two Republican senators call for her resignation.
And there are now more than 160 Democrats on the record calling for her removal. Given the political pressure there and the outrage from the American public about what ICE is doing in Minnesota and Maine and all across the country, I was pretty sure this morning, at least, that would be today's biggest news. But before Congressman Garcia could even get out to the podium this morning to announce that impeachment inquiry, the Justice Department released 3 million more pages of documents from the Epstein files, thousands of new videos and images, and a lot more mentions, I will say, of Donald Trump.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:02
2
How has Donald Trump's administration impacted journalists and media?
2:02–5:01
3
What are the details surrounding the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort?
5:01–6:56
4
What implications do the Epstein files have for justice and accountability?
6:56–9:43
5
How are survivors of abuse reacting to the release of Epstein files?
9:43–11:38
6
What legal tactics are being used against journalists in this context?
11:38–13:05
7
What connections exist between Trump's actions and historical authoritarianism?
13:05–14:43
8
What are the next steps for Don Lemon and other journalists facing charges?
14:43–44:44
Speakers
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