HOT TOPICS | Trump and DOGE are Taking Your Jobs! - March 7th, 2025
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How does Don Lemon introduce today’s episode and set the agenda?
It's Friday. Thank God it's Friday. And I just got paid. Do you guys remember that? That is the OJs. Gonna pick up my lady, have a little bit of fun. I don't know if there are any old school. Here we go. Here we go, y'all. I love it that you guys are in the chat and you're here. You're all here. Let me know if you know that song. Well, well, well, do you remember that? I grew up listening to that with my parents in Louisiana, driving around in our school. Do you guys remember that? Good morning, good morning, good morning. Let me know where you're streaming from. LFG, says Amanda Belcher. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I love it. You guys are excited. You guys are such great hype men and women, hype people. Awesome. I'm glad that you're here.
We have so much to talk about. And guess what? Today, guys, I'm traveling. I am working for you, working for, working for, working for, working for you. Do I have any Birmingham, Alabama, any folks from the Birmingham, Alabama area here? Let me know in the chat. And producers, look and see if you see anybody from Birmingham. But I'm headed to Canada. You guys are wondering where I'm going. Ottawa, Ottawa, Ottawa. And I'm being honored in Ottawa. Yes, yours truly, Little Lemonhead. I'm being honored and honored for something that is very important to me. It's called the Lead Her Awards. And it's for my contribution for helping in my career of women. By the way, the woman here runs the show. I'm not saying her name might be Nikki.
But, you know, and when I was at CNN, women ran the show. So anyway, it was just throughout my career, I've been very supportive. And so the lead her awards reached out and said, Hey, Don, we know who you really are. We know who you really are. And we want to honor you. So I'm going to Ottawa, and I'm going to be honored. And then but I also I'm going to talk to some people about these tariffs and what's going on since I'm going to be in Canada. I'll do that. Also, last night we had our private member chat, which was great. We got man. It was accomplished. We got some great stuff. Let us show you for you guys. I don't know if you guys are ready to pop up on screen. We're going to get to the news. Trust me.
But since we are Friday. Thank you, guys. Thank you, guys. Birmingham. The reason I asked you. So producers, get ready. I want to put you on screen for a little bit. If you're looking OK, if not, I'll just be your voices. I just want people to see like what our private stream is like and what we do. Um, But what was I going to say? The reason I was asking about Birmingham is because when I worked in Birmingham, if you were there, it used to be the number one station. It was Birmingham. It was Fox 6 News. And they would have this thing called working for, working for, working for, working for you. Got to be, got to be, got to be Fox 6 News. Do they still do that? And then they would say, you know, it would be this commercial.
They would say Don Lemon, part of Alabama's 24-hour news team, which is really funny. So let me know if you guys know that, if you remember that, if you're in Birmingham, Alabama. If Fox six news still does that. So anyways, Hey producers, are you, can you guys come up or no? I didn't tell you this, but it is a Friday. If you want to put your cameras on, tell me if not, you can yell at me and say no. Hi, Peter.
I'll be here in voice.
Nikki's like, you're not looking at me.
I went for a run and I didn't, I told you, I need a little notice.
I have to be on camera. Can you do like this? And say, no, no. Okay. We'll see. And then Nikki and Max usually joins us. And Max is her dog. And we usually talk. Andy has his Sambas. There she is. Hi, Nikki. And we answer on our private stream with our members who are part of... What is it? Nikki set this up.
The Lemonheads and... Lemonheads and the Lemon Legends.
Lemon Legends. We get to talk. You ask us questions. We answer them. We sit just like a family and we chill and we... And we talk to you guys. I mean, and it's a private stream. Last night, the private folks got to hear a message from Wendy Williams that you guys did not get to hear.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How does Don Lemon introduce today’s episode and set the agenda?
0:12–12:51
2
Why is Don Lemon warning about rising job losses and unemployment data?
12:51–54:10
3
How much did federal employment fall and could ‘Doge’ be responsible?
54:10–1:08:59
4
What do economists say about tariffs, private hiring slowdown, and recession risk?
1:08:59–1:32:16
5
How are laid-off federal workers experiencing the job market and finding new work?
1:32:16–1:35:36
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