Lemon LIVE at 5 | DON LIVE ON THE SCENE: America In Crisis! - September 3rd, 2025
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Who is on the scene at the U.S. Capitol and what’s Lemon LIVE at 5 covering?
It's getting over this cold. Okay, hello everyone. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show. Thank you for joining us Lemon Live at 5. There you see us in front of the U.S. Capitol. I'm here with my friend Jolly. No, no, I'm not laughing at your shirt. So we're here with Jolly. Jolly is, we call him our chief Washington correspondent because he's often out here on these streets. And then we have journalist Tara Palmieri, host of...
The Red Letter and the Tara Palmieri Show.
Yeah, and Tara's been doing some tremendous reporting on Epstein. And then we have Michael Fanone here, as you know. Michael has been, he is a police expert. He was here for the insurrection. He is our expert on what's happening around the country with military officers joining the streets. Michael, thank you for joining. Yeah, thanks for having me, buddy. Thank you. OK, so we're going to start with the news of the day. We have lots to talk about. We're going to talk about what happened in New York City. Donald Trump offering the mayor of New York City a job. We're going to talk about, as I said, police being on the streets. We'll talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene, who did not have any love for me today.
We will discuss that. And we're also going to talk about the Epstein case. survivors, as I like to say. I don't like to use the term victim. As you guys know, if you watch, I am also a survivor of childhood, SA, we'll say here, so not to the AI won't kick us off. And so today was very important, I believe, to a lot of folks who have had similar experiences around the country. And so while we were here at the Capitol reporting and the victims were pouring their hearts out and being vulnerable near the steps of the Capitol, the president of the United States was disrespecting them in the Oval Office. Listen. Mr. President, right now, there have been survivors of Jeffrey Epstein speaking at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
They're calling for these case files, these documents to be released. And Thomas Massey, who is sponsoring a discharge of positions to get the House to go and release these documents, says he doesn't think you're implicated in these files, but many of your friends and donors may be.
And he says that's why the Justice Department is redacting them and slow walking. the release, is the Justice Department protecting any friends or donors, sir? So this is a Democrat hoax that never ends. You know, it reminds me a little of the Kennedy situation. We gave him everything over and over again, more and more and more, and nobody's ever satisfied. From what I understand, I could check, but from what I understand, thousands of pages of documents have been given. But it's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk about something that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation since I've been president. Even if you look at D.C. right now, D.C., it's a totally safe zone.
It's called a safe zone. That's a term. It's a term of art. It's a safe zone because it's very safe. You can walk down the street now and nothing's going to happen. No crime, no murders, no nothing. Because we had a lot of problems with certain places, and we still do. all run by Democrats, or for the most part, run by Democrats. So what they're trying to do with the Epstein hoax is get people to talk about that instead of speaking about the tremendous success, like ending seven wars. I ended seven wars. Nobody's going to talk about it because they're going to talk about the Epstein whatever. I understand that we were subpoenaed to give files, and I understand we've given thousands of pages of files. And I know that no matter what you do, it's going to keep going.
And I think it's really, I think it's enough because I think we should talk about the greatness of our country and the success that we're having. I think we're probably having, according to what I read, even from two people in this room, we're having the most successful eight months of any president ever. And that's what I want to talk about. That's what we should be talking about, not the Epstein hoax.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is on the scene at the U.S. Capitol and what’s Lemon LIVE at 5 covering?
0:17–7:05
2
How did survivors’ press conference on the Epstein files unfold and what was Trump’s response?
7:05–14:55
3
Why are National Guard and federal officers being deployed in D.C. and is it effective?
14:55–30:42
4
What do law enforcement experts say about using military vs. investigative policing?
30:42–40:16
5
How do mental health funding and local governance affect urban crime rates?
40:16–1:13:39