Lemon LIVE at 5 | Donald Trump's Live TV Meltdown! - November 17th, 2025
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And what a doozy of a show it's going to be. I'm not sure if you saw what happened in the Oval Office today, but a meltdown, pretty much, from the President of the United States backpedaling on the Epstein situation, at least pretending that it's all his idea when we know he's backtracking because he's going to get rolled. He has to change the narrative. And then pretending he wants to release all of the files. Well, the interesting part, as we have been saying, is that he can do that at any time. He can just call up and say, release them now. But he's going through this whole thing where he's going to pretend that he can release them, and then legally he'll say, well, I can't do it right now. Because, you know, it's still under investigation or someone is trying to do this and someone is trying to do that.
Also, there's new information on this, you know, the Halligan lady who is Lindsay Halligan. She's a prosecutor now. She's a former White House lawyer. No prosecutorial background. Presented a grand jury case for... Comey and others, Letitia James and all those, she presented those cases. And then now it appears that that is falling apart because of something that she did not do because of a pattern of profound investigative missteps. Now, this morning, the show was, hey, MAGA is crashing out. It's unraveling. More evidence of that tonight. And the president of the United States as well appears to be on the same road. Likes, thumbs up, please. affects the algorithm more people become aware of our conversation and we have a great guest tonight that's going to guide us through this staff writer at the atlantic and a contributor to the atlantic daily newsletter none other than mr tom nichols friend of the show tom good evening how are you doing sorry good night so and i brought lily with me this time oh great
Okay, I'm not going to let my doggy see Lily because that could be some crazy stuff going on.
She was bugging me for treats while we were waiting.
Let me ask you this. Just considering I'm going to get to the news of the day, considering what happened over the weekend, you know, the president saying over the weekend, release some of the some of the whatever files that you can legally release. Right. Which, you know, I don't know if that means anything, but he had so many defections. The narrative was not he had to change the narrative because he was going to get rolled. He had too many Republicans who are going to vote with the Democrats. What do you think?
Yeah, well, this is going to be another one of those Trump moments where he says, well, this was all my idea to begin with.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–7:26
2
What happened in Donald Trump’s Oval Office remarks and why did Don call it a 'meltdown'?
7:26–11:10
3
How are Republicans reacting — are defections and weakening loyalty a sign of MAGA fracturing?
11:10–37:08
4
Why is Trump suddenly saying he wants the Epstein files released and did he actually answer if he'd sign the bill?
37:08–1:10:48