Lemon LIVE at 5 | Jen Psaki Responds to Critics LIVE! - August 28th, 2025
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Let's start by talking about the Constitution and democracy. A little education this morning. The Don Lemon Show is brought to you by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. So let's talk facts, all right? Because across the U.S., politicians are trying to sneak religion into public schools, posters of the Ten Commandments on classroom walls, chaplains without clinical training, voucher programs funneling public money into private religious schools, schools that often exclude LGBTQ students and non-Christians. It's happening right now. But the Freedom From Religion Foundation is fighting back. Just recently, they won a victory in federal court blocking a Texas law that would have forced every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments.
That's what it looks like to defend the First Amendment in court, in Congress, and in the classrooms. Because public education should stay public. Kids should learn math, science, and history. Not be pressured into school. religion. Learn more at ffrf.us slash school or text my first name Don, that's D-O-N, to 511-511. Don't let your rights be rewritten. Go to F as in Frank, F as in Frank, R as in Robert, F as in Frank.us slash school or text Don to 511-511. Text fees may apply. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show, Lemon Live at 5. There you see Jen Psaki. Jen, I don't know if you wore that yellow on purpose or if it was just a coincidence. I didn't even.
I love yellow, but now I'm going to tell you it's an honor of lemon, you know, lemon with lemon yellow.
Thank you, Jen. I really appreciate it. Thanks for joining. You are amazing. I I'm getting over a cold, and I'm watching you last night, and I was very emotional all day about what happened because, as you know, I've covered so many of these, as have you. And it took me back to the worst story that I've ever covered when anyone asks, and that's Newtown.
Yeah.
And so when I saw you being so emotional, I waited. I didn't want to send it to you last night, but I sent it this morning, and I just thought that you are human and real, and that's what we should be in this moment. I'll play a little bit of it, and then we'll discuss. Here it is.
I have been thinking, as I'm sure everybody who has consumed this today has been doing as well, about my kids who happen to be about the same ages as the two who were killed, about sending them off to school this morning. I've been thinking about their friends and their teachers, about all of the parents, about all of the grandparents out there navigating the return to school. And all they should be hoping to do is have someone to sit with at lunch or someone to play with on the playground. And they should be waiting to hear an update when they get home. And that is not what these parents at this school experienced today. Sorry, this is a tough one. Having your child killed while they are sitting in a pew for a morning prayer service is not what any parent should have to worry about.
And I have felt a mixture of anger and a lot of anger and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I'm sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times, so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half of the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers. That is all they are offering. Join us all. Join all of us in praying for the victims, was Vice President J.D. Vance's response today. That's what he said. That's it. Please join me in praying for everyone involved, Trump wrote. We have seen this play out over and over again.
There's a shooting, then come the... Went into the whole thing about how often it happens, and we know too often. First, what are you thinking as you watch that? You're getting emotional again.
I know. Just like you, I think, and I obviously lived for... 20 years in politics and working in government when it is different from what you did for a long period of time, which was be present in Newtown and be present at the place of these shootings and talk to the families. But it is so devastating sitting in a White House or sitting in a congressional office or sitting really anywhere in this country and seeing this happen and feel so...
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–8:14
2
How did Jen Psaki react to the Minneapolis school shooting and what did she mean by 'prayer is not enough'?
8:14–27:24
3
Which public figures attacked Jen Psaki and how did she respond to criticism?
27:24–59:41
4
What arguments link gun violence to political inaction and the NRA's influence?
59:41–1:04:50
5
How did the discussion shift from shootings to claims about shooter demographics and who is being scapegoated?
1:04:50–1:12:56
Speakers
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