Lemon LIVE at 5 | Waltz Out, Rubio In? What Is Even Happening? - May 1st, 2025
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What a day, what a day. Welcome to Lemon Live at Five. We're so glad that you're here. Wait till you see who our guest is. People say rising star in the Democratic Party. I think he's already a star. We'll talk about it. Hello, Lemon Nation. How are you guys? Let me know where you are streaming from. We're glad that you're here. You know how it works. I tell you every time. If you hit the thumbs up and the like buttons and all of that stuff, it affects the algorithm and more people become aware of our great conversation, especially the one we're going to have in just moments. So welcome to the Don Lemon Show. Here's what I want to say to you. Like, what is going on in this world? Like, what is what actually is the president doing?
What's this administration doing? What are these? I don't know, cabinet, if you want to call that, the clown car cabinet. What are they doing? It is official, though. I want to tell you the first member of the Trump administration has been fired. Hang on a second. The president finally, at long last, caved to public pressure. He doled out a tiny crumb of accountability to his reckless national security advisor, and that is Mike Walz. Remember him? He is of the Signalgate, Jonathan, what's his name? Goldberg. Jeffrey Goldberg. I'm sorry? Jeffrey Goldberg. Jeffrey Goldberg, yes. I always get him and Jonathan Greenblatt mixed up. I did that this morning. You guys remember that? So of Signalgate, Jeffrey Goldberg scandal, right?
So he has fired his national security advisor, Mike Waltz. He did for about an hour and then arguably gave Waltz a promotion. Perhaps. So we have so much discussed this evening. And finally, I'm so lucky to have a fantastic guest guest on. And I'm not going to read his name. You can bring him up. I'm not going to read his name because that always screws it up when I read names off of the teleprompter or off of notes. And they don't sound like kind of what I know what they are. But Congressman Suhas Subramaniam is here. So thank you for joining us. We appreciate. There's a funny video, too. But anyway, how you doing?
i'm doing well how are you doing are you talking about the tiktok video yeah how did i do did i did okay right super onion there you go but i'm trying to figure out a better word than onion because um people associate me with an onion i don't know it works out super well you did yam right you did the yam Kind of. It's like yum at the end, though.
So Subramaniam. Or just think of, just say mom, even though it's in, but it sounds the same. Yeah, yeah.
You're way better than the Republicans, I like to say.
So listen, he is, I think he is a fast-growing star, or even growing into a bigger star as a freshman congressman. So thank you for joining us in Virginia. Hey, this is, I just want to, he's so human and real. I just want to show you the video that he put out because people pronounce his name so terribly. Here it is.
What happened with Mike Waltz’s abrupt exit and immediate UN nomination?
Oh, hey there. Suhas here. So I've been hearing a lot of interesting pronunciations of my name.
Congressman Subramaniam. And Suhas Subramaniam.
Mr. Subramaniam. Subramaniam. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Sorry. That's okay. So anyway, I thought I'd clear the record. It's Subramaniam. So it's kind of like Superman, but it's also kind of like onion. And some people know it as fun yum. But whatever it takes for you to remember, it's Subramaniam. And so call your member of Congress and your local reporters and tell them it's Suhas Subramaniam. Thank you.
Thank you. I just realized I like Funyuns, a certain demographic. Maybe it's somewhere in there.
I said Funyuns and then a teenager was like, what's a Funyun? No way.
Let's talk about the news of the day because, look, he's busy opening up offices in Virginia. He's busy doing town halls. We're going to discuss that. And I'm wondering how that feels, especially in this day and age. But he's out there and he's not he's unafraid. So let's talk about the news of the day. This seriously happened today. OK, roll it. This is Mike Waltz, the announcement on Fox News.
There's a breaking news that happened in the commercial break.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:15–3:11
2
What happened with Mike Waltz’s abrupt exit and immediate UN nomination?
3:11–20:51
3
Why is Marco Rubio being discussed as the new National Security Advisor?
20:51–22:26
4
How did Congressman Suhas Subramanyam describe the Signalgate leaks and accountability failures?
22:26–37:21
5
What impact are Trump’s tariffs having on the economy and consumer prices?
37:21–42:24