Lemon LIVE at 5 | White House Targets Black Journalists & Freedom Of The Press!
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How did Don Lemon introduce the show's agenda and guest Joy Reid?
is this week is starting off with a lot of news a lot of news uh and some of it i didn't get discussed this weekend well you because you know i was a little bit busy um but we're going to talk about it and i'm going to discuss it with one of my dear friends and an incredible journalist in just a moment but i before we do that first sort of business make sure you hit the like and the thumbs up because it affects the algorithm more people become aware of our channel and our conversation and you know we're independent journalists we're out here fighting for our existence and on these streaming streets and we're also trying to bring you not trying to every day I believe that we're successful and we want to continue to be successful at bringing you the news without fear of favor the information without corporate influence and the overlords getting in so like and thumbs up okay now let's talk about everything from Grammys to Epstein files to the DOJ targeting what looks like not look they are black journalists so I want to bring in now
My friend Joy Reed, who is an independent journalist now and has been checking on me and concerned and supporting me. And Joy, thank you. And it's so good to see your face.
It is so good to see you. Tim is going to block my phone because he's probably like, if this lady called to check on me again, block.
She's talking about you, babe. She said you're going to block her on your phone. She said, don't block me, Tim.
Y'all picture together. People have been posting it with the bodyguard music. And I love it.
Have you seen that?
Oh, my God. It's everything. It's everything.
They're like, he's Kevin Costner. And what was it? Frank Farmer. And I'm Rachel from. Oh, my gosh. It's all over. I know it seems like trivial, but why does that resonate so much with people? That really did resonate.
You know what it is? I think that when you see particularly a Black person in times of crisis, knowing they have a loved one who would kick ass for them. Remember when Kamala Harris was on stage? Do you remember that? And then the man rushed her up on stage. At first, Kareem Jean-Pierre jumped up in her booty pop dress and was trying to go for him. But then Doug was in the audience, came up out the audience and went on stage and and looked like he was going to beat that man down.
Like insecurity.
Like he got there before security. It was just the booty pop. It was Karina, her booty pop dress and Doug. And they were like literally ready to throw hands. And I just think it resonates because I think Black, especially we feel so vulnerable in this moment that we're like, we want to know our people have people and have people ready to fight for us and have people that are down for us and love us. And also, I just think y'all are cute.
You know, I shouldn't give it away about what we said. Okay, I'm not going to give it away. But anyways, it's nice to have- He's going to block you.
Tim's going to block you too.
He's going to block me. But it is nice to have support, Joy. And I wanted to just, you know, chat with you because you've been a big supporter. And as you know, we're all in this all together. And so you've been a big supporter. What did you think when you heard?
So you remember that I texted you, Don, like two weeks earlier because Lev Parnas, you know, came on the Joy Reacher and he was like, take this seriously, they're coming for Dawn. And we were all like, and then we had this conversation. I think we might've had it on this show that it was like, this is a possibility. We knew it was a possibility, but it seemed like the moment had passed. And so I think we had kind of let our guard down. And so I was awakened to this news. I had turned my phone off. This is part of my new practice in 2026 to not sleep with my phone on. So my makeup artist could not reach me, ended up calling Jason. She found his number, called him. And I was awakened out of my sleep in shock.
Like I was in shock. So of course my first instinct was to text you. Of course you were not able to respond to my text.
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