DOJ Puts Don Lemon On Notice, 2028 Dem Contenders Go Quiet, Arctic Blast Incoming: AM Update 1/20
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Tuesday, January 20th, 2026, and this is your AM Update. Nobody should think in the United States that they're going to be able to get away with this. Trump DOJ officials investigating Don Lemon and a group of agitators for the planned disruption of a Christian religious service. Democrats heading into 2028 facing a growing problem, their inability to answer a simple question. 60 Minutes finally airs its much-discussed Seacott prison story and stirs up new controversy. And bundle up, much of the country set to experience an Arctic blast this weekend. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. Our sponsor, the Electronic Payments Coalition, says Washington politicians are always getting in your wallet and that now they're messing with your credit card.
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Lemon, now styling himself as an independent journalist, joining agitators who said they were there to hold parishioners accountable for refusing to endorse the disruptors' anti-ICE cause, a move now drawing scrutiny from DOJ officials probing possible criminal charges. Yesterday, Lemon running to the left's favorite new podcast lady, the very angry Jennifer Welsh, casting himself as the real victim here.
I think people who are, you know, in religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a white supremacy. And they think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country when actually we left England because we wanted religious freedom. It's religious freedom, but only if you're a Christian and only if you're a white male, pretty much. And so, yeah, absolutely 100 percent. But it's an intimidation tactic. And, you know, I said I don't understand how I've become the face of it when I was a journalist. I do understand that I'm the biggest name there. And I'm also as I was on with my producers this morning, I said, how did I become the face of this?
And my producer said, Don, you're a gay black man in America.
Within hours of the disgusting church harassment going viral, U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announcing an investigation into potential violations of the FACE Act, a federal law making it illegal to use force, threats, or intimidation to interfere with individuals exercising their right to worship inside a church. Yesterday on the Benny Johnson Show, Dillon outlining a range of additional federal charges under review that may also cover Lemon's involvement as a quote-unquote journalist. The FACE Act is just the start.
Like I said, you have material support for disruptive activities. You have conspiracy to violate civil rights. You have potentially the use of other instrumentalities. to commit crimes and so some of these folks who did this have self-identified don lemon himself has come out and said he knew exactly what was going to happen inside that facility he went into the facility and then he began quote-unquote committing journalism
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