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STELTER: “And Lemon did say on his livestream last week he expected the government would keep coming for him. I think I view this in context with Trump Administration attempts to target other perceived critics. Think about Letitia James, think about James Comey. Think about the many cases we‘ve covered in the past year of Trump retribution. Don Lemon is another figure on that list. President Trump has repeatedly attacked Lemon, both when Lemon was an anchor here at CNN, but again, more recently, Trump has made no secret of his disdain for Lemon. And lemon, of course, has been harshly critical of President Trump for many years as well. So, he is a Trump foe, and this is another example of the administration targeting a Trump foe. A friend of Lemon‘s tells me, as Kara just said, he did spend the night in jail. He‘s still in custody. His friends don‘t seem to know what the charges are yet. But the pressure from the right to take this action was really, really severe. And you‘re going to see some people, you know, on the MAGA right, who are going to cheer this. At the same time, many First Amendment groups, many press freedom advocates are going to say this has a real chill, because Lemon walked in, yes, with a microphone and a camera to document what happened at the church. And frankly, I think viewers are better off for him having told us what happened in the church that day."