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Podcast: Don Lemon Tonight
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New Daily Covid Cases Top 100,000
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 01:18:39
Publish Date: 2021-08-06 15:22:00
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Don’s first guests of the evening are married Virginia couple Travis and Kellie Campbell, who are interviewed from hospital about their experiences of catching Covid and their reasons for not getting their family vaccinated earlier. Travis, on oxygen and with severe symptoms, urges the public to get vaccinated as soon as they can.

New daily Covid cases top 100,000, as the Republican Governors of Texas and Florida continue to ban mask mandates. Pollster Frank Luntz joins to discuss his recent interviews with Americans who have chosen not to be vaccinated and shares their reasons behind their decisions. Governor John Bel Edwards joins to discuss the surge of the delta variant in Louisiana, which is currently attributable to 90% of cases in the State, and how he intends to tackle this crisis by following CDC recommendations. CNN Political Commentators Amanda Carpenter and Bakari Sellers give their perspectives on the GOP's Trump wing pushing back against attempts to get the spread of Covid under control and the link between January 6th denialism and Covid denialism.

CNN Legal Analyst Elliott Williams joins to discuss the details of how alarmingly close America came to a coup following the alleged pressure former President Trump put upon DOJ officials to back his claim of election fraud. Is there enough evidence to prove criminal behaviour by Trump?

President Joe Biden has signed a bill to award the gold medal to the police officers who heroically defended The Capitol during the January 6th insurrection. CNN White House Correspondent John Harwood joins to discuss whether the Biden Administration could be doing more to ensure the events of January 6th do not happen again.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo remains defiant, refusing to resign as a state impeachment investigation into multiple sexual harassment allegations nears completion. CNN Political Analyst Errol Louis joins to discuss the latest developments on this story.

Finally, CNN Correspondent Drew Griffin reports on Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, and the former President's staunchest ally in pushing the conspiracy theory of Chinese hackers breaking into election systems to switch votes from Trump to Biden. Lindell claims his information comes from ‘super-secret’ multiple sources.

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