news continues. let s turn things over to don and don lemon tonight. good evening, everyone. this is don lemon tonight. and the news from capitol hill is ominous. an urgent, new warning from homeland security about the increasing possibility of violence at the so-called justice for 6th rally. which let s remember, is in defense of the blood-thirsty insurrectionists who on january 6th tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power. this is where we are tonight. newly-installed fencing around the capitol, just like after january 6th. fencing expected to go up outside the supreme court, as well. online chatter threatening violence. homeland security says social-media users have discussed storming the capitol tomorrow, the night before the rally. and one commented on kidnapping a member of congress. and it s not just the capitol. there has been online chatter about using the rally to target local jewish institutions. elected officials and so-called liberal churches. and with
thank you for watching. don lemon tonight with the big star, d lemon, right now. how you doing? you all right? i m i m confused, man. about what? um, i m confused about what s happening with this missing 22-year-old. beautiful kid. going around the country. i m confused by this south carolina situation with this murdaugh family. i ve never heard of by the way, it s not murdoch like media murdochs. it s a totally different family. i have never heard anything like it. and i am confused at how your senators how the senators believe that they can get righteous about milley for deciding to do something about an obvious risk that they ignored. and now, they don t want to give the benefit of the facts that he followed protocol and worked with the secretary of defense and had a roomful of people when he made these calls. and they still want to say he went rogue. so, you want to misrepresent what he did when he did the right thing and you did nothing and you think you
the washington post write in their new book peril that general mark milley you have gotten to flow him more recently, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, took action twice, once right before the election and then after january 6th to block trump from going rogue. to limit him from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or even launching nuclear weapons. the question to start with is, why? milley was reportedly very concerned, concern shared a d b others in the administration and congress that a desperate trump had gone into a serious mental decline. in addition, to consoling his chinese counterpart that the united states democracy was intact and no military action was imminent, the general also called a secret pentagon meeting two days after the insurrection. the point was to review the process for military action with senior officials. if you think back to that time, it wasn t too long ago, trump had been upending the military s leadership, if you reme
north korea firing a pair of ballistic missiles just days after launching a newly developed long-range cruise missile. california s governor appears to have won the biggest fight of his political career. with cnn projecting he has defeated a recall vote by a huge margin. the recall effort was led by republicans opposed to his handling of the coronavirus, homelessness and the economy. the first question on the ballot, should governor newsom be recalled? about 2/3 of voters said no. a landslide victory. exit polls show about a third of voters said the covid pandemic was the most important issue. newsom pushed tough lockdowns, made masks and vaccines mandated. it was a sharp contrast to his main republican challenger, larry elder, who opposed pandemic restrictions. a few hours ago a very relieved gavin newsom thanked his supporters. no, it s not the only thing that was expressed tonight. i want to focus on what we said yes to as a state. we said yes to science. we said yes t
will inspire us to be who we know we could be. that was true in the civil war era when emerson said it, and it is just as true now. that s a leader, that s the leadership we need, and we need a lot of leaders. because we can t stay where we are. you all know it. you tell me all the time. for the sake of our economy, our kids, our health, our status in the world, we can t keep getting weaker from the strains of division. and 9/11 20 years on is a window into who we once were during hard times and how we are now. and the man who led this country 20 years ago told you the truth to mark the 20th anniversary. we have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders but from violence that gathers within. there is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. but then there s disdainful pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols. they are children