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'The first amendment is not optional': NABJ President slams Don Lemon's arrest for covering protest

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January 31, 2026

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MS NOW political contributor and Editor-at-Large for The 19th Errin Haines joins The Weeknight with MS NOW legal analyst Mary McCord to respond to the latest out of Minnesota, where the acting chief of the state’s FBI field office has been removed by FBI headquarters and former cable news host Don Lemon has been released from police custody following his arrest for covering a protest at a church in Saint Paul.

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