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Published On: Thu, Feb 5th, 2026

VP Vance: Don Lemon, “The Dumbest Man On Television,” Will Suffer The Legal Consequences For Violating The FACE Act

Megyn Kelly is joined by Vice President JD Vance to discuss what happens if the GOP loses the House in the midterms, how hating Trump and the right unifies Democrats, and more.

MEGYN KELLY, HOST: We mentioned the press a minute ago. Someone who claims to be a member of it is Don Lemon, who’s been arrested now. VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: The dumbest man in television. Formerly. MEGYN KELLY, HOST: I mean and that’s saying something. He’s under arrest because he stormed a church in the middle of a Sunday service along with a lot of other rioters and disrupted people trying to worship. He’s trying to cloak himself in the First Amendment saying, this is an attack on freedom of the press. And you say, what? VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, I say first Don, no one’s objecting to you standing outside of a church and protesting. No one’s saying you can’t protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies or frankly, our policies on anything else. What you cannot do is go into somebody’s house of worship and prevent them from exercising their first amendment right to the free exercise of religion. And that’s what happened. And by the way, there is a federal law on the books that says you’re not allowed to interrupt churches. You’re not allowed to prevent people from entering or leaving a church. And the Biden administration aggressively prosecuted people. Where was Don Lemon when people were getting aggressively prosecuted for sham violations of the FACE Act? We have a rock solid violation of the FACE Act, which is you were sticking a microphone in the face of a minister during the church service while the people you were with were preventing people from leaving. That’s a violation of the law. That’s not about the First Amendment. You care about criticizing our immigration policies, then stand outside the church and protest. You don’t get to violate other people’s rights. And if you do, the Trump administration, we’re gonna try to do everything that we can to make sure you suffer legal consequences.

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