Don Lemon Dings CNN Colleague’s McCarthy Interview Over Lack of Fact-Check

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Nov 7, 2022 #colleagues, #dings, #fact-check, #interview:, #lemon, #mccarthy

CNN Don Lemon did not seem terribly impressed with his own network’s sought-after interview with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, wondering aloud on Monday how the Republican congressman managed to get away with not being fact-checked. “I think it’s important to have Kevin McCarthy on, but it needs to be fact-checked,” Lemon said to his CNN This Morning co-hosts. “A lot of what he said in the interview was not factual.” The newly minted morning host’s comments followed CNN congressional reporter Melanie Zamona’s sit-down interview with McCarthy, in which he claimed fentanyl was the top killer of Americans between the ages of 18 to 45. The wide-ranging interview touched on McCarthy’s plans should he become the next Speaker of the House, including his plans to install Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on House committees if the GOP takes back the House majority. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/don-lemon-dings-cnn-colleague-melanie-zamonas-kevin-mccarthy-interview-for-lack-of-fact-check?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a>

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Don Lemon did not seem terribly impressed with his own network’s sought-after interview with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, wondering aloud on Monday how the Republican congressman managed to get away with not being fact-checked.

“I think it’s important to have Kevin McCarthy on, but it needs to be fact-checked,” Lemon said to his CNN This Morning co-hosts. “A lot of what he said in the interview was not factual.”

The newly minted morning host’s comments followed CNN congressional reporter Melanie Zamona’s sit-down interview with McCarthy, in which he claimed fentanyl was the top killer of Americans between the ages of 18 to 45. The wide-ranging interview touched on McCarthy’s plans should he become the next Speaker of the House, including his plans to install Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on House committees if the GOP takes back the House majority.