Don Lemon breaks silence on CNN firing

>> Ashley: DEMOCRAT COMING TO HUNTER BIDEN’S DEFENSE AFTER HE ATTENDED A STATE DINNER AFTER A DEAL ON FEDERAL TAX CHARGES. >> DO YOU THINK IT WAS APPROPRIATE FOR HUNTER BIDEN TO BE AT THE SAME STATE DINNER AS MERRICK GARLAND IN THE SAME WEEK HE ACCEPTED A PLEA DEAL. >> THE PRESIDENT EXPLAINED, THAT IS HIS SON. IF THAT IS WHAT THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO RUN ON, GOOD LUCK, THE PRESIDENT WILL RUN ON BRINGING JOBS BACK TO AMERICA. >> Carley: BEVERLY HALLBERG JOINS US NOW. FAIR QUESTION BY CHUCK TODD, WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT HIS EXCHANGE WITH

KLOBUCHAR? >> THE PRESS WILL HAVE TO ASK THESE QUESTIONS SHG, IT IS SERIOUS. SENATOR KLOBUCHAR WANTS TO MAKE THIS A SEPARATE ISSUE, THIS IS NOT A SEPARATE DEAL. IT WAS MADE PUBLIC IRS WHISTLEBLOWER PUT TEXT MESSAGES OUT TYING JOE BIDEN AND PRESIDENT BIDEN TO TEXT MESSAGES WITH A CHINESE OLIGARCH. PRESIDENT BIDEN CAN ACT LIKE IT IS NOT A BIG DEAL, I AM SURE THEY KNEW QUESTIONS WOULD COME UP. IT IS BRAZEN MOVE SHOWING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THERE IS NO CRIME HERE AND REALITY IS, EVERYBODY KNOWS THERE IS PLENTY TO LOOK INTO. >> Ashley: HERE IS

WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, KARINE JEAN-PIERRE SAID, WHEN PRESSED ON THAT. LISTEN TO THIS. >> I WILL NOT GET INTO PERSONAL FAMILY DISCUSSION. HUNTER IS HIS SON, I WILL NOT

GET INTO THIS. >> IF PRESIDENT WAS NOT THE PRESIDENT’S SON, WOULD HE HAVE INVITED SOMEONE — >> AGAIN, THAT IS HIS SON, IF IT IS A FAMILY MEMBER, LOOK AT PASTS PRESIDENTS. >> Ashley: THEY KNEW THE QUESTIONS WERE COMING, SURELY THEY COULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING BETTER THAN THAT. >> ALL YOU SEE THERE IS THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY DODGING AND DEFLECTING EVEN THOUGH SHE

WAS ASKED OVER AND OVER AGAIN. SOME SPIN, I EXPECT THIS, PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE THIS A STORY ABOUT ADDICTION. THE REALITY IS, YOU CAN BE SYMPATHETIC FOR PEOPLE GOING THROUGH ADDICTION, THAT DOESN’T MEAN THE PRESIDENT SHOULD HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE OVERSEAS. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE PRESSED INTO. THE PRESS HAS IGNORED IT AND AT THIS POINT, THEY CAN’T. >> Carley: HOW MUCH IMPACT WILL THIS HAVE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION? REPUBLICANS WILL TRY TO MAKE IT A KEY ISSUE. SOMEONE WE HAVEN’T HEARD FROM IS DON LEMON. HE SAYS, I HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY AS A

JOURNALIST AND AMERICAN TO TELL THE TRUTH AND ABIDE BY THE CONSTITUTION, I’M NOT PERFECT, NO ONE IS, WE HAVE TO STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT AND THE TRUTH. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT COMMENT? >> I THINK IT IS PRETTY LAUGHABLE THAT DON LEMON THINKS HE IS ARBITER OF THE TRUTH. WE CAN LOOK AT HIS PAST INTERACTION WITH CNN, HE SAID HE HAD NO CHANCE TO TALK WITH MANAGEMENT. CNN DID SAY THAT WAS FALSE. THERE WERE MANY SEXUAL ALLEGATIONS WHILE HE WAS AT CNN. HE STILL HAS A PLA