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