Don Lemon DELAYS CNN's commercial break to praise Kaitlan Collins' interview ... trends now
Don Lemon delayed a CNN commercial break on Tuesday to awkwardly heap praises on his co-host Kaitlan Collins for her interview with Republican Rep. James Comer.
Lemon was apparently so incensed by comments made by Comer, a Republican from Kentucky who serves as the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, in his interview with Collins Tuesday morning that he stopped outro music signaling a cut to commercial.
He also hit out at the New York Post, claiming it is not a 'credible source,' after Comer praised the outlet for breaking the news about Hunter Biden's laptop.
The awkward exchange came amid reports that Don Lemon has fallen out of favor with his female co-hosts, and even made Collins run off crying.
Don Lemon awkwardly delayed a commercial break on Tuesday to heap praise onto his co-host Kaitlan Collins
In the interview with Comer on CNN This Morning, Collins pressed the Republican on upcoming House investigations into Hunter Biden's laptop and suggestions from the Twitter Files that the FBI tried to suppress those stories.
Comer said he was grateful for Twitter revealing how the FBI worked with social media companies to suppress stories related to Hunter Biden's laptop, saying: 'Thank goodness for Elon Musk.
'We wouldn't know that the government was involved in censoring conservative speech were it not for Elon Musk being transparent and not disclosing the Twitter Files,' he said before praising the New York Post for breaking the story.
The congressman called the paper a 'credible outlet' and 'the fourth biggest newspaper in America.'
But when the interview concluded and Lemon was left to transition to a commercial break, he seemed stunned by Comer's comments as his co-host Poppy Harlow praised Collins for 'fact checking in real-time.'
'That's the time that we're in, where facts are sort of flexible and you just throw things out there — citing uncredible sources like the New York Post as a credible source and saying that facts are — it's just... I can't believe that we're here,' Lemon said.
Harlow then looked directly at the camera, seemingly taken aback by Lemon's comments and said: 'That's why we got Kaitlin Collins on the Hill fact checking in real-time.'
Still, Lemon continued his rant even as the outro music started to play, signaling a cut to commercial.
'Hold on, please with the music,' he told the crew, who immediately shut off the music.
He then went on to claim there is no 'shared reality' with people like Comer, saying: 'American people are going to have to suffer through all of this stuff from election deniers to people who don't believe in facts.
'We don't have a shared reality, and now it's center stage.'
Lemon was supposed to transition to a commercial break following Collins' interview with Rep. James Comer
The two discussed the upcoming hearings on Hunter Biden's laptop, when Comer praised the New York Post for breaking the story — much to Lemon's chagrin
At that point, Harlow tried to interrupt again, as she continued to praise Collins for pointing out that special counsels for probes into Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump were both appointed by Attorney General Merrick
