Lemon LIVE at 5 | Nolan Wells So-Called ‘Family Friend’ Crashes Out Live!
The conversation around the Nolan Wells case reached a boiling point this morning, but what did we actually learn? Tonight, Don takes a closer look at the latest developments, separates fact from speculation, and examines the key questions that remain unanswered. Where does the investigation go from here, and what should we be watching next? Join us live as we break it all down.
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@patriciakelly2787
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
I am a white 70 years young white woman. My favorite class at SFSU was "Black History",
@janeduthie3860
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
I luv your show ❤
@SugarPie_49
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
😂😂❤
@cyberone2763
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
I will never understand how a person wouldn't want to marry someone who looks like their parents, period. Like a BM not wanting to marry a BW, and vice versa, a WM not wanting to marry a WW.
I'm not gonna knock that BM for saying that. Everybody is not gonna accept interracial marriages period. It might be 2026, but thoughts are still the same. And all marriages are not about no "love". GTHOH. People marry and date people for all kind of reasons with none of those reasons being love. You got BP who just want a WW or WM to be with . They even foolishly brag about it, "I got me a WM/WW!" That's sick.
@george4u1960
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
The guest is right. When you get a group of young white boys together and you add drinking to it, they act a fool. I remember the only people got arrested basically were white college guys at Mardi Gras. They didn’t know how to conduct themselves, especially when they saw those girls take off those tops. They do act different in a group. I think they deal with ADHD if I’m saying it right.
@Phoenixishot
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
1:01:37 He’s nailing it!!!!
@Phoenixishot
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
We need a Don and Godfrey show
@sassylibra13
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Hey, Don??? People are talking about you and they're saying you're changing your tune now and that you're not as supportive in the Nolan Wells case in fact they're saying you're jumping on the other side now! So I will no longer be tuning into your channel, good luck!
@george4u1960
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
I can’t stand her now if it’s one person I’m glad Trump fired is her get your shit and get out.😅
@beingkiana8205
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
A mess
@lisaprice1943
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
HOW CAN YOU HAVE SUCH A LIAR ON TV?THEY WERE ON THE BOAT, HIS LAST BREATH.HOW CAN YOU EVEN PUT THE SKY ON AND YOU GUYS ARE LAUGHING?AND EVERYTHING MAKING JOKES , DON , YOU REALLY STOOP TO THE LOWEST LEVEL
@michelekaip
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Don and Godfrey, you didn’t say it loud enough. IT COMES FROM POWER!
@tulsacaupain2882
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
His last Wife ?. Richard was all White Women. He's on my Mount Rushmore of Comedy but he LOOOOOOOVEEEEED him a White Woman. if there wasa Black Woman in his l8fe it was extremely easy on.
@Phoenixishot
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
48:17 Rand Paul was the ONLY, SINGULAR hold out that made lynching NOT a federal hate crime.
@vanessawit8996
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
This dude is so coo-coo for coco puffs, I can't believe he is a friend of the Wells.
@RayzDayz90
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
BRAVO TO DON !!! I have such a newfound respect for Don Lemon based on how much he stood 10 toes down. THANK YOU, usually gay men especially interracial couples Don't really stand this hard especially when it comes to somebody making the argument about interracial relationships and racism still being a thing. So I have so much newfound deep deep deeper respect for Don Lemon I really respect this lie it was amazing it it gave me the feels. I really appreciate how Don really kept strong wasn't going for the okie doke I can't say enough I would just be being in this circular compliment. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾✊🏾✊🏾💪🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾👏🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾👏🏾👏🏾💪🏾💪🏾👏🏾👏🏾✊🏾💪🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾✊🏾💪🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
@tulsacaupain2882
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
These stories made me think of my Mom. Life was living and she had my brother in 1952 in Suriname. She told me she was expected To take the kid for a walk daily. My Mo said not me, she told me I was not doing the walking around thing with this bigheaded ugly child. She walked straight to The Palmgarden in our capital and sat out of sight of others and went back after half an hour. That same Fam wanted too 'take her with them when they moved back to Holland. The caviat was that she should leave her baby behind. They wanted their kids to be taken care of but the Black baby didn't need his Mom. These people are diabolical.
@gseethesoul-wc4ri
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
DON i love you but Godfrey im feeling you. I know this segment was a lot of digest. That guy with the beard was hard to understand but I OVERSTOOD him too in a certain kinda way. He can raise his kids the way he chooses, if he teaches them truth, they should choose wisely! Godfrey is ON POINT! When black folks don't know WHO THEY ARE , it's easy to have STOCKHOLM SYNDROME. White women sleep with black men because they SEE THE GOD ON THEM. BLACK MEN sleep with White women because they unknowingly hate themselves, or wounded from the damaging knowledge of WHITE SUPREMACY inflicted into THE AFRICAN MIND , OR either the black man feels a sense of flexing by flaunting the white woman in front of the White men faces..White Supremacy and religion have done a number on Black folks, they have no memory and no identity , and TOO MANY CHEEKS. They unknowingly allow White supremacy to define them … But we have to remember, THE BLACK WOMAN birthed civilization.
.and WHEN WHITE WOMEN LIED, BLACK MEN HAVE DIED!!
@jeanniehughes1761
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
I love me some Godfrey he got me cracking up because he ob the Black Israelites because I have a cousin you is marking him on the money ( “You Got to Read “) 😂😂🤣 I like how Godfrey explain to Don what that Black guy was saying it not racism because of being proud of our Blackness
I got biracial grown kids but I can be as the KKK I don’t understand Don line of question it was a waste of time talking about nothing I feel Don always inserts himself too much into his topics I’m from New Orleans left at 19 only came home on Springs😊 Breaks and after my parents passed a year apart I never ever moved back yes I visits but I could never raise my child so many things backward stuff I love New Orleans But my temper lean me to crash out and lose my temper after I was called the N word cause my beloved husband thousands to keep me out of jail when I was in the right but no 😊ii😊😊
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@SharRob
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋
@deearten
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Love you, Don, and love the thought you put into everything you say. If racism didn’t exist, Trump would never been POTUS, he would’ve remained what he really is a TV construction without all the billions he has stolen from the poorest and middle class.
@Diamondintherough338
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
City of Angels 😇
@suzettebariffe
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
I traveled to Mississippi for the first time for work last month and I CRIED! The condition of the state..I travel there on July 6 after Nolan’s was UNALIVED.. Racism is still ALIVE there. I went to the Harley Davidson Dealership in Northern Mississippi on my road trip further south in Mississippi. The white cashier about 19 years old said to me and I quote “ BE VERY CAREFUL GOING TO THE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI HARLEY DAVIDSON… THEIR STILL OLD SCHOOL THEIR IN THEIR THINKING.. YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEND THEM IN “ my two coworkers are WHITE 70 years old women. I’m BLACK and 50. MESSED ME UP THE REST OF THE TRIP!!! I’m form Chicago.. the north and to get a warning like that did something to my soul.
@Phoenixishot
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
48:39 ya’ll cuttin up!!!! I’m here for it
@denisebd1000
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Thanks Godfrey for explaining the standpoint of relationships of blacks vs white!
@AdeOladipo-e6b
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Godfrey, when are you gonna come to Alabama?
@mataylor5
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Mississippi just really abolished slavery in 1995
@laneshiapatton8010
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
There are so many people just like him that lives in the south
@cyberone2763
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Well, it's been said that tipsy Jeanine is an alkie. 🥴
So who knows? 😁
@Myopinionmattersthemost
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Preferring someone of your own race is not racism. I 100% agree with him. I encourage my nieces and nephews to marry Black.
@laneshiapatton8010
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
This guy 😂😂😂😂😂😂omg
@Phoenixishot
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
43:48 Halle Berry said her bm called her that!
@tulsacaupain2882
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Boy, that Man is dumb but thinks he's a deep thinker. BTW, White people always had kids with Black Men and Women BY FORCE at first. The children/his children were also enslaved. This Man is too much.
@anniehill1432
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Godfrey you did that Uncle Ruckus so dang good.😂
@janeduthie3860
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
😂😂😂😂
@sereneforyou777
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Agree with Godfrey. I'm coloured and all my work colleagues are white. They have cancelled me out of everything after seeing how take pride in myself versus how they do and look. If you know, you know🤬🤬🤬🤮🤮🤮🐍
@Phoenixishot
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
37:02 Yikes! It’s giving breeder
@francinemills4379
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Regarding Caller:
We're Beyond " if they don't bother me. etc." He Did ultimately Agree with You. That's Growth!
Raising Consciousness one Step/Person at a Time!
Independent Social Media Platform Dialogue
is Essential for Moving Forward; facing reality; past & present.
Don, your argument style of relating the Truth via Facts is truly Effective for Moving Forward in this TIME of
CRISES!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
@tulsacaupain2882
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Thank you Godfrey.
@AzaleaMcSwain
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Mr. Don Lemon, with all due respect, this was definitely an embarrassment!! I'm sorry you have wasted your time talking to this gentleman. What did he say in reference to what happened to Nolan? I am from the MS Gulf Coast. This is a major distraction and it's embarrassing.
@krysg_2k3
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Having Godfrey on after the last man was great!! I needed that laugh after yelling at my screen with the last guest. Lord that man made me so damn mad.
@cyberone2763
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
That's because the South is not as advanced as the North. I don't care what folks say. I remember visiting Carolina as a kid. And how much behind the kids were there. I felt like a teacher because I had to teach them so much stuff, lol. 😁
And the music and fashion style was years behind us. 😁 And I remember how scary acting they seemed to be of "The Man" as he was called back then. I felt like I was in a foreign land, no lie. And there's still a huge difference today between the two. Maybe us from the North are more rebel.
@Myopinionmattersthemost
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
I like Daniel. I miss hearing BJ Armstrong and Juan Williams opposing views. They were conservatives with sense. I’m not super liberal or democratic
@jgoods4510
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Godfrey not funny to me here AT ALLLLL !
@ISMELLBetterthanyou01
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Godfrey I said the same thing. Nolan has grown up and he is handsome and he is good at sports and them white girls are probably liking him and etc. and he is amazing at sports ( because he works hard and is naturally gifted too) yeah we that know ….know what is going on or could be going on.
@seasekingdom4618
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Listening to you Don Lemon from Lubbock Texas and loving it.
@tulsacaupain2882
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
Ooh it is China. These FBA'S are going to go after Godfrey or will they think it's OK because you said China and not Africa.
@vanessawit8996
August 5, 2026 at 6:55 am
I think he was a friend of Officer Tatum