""I'm OK. I'm not going to let them steal my joy, but this is very serious. These are federal criminal charges...[My] attorney reached out to [prosecutors] and said basically, 'I understand that you have an interest because your folks have been talking about it. So, if you are serious about this, then let's do it the right way.'That is customary in a situation like this, that someone would be allowed to turn themselves in.""
""I got back to the hotel, I walked in with my swag bag from the thing ... and I pressed the elevator button and all of a sudden I feel myself being jostled, people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs. And I said, 'What are you doing here?' And they said, 'We came to arrest you.' I said, 'Who are you?' Then finally they identified themselves.""
""And I said, 'If you are who you are, then where's the warrant?' And they didn't have a warrant, so they had to wait for the someone from outside, an FBI guy, to come in to show me a warrant on a cellphone...They took me outside FBI guys were out there. It had to be maybe a dozen people, which is a waste, Jimmy, of resources ... They want to embarrass you. They want to intimidate you. They want to instill fear.""
Don Lemon says he is OK but calls the situation serious because these are federal criminal charges. His attorney contacted prosecutors, asking for the customary arrangement allowing a voluntary surrender. Lemon recounts returning to a hotel after an event, pressing an elevator button, and suddenly being jostled as people tried to handcuff him. He asked for identification and a warrant; agents initially lacked a warrant and an FBI agent arrived to show one on a cellphone. He reports about a dozen FBI agents outside and calls the operation a waste intended to embarrass, intimidate, and instill fear.
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