A retired Army officer and an L.A. lawmaker join Don Lemon on Trump's Iran threat

Pat Spearman and Assemblymember Isaac Bryan joined Lemon Live at 5 to talk about the president's remarks on Los Angeles and San Diego, and the episode drew more viewers in six hours than a usual video here gets in a full day.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 357,898 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (31,505).

LEMON LIVE AT 5: Donald Trump Confronted Over ‘Take Out’ L.A. & San Diego Remarks

Six hours after it went up, the newest episode of Lemon Live at 5 had passed 140,000 views. On this channel, a regular video usually ends its entire first day at around 31,000.

The subject is the one many newsrooms covered the same day. According to the description, Donald Trump suggested that Los Angeles and San Diego could be "taken out" as he raised the pressure on Iran, then said the conflict could end "the nice way or the not so nice way." When reporters at the White House pressed him on it, the description says, he walked away without answering.

Lemon's own angle comes from his two guests. Pat Spearman is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and a former Nevada state senator, so she can speak to both the military and the political side of a threat like this. Isaac Bryan represents part of Los Angeles in the California Assembly, which makes the remarks about his own city. Together they talk through Trump's Iran threats and the risks of escalation.

The comment section moved faster than usual: in those first six hours it had already drawn more than twice the comments a regular video here collects in a full day. Several viewers write that they have family in San Diego, and many ask what Congress plans to do.

The rest of the channel's day was quieter. A short on Love Is Blind drew a respectable crowd, and briefer items on the Skydance merger and on Disney's court fight over ABC's licenses stayed in the low thousands. Across the whole channel, daily views are running at close to twice their usual pace. That is a strong showing for the twice-daily live show Lemon has built since his years at CNN.

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The numbers

The figures show an evening show that pulled far ahead of the channel's ordinary first day within a few hours.

the video's first day

usual first day here

31,505

this video

357,898

subscribers

1,470,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

523,616,085

views per day

1,161,439

typical day: 638,503

the video

views

142,023

likes

10,781

comments

768

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Rebel HQ

1,530,000

TYT Sports

1,510,000

Don Lemon

1,470,000

WatchlistTYT

1,460,000

Indisputable with Dr. Ras…

1,440,000

friendlyjordies

1,430,000

As of October 7, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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