Don Lemon Asks O’Reilly About Harassment Allegations in Response to Tweet About Susan Rice Coverage

As we reported last night, CNN’s Don Lemon said that he will not “aid and abet the people who are trying to misinform you, the American people, by creating a diversion.”

The diversion in question was the news yesterday about Susan Rice allegedly being behind the unmasking of Trump team officials, and Lemon was not the only one at CNN to say this is being overblown.

Naturally, Lemon’s commentary got a lot of attention online. Bill O’Reilly‘s website shared a link to the video of what Lemon said and tweeted out the following:

CNN's Don Lemon refuses to cover Susan Rice story https://t.co/DATs2WMIX2

— Bill O'Reilly (@oreillyfactor) April 4, 2017

Lemon responded by asking O’Reilly about the allegations of sexual harassment against him:

False. I did not refuse to cover the story. But I did cover your sexual harassment allegations. Did you? https://t.co/sJ5mQQgx2E

— Don Lemon (@donlemon) April 4, 2017

Lemon covered the O’Reilly news last night, asking at one point if the Fox News host would still have a job if he worked anywhere else.

UPDATE –– 11:32 pm ET: Tonight Lemon addressed the tweet on-air. You can watch below, via CNN:

Don Lemon on O'Reilly's claim that he refused to report on Susan Rice: "That is 100% false" https://t.co/mYlGcVzoHQ https://t.co/hnhnA48jhw

— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) April 5, 2017

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