Mark Kelly says Trump won’t ‘silence us’ after Pentagon reviews Dems’ video

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00:00The fallout is growing from that video posted by six Democratic lawmakers telling U.S. troops

00:08they can refuse illegal orders. The Pentagon confirming Monday it's now conducting a formal

00:14review into Senator Mark Kelly, the only member of the group still subject to the Uniform Code

00:19of Military Justice, and says his comments may have, quote, lent the appearance of authority

00:24by using his rank. The White House leaning into that scrutiny. And I think what Senator Mark Kelly

00:30was actually trying to do was intimidate the 1.3 million active duty service members who are

00:36currently serving in our United States Armed Forces with that video that he and his Democrat colleagues

00:42put out. They knew what they were doing in this video, and Senator Mark Kelly and all of them should

00:48be held accountable for that. Kelly fired back with a lengthy statement detailing his decades of service

00:53from missions in Desert Storm to commanding the space shuttle, saying the administration's response

00:59amounts to intimidation, quote, if this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from

01:04doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. He wrote, I've given

01:10too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting

01:15the Constitution. The video message angered President Trump, who posted repeatedly that the lawmakers

01:20committed seditious behavior in one post saying it was punishable by death. Defense Secretary Pete

01:26Hegseth is defending the Pentagon review, calling the Democrats' message, quote, despicable, reckless,

01:32and false. But legal experts say actually prosecuting a retired officer for political speech would be

01:38unprecedented.