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Michael Popak (0:00)
Seems like every moment is breaking news in the Trump administration and all of its scandals. And now we've got Senator Mark Kelly filing a new lawsuit against Pete Hegseth for his threats, know his censure letter against Senator Kelly, threatening to take away his rank, his service rank, threatening to court martial him and take away his pension because he had the audacity to, to stand up as a member of Congress against an out of control presidency, especially a senator who spent 25 years in the military, who is covered from head to toe with commendations and ribbons and medals for his service, for his more than 39 combat missions as a naval aviator, his more than four space shuttle missions, including as the commander of the last, the last flying of the endeavor. And, and somebody who is on, and this is the major focus here, who is on two major committees as the ranking member who is trying to provide oversight and rein in Donald Trump, the Armed Services Committee and the, and the Intelligence Committee. And what we're watching is Donald Trump doing lawless things, blowing people out of the water in the Caribbean without due process, invading Venezuela without appropriate congressional authority, a saber rattling to try to go after Iran and Cuba, the deployment illegally of the National Guard. These all fall within the supervisory and oversight powers of somebody like Mark Kelly. And so when Mark Kelly, along with a series of other people in the national intelligence community and in the armed forces a few weeks ago, sent out a video to remind people that they in the military that they should not and cannot under their constitutional oath, cannot follow illegal unconstitutional orders, in fact, they have an obligation not to do that. That didn't sit well with the Trump administration and Pete Hegseth. And there we have the censure letter. But now with this new lawsuit filed in the District of Columbia, Mark Kelly, Senator Mark Kelly is demanding that a court, a federal court, step in, declare Pete Hegseth's attempts to court martial and to go after Mark Kelly for war crimes, or as Donald Trump put it, he should be hanged for telling people what is objectively true about military justice and military law, especially under the Nuremberg principle, which is you cannot follow illegal illicit orders of a commander, declare those actions are lawful, stop them from happening, vacating and setting aside the censure letter, enjoining, stopping and blocking the defendants from giving any effect to the defendant's action, including starting any criminal or administrative action and the like, brought on behalf of Senator Kelly by a major law firm that is not bending the knee. Arnold and Porter out of a combination of Newark, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. i'm Michael Popak, you're on the Midas Touch Network and Legal af. This is what we wake up to Monday in America. Trump's carnage of America. You know, we haven't even buried Renee Good yet for her murder by way of ICE agents. And already we've got Donald Trump going after the chairman of the Federal Reserve under a phony manufactured criminal investigation in order to get his way over. Over the economy. As if getting his way over the economy so far has been working to his advantage. And then let's go after the heroes, the true heroes in this country. Mark Kelly should be President of the United States. He shouldn't be subject to a censure by Pete Hegseth. It couldn't hold his jock strap. Major Pete Hegseth. I don't think so. So let's dive in. You're here on the Midas Thatch Network and on Legal af. Just to bring you up to speed, let me show you the video that led to the censure that now led to this lawsuit. This is a video including Mark Kelly along with many other people in Congress. Let's play the clip.