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Mark Kelly: “In the Uniform Code of Military justice, this is the law for…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Is Nuking Iran an "Illegal Order?" - with Sen. Mark Kelly

Published | Video Starts at 13:42

But you're really tapping into your vanity bag in a way that I. I want to stay focused here. All right. Okay. What we said was something that was, you know, basically, follow the law. In the Uniform Code of Military justice, this is the law for the US Military, it actually says you do not follow illegal orders. When the orders and the law are in conflict, you follow the law. Every service member is trained on that. Now, when we said this, within a day, the President said I should be hanged, executed, prosecuted. (13:42–13:52)

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