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Mark Kelly: “What the president wants to do now is intimidate us and stop…”

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

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Pete Hegseth says he's going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago

Published | Video Starts at 01:09

What we said was uncontroversial. The White House sort of confirmed that. They said his uncontroversial remarks, they were the same as ours. I mean, this is so ridiculous. And What the president wants to do now is intimidate us and stop us from talking, which is not consistent with our Constitution. And beyond that, Aaron, he said we should be hanged for what we said, executed for what we said. And what we said was exactly the same thing that Pete Heg said in 2016. (01:09–01:20)

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Asserts that the president is attempting to intimidate and silence critics, contrary to constitutional principles.

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