Alyssa Slotkin

Just the mere fact that they've initiated this, that you have to get a lawyer, you have to come up with a strategy, you have to have these conversations, is the point, right?

The intimidation is the point.

Both physical intimidation, certainly the threats after the president tweeted about us, the threats went through the roof.

But then the legal intimidation is just papering you over with this process.

Senator Mark Kelly, who's being investigated on the military side, is now countersuing Secretary Hegseth.

I think, look, there's congressional action that we can take from the Judiciary Committee.

We're going through the whole laundry list of things that we can do.

But ultimately, I think there has to be pushback on these frivolous, politicized lawsuits, or else they're just going to continue, get bigger, and affect a bigger number of people.

Michigan Democrat Alyssa Slotkin says President Trump is using his political appointees at the Justice Department to follow through with threats.

Slotkin says U.S.

Attorney Jeanine Pirro has opened an investigation about a November video made by Slotkin and several other lawmakers that told service members to resist unlawful orders.

At the time, President Trump called the video seditious.

Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders?

And it is very clear that no one should follow an illegal order.

But it's very murky when you look at what is an illegal order.

And if you go into morally, ethically, that's a pretty tough thing to look at and say, how do I navigate this order?

Speak directly to members of the military.

One million dollars.

Trump was trying to be a gentleman and he was going to say a lot of people's lives are going to be ruined.

A lot of people will have their reputations destroyed from innuendo.