Alyssa Slotkin

From the great state of Michigan, the senator there today from the Munich Security Conference.

The Congress member said in the video that no one has to follow orders that violate the Constitution.

Trump called the message treasonous, and federal prosecutors opened an investigation.

Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan says the grand jury upheld freedom of speech and the rule of law.

Slotkin referring there to Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S.

Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, whose office has not commented on the attempted indictments.

Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.

Intimidation was the point to get other people beyond us to think twice about speaking out.

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.