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I mean, what if the CIA officers said, no, we're not going to do that.
We don't think this order is lawful, even though David Barron, who headed the Office of Legal Counsel for Obama at the time, issued an opinion saying this is legal.
He's now a judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
I mean, I can't think of anything
more extreme than a premeditated killing of American citizens, including a minor, and yet you're asking soldiers, you're asking CIA officials to make that legal determination, whether it's lawful or not.
I would say this, that at a minimum, in addition to Todd Blanch having the Justice Department investigate this, I think the House and Senate ethics committees need to drag in these members of Congress immediately.
I mean, so look, this is, again, the most dangerous speech I've heard from politicians in a very, very long time.
You have Democrat members of the House and Senate wink, wink, nod, nod, telling everybody,
intel officials and military officers enlisted to ignore orders of the President of the United States.
They say unlawful orders because, of course, a 19-year-old Army enlisted guy is supposed to know what's a lawful order and not.
I would say this.
That's with the president of the United States, with his broad Article two executive power, with President Obama getting an opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel saying that he can drone strike extrajudicial drone strike and intentionally premeditated.
killing of American citizens, including a minor, and the Office of Legal Counsel said that was okay.
I would say to military and intel officials, you better follow every order of the President of the United States.
And if you have any doubt, the doubt should be in favor of following the order, because if you don't, you're going to end up in the military brig or worse.
I think Pam and Todd and Cash and the rest of the Justice Department team, Harmeet, Judge Jeanine, so many, Stanley Woodward, they're doing a fantastic job.
Like you said, they've won 91%.
John Sauer, the Solicitor General, they've won 91% of the cases at the Supreme Court's emergency docket.
They are making...
Bold and fearless reforms.