Mike Howell

In other words, he probably could have gotten, for example, approval to make changes to the East Wing, but he actually wanted to just bulldoze it without approval.

He probably could be bringing and winning some cases that they are currently losing because he wants the theater of him not having to play by the rules.

And in the area of criminal prosecutions, it's at its most dangerous.

Here's the thing, Rachel.

You don't want to wait for your kid to get hit by a car before you tell him to look both ways.

It's pretty simple.

And if you go back to 2016, Donald Trump on a debate stage talking about, you know, some action that he was going to take.

He was reminded by the moderator that that would be illegal, that the military wouldn't be able to follow those orders.

And his response, Donald Trump's response was the military would not refuse my orders.

And then as president, he talked about shooting people, citizens of this country in the legs, protesters.

Now, thankfully, Mark Esper, Mark Milley explained to him that that would be not not be a good idea.

Now he's talking about the Insurrection Act, sending troops to more cities, using U.S.

cities and as training grounds and U.S.

citizens for training of the United States military.

So, Rachel, we wanted to do something pretty simple here.

We wanted to just remind folks that they need to comply with the law and be reminded and also explain to members of the military that we have their backs, that we know what's going on as part of our job, accountability over the federal government.

He's not solving the problem.

I mean, I could go on and on, John Bolton, right?

We could go on and on with people who have been targeted by this administration for political reasons.

What's important