Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said President Donald Trump should “tone down the rhetoric” against Democratic lawmakers over their video telling military members about refusing illegal orders.
Partial transcript as follows:
MARTHA RADDATZ Good morning, Congressman. I would like your response to the video itself that Senator Slotkin and the others put out?
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MCCAUL: Well, I don’t speak for the president in terms of hanging members of Congress. But I will say these orders that they’re talking about, in my judgment, are not illegal orders to follow. They are orders based upon Article 2 self-defense of the Constitution to stop a threat, in this case, the threat of drugs coming into our country and killing Americans.
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