Mark Kelly: The senator Trump Wants 'hanged'
2/17/202640 min
Senator Mark Kelly is a former astronaut, a Navy pilot, and was almost Kamala Harris VP pick. Now he’s weighing up a run for the presidency himself in 2028. He came into the News Agents studio this lunchtime to tell us why Trump is helping his cause by threatening to have him “hanged“ and why it’s important for European leaders, including Starmer, to push back on Trump’s bullying.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:01
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Mark Kelly· Guest0:05
...Do I regret this? Absolutely not. I would do it again tomorrow, one hundred percent.
John Sopel· Host0:10
And go to prison for it?
Mark Kelly· Guest0:11
Absolutely. We're talking about the Constitution of the United States that this guy is clearly violating over and over again, not just the freedom of speech. He threw Don Lemon, a journalist, he threw, threw somebody like you guys in jail for doing their jobs. He has attacked law firms, got them to back down, media companies, got them to back down, universities, got them to back down. He's not getting me to back down because this is too important. It's not just about me. I just happen to be, like, the first person through the breach here, and, you know, I'm the guy who has to deal with this. I mean, I've almost died for this country so many times, and I'm gonna take this to whatever conclusion. I mean, Donald Trump, he's got a couple options here: he can continue to put the full force of the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice up against me, or he can go, and I don't want to use the wrong word here. What do you guys say? Bugger off?
Speaker 01:16
-hard, and that it's a d- He can do that.
John Sopel· Host1:19
That is Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona, former Navy pilot, former astronaut, and who now has a wanted sign