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LATE NIGHT COMMEDY Jimmy Kimmel Live with Senator Mark Kelly ... November 26th 2025 Senator Mark Kelly on Trump Suggesting He Be Executed & Hegseth Opening an Investigation into Him PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZMqvm_owGU
Senator Mark Kelly on Trump Suggesting He Be Executed & Hegseth Opening an Investigation into Him Jimmy Kimmel Live Nov 26, 2025 21.7M subscribers ... 2,414,199 views ... 75K likes #Kimmel Senator Mark Kelly talks about Donald Trump attacking him and suggesting he be executed for a video telling soldiers they did not have to obey illegal orders, the issue of political violence in our country, Pete Hegseth opening an investigation into him, Trump’s playbook being the way that democracies die, and support from his Republican colleagues. 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Some of Kimmel’s most popular comedy bits include Celebrities Read Mean Tweets, Lie Witness News, Halloween Candy YouTube Challenge, Jimmy and Cousin Sal pranking Aunt Chippy and music stars like Rihanna and Dua Lipa surprising Jimmy in the middle of the night. How this was made Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. Peter Burgess COMMENTARY I am appalled that Trump has been elected to be President of the Unites Dtates of America ... not once, but twice! I chose to live in the United States back in the 1960s when I was still in my 20s. I do not regret my decision to migrate from the UK to Canada and onwards to the USA. IT made sense for me to be an educated economic migrant and move to the USA where I was able to earn more in 2 months than I could earn in a year in the UK! But the 2020s are very different from the 1960s, and I would likely not make the same decisions as a young person now as I did 60 years ago. Trump and his enablers are doing immense damage to the reputation of the USA and the longer Trump remains in power the more difficult it will be for the USA to recover. Trump has attacked 'Late Night Commedy'. The good news is that he LOST ... as he has lost in almost every dimension of serious leadership! Peter Burgess Transcript 0:00 Our next guest served his country as a decorated naval captain. He fought in Desert Storm and like myself is a former space shuttle pilot. He is also a member of Congress from Arizona who our president would like to arrest. Please welcome Senator Mark Kelly. [Applause] Please, thank you for coming. I'm I'm appreciative that you're here. I know you have a lot going on. Starting with what happened 5 days ago. The president of the United States goes on social media and uh accuses you of uh sedition, treason, and suggests in a not so roundabout way that you should be executed for those crimes. Um how do you find out about that? Yeah, it was interesting. I was in um the skiff, which is a secure facility uh 1:00 reviewing some stuff. That's where all the top secret stuff is. I'm on the armed services and the intelligence committees. And I'm sitting next to Alyssa Slacken. Mhm. It's my colleague. Um also caught up in all of this. And you can't take your phones in there, so no devices. So, uh, somebody comes in in the middle of our brief, slips her piece of paper, and I take a look at the piece of paper, and it says, 'The president is calling for your execution to her, to Alyssa.' So, she she looks at me, she gets up, she walks out about 5 minutes later, she comes back in, looks at me, and says, 'Well, he's calling for your execution, too.' Okay. So, I wasn't off the hook. You You were not off the hook. So, that's how you find out about it. What was your reaction when you s when you saw that? Well, it's kind of shocking, you know, that the president, you know, we said something which is basically follow the law. Yes. And the president of the United States says kill them. Uh, hang them, execute 2:01 them, try them for sedition. I served 25 years in the United States Navy. You know, you, as I mentioned, you you fought for this country. You I mean you've done kills for this country multiple times. Almost shot down over Iraq and Kuwait. I had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I got on a rocket ship four times a millions of pounds of rocket fuel for this nation. And then I wake up one day and I got the president of the United States threatening me with my life that I'm going to be hanged. Um I'll tell you this though, Jimmy, and and we've also have political violence that has affected my family. Most certainly in a in a major way. your wife Gabby Gfords who is a great person and was a congresswoman from Arizona. I most people know and and that's why it's particularly gling to hear him say something like this about you was the victim of an assassination attempt. She was shot and five other people 3:02 killed 12 others shot. She's shot in the head. She's in the hospital for 6 months. That's political violence. the president when he says these things, there are consequences. And by the way, I mean, isn't this the guy two months ago that said, 'We've got to stop this like political violence issue.' He didn't he didn't even make it to Thanksgiving. It's almost like he doesn't mean anything he says. It's almost as if he's a hypocrite in some ways. I I mean, you can't keep track of this guy and what he says. And I'll tell you this, though, I'm not backing down. I mean, we He said something very simple. Members of the military need to follow the law. We wanted to say that we have their backs. His response, kill them. And then you have Pete Hegsth, who is the uh who runs the Department of War. Um is going to open an investigation into you, I assume, into your 4:00 colleagues. You will be you will have to be interviewed by the FBI. And they're trying to find what exactly? I mean, what does what even is sedition? Well, well, this is the investigation because of what Donald Trump said. From what I can tell, and I don't know Pete Hegth well. I sit on the committee that ultimately had to confirm him, so I know a little bit about his background. He's totally unqualified. Well, come on. He was We hold on against He was a weekend host at Fox and Friends. Nothing against journalists. They play a very important role in our society. Uh but he's not qualified for this job. And from what I can tell in talking to some of my Republican colleagues, I mean, he just wants to please the president obviously. And and this is what he can do this week. he can go after me under the uniform code of military justice, which is the law in the military, which is kind of wild because we recited something in the uniform code of military justice, and he's going to prosecute me under the uniform code of 5:02 military justice for reciting the uniform code of military justice. It is it is it is so ridiculous. It's almost like you can't make this up. Do you do you ever miss the cold vacuum of space? Uh well, we try to stay out of the vacuum. We try to stay inside where it's uh nice and warm. I do miss that job. I mean, do you now do you have to now consult with lawyers and have to deal with this when you're you're first of all working for the people of Arizona, the people of the United States? Now you have to spend your time. Are you actually like worried about this? I mean, it it doesn't I've been through a lot more challenging things than this, you know, and I am what what I'm worried about is the is is the reaction and what this uh transmits to the military and the public, which is basically shut up and listen to that 6:00 guy. And that's not the way our system works. We have loyalty. my oath and every oath every member of the military took is loyalty to the Constitution, not to a person. And he's trying to he he's trying to get some fear out there. And fear can be contagious. But what also can be contagious is courage and patriotism. And that's the reason why because the overall effect is that people are now a little more careful before they speak out. People are worried about speaking out. People don't want to say things that they need to be saying. And that's flatout unamerican, isn't it? It's how democracies die. It is it is right out of the playbook. You know, the playbook of authoritarianism. That's what they do. They try to suppress speech. Um, all every one of us has 7:00 first amendment speech rights and I think the president is infringing on those and he's he is sending he is sending a pretty strong message. You do not want to cross him and your loyalty should be to him. It should not it should always be to the constitution. And that's the message we were trying to send. Respect the Constitution. He said, 'Don't respect the Constitution.' Um, if you do in this case, if you do, you can be executed. Are you getting any support from your Republican colleagues? Yes, you are. Yes. They I assume realize today. Oh, well, a couple days ago, too. Ran Paul said, 'I think it would be a really bad idea to hang US senators.' That seems reasonable. I I respect that opinion. Um but since then, you know, some more people are starting to take a look at this and 8:00 saying, 'Wow, this is just nuts that he's going after US senators for and and members of the House for something they said. He didn't like what came out of our mouths and because of that he thinks we should be killed. Bananas. It makes me feel better about him just wanting me to be fired to be honest, you know. I mean, but it's I'll tell you what, Jimmy, maybe it means he likes me. I don't know. And it's and and it's not only you being fired, right? I know he said this again on the same day he said we should be executed. He was talking about you getting fired again. Yeah, he would like that. It's on his Christmas list. This seems to be a habit he's developed. And but he's he's also gone after uh law firms, universities, you know, other media companies, suing people over and over again to suppress their opinion, to make sure that everybody knows that your loyalty should be to him. But that is not how our 9:01 democracy works. And we we cannot go down that slippery slope. I hope every one of your Republican colleagues backs you on this and tells him because who wants to live in a country like that. Who do they want that the next time around? Do they want to be in under that kind of a microscope? I don't think they do. But I think a lot of lot of folks on the other side of the aisle are fearful from him. You know, somebody pop I think Donald Trump's pretty good at whack-a-ole. Somebody pops their heads up and he's he's he's good at knocking it back down. Mhm. Um, but this is serious and all of us have to, you know, stand stand up for the Constitution. Um, and and, you know, continue to push back and we're supposed to have these, you know, we're supposed that's the way our government's supposed to work. We're supposed to have these conversations. Thank you for pushing back and for having these conversations. We appreciate it and for sticking with us. You don't have to do this kind of thing. And and we do appreciate it. Senator Mark Kelly, everybody from Arizona. [Music]

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