"After watching the clip, Scarborough torched Slotkin's response as the wrong answer and said he was surprised that she'd agreed to go on television to discuss the video without preparing a clear response to that question. Scarborough first took aim at the senator's use of Caribbean strikes and Venezuela to justify herself, arguing that the president has wide latitude on actions such as that:"
"But where we know the president has said, I am going to give illegal orders to people in the military, is when he was on Air Force One coming back, I forget where he was coming back from, but he said, I can send the Marines. I can send the Army. I can send the Air Force. I can send the Coast Guard into any city I want to control crime. And the courts can't do anything about it.' That's illegal. It's just"
Joe Scarborough criticized Senator Elissa Slotkin for saying she was unaware of President Trump's issuing illegal orders after she appeared in a video urging military personnel to refuse unlawful commands. Slotkin told ABC's This Week she did not know of such orders and pointed to legal complexities and Venezuela. Scarborough called her answer the wrong one and faulted her for appearing unprepared. He argued presidents have wide latitude on military strikes, citing Obama and George W. Bush. Scarborough highlighted Trump's remarks about deploying military forces to U.S. cities and called that conduct illegal.
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