“Charlie Kirk Show” co-hosts Blake Neff and Andrew Kolvet discuss how Democrats are laying the groundwork for a constitutional crisis by undermining President Donald Trump’s authority as commander-in-chief of the U.S. military.

ANDREW KOLVET, TURNING POINT USA, ‘CHARLIE KIRK SHOW’ CO-HOST: Let’s go ahead and play this. This is Senator Warner, and I just can’t say how wild it is that they are saying these things out loud and doing it in a respectable way on MSM, legacy media, and getting away with it. SEN. MARK WARNER (D-VA): I think in many ways, the uniformed military may help save us from this president and his lame people like Hegseth, because I think their commitment is to the Constitution, and obviously not to Trump, and I expect Bradley to adhere to that. BLAKE NEFF, ‘CHARLIE KIRK SHOW’ CO-HOST: It’s frustrating. We discussed this with the first clip. What’s so dangerous about this is everything they say, you can always have plausible deniability. You can say they’re not directly advocating these things. And we would, of course, get frustrated when they would try to abuse laws in our direction to try to take debatable statements. But it is incredibly reckless behavior. The president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He calls the shots. And when you are sowing discord in this way, where you’re just coming out and, like, laying out here, oh, man, we really think these uniformed service members could really help us prevent bad things from this administration. They’re laying the groundwork for a constitutional crisis. They are, in my opinion, their intent is clear, whether they’re calling for an insurrection or not, they clearly think that would be a politically useful thing. And that’s an incredibly selfish behavior to do. It’s an incredibly destructive behavior to do. Because at that point, you practically don’t have a country. There are a lot of countries, a lot of countries in Latin America, a lot of countries around the world that have just become, for decades, dysfunctional because they have a military that decides, it just calls the shots, independent of its actual elected leadership. And Donald Trump is the actual elected leadership of the United States military. You know, we’re talking about Venezuela here, too. Before he became the head of his country, Hugo Chavez, he tried to take over through the old-fashioned military coup d’etat way. That is what happens in countries that are breaking down. KOLVET: Yeah, I mean, so let’s put together the step-by-step process here, just for the sake of the audience here, Blake. We’ve got step one is release a video by the Seditious Six saying, please, military, you know, refuse to obey what they said was illegal orders. But what’s an illegal order? What are they even mentioning? What are they… And they said, oh, we don’t… We were trying to head this off in the past. We’re just reminding them of their duty. So they said, please ignore these orders. Step two, go on a media tour when you get called out and play the victim. Step three is, oh, whoops, here’s a Washington Post anonymously sourced article that suggests that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is guilty of committing war crimes by bombing these narco-terrorist boats in the Caribbean. And then here we go. Now they’re saying, step five, step four, say, oh, you might get prosecuted if you do illegal things. And we’re really… This is a really terrible place to be putting our armed uniformed military personnel. It’s such a bind that it shouldn’t be up to them. This president is such a mean, terrible president, Secretary Hegseth has to go. And now they’re saying that, oh, well, guess what? The military could save us. So you are seeding the ground for a military coup d’etat, as you said, a military junta. And this is something we’ve seen in… Blake, what’s funny about this is you have been the most loud voice in the room just about every time I can remember of talking about the third-worldization of the United States government, of our customs and our norms, of our institutions. And we all sort of thought, you know what? They’re not going to touch the military. They can’t. There’s too much discipline. There’s too much tradition and heritage. There’s just too much there. They can’t overtake that, especially with the type of people who go in the military. And here they are going straight for it. And it almost feels like a game of political chicken. Like Mark Kelly, Senator Warner now, they’re daring people to restore the chain of command, which is the president, the civil authority duly elected by the people of the United States to command the armed forces. It’s a game of chicken. They’re saying, come at us. I dare you to make me a martyr here. I dare you to prosecute me. NEFF: And it is one of those frustrating things, because I’ve argued, I think it probably would be a mistake, certainly for Mark Kelly, who’s the one they’ve thrown the most signals at. I think it would be very dicey. We have the best example to go off of, which is the attempt to imprison Donald Trump in 2023 and 2024 paved the way for him to return to the White House. It was one of the most important factors. Trying to imprison your opponents has a lot of downsides to it. And I think they may even be realizing that. They may be trying to provoke the president into making a mistake. And I still lean that way. But I still think what they’re doing is incredibly reckless, incredibly harmful, incredibly bad for the country. And we’re going to have to keep saying so.

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