Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my bulwark colleague, Andrew Egger, author of the Morning

Shots newsletter. Hit like, hit subscribe, follow the channel. We got big news overnight where it

turns out that the Department of Justice attempted to indict six lawmakers who had put together

a little video saying, uh, hey, just a, if you are part of the U.S.

Intelligence Committee or the Armed Forces, you have sworn an oath to not obey illegal

orders. And the Department of Justice attempted to secure criminal indictments against them

and were rejected by grand juries.

Andrew, there's a lot to talk about here.

And if we wanted to start with the hopeful stuff,

we would talk about how it turns out that the criminal justice system is being way more resilient to authoritarianism than, say, like,

the university system or the business community or even

normal politicians.

We'll do that second.

I'd like to start with the bad stuff, though.

There are a bunch of people who have been sitting on the sidelines being like, well, I'm

waiting to see if we cross any real red lines.

It seems like an attempt to criminally prosecute opposition lawmakers for saying that people should obey the Constitution might be a red line, even if it failed.

Yeah, it's not a great situation.

I mean, it really speaks to how insane this entire storyline

around these six lawmakers has been that by some metrics, you might call this only the third

most insane sort of development in this story. Right after they released that video, I'm sure

you remember, Donald Trump had maybe his biggest, like, truth social bender of all time where he was retweeting

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