You can refuse illegal orders.

The president called their video message to the military, seditious.

Now the FBI has opened an inquiry into the six members of Congress who posted it.

Also tonight, getting travelers and cartoon characters airborne for the holidays,

with snow and tropical storm forced winds in the forecast. Is peace at hand in Ukraine, even as Russia keeps up its deadly assault on its neighbor,

the president says he is optimistic.

Turkey's the way to go on Thanksgiving.

Ham is like a little bit more special.

And the great Thanksgiving table debate, turkey or ham.

Are you team ham or team turkey?

From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News.

Good evening. I'm Maurice Dubois.

I'm John Dickerson.

Now the FBI is involved. The Bureau has opened an inquiry into six Democratic members of Congress. After they posted a video, the president called seditious.

CBS News has learned the FBI is looking to question the six who, in that video, urged service members not to follow unlawful orders.

They did not say whether they thought any unlawful orders had been given.

The president noted that sedition is punishable by death, though he later denied he was making a death threat

against Senators Kellyan Slotkin and Representatives Crow, Delusio, Goodlander, and Hulahan.

But they say they are now getting death threats as a result of the president's comments.

Justice Correspondent Scott McFarland is following the story in Washington. Scott.

Yeah, John, this is an escalating standoff between the president and a group of congressional Democrats who are military veterans and who have been critical of the president.

It began with a political debate. Now the FBI is involved.

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