But I think it's all part of a very well-worn playbook that this president is using and

that I've seen used abroad many, many times, which is when someone says something you don't

agree with, when someone does something that insults you or hurts your feelings or makes

you look weak, you are going to try and intimidate them by threatening violence,

right? The president said, I should be hanged, and then we got thousands of threats into our

office, and I went to 24-7 security for me and my family. But then also use legal action, right?

Just absolutely paper someone to death with a legal investigation, a federal investigation.

So he's trying to do that to get people to shut up.

Hi again, everybody.

It's 5 o'clock in New York.

Here we are barely a week after Senator Alyssa Slotkin said that on our show.

Keenly outlined for us the ways that Donald Trump is intimidating and ultimately punishing his perceived political enemies and critics.

She said that on this show.

This afternoon confirmation that Senator Slotkin herself is now wrapped up in precisely what she just describes.

The Michigan Democrat says she was contacted by the office of former Fox News host,

Janine Piro, now the U.S. District Attorney for the District of Columbia,

about setting up an interview with the senator or her private counsel.

It goes back to that 90-second video in which Slotkin and five fellow lawmakers

with backgrounds in the military or intelligence

remind American servicemen and women of their duty to refuse any illegal orders.

It was a message that appeared to touch a nerve for Donald Trump, who has been between then and

now seemingly determined to prove her point on issue after issue. Trump, who wasn't even mentioned

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